Per the below social media post (and also listed at
https://www.milesplit.com/signings?year=2025&sortBy=college&collegeSearch=university+of+colorado ), the
women's cross country and track and field teams have received their
1st 2025 verbal commitment (at least known to me), and she's from Colorado. Namely, it's
distance runner Ella Hagen, who attends and competes at Summit HS in Frisco (4A) level in a few sports***.
(***Per the article linked to below, she is a state champion in
3 different sports - cross country running, track and field and Nordic skiing.
She is also the highest profile Colorado prep
I can remember the Buffs getting a commitment from in
MANY years, although to be fair to the prior coaches they got HUGE contributions from some lower ranked preps who became key members of many Buff cross country National Championship and Championship contending teams through the years.)
Welcome and congrats to her!
Her results as a prep (As I like to occasionally mention, limited results are viewable unless you set up an account with athletic.net, but it is free.):
Cross country -
https://www.athletic.net/athlete/18889549/cross-country/all
Track and field -
https://www.athletic.net/athlete/18889549/track-and-field/all
An article after she received a NIL (from HOKA) to help support her trail running -
https://trailrunner.com/trail-news/meet-ella-hagen-multisport-champion-athlete/
An article from the beginning of April after she won a state championship in the Nordic skate championship (it says she was also the runner up in the Nordic Classic race) -
https://chsaanow.com/news/2024/4/1/Ella-Hagen.aspx
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Also related to track and field 2025 commits, I did want to briefly note that, as far as I can see (his Instagram post is still up), it looks like the 1st 2025 commit, men's team's Keegan Smith (see post #743). is still a Buff commit. I wasn't sure since he committed in early June, so was offered by the prior coaching staff. (He was the only 2025 (or later) commit I knew about for track and field who committed to the old staff. A little interesting to me that he is from Tennessee, which is where of course new Coach Carlson coached at (the U. of Tennessee), so I'd GUESS he may have also recruited him some to come to Knoxville.)