Anderson’s Top Times Highlight Seven Athletes Advancing To SEC Indoor Finals
February 28, 2025 | Track & Field
BRYAN, COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Lady Vol junior Layla Anderson will enter the final day of the SEC Indoor Championships as the top seed in the women's 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles after throwing down a pair of lifetime-best performances in those respective events during Friday's preliminary rounds at the R.A. Fasken Indoor Track & Field Facility. Her marks highlighted a total of nine qualifying times for Tennessee on the track, positioning the Big Orange for several scoring opportunities on Day 3 of the conference meet.
Anderson opened up the meet in the 60-meter dash, stopping the clock at 7.17 seconds for a new lifetime-best to win her preliminary heat. She edged defending champion Brianna Lyston of LSU by one thousandth of a second for the top mark in the prelims – ranking herself seventh in the NCAA this season and fourth in Lady Vol history.
Two hours later, Anderson took the center of the track once again in the 60-meter hurdles and came away with another personal record. Her time of 8.02 ranks sixth in the NCAA in 2025 and moved the Portsmouth, Virginia, native to No. 2 on the Lady Vol all-time list.
Anderson will be joined by teammate and training partner Myreanna Bebe in the Saturday's 60-meter hurdles final after Bebe won her preliminary heat with a time of 8.10 in her SEC Indoor Championship debut.
Junior sprinter T'Mars McCallum punched his second ticket of the weekend to an SEC final on Friday, tying his personal-best in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.59 to win his heat. The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, product will compete for UT in the 200- and 60-meter finals on Saturday.
In the women's 400-meter dash, junior Lady Vol and 2024 Olympian Javonya Valcourt booked her trip to the conference final after clocking an indoor PR of 51.73 seconds – winning her heat and rising to No. 7 on the 2025 NCAA list. Her mark also surpassed Patricia Hall as the No. 2 performer in school history, only trailing DeeDee Trotter's school record mark of 51.29 set in 2004.
For the second year in a row, Ka'Myya Haywood qualified for the SEC indoor 800-meter final with a time of 2:04.90 on Friday – good for a season-best mark and fourth place in the prelims.
Vol graduate student Jevon Williams also stood out for the Big Orange in the 60-meter hurdles, running a personal-best of 7.68 seconds on the men's side to qualify for the final in his first SEC Championship meet. His time ranks sixth on the program's all-time list.
The Lady Vols tallied their first points of the meet on Friday as freshman phenom Donna Douglas placed sixth overall in the women's weight throw. She ended the meet with back-to-back PRs, including a sixth-round heave of 20.75m (68-1) to shatter her own freshman record and rank as the top freshman weight thrower in the country for the 2025 indoor season.
PR Tracker: Tennessee athletes combined to break or tie 12 indoor personal records on Friday at the SEC Indoor Championships.
Anderson opened up the meet in the 60-meter dash, stopping the clock at 7.17 seconds for a new lifetime-best to win her preliminary heat. She edged defending champion Brianna Lyston of LSU by one thousandth of a second for the top mark in the prelims – ranking herself seventh in the NCAA this season and fourth in Lady Vol history.
Two hours later, Anderson took the center of the track once again in the 60-meter hurdles and came away with another personal record. Her time of 8.02 ranks sixth in the NCAA in 2025 and moved the Portsmouth, Virginia, native to No. 2 on the Lady Vol all-time list.
Anderson will be joined by teammate and training partner Myreanna Bebe in the Saturday's 60-meter hurdles final after Bebe won her preliminary heat with a time of 8.10 in her SEC Indoor Championship debut.
Junior sprinter T'Mars McCallum punched his second ticket of the weekend to an SEC final on Friday, tying his personal-best in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.59 to win his heat. The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, product will compete for UT in the 200- and 60-meter finals on Saturday.
In the women's 400-meter dash, junior Lady Vol and 2024 Olympian Javonya Valcourt booked her trip to the conference final after clocking an indoor PR of 51.73 seconds – winning her heat and rising to No. 7 on the 2025 NCAA list. Her mark also surpassed Patricia Hall as the No. 2 performer in school history, only trailing DeeDee Trotter's school record mark of 51.29 set in 2004.
For the second year in a row, Ka'Myya Haywood qualified for the SEC indoor 800-meter final with a time of 2:04.90 on Friday – good for a season-best mark and fourth place in the prelims.
Vol graduate student Jevon Williams also stood out for the Big Orange in the 60-meter hurdles, running a personal-best of 7.68 seconds on the men's side to qualify for the final in his first SEC Championship meet. His time ranks sixth on the program's all-time list.
The Lady Vols tallied their first points of the meet on Friday as freshman phenom Donna Douglas placed sixth overall in the women's weight throw. She ended the meet with back-to-back PRs, including a sixth-round heave of 20.75m (68-1) to shatter her own freshman record and rank as the top freshman weight thrower in the country for the 2025 indoor season.
PR Tracker: Tennessee athletes combined to break or tie 12 indoor personal records on Friday at the SEC Indoor Championships.
- T'Mars McCallum – Men's 60m – 6.59
- Davonte Howell – Men's 60m – 6.63
- Andrew Brown – Men's 400m – 46.80
- Harry Barton – Men's 400m – 46.84
- Jevon Williams – Men's 60m Hurdles – 7.68
- Kalib Branch – Men's 60m Hurdles – 7.77
- Layla Anderson – Women's 60m – 7.17
- Javonya Valcourt – Women's 400m – 51.73
- Brianna White – Women's 400m – 52.20
- Esther Joseph – Women's 400m – 53.12
- Layla Anderson – Women's 60m Hurdles – 8.02
- Donna Douglas – Women's Weight Throw – 20.75m / 68-1
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