Ohio State's men's 4x100 won the College Men's Championship of America at the 130th Penn Relays last Saturday, the programme's first sprint relay title at Franklin Field since 1932. Nazzio John, Kyler Brown, Braxton Brann and Nick Biega crossed the line in 39.56 to break the Buckeyes' 94-year drought, then doubled back across the weekend to take the College 4x400 in a sweep that anchored the meet's biggest individual school storyline since Texas's blue-chip showings of the late 2010s.
The 4x100 final was decided in the back half of the race, with Brann's third leg pulling Ohio State level with the SEC pace-setters before Biega used the final 75 metres of a clean exchange to clear the field. The 39.56 sits inside the all-time top 25 collegiate times for the event and gives Ohio State a clear pathway into NCAA regionals as a sprint-relay contender, a department of the programme that has rebuilt rapidly under sprints coach Joel Brown's recruiting class of the last 18 months.
The high school 4x400 Championship of America delivered the meet's signature anchor leg. Bullis School (Maryland) won in 3:10.15, with Olympian and junior Quincy Wilson handling anchor duties on a closing split that stretched a four-metre lead at the exchange into a comfortable straight-line victory. Wilson, the world under-20 record holder over 400 metres, has spent the spring picking selected races inside a campaign aimed at Glasgow 2026 trials, and the Penn Relays anchor closes a six-week stretch that included an indoor pro debut and a stand-alone 44-second outdoor opener.
Maryland-Baltimore County's men's 4x100 took the College I.C.4A division 4x100 title on Saturday, while UMBC's reciprocal time of 39.84 placed the programme inside its all-time top three over the distance and produced one of Penn's best small-school sprint-relay performances of the past decade. Michigan added a programme and meet record in the 4x800, with the Wolverines moving inside the all-time collegiate top 15 to underline the depth of distance support around its NCAA-title contending mile and 1,500 metre runners.
Across the weekend, the Olympic Development Elite division gave the meet its senior-international gloss. Justin Robinson took the men's 400 metres in 46.03, while world indoor high jump champion Vashti Cunningham, Olympic high jump silver medallist Shelby McEwen and Olympic triple jump champion Thea LaFond all anchored a more international field events line-up than Penn typically attracts. Japanese distance standout Nozomi Tanaka brought a third continent into Franklin Field for the meet's distance roster, leaving Penn with a senior-class roster wider than it has fielded since the 2018 edition.