BATON ROUGE, La. — Tennessee track & field wrapped up the 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships with a pair of top five team finishes on Saturday at LSU’s Bernie Moore Track Stadium. The Vols scored 87 points for third place on the men’s side, while the Lady Vols racked up 67 points for fifth place overall.
Under the direction of first-year head coach Duane Ross, Tennessee both finished top five in the men’s and women’s team standings at the SEC outdoor meet for the first time since 2008.
Lady Vol junior Jacious Sears won the SEC Commissioner’s Trophy as the highest individual point scorer at the meet, tabbing 20.5 points for the Big Orange on Saturday. The Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, native won the 100-meter dash with a school-record mark of 10.96 seconds, earned silver in the 200-meter with a lifetime-best clocking of 22.45, and ran relay legs on the 4×100- and 4×400-meter scoring efforts to finish half a point ahead of Arkansas’ Britton Wilson and Florida’s Jasmine Moore.
The Big Orange won 10 medals on Saturday and 12 for the meet, highlighted by individual titles for Sears (women’s 100m) and Tennessee graduate students Devon Brooks (men’s 110m hurdles) and Dylan Jacobs (men’s 5,000m). UT also collected three bronze medals and three bronze on Saturday in an action-packed evening of competition at the nation’s best conference meeting.
HURDLE U: With four Vols competing in the men’s 110-meter hurdles final, Tennessee racked up 22 points in the event with a pair of podium finishes from Devon Brooks and Rasheem Brown and scoring performances by Leonard Mustari and Jesse Henderson.
Entering the meet as the NCAA Division I leader, Brooks won his first DI conference title with a time of 13.53 to become Tennessee’s first SEC champion in the event since Aries Merritt in 2006. Brown claimed his second SEC medal of 2023 with a third-place finish, running 13.64 for bronze after claiming SEC silver in the 60-meter hurdles indoors.
Mustari placed fourth overall with a time of 13.74, while Henderson tabbed a point for UT with his eighth-place outing.
SEARING SPEED: The reigning SEC champion in the indoor 60-meter dash, Sears dominated her first SEC outdoor meet with a win in the 100-meter sprint with a lifetime-best mark of 10.96 seconds. Breaking the sub-11 barrier for the first time in her career, the Lady Vol speedster took down the school record of 10.98 set by Shania Collins in 2018. Her mark ranks No. 8 on the 2023 world…
Under the direction of first-year head coach Duane Ross, Tennessee both finished top five in the men’s and women’s team standings at the SEC outdoor meet for the first time since 2008.
Lady Vol junior Jacious Sears won the SEC Commissioner’s Trophy as the highest individual point scorer at the meet, tabbing 20.5 points for the Big Orange on Saturday. The Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, native won the 100-meter dash with a school-record mark of 10.96 seconds, earned silver in the 200-meter with a lifetime-best clocking of 22.45, and ran relay legs on the 4×100- and 4×400-meter scoring efforts to finish half a point ahead of Arkansas’ Britton Wilson and Florida’s Jasmine Moore.
The Big Orange won 10 medals on Saturday and 12 for the meet, highlighted by individual titles for Sears (women’s 100m) and Tennessee graduate students Devon Brooks (men’s 110m hurdles) and Dylan Jacobs (men’s 5,000m). UT also collected three bronze medals and three bronze on Saturday in an action-packed evening of competition at the nation’s best conference meeting.
HURDLE U: With four Vols competing in the men’s 110-meter hurdles final, Tennessee racked up 22 points in the event with a pair of podium finishes from Devon Brooks and Rasheem Brown and scoring performances by Leonard Mustari and Jesse Henderson.
Entering the meet as the NCAA Division I leader, Brooks won his first DI conference title with a time of 13.53 to become Tennessee’s first SEC champion in the event since Aries Merritt in 2006. Brown claimed his second SEC medal of 2023 with a third-place finish, running 13.64 for bronze after claiming SEC silver in the 60-meter hurdles indoors.
Mustari placed fourth overall with a time of 13.74, while Henderson tabbed a point for UT with his eighth-place outing.
SEARING SPEED: The reigning SEC champion in the indoor 60-meter dash, Sears dominated her first SEC outdoor meet with a win in the 100-meter sprint with a lifetime-best mark of 10.96 seconds. Breaking the sub-11 barrier for the first time in her career, the Lady Vol speedster took down the school record of 10.98 set by Shania Collins in 2018. Her mark ranks No. 8 on the 2023 world…
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