Track & Field set to take on SEC Indoor Championship
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Feb. 26, 2025) – South Carolina Track & Field has touched down in College Station, Texas and is putting the final preparations in place for the upcoming 2025 SEC Indoor Championship at Texas A&M.
Follow the Meet
Live results for the SEC Indoor Championships can be found by clicking the link here. Anyone interested in watching the event live can do so on SEC Network+ by clicking the link here. Fans can also follow along with updates on Twitter by following @GamecockTrack.
Ticket Information
Fans that are interesting in attending the event can do so for a nominal fee. Tickets are $40 for adults and $25 for youth, covering all three days. Single day tickets are also available for purchase for $15 for adults and $10 for youth.
Meet Information
Year in and year out, the SEC Indoor Championship boasts some of the top teams in the country and results in some of the best times and marks in the NCAA. This year expects to be the same as nine of the 16 competing women’s team are ranked inside the Top 25 and eight of the 15 competing men’s team are found inside the latest USTFCCCA rankings.
Arkansas swept the 2024 SEC Indoor title, and both the Razorback men and women enter the weekend meet ranked first in the Top 25 standings. The Arkansas women’s team has now won 10 consecutive SEC Indoor Championships following last season. The host squad, Texas A&M, is ranked 12th in the women’s rankings, just one spot ahead of the Gamecocks in 13th.
The Razorback men have won five consecutive conference championships following the result in 2024. Texas A&M is the next highest ranked SEC men’s squad, sliding in at fourth, while Auburn (7th) and Oklahoma (9th) round out the Top 10 for the men’s rankings.
The SEC Championships will be the first scored meet of the indoor season for the Gamecocks. The top eight scorers in each event will result in points for their teams in the following format (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1). Competitors who finish top three in events earn the title of All-SEC.
The three-day meet will begin on Thursday with the pentathlon starting at 12:30 p.m. (ET) and the men’s heptathlon at 12:45 p.m. (ET). The first field event will be the men’s pole vault at 5 p.m. (ET), while the first track event will be the men’s 200m prelims at 6 p.m. (ET). For a full rundown of the meet schedule, please click here.
Building on History
During Coach Hall’s first year as the leader of the Gamecock Track & Field program, South Carolina showed its grit at the 2024 SEC Indoor Championship. The men’s team finished 4th overall in the team standings for the first Top-10 finish since 2019 and the best overall team finish since 2010. The men’s team was led by a performance out of the DMR group that ran a program record time of 9:34.50 to win South Carolina’s first ever gold medal in the DMR at the SEC Indoor Championship.
On the women’s side of things, JaMeesia Ford put the world on notice when she tied the Randal Tyson Track Center facility record at Arkansas in the 200m, running 22.36 for the program’s first ever gold medal finish in the event. Ford was then the anchor leg on the 4×400 meter relay squad that set a new program record of 3:26.05 to take down Arkansas on its own turf, winning the program’s first gold medal since 2009 in the women’s 4x400m. Ford clocked a sub-50 second final leg to bring home the coveted gold. The women’s team finished with 30 overall points in 2024, the most points at the SEC Indoor Championship since 2013.
NCAA Bound
All eyes will be on this weekend as all the conference championship meets will be coming to an end, as will the final chance to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championship. Individual athletes must rank inside the Top 16 overall, while the relays must sit Top 12 following the removal of duplicate school entries.
As it sits, JaMeesia Ford ranks first in the women’s 200m (22.34) and third nationally in the women’s 400m (51.31.). Fellow sophomore sprinter Zaya Akins is 17th nationally in the 400m with a time of 52.26, while sitting 23rd in the 200m at 23.20. The women’s 4x400m relay squad ranks fifth with a time of 3:29.77. The last two athletes sitting inside the cut line are Cheyla Scott in the women’s high jump (1.86m) and the 2024 SEC Silver Medalist Dylan Targgart in the shot put with a distance of 19.41m to rank 12th overall.
