Stolz Captures Three National Titles, Bowe & Dawson Win Two in Season-Opening U.S. Championships

Jordan Stolz, the reigning ISU World Cup Men’s champion in three distances and a nine-time World Championships medalist, won national titles in three events in the U.S. Long Track Championships held this past weekend at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah.

Brittany Bowe, a three-time Olympian, and Casey Dawson, a 2022 Olympic medalist, each won two U.S. championships.

Stolz began his season with podium finishes in all four events he entered. Stolz won the Men’s 1000m and 1500m races, both Mass Start races and finished second in two 500m races. He won the 1000m in 1:07 and the 1500m in 1:43.37. He finished second in the 500m with times of 34.44 and 34.74 seconds.

Other U.S. championship winners included 2022 Olympic Gold medalist Erin Jackson in the Women’s 500m, Zach Stoppelmoor in the Men’s 500m, Mia Manganello in the Women’s Mass Start, Greta Myers in the Women’s 3000m and Rebecca Simmons in the Women’s 5000m.

The competition was held Oct. 24-26 and was a qualifier that will determine the Fall World Cup Team.

The Utah Olympic Oval will host the season-opening World Cup stop Nov. 14-16.

Bowe, a two-time Olympic medalist who has won 13 world titles, reached the podium at three distances, winning the Women’s 1000m and 1500m, and finishing runner-up to Jackson in the 500. Bowe and Jackson finished one-two in the 1000m in times of 1:14.69 and 1:15.41, respectively, after Jackson beat Bowe in the 500m twice with times of 37.76 and 37.31 seconds.

Bowe won the 1500m in 1:53.33, defeating U.S. teammate Greta Myers by nearly 2 seconds.

Manganello, a two-time Olympian, won both Women’s Mass Start races with times of 8:25.22 and 9:24.46, and she also finished third in the Women’s 1500m and third in the 3000m.

Myers won the Women’s 3000m in 4:05.71 and Simmons captured the U.S. title in the 5000m with a time of 7:50.92. Myers also finished second in the 1500m, and third in the 1000m and both Mass Start races.

Sarah Warren finished second in one of the Mass Start races and fourth in the other, while Giorgia Birkeland had second- and fifth-place finishes.

Chrysta Rands-Evans scored a third-place finish in one of the 500m races with a time of 38.75 seconds, finishing behind Jackson and Bowe. In the second 500m race, she was faster with a time of 38.38 seconds and finished third overall.

Dawson was king of the long distances, winning the Men’s 5000m in 6:11.44 and the 10000m in 12:46.57. He finished third in the 1500m, trailing two-time 1500m world champion Stolz and Conor McDermott-Mostowy.

Stoppelmoor won the Men’s 500m title with first- and third-place times of 34.39 seconds, a personal-best time, and 34.76 seconds, respectively. Stoppelmoor finished third in one of the Mass Start races and was fourth in the 1000m.

Cooper McLeod also had first- and third-place finishes, winning the first 500m race with a time of 34.44 seconds and placing third in the second race at 34.49 seconds. McLeod added a second-place finish in the 1000m with a personal-best time of 1:07.13.

Kelin Dunfee had a second-place finish in the 10000m.

Ethan Cepuran, a 2022 Olympic Bronze medalist and 2025 World Champion in Men’s Team Pursuit, captured a pair of second-place finishes in the Mass Start and a third-place finish in the 5000m.

Carl Platt had a third-place finish in the Mass Start.

Paul D. Bowker has been writing about Olympic sports since 1996, when he was an assistant bureau chief in Atlanta. He is a freelance contributor to USSpeedskating.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.