LAKELAND, Fla. – Junior Grace Reed of the Florida Southern College women's track team will become the first Moccasin in program history to compete at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships this Thursday, May 21 at 9:50 p.m. The Fort Pierce, Fla., native will take on the longest event at the championship as she is one of 22 entrants in the 10000m. The 2026 Championship is being hosted by Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan. where temperatures will be in the low 60s when Reed takes to the track Thursday night.
 
Reed used a school record performance at the Raleigh Relays hosted by N.C. State to earn the invitation in the 10000m. She posted a time of 34:54.20 at NCSU which ranks as the 16th-best time among those entered in the NCAA National Championship. She will be the lone representative in the race from the state of Florida as Allison Kuzma of Hillsdale has the top qualifying time of 33:10.83. Two others in the event join Kuzma having run a sub-34 minute 10K this season.
 
The top two finishers from the 2025 Championship graduated following last season while Kuzma took third overall last year. The Molina sisters, Iresh and Delia, from Chico State came in fifth and sixth, respectively, last season and enter the 2026 championship with the second and fourth fastest qualifying times.  
 
Reed will take to the track in Emporia, Kan. this Thursday, May 21 at 9:50 p.m. for the 10000m at the 2026 NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Track & Field National Championships hosted by Emporia State University.