COLLEGE STATION, Texas (March 1, 2025) – For the second consecutive year, JaMeesia Ford is the SEC Indoor Champion in the 200 meter sprint. Ford highlighted a successful closing day for the Gamecocks at the 2025 SEC Indoor Championship in College Station, Texas.
The Gamecock women’s team finished seventh overall in the team standings with 42 points for the first Top 10 finish at the SEC Indoor Championship since 2013. The men’s team finished eighth overall with 36 points, marking the second consecutive year that they have concluded the championship meet inside the Top 10. This is the first year since 2012 that both the men and women’s teams capped off a pair of Top 10 performances at the indoor conference championship.
Ford won the gold medal in the 200m sprint for the second season in a row, running a time of 22.44, defeating Camyrn Dickson of Texas A&M by 0.4 seconds. She was joined on the leaderboard by teammates Jayla Jamison (22.96) and Zaya Akins (23.12), who finished fifth and seventh respectively. Both Jamison and Akins ran new indoor 200m personal bests, as the trio alone accounted for 16 points in just one event. Jamison’s time is now third all-time in program history and currently ranks 15th in the NCAA. Akins’ mark now sits seventh on the program leaderboard and represents the first time that South Carolina had three scorers in this event since the 2005 SEC Indoor Championship meet.
Cheyla Scott was the first medalist of the day for the women, finishing with the bronze medal in the women’s high jump. Scott cleared the bar at 1.89m (6-2.25) for a new indoor personal best and the second best mark in program history, surpassing former Gamecock, Rachel Glenn. Scott is the first Gamecock scorer in this event since Glenn (2022) and her clearance ranks seventh in the NCAA. The final individual scorer for the Gamecock women was Akins in the 400m dash, clocking a new indoor personal best of 51.39 to finish fifth overall. Akins is the first Gamecock to score in the women’s 400m since Stephanie Davis did so in 2022. The sophomore sprinter now moves into eighth on the NCAA leaderboard this season.
The women closed things out with the second fastest 4×400 meter relay in program history and in the NCAA this season as Akins, Sylvia Chelangat, Ford and Jamison earned silver medal honors with a time of 3:27.24. Akins opened the event with a 400m leg of 52.53, after having run both the 200m and 400m final. Chelangat then logged 53.19…