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Track & Field May 08, 2024
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Outdoor postseason gets underway this week for Tennessee track & field as more than 50 UT athletes have traveled to Gainesville, Florida, for the 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships. The conference meet runs Thursday through Saturday, May 9-11 at the University of Florida's James G. Pressly Stadium at Percy Beard Track.
The meet kicks off for Tennessee with freshman Kevin Burr Jr. competing in the men's javelin at 4:45 p.m. ET on Thursday. Running events start on the track at 5:30 p.m. with Carter Knox and Michael Rodriguez-King competing in the men's 800-meter prelims. The first finals of the meet will take place Thursday night with the men's and women's 10,000-meter at 7:40 and 8:15 p.m., respectively.
Day two begins at 4:30 p.m. with Ellison Colarossi, Kendall Ford, Sarah Schmitt and Caroline Weems in the women's pole vault and Grant Campbell in the men's high jump. Running prelims continue in the evening, beginning at 5 p.m. with two Vols on the track for the men's 110-meter hurdles. The men's and women's 3,000-meter steeplechase finals are respectively set for Friday at 8:00 and 8:20 p.m.
The conference championships will wrap up Saturday, starting at 3 p.m. with Tennessee rookies Aron Alvarez Aranda and Seth Apple representing UT in the men's discus throw. Running finals start at approximately 6:05 p.m. with the men's 4x100-meter relay and conclude with the women's 4x400-meter relay at 9:40 p.m.
Second-year head coach Duane Ross leads Tennessee into battle with a pair of top-15 squads, with the Lady Vols ranked 10th and the Vols No. 14 in the latest release of the USTFCCCA national track & field rating index. The UT men and women are both slotted No. 5 in the coaches' association SEC power index released on Tuesday.
FOLLOW LIVE: The 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships will be streamed online all three days via SEC Network+, available at espn.com/watch or the ESPN app. Saturday's evening session will be televised on SEC Network. The broadcast crew includes Dwight Stones, Dan O'Brien, Larra Overton and Fernando Paloma.
Live coverage can be viewed at the links below:
Thursday, May 9
Friday, May 10
Saturday, May 11
Additionally, live results will be provided throughout the weekend by Delta Timing.
SEEDED VOLS AND LADY VOLS: Tennessee's championship roster holds 27 top-8 marks in the SEC this season in their respective events entered at the conference meet.
Men
- T'Mars McCallum – 100m – 9.94 (No. 1 SEC)
- Christopher Cherry – 1,500m – 3:41.57 (No. 6 SEC)
- Brandon Olden – 5,000m – 13:42.81 (No. 7 SEC)
- Dean Casey – 10,000m – 28:39.52 (No. 7 SEC)
- Clement Ducos – 400m Hurdles – 48.26 (No. 2 SEC)
- Rasheeme Griffith – 400m Hurdles – 49.58 (No. 4 SEC)
- Ja'Kwan Hale – 400m Hurdles – 49.95 (No. 6 SEC)
- Will Cahill – 3,000m Steeplechase – 8:54.79 (No. 5 SEC)
- Brett Brady – 3,000m Steeplechase – 8:55.26 (No. 6 SEC)
- Brody Chapman – 3,000m Steeplechase – 8:58.72 (No. 7 SEC)
- Men's 4x100m Relay – 39.10 (No. 7 SEC)
- Men's 4x400m Relay – 3:05.10 (No. 8 SEC)
- Grant Campbell – Men's High Jump – 2.16m / 7-1 (No. 7 SEC)
- Aron Alvarez Aranda – Men's Discus – 58.89m / 193-2 (No. 4 SEC)
Women
- Jacious Sears – 100m – 10.77 (No. 1 SEC)
- Dennisha Page – 100m – 11.11 (No. 7 SEC)
- Dennisha Page – 200m – 22.61 (No. 6 SEC)
- Javonya Valcourt – 400m – 51.15 (No. 7 SEC)
- Emily Covert – 5,000m – 15:48.29 (No. 3 SEC)
- Rachel Sutliff – 5,000m – 15:55.48 (No. 4 SEC)
- Ashley Jones – 5,000m – 15:58.77 (No. 6 SEC)
- Caroline Lyerly – 10,000m – 33:19.80 (No. 8 SEC)
- Kyla Robinson-Hubbard – 400m Hurdles – 55.98 (No. 2 SEC)
- Kayla Gholar – 3,000m Steeplechase- 10:17.36 (No. 6 SEC)
- Women's 4x100m Relay – 42.52 (No. 1 SEC)
- Women's 4x400m Relay – 3:28.53 (No. 4 SEC)
- Sarah Schmitt – Pole Vault – 4.33m / 14-2.5 (No. 2 SEC)
BOWERMAN LIST DEBUT: Last Wednesday, Lady Vol senior sprint star Jacious Sears made her first appearance on the women's watch list for collegiate track & field's highest individual honor – The Bowerman Award. The Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, native was recognized after recording the second-fastest 100-meter dash in NCAA history on April 13 at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational, also in Gainesville.
Sears put the world on notice last month with a lifetime-best clocking of 10.77 seconds, which currently stands as the fastest time in the world for the 2024 outdoor season. Her performance ranks second on the collegiate all-time list, only 0.02 seconds off the NCAA record of 10.75 set by Sha'Carri Richardson in 2019.
Also serving as the leadoff leg on Tennessee's 4x100-meter relay this season, Sears most recently helped the Lady Vols improve their school record and collegiate leading time of 42.52 seconds at the Desert Heat Classic in Arizona. That mark leads the next closest school by more than half a second.
UP NEXT: Tennessee athletes that post top-48 marks on the NCAA Division I East Region qualifying list will travel to Lexington, Kentucky, for the 2024 NCAA East Preliminary Rounds. The four-day contest will take place at the University of Kentucky Track & Field Complex May 22-25.
