As the 2025 athletics year gets underway, growing numbers of Scottish athletes will be recording their performances on the college circuit in the United States.

Currently, more than 30 Scots are listed on their college track and field rosters for 2025, possibly the highest number of Scots on the college circuit.

Alabama: Kai Crawford. Belmont: Reuben Macdonald. Boise State: Christian Graham, Tom Graham-Marr. Cal Poly: Rory Smail. Colorado: Allie Routledge. CSU Pueblo: Leah Keisler, Caleb McLeod. Drake: Erin Macfarlane. Harvard: Joe Ewing. Houston: Grace MacDonald. Iona: Reiss Marshall, Duncan Robinson. Lenoir Rhyne: Caitlyn Christie. Memphis: Meghan Porterfield. Miami (Ohio): Conall McGinness. Michigan: Bera Ajala. Missouri: Lewis Hainey. New Mexico: Rhys Crawford, Rebecca Grieve, Hannah Taylor, Brodie Young. Oklahoma State: Oliver Patton. Princeton: Angela McAuslan-Kelly. Tulsa: Craig Shennan. Virginia: Libby White. Wake Forest: Corey Campbell. Washburn: Ross O'Brien. Washington: Ben MacMillan. West Virginia: Sarah Tait. Wingate: Luke Lindsay.

In addition, Lindenwood (Miraji Ahmed) have closed down their track section and Conan Harper, formerly Charleston Southern, is showing as an unattached Redshirt (a college athlete who is withdrawn from university sporting events for a year to develop their skills and extend their period of eligibility by a further year at this level of competition).

5 January 2025. The World Athletics rankings system is now firmly entrenched in the athletics scene as it enters its seventh year since its formal unveiling at the start of 2019. Josh Kerr and Laura Muir are the highest-ranked Scots in the year-end World Athletics rankings. Muir has moved ahead of Kerr with a higher performance score at the end of 2024 with 1419 points to Kerr's 1416. Laura is placed 5th in the individual 1500m and 38th in the World overall (down from 33rd in 2023). Josh is ranked 6th in the men's 1500 metres and 51st in the overall rankings. Jemma Reekie, 5th in the 800m, is 95th overall, the third Scot in the overall top 100s.

The rankings reveal worrying trends in performances of Scottish athletes. Although 8 athletes achieved a performance score of 1200 points or higher, one more than in 2023, that's down from 2022 levels when 13 Scots achieved that score.  

72 Scottish athletes have a performance score of 1000 points (39 male and 33 female).  That's down on the 80 athletes (42 male and 38 female) in 2023 and the 88 athletes in 2022 (51 male and 37 female).

The leading Scots at the end of 2024 were:

Men

1 Josh Kerr 1416, 2 Neil Gourley 1329, 3 Jake Wightman 1324, 4 Guy Learmonth 1183, 5 Nicholas Percy 1178, 6 William Grimsey 1160, 7 Kane Elliott 1137, 8 Adam Thomas 1136, 9 Weynay Ghebresilasie 1133, 10 Brodie Young 1116.

Women

1 Laura Muir 1419, 2 Jemma Reekie 1361, 3 Megan Keith 1275, 4 Erin Wallace 1209, 5 Eilish McColgan 1206, 6 Nicole Yeargin 1194, 7 Eloise Walker 1139, 8 Mhairi MacLennan 1134, 9 Sarah Tait 1130, 10 Alice Goodall 1125.

You can see all Scottish athletes who have achieved a performance score of 1000 points in the end-of-year rankings on our WA Rankings page,