INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Lewis & Clark College women's track & field senior Riley Buese is heading to Nationals for one final time. The six-time All-American will head to the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, to race at the 2025 NCAA DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championship Meet on Thursday and Saturday. 
 
Buese will compete in the 10,000M and 5,000M this week. She will run the 10,000M on Thursday night at 6:15 p.m. (Pacific) in the final race of the day. The senior will come back on Saturday and run the final individual race of the day, when she competes in the 5,000M at 1:25 p.m. (Pacific). 
 
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Buese enters the final meet of her career tied for the program record with six All-American honors. Last season, she finished third at Outdoor Nationals in the 10K and 17th in the 5K. This week's meet will mark the seventh National Meet of Buese's career.
 
She enters the week seeded second out of 22 runners in the 10K. The Colorado native ran a career-best time of 34:16.33 on April 4 at the Stanford Invitational. Penelope Greene of SUNY Geneseo is the only student-athlete in the field to have posted a faster time this season (33:42.16). Buese is one of five runners in the field to have run a sub-35 minute time this year and one of only three competitors to break 34:30.
 
Buese ranks 10th in the field of 22 runners in the 5,000M. She posted a season-best time of 16:36.64 at the Oregon State University High Performance Meet on May 2. The runners seeded third through 16th in the field are separated by less than 10 seconds.
 
CAREER AT NATIONALS 
 
Buese will be competing at the seventh NCAA DIII Championship Meet of her career. This year's Outdoor National Championship Meet will mark the sixth-consecutive National Championship Meet she has qualified for. She will be racing in the ninth and tenth National Championship races of her career. Thus far, she has earned All-American honors six times and finished in the top-eight (First Team All-American) in four of her five career races at Track Nationals. 
 
Buese has already put together a banner year. She placed 17^th at Cross Country Nationals in the Fall to match her best-ever finish in cross country. She added a pair of All-American honors during the Indoor Track season. Buese matched her best-ever finish in track, when she finished third overall in the 5K. She came back the next day and secured the final First Team All-American spot in the 3,000M - by finishing eighth overall. 
 
The senior is aiming for her second-straight All-American honors in the 10K and her first career All-American accolades in the outdoor 5K. Buese finished third in the 10,000M at last year's National Championship Meet with a time of 35:33.09. She just missed out on the final All-American spot in the 5K by placing 17^th overall. With a top-16 finish on Saturday, Buese will have finished with All-American honors in every event she has ever competed in on the National Stage (Cross Country 2x, Indoor 5K 2x, Indoor 3K, Outdoor 10K). 
 
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Buese is already tied for the most All-American honors in cross country and track & field program history. The senior tied the program mark of six All-American honors at Indoor Nationals in March. She matched L&C Hall of Famers Chris Miller and Paige Daugherty Westcott who each finished their careers with six All-American awards. With two All-American honors this week, she can match Westcott for the program-mark for most All-American awards in track & field. 
 
Buese needs one All-American honor to tie Hall of Fame swimmer Debbie Heim Martinez for the most All-American awards in school history. Heim Martinez racked up seven All-American awards during her career in the late 1980s and early 1990s.