Overview
- University of Oregon issued an alert ordering evacuation of Hayward Field after a phone threat and the University of Oregon Police Department remained on site to investigate for several hours.
- The NCAA later posted that UOPD completed searches, issued an all-clear, and gave teams a revised practice schedule while confirming the championships will begin as planned.
- The threat forced cancellation of a scheduled press conference, closed the stadium to teams for the rest of the day, and led many squads to relocate final practices to nearby South Eugene High School.
- Officials have not publicly confirmed any explosive device or any link between the threat and unrelated high-profile legal news despite social-media speculation.
- Hayward Field hosts thousands of athletes and spectators for the Division I championships and the call follows a separate campus bomb-threat report weeks earlier, raising fresh concerns about event security and crowd safety.