GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Lady Vol relay squads won a pair of conference titles Saturday night as the Tennessee track & field program wrapped up the 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships. UT totaled six podium finishes on Day 3 of the conference meet to run its medal count for the meet to eight.
The senior quartet of Jacious Sears, Dennisha Page, DaJour Miles and Joella Lloyd led off Saturday’s running events with a season-best performance of 42.42 seconds in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, improving their own school record and collegiate leading mark by a tenth of a second to claim the program’s first SEC title in the event since 1984. Their time ranks sixth on the 2024 world list and seventh on the all-time collegiate program list.
To cap the meet, the Lady Vols smashed another school record in the women’s 4×400-meter relay, winning the conference championship with a time of 3:24.44. Javonya Valcourt, Kyla Robinson-Hubbard, Miles and Brianna White delivered UT its first outdoor 4×400-meter SEC title since 1987 and took down the previous program standard by more than three second with their victory on Saturday. The time established a new collegiate lead for 2024 and the No. 5 mark in the world this year, in addition to ranking UT as the seventh-fastest school in NCAA history.
Individually, the men of Tennessee picked up four medals on Saturday to conclude the conference meeting. The Vols eventually collected a silver and bronze from the 400-meter hurdles final after a lengthy protest denied UT redshirt senior Clement Ducos a conference title in the event, while a pair of UT standouts took home bronze in the 1,500-meter and 100-meter finals, respectively.
UT appeared to have scored 21 points in the 400-meter hurdles with a 1-3-4 showing from Ducos, Rasheeme Griffith and Ja’Kwan Hale. After winning the race with a historic mark of 47.69 seconds, Ducos was later disqualified according to Rule 15.6.2a – shifting his teammates to silver and bronze positions with their times of 49.24 and 49.64, respectively.
In the men’s 1,500-meter, sixth-year graduate transfer Dalton Hengst fought to the very end to carve out a third-place finish in his final SEC competition. After five seasons at Ole Miss and one at Tennessee, the York, Pennsylvania, native earned his first career SEC medal with a time of 3:43.51. Fifth-year senior and Murfreesboro product Canaan Anderson also scored in the event with his eighth-place finish in…
The senior quartet of Jacious Sears, Dennisha Page, DaJour Miles and Joella Lloyd led off Saturday’s running events with a season-best performance of 42.42 seconds in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, improving their own school record and collegiate leading mark by a tenth of a second to claim the program’s first SEC title in the event since 1984. Their time ranks sixth on the 2024 world list and seventh on the all-time collegiate program list.
To cap the meet, the Lady Vols smashed another school record in the women’s 4×400-meter relay, winning the conference championship with a time of 3:24.44. Javonya Valcourt, Kyla Robinson-Hubbard, Miles and Brianna White delivered UT its first outdoor 4×400-meter SEC title since 1987 and took down the previous program standard by more than three second with their victory on Saturday. The time established a new collegiate lead for 2024 and the No. 5 mark in the world this year, in addition to ranking UT as the seventh-fastest school in NCAA history.
Individually, the men of Tennessee picked up four medals on Saturday to conclude the conference meeting. The Vols eventually collected a silver and bronze from the 400-meter hurdles final after a lengthy protest denied UT redshirt senior Clement Ducos a conference title in the event, while a pair of UT standouts took home bronze in the 1,500-meter and 100-meter finals, respectively.
UT appeared to have scored 21 points in the 400-meter hurdles with a 1-3-4 showing from Ducos, Rasheeme Griffith and Ja’Kwan Hale. After winning the race with a historic mark of 47.69 seconds, Ducos was later disqualified according to Rule 15.6.2a – shifting his teammates to silver and bronze positions with their times of 49.24 and 49.64, respectively.
In the men’s 1,500-meter, sixth-year graduate transfer Dalton Hengst fought to the very end to carve out a third-place finish in his final SEC competition. After five seasons at Ole Miss and one at Tennessee, the York, Pennsylvania, native earned his first career SEC medal with a time of 3:43.51. Fifth-year senior and Murfreesboro product Canaan Anderson also scored in the event with his eighth-place finish in…
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