Tennessee Track & Field Year-by-Year Archive
2025Â Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 7th / 6th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â NTS / T-14th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 6th / 15th
Women's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-15th / NTS
Coach: Duane Ross (3rd season)
In Tennessee’s third season under head coach Duane Ross, the Vols and Lady Vols totaled 35 All-America honors, 14 SEC medals and 14 program records over the course of the indoor and outdoor seasons. The men’s squad was ranked as high as No. 2 nationally during the regular outdoor season, while the women rose to No. 10 during the outdoor campaign.
For the second time in three years, the Big Orange carded multiple top-15 finishes at the NCAA Championship meets. The Lady Vols tied for 15th at the indoor national meet, while the Vols equaled 14th place in the team standings at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Tennessee totaled four individual/relay conference titles during the 2025 campaign, beginning with Blake Sifferlin (men’s pole vault) and Myreanna Bebe (women’s 60-meter hurdles) claiming SEC crowns at the indoor championship meet with marks of 5.50m (18-0.5) and 7.95 seconds, respectively. The men’s 4x100-meter relay quartet of Deron Dudley, Davonte Howell, Kalib Branch and T’Mars McCallum earned the conference title in school-record fashion with a time of 38.20 at the SEC Outdoor Championships, while Vol freshman Saad Hinti took home UT’s first SEC gold in the 400-meter hurdles in nearly four decades with a time of 48.44.
The Lady Vols had four First-Team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships – headlined by a fourth-place finish for the 4x400-meter relay of Cydney Wright, Esther Joseph, Brianna White and Javonya Valcourt with a school-record mark of 3:27.25. The men tabbed six scoring marks at the outdoor national meet – including fifth-place showings in the 4x100-meter relay, 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter hurdles.
2024Â Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: T-8th / 6th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-44th / T-37th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 8th / 7th
Women's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-17th / T-30th
Coach: Duane Ross (2nd season)
In Tennessee’s second season under head coach and director of track & field Duane Ross, the Vols and Lady Vols totaled 17 school records, 39 All-America honors and 12 SEC medals over the course of the indoor and outdoor seasons. The women’s squad was ranked as high as No. 6 nationally during the regular indoor season, while the men ascended to No. 11 during the outdoor campaign.
Senior sprint star Jacious Sears headlined the 2023-24 indoor season for Tennessee individually, taking silver in the SEC 60-meter final and earning a pair of top-five finishes in the 60-meter (4th) and 200-meter (5th) at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston. Adding in the Lady Vol 4x400-meter relay squad’s fifth-place finish in a school-record 3:29.79, UT tied for No. 17 in the women’s standings for their second-consecutive top-20 finish at the indoor national meet – breaking that threshold in each of the last three years for the first time since 2009-11.
Sears carried momentum into the outdoor season with one of the fastest sprinting displays in NCAA history at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational on April 13. The Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, product threw down a blistering time of 10.77 seconds in the 100-meter dash, the second-fastest performance in collegiate history behind reigning world champion Sha’Carri Richardson’s record of 10.75 set in 2019. With a legal tailwind of +1.6 m/s, Sears' performance shattered her own school record and currently ranks No. 15 on the world all-time list and No. 7 on the U.S. all-time list.
At the SEC Outdoor Championships, the Lady Vol relay squads asserted their dominance with a pair of conference titles in the 4x100- and 4x400-meter finals. Sears, Dennisha Page, DaJour Miles and Joella Lloyd got the baton around the oval in 42.42 seconds for Tennessee’s first SEC gold in the women’s 4x100 since 1984, while the 4x400 quartet of Javonya Valcourt, Kyla Robinson-Hubbard, Miles and Brianna White capped the meet with a winning mark of 3:24.44. Both performances were school records and collegiate leading marks at the time of the event, and UT became the first school since 2014 to sweep relay titles at the SEC Outdoor Championships.
The Lady Vols’ 2024 campaign wrapped up in Eugene, Oregon, at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The 4x400-meter relay broke their own school record once again, taking second in the NCAA Outdoor Championship final with a time of 3:23.32, and White earned First Team All-America honors in the 400-meter dash with an eighth-place finish in 50.79 seconds.
On the men’s side, sophomore standout T’Mars McCallum held the fastest time in the country in the 100-meter dash up until the final weekend of the outdoor season. His mark of 9.94 seconds was the No. 2 mark in school history behind VFL Christian Coleman and he became just the sixth sophomore in collegiate history to run 9.95 or faster with a legal tailwind (+2.0 m/s).
Tennessee also touted a trio of remarkable 400-meter hurdlers in Clement Ducos, Rasheeme Griffith and Ja’Kwan Hale – who each rounded out their collegiate careers during the 2024 campaign. Ducos went out with the UT school record in the event at 48.26 seconds, while Griffith and Hale each secured medals at the conference meet with their second- and third- place finishes. All three were tabbed USTFCCCA All-Americans in the event at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, with Hale leading the way as he took seventh in the final.
The men’s 4x400-meter relay was notably strong during the 2023-24 indoor and outdoor seasons, earning First Team All-America status at both NCAA Championship finals. In the last race of the campaign, Emmanuel Bynum, Christian Parker, Hale and Griffith completed the relay in a school record time of 3:01.22 to place fifth in the nation.
Under the direction of Ross and cross country head coach Sean Carlson, the Vols and Lady Vols finished 16th and 10th, respectively, in the 2023-24 NCAA Division I Program of the Year standings, which are calculated by combining postseason results from each national championship event in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. This year marks the first time UT has placed in the top-20 on both sides since the award’s inception in 2008-09.
2023Â Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 5th / 3rd
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â 11th / T-22nd
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 3rd / 5th
Women's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-7th / T-10th
Coach:Â Duane Ross (1st season)
In Tennessee's first year under Duane Ross' leadership, the Vols and Lady Vols totaled 15 school records, 32 All-America honors and 22 SEC medals over the course of the indoor and outdoor seasons. The Big Orange men and women secured top five finishes at both SEC competitions for the first time since 2008, with the Vols placing fifth and third and the Lady Vols placing third and fifth in the team standings at the indoor and outdoor conference meets, respectively.
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Ross guided the Lady Vol track & field squads to a pair of top-10 finishes at both national meets for the first time since 2009, placing seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championships and tying for 10th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In the USTFCCCA's 2022-23 Division I Program of the Year final standings, the men of Tennessee were tabbed No. 9 when combining postseason results from cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. The ranking marked the highest position for UT on the list since the award's inception in 2008-09.
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Jacious Sears took home USTFCCCA South Region Track Athlete of the Year honors for the 2023 outdoor season, posting a team-high 11 points at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and winning the SEC Commissioner's Trophy as the highest individual point scorer at the SEC Outdoor Championships. Sears tallied 20.5 points for Tennessee at the conference meet, which included winning the 100-meter dash in a school-record 10.96 seconds and earning silver in the 200-meter with a lifetime-best clocking of 22.45.
Lady Vol standout Charisma Taylor collected seven All-America certificates over the course of the 2023 indoor and outdoor seasons. The Nassau, Bahamas, native placed top five in the 60-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump at indoor nationals, including a mark of 14.88 meters (48-10) in the triple jump that placed second and ranked as the No. 2 performance in collegiate history.
On the men's side, Dylan Jacobs stood out during the indoor season and was tabbed the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Year, the first Vol to earn that honor since Christian Coleman in 2017. The distance specialist from Orland Park, Illinois, established SEC records and all-time top five marks in the 3,000-meter (7:36.89) and 5,000-meter (13:11.01) during the regular season, won SEC titles in the 3k and DMR and capped his historic campaign with a 5k national title in Albuquerque.
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Vol graduate students Devon Brooks and Jacobs locked up outdoor conference titles in the men's 110-meter hurdles and 5,000-meter, respectively, leading the squad to a third-place finish in the team standings with 87 points at the SEC Outdoor Championships.
2022Â Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 6th / 3rd
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â 3rd / 3rd
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 6th / 9th
Women's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â 16th / T-62nd
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (8th season)
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Redshirt freshman Wayne Pinnock led the Vols with a pair of individual national titles as he swept the indoor and outdoor long jump competition. At Indoor NCAAs, Pinnock and teammate Carey McLeod placed 1-2 to become the first teammates to finish first and second in the indoor long jump since 1985. In all, Pinnock won three long jump titles in 2022 as he also captured the SEC Outdoor long jump crown.
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As a team, the Vols finished sixth at the Indoor SEC Championships and third at the Outdoor SEC Championships - the best team finish for the men since 2008 when they also placed third overall.
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The Lady Vols earned sixth-and-ninth-place finishes at the SEC meets, with Charisma Taylor starring for the women. The graduate student scored a pair of medals at the indoor meet – a silver in the 60-meter hurdles and a bronze in the triple jump. Sydney Seymour also brought home a silver medal at indoors in the 5,000m.
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At Indoor NCAAs, Taylor was one of only two athletes to compete in three individual events. She went on to finish third in the triple jump.
2021Â Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 6th / t-6th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â 9th / 11th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 9th / 9th
Women's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-40th / T-46th
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (7th season)
At the 2021 SEC Indoor Championships the Vols placed sixth overall with 50 points. They tallied two SEC titles, taking gold in the men's 4x400-meter relay after Carey McLeod won the triple jump crown. At the indoor national meet, the men finished ninth with 21 points and four podium finishes. The Vols earned 12 All-America honors at the indoor championships. It was the Vols' third top-10 finish indoors and fifth top-10 showing overall under head coach Beth Alford-Sullivan.
During the outdoor season, the Vols finished in a tie for sixth-place as they scored 67 points. The men earned a pair of individual titles as McLeod won the long jump and Jah-Nhai Perinchief took home the triple jump crown. The outdoor championships saw the Vols finish 11th in the nation with 21 points as four men earned podium placements. UT’s men tallied 12 All-America honors at the outdoor national meet in Eugene, Oregon. Â
On the women’s side, the Lady Vols placed ninth at both the Indoor and Outdoor SEC Championships, winning three individual titles between the two meets. Joella Lloyd won the women’s 60-meter title, while Latavia Maines swept the women’s shot put competition to bring home two SEC crowns.
At the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets, the women tied for 40th and 46th. The Lady Vols combined for three podium finishes at the two meets and tallied 13 total All-America honors.
2020Â Season
Men's SEC Indoor:Â 5th
Women's SEC Indoor:Â T-8th
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (6th season)
Shortened due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) global health crisis, the 2020 track and field season concluded prior to the NCAA Indoor Championships. Tennessee earned its highest men’s team finish under head coach Beth Alford-Sullivan at the SEC Indoor Championships — placing fifth with 67 points. The Lady Vols finished in a tie for eighth with 43 points, their most since 2016.
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Tennessee totaled three SEC individual championships, eight SEC event medals, four school records, three freshman records and 24 top-10 program marks during the 2020 indoor campaign.
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Sophomore Carey McLeod broke out in his first year with the Vols, winning the SEC title in the long jump and silver medal in the triple jump. His long jump mark of 8.19 meters (26-10.5) broke the Tennessee record and ranked as the No. 4 mark in the world for the 2019-20 indoor season. Following the SEC Championships, McLeod was named the SEC and USTFCCCA South Region Indoor Men’s Field Athlete of the Year.
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UT won both the men’s and women’s shot put titles at the SEC Indoor Championships, marking the eighth time a school had ever accomplished that feat. Joseph Maxwell (19.83m / 65-0.75) took home the men’s gold medal, while Latavia Maines (16.84m / 55-3) won the title on the women’s side.
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Darryl Sullivan was atop the world leaderboard in the men’s high jump for 2019-20, clearing a bar of 2.33 meters (7-7.75) at the Virginia Tech Invitational on January 18. The mark equaled the 2020 Olympic standard, all-time SEC indoor record and No. 4 performance in collegiate indoor history. Sullivan appeared twice on the 2020 Bowerman men’s watch list.
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Seven Vols qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships before the event’s cancellation: Alexis Duncan (60m hurdles), Latavia Maines (shot put), Joseph Maxwell (shot put), Carey McLeod (long jump, triple jump), Darryl Sullivan (high jump), Alonie Sutton (triple jump) and Domonique Turner (60m hurdles).
2019 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 6th / 7th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â 35th / T-61st
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â 8th / 9th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor: T-21st / T-66th
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (5th season)
The 2019 track and field season saw a plethora of individual and team accomplishments, highlighted by five SEC championships, 21 All-America honors, seven program records and 36 top-10 marks in Tennessee history. At the SEC indoor and outdoor championship meets, the Tennessee men posted their highest point totals since 2009 and 2008, respectively.
In her final season on Rocky Top, Stamatia Scarvelis captured SEC titles in the weight throw and hammer throw, including the No. 3 weight throw mark in conference history (24.06m / 78-11.25) at the SEC Indoor Championships. Scoring 23 points for the Lady Vols at the outdoor meet, Scarvelis was also presented with the SEC Commissioner's Trophy.
Senior captain Mustaqeem Williams swept the SEC 200m titles indoors and outdoors, becoming the first Vol to accomplish that feat since Rubin Williams in 2007. Sophomore distance specialist Alex Crigger also claimed gold at the SEC outdoor meet, claiming UT's first 3,000m steeplechase conference title since 1985.
At the national level, junior high jumper Darryl Sullivan tabbed a runner-up finish with a personal-best clearance of 2.26m (7-5), marking the highest finish for UT in the event since 1994. The Lady Vols also claimed a pair of First Team All-America citations in the triple jump for the first time in more than 25 years, as LaChyna Roe and Alonie Sutton placed fourth and seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
2018 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 7th / 6th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor: T-40th / T-55th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 11th / 4th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-53rd / T-25th
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (4th season)
The outdoor season proved to be the highlight for the 2018 Vols. The team hosted the SEC Track and Field Championships at Tom Black Track at LaPorte Stadium for the first time since 2010. Tom Black Track had received some of its biggest renovations ever with the dedication of the new Boyd Family Track and Field Center, Phillips Pavilion and the Basler Broadcast Center. Tennessee took advantage of the home track advantage for the conference meet, placing fourth in the women's meet and sixth in the men's competition in Beth Alford-Sullivan's fourth year on Rocky Top.
Tennessee captured a pair of SEC titles: Mustaqeem Williams in the 200m at the indoor championships and Stamatia Scarvelis in the hammer throw outdoors. Scarvelis went on to place third in the event at the NCAA championships with a school-record mark of 69.10m (226-8). In all, the Vols broke 12 program records and earned 27 combined first-team and second-team All-America honors (18 women; 9 men).2017 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 10th / T-9th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor: T-10th / T-7th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 12th / T-11th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor:Â NTS / T-62nd
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (3rd season)
During the 2017 season, the Tennessee men tied for 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championship and finished in a tie for seventh at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. These are the third and fourth consecutive top-10 finishes for the men's team. Overall, the program has posted five top-10 finishes at a NCAA meet in the last two years. Student-athletes on the 2017 squad accounted for nine school records and appeared 73 times on the school's all-time top-10 lists.
Christian Coleman won the NCAA National Championship in the 60m and 200m during the indoor season as he tied a collegiate record in the 60m (6.45) and recorded the second-fastest 200m in collegiate history at 20.11. He followed that up by winning the 100m and 200m dashes at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, joining #VFL Justin Gatlin as the only two people to accomplish the double-double. Coleman set the collegiate record in the 100m (9.82) and posted the second-fastest 200m (19.85) in collegiate history during the outdoor season. He was named both the USTFCCCA Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year.
However, Coleman wasn't the only success story as the Vols recorded 12 All-American honors and seven SEC medals during the 2017 season. Tennessee student-athletes also set school records in the hammer throw on both the men's and women's side. Stamatia Scarvelis set the school record in both the weight throw and the hammer throw during her first year on campus. Cameron Brown broke the 21-year-old men's hammer record, but held it for less than a month before Seth Whitener broke his mark at the NCAA East Prelims. Matthew Zajac posted a third place finish in the discus competition at the SEC Outdoor Championship. Chelsea Blaase earned her seventh first-team All-America honor as she took seventh in the 10,000m race at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. Zach Long notched a fourth place finish in the 5,000m competition at the SEC Championship.
2016 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 8th / 9th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor: 3rd / 6th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: T-4th / 4th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor:Â 7th / T-29th
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (2nd season)
Jake Blankenship cleared 5.60 meters (18-4.50) to win the men's pole vault NCAA Outdoor Championship, the first men's outdoor national champion since 2006. He also won the SEC title with a mark of 5.65 meters (18-6.50). Christian Coleman set a Tennessee outdoor school record in the 100 meters with a 10.03 (+1.6) in the NCAA semifinal, and then claimed silver in the finals of both the 100m and 200m. During the indoor season, Coleman took gold in the men's 60 meters and silver in the 200 meters and 4x400-meter relay at the SEC Championship before earning a national championship in the indoor 200m. Coleman earned USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Men's National Athlete of the Week honors and was the Men's SEC Indoor Runner of the Year Award.
Felicia Brown was the 2016 USTFCCCA South Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year for both the indoor and outdoor seasons as well as the 2016 SEC Outdoor Track and Field Women's Co-Runner of the Year. She won the 200m championship at SEC Indoors, NCAA Indoors and SEC Outdoors. Chelsea Blaase claimed the indoor SEC Championship in both the 3000m and 5000m events which tied her for the meet's highest scorer. She also won the outdoor SEC Championship in the 10,000m event and took second in the 5000m. Cassie Wertman silver medals at the SEC Indoor Championship, NCAA Indoor Championship and SEC Outdoor Championship.
With Coleman's and Brown's national titles, Tennessee became the first school in NCAA Indoor Track and Field history to win both men's 200 meters and the women's 200 meters at the same championship meet. Overall, Tennessee claimed 44 All-American honors during the 2016 track and field season. The men's team was named the USTFCCCA DI Track and Field Scholar Team of the Year for both the 2016 indoor and outdoor seasons. The UT women garnered All-Academic team honors and 11 Vols were named All-Academic Individuals.
2015 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 7th / 12th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor: 17th/ T-18th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor 10th / 14th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor:T-38th / T-56th
Coach: Beth Alford-Sullivan (1st season)
Senior Tavis Bailey earned a national-runner up spot in the discus at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championship. He took fourth at the SEC Outdoor meet in the discus and finished second in the weight throw at the SEC Indoor Championship behind teammate Cameron Brown. Junior Jake Blankenship placed second in the pole vault at the SEC Indoors, NCAA Indoors and SEC Outdoors before claiming All-American honors with a sixth place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. Freshman Christian Coleman earned All-American honors in the 60m (indoors), 100m (outdoor) and 200m (outdoor) events.
Chelsea Blaase earned All-American honors as she finished sixth in the 10,000m race at the NCAA Outdoor Championship and fourth in the 5,000m race at the NCAA Indoor Championship. She also earned third place honors in the 5000m (SEC Outdoor Championship) and 3000m (SEC Indoor Championship). Felicia Brown finished fourth in the 200m and fifth in the 100m at the Outdoor SEC Championship while Cassie Wertman claimed third place honors at the SEC Indoor Championship.
During the outdoor season six Tennessee student-athletes earned All-American honors after five earned the distinction during the indoor year.
2014 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor: 9th / T-11th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor: N/A / T-18th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor 7th / 10th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor:N/A / T-59th
Coach: J.J. Clark (Women - 12th season, Men - 5th season)
The 2014 outdoor season for Tennessee saw two NCAA bronze medals, two new school records, 28 event victories, 87 athlete personal bests, and 228 top ten finishes. Junior Tavis Bailey established a new record in men's shot put throwing 211 feet 8 inches (64.51 meters) at the Tennessee Challenge. Jake Blankenship returned to action in the latter half of the season, while displaying his will and determination to excel by winning back-to-back meets along with top five finishes in every competition. Cameron Brown also made exceptional improvements throughout the year. Chelsea Blaase blazed through the 10K with a time of 33:13.94 to set a new school record at the Husky Invite. Freshmen stand-out Felecia Majors provided instant impact in multiple areas for the Lady Vols, as Alexis Panisse and Felicia Brown were vital sparks for the team all season long. The Big Orange also had a trio to complete at USATF Championships: Cassie Wertman, Tavis Bailey, and Jake Blankenship. Looking to reestablish the program as a national contender, the foundation has been laid for Tennessee Track & Field.
2013 Season
Men's SEC Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-8th / T-11th
Men's NCAA Indoor/Outdoor:Â T-40th / T-77th
Women's SEC Indoor/Outdoor 8th / 9th
Women's NCAA: Indoor/Outdoor: NTS / NTS
Coach: J.J. Clark (Women - 11th season, Men -Â 4th season)
The youthful Volunteer Track & Field team showed glimmers of greatness in 2013 and took another step towards restoring the program with a trio of pole vaulters and throwers leading the way. The SEC Indoor runner-up, pole vaulter Jake Blankenship was named SEC Indoor Freshman Field Athlete of the Year and an All-American both indoors and out. Sophomore shot putter Matthew Hoty also carded a runner-up finish at SEC Indoors and went on to post big numbers outside. Fellow vaulter Tyler Porter scored and was named First Team All-American at NCAAs, and the Vol 4x1 notched All-America acclaim for the second straight season.
A very young Lady Vol Track & Field team battled depth issues and struggled in 2013, but not without several noteworthy performances. Indoors, junior pole vaulter Linda Hadfield set the school record in the event with a mark of 13-11 (4.24m), and would go on to earn All-America acclaim. Coming alive outside, freshman sprinter Felicia Brown provided hope moving forward, drawing All-America honors in the 400m. Senior Nijgia Snapp (800m) capped her career by being named an indoor and outdoor All-American.
