Track & Field Set for Split Weekend
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Feb. 6, 2025) – South Carolina Track & Field will take part in a pair of meets this weekend, doing so at the East Coast Invitational in Virginia Beach, Va. and the Scarlet & White Invitational in Boston, Mass.
Follow the Meet(s)
Live results for the East Coast Invitational can be accessed here. Live results for Saturday’s Scarlet & White Invitational can be found by clicking here. The Scarlet & White Invitational will also have a live video stream provided by FloSports where fans can access the stream for a nominal fee. Fans can also follow along with updates on X (Twitter) by following @GamecockTrack.
Meet Information
The East Coast Invitational will be the first meet on the docket and will begin on Friday with the men’s 60 meter prelims at 3 p.m. The site of the East Coast Invitational is the Virginia Beach Sports Center, host of the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championship. The two-day meet will run into Saturday where activities will commence at noon with men’s pole vault and conclude at 4 p.m. with the women’s 4×400 meter relay.
The Scarlet & White Invitational will feature the Gamecock distance group and will be a one-day meet on Saturday. Anya Arroyo and Teresa Cherotich will kick off the meet in Beantown in the women’s 5K at 10:30 a.m., while Rogerio Amaral, Jaouad Khchina and Elijah Poore will bring it home with the men’s 3K at 5:35 p.m.
In the Rankings
For the second consecutive week, the Gamecock women’s team is found inside the Top 25 in the most recent USTFCCCA rankings. South Carolina jumped one spot into 12th place overall, thanks in large part to ranking ninth in the 60m and 12th in the long jump. Additonally, the Gamecock women’s 200m event group went from being non-ranked to 17th overall. The men’s team is just outside the Top 25 overall and are led by the 200m sprints group, ranking 12th overall in the USTFCCCA standings.
NCAA Positioning
There are just four more weekends for the Gamecocks to make some moves on the NCAA leaderboard. South Carolina athletes need to be ranked Top 16 overall in their respective fields to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championship, while the relays need to sit Top 12. As it stands now, South Carolina would compete in nine events at the indoor championship in March. Individually, JaMeesia Ford and Zaya Akins are both ranked second and ninth in the women’s 400m, while Cheyla Scott sits sixth in the high jump and Dylan Targgart ranks ninth in the shot put. The current standings also have both 4x400m relay squads inside the cut with the men ranking 11th and the women sitting in ninth, while both distance medley relay squads are positioned nicely, ranking seventh (men) and sixth (women).
