Georgia Track & Field
2024 Media Guide
Table of Contents General Info................................................................................................1
Season Preview Women’s 2023 Recap & Highlights.........................................................2 Men’s 2023 Recap & Highlights..............................................................3
Coaching Staff Director of Track & Field Caryl Smith Gilbert.................................... 4-6
Assistant Coaches Don Babbitt (Associate Head Coach)................................................ 7-8 Ryan Baily (Assistant Coach)..................................................................9 Karim Abdel Wahab (Assistant Coach)...............................................10 Tom Chorny (Cross Country Coach/Asst. Coach)......................... 11-12 Gabby Gaudreault (Assistant Coach)...................................................13 Deanna Hill (Assistant Coach)..............................................................14 Darryl Shaw (Assistant Coach).............................................................15 Bailey Lear (Assistant Coach)...............................................................15
The Georgia Bulldogs 2024 Men’s Roster...................................................................................16 Meet the Bulldogs............................................................................. 17-29 2024 Women’s Roster..............................................................................30 Meet the Lady Bulldogs................................................................... 31-47 2023 Men’s/Women’s Indoor Results...................................................48 2023 Men’s Women’s Outdoor Results.................................................49
History
2024 Georgia Track and Field Quick Facts
School.................................................................................University of Georgia Location...............................................................................................Athens, Ga. Founded........................................................................................................... 1785 President.................................................Jere W. Morehead (Georgia JD, ‘80) Enrollment.................................................................................................... 40,118 Nickname.................................................................................................Bulldogs Colors............................................................................................. Red and Black Conference...................................................................................... Southeastern J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics...........Josh Brooks (LSU ‘02; UGA-Master’s ‘14) Assoc. A.D. - Facilities & Capital Projects/Track Administrator.............................Tanner Stines Head Coach........................... Caryl Smith Gilbert (UCLA)-Sprints, Hurdles, Relays Assistant Coaches.................... Assoc. Head Coach Don Babbitt (UCLA)-Throws ...................................... Asst. Ryan Baily (Chadron State)-Multi-Events, Pole Vault, Jumps ....................................................Asst. Karim Abdel Wahab (Helwan University)-Sprints, Hurdles ................................................Cross Country Coach/Asst. Tom Chorny (Indiana)-Distance ................................................................. Asst. Deanna Hill (USC)-Sprints, Hurdles ..........Asst. Gabby Gaudreault (Springfield College)-Distance/Director of External Operations .............Asst. Darryl Shaw (North Carolina)-Jumps/Director of Creative Operations ................ Asst. Bailey Lear (USC)-Sprints, Hurdles/Operations Coordinator Director of Internal Operations..............................................Derek Armstrong Athletic Trainers.................... CJ Walker, Hannah Daniel, Jamie Welin (Intern) 2023 SEC/NCAA Indoor (pts.).......................Women - 6 (53)/5 (31); Men - 4 (59)/2 (40) 2023 SEC/NCAA Outdoor (pts.)..................Women - 6 (57)/10 (19); Men - 4 (75)/7 (28) Facility....................................................................Forrest “Spec” Towns Track Track and Field Office Phone/Fax..................... (706) 542-7915/(706) 542-5224 Track and Field Sports Comm. Contact.....................................Leland Barrow SCD Phone/Fax.................................................... (706) 542-1621/(706) 542-9339 Barrow’s Office Phone................................................................. (706) 542-1621 Barrow’s Email............................................................... leland@sports.uga.edu Barrow’s Cell Phone..................................................................... (678) 378-3085 SCD Address....................................................................................P.O. Box 1472 ...........................................................................................Athens, GA 30603-1472 SCD Overnight Address............................................................One Selig Circle ...........................................................................................Athens, GA 30603-4368 Web Site.........................................................................www.georgiadogs.com
Forrest “Spec” Towns............................................................................50 Georgia Track and Field History...................................................... 51-53 Year-by-Year Finishes.............................................................................54 Georgia Track and Field in the Olympics....................................... 55-59
Records/Honors Men’s Indoor Records............................................................................60 Men’s Outdoor Records.........................................................................61 Women’s Indoor Records.......................................................................62 Women’s Outdoor Records....................................................................63 Men’s Indoor Top-10 Lists................................................................ 64-65 Men’s Outdoor Top-10 Lists............................................................. 66-67 Women’s Indoor Top-10 Lists.......................................................... 68-69 Women’s Outdoor Top-10 Lists........................................................ 70-71 Men’s and Women’s Honors ........................................................... 72-78
UGA’s Athletic & Academic Leaders ..........................................79 The 2024 Georgia track & field media guide was designed by Pershelle Rohrer, a Sports Communications graduate assistant, and edited by Leland Barrow, a Sr. Associate Sports Communications Director. PHOTO CREDITS: Special thanks to Steve Colquitt, Tony Walsh, Al Ashe, Kirby Lee - Image of Sport, AP and Getty Images.
Georgia Track and Field In The 2000s . . . By The Numbers
Women 11 Indoor NCAA Top 10 11 Outdoor NCAA Top 10 14 Indoor NCAA Top 20 14 Outdoor NCAA Top 20 1995 SEC Outdoor Champions 1996 NCAA Indoor Runner-Up 2006 SEC Ind. & Out. Champions 2017 NCAA Ind./Out. Runner-Up 2018 NCAA Indoor Champions 2018 NCAA Outdoor Runner-Up 2023 NCAA Ind. Champs. - 5th
Men 8 Indoor NCAA Top 10 7 Outdoor NCAA Top 10 10 Indoor NCAA Top 20 14 Outdoor NCAA Top 20 19 NCAA Champions 82 SEC Champions 2018 NCAA Ind. Champs. - 3rd 2018 NCAA Outdoor Champions 2019 NCAA Out. Champs. - 4th 2021 NCAA Ind. Champs. - 3rd 2022 NCAA Out. Champs. - 5th 2023 NCAA Indoor Runner-Up
In the Coach Caryl Smith Gilbert Era (2022-23) • 3 NCAA Outdoor Championships Top 10 Finishes • 3 NCAA Indoor Championships Top 10 Finishes • 44 1st Team All-Americans • 12 SEC Indoor & Outdoor Titles • 22 School Records • 138 Improvements To Georgia’s All-Time Top-10 Lists 1
Women’s 2023 Recap & Highlights Kaila Jackson, 200m, 4th (22.97) Titiana Marsh, Triple Jump, 4th (13.60m/44-7.5) Ana da Silva, Shot Put, 4th (17.25m/56-7.25) Autumn Wilson, 200m, 5th (22.97) Ella Rush, Pentathlon, 5th (4,081 pts.) Titiana Marsh, Long Jump, 6th (6.11m/20-0.5) SEC Individual Awards Kaila Jackson - SEC Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year
2023 Women’s OUTdoor honors and rankings Kaila Jackson was a five-time All-American during her freshman season, also setting a school record of 7.07 in the 60m prelims at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She was named SEC Freshman Runner of the Year during the indoor and outdoor seasons.
2023 Women’s indoor honors and rankings NCAA Championships NCAA Finish: 5th * 31 pts. NCAA All-Americans Kaila Jackson, 60m, 2nd (7.08) Autumn Wilson, 200m, 3rd (22.45) Elena Kulichenko, High Jump, 3rd (1.88m/6-2) Autumn Wilson, 60m, 4th (7.12) Mikeisha Welcome, Triple Jump, 4th (14.21m/46-7.5) Kaila Jackson, 200m, 8th (22.84) Titiana Marsh, Triple Jump, 9th (13.80m/45-3.5) Titiana Marsh, Long Jump, 12th (6.08m/19-11.5)
NCAA Championships NCAA Finish: 10th * 19 pts.
Brandee Presley, 100m, 16th (11.25) Aaliyah Butler, 400m, 16th (51.66) Julia Harisay, Javelin, 18th (49.42m/162-2) Erin McMeniman, Javelin, 24th (46.24m/151-8)
SEC Championships SEC Finish: 6th * 57 points Second Team All-SEC Performers Kaila Jackson, 100m, 2nd (11.04) Elena Kulichenko, High Jump, 2nd (1.88m/6-2) Kaila Jackson, 200m, 3rd (22.65) Jackson, Wilson, Presley, Butler, 4x100m relay, 3rd (43.20) Mikeisha Welcome, Triple Jump, 3rd (13.68m/44-10.75 W+2.2)
Additional SEC Scorers NCAA All-Americans Aaliyah Butler, 400m, 5th (51.32) Elena Kulichenko, High Jump, 3rd (1.87m/6-1.5) Butler, Tate, Presley, Mustin, Kaila Jackson, 100m, 4th (10.96) 4x400m relay, 5th (3:30.20) Titiana Marsh, Triple Jump, 5th (13.47m/44-2.5) Titiana Marsh, Triple Jump, 5th (13.67m/44-10.25) Titiana Marsh, Long Jump, 6th (6.35m/20-10) Jackson, Wilson, Presley, Butler, Ana da Silva, Shot Put, 6th (16.78m/55-0.75) 4x100m relay, 6th (42.87) Mikeisha Welcome, Triple Jump, 8th (13.62m/44-8.25) Sophia Baker, 3,000m Steeplechase, 7th (10:42.41) Erin McMeniman, Javelin, 7th (49.06m/160-11) Butler, Tate, Presley, Mustin, Julia Harisay, Javelin, 8th (48.45m/158-11) 4x400m relay, 9th (3:30.55) Ana da Silva, Hammer, 10th (64.60m/211-11) SEC Individual Awards Titiana Marsh, Long Jump, 11th (6.12m/20-1) Kaila Jackson - SEC Women’s Freshman Kaila Jackson, 200m, 12th (22.78) Runner of the Year Dominique Mustin, 400m hurdles, 12th (56.68) Ana da Silva, Shot Put, 14th (17.06m/55-11.75)
SEC Championships SEC Finish: 6th * 53 points Second Team All-SEC Performers Kaila Jackson, 60m, 2nd (7.17) Elena Kulichenko, High Jump, 2nd (1.92m/6-3.5) Mikeisha Welcome, Triple Jump, 3rd (13.74m/45-1) Additional SEC Scorers Autumn Wilson, 60m, 4th (7.22)
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Elena Kulichenko earned First Team All-America honors as a high jumper during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Her jump of 1.92 meters/6 feet, 3.50 inches to finish second at the SEC Indoor Championships gave her the No. 3 spot in school history and made her the No. 18 all-time collegiate performer in the event.
Men’s 2023 Recap & Highlights NCAA All-Americans Will Sumner, 800m, 1st (1:44.26) Kyle Garland, Decathlon, 2nd (8,630 pts.) Marc Minichello, Javelin, 4th (77.27m/253-6) Caleb Cavanaugh, 400mH, 6th (49.20) Boling, Cavanaugh, Morales Williams, Sumner, 4x400m relay, 7th (3:03.22) Alencar Pereira, Hammer, 9th (70.20m/230-4) Matthew Boling, 200m, 10th (20.25) Black, Boling, Morales Williams, Godwin, 4x100m relay, DNF Elija Godwin, 400m, DNS
2023 Men’s indoor honors and rankings NCAA Championships NCAA Finish: 2nd * 40 pts. NCAA Individual Champions Matthew Boling, 200m (20.12) Elija Godwin, 400m (7.86m/25-9.50) Kyle Garland, Heptathlon (6,639 pts.) NCAA All-Americans Matthew Boling, 200m, 1st (20.12) Elija Godwin, 400m, 1st (44.75) Kyle Garland, Heptathlon, 1st (6,639 pts.) Boling, Morales Williams, Cavanaugh, Sumner, 4x400m relay, 2nd (3:03.10) Will Sumner, 800m, 7th (1:51.46) Johannes Erm, Heptathlon, 13th (4,037 pts.)
SEC Championships SEC Finish: 4th * 59 points SEC Individual Champion Elija Godwin, 400m (44.75) Will Sumner, 800m (1:48.28) SEC Second Team All-SEC Performers Matthew Boling, 200m, 2nd (20.44) Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner, Godwin, 4x400m relay, 2nd (3:03.32) Johannes Erm, Heptathlon, 2nd (5,935 pts.)
Will Sumner ran a school-record time of 1:44.26 to claim the 800m title at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships. He earned SEC Freshman of the Year honors during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Sumner signed a professional contract with Adidas during the 2023 summer.
SEC Individual Awards Elija Godwin - SEC Men’s Co-Runner of the Year Will Sumner - SEC Men’s Freshman Runner of the Year
2023 Men’s OUTdoor honors and rankings NCAA Championships NCAA Finish: 7th * 28 pts.
SEC Individual Champions Will Sumner, 800m (1:46.20) Marc Minichello, Javelin (79.50m/260-10) Kyle Garland, Decathlon (8,589 pts.) Second Team All-SEC Performers Elija Godwin, 400m, 2nd (44.55) Alencar Pereira, Hammer, 2nd (70.07m/229-11) Caleb Cavanaugh, 400mH, 3rd (49.07) Wesley John, 3,000m Steeplechase, 3rd (9:01.69) Black, Boling, Morales Williams, Godwin, 4x100m relay, 3rd (38.87) Godwin, Boling, Morales Williams, Sumner, 4x400m relay, 3rd (2:59.63) Additional SEC Scorers Matthew Boling, 200m, 5th (20.52) Cole Heron, 3,000m Steeplechase, 8th (9:12.04)
Additional SEC Scorers Nikolai van Huyssteen, Pole Vault, 5th (5.30m/17-4.5) Kyle Garland, 60mH, 6th (7.77) Kyle Garland, Long Jump, 6th (7.95m/26-1) Alencar Pereira, Weight Throw, 6th (21.24m/69-8.25) Keshaun Black, 60m, 7th (6.73) USTFCCCA Individual Awards Kyle Garland - National Men’s Field Athlete of the Year; South Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year
SEC Championships SEC Finish: 4th * 75 points
USTFCCCA Individual Awards Will Sumner - South Region Men’s Track Athlete of the Year Kyle Garland - South Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year
Kyle Garland took home an NCAA Indoor Championship with a collegiate record 6,639 pts.in the heptathlon and was named USTFCCCA National Men’s Field Athlete of the Year for the 2023 indoor season.
SEC Individual Awards Will Sumner - SEC Men’s Co-Freshman Runner of the Year
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Director of track & Field Caryl Smith Gilbert EDUCATION • B.S. in Film & Television Production UCLA, 1991 • M.S. in Sport Management University of Tennessee, 2004 • M.S. in Sport Psychology University of Tennessee, 2007
2023 USTFCCCA Indoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2023 USTFCCCA Indoor South Region Men’s Head Coach of the Year 2021 USTFCCCA Outdoor National Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2018 USTFCCCA Indoor National Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2021 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2023 USTFCCCA Indoor South Region Men’s Head Coach of the Year 2021 USTFCCCA Outdoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2020 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2019 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2019 USTFCCCA Outdoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2018 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2018 USTFCCCA Outdoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2018 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Men’s Head Coach of the Year 2016 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Men’s Head Coach of the Year 2015 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year
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COACHING EXPERIENCE • 1998-99, Assistant Coach, Penn State • 2000-02, Assistant Coach, Alabama • 2003-07, Assistant Coach, Tennessee • 2008-2013, Women’s Head Coach, UCF • 2014-2021, Director of T&F, USC • 2022-Present, Director of T&F, Georgia
2015 USTFCCCA Outdoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2014 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2014 USTFCCCA Outdoor West Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2013 USTFCCCA Indoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2013 USTFCCCA Outdoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2012 USTFCCCA Outdoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2011 USTFCCCA Indoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2011 USTFCCCA Outdoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2009 USTFCCCA Outdoor South Region Women’s Head Coach of the Year Caryl Smith Gilbert, who led the University of Southern California women to the 2018 and 2021 NCAA outdoor team championships and was the National Women’s Coach of the Year both of those seasons, was named Georgia’s Director of Track and Field on June 13, 2021. Smith Gilbert became the first female head coach of a men’s sports program in the history of Georgia Athletics. Year two in 2023 directing UGA’s teams reaped noticeable dividends as Smith Gilbert was named the men and women’s U.S.Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) South Region Coach of the Year indoors and collected four top-10 national team finishes, including a runner-up showing for the Bulldog men at the 2023 NCAA Indoor
Championships. The Georgia men had their top finish in history at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships, earning second-place honors with a program record 40 points. The finish was highlighted by school records in both the 200-meter dash (Matthew Boling, 20.12, No. 5 all-time collegiate performer) and 400m (Elija Godwin, 44.75, No. 5 all-time collegiate performer) for NCAA titles as well as a collegiate record score of 6,639 points from the 2023 USTFCCCA Indoor National Field Athlete of the Year, Kyle Garland, in the heptathlon. Garland’s score was only six points from the world record. Boling joined Christopher Morales Williams, Caleb Cavanaugh and Will Sumner in the 4x400m relay at Nationals to score eight more points with a second-place finish. With Godwin running in place of Sumner, the Bulldogs ran a season-best relay of 3:02.90 at the Tiger Paw Invitational for the second-fastest finish in school history and fourth best in the nation in 2023. Also, Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner and Godwin combined for runner-up honors in the relay at the SEC Championships. The women finished fifth at the 2023 indoor Nationals after tallying 31 points. Individual performances from true freshmen Kaila Jackson and Autumn Wilson shined during the Lady Bulldogs’ trip to Albuquerque. Jackson, who was the SEC Freshman Runner of theYear indoors and outdoors, clocked a World Junior (under-20) and school record 7.07 to become the No. 4 all-time collegiate performer in the prelims before taking second in the 60m final with a 7.08. In addition, Jackson was eighth in the 200m final. Wilson shot to No. 7 on the all-time collegiate performer’s list with a school record 22.42 in the 200m prelims and earned a bronze in the final (22.45). She complemented Jackson’s finish in the 60m by taking fourth in the final with a personal record 7.12. Other notable 2023 First Team All-America performances on the track came from Sumner, a true freshman who battled for a seventh-place finish in the 800m indoors. Sumner registered a 1:48.28 to win his first SEC title at the conference meet weeks earlier and set a school record with a 1:47.28 at the Music City Challenge. Sumner was later voted the SEC Freshman Runner of the Year before also garnering the honor outdoors while Godwin was named the league’s Co-Runner of the Year honors. In addition, Boling collected his record-tying third SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. Sumner was not the only Bulldog who shined at the 2023 SEC Indoor Championships. Jackson earned second and fourth-place finishes in the 60m and 200m, respectively, while Wilson went fourth-fifth in the same short sprints. On the men’s side, Godwin captured the 400m title with a matching 44.75 (meet record) from Nationals and Boling was second in the 200m. In addition, Keshaun Black
competed at his first league meet and finished seventh with a 6.73. A number of Georgia sprinters and hurdlers made significant improvements as well during the regular season, including Bella Witt clocking an 8.20 in the 60m hurdles, Kenondra Davis managing a 23.12 in the 200m, Aaliyah Butler registering a 52.92 in the 400m and Butler teaming with Dominique Mustin, Haley Tate and Zoe Pollock, who were all first-year Bulldogs, to record the school’s second-fastest 4x400m relay time in school history (3:33.28). For the year, Georgia collected three national titles and two conference crowns to go with six school records (men’s 200m, men’s 400m, men’s 800m, decathlon, women’s 60m, women’s 200m) and 36 improvements to the school’s all-time top-10 lists. Outdoors, Smith Gilbert’s squads were equally impressive. The Bulldog men posted a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championships with 28 points, marking their sixth consecutive top-10 finish at the meet. Sumner highlighted Nationals after clocking the fifthbest time in collegiate history (1:44.26) to collect Georgia’s first NCAA 800m title. The USTFCCCA Outdoor South Region Men’s Track Athlete of the Year shaved more than two seconds off of his prep personal record in the 800m during his first season under Smith Gilbert and distance assistant Patrick Henner. Sumner was one of nine Bulldog men who qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. He ran a leg on the seventh place 4x400m relay team (3:03.22) at Nationals along with Morales Williams, Boling and Cavanaugh. Individually, Cavanaugh advanced to his first NCAA final in the 400m hurdles and scored thanks to a 49.20 for sixth place. This performance came after Cavanaugh dropped his career best to 49.04 in the hurdles at SECs. The Bulldogs’ final points at the meet came from graduate transfer Marc Minichello, who finished fourth in the javelin. The Lady Bulldogs also managed to take 10th at the NCAA Championships with the contributions from 12 team members, including a half dozen sprinters who Smith Gilbert directly coaches. Kaila Jackson sped to a wind-aided 10.96 for fourth in the 100m final and also ran a leg on the scoring 4x100m relay, a quartet that included Aaliyah Butler, Brandee Presley and Autumn Wilson. The Lady Bulldogs ran a school record 42.87 to take sixth place. Also on the track, Dominique Mustin bettered her No. 2 spot in the school record books to 56.68 during the 400m hurdle semifinal. In the jumps, Elena Kulichenko reached the six-foot mark for the sixth time of the season to take third (1.87m/6-1.50) in the high jump while Titiana March, who advanced to a jaw-dropping 10 straight NCAA Championships over her five-year career, concluded her run as a Lady Bulldog with a season-best mark of 13.67m/44-10.25 for fifth in the triple jump. Garland gave the Bulldogs’ their third
USTFCCCA South Region Men’s Field Athlete of theYear honor after securing an SEC decathlon title and a silver medal in the combined evens at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. He scored the No. 3 all-time collegiate decathlon tally (8,630, NCAAs) and the No. 4 tally (8,589, SECs) and posted collegiate all-time dec bests in both the 110m hurdles (13.54) and the shot put (16.77m/55-0.25) during his final outdoor campaign. Georgia’s successful 2023 outdoor postseason run began with the SEC Championships, including Boling collecting his record-breaking fourth SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor. The Bulldog sprinters, hurdlers and relays combined to score 68 points in the country’s toughest conference. While Sumner’s league crown in the 800m highlighted the weekend in Baton Rouge, Godwin managed a runner-up finish in the 400m and Jackson, who also won a bronze in the 200m, was second in her first outdoor final with a legal personal record of 11.04. Smith Gilbert helped her team continue their onslaught of the school’s all-time top-10 lists, including school records in the women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relays, the men’s 4x400m relay and the men’s 800m. There were a total of 44 revisions to the Bulldog record books, including 29 in the sprints, hurdles and relays. Two of those improvements came from a pair of freshmen in the 100m (Jackson’s 11.04, Wilson’s 11.17) and another in the 400m (Butler’s 51.32) as the trio passed one of the sport’s all-time greats in Gwen Torrence in the events (11.20, 51.60). In her first season with the Bulldogs, Smith Gilbert guided the men to an eighthplace finish at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships. She led Boling to UGA’s first SEC 60m title as well as the Bulldogs’ first conference crown in the 4x400m relay. Highlighted by school records in the men’s 4x400m relay, distance medley relay, long jump, mile and women’s shot put, Smith Gilbert’s squads registered 30 improvements to the school’s all-time top-10 lists. Outdoors, Georgia had seven First Team All-Americans while collecting four SEC crowns, seven school records and 26 improvements to the UGA record books in 2022. Smith Gilbert directed the men to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships during a campaign that was driven by her sprints corps. Following the collegiate season, Smith Gilbert continued to work with Godwin as he registered gold and bronze medals in the men’s 4x400m relay and the mixed 4x400m relay, respectively, at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore. Smith Gilbert extended her work with the Bulldogs’ talented duo of Boling and Godwin as the pair hit a level of success new to the Georgia program. Boling established school records in the 100m (9.98, No. 5 nationally) and 200m (19.92, No. 3 nationally), collected SEC
titles in both the 60m and outdoor 200m and finished as a national scorer in the 60m and 100m as well as becoming a top eight finisher in the 200m indoors and outdoors nationally. Smith Gilbert’s leadership of Godwin was just as apparent as he posted his best finish at the SEC Championships of runner-up before earning a bronze medal nationally in the 400m with a then school record 44.50. Boling and Godwin were also two legs on the indoor 4x400m relay team that captured the 2022 SEC title for the first time in school history. Godwin continued his success in the collegiate postseason as he re-set his own school record in the 400m with a 44.34 for fourth at the USATF Championships. Godwin’s splits on his opening legs of the mixed relay and men’s relay at Worlds were an impressive 44.89, 44.71, 44.46 and 44.28. In addition, Smith Gilbert trained Cavanaugh in his third year to become an NCAA semifinalist after clocking the school’s fourth best 400m hurdle time in history (49.59) and taking fourth at SECs. Cavanaugh’s training partner, freshman Bryce McCray, also scored at the conference meet with the sixth-best time in UGA history (50.21). Working with short sprinter Delano Dunkley, Smith Gilbert helped him drop his 100m to 10.22 (No. 9 on UGA’s all-time top-10 list) and 60m to 6.65 (No. 4). On the women’s side, first-year sprinter Kenondra Davis finished with the fourth-best indoor 200m time in school history (23.33) and the eighth-best outdoor finish (23.23) in 2022. Meanwhile, fellow freshman Eddiyah Frye qualified for the World Under-20 Championships thanks to her runner-up finish in the 100m hurdles at the USATF Championships with a time of 13.26, which stands eighth in the school record books. Indoors, Frye sped to an 8.23 in the 60m hurdles to move to No. 5 on UGA’s all-time top-10 list under Smith Gilbert’s direction. The 2021 USC women’s squad gave Smith Gilbert her second national title in the last three NCAA Outdoor Championships, while the Trojan men finished in the top-five at the 2021 outdoor Nationals for the fourth time in the last seven championships under her guidance. Smith Gilbert spent eight seasons (2014-21) as the Director of Track and Field at USC, building the program into a national powerhouse. She guided the women’s team to a 2018 NCAA Outdoor National Championship, earning the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Women’s (USTFCCCA) National Coach of theYear honor and being named the USATF Nike Coach of the Year. That same season, the Trojans’ men’s squad finished second at the NCAA Indoor Championships. In 2021, Smith Gilbert again garnered National Coach of the Year honors after her women’s team earned a spot at the top of the podium and her men’s team was
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fifth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. TheTrojan track and field teams combined to finish in the top-10 an impressive 16 times in Smith Gilbert’s eight seasons at the helm. She mentored over 200 first-team All-Americans, while her teams set close to 130 school top-10 marks and 50 program records. Her athletes also won over 20 individual NCAA event titles. Smith Gilbert garnered the USTFCCCA West Region Coach of the Year award on six occasions and is a five-time South Region Coach of theYear, two-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year and six-time Conference USA Coach of the Year. In 2015, she became the first woman to earn the Pac-12 Men’s Coach of theYear honor. USC’s 2018 NCAA outdoor championships was just the second women’s title in program history. The women claimed the crown with a come-from-behind victory over Georgia in the 4X400m relay, the meet’s final event. That national championship was the culmination of another successful season under Smith Gilbert’s guidance. The women’s team also won the Pac-12 title, while the men’s squad finished third. She led the USC men’s program to topfive national finishes in the outdoor championships in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2021 while the women finished in the top-five of the outdoor event in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Prior to her time with the Trojans, Smith Gilbert was a six-time Conference USA Coach of the Year at the University of Central Florida. She guided the Knights’ women’s team to a program-best fifth-place finish at the 2013 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. The Knights won six C-USA track and field indoor and outdoor crowns, while her athletes earned All-America status more than 100 times and set over 100 school records. Smith Gilbert spent five seasons (2003-07) as an assistant coach at Tennessee, where she was responsible for coaching sprints, hurdles and jumps. Her Lady Vol athletes won three NCAA titles and seven Southeastern Conference crowns. In 2005, Tennessee won its first NCAA indoor championship as her athletes combined for 24 All-America honors. Smith Gilbert was an assistant coach at Alabama for three years (2000-02) and an assistant at Penn State from 1998-99. Prior to her career in the collegiate ranks, the Denver, Colo. native was the head coach at her prep alma mater, George Washington High, from 1994-97. In addition to her experience at the high school and collegiate levels, Smith Gilbert was an assistant with Team USA and was invited to coach the 2005 Pan Am Junior Championships. She was also selected to serve as an assistant coach for the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan. Smith Gilbert is a 1991 graduate of UCLA, where she was a three-time All-American and Pac-10 champion in the 100m, 4x100m relay and the 4x400m relay. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Film and Television Production from
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UCLA and earned Master’s degrees in Sport Management and Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee. Smith Gilbert is married to former University of Alabama standout and NFL linebacker Greg Gilbert. They have three sons: Alex, Spencer and Osiris.
EDUCATION • B.S. in Biology, UCLA, 1989 • M.A. in Physical Education (Exercise Science), Cal State-Los Angeles, 1994 ATHLETIC CAREER • 1985, 1988, UCLA Track and Field
Don Babbitt Associate Head Coach (Throws)
COACHING EXPERIENCE • 1985-86, Assistant Coach, Santa Monica HS • 1986-88, Assistant Coach, Santa Monica College • 1988-96, Assistant Coach, Cal State-Los Angeles • 1996-2015, Assistant Coach (Throws), Georgia • 2015-Present, Associate Head Coach (Throws), Georgia
2003 National Assistant Coach of the Year 2007 USTFCCCA East Region Women’s Throws Coach of the Year 2009 USTFCCCA East Region Men’s Throws Coach of the Year With the arrival of his 28th year in red and black and in his 40th year overall coaching, Don Babbitt has transformed the Georgia throws program into arguably the most continually talented group in the country. And along a total of 30 NCAA champions and 149 All-Americans, the dean of SEC throws coaches is perhaps the most accomplished throwing coach in the world. Babbitt was promoted to Associate Head Coach in June 2015 and since his promotion, the Bulldogs have finished in the top six nationally 17 times, including two national team titles and a trio of runner-up finishes. Most recently, Babbitt continued the development of his throwers by having two SEC scorers and making a pair of improvements to Georgia’s all-time top-10 lists during the 2023 indoor campaign. Ana da Silva posted a season-best shot put toss of 17.25 meters/56 feet, 7 ¼ inches to take fourth while fellow Brazilian Alencar Pereira managed a sixth-place showing in the weight throw. Pereira rocketed to fourth in the Bulldog record books in the weight at the Dr. MLK Jr. Invite with a toss of 21.89m/71-10. In the women’s weight, Elsie Igberaese improved to No. 7 on the school’s all-time top-10 list after reaching 19.57m/64-2.50 at the Tiger Paw Invite. Babbitt’s throwers earned four All-America certificates in 2022, broke two school record and captured the women’s SEC outdoor shot put title. Competing for the first time in the red and black, da Silva worked up to a school record of 17.52 meters/57 feet, 5 ¾ inches, which ranked ninth nationally, for bronze honors at the SEC Championships. The Brazil native answered that performance with a First Team All-America showing at Nationals after finishing seventh. Outdoors, da Silva launched the longest toss of her career for a school record (18.46/60-6.75) on her sixth and final toss to secure the Lady Bulldogs their first SEC shot put title since 2000. She went on to win the Brazilian National Championships and competed at the 2022 World Championships. Da Silva was one of a number of competitors who experienced success under Babbitt’s tutelage in 2022. Pereira earned SEC runner-up honors in the hammer throw after building to a PR of 70.74/232-1 during the regular season finale and qualified for Nationals for the second year in a row. Pereira’s year began with establishing a fresh career best in the weight throw (21.30/69-10.75) indoors. Another second-place finish at SECscame from Ahmed Magour in the javelin after the Qatar native acquired the fifth-longest throw in Bulldog history (74.40/244-1). He returned to score at his first NCAA Championships. In addition, Gavin Beverage eclipsed 61 feet outdoors in the shot put to earn a spot on the school’s all-time list and qualify for the NCAA Prelims. Igberaese, Mia Anderson and Julia Harisay also all tallied a combo of personal bests in the weight throw, shot put, hammer, discus and javelin. In 2021, Babbitt wrapped up the collegiate development of javelin standout Marie-Therese Obst as she won seven meets in her final campaign, including capturing the 2021 SEC and NCAA titles. Obst topped out at a
school record 61.37 meters (201 feet, 4 inches) in her final home meet at the Spec Towns Invitational and ended as the NCAA’s No. 4 all-time collegiate performer. Babbitt concluded coaching one of the Bulldogs’ all-time greats, Denzel Comenentia, in 2019. Comenentia finished his UGA career as a 13-time First Team All-American, eight-time SEC individual champion, two-time NCAA individual champion and the Amsterdam native accomplished a feat in 2019 that had never been conquered in history. Comenentiabalanced a trio of events at the NCAA Championships and scored in all three, including a runner-up finish in the shot put (20.77m, 68-1.75) and fifth-place showings in both the discus (a personal record of 59.97m, 196-9) and the hammer throw (72.93m, 293-3). Following Babbitt’s leadership, Comenentia was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Co-South Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year outdoors for the second straight year. He also captured the SEC Commissioner’sTrophy for the second year in a row as the league’s high scorer at the conference meet thanks to his third shot put title in a row and second-place finishes in both the discus and hammer. His personal bests from his final outdoor campaign featured a hammer mark of 76.80m (252-0, No. 10 all-time collegiate performer, longest NCAA mark in 2019, Dutch national record), a shot put effort of 20.78m (68-2.25, No. 5 on 2019 NCAA list) and a personal-best discus mark that finished No. 2 on Georgia’s all-time list. Comenentia earned another USTFCCCA honor at the conclusion of the indoor season as he was third in both the weight throw (23.32m, 76-6.25) and the shot (20.58m, 67-6.25) at the NCAA meet and won his second SEC indoor shot crown. Babbitt tuned his All-American up to muscle a school record in the shot (20.72m, 67-11.75), which ended up being the country’s third-longest toss of the year, and the NCAA’s third-longest weight throw of 2019 with a mark of 23.52m (77-2). On the women’s side, Obst launched the then fifth-longest javelin effort in UGA history during the 2019 campaign, was third at SECs and qualified for another NCAA Prelims. In addition, Hayden Merrick worked her way up to No. 4 on Georgia’s all-time list in the discus to finish one spot from qualifying for Nationals with a toss of 52.34m (171-9). In 2018, Babbitt directed Comenentia to two NCAA crowns, four First Team All-America honors and a trio of SEC individual championships. Most importantly, Comenentia was the key component to bringing the Bulldogs’ first NCAA team crown back to Athens outdoors. Sweeping the hammer throw and shot put at the SEC Outdoor Championships for the second straight year (while also placing in the discus to win the Commissioner’s Trophy as the meet’s high scorer), Comenentia collected the hammer and shot put NCAA titles together for only the third time in meet history to lead the Bulldog men to their national championships. Babbitt first coached the Amsterdam native to reach a school record distance of 20.44m (67-0.75) in the indoor shot put and 23.71m (77-9.50) in the weight throw, which is a mark that sits only behind one of Babbitt’s former throwers, NCAA champion and Olympian Andras Haklits (79.30m, 80-2). Outdoors, Comenentia improved to second on Georgia’s all-time list in the shot (20.88m, 68-6), hammer (a Dutch national record of 76.41m, 250-8) and discus (58.81m, 192-11). The effort in the hammer put Comenentia as the No. 10 all-time collegiate performer and gave the Bulldogs two on the all-time list as Haklits remains No. 2. Under Babbitt’s guidance since 1996, Georgia’s throwers have reached a high level of success. The Bulldog throwers have captured 15 NCAA titles, earned 110 All-American certificates and won 63 SEC titles since Babbitt arrived in Athens. Thanks to the performances listed above and others, Babbitt has garnered the following honors while coaching at Georgia: • 2003 USTFCCCA National Assistant Coach of the Year • 2007 USTFCCCA East Region Women’s Throws Coach of the Year • 2009 USTFCCCA East Region Men’s Throws Coach of the Year Babbitt came to Athens from California State University in Los Angeles where he was an assistant from 1988-96. He built the Cal State-Los Angeles throwing program into the strongest at the NCAA Division II level, producing 46 NCAA qualifiers, 39 All-Americans and 15 NCAA Champions. Babbitt’s success at the international level is also highlighted below: • 58 athletes who have competed at the Olympic Games/World Cham-
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pionships His throwers have captured 24 medals in international competition His throwers have won 20 titles at the USA Championships Eight NCAA titles, 59 All-American honors and 29 SEC crowns during the last 16 seasons further solidified Babbitt’s hold as one of the world’s premier throws coaches. The trend became even more evident as the native of Santa Monica, Calif., led freshman Freya Jones to the 2013 NCAA javelin title and four other throwers to All-America honors that year. In 2014, his throwers swept the SEC hammer throw titles (first time the Bulldogs have won both since 2001; UGA accomplished the feat again in 2017) and added six more All-America certificates, including three top-six national finishes in the men’s hammer, men’s shot put and women’s javelin. Alex Poursanidis won his second consecutive SEC hammer championship in 2015 and Ashinia Miler topped a 20-year-old school record in the indoor shot put (20.31m, 66-7.75) as Babbitt’s corps picked up another pair of First Team All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. When 2016 had come and gone, Babbitt had directed then freshman Comenentia to First Team All-America honors in the indoor shot put and Ashinia Miller to a sweep of the SEC shot put titles. Babbitt’s throwers have seen success throughout the 2000s. Nikola Lomnicka registered four All-America certificates over her years at UGA (2010-12) to go along with the 2010 national title in the hammer throw, marking Georgia’s third championship in the event during a five-year span (2006-10). In 2009, Chris Hill won his second consecutive NCAA title in the javelin throw and capped his NCAA career with a USATF National Championship as well with a throw of 83.87m (275-2). This mark established a new NCAA American collegiate record. Other notable Bulldog performers under Babbitt’s tutelage include now former collegiate record holder Jenny Dahlgren (hammer throw), 2003 NCAA champion Lucais MacKay (hammer) and the three-time national champion Haklits (two hammer, one weight). In 2007, Dahlgren finished her Bulldog career with three NCAA titles, eight All-American certificates and four SEC titles while the Argentinian shattered school, SEC, collegiate, NCAA Championship and South American records in the hammer throw (72.94m, 239-3) under Babbitt’s guidance. Two years before Dahlgren’s finale, Babbitt led his throwers to eight top-20 finishes during the 2005 NCAA Championships, highlighted by Trevor Snyder’s second-place finish in the javelin and Dahlgren’s pair of top-five finishes in the NCAA Championships. In 2003, Babbitt guided MacKay to All-America honors in the weight, hammer and discus as MacKay became a six-time All-America thrower while at UGA. Babbitt also coached MacKay to an NCAA title in the hammer throw and led Panagiotis Mavraganis to All-America honors in the weight throw as well as SEC titles in the weight and hammer throws in 2003. In addition, Babbitt has had a long-term coaching relationship with Haklits, the four-time Croatian Olympian and hammer record holder. Haklits finished eighth in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and seventh in the hammer at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Babbitt has also guided a number of the world’s top performers at the professional level. These include 2004 Olympic champion and 2005 World Outdoor shot put champion Adam Nelson and 2006 World Indoor and 2007 World Outdoor shot put champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Reese Hoffa. Hoffa developed into the world’s most consistent thrower over a 15-year period and will go down, along with Nelson, as one of the all-time greats in the sport. Babbitt is has also served as the personal coach of eight-time U.S. Champion and current American record holder Breaux Greer (javelin), as well as Canadian record holder JasonTunks (discus) and three-time Canadian Olympian and former Canadian record holder Brad Snyder (shot put). Babbitt received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from UCLA in 1989 and his Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Cal State-Los Angeles in 1994. He is currently completing a PhD in Kinesiology (Sport Pedagogy) at the University of Georgia. An avid writer and clinician, Babbitt has written over 83 articles and three book chapters for publications on six continents and in six different languages. He has also conducted clinics and seminars on six different continents, including 18 different states in the US. Babbitt has served the Throws Editor for the World Athletics Coaches Education Program and a • •
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World Athletics Level V Lecturer for the World Athletics Throws Academy Courses since 2009. In addition,Babbitt produced and taught the throws curriculum for the new USATFCCCA Coaching Academy which was established in 2011 and has contributed to the development of the UK Athletics Coaching Education Curriculum for the heavy throws (shot, discus, hammer) and ALTIS’ Coaching Education Program. Babbitt is also an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and designed strength and conditioning programs for Cal State-Los Angeles’ basketball, soccer and track and field teams. He served as assistant manager and throws coach for the U.S. men’s track and field team at the 1997 World University Games in Italy. He has also been a national team coach for Canada, Croatia, Taiwan, Netherlands and Argentina in various major international championships.
EDUCATION • B.S. in Education, Chadron State, 2003 • M.A. in Education, University of the Cumberlands, 2005
Ryan Baily Assistant Coach (Multis, Pole Vault, Jumps)
COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2005-09, Head Coach, Western State • 2009-14, Head Coach, Chadron State • 2014-19, Assistant Coach (Multis, Pole Vault, Jumps), Colorado State • 2021-23, Associate Head Coach (Multis, Pole Vault, Jumps), Colorado State • 2023-Present, Assistant Coach (Multis, Pole Vault, Jumps), Georgia
2008 USTFCCCA Indoor North Central Men’s Head Coach of the Year 2013 RMAC Outdoor Men’s Head Coach of the Year 2011 RMAC Outdoor Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2011 RMAC Indoor Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2010 RMAC Indoor Men’s Head Coach of the Year
2008 RMAC Indoor Men’s Head Coach of the Year
2017 RMAC Outdoor Women’s Head Coach of the Year 2017 RMAC Outdoor Men’s Head Coach of the Year Ryan Baily was added as an assistant coach in December 2023. Baily coaches multi-event athletes, pole vaulters and jumpers at Georgia after serving in the same role at Colorado State. The Scottsbluff, Neb., left a strong impact at CSU, helping coach multiple Rams to a combined 19 school records, 23 Mountain West individual titles, eight All-America honors and two Honorable Mention All-America honors. Baily replaced James Thomas, who recently took the head coaching position at Oklahoma. During the 2022-2023 season, Baily guided a sweep of the indoor multis at the Mountain West Championships as Lexie Keller won the pentathlon with a score of 4,306 and Drew Thompson won the heptathlon with 5,281 points. Keller went on to earn her third All-American honor in the pentathlon at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships. Thompson won the outdoor decathlon championship as well, scoring a lifetime best of 7,338. Baily also guided Sharde Johnson to a first-place finish in the high jump (1.73 meters/5 feet, 8 inches) at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships. Keller concluded her season at the USA National Championships in Eugene, Ore., where she finished in 10th place and earned an invitation to compete for Team USA in the Thorpe Cup. In 2021-22, Baily helped coach a number of athletes to both school records and championships. Eldridge Harris broke the school record for outdoor pole vault (5.19m/17-0.25) to win the Mountain West Championship and Celyn Stermer broke the school record for indoor pole vault (4.12m/13-6.25). Allam Bushara broke the school record for indoor triple jump (16.07m/528.75) en route to an Indoor Mountain West Championship in the event. Baily also coached Keller to a third-place finish in the heptathlon at the Indoor NCAA Championships and sixth in the Outdoor NCAA Championships. Keller also won the heptathlon while setting a new meet record at the Mountain West Championship meet (5,834) and set new school records
as she recorded the second-best heptathlon and pentathlon in conference history. The 2018-19 campaign brought a flurry of accolades. Hunter Powell won indoor heptathlon and outdoor decathlon in the Mountain West Conference, totaling five in six seasons. Powell also qualified for the NCAA Championships in the decathlon. MaryBeth Sant broke school records in both the 60-meter dash (7.18) and 100m (11.41), while finishing fifth in the 60m at the Milrose Games among professional athletes. She also led off CSU’s first-ever 4x100m All-American Relay. Nick Kravec capped his career off with a runner-up to Powell at the MWC Championships. The Rams’ decathlon squad finished the year as the top-ranked decathlon team in the NCAA. Among the highlights for Baily’s athletes in 2017-18 was the performance of high jumper Autumn Gardner, who cleared 1.84m/6-0.5 to break CSU’s previous program record at the NoCo Challenge. That performance ranked Gardner sixth in Mountain West history in the event and distinguished her as one of five high jumpers in the conference to leap higher than six feet that decade. In addition, Gardner finished as the NCAA’s No. 8-ranked performer in the event in 2018. Under Baily’s guidance, the Rams experienced one of the most successful stretches in the combined events in program history. During the 2016-17 indoor season, Hunter Price shattered the Mountain West and CSU records in the heptathlon, scoring 5,906 at the CSM Alumni Classic & Multis. Price broke his own records again at the NCAA Indoor Championships, piling up 5,996 points to place fourth and earn First-Team All-America status. No other heptathlete in MW history has finished as high as Price at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The 2016-17 season continued with more success from Baily’s combined events athletes, as Josh Cogdill earned Second-Team All-America honors and Price earned Honorable Mention honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Cogdill placed 16th at the national meet, marking the highest finish for a CSU decathlete since 1982 (John Harrell – 10th). During the outdoor season, Price broke the CSU record and set the No. 2 all-time mark in conference history with a score of 7,801 in the elite invitational section of the Mt. SAC/California Invitational Combined Events. Among Baily’s top multi-event athletes at CSU was Jessica Green, who placed 22nd in the heptathlon (5,032 points) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. With her performance, Green became the first CSU athlete to earn any level of All-America honors in the women’s heptathlon since 2008. Baily also coached an All-American in his first season at CSU, guiding Justin Green to Second Team honors (11th place – 5,348 points) in 2015. Prior to his time at Colorado State, Baily was the head track & field and cross country coach at Chadron State. In his five years at Chadron State, Baily’s men’s team placed as high as ninth nationally in indoor track & field and 16th nationally in outdoor track & field. Baily’s Chadron State teams broke 18 men’s and 22 women’s school records and featured 22 All-Americans and a Division II national champion. His teams were also honored for their work in the classroom, as his men’s team earned the USTFCCCA’s Scholar Team of the Year award in 2011. Baily has been recognized for his teams’ accomplishments several times and was a seven-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach of theYear. Baily earned honors as recently as in 2013 (men’s outdoor), also earning that honor twice in 2011 (women’s indoor, women’s outdoor) as well as in 2010 (men’s indoor). While the head coach at Western State (2005-09), Baily earned that same honor in 2008 (men’s indoor) and twice in 2007 (women’s outdoor, men’s outdoor). Additionally, Baily was named the USTFCCCA North Central Regional Coach of the Year in 2008. Among the top performances by his Western State squads was its showing at the 2007 RMAC Outdoor Championships, where each of his women’s and men’s teams placed second. A native of Scottsbluff, Neb., Baily was a conference champion in the decathlon at Chadron State. He was named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year while attaining his bachelor’s degree in education (2003) and added a master’s degree in education in 2005 from the University of the Cumberlands. In addition, Baily holds a USA Track & Field Level I certification. Baily is married to his wife, Janel, and the couple has two children: Jayden and Trenton.
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EDUCATION • B.P.E. in Physical Education, Exercise Science, andTrack & Field Coaching, Helwan University (Egypt), 2002
Karim Abdel Wahab Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles)
COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2004-06, Volunteer Assistant (Sprints, Hurdles), Colorado School of Mines • 2006-10, Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles), Northern Colorado • 2010-18, Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles), Colorado State • 2018-23, Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles), South Carolina • 2023-Present, Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles), Georgia
Karim Abdel Wahab was added as an assistant coach in July 2023 and he helps guides the sprinters and hurdlers. Abdel Wahab, who is a native of Egypt, joins Georgia’s staff after serving in a similar role for the University South Carolina team over the last five years. The veteran sprints and hurdles coach was instrumental for the Gamecocks, helping the women experience some of the finest seasons in well over a decade. During the 2023 indoor season, the South Carolina women’s 4x400-meter relay finished second at the SEC Indoor Championships and then seventh at the NCAA Championships. Outdoors, Abdel Wahab coached true freshman Sylvia Chelangat to a new 800m school record (2:02.58) at the UF Tom Jones Memorial, marking an eight second improvement from Chelangat’s previous personal best. This was her first year specializing in the 800m. Later during the outdoor season, Chelangat finished as the runner-up at the SEC Championships. In 2022, Abdel Wahab coached 13 All-Americans and witnessed a handful of scorers at both the SEC Championships and NCAA Championships. Among those All-Americans were Stephanie Davis, Makenzie Dunmore and Destinee Rocker. Rocker broke the school record in the 60m hurdles (8.07) and registered the third best 100m hurdle time of (12.95). Rocker also finished eighth at the NCAA Outdoor Championship to earn All-American status, while Davis earned hers as part of the 4x400m relay team – the same team that claimed the title at the Penn Relays. In fact, that same relay team of Davis, Dunmore, Angel Frank and Jahnile Registre broke the 4x400m relay school record at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:25.45. The 2022 season also yielded student-athletes like freshmen Jayla Jamison who became the USATF Jr. Nationals champion in the 200m and earned silver in the 200m at World Jr. Championships for Team USA with a time of 22.77. Jamison was the first leg on the 4x100m relays at Worlds, setting a new American record, helping her team earn a silver medal and only finishing behind the relay team from Jamaica. Abdel Wahab continues to work with Olympians and athletes from the World Championships, including the likes of Gamecock Alum Wadeline Jonathas. Jonathas, who continued to train in Columbia under Abdel Wahab’s tutelage, competed in the 400m for Team USA in the Tokyo Olympics. He has also coached Aliyah Abrams to the Tokyo Games for her home country of Guyana. Both Jonathas and Abrams made it to the semifinals of the 400m at the Olympics. Jonathas was also a member of the women’s 4×400m relay team that advanced in the first round of competition, later earning gold medal for her efforts. In addition, Abrams competed in the 2022 World Indoor Championships where she finished fifth and broke the South American and Guyana record. Prior to the shutdown because of COVID-19, Abdel Wahab continued to coach Jonathas and Abrams throughout their run to the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Abrams captured the Guyana national title in the 400m while Jonathas qualified for Team USA with her finish at USA Nationals. Jonathas eventually reached the IAAF World Championship final in the 400m and posted a new collegiate record (49.60) to finish fourth in the world. In 2019 and his first year as a Gamecock, Abdel Wahab’s student-athletes achieved numerous milestones, including the women’s 4x400m relay team winning the NCAA Indoor Championship. Abrams was a silver medalist in
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the 400m at the NCAA Indoor Championship that same season. Moving over to the outdoor season, Abdel Wahab coached Jonathas to win the NCAA Championship in the women’s 400m, while her teammate Abrams placed fifth overall in the 400m. That year, South Carolina was the only school in the nation that sent two women to the NCAA finals in the 400m and both achieved personal bests in the finals. The 4x400m relay took third at the same championship. Abdel Wahab came to Columbia after eight seasons in charge of the sprinters and hurdlers at Colorado State University. His student-athletes combined for 13 new school records, including three Mountain West Conference records. During his eight seasons in Fort Collins, Abdel Wahab led his student-athletes to six All-America honors and one honorable mention All-America honor. From 2012-14, Abdel Wahab coachedTrevor Brown to five All-America finishes, including laurels in the 110m and 400m hurdles outdoors and the 60m hurdles indoors. Brown left CSU as the Mountain West’s record-holder in the 60mH (7.73) and 110mH (13.55). On the women’s side, Abdel Wahab molded Lorenda Holston into an All-American in the 60m and 100m hurdles in 2017. Holston set the Mountain West’s all-time record in the 60mH (8.06). Before joining the staff at Colorado State, Abdel Wahab spent four seasons at the University of Northern Colorado. He coached UNC’s first-ever NCAA West Preliminary Round qualifiers in the men’s 100m and 200m, helped four Bears set new school records and led multiple Big Sky Conference champions. He also spent two seasons at Colorado School of Mines. Outside of the collegiate level, Abdel Wahab served as the personal coach for Fort Collins native and 2012 Olympic long jump bronze medalist Janay DeLoach. Under Abdel Wahab’s tutelage, DeLoach finished third in the long jump at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, earning a spot at the 2016 Rio Olympics. DeLoach was also a fourth-place finisher in the long jump at the 2016 World Indoor Championships and won the 2016 60m hurdles at the MILROSE Games (7.85m) under Abdel Wahab’s leadership. Prior to his time out west, Abdel Wahab served as a team coach for the Egyptian National Team at the 2010 African Championships, the 2011 World Outdoor Championships, the 2012 World Indoor Championships and the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. Among those to train under Abdel Wahab are Amr Seoud who broke the 100m (10.13) and 200m (20.36) national records, and Anas Beshr who set a national record in the 400m (45.40) to qualify for the Rio Olympics. Recognized as one of the top sprints and hurdles coaches in the world, Abdel Wahab has published several articles discussing the mechanics and methodologies of each discipline. He has taught extensively on the subject throughout the United States and Canada. Abdel Wahab graduated in 2002 from Helwan University in Cairo with a degree in Physical education, exercise science and track and field coaching. He is a USATF Level I Coach and is recognized as an ISSA Fitness Trainer and ISSA Fitness Therapist.
EDUCATION • B.S. in Geology, Indiana, 1999 COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2007-13, Volunteer Assistant, Indiana • 2013-16, Assistant Coach (Distance), Miami (OH) • 2016-23, Director of Track & Field/Cross Country, Miami (OH) • 2023-Present, Cross Country Coach/Assistant Coach (Distance), Georgia
Tom Chorny Cross Country Coach (Assistant Coach - Distance) Tom Chorny was hired as Georgia’s cross country coach and assistant distance coach in July 2023. Prior to arriving in Athens, Chorny had served as the Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Miami University (Ohio) since 2015. A three-time All-American for Indiana who graduated in 1999, Chorny was a volunteer assistant for the Hoosiers from 2007-13. His first job with Miami was as an assistant in 2013. Chorny was the 2022 (men’s cross country), 2021 (men’s outdoor track) and 2018 (men’s cross country) Mid-American Conference (MAC) Coach of theYear after guiding the RedHawks to 17 All-America honors in 10 different events. His distance corps set 27 school records at Miami in 23 different events. Under Chorny’s leadership, Miami earned the 2018 Mid-American Conference championship in men’s cross country for the first time since 1998, going on to claim the crown again in 2022. The RedHawks also captured the 2021 men’s outdoor track and field MAC championship, a trophy they had not won since 1993. Miami student-athletes on Chorny’s teams succeeded not only in competition, but also in the classroom. The RedHawks program was consistently recognized by the USTFCCCA as All-Academic, including the 2022 men and women’s cross country teams and the 2023 men and women’s track and field teams. The 2022-23 season saw Miami sweep the individual titles at the MAC Cross Country Championships for the first time ever, as Obsaa Feda won the men’s race and Carmen Riano came in first in the women’s race. Both runners went on to earn USTFCCCA All-Region honors, with Riano advancing to the national meet for the first time. The RedHawk men earned the MAC team championship, while the Miami women placed fourth at the MAC meet. Chorny’s runners produced a total of three First-Team All-MAC selections, three Second-Team picks and a MAC Freshman of the Year winner (Patrick Wills) to go along with eight Academic All-MAC honorees. For his efforts, Chorny was named MAC Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year. In the indoor season, Miami’s women posted their first top-five finish as a team since 2012, with Riano winning the 3000-meter race en route to picking up First-Team All-MAC recognition. The RedHawks also collected a pair of Second-Team All-MAC awards and 15 Academic All-MAC selections. For the 2023 outdoor campaign, four RedHawks qualified for NCAA East Prelims, with three going on to become All-Americans (Ava Nuttall, second team in 10K; Carmen Riano and Charlie Harders, honorable mention in steeplechase). Ryan Smith was named MAC Men’s Most Outstanding Field Performer after scoring 24 points across four events, including the discus title. Miami women also finished first in the steeplechase (Riano), 5K (Riano) and 10K (Nuttall) at the MAC meet, with the women’s team coming in third place and the men in fourth (including Harders’ steeplechase win for a third straight spring). Ten RedHawks were named All-MAC (four on the First Team), 10 received Academic All-District honors and 19 qualified for the Academic All-MAC
squad. In 2021-22, the RedHawk women finished second and the RedHawk men came in third at the MAC cross country meet. Three Miami runners placed in the top 10 at the women’s meet: Carmen Riano (third place), Ava Nuttall (eighth), and Katie Vitou (ninth). On the men’s side, Anthony Camerieri came in sixth. All four student-athletes received All-MAC honors, to go along with 13 Miami runners being named Academic All-MAC. During the women’s indoor track season, Lotti Roemer won the mile to highlight Miami’s performance at the MAC championships, while the team finished seventh in the league. The outdoor season saw Charlie Harders and Carmen Riano sweep the steeplechase races at the MAC meet, with Riano also finishing atop the podium in the women’s 5000m and Finley Mclear winning the men’s 800m. The RedHawks finished fourth as a team in the men’s meet and fifth in the women’s competition. Seven Miami student-athletes competed in the NCAA East prelims, highlighted by Riano, who advanced to the national meet and finished as an All-American in the steeplechase (14th place). Thirty-seven different RedHawks on the track and field team were recognized as Academic All-MAC between the indoor and outdoor seasons. The 2020-21 academic year was highlighted by the RedHawk men finishing second in the MAC cross country meet and first in the conference’s outdoor track championships. Miami had four All-MAC performers in cross country, a MAC individual champion in the women’s indoor pentathlon (Sarah Bruns), and a myriad of MAC outdoor champions. Olivia Bechtel won the 200m and 400m at the MAC meet that spring, Charlie Harders won the steeplechase, Sean Torpy won the 1500m, Finley Mclear won the 800m, and Miami’s 4x400m relay team also took first place. Chorny was named MAC Men’s Coach of the Year after the RedHawk men brought home the team title. Miami also fared exceedingly well on the national stage, with Finley Mclear taking second in the indoor 800m and 4th in the outdoor 800m. The RedHawks’ DMR team (Sean Torpy, Luke Finnegan, Andrew Schroff, Chris Torpy) picked up All-American honors as well, claiming eighth at the NCAA indoor championships. In addition, Sean Torpy became Miami’s first Academic All-American since 2008. Before 2019-20 competition was cut short by the pandemic, Miami seized top-three finishes in the MAC men’s and women’s cross country meets for the third year in a row. The RedHawk men were runners-up, while the women came in third place. David Coffey (first team), Ryan Sharkey (second team), and Emma Bryant (second team) were named All-MAC that fall. Miami finished seventh in the MAC indoor championships, the program’s best mark since 2013. Olivia Bechtel led the way with a first-place finish in the 400m. 2018-19 brought Miami its first MAC men’s cross country team title in 20 years. Chorny was named Coach of the Year, with five RedHawk men earning All-MAC honors. On the women’s side, Alesha Vovk was a first-team All-MAC pick as the RedHawks came in third at the MAC cross country meet. The Miami women finished 10th in the MAC in the indoor championships, but came in sixth at the outdoor meet, with the Miami men taking third. Danielle Collier (javelin), Olivia Bechtel (400m), and the women’s 4x400m relay each took first at the outdoor meet, while the Torpy brothers led the way for the men. Sean Torpy won the 800m, 1500m and 5000m races, with Chris Torpy taking first in the steeplechase. Sean Torpy was named MAC Men’s Most Valuable Performer, and Bechtel was recognized on the women’s side for Most Outstanding Performance. Both Torpy brothers went on to become NCAA All-Americans that spring: Sean was 17th in the nation in the 800m, and Chris was 14th in the 1500m. Danielle Collier took 10th place at the national meet in the javelin, also becoming an All-American. In 2017-18, Chorny’s second year at the helm, the women’s cross country team improved to third place in the MAC after finishing seventh the previous season. Two RedHawk women and four men were recognized as All-MAC that fall. During the spring, Miami took first place in two men’s (800m, 1500m) and two women’s (10,000m, 4x400m relay) track events. Maria Scavuzzo was credited with the Most Outstanding Performance (women’s) at the meet. ChrisTorpy also took 23rd place in
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the 1,500m at the national championships, becoming an All-American for the first time. Chorny took over in 2016-17 and helped the RedHawks to a second consecutive runner-up finish at the men’s cross country championships. Matt Bromley, David Coffey, and Andrew Dusing won All-MAC honors for the Miami men, with Maria Scavuzzo joining them on the women’s side. Scavuzzo went on to represent the Red and White at the NCAA championships that fall. In track, four RedHawks became NCAA All-Americans: Dusing (6th place, outdoor, 1500m), Amelia Strickler (10th, indoor, shot put), Danielle Collier (22nd, outdoor, javelin) and Martha Szekely (17th, outdoor, hammer). The RedHawks finished fifth as a team at the men’s and women’s MAC outdoor championships, with Stephen Biebelhausen (1,500m), Collier (javelin), Szekely (hammer), and Alexus Jimson-Miller (100mH) winning individual titles. Chorny helped the Hoosiers in a volunteer coaching capacity from 2007-13 before becoming an assistant at Miami. He helped mold three Big Ten champions, 23 NCAA Regional qualifiers and 11 All-Americans in the steeplechase during his coaching stint in Bloomington while also managing the Indiana Running Company. A standout distance runner, Chorny enjoyed a competitive career filled with accolades at all levels of the sport. He was a four-time Michigan High School Athletic Association state champion and a 1994 Footlocker National Finalist at Fruitport High School. Collegiately, Chorny was a three-time All-American and continued his career professionally after graduation. In the pro ranks, Chorny won the steeplechase at USA Track and Field Championships in 2001, earning a spot onTeam USA at the World Championships and Goodwill Games that year. He achieved a world ranking as high as No. 35 in the steeplechase in 2002 and remained in the top 40 to 2004. He was also a member of the Nike Farm Team and Oregon Track Club from 2004-06. Chorny earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Indiana in 1999.
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EDUCATION • B.S. in Applied Exercise Science, Strength and Conditioning, Springfield College (MA), 2014 • M.S. in Food, Nutrition and Culinary Sciences, Clemson, 2018
Gabby Gaudreault
Assistant Coach (Distance, Cross Country)
COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2016-18, Graduate Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach, Clemson • 2018-19, Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach, Campbell University • 2019, Assistant Coach (Distance/Cross Country), Louisiana Monroe • 2020-21, Assistant Coach (Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field), Towson • 2022, Interim Head Coach, Towson • 2022-23, V olunteer D istance C oach , Vanderbilt • 2023-Present, Assistant Coach (Distance/ Cross Country) Georgia
The Bulldog program added Gabriella Gaudreault as an assistant coach for distance and the Director of External Operations in July 2023. Gaudreault came to Athens after spending the 2022-23 school year working as a volunteer distance coach at Vanderbilt University. She helped guide Niki Narayani (10,000 meters) and Caroline Eck (5000m) to the NCAA East Prelims while assisting Narayani to scoring spots in both the 3000m (9:25) and 5000m (16:17) at the 2023 Southeastern Conference IndoorTrack & Field Championships. During the fall season, Narayani earned All-Region honors with a 23rd-place finish at the NCAA South Regional Cross Country Championships. In January of 2020, Gaudreault was hired as an assistant coach at Towson University for women’s cross country and track & field and worked with the program for two and a half years. She served as the interim head coach for theTigers during a six-month stretch before her departure to Vanderbilt. In addition to NCAA East Prelim qualifiers in both the women’s pole vault and javelin, Towson was third at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship under Gaudreault’s direction. This performance was highlighted by having the Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet (Crystal Johnson) and conference champions in the women’s 100m, pole vault and javelin. Gaudreault also assisted Cristal Cuervo compete on the international stage, representing Panama at the 2022 Bolivarian Games, as Cuervo finished fifth in both the 200m (23.95) and 400m (55.57). Gaudreault led the team to finish third at the Colonial Athletic Association OutdoorTrack & Field Championships, where Hayley Horvath garnered CAA Co-Field Athlete of theYear honors. Horvath (pole vault), Johnson (100m, 200m), Fatimah Owens (discus) and Georgia Coleman (hammer) all captured conference titles while Johnson (200m – 23.75) and Thorpe (javelin - 49.77 meters/163 feet, 3 inches) established fresh school records. Indoors, Gaudreault helped her squad take fourth at the ECAC Championships with Johnson winning the 60m title, and grabbing a runner-up finish in the 200m in 24.12, which set a new school record. Additionally, Ainsley Jacobs scored in the 5000m with a time of 16:57 to put her at #2 all time in TU history. Earlier in the season, Jacobs set the school record in the 3000m with a time of 9:43.71. Jacobs also garnered All-CAA honors in cross country after taking 11th at the Championships. During the 2020-21 outdoor season, theTigers earned a runner-up finish at the CAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, thanks in part to Gaudreault’s contributions. Paige Keefer put points on the board for the Tigers in the 800m. During the 2020 indoor season, TU won the ECAC Indoor Track & Field Championships, where Gaudreault guided McKenzie Delahanty as she qualified to compete in the 5000m (17:24). Gaudreault made a pair of stops at Campbell University (2018-19
school year) and the University of Louisiana Monroe (Aug 2019 – Dec 2019) to begin her coaching career. At ULM, Gaudreault was the assistant coach for distance and cross country. In addition, Gaudreault designed all strength training for the distance squad, handled recruiting and oversaw nutrition and wellness for the track and field program. Before ULM, Gaudreault was an assistant coach for cross country and track and field at Campbell University. During the cross campaign, Gaudreault helped develop Amon Keboi and Lawrence Kipkoech to All-American honors at the 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Kemboi went on to finish 6th in the 5000m (13:47), and garner 2nd team All-American honors in the 3000m at the 2019 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Kipkoech went on to qualify for the 10,000m at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. At the conference level, the Campbell men won the 2018 Big South Cross Country Championships for the fourth year in a row, and finished second at both the Indoor and Outdoor Championships. The Campbell women represented the Fighting Camels well and placed second at the Cross Country Championships. Individually, Gaudreault helped lead Roshae Jackson to the 2019 Big South indoor 800m title and to runner-up honors in the mile. Jackson was also second in the outdoor 800m at the conference meet and was third in the 1500m. Earning a spot on the Big South 2010-19 All-Decade Distance Team, Jackson finished No. 3 on the league’s alltime performance list. Prior to Campbell, Gaudreault was the graduate assistant coach for Clemson University Cross Country &Track and Field from 2016 to 2018, assisting with the men’s and women’s middle distance and distance runners. She also served as an intern strength and conditioning coach with the Olympic Sports department and worked primarily with cross country and track & field. Gaudreault’s extensive background in strength and conditioning led her to her role as the women’s volleyball strength and conditioning coach at American International College in 2014-15. Prior to AIC, she had served several strength and conditioning internships at the collegiate and private sector levels. A native of Leominster, Mass., Gaudreault was a two-time NCAA Division III All-American in the 800m for Springfield College (MA). She was a three-year competitor for the Pride’s cross country team as well. Gaudreault received her bachelor’s degree in Applied Exercise Science in 2014. She also studied Strength and Conditioning at Springfield, and Food Nutrition and Culinary Science at Clemson for graduate school. Gaudreault holds certifications through the NSCA as a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) - Track and Field Technical Certification. A native speaker of Spanish, she is also trained in Precision Nutrition, PN Level 1 Sport and Exercise Nutrition.
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EDUCATION • B.A. in Human Biology, USC, 2018 PLAYING EXPERIENCE • 2016-19,Track & Field, USC (17-time First Team All-American) COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2019-21, H ead C oach , L ake H ighland Prepatory (Fla.) • 2021-Present, Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles), Georgia
Deanna Hill Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles)
Deanna Hill was hired as an assistant coach for Georgia’s sprinters and hurdlers in July 2021, soon after her former head coach at Southern California, Caryl Smith Gilbert, accepted the Director ofTrack & Field position with the Bulldogs. Following a successful first year in Athens, Hill went back to work for Smith Gilbert in 2023. The Bulldog men had their top finish in history at the NCAA Indoor Championships, earning runner-up honors with a program record 40 points. The finish was highlighted by a school record in the 200-meter dash (Matthew Boling, 20.12, No. 5 all-time collegiate performer) for an NCAA title. Boling joined Christopher Morales Williams, Caleb Cavanaugh and Will Sumner in the 4x400m relay at Nationals to score eight more points with a second-place finish. With Godwin running in place of Sumner, the Bulldogs ran a season-best relay of 3:02.90 at theTiger Paw Invitational for the second-fastest finish in school history and fourth best in the nation in 2023. Also, Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner and Godwin combined for runner-up honors at the SEC Championships. The women finished fifth at the 2023 Nationals after tallying 31 points under the help from Hill. Individual performances from true freshmen Kaila Jackson and Autumn Wilson shined during the Lady Bulldogs’ trip to Albuquerque. Jackson, who was the SEC Freshman Runner of theYear, clocked a World Junior (under-20) and school record 7.07 to become the No. 4 all-time collegiate performer in the prelims before taking second in the 60m final with a 7.08. In addition, Jackson was eighth in the 200m final. Wilson shot to No. 7 on the all-time collegiate performer’s list with a school record 22.42 in the 200m prelims and earned a bronze in the final (22.45). She complemented Jackson’s finish in the 60m by taking fourth in the final with a personal record 7.12. At the 2023 SEC Indoor Championships, Jackson earned second and fourth-place finishes in the 60m and 200m, respectively, while Wilson went fourth-fifth in the same short sprints. On the men’s side, Hill coached trackside as Boling took second in the 200m. In addition, Keshaun Black competed at his first league meet and finished seventh in the 60m with a 6.73. A number of Georgia sprinters and hurdlers made significant improvements under Hill and the rest of the coaching staff as well during the regular season, including Bella Witt clocking an 8.20 in the 60m hurdles, Kenondra Davis managing a 23.12 in the 200m and Aaliyah Butler teaming with Dominique Mustin, Haley Tate and Zoe Pollock, who were all first-year Bulldogs, to record the school’s second-fastest 4x400m relay time in school history (3:33.28). For the year, Georgia collected three national titles and two conference crowns to go with five school records (men’s 200m, men’s 400m, men’s 800m, women’s 60m, women’s 200m) on the track and 21 improvements to the school’s all-time top-10 lists in the sprints and mid-distance. Outdoors, the contributions from the individuals who Hill worked with were equally impressive. Will Sumner ran a leg on the seventh place 4x400m relay team (3:03.22) at Nationals along with Morales Williams, Boling and Cavanaugh. The Lady Bulldogs also managed to take 10th at the NCAA Championships with the contributions from 12 team members, including a
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half dozen sprinters who Hill helps instruct. Kaila Jackson sped to a wind-aided 10.96 for fourth in the 100m final and also ran a leg on the scoring 4x100m relay, a quartet that included Aaliyah Butler, Brandee Presley and Autumn Wilson. The Lady Bulldogs ran a school record 42.87 to take sixth place. Georgia’s successful 2023 outdoor postseason run began with the SEC Championships. The Bulldog sprinters, hurdlers and relays combined to score 68 points in the country’s toughest conference. Jackson, who also won a bronze in the 200m, was second in her first outdoor final with a legal personal record of 11.04 in the 100m. Thanks in part to Hill’s training, the Bulldogs continue their onslaught of the school’s all-time top-10 lists, including school records in the women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relays, the men’s 4x400m relay and the men’s 800m. There were a total of 44 revisions to the Bulldog record books, including 29 in the sprints, hurdles and relays. Two of those improvements came from a pair of freshmen in the 100m (Jackson’s 11.04, Wilson’s 11.17) and another in the 400m (Butler’s 51.32) as the trio passed one of the sport’s all-time greats in Gwen Torrence in the events (11.20, 51.60). During her first season representing Georgia in 2022, Hill helped guide the Bulldog short and long sprinters as well as UGA’s hurdlers to six First Team All-America certificates, five school records, two SEC individual crowns and an NCAA individual title to go along with a gold and a bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships. Hill began work with the Bulldogs’ talented duo of Boling and Godwin as the pair hit yet another level of success. Boling established school records in the 100-meter dash (9.98, No. 5 nationally) and 200m (19.92, No. 3 nationally), collected SEC titles in both the 60m and outdoor 200m and finished as a national scorer in the 60m and 100m as well as a top eight finisher in the 200m indoors and outdoors. Hill’s assistance with Godwin was just as apparent as he posted his best finish at the SEC Championships of runner-up before earning a bronze medal in the 400m with a then school record 44.50. Godwin continued his success in the collegiate postseason as he re-set his own school record in the 400m with a 44.34 for fourth at the USATF Championships. He was selected to run on both the men’sTeam USA 4x400m and mixed 4x400m relays at the World Athletics Championships where he collected a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. Godwin’s splits on his opening legs were 44.89, 44.71, 44.46 and 44.28. In addition, Hill helped Cavanaugh become an NCAA semifinalist after clocking the school’s fourth best 400m hurdle time in history (49.59) and taking fourth at SECs. Cavanaugh’s training partner, freshman Bryce McCray, also scored at the conference meet with the sixth-best time in UGA history (50.21). Working with short sprinter Delano Dunkley, Hill helped him drop his 100m to 10.22 (No. 9 on UGA’s all-time top-10 list) and 60m to 6.65 (No. 4). First-year sprinter Kenondra Davis also finished with the fourthbest indoor 200m time in school history (23.33) and the eighth-best outdoor finish (23.23). Also on the women’s side, fellow freshman Eddiyah Frye qualified for the World Under-20 Championships thanks to her runner-up finish in the 100m hurdles at the USATF Championships with a time of 13.26, which stands eighth in the school record books. Indoors, Frye sped to an 8.23 in the 60m hurdles to move to No. 5 on UGA’s all-time top-10 list. Hill, a native of Orlando, Fla., was a 17-time First-Team All-American for USC and won the 2018 NCAA outdoor team title with Smith Gilbert as head coach. In fact, Hill was on the Trojans’ 4x400-meter relay team that clinched her team’s one-point victory over the Lady Bulldogs during USC’s run to the 2018 national championship. A captain for theTrojans, Hill was awarded the Most Valuable Female Athlete for her team three consecutive years. Her relay squad earned an honorary ESPY award for the “2018 Best Comeback.” Hill returned to her hometown after graduating from USC and took over as the head varsity boys and girls coach at Lake Highland Preparatory School to start the 2019 season. While guiding Lake Highland, her school won its first boys’ district championship in 21 years and its first regional championship in school history.
EDUCATION • B.A. in Media & Journalism, North Carolina, 2019 • B.A. in Communications, North Carolina, 2019 • M.S. in Digital Social Media, Southern California, 2021
EDUCATION • B.A. in Communication, Southern California, 2021 • M.S. in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Southern California, 2022 • M.S. in Digital Media Management, USC, 2023
COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2023-Present, Assistant Coach (Jumps, Multis) Georgia
COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2023-Present, Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles) Georgia
Darryl Shaw
Bailey Lear
Assistant Coach (Jumps, Multis)
Assistant Coach (Sprints, Hurdles)
Darryl Shaw was added to the Bulldog staff as an assistant coach and Director of Creative Operations & Recruiting in July 2023. A native of Fayetteville, N.C., Shaw arrived in Athens after spending a year and half as the Assistant Director of Graphic Design at Duke. He designed graphics for print and social media for all 27 of Duke’s varsity sports. Shaw was the lead on the artistic front on the campaign for head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final game at Duke, including billboards and on court branding. Shaw worked closely and traveled with the Blue Devil track and field and cross country seasons throughout the year. Shaw was a graduate transfer at Southern California where he earned All-PAC 12 Honors in the triple jump and graduated with a Master’s degree in Digital Social Media. Between undergraduate and graduate school, Shaw interned at Turner Sports (TNT) where he sat in on shows such as the NBA on TNT and Inside the NBA and helped produced content for NBA.com and WNBA.com. Shaw was a triple jumper and a captain at UNC-Chapel Hill from 2015-2019. He earned First-Team All-ACC Honors in the triple jump along with multiple Second Team All-ACC Honors and was a member of the UNC Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Shaw is in the top six in UNC history in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Media & Journalism and a second degree in Communications.
Bailey Lear was named an assistant coach for sprints and hurdles by Georgia Director of Track and Field Caryl Smith Gilbert in October 2023. She also serves as the program’s operations coordinator. Lear arrived in Athens following an All-American track career the University of Southern California, where she competed as a sprinter from 2019-2023. She spent her first three seasons under the guidance of Smith Gilbert, USC’s Director of Track and Field from 2014-2021, and helped the Trojans bring home a national title during the 2021 outdoor season. Lear also helped guide Southern California to Pac-12 titles in 2019 and 2021. During her time as a Trojan, Lear set the program’s freshman indoor record in the 400-meter dash while posting the No. 4 in school history in the indoor 400m. She also clocked the No. 6 time in school history in the outdoor 400m and ran the leadoff leg on USC’s 4x400m relay which had the second, ninth, and 10th-fastest outdoor times in program history. Lear was a two-time All-American in 2019, running on the 4x400m relay teams that placed sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships and eighth at the NCAA Outdoor Championship meet. A native of New Orleans, La., Lear graduated from Southern California with a bachelor’s degree in Communication in 2021. She was the founding member of the university’s United Black Student-Athletes Association and served as the group’s Co-Communication Chair. Lear also earned two master’s degrees at USC, completing programs in Entrepreneurship & Innovation in 2022 and in Digital Media Management in 2023.
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B u l l d o g s Name Ht. Yr. (I/O) Event Hometown (High School /Prev. College) Andrew Balogh 5-8 Fr./Fr. Distance Acworth, Ga. (Etowah) Gavin Beverage 6-4 Sr./^Sr. Throws Ona, W.V. (Cabell Midland/UC Riverside) Cooper Bocko 5-10 So./RSo. Distance Cumming, Ga. (Lambert) Brody Buffington 6-3 Fr./Fr. Sprints Thurmont, Md. (Catoctin) Jack Bundy 6-0 Fr./Fr. Distance Abingdon, Va. (Abingdon) Luke Churchwell 5-9 Fr./Fr. Distance Cochran, Ga. (Bleckley County) Chase Condra 5-8 Sr./^Sr. Distance Suwanee, Ga. (Peachtree Ridge) Logan Dingman 6-1 Fr./Fr. Distance Mooresville, N.C. (Lake Norman) Ljubljana, Slovenia (High School of Mechanical Engineering in Škofja Loka) Jan Duhovnik 6-4 Fr./Fr. Multi-Events Mekhi Gammons 6-1 Fr./Fr. Sprints Miami, Fla. (Turner Tech) Yallahs, St.Thomas, Jamaica (Wolmer Boys’ High School) Jehlani Gordon 6-0 Fr./Fr. Sprints Hossam Hatib 6-0 Jr./Jr. Sprints Marrakech, Morocco (Azzouzia/South Plains CC) Cole Heron 5-9 Jr./Jr. Distance Marietta, Ga. (Pope) KC Heron 5-9 Sr./Jr. Distance Marietta, Ga. (Pope) Conner Inman 6-1 Fr./Fr. Distance Winston-Salem, N.C. (Mount Tabor) John Jessup 6-0 Fr./Fr. Distance Gainesville, Ga. (Gainesville) *Wesley John 5-11 Sr./^Sr. Distance Watkinsville, Ga. (Oconee) Chance Jones 6-3 Fr./Fr. Mid-Distance Dacula, Ga. (Dacula) Luke Kalarickal 5-11 Fr./Fr. Distance Braselton, Ga. (Mill Creek) Sumner Kirsch 5-8 Fr./Fr. Distance Atlanta, Ga. (North Atlanta) *Alexander Kolesnikoff 6-5 Sr./Jr. Throws Strathfield, Australia (Trinity Grammar School/Harvard) Micah Larry 5-9 Fr./Fr. Sprints/Jumps Harvest, Ala. (Montverde Academy - Orlando, Fla.) *Jordan McKenzie 6-1 Sr./Sr. Sprints Ajax, Ontario (Pickering/LIU) *Marc Minichello 5-10 --/Sr. Javelin West Pittston, Pa. (Wyoming Area/Penn) Dru Moore 5-11 Fr./Fr. Distance Woodstock, Ga. (Etowah) Christopher Morales Williams 5-10 So./So. Sprints Vaughan, Ontario (St. Elizabeth) Ethan Nordman 6-0 So./So. Distance Hoschton, Ga. (Mill Creek) Ryan Olree 6-1 Fr./Fr. Distance Denver, Colo. (Denver South) Kushan Patel 5-9 Fr./Fr. Distance Duluth, Ga. (Lambert) Davis Potts 6-0 So./RSo. Distance Watkinsville, Ga. (North Oconee) Riyon Rankin 6-3 Fr./Fr. Jumps Brunswick, Ga. (Brunswick) Zachary Roe 6-0 Sr./Jr. Distance Atlanta, Ga. (Westminster School) Alon Rogow 6-1 So./So. Pole Vault Dunwoody, Ga. (Dunwoody) Conner Rutherford 6-0 Fr./Fr. Distance Blacksburg, Va. (Blacksburg) Diego Santiago-Cardona 5-10 Fr./Fr. Distance Johns Creek, Ga. (Chattahoochee) Peachtree City, Ga. (Landmark Christian/Georgia Tech) Zack Truitt 5-10 Jr./Jr. Mid-Distance Nikolai van Huyssteen 6-1 Jr./So. Pole Vault Paarl, South Africa (Paarl Gimnasium) Jake Westing 6-1 Fr./Fr. Distance Decatur, Ga. (Decatur) Zavien Wolfe 6-2 Fr./Fr. Jumps Memphis, Tenn. (Central) *Graduates; ^2020 eligibility years advanced as usual to more closely mirror academic progress despite the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the outdoor season’s cancellation; however, all competitors who were on the team in 2020 did not exhaust a year of eligibility.
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5-8 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Acworth, Ga. Etowah
2023: Cross Country – Made his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, crossing the line at 16:00.17. High School: Won GHSA 6A state titles in the 800 meters and 4x800m relay while placing third in the 1600m as a senior…Set Etowah records in the 800m and DMR during his final season…Finished second in the 800m at the 2023 Wingfoot Night of Champions, which highlights the best track & field athletes in Georgia across 14 disciplines…Placed third individually in the GHSA 6A cross country meet, helping Etowah to a fifth-place team finish as a senior…Runner-up in the 4x800m relay, top-10 finisher in the 800m and qualifier in the 1600m at the GHSA 7A state track meet as a junior…Set school records in the 4x800 relay and 800m that season…Qualified for the GHSA 7A state cross country meet as a junior…Helped Etowah finish fourth in the 4x800m relay at the GHSA 7A state track meet as a sophomore…Ran legs on schoolrecord 4x800m relay and DMR in his second season…GHSA 7A state cross country meet qualifier as a sophomore…Varsity letterwinner as a freshman…Personal bests of 49.67 (400m), 1:51.33 (800m) and 4:11.58 (1600m)…Graduated with honors. Personal: Born Aug. 22, 2005...Son of Susan and Greg Balogh... Intending to major in Computer Science.
Gavin Beverage Throws
6-4 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Ona, W.V. Cabell Midland/UC Riverside
2023: Outdoor – Finished runner-up in the shot put at the SpecTowns & Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a mark of 18.81 meters/61 feet, 8 ½ inches, which ranks ninth in school history…Placed 10th in the shot put at the SEC Championships (17.79m/58-4.50)…Finished 29th at the NCAA East Prelims with a mark of 17.80m/58-4.75…Won the discus at the Spec Towns & Torrin Lawrence meet after reaching 47.70m/155-6. Indoor – Posted his best mark of the season in the shot put at the Texas Tech Open, reaching 17.74 meters/58 feet, 2.50 inches…Runnerup at the Clemson Invite with a 17.26m/56-7.50…Finished 11th at the SEC Championships with a mark of 17.25m/56-7.25 in the shot put. 2022: Outdoor – Reached 18.73/61-3 for runner-up honors in the shot put at the Tom Jones Memorial…Missed scoring by one spot after taking ninth in the shot at the SEC Championships with a mark of 18.56/60-10.75…Fouled out at the NCAA East Prelims…Scored at SECs after reaching 53.23/174-8 for eighth in the discus. Indoor – Won the Samford Invite thanks to a top effort of 18.47 meters/60 feet, 7 ¼ inches in the shot put…Finished first in the shot at the USC Indoor Open after reaching 18.10m/59-4.75…Took 13th at the SEC Championships thanks to a top mark of 17.48m/57-4.25. 2021: Outdoor – Topped out at 61 feet, ¾ inches to take fourth in the shot put at the FSU Relays…Also reached 60 feet (60-4.50) for fourth place in the shot at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial…Had his third-best shot mark of the season at the NCAA East Prelims and finished 30th
(58-3)…Competed at his first SEC Outdoor Championships. Indoor – Won the USC Indoor Open after launching the shot 59-5.50… Grabbed top honors at the Razorback Invitational thanks to an effort of 58-6.50…Fouled out at the SEC Championships. UC Riverside – 2020: Did not compete. High School: Fifth in the shot put for All-America honors at the 2019 New Balance Outdoor Nationals…2019 WVSSAC AAA shot put champion with a mark that topped Olympian Randy Barnes’ 35-yearold state record and was the country’s seventh-best prep throw for the year…Was also state discus runner-up…West Virginia Gatorade Track & Field Player of the Year…2018 runner-up in the discus and third in the shot put…School record holder in the discus and shot…Personal-best marks of 20.07 meters (65 feet, 10 ½ inches) in the shot put and 52.52m (172-4) in the discus…Also a member of Cabell’s marching band. Personal: Born June 5, 2001…Son of Timothy and Samantha Beverage…Majoring in Fisheries and Wildlife and Animal and Dairy Science.
Cooper Bocko Distance
5-10 • So. (I)/RSo. (O) Cumming, Ga. Lambert
2023: Cross Country – Made his season debut at the 6k Gamecock Challenge, where he placed 11th with a time of 18:45.3. Outdoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. Indoor – Finished 19th in the 3000-meters at the Music City Challenge, crossing the line in 8:24.33…Posted a time of 8:24.65 to finish 14th in the 3000m at the Clemson Invite. 2022: Cross Country – Was the second Bulldog across the line at the season-opening 5k Charlotte Opener with a 15:42.1 for 26th… Scored with a 77th-place finish at the 8k North Alabama Invitational after running a 24:52.48…Returned to the scoring ranks at the 8k Crimson Classic with a 25:19.8 for 48th…Was in the Bulldogs’ top five at the 8k SEC Championships with a 25:17.01 for 67th…Scored for Georgia at the 10k NCAA South Regional after taking 95th (32:04.20). Outdoor – Finished eighth at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial when he completed his 1500 meters in 8:54.54…Ran the team’s fastest 3000m with an 8:28.87 to take third at the Tom Jones Memorial…Finished 31st (14:55.96) in the 5000m at the Georgia Tech Invitational. Indoor - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. 2021: Cross Country - Ran his first meet in red and black at the 8k North Alabama Showcase and was 65th (26:01.05)...Broke into the scoring ranks at the 8k Pre-Nationals with a 25:18.2 for 235th… Finished 90th (26:11.6) at the 8k SEC Championships…Had an 86thplace finish with a 32:06.77 to score at the 10k NCAA South Regional. High School: Part of third-place 4x800-meter relay team at the 2021 GHSA 7-A state track meet while also taking fourth individually in the 1600m and eighth in the 3200m at the meet…Part of unit that run a school record in the distance medley relay and in the 4x800m relay…Named Lambert’s Runner of the Year and Track Athlete of the Year during his senior year…Won Forsyth County titles in the 1600m and 3200m in his final season…Personal-best times of 4:18 (1600m), 9:13 (3200m) and 15:22 (5k XC)…Took eighth at the 2019 state cross country meet as a junior…Included on the Atlanta All-Metro Second Team in cross country…Set a school record in the 1200m…Garnered Runner of the Year honors for the second consecutive season… Finished 12th at the 2018 state cross country championships and was again named his team’s Runner of the Year as a sophomore…Earned
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Brody Buffington Sprints
6-3 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Thurmont, Md. Catoctin
High School: Posted the Maryland all-time best and 1A record to collect the 55-meter dash state indoor title as a senior…Finished second in the 60m (6.66) and third in the 300m (33.80) at the Millrose Games in his fourth year…Registered runner-up finishes in both the 60m (6.64) and the 200m (20.71) to earn All-American honors as a senior…Also finished second in the 100m (10.15) and 200m (20.93) as a senior at the Puma Jamaican International Meet while racing the U.S. No. 1 and No. 3 competitors in both races…Swept the 100m (10.36, state all-time best/meet record) and 200m (21.06, meet record) state outdoor titles at his final Maryland high school championship… Earned a bronze medal in the 100m (10.16) at the 2023 New Balance Nationals for All-America honors…Captured the state indoor 1A state title in the 55m and 300m in his third year…Set the state 1A record to win the outdoor championship in the 100m while also capturing the 200m and long jump titles as a junior…Personal-best marks of 6.19 (55m), 6.64 (60m), 10.15 (100m), 20.59 (200m), 33.80 (300m) and 7.15 meters/23 feet, 5 ¾ inches (long jump)…Also played Lacrosse and football at Catoctin High School. Personal: Born Aug. 3, 2005…Son of Danielle and Bob Buffington… Intending to major in Sport Management.
Jack Bundy Distance
6-0 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Abingdon, Va. Abingdon 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. High School: Placed fifth at the VHSL Class 3 state cross country meet to earn all-state honors as a senior…His performance helped Abingdon secure its second straight state cross country title in his final season…Earned All-State honors in indoor track as a senior after finishing second in the 3200 meters and third in the 1600m at the Class 3 state track meet…VHSL Class 3 State Champion in the 800m and runner-up in the 1600m at the state outdoor track meet in his fourth year, earning all-state recognition…Helped Abingdon earn VHSL Class titles in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track as a junior, earning All-State honors during all three seasons…Personal bests of 4:14.90 (1600m), 9:16.38 (3200m), 2:28.73 (1000m) and 1:55.61 (800m)…Also competed in soccer and swimming in high school… Graduated from Abingdon as class valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA… Eagle Scout and member of National Honors Society. Personal: Born Sept. 10, 2004...Son of Alison and Matthew Bundy... Majoring in Genetics.
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Luke Churchwell Distance
5-9 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Cochran, Ga. Bleckley County
2023: Cross Country – Placed 10th to score in his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, posting a time of 15:05.05… Earned his second-straight top-10 finish at the 6k Gamecock Challenge (7th – 18:15.5)…Finished 140th at the 8k Paul Short Run, clocking a time of 25:18.30 to score…Ran a 24:59.2 at the 8k Crimson Classic to finish 51st…Posted a time of 25:21.0 at the 8k SEC Championships to finish 73rd overall…Clocked a time of 31:51.3 at the 10k NCAA South Regionals to place 97th overall. High School: Four-time all-state and all-region cross country at Bleckley County High School…School record holder in the 800 meters, 1600m and 3200m, also running a leg on the school record-setting 4x800m relay…GHSA 1A Division 1 state cross country champion as a senior, setting a school record on the state course as a senior…Also secured the region title in his final season…Ran a personal-best 5k time of 15:26 to finish seventh at the Wingfoot Cross Country Classic as a senior…That time marked the Bleckley County High School record on any course…GHSA 1A Division 1 state track champion in the 800m, 1600m and 3200m…Helped BCHS place fourth in the 4x800m relay at the state track meet during his fourth year…High point scorer at the state track meet with 30.5 points…Region champion in the 800m, 1600m and 3200m as a senior…Georgia Positive Athlete recipient for cross country in his final season, given to an athlete who has positively impacted their community through their sport…Cross country region champion as a junior, going on to finish third at the state meet…Took region titles in the 800m, 1600m and 3200m as a junior…Placed third in the 1600m and 3200m at the state track meet in his third season…Region cross country champion as a sophomore… Earned a seventh place finish at the GHSA 1A Division 1 state meet in his second season…Region champion in three track events as a sophomore (800m, 1600m and 3200m)…Placed fifth in the 3200m and eighth in the 1600m at the state track meet during his second year… Region runner-up in cross country as a freshman, placing third at the state meet…Personal bests of 1:56.37 (800m), 4:12.87 (1600m), 9:07.73 (3200m) and 15:26 (5000m)…Graduated with honors from Bleckley County High School…Member of National Honor Society and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)…Beta Club member for all four years of high school…Junior Board club president for Citizens Bank. Personal: Born Sept. 21, 2004...Son of Brenda and Ricky Churchwell... Uncles Bill Douglas, Bryan Layman and Kenny Thompson; aunts Sherry Grogan and Donna Layman; and cousins Aaron Layman, Hudson Grogan, Will Douglas and Lauren Douglas all attended the University of Georgia…Intending to major in Finance and Marketing.
Chase Condra Distance
5-8 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Suwanee, Ga. Peachtree Ridge 2023: Cross Country – Named Co-SEC Runner of the Week after earning his first collegiate victory at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener (14:33.84)…Led the Bulldogs with a 31st-place finish at the 8k Paul Short Run, recording a time of 24:35.30…Was the first Georgia runner across the finish line at the 8k Crimson Classic, posting a personal-best time of 24:16.3 to finish 13th…Was the team’s top
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finisher at the 8k SEC Championships, clocking a 24:24.1 to finish 36th…Placed 30th overall at the 10k NCAA South Regionals, clocking a 29:49.4 to finish as the top UGA scorer for the fifth time on the season. Outdoor – Posted a 5000m time of 14:25.85 at the Raleigh Relays, his season best…Earned a fifth-place finish at the Virginia Challenge… Placed fourth in the 800m at the Spec Towns & Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 1:54.28…Finished eighth in the 1500m at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, posting a time of 3:54.24. Indoor – Placed fourth in the 3000-meters at the Music City Challenge with a time of 8:14.99, the No. 10 time in Georgia history…Clocked a time of 8:26.74 to finish 16th in the 3000m at the Clemson Invite. 2022: Cross Country – Ran in the Bulldogs’ final three meets of the season, including a team-leading 32nd-place finish (24:21.07) at the 8k SEC Championships…Was 37th at the 8k Crimson Classic after completing the course in 25:06.3…Finished second for the Bulldogs at the 10k NCAA South Regional after taking 36th with a 30:53.00. Outdoor – Ran a 3:52.45 for 11th in the 1500 meters at the Yellow Jacket Invitational…Clocked a 14:25.65 to take fourth in the 5000m at the Georgia Tech Invitational…Finished 15th (32:10.23) in the 10,000m at the SEC Championships…Posted a season-best time of 30:25.96 for 94th in the 10,000m at the Raleigh Relays. Indoor – Ran a mile in 4:15.19 for his season best at the Razorback Invite…Finished fourth in the 3000m at the Music City Challenge with a 8:19.03…Was 30th (8:24.74) in the 3000m at the SEC Championships… Managed a 14th-place finish (14:32.70) in the 5000m at the SECs. 2021: Cross Country - Did not compete for the Bulldogs. Outdoor – Redshirted for the Bulldogs. Indoor – Was seventh in the mile at the Carolina Challenge with a 4:12.92…Managed a 15th-place finish in the 3000m with an 8:18.45 at the Razorback Invitational…Was second in the 3000m (8:26.32) at the Clemson Invitational…Finished 23rd in the 5000m (15:00.10) at the Music City Challenge. 2020: Cross Country - Was the second Dog across the line at the 8k FSU Invitational with a 24:28.1 for fifth...Earned All-Freshman/All-SEC Second Team honors after taking 12th to score with a time of 24:18.0. Indoor – Had a season-best time of 4:13.00 in the mile for fourth at the Bob Pollock Invitational…Battled for 67th place in the 3000-meter run with an 8:22.40 at the Husky Classic…Came across the 3000m finish line in 32nd (8:30.67) at the SEC Championships…Part of distance medley relay squad that was 11th at SECs with a 10:15.82. 2019: Cross Country - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. High School: Three-time Gwinnett County Runner of the Year at Peachtree Ridge HS, and also earned all-metro honors three times...As a senior, finished third in the Class 7A cross country meet (16:29.42) and fourth at the state track meet in the 3200 meters (9:18.98)... Kickstarted his high school career with a 10th place finish in the 3200 meters (9:22.22) at the Class 6A state meet, finishing behind current Georgia teammates Davis Stockwell (5th), Nate Reichard (7th) and Sam Bowers (9th)...Notched a fifth-place finish in the state cross country meet as a sophomore and improved to fourth place as a junior...Personal-best times of 4:20.86 (1600 meters), 9:18.98 (3200 meters) and 15:04.6 (5k CC)...Winner of the Lion Award at PRHS. Personal: Born Sept. 7, 2000…Son of Steve Condra…Sisters (Stacey. Crystal) both played softball at Mercer...Intended major in Business.
state indoor track meet as a senior…Finished third in the 1600m at the NCHSAA 4A state outdoor track meet with a county and conference record-breaking time of 4:09.13 in his final season…The time ranked 24th all-time for North Carolina high school outdoor performances… Also ran the 18th-fastest indoor 1000m time in North Carolina high school history as a senior…Named Charlotte Area Distance Runner of the Year and Lake Norman High School Athlete of the Year in his final season…Three-time Greater Metro 4A conference champion (800 meters, 1600m, 3200m) and MVP in outdoor track as a senior…Placed eighth in the 1600m at the NCHSAA 4A state outdoor track meet… Greater Metro 4A conference champion in the 4x800m, 1600m and 800m during the outdoor track season as a junior…Personal bests of 4:09.13 (1600m), 2:30.25 (1000m) and 1:54.5 (800m)…Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lake Norman with a weighted GPA of 4.625… Lake Norman High School Scholar Athlete of the Year, member of National Honor Society and an Eagle Scout. Personal: Born April 12, 2005...Son of Lee and Frances Dingman... One of four siblings...Brother, Jack, competes in cross country and track & field at Central Arkansas…Intending to major in Computer Systems Engineering.
Jan Duhovnik Multi-Events
6-4 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Ljubljana, Slovenia High School of Mechanical Engineering in Škofja Loka High School: Five-time Slovenian U20 Champion during his 12th grade season (long jump, shot put, decathlon)…Also the Slovenian U20 indoor champion in the long jump…Slovenian U18 long jump champion and U20 champion in shot put during junior year…Long jump champion in the 4 Cities Tournament during his 10th grade year as Ljubljana, Zagreb, Bratislava and Budapest all competed against each other…Personal best of 7,491 points (decathlon). Personal: Born March 19, 2003...Son of Primož Duhovnik and Ana Marija Brodnik Duhovnik...One of three siblings...Grandpa, Jože Brodnik, represented Yugoslavia in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, placing ninth in the decathlon…Brother, Maks, is a long jumper and sister, Pia, competes in track & field…Mother played basketball and track & field…Father competed in ice hockey, soccer and Nordic running…Intending to major in Exercise and Sport Science.
Mekhi Gammons Sprints
Logan Dingman Distance
6-1 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Mooresville, N.C. Lake Norman
2023: Cross Country – Made his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, posting a time of 15:43.42 to finish 34th. High School: Placed third in the 1000 meters at the NCHSAA 4A
6-1 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Miami, Fla. Turner Tech
High School: Attended William H. Turner Technical Arts High School but competed at Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School…Qualified for the FHSAA Class 2A state track meet during his final three seasons… Placed third in the 400-meter dash at the 2A state track meet as a senior…State runner-up in the 400m as a sophomore and junior… Named to the All-Dade track and field team all four years…Personal bests of 46.3 (400m) and 21.03 (200m)…Also played football at Hialeah-Miami Lakes.
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Cole Heron Distance
5-9 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) Marietta, Ga. Pope
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2023: Cross Country – Finished fifth in his season debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener with a time of 14:51.24…Earned his first collegiate victory at the 6k Gamecock Challenge with a time of prints 17:48.5…Was the second Bulldog across the finish line at the 8k Paul 6-0 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Short Run, placing 99th (25:03.60)…Placed second for the Bulldogs 20th overall at the 8k Crimson Classic, recording a personal-best Yallahs, St. Thomas, Jamaica and time of 24:30.0…Was team’s fifth scorer at the 8k SEC Championships, Wolmer Boys’ High School clocking a time of 25:17.4 to place 70th overall…Crossed the finish line third for the Bulldogs and 67th overall at the 10k NCAA South Regionals with a 31:01.9…Scored in all six meets on the season. High School: Silver medalist in the 200-meter dash at the Corporate Outdoor – Ran a season-best time of 9:08.58 in the 3000m steeplechase Area Championships as a senior…Earned a silver and bronze medal at the Raleigh Relays to take 31st…Placed eighth to score in the at the Corporate Area Championships as a junior…Silver medalist at steeplechase at the SEC Championships, clocking a time of 9:12.04. the ISSA Championships as a sophomore…Earned a silver medal at Indoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. the Corporate Area Championships as a freshman…Personal bests 2022: Cross Country - Did not compete for the Bulldogs. of 10.22 (100m) and 20.93 (200m)…Also played hockey and soccer in Outdoor – Finished 10th (8:57.38) in the 3000m at Tom Jones. high school…Key Club and Beach Clean Up member. Indoor - Did not compete for the Bulldogs. Personal: Born Jan. 12, 2003...Son of Natalie and Junior Gordon... 2021: Cross Country - Started his Bulldog career by finishing Intending to major in Kinesiology. 41st at the 6k Kennesaw State Opener…Completed the 8k North Alabama Showcase in 70th before scoring at the 8k Pre-Nationals with a 241st-place finish (25:21.6)…Rounded out his year at the 8k SEC Championships with a 102nd-place finish. Outdoor & Indoor – Redshirted for the Bulldogs. 2020: Cross Country - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. High School: Guided Pope to the GHSA 6A state cross country title as a junior by finishing 13th individually…Set school records in both the ossam atib 5k and the 3200 meters as a senior and was third overall at the state championships his final season…Also garnered his school’s Most prints Outstanding Runner honors…Took sixth in the 1600m at the state meet as a junior…Personal-best times of 1:59.02 (800m), 4:23 (1600m), 6-0 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) 9:20.79 (3200m) and 15:10 cross 5k…Helped lead team to three Marrakech, Morocco runner-up performances at the state cross country meet (freshman, sophomore, senior)…Earned varsity letters in both cross and track all Azzouzia/South Plains College four years…Also wrestled at Pope…Part of German Honors Society. Personal: Born Aug. 14, 2001…Son of Leslie Heron and Todd Heron… South Plains College (2022-23): Part of 4x400-meter relay team Brother, KC, is a twin and is also running for the Bulldogs…Majoring that won the title at the 2023 NJCAA Outdoor Championships with in Risk Management & Insurance. a 3:03.31…Won the 2023 NJCAA 600m championship after clocking a 1:17.69 and was a leg on the winning 4x400m relay (3:06.93)…Took third in the 400m (47.74) at the 2022 NJCAA outdoor meet while also running a leg on the winning 4x400m relay team…Finished fourth in the 600m with a 1:18.67 at the 2022 NJCAA Indoor Championships… Personal bests of 45.58 (400m), 20.88 (200m) and 1:16.23 (600m)… eron Won the 400m national championship as a senior while at Azzouzia… In addition to track and field, competed in free fighting (taekwondo istance and wrestling)…State champion in taekwondo as a freshman and sophomore and national champion in free fighting as a junior. 5-9 • Sr. (I)/Jr. (O) Personal: Born January 10, 2022…Son of Nour Eddine Hatib and Fatima Ennadiri…Intending to major in Sports Management. Marietta, Ga.
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Tabor…Four-year member of the Chess Club and National Honor Society…Part of Crosby Scholars. Personal: Born Jan. 24, 2005…Son of Teresa and Lucas Inman… Intending to major in Business.
John Jessup Distance
6-0 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Gainesville, Ga. Gainesville 2023: Cross Country – Made his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country opener, posting a time of 16:07.65. High School: Earned a podium spot at the GHSA 6A state cross country meet with a ninth-place finish as a senior…Helped Gainesville earn Hall County and Region 8 titles in his final season, placing first individually at both meets…Set a Gainesville High School 5k record of 15:40 as a senior…GHSA 6A state runner-up in the 1600 meters, placing third in the 800m in his fourth year…Helped Gainesville place eighth in the 4x800m relay, earning a podium spot as a senior…Set a school record of 4:17 in the 1600m in his fourth year…Named to Region 6-7A all-region first team in cross country as a junior, qualifying for the state meet…GHSA 7A state runner-up in the 800m during his third season, also qualifying for the state meet in the 800m and 4x800m relay.. Placed 15th in the 4x800m relay at the state track meet as a junior… Set two school records during his third year, running the 1600m in 4:22 and the 800m in 1:54…Named to Region 6-7A all-region second team in cross country as a sophomore…Finished on the podium at the GHSA 7A state track meet in his second season, placing eighth in the 4x800m relay…Also qualified for state in the 800m…Ran a leg on three school record-setting relays: the 4x1600m relay (18:45), distance medley relay (10:54) and 4x800m relay (8:01)…Helped Gainesville take the Region 8-6A title as a freshman, earning all-region first team honors…Qualified for the GHSA 6A state cross country meet in his first season…Freshman track season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic…Personal bests of 1:54.76 (800m), 4:17.99 (1600m) and 15:40.87 (5000m)…Eagle Scout and member of Youth Leadership Hall, Student-Athlete Leadership Team (SALT), and Beta Club. Personal: Born Dec. 18, 2004...Son of Randy and Amy Jessup... Both parents are UGA graduates, and brother, Ben, currently attends UGA…Intending to major in Marketing.
Wesley John
Conner Inman
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6-1 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Winston-Salem, N.C. Mount Tabor 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. High School: Varsity member of the cross country and track teams from freshman to senior year…Personal-best times of 4:17 (mile), 1:58.8 (800m) and 15:56 (5000m)…Also played soccer at Mount
5-11 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Watkinsville, Ga. Oconee 2023: Cross Country – Made his season debut at the 8k Paul Short Run with a time of 26:08.90…Posted a time of 25:06.1 to finish 66th at the 8k Crimson Classic…Ran a season-best 24:50.1 as Georgia’s second scorer at the 8k SEC Championships, finishing 50thoverall… Finished 76th overall at the 10k NCAA South Regionals, crossing the finish line in 31:15.6 to score.
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Outdoor – Posted a season-best time of 8:57.41 in the 3000m steeplechase, placing 17th at the Raleigh Relays and moving to fifth on the school’s all-time top-10 list…Placed eighth in the steeplechase at the Virginia Challenge with a time of 9:00.74…Medaled at the SEC Championships with a third-place finish and a time of 9:01.69…Won the 3000m steeplechase at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational, clocking a time of 9:09.79. Indoor – Ran a season-best mile time of 4:08.44 to place 16th in the prelims of the SEC Championships…Finished sixth at the Clemson Invite with a mile time of 4:09.76…Clocked a 3000-meter time of 8:26.18 at the SEC Championships to place 25th. 2022: Cross Country - Led the Bulldogs at the 5k Charlotte Opener after taking 21st (15:29.1)…Was the second Georgia runner across the line at the 8k North Alabama Invitational thanks to a 24:37.16 for 52nd place…Also finished second for the Bulldogs (94th overall) at the 8k Live In Lou Classic after completing his laps in 24:44.7…Sustained an injury that sidelined him the rest of the year. Outdoor – Finished third in the 1500 meters thanks to a 3:52.04 at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial...Ran the fastest 3000m steeplechase time of his career (9:02.24) to take fifth at the Florida Relays…Was 10th in the steeplechase at the SEC Championships thanks to his 9:10.15… Took 26th at SECs in the 5000m after completing his laps in 14:53.81. Indoor – Completed his 800 meter race in 1:53.91 to take 25th at the Music City Challenge…Finished the Music City mile in a season best 4:09.02…Had a season-best time of 8:20.54 in the 3000m at the Razorback Invite…Leg of school record distance medley relay after the Bulldog foursome clocked a 9:35.97 for fourth at the SEC Championships. 2021: Cross Country - Opened the year by leading his team at the 6k Kennesaw State Opener with a 14th-place (18:59.81) showing…Scored at the 8k North Alabama Showcase thanks to a 25:11.98 for 25th…Was in the Bulldogs’ top five at the 8k Pre-Nationals after registering a 24:55.9 for 195th...Managed to be the third Georgia runner across the line at the 8k SEC Championship thanks to his 24:55.8 for 46th…Made it five straight meets scoring with a 68th-place finish (31:43.84) at the 10k NCAA South Regional. Outdoor – Clocked a 1:54.87 to take 51st in the 800 meters at the Raleigh Relays…Finished 11th in the 1500m (3:54.40) at the Yellow Jacket Invitational…Took 16th in the 3000m steeplechase with a 9:20.22 at the SEC Championships while also taking 28th (15:17.36) in the 5000m. Indoor – Had a season-best time of 1:54.93 for 18th in the 800m at the Music City Challenge…Clocked a personal record (4:12.20) for 21st in the mile at the Music City Challenge…Had a season-best finish of 8:33.02 for 21st in the 3000m at the Razorback Invitational. 2020: Cross Country - Competed in a pair of meets for the Bulldogs, including placing 94th (26:37.2) at the 8k SEC Championships. Indoor – Ran a 4:12.61 to take 12th in the mile at the Razorback Invitational…Also had a pair of 4:14s at the distance…Posted a season-best 3000-meter time of 8:26.64 for 73rd at the Husky Classic…Was 35th (8:34.31) in the 3000m at the SEC Championships…Part of distance medley relay squad that was 11th at SECs with a 10:15.82. 2019: Cross Country - Ran at five meets during his first season, scoring at both the 8k SEC Championships and the 10k NCAA South Regional…Finished 69th at SECs with a 24:42.4 and took 101st (32:52.1) at the Regional. High School: 2018 Hoka One One Postal National Champion in the 3200 meters with a personal record time of 9:23.99...State champion in the 1600 meters (4:18.21) and third place in the 800 meters (1:55.65) as a senior in 2019...Followed up with third place and a new PR time of 1:54.11 at the 2019 Georgia HS Meet of Champions...As a junior, reached the state finals in the 800 and 1600 meters and placed second in the 1600 meters (4:20.12) at the Meet of Champions...Four-time Athens Area XC Champion and four-time region champion as well... Personal-best times of 1:54.11 (800 meters), 4:16.9 (one mile), 9:23.99 (3200 meters) and 15:44.93 (5k CC). Personal: Born Jan. 22, 2001...Son of Brian and Christa John, who both attended UGA...Aunt and uncles Chad and Karen Young and Brant and Holly Suddath also attended the university...Graduated with a degree in Sport Management from UGA in 2023...Seeking a master’s degree in Kinesiology...Recipient of the Hugh M. Tarbutton, Jr. Athletic Scholarship.
Chance Jones Mid-Distance
6-3 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Dacula, Ga. Dacula High School: Back-to-back state champion in the 800 meters, recording a time of 1:52.24 in the GHSA 7A state track meet as a senior and a time of 1:53.97 in the GHSA 6A state meet as a junior… Senior year highlights include an undefeated season in the 800m, capped with winning the 2023 Wingfoot Night of Champions 800m and earning a spot on the Atlanta Track Club’s 2023 All-Metro Track & Field team…Competed at Hopkinsville High School (Ky.) for his first two seasons…Four-time state qualifier in cross country and threetime qualifier in track and field…Did not compete in track and field as a freshman due to COVID-19…Personal best of 1:50 (800m). Personal: Born Feb. 9, 2005...Son of Sarah and David Jones (USARetired)...Oldest of four siblings...Intending to major in Business.
Luke Kalarickal Distance
5-11 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Braselton, Ga. Mill Creek 2023: Cross Country – Made his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, posting a time of 15:48.87 to finish 39th…Clocked a 19:20.2 time at the 6k Gamecock Challenge to finish 13th. High School: Finished first in the 3200 meters at Region in his final season…Won the region and county cross country titles as a senior… Voted to the All-Metro cross team in his fourth year…Was awarded the Mill Creek High School Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award…Helped lead team to the GHSA 7A cross country state title as a junior…All-Region and All-County as a junior and senior…Earned All-Region honors as a sophomore…Personal-best times of 4:21 (1600m), 9:24 (3200m) and 15:17 (5000m)…Also participated on the cross country mountain biking team…Part of National Honor Society and an Honor Graduate. Personal: Born Dec. 28, 2004…Son of John Kalarickal and Jennifer John…Majoring in Biology.
Sumner Kirsch Distance
5-8 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Atlanta, Ga. North Atlanta 2023: Cross Country – Clocked a time of 15:58.54 in his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener…Finished 14th at
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Alexander Kolesnikoff Throws
6-5 • Sr. (I)/Jr. (O) Strathfield, Australia Trinity Grammar School/Harvard
2023 Ivy League Indoor Shot Put Champion 2023 NCAA Indoor Second Team All-American (Shot Put) 2023 Ivy League Outdoor Shot Put Champion 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (Shot Put) 2023 CSC Academic All-District College: Harvard (2019-23) – 2020: Indoor - Started the season off with two first-place finishes in the shot put at the Crimson opener (17.50 meters/57 feet, 5 inches) and the Beantown Challenge (17.71m/58-1.25)...Collected three third-place finishes, throwing a distance of 17.53m/57-6.25 at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge... Notched a distance of 15.97m/52-4 in the weight throw at the Crimson Elite. Outdoor - Did not compete due to the Ivy League and Harvard cancelling the spring season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021: Indoor & Outdoor – Redshirted for Harvard. 2022: Indoor - Won the BU Battle in Beantown by recording a then career best in shot put with a distance of 19.05m/62-6… Placed second in shot put at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championship with a distance of 18.49m/60-8. Outdoor- Placed first and recorded a career best at the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational in shot put (19.19m/62-11.50)… Notched another career best in discus toss at the Harvard/Yale Match with a distance of 52.01m/170-7… Placed seventh at the Ivy League Outdoor Championship while notching another career best in discus throw with a distance of 51.74m/169-9… Placed thirteenth in shot put at the NCAA East Preliminary Round (18.78m/61-7.50). 2023: Indoor – Finished 12th in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor Championships after launching his opening mark 19.46m/63-10.25… Won the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships after topping off at 19.58m/64-3 on his sixth and final attempt…Won the H-Y-P event with a mark of 19.83m/65-0.75 in the shot…Finished first in the shot at the BU Battle in Beantown with a mark of 19.56m/64-2.25… Took fourth (19.21m/63-0.25) at the Tiger Paw Invite Outdoor – His PR of 20.69m/67-10.75 that came at the Harvard/ Yale meet put him fourth on the 2023 national list…Took ninth in the shot at the NCAA Outdoor Championships thanks to a fifth try of 19.88m/65-2.75…Clinched his spot in Nationals by winning the NCAA East Prelims after his top effort measured 20.36m/66-9.75… Grabbed gold in the shot at the Ivy League Outdoor Championships (19.92m/65-4.25)…Finished with fourth-place honors at the Penn Relays after his top effort travelled 19.85m/65-1.50…Won the LSU Alumni Gold meet with an attempt of 19.81m/65-0…Finished first in the Invite portion of the Florida Relays after completing his series with a mark of 20.05m/65-9.50…Also was the winner at the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational with a mark of 19.02m/62-5. High School: Also played cricket, tennis and Rugby Union growing up. Personal: Born Sept. 30, 2000…Son of Vasili Kolesnikoff and Nikki Kirkman…Graduated with a degree in Economics from Harvard in 2023…Seeking a Master of Accounting at UGA.
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Sprints/Jumps 5-9 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Harvest, Ala. Montverde Academy - Orlando, Fla.
5-10 • -- (I)/Sr. (O) West Pittston, Pa. Wyoming Area/Penn
High School: Earned the U.S. No. 2 high school ranking in the 60-meter dash as a senior…Milesplit’s No. 4 ranked track and field recruit as a senior…Injured and missed his final outdoor season…Personal-best marks of 7.91 meters/25 feet, 11 ½ inches (long jump), 6.63 (60m) and 10.16 (+2.9 meter/second) and wind-legal 10.27 (100m)…Milesplit’s No. 1 ranked track and field recruit for the 2023 class as a junior…Topranked long jumper and second-ranked 100m runner in his third year… Florida Gatorade Track & Field Player of the Year, Florida Dairy Farmer Mr. Track & Field and Milesplit Florida Boys Track & Field Player of the Year as a junior…No. 1 U.S. high school sophomore long jumper… Also played football at Rolesville High School (N.C.) where he was the Offensive MVP in his second year. Personal: Born Sept. 20, 2004…Son of Sharla Goins and Jayson Larry…Intending to major in Real Estate/Finance...Recipient of the Spec Towns Men’s Track Scholarship.
2022 NCAA Outdoor Champion (Javelin) 2022 Mid-Atlantic Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year 2019, 2022 Ivy League Outdoor Javelin Champion 2022-23 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (Javelin) 2023 SEC Outdoor Javelin Champion
Jordan McKenzie Sprints
6-1 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Ajax, Ontario Pickering/LIU 2023 NEC Outdoor 200m Champion Long Island University (2019-23): Won the 200-meter dash (21.14) at the 2023 NEC Track and Field Championships and was second in the 100m (personal best 10.47)…Won the Athletics Ontario Championships with a personal best 20.79 in the 200m…Matched his PR in the 100m (10.47) and was sixth in the 200m (20.91) at the 2023 Canadian National Championships…Two-time NEC Track Athlete of the Week…Named to NEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll – Spring 2023… Graduated with a degree in Computer Science…Pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science. High School: Finished second in the 200m at the 2019 OFSSA Championships with a 21.65…Named 2019 High School Athlete of the Year and Male Track and Field Athlete of the Year…Also played basketball at Pickering…Club teammate of current Bulldog Christopher Morales Williams. Personal: Born February 9, 2001…Son of Nigelee Burnett and Dwight McKenzie.
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2023: Outdoor – Placed first in the javelin in five of eight meets on the season…Placed first at the Mt. SAC Relays with a season-best mark of 80.62 meters/264 feet, 6 inches, which stands second in school history… Finished fourth at the NCAA Championships with a mark of 77.27m/253-6….Victorious in a come from behind performance at the SEC Championships with a mark of 79.50m/260-10, going on to place third at the NCAA East Prelims with a throw of 74.74m/245-2. Indoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. College – University of Pennsylvania (2019-22): Captured 2022 NCAA javelin championship…Finished third in the javelin at the 2022 USATF Championships…Finished fourth at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials…Finished first at the 2019 U.S. Under-20 Championships…Member of the 2019 U-20 Junior Pan-American Games…Honorable Mention All-American in 2019…Won 2019 and 2022 Ivy League titles…2022 team captain who won the Penn Relays and NCAA East Prelims…Also won the 2022 Raleigh Relays and Penn Challenge…Named a 2019 and 2022 Academic All-American…2022 USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year…Named 2022 Quaker of the Year for being elected by his peers…Penn and Ivy League record holder in the javelin…Personal best 81.17 meters (266 feet, 4 inches)…Coached by Jeff Pflaumbaum and Fletcher Brooks at Penn…Finished undergraduate studies at the Wharton School of Business, earning a Bachelor of Science degree with dual concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Real Estate…Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 3.72 GPA…Part of Penn Friars Senior Society, Sigma Chi fraternity and Newman Center…Councilor for Camp Kesem…Seeking a Master’s degree in the study of Law from UGA. High School: Pennsylvania high school state champion in the javelin as a senior…All-Conference his final three seasons…Also played football and baseball in high school…Earned All-Conference honors in football as a senior…Named Freshman MVP in baseball…Graduated fourth in his class and was class vice president…Summa Cum Laude graduate who was member of the National Honor Society with a 4.0 GPA and member of the Student Council and Executive Board. Personal: Born June 4, 2000…Son of Paula Minichello and the late Marc Minichello…Sister, Antonia, plays field hockey for Villanova University. Seeking a master’s degree in Law...Recipient of the John H. Crawford III Men’s Track and Field Scholarship.
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5-11 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Woodstock, Ga. Etowah 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. High School: Competed in cross country, track and soccer for Etowah…County and region cross country champion as a senior, going on to finish runner-up at the GHSA 6A state cross country meet…Earned country and region titles in cross country as a junior… Won the county and region championships in the 3200 meters during his third season, adding a region title in the 1600m…Placed third at the GHSA 7A state track meet in the 1600m and 3200m in his third year…As a sophomore, won county championships in the 1600m and 3200m…Personal bests of 4:12.3 (mile), 9:16.02 (3200m) and 15:16 (5000m)…Earned EHS Lamp of Knowledge and graduated with honors. Personal: Born Aug. 19, 2004...Son of Art and Laurie Moore, who both attended the University of Georgia...Intending to major in Management Information Systems.
the No. 3 time in UGA history (3:03.10). High School: Under-20 World Championships bronze medalist and national record holder in 4x400-meter relay…Finished ninth in the 400m at the U-20 World Championships…Earned a gold medal in the 400m and bronze in the 200m at the U-20 Canadian National Championships…Was OFSAA champion in both the 200m and 400m…Broke the 12th grade 200m OFSAA record…Named U-20 Male Athlete of the Year in Ontario…Claimed the U-18 Ontario titles in the 200m, 400m and 4x400m relay as a junior…Named to the All-Ontarian Team as a sophomore and junior…Captured 200m and 400m OFSAA titles as a freshman…Set 9th grade OFSAA 400m record in his first year…Captured U-16 Ontario titles in the 200m, 300m and 4x100m relay as a freshman…Personal bests of 46.27 (400m), 21.03 (200m) and wind-aided 20.98 (200m)…Earned RAP certificate and was on the Honor Roll from 10th to 12th grade. Personal: Born Aug. 5, 2004…Son of Raul Morales and Tania Morales Williams…Brother Nicolas, attended the Academy of Arts University (San Francisco, Cali.) and sister, Alexandra, attended Nippising University (Ontario)…Majoring in Ecology...Recipient of the William Jay MacKenna Athletic Scholarship.
Ethan Nordman Distance
6-0 • So. (I)/So. (O) Hoschton, Ga. Mill Creek
Christopher Morales Williams Sprints
5-10 • So. (I)/So. (O) Vaughan, Ontario St. Elizabeth 2023 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (4x400m Relay) 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (4x400m Relay) 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (4x100m Relay) 2023: Outdoor – Placed 11th in the 400m dash prelims at the SEC Championships, running a season-best time of 45.87 that stand seventh on Georgia’s all-time top-10 list…Ran a 400m time of 46.31 in the first round of the NCAA East Prelims to place 13th, adding a time of 47.23 in the qualifying round to finish 17th…Ran his best 200m dash of the season at the SEC Championships, crossing the finish line in 20.98 to place 16th in the prelims…Ran a leg on the 4x400m relay team that won at the NCAA East Prelims with a time of 3:04.71, qualifying for the championship meet…Helped the 4x400m relay team place seventh at the NCAA Championships with a time of 3:03.22 after qualifying for the finals with a prelims time of 3:01.51…Ran the third leg on the 4x100m relay team that posted a time of 38.62 at the NCAA Championships, finishing seventh in the prelims and moving to second in the school record books… Part of 4x400m relay team that earned bronze medal honors at the SEC Championships thanks to a time of 2:59.63 that ranks second in school history and was the No. 15 all-time collegiate performance… Also ran legs on the 4x400m relay teams that won at the Mt. SAC Relays and LSU Invite. Indoor – Clocked a time of 33:23 in the 300-meter dash at the Clemson Invite to finish sixth in the event…Ran a season-best 47.42 to place sixth in the 400m at the Texas Tech Open…Added an 11thplace finish at the MLK Invite with a 47.56…Posted a 400m time of 47.90 at the SEC Championships…Ran the third leg on the 4x400m relay team that won the Tiger Paw Invite with a 3:02.90, the secondfastest time in school history…Ran the second leg on the 4x400m relay team that finished runner-up at the NCAA Championships with
2023: Cross Country – Opened his season with a 15:15.01 time at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, placing 16th…Finished fifth and scored at the 5k Gamecock Challenge, clocking a time of 18:07.7…Placed 164th with a 25:28.60 time at the 8k Paul Short Run… Ran a 25:36.8 at the 8k Crimson Classic to finish 94th…Clocked a 25:51.8 at the 8k SEC Championships to place 91stoverall. Outdoor – Finished fourth in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 9:40.17… Posted a time of 4:02.21 in the 1500m at the GT Invite for 53rd. Indoor – Clocked a time of 8:37.74 to finish 22nd in the 3000-meters at the Clemson Invite. 2022: Cross Country – Made his collegiate debut by scoring at the 5k Charlotte Opener, clocking a 16;23.4 for 43rd place…Returned to the scoring group at the 8k Live In Lou Classic after completing the course in 25:12.0 for 153rd…Completed his season by running for the Bulldogs at the 8k SEC Championships (91st – 26:16.10). High School: Captain for track and cross country teams as a senior…Named to All-Metro Cross Country Team as a senior…Helped guide cross team to an undefeated season and the 2021 GHSA 7A state title after taking third individually…Anchored the fourth fastest 4x1600-meter relay in Georgia high school history…Ran a leg on school record 4x800m and 4x1600m relays and DMR in his final season…Was All-Country/All-Region for second year in a row… Won Region 8 in cross during final year…Named Most Outstanding Athlete at Mill Creek final year…State track qualifier in the 800m and 1600m and All-County as a senior…Earned MVP honors in cross country as a junior…Won Region 8 cross meet and was All-County and All-Region in his third year…Named Gwinnett Runner of the Week twice…State track qualifier in the 1600m and 3200m after winning the 1600m and taking second in the 3200m at the region meet in his third year…Cross country and track team captain while setting school records in the 5k and 4x800m as a junior…Qualified for state cross country meet as a sophomore after earning All-County Honorable Mention honors…Earned All-America honors in USA Triathlon as a freshman and sophomore and qualified for the National Championship...Part of USA Junior Elite Training Camp at Olympic
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the indoor school record in the 3200m during his third season…Qualified for the state track meet as a member of the 4x800m relay team… Personal bests of 4:13 (1600m), 9:18 (3200m) and 15:18 (5000m). Personal: Born March 20, 2005...Son of Shruti and Manish Patel... Parents both attended the University of Georgia...Intending to major in Computer Science.
Davis Potts Distance
6-0 • So. (I)/RSo. (O) Watkinsville, Ga. North Oconee
Ryan Olree Distance
6-1 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Denver, Colo. Denver South 2023: Cross Country – Made his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, clocking a time of 15:07.11 to place 11th…Was the top freshman across the finish line at the 6k Gamecock Challenge, earning SEC Freshman of the Week honors after placing sixth and scoring with a time of 18:10.5…Posted a time of 25:40.10 at the 8k Paul Short Run to finish 197th…Ran a time of 24:52.1 at the 8k Crimson Classic, finishing 42nd…Finished 85th at the 8k SEC Championships with a 25:38.1. High School: Competed in track, cross country and soccer at Denver South High School…Named to the Colorado 5A All-State First Team in cross country as a senior…Earned RunningLane First-Team AllAmerica honors after placing seventh at the Garmin RunningLane Cross Country Championships in his final season…Varsity track athlete for final three years at Denver South…Competed on the varsity cross country team as a junior and senior…Personal bests of 15:09 (5000 meters) and 4:21 (1600m)…Student senator. Personal: Born July 26, 2005...Son of Michele and Andrew Olree... One of five siblings...Intending to major in Marketing.
Kushan Patel Distance
5-9 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Duluth, Ga. Lambert
2023: Cross Country – Made his season debut at the 6k Gamecock Challenge, clocking a time of 18:24.9 to finish ninth…Ran a time of 25:53.6 at the 8k Crimson Classic. Outdoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. Indoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. 2022: Cross Country – Ran in five meets for the Bulldogs, including his season debut at the 8k North Alabama Invitational where he scored taking 90th (25:04.11)…Scored at the 8k Live In Lou Classic thanks to a 24:53.7 for 109th place…Was the second Georgia runner across the line at the 8k Crimson Classic (30th – 24:55.0)…Was in the Bulldogs’ top five at the 8k SEC Championships after running a 24:39.40 for 46th…Scored for UGA at the 10k NCAA South Regional with a 31:02.40 for 48th. Outdoor – Finished seventh in the 1500 meters (3:54.24) at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial…Ran an 8:35.83 to take seventh in the 3000m at the Tom Jones Memorial…Posted his top 5000m time of his season at the Georgia Tech Invitational with a 14:47.97. Indoor - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. 2021: Cross Country - Began his Bulldog career by scoring at the 8k North Alabama Showcase with a time of 25:47.82 for 47th… Was 275th at the 8k Pre-Nationals…Just missed scoring at the 8k SEC Championships after taking 85th (25:55.7) at the 8k SEC Championships…Completed his season by scoring at the 10k NCAA South Regional with a 32:53.60 for 110th. High School: Won the 2020 GHSA AAAA state cross country title and battled for a third-place finish at the 2021 state track meet in the 3200 meters (personal best 9:31)…Captured the Region 8 cross country title and followed that up with a fifth place finish at the 2019 state cross meet…Finished fifth at the 2018 state cross country meet and then was third in the 3200m (9:40) at the 2019 state track meet as a sophomore…Personal-best time of 15:43 (5k)…Summa Cum Laude graduate…Beta Club member. Personal: Born July 4, 2002…Son of Troy Potts and Melissa LandersPotts…Parents and brother, Anthony, all attended UGA…Mother, Melissa, ran cross country and track for Carleton College before transferring to UGA and is now an athlete for the SPARC Elite Team… Majoring in International Affairs with a certificate in Sustainability.
2023: Cross Country – Placed 15th in his first collegiate race, posting a time of 15:11.75 at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener…Ran a time of 25:34.30 at the 8k Paul Short Run to place 177th…Clocked a time of 25:10.7 at the 8k Crimson Classic, finishing 71st. High School: Helped Lambert place third at the GHSA 7A state cross country meet as a senior…Regional runner-up and cross country school record holder during his final season…Ran a leg of a school record-setting 4x800-meter relay during his fourth year…State runnerup in the 3200m and 4x800m relay at the GHSA 7A meet as a senior… Added a third-place finish in the 1600m at the state track meet in his last season…Qualified for the state cross country meet as a junior…Set
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High School: Competed in track & field and basketball in high school…Set a Georgia state high jump record with a mark of 2.22 meters/7 feet, 3 ¾ inches to take the crown at the GHSA 6A state meet as a senior…Went on to earn the high jump title at the Nike Outdoor Nationals in his final year…Secured Region 2 titles in the high jump and triple jump to help Brunswick win the region title in his final season…Won the state title in the high jump as a junior… Finished third in the high jump at the state track & field meet as a sophomore…Personal best of 2.22m/7-3.75 (high jump). Personal: Born March 16, 2005...Son of Tironza Holsey...One of three siblings...Intending to major in Accounting.
nior years…Had top career finish of fifth at the state cross meet as a senior…Personal-best times of 9:30 (3200 meters), 4:27 (1600m) and 15:23 (5k)…Set a school record in the 5k in his final fall and was the team’s captain…Earned a spot on the Powerade All-Metro Second Team and was awarded the Westminster Cross Country Victory Award in his fourth season…Also named Track and Field Most Outstanding Runner…Four-year cross and track letter winner…After finishing sixth at the state cross meet, he took third in the 3200m at the state track meet as a junior…Named to Powerade All-Metro Third Team and earned Westminster Cross Country Coaches Award as a junior…Part of school record-breaking 4x1600m relay squad…Secured runner-up honors in the 3200m at the state meet as a sophomore…Finished seventh individually at the state cross meet in his second season…Earned Cross Country Personal Achievement Award as a sophomore…Received the Mac Shreve Memorial Award and Christian Leadership Award…Member of National Honor Society and Christian Leadership Council. Personal: Born Sept. 20, 2001…Son of David Roe and Charity Roe… Mother ran cross country and track at Samford…Majoring in Biology... Recipient of the Ramsey Scholarship for Academic and Athletic Excellence.
Zachary Roe
Alon Rogow
Riyon Rankin Jumps
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6-1 • So. (I)/So. (O) Dunwoody, Ga. Dunwoody
2023: Cross Country – Was the second Georgia runner across the line at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, finishing fourth with a time of 14:49.84…Runner-up at the 6k Gamecock Challenge with a time of 17:57.3…Was the fifth Bulldog scorer at the 8k Paul Short Run with a time of 25:21.60 (164th)…Crossed the finish line fourth for Georgia at the 8k Crimson Classic, finishing 34thwith a 24:44.7…Finished 63rd overall as the team’s No. 2 scorer at the 10k NCAA South Regionals, posting a time of 30:53.9. Outdoor – Placed 10th in the 1500m at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational, clocking a time of 3:54.93…Posted his best 5000m time of the season at the Raleigh Relays, crossing the finish line in 14:39.68. Indoor – Finished ninth in the 3000-meters at the Clemson Invite with a time of 8:21.71. 2022: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. Outdoor - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. Indoor – Had a season-best time of 8:20.17 in the 3000m for sixth place at the Music City Challenge…Finished 32nd (8:26.94) in the 3000m at the SEC Championships…Was 15th at SECs in the 5000m (14:38.61). 2021: Cross Country - Was the second Bulldog finisher in his first cross meet, taking 17th (19:04.52) at the 6k Kennesaw State Opener… Scored at the 8k North Alabama Showcase with a 31st-place finish (25:21.10)…Finished 168th at the 8k Pre-Nationals…Was a scorer at the 8k SEC Championships after taking 76th (25:39.3). Outdoor – Won the 5000 meters with a 14:52.93 at the Yellow Jacket Invitational…Took 10th in the 1500m (3:56.97) at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial. Indoor – Finished 13th (4:18.16) in the mile at the Carolina Challenge… Was 19th in the 3000m at the Razorback Invitational after clocking an 8:24.73…Ran his fastest 5000m (14:42.70) for 18th-place honors at the SEC Championships…Won the USC Indoor Open thanks to his 5000m time of 14:51.73. 2020: Cross Country - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. High School: After running on the second-place cross country team at the GHSA AAA state meet as a freshman, went on to help Westminster win three straight team titles between his sophomore and se-
2023: Outdoor – Reached a season-best mark of 4.85 meters/15 feet, 11 inches in the pole vault three times…Placed 14th at the SEC Championships, was runner-up at the GT Invite and took seventh at the LSU Invite with those matching marks. Indoor – Cleared a season-best height of 5.22 meters/17 feet, 1.50 inches to finish fifth in the pole vault at the Tiger Paw Invite…That mark ranks seventh all-time in Georgia history…Victorious in the B section of the pole vault at the Texas Tech Open, clearing a height of 5.09m/16-8.25…Placed 10th at the SEC Championships with a 5.05m/16-6.75. High School: Adidas Nationals runner-up in his final season in the pole vault…Won the 2022 GHSA 7A pole vault state title as a senior… Won gold at the Meet of Champions as a senior…Garnered a bronze medal in the vault at the Texas Expo in his final year…Competed at the Milrose Games as a senior…Named a captain as a junior and senior and was MVP those years…Earned a bronze medal at the Meet of Champions in his third year…Was the runner-up in the vault at the USATF Junior Olympics…Won the USATF Youth National title as a junior…Qualified for New Balance Indoor Nationals as a sophomore…Set school vault records all four years…Ran cross country as a freshman and earned Coaches Award…Personal bests of 5.05 meters/16 feet, 6 ¾ inches in the vault indoors and 5.07m/167.50 outdoors…Member of National Honor Society and Dunwoody Athletic Honor Society…Principal’s List member and graduated in top 10 percent of the class…Governor’s Honors Program honoree. Personal: Born Sept. 20, 2003…Son of Alex and Karen Rogow… Intending to major in Sport Management.
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6-0 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Blacksburg, Va. Blacksburg 2023: Cross Country – Finished 17th in his collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, crossing the line at 15:16.94… Scored for the first time in his collegiate career at the 8k Crimson Classic, running a 24:48.5 to place 38th…Was the third Bulldog across the finish line at the 8k SEC Championships with a time of 24:59.2 (56th)…Placed 90th at the 10k NCAA South Regionals with a time of 31:40.2. High School: Named Virginia Gatorade Cross Country Player of the Year, Blacksburg High School Male Athlete of the Year and BHS Team MVP as a senior…Won the VHSL Class 4 individual state championship in cross country to help his team secure the team title in his final year…Earned all-region honors after securing the VHSL Region 4D title, setting a course record at the Blacksburg High School course in his fourth season…Won the Knights Crossing Invitational as a senior, setting meet and Green Hill Park course records…Nike Southeast Regional Champion and Nike Cross Nationals qualifier in his final season…Named Blacksburg Indoor Track Team MVP as a senior…Earned all-state honors in indoor track, securing the VHSL Class 4 state title in the 1600 meters and placing third in the 3200m…Ran a leg on the state championship-winning 4x800m relay team, helping Blacksburg secure the team state title as a senior… Earned region titles in the 3200m and the 1600m to earn all-region honors in his final season…Helped Blacksburg to the Region D team championship in the 1600m…His performance at regionals secured him all-region honors…Won the two-mile run at the Virginia showcase, finishing runner-up in the mile as a senior…Team MVP during his senior outdoor track season, earning all-state and allregion honors…Set the state meet and venue record in the 3200m to earn the Class 4 state title in his final year, also running a leg on the 4x800m relay state championship team…Helped Blacksburg to the outdoor track Region D title with his 1600m and 3200m titlewinning performances in his fourth season…Named team MVP following the cross country and indoor and outdoor track seasons as a junior…Earned all-region and all-state honors in his third season, securing individual titles at both meets…Ranked sixth nationally in the indoor 1000m and ninth in the indoor 3200m as a junior… Earned all-state honors for his seventh place performance in the 1600m at the VHSL Class 4 state indoor track meet…Also ran a leg on the 4x800m relay team that finished fifth at the state meet during his third year…Placed third in the 1600m at the Region D indoor track meet to secure all-region honors as a junior…Ran a leg on the 4x400m relay team at regionals, helping Blacksburg finish third… Adidas National All-American in the 4x800m and mixed 4x400m relays as a junior…Region and state champion in the 1600m during the outdoor track season during his third year…Ran two relays at the Class 4 state outdoor track meet as a junior, placing third in the 4x800m and fourth in the 4x400m relay…Helped Blacksburg finish third regionally in the 4x400m relay earlier that season…Finished sixth at the Region D cross country meet as a sophomore, taking home all-region honors…Went on to place 26th at the Class 4 state cross country meet…Earned all-state honors during the indoor track season for his seventh place performance in the 1600m…Took home Region D title in the 1600m to earn all-region recognition… Qualified for the VHSL Class 4 state outdoor track meet in the 1600m and 3200m as a sophomore, placing seventh in the 1600m to secure all-state honors…Named all-region after finishing third in the 1600m and fourth in the 3200m as a sophomore…Ran on the varsity cross country team as a freshman…Personal bests of 2:28 (1000m), 4:11 (mile), 9:02 (3200m) and 14:59 (5000m)…Also played varsity lacrosse as a freshman…Virginia Key Club Lieutenant Governor…Member of National Honor Society and National Sign Language Honor Society… Graduated from Blacksburg as a Distinguished Scholar…Blacksburg
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youth track coach, High Performance Distance Academy Counselor and member of Young Life. Personal: Born Feb. 13, 2005...Son of Tracy and Brian Rutherford... Has one sister, Ashley, who plays volleyball at Bridgewater College... Intending to major in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management.
Diego SantiagoCardona Distance
5-10 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Johns Creek, Ga. Chattahoochee
2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. High School: Set Chattahoochee High School record in the 4x800meter relay, 1600m and 5000m as a senior…Named to All-Metro First Team in cross country by the Atlanta Track Club during his senior season, also winning the GHSA 5A individual state championship… Medaled in three events at the state track meet, winning the title in the 3200m and finishing runner-up in the 4x800m relay and 1600m… Personal bests of 4:17.99 (1600m), 9:23.19 (3200m) and 15:05.75 (5000m). Personal: Born Jan. 18, 2005...Son of Luis Santiago and Lorna Cardona...Intending to major in Exercise and Sport Science.
Zack Truitt
Mid-Distance 5-10 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) Peachtree City, Ga. Landmark Christian/Georgia Tech 2023: Cross Country – Clocked a time of 15:24.48 at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener to place 23rd…Placed eighth overall at the 6k Gamecock Challenge with a time of 18:19.7…Finished 201st at the 8k Paul Short Run with a 25:41.10…Placed 67th at the 8k Crimson Classic with a time of 25:08.5…Scored for the first time in his collegiate career at the SEC Championships with a 25:05.0 to finish 63rd. Outdoor – Earned a runner-up finish in the 1500 meters at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a season-best time of 3:46.09…Placed 19th in the 1500m prelims at the SEC Championships, clocking a time of 3:49.59…Recorded an 800m time of 1:51.42 to finish fourth at the LSU Invite. Indoor – Placed third in the 800-meters and 11th in the 1000m at the Clemson Invite, clocking respective times of 1:53.51 and 2:29.32…Finished eighth in the 600m at the MLK Invite with a time of 1:20.40. Georgia Tech (2021-22): Anchor of distance medley relay team that finished sixth at the 2022 ACC Indoor Championships. High School: Captured the 2020 Private 1-A state cross country title as a senior…Won titles in the 800 meters, 1600m and 4x400m relay and was third in the 400m in his final year as Landmark won the state team championship…McEachern facility record holder with a 4:06 in the 1600m as a senior…Clocked the fifth-fastest 1600m time ever in the state of Georgia…Brooks PR and Adidas Dream qualifier…Won
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the 1600m award and named to Atlanta Track Club All-Metro Team as a senior…Finished second at the state cross country meet as a junior (no track season because of COVID)…Earned 1600m state title (4:18) and was runner-up honors in the 3200m as a sophomore en route to his team winning the state crown…Third at both the state cross country meet and Georgia Meet of Champions in the 1600m (4:15)… Started his career by winning the 3200m state championship (9:31) and taking third at the state cross country meet as a freshman… Personal bests of 1:52.62 (800m) and 4:06.69 (1600m)…Coached by his sister Brittany at Landmark Christian…Member of Beta Club and an Engineering and Graphic Design student with a 3.93 GPA (weighted 4.12). Personal: Born Sept. 22, 2002…Son of Greg and Deana Truitt… Youngest of four siblings, including Brittany who competed for North Georgia’s track and cross country teams…Intending to major in Business.
Nikolai van Huyssteen Pole Vault
6-1 • Jr. (I)/So. (O) Paarl, South Africa Paarl Gimnasium 2023: Outdoor – Victorious in the pole vault at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a season-best mark of 5.30 meters/17 feet, 4 ½ inches (No. 7 in UGA history), adding another win at the LSU Invite (5.15m/16-10)…Placed 10th at the SEC Championships with a mark of 5.00m/16-4.75…Advanced to the NCAA East Prelims, placing 24th with a mark of 5.05m/16-6.75. Indoor – Competed in the pole vault five times, earning top-five finishes at every meet…Cleared a season-best height of 5.30 meters/17 feet, 4.50 inches twice in the pole vault, finishing as runner-up at the MLK Invite and fifth at the SEC Championships… That mark is the fifth-best in Georgia history…Placed third at the Texas Tech Open with a mark of 5.24m/17-2.25. 2022: Outdoor - Redshirted for the Bulldogs. Indoor – Surged to No. 6 on UGA’s all-time top-10 list after clearing 5.20 meters/17 feet ¾ inches to win the pole vault at the Tiger Paw Invite…Scored at the SEC Championships with an eighth-place finish (5.15m/16-10.75)…Won the Samford Invite in the pole vault with a 5.07m/16-7.50 clearance. High School: Qualified for the 2021 World Junior Championships in Nairobi, Kenya…Ranked seventh by World Athletics as the top U-20 vaulter worldwide…Broke the South African pole vault record twice…Took silver at the South African National Championships in his third year…Vaulted the highest of any South African pole vaulter in 2019 with a mark of 5.32 meters (17 feet, 5 ½ inches)…Captured the South African U-18 title in his second year of high school…Won the South African U-15 pole vault championship and set record his first year…Personal-best mark of 5.41m (17-9)…Also played rugby growing up…Achieved the Merit List for Academics in 2019. Personal: Born August 7, 2002…Son of Pierre van Huyssteen and Jana van Huyssteen…Intending to major in Civil Engineering.
Jake Westing Distance
6-1 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Decatur, Ga. Decatur 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. High School: Finished second in the GHSA 5A state championship cross country meet, helping Decatur secure the 5A state championship as a senior…Decatur won three state cross country titles in Westing’s four years on the team…Named to All-Metro Second Team in cross country during his fourth year…Sectional champion in the 1600 meters as a senior…Earned individual All-State cross country honors after helping Decatur become 5A state champions in his third year… Two-time All-State selection in track as a junior…Region 5 and DCSD County Champion in the 800m, adding region and county runner-up efforts in the 1600m in his third season…Earned individual all-region cross country honors as Decatur finished second in the 5A state championship as a sophomore…Named individual All-County in track in his second year…Earned individual All-Region honors as a freshman, helping Decatur win the 5A state cross country championship… Personal bests of 1:56.47 (800m), 4:18 (1600m) and 15:51 (5000m)… Member of National Honor Society…Graduated from Decatur with a 4.4 weighted GPA. Personal: Born Oct. 26, 2004...Son of Dirk and Ellen Westing...Mother, Ellen, swam at Bradley University…One of three siblings...Intending
Zavien Wolfe Jumps
6-2 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Memphis, Tenn. Central High School: TSSAA 3A state champion in the long jump as a senior… Set the No. 3 triple jump and No. 7 long jump marks nationally during his senior indoor track and field season…Added the No. 4 triple jump and No. 12 long jump nationally during his senior outdoor season… No. 1 combined horizontal jumper during his senior indoor season and No. 2 combined horizontal jumper during the outdoor season… Set the Tennessee state triple jump record as a senior…Also posted Tennessee’s all-time No. 2 long jump in his final season…Won individual state championships in the long jump and triple jump to lead Central High School to the TSSAA 3A state title as a junior…Also finished runner-up in the decathlon as a junior…Triple jump national champion as a junior…Personal bests of 15.43 meters/50 feet, 8 ½ inches (triple jump) and 7.52m/24-8.25 (long jump)…Also played basketball for Central…Named to Central High School honor roll. Personal: Born Nov. 5, 2004...Son of Tracy and Walter Wolfe...One of three siblings...Intending to major in Sport Management.
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L a d y B u l l d o g s Name Ht. Yr. (I/O) Event Hometown (High School /Prev. College) Leah Anderson 5-8 So./So. Multi-Events Dallas, Texas (Midlothian Heritage) Samantha Aromin 5-0 Jr./RSo. Distance Marietta, Ga. (Lassiter/Penn State Harrisburg) Charlotte Augenstein 5-5 Jr./Sr. Distance Albany, Ga. (Deerfield-Windsor) Sydney Augmon 5-8 Fr./Fr. Distance Suwanee, Ga. (Peachtree Ridge) Sophia Baker 5-4 Jr./Jr. Distance Cumming, Ga. (South Forsyth) Bella Brick 5-9 Fr./Fr. Distance Flowery Branch, Ga. (Flowery Branch) Aaliyah Butler 5-4 So./So. Sprints Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Miami Northwestern) Bella Cammarota 5-8 Fr./Fr Distance Cumming, Ga. (Lambert) Lily Cincola 5-7 So./So. Distance Canton, Ga. (Cherokee) Ribeirao das Neves, Brazil (Escola Estadual Presidente) Ana da Silva 5-9 Sr./Sr. Throws Daszay Freeman 5-7 Sr./Sr. Sprints/Hurdles Mandeville, Jamaica (Manchester/Arkansas) Eddiyah Frye 5-5 Jr./RSo. Sprints/Hurdles Miami Gardens, Fla. (St. Thomas Aquinas) Isabelle Gaharan 5-2 Fr./Fr. Distance Duluth, Ga. (Lambert) Kieley Gayle 5-5 Jr./Jr. Mid-Distance Atlanta, Ga. (Westlake/South Carolina) Lorel Golden 5-4 RFr./So. Distance Marietta, Ga. (Pope) *Kimberly Harris 5-6 Sr./Sr. Sprints Buford, Ga. (Buford) Sydney Harris 5-6 Fr./Fr. Sprints Buford, Ga. (Buford) Atlanta, Ga. (Riverwood International Charter School) Alexa Hoppenfeld 5-1 Fr./Fr. Distance Kaila Jackson 5-2 So./So. Sprints Redford, Mich. (Renaissance) Ella Kepple 5-8 Fr./Fr. Distance Asheville, N.C. (AC Reynolds) Audrey Knoper 5-5 So./So. Distance Thorntown, Ind. (Western Boone) Elena Kulichenko 5-10 Jr./Jr. High Jump Odintsovo, Russia (OLG School) Katherine Law 5-6 So./RFr. Distance Jefferson, Ga. (Jefferson) *Erin McMeniman 5-8 --/^Jr. Javelin Dracut, Mass. (Dracut/Brown) St. David’s, Grenada (J.W. Fletcher Catholic Secondary School/Barton CC) Kelsie Murrell-Ross 6-8 Jr./Jr. Throws Dominique Mustin 5-8 Sr./Sr. Sprints/Hurdles Phoenix, Ariz. (North Canyon/Texas A&M) Gracie O’Neal 5-7 Sr./Jr. Distance Chickamauga, Ga. (Gordon Lee) Nina Ouellette 5-5 So./So. Distance Sandy Springs, Ga. (Riverwood) Gracey Owens 5-9 Fr./Fr. Distance Germantown, Tenn. (Houston) Karsen Phillips 5-2 Fr./Fr. Sprints Buford, Ga. (Mountain View) *Zoe Pollock 5-8 So./So. Sprints/Hurdles Oxford, U.K. (Royal Latin School) Michaela Prevallet 5-5 Sr./Sr. Pole Vault Milton, Ga. (Cambridge) Melbourne, Australia (Doncaster Secondary College/Harvard) *Stephanie Ratcliffe 5-10 So./So. Throws Reign Redmond 5-6 Fr./Fr. Sprints Carson, Calif. (Carson) Simone Rojas 5-4 So./So. Distance Augusta, Ga. (Evans) Ella Rush 5-10 So./So. Multi-Events Repton, U.K. (Repton School) Sandy Springs, Ga. (Johnson Ferry Christian Academy) Jane Sandel 5-5 So./RFr. Distance Caitlin Schroeder 5-8 So./So. Distance Jefferson, Ga. (Jefferson) Haley Tate 5-7 So./So. Sprints St. Louis, Mo. (Seven Lakes - Houston) Ashley Thompson 5-8 RFr./RFr. Distance Gainesville, Ga. (Gainesville) Toronto, Canada (St. John Henry Newman/Oklahoma) Mikeisha Welcome 5-8 --/^Sr. Jumps Autumn Wilson 5-8 So./So. Sprints Austin, Texas (St. Dominic Savio Catholic) Bella Witt 5-9 Jr./Jr. Sprints/Hurdles Calabasas, Calif. (Calabasas) *Graduates; ^2020 eligibility years advanced as usual to more closely mirror academic progress despite the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the outdoor season’s cancellation; however, all competitors who were on the team in 2020 did not exhaust a year of eligibility.
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5-8 • So. (I)/So. (O) Dallas, Texas Midlothian Heritage 2023: Outdoor – Won the triple jump at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, reaching a mark of 12.37 meters/40 feet, 7 inches…Placed third at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a mark of 12.15m/3910.50 in the triple jump…Finish 15th in the 100m hurdles at the Texas Relays with a time of 13.96. Indoor – Reached a mark of 12.64 meters/41 feet, 5.75 inches in the triple jump at the Tiger Paw Invite, a season best…Reached a triple jump mark of 12.23m/40-1.50 to finish 15th at the SEC Championships… Recorded a long jump of 5.58m/18-3.75 to place 16th at the SEC Championships…Used season bests of 8.65 in the 60-meter hurdles and 5.72m/18-9.25 in the long jump in the pentathlon at the Texas Tech Multis. High School: Secured two Nike All-America certificates indoors in the triple jump and 60-mter hurdles and was an outdoor All-American in the triple jump as a senior…Earned All-America honors in the triple jump and 100mH as a junior…Won Texas state titles in the 100mH, 300mH and triple jump as a senior while finishing first in the 100mH and triple as a junior…Was the state runner-up in the 300mH as a junior and third in the long jump as a senior at the state meet… Captured district and area titles in the 100mH and 300mH as a junior and senior…Added regional titles in both events her final two years… Set regional records in the 100mH and 300mH in her final season… Finished first in the triple and long jumps at the district and area meets as a senior and added a regional championship in the triple jump as a senior…Named Ellis County Track & Field Female Athlete of the Year as a junior and was her high school’s MVP (2x)…Regional qualifier as a freshman…Also played volleyball…Personal bests of 12.64 meters/41 feet, 6 inches (triple jump), 5.79m/19-0 (long jump), 13.96 (100mH) and 43.96 (300mH)…Member of National Honor Society. Personal: Born June 9, 2004…Daughter of Curtis and Tarsha Anderson…Brother, Langston, plays football at Oklahoma State… Majoring in Philosophy.
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5-0 • Jr. (I)/RSo. (O) Marietta, Ga. Lassiter/Penn State (Harrisburg) 2022 NJAC Indoor 5,000m Champion (D-III) 2022 NJAC Outdoor 10,000m Champion (D-III) 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Outdoor – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Ran a 3,000-meter time of 10:23.47 to finish 18th at the Clemson Invite. 2022: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Penn State (Harrisburg) – 2021-22: Won the 6k at the NJAC Indoor
Championships and the 10k at the NJAC Outdoor Championships… Grabbed runner-up honors in the 5k at the NJAC Outdoor Championships…Owns school records in the 3k, 5k and 10k events… Earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Region honors in cross country…Finished 33rd out of 216 runners at the Mid-Atlantic Regional…Was on the United East AllConference First Team after taking second at the conference meet… Two-time United East Cross Country Runner of the Week…Personal bests of 18:24.98 in the 5000 meters and 39:35.50 in the 10,000m. High School: Finished 19th out of 202 runners at the 2021 GHSA 6A state cross country meet…Earned a varsity letter all four years and the Scholar-Athlete Award three of four years…Member of National Honor Society and earned 2019 Rotary Youth Leadership Award. Personal: Born Jan. 31, 2003…Daughter of Lori and Vinnie Aromin… Father, Vinnie, played soccer and tennis at Clarkson University… Brother, Tyler, plays soccer at Lassiter HS and the squad won the GHSA 6A state title last year…Majoring in Criminal Justice.
Charlotte Augenstein Distance
5-5 • Jr. (I)/Sr. (O) Albany, Ga. Deerfield-Windsor 2023: Cross Country – Opened the season as the top finisher at the 5k Stan Sims Opener, placing ninth overall (17:46.05)…Placed third at the 5k Gamecock Challenge, posting a 16:52.8 as the Lady Bulldogs’ first across the finish line…Recorded a time of 21:52.90 to finish 114th at the Paul Short Run, scoring for the Lady Bulldogs in her third-straight meet…Crossed the finish line as the top finisher at the 6k Crimson Classic with a time of 20.53.8 to place 25th…Crossed the finish line fourth for the Lady Bulldogs and 94th overall at the 6k SEC Championships with a 22:16.6…Led Georgia across the finish line at the 6k NCAA South Regionals with a personal-best 20:29.0, finishing 66th overall and scoring in all six meets for the Lady Bulldogs. Outdoor – Posted a season-best 1500 meters time of 4:22.08 (ninth in school record books) at the Raleigh Relays to finish 20th…Ran a time of 2:23.89 in the 1500m prelims at the SEC Championships, placing eighth to qualify for the finals…Finished ninth in the 1500m finals at the SEC Championships with a time of 4:24.73…Victorious in the 800m at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a season-best time of 2:08.65. Indoor – Ran a 4:52.91 to take 13th in the mile prelims at the SEC Championships…Clocked a season-best 4:51.48 at the Music City Challenge, the fastest mile of the season by a Bulldog…Ran a time of 10:06.59 in the 3,000-meters at the SEC Championships for 32nd… Placed 10th in the 800m at the Music City Challenge with a seasonbest time of 2:11.58…Recorded a fifth-place finish in the 1000m at the Clemson Invite (2:52.57)…Placed sixth in the 600m at the Clemson Invite with a 1:33.30. 2022: Cross Country – Opened her season by scoring at the 5k Charlotte Opener after taking 22nd (19:12.6)…Was in UGA’s top five at the 5k North Alabama Invitational after registering an 18:39.90 for 125th…Finished 142nd(18:22.5) to score at the 5k Live In Lou Classic… Was Georgia’s top finisher at the 6k Crimson Classic thanks to a 21:37.5 for 42nd place…Topped her team at the 6k SEC Championships after crossing the line in 21:25.17 for 65th…Wrapped up her campaign by scoring at the 6k NCAA South Regional thanks to a 90th-place finish (21:46.00). Outdoor – Ran her fastest time in the 800 meters (2:10.18) to take
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19th in the prelims at the SEC Championships…Was fifth at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial in the 800m with a 2:11.26…Clocked a personal best 4:31.75 in the 1500m for 21st in the SEC prelims…Finished third in the 5000m at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a 18:15.01. Indoor - Finished 13th in the 800-meter run (2:13.60) at the Music City Challenge…Clocked a 4:57.33 in the mile at the Music City Challenge… Completed the 3000m in 10:06.66 for 43rd at the SEC Championships… Ran a 3:04.47 to take 12th in the 1000m at the Clemson Invite…Ran on the 4x400m relay that clocked a 3:49.39 to take 11that the Razorback Invite…Also part of 11th place distance medley relay at SECs thanks to a 11:37.22. 2021: Cross Country - Began her career by scoring at the 4k Kennesaw State Opener thanks to a 15:24.25 for 23rd place…Was the fourth Lady Bulldog across the line at the 5k North Alabama Showcase, taking 50th (18:19.17)…Scored for the third straight time at the 6k PreNationals after crossing the line in 22:59.8 for 110th place…Was one of the Georgia women’s top five at the 6k SEC Championships thanks to her 23:25.9 for 112th place…Completed her first active season by scoring at the 6k NCAA South Regional with a 22:51.26 for 135th place. Outdoor – Ran a 4:42.92 for 11th in the 1500 meters at the Spec Towns Invitational…Posted the fastest 800m time of her career at 2:14.34 for 29th at the Tom Jones Memorial. Indoor - Redshirted for the Lady Bulldogs. High School: Part of the GISA 3AAA state champion track and field team as a freshman and sophomore…Captured state titles in both the 800-meter run and 1600m in her third season…Finished second at the state cross country meet and on the track in the 3200m and 4x400m relay as a junior…Was third at the state cross country meet as a senior… Personal-best times of 59.08 (400m), 2:20 (800m), 5:14 (1600m), 11:34 (3200m) and 19:25 (5k)…Ran a leg on the state champion 4x400m and 4x100m relay teams as a sophomore…Secured runner-up honors in the 400m, 800m and triple jump as a sophomore…Earned All-State honors in cross country as a freshman and sophomore…Garnered AllState honors in the 400m, 800m, 4x400m and 4x100m relays in her first season…Also played basketball and soccer through her sophomore year…Honor Graduate who was also a Beta Club Graduate. Personal: Born April 14, 2002…Daughter of Ralf Augenstein and Hanna Lin…Majoring in Biology.
Sydney Augmon Distance
5-8 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Suwanee, Ga. Peachtree Ridge 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. High School: Won the Gwinnett County title as a senior…Named to the Gwinnett Super Six squad as a senior…Again named Gwinnett All-County First Team…Finished in front of the field to secure the GHSA 7A 800m crown as a junior while running a leg on the thirdplace 4x400m relay team…Captured her second straight Region 8 800m title in her third year…Also named to Gwinnett All-County First Team as a junior…Finished fourth in the 800m at the GHSA 7A state championship as a sophomore and was part of the winning 4x400m relay as a sophomore…Won the Region 8 800m title in her second year…Personal-best times of 2:13.58 (800m), 58.14 (400m) and 5:23 (1600m)…Also played flag football at Peachtree Ridge…AP Scholar and a Scholar-Athlete all four years…Graduated with Honors. Personal: Born June 6, 2005…Daughter of Clyde and Lee Augmon… Mother, Lee, ran track at Ohio State and brother, Christian, played soccer at Mercer…Intending to major in Exercise and Sport Science.
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Sophia Baker Distance
5-4 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) Cumming, Ga. South Forsyth 2023: Cross Country – Scored in her season debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, finishing 12th overall (17:57.19)…Placed fourth overall at the 5k Gamecock Challenge, scoring with a time of 17:05.6…Ran a 22:04.30 at the 6k Paul Short Run to place 139th and score…Ran a time of 22:29.0 at the 6k Crimson Classic…Scored at the 6k SEC Championships as the fifth Lady Bulldog across the line, placing 95th overall with a 22:17.7…Clocked a time of 21:54.8 at the 6k NCAA South Regionals to finish 163rd overall. Outdoor – Placed seventh in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the SEC Championships with a season-fastest time of 10:42.41, which stands 10th on the school’s all-time list…Runner-up in the 3000m steeplechase at the Virginia Challenge with a time of 10:53.93…Won the 1500m at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational, clocking a time of 4:32.09. Indoor – Placed 19th in the mile prelims at the SEC Championships with a time of 4:58.62…Ran a season-best time of 9:53.20 to place 10th in the 3,000-meters at the Music City Challenge…Clocked a 3,000m time of 10:13.08 at the SEC Championships for 36th. 2022: Cross Country – Competed in all six of Georgia’s meets… Scored for the first time of the year at the 5k North Alabama Invitational after taking 78th (18:18.15)…Returned to Georgia’s top five at the 6k Crimson Classic with a 58th-place finish (21:54.0)…Scored for the Lady Bulldogs at the 6k SEC Championships with a time of 22:08.85 for 105th…Completed her second season by scoring at the 6k NCAA South Regional after completing the course in 23:26.00 for 188th. Outdoor - Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Took eighth in the 800 meters with a 2:23.04 at the Samford Invite…Had a season-best time of 5:02.18 to take seventh in the mile at the Samford Invite…Took 23rd in the 5000m (10:07.95) at the Music City Challenge…Was 11th in the 1000m (3:03.90) at the Clemson Invite. 2021: Cross Country - Ran for the first time in red and black and scored at the 4k Kennesaw State Opener with a 15:31.88 for 28th… Took 95th at the 5k North Alabama Showcase…Scored at the 6k PreNationals after completing the course in 23:40.3 for 157th place…Was the fifth Lady Bulldog across the line at the 6k SEC Championships thanks to her 23:41.1 for 120th…Scored at the 6k NCAA South Regional after battling for 137th (22:52.34). Outdoor – Redshirted for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Redshirted for the Lady Bulldogs. 2020: Cross Country - Ran in the 5k FSU Invitational and was 82nd (18:52.3). High School: Rounded out her cross country career by taking eighth individually at the 2019 GHSA 7A state cross country meet as her team finished second for the third consecutive year…Personal-best times of 2:16 (800 meters), 5:18 (1600m) and 18:52 (5k)…Part of cross country team that was second at the state meet for the second time in a row as a junior…Ran on school record-breaking distance medley relay with a time that ranks in the top 10 all-time in Georgia…Earned the Coaches Award in cross country as a sophomore while leading her team to runner-up honors at the state meet…Part of school record-breaking sprint medley relay…Helped lead South Forsyth to the 2016 state cross country title as a freshman…Was awarded All-County First Team for track and cross country every eligible season…Named Rookie of the Year in track as a freshman…Member of National Honor Society and Beta Club…Was a Literacy Lab tutor and graduated with Honors and Distinction…Earned War Eagle Student-Athlete Award and was an AP Scholar with Honors. Personal: Born June 2, 2002…Daughter of Karen Baker and Greg Baker…Majoring in Health Promotion.
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5-9 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Flowery Branch, Ga. Flowery Branch 2023: Cross Country – Ran her first collegiate race at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, placing 35th with a time 18:41.44…Finished 19th at the 5k Gamecock Challenge with a time of 17:42.7…Posted a time of 22:12.5 at the 6k Crimson Classic. High School: Three-time Georgia All-State honoree in cross country and track & field…Placed sixth in the GHSA 5A state cross country meet as a senior, earning All-State Cross Country honors…Hall County and Region 8-5A cross country champion as a senior…State medalist in the 800 meters, 1600m, 3200m and 4x800m relay at the 5A state track meet during her final season…Hall County 400m champion and Region 8-5A champion in the 800m, 1600m and 3200m in her fourth year…Earned All-State track honors as a senior…Earned All-State Cross Country honors as a junior following her sixth-place finish in the GHSA 4A state cross country meet…Finished runner-up in the Region 8-4A cross country meet in her third year…Placed fifth in the 800m and 1600m at the GHSA 4A track meet as a junior, also medaling in the 4x800m relay…The All-State track honoree was also the Region 8-4A Champion in the 800m during her third season…Finished seventh in the GHSA 4A state cross country meet en route to All-State cross country honors as a sophomore…Was also named All-State as a sophomore, medaling in the 800m, 1600m and 4x800m at the GHSA 4A state track meet…Earned a top-10 finish in the Region 7-4A cross country meet as a freshman…Did not compete in track as a freshman due to the COVID-19 pandemic…Personal bests of 2:15 (800m) and 5:04 (1600m)…Also played basketball for Flowery Branch, earning North Georgia All-Star Player honors three times, all-region honors twice…GHSA coed three-point state champion as a junior and senior and GHSA girls three-point state champion as a junior…Named basketball GACA All-Star Player during her third season…Helped Flowery Branch reach the Elite 8 in the 4A State Playoffs as a sophomore, making the Lanierland Basketball All-Tournament Team that season…Salutatorian, AP Scholar with Distinction and Scholar Athlete…Class representative as a freshman and three-time class president in her final three years at Flowery Branch…Received the Georgia Merit Award, Georgia Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish and Hall County Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish…Member of Beta Club, National Honors Society, Spanish Honors Society, Chick-Fil-A Leader Academy and Youth Leadership Hall…Recipient of the Falcon Award and Hall County Torch Award…Selected to homecoming court four times…Posted a 4.68 GPA. Personal: Born March 21, 2005...Daughter of Morgan and Tracy Brick...One of three siblings...Intending to major in Business Management and International Business with a minor in Spanish.
stands third in the school record books…Finished seventh in the 400m prelims at the SEC Championships with a time of 51.39… Placed sixth in the first round of the NCAA East Prelims in the 400m with a time of 52.49 before running a time of 52.25 to place fourth in the quarterfinals…Finished 16th in the 400m prelims at the NCAA Championships, clocking a time of 51.66…Victorious in the 400m at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational (52.31) and at the GT Invite (52.81)…Ran the anchor leg on the 4x100m relay team that placed sixth at the NCAA Championships with a time of 42.87, setting a school record…Ran the opening leg on the 4x400m relay team at the NCAA Championships, helping the Bulldogs post their fastest time of the season with a school record (3:29.90) to finish eighth in the prelims…The 4x400m relay team went on to place ninth in the NCAA finals with a time of 3:30.55. Indoor – Ran her best 400-meter dash of the season at the Tiger Paw Invite, crossing the line at 52.92 to finish 15th and secure the No. 3 time in Georgia history in the event…Victorious in the 400m at the Texas Tech Open with a time of 52.95…Finished 14th in the 400m prelims at the SEC Championships (53.21)…Placed fifth in the 200m at the Texas Tech Open with a 23.48, the eighth-fastest time in program history…Ran the opening leg on the 4x400m relay team that took the crown at the Texas Tech Open with a time of 3:33.28, the second-fastest in Georgia history… Was also a member of the 4x400m team that recorded UGA’s No. 5 mark all-time at the Clemson Invite (3:36.25) for runner-up honors. High School: National champion in the 400-meter dash at the Nike meet as a junior and was a three-time All-American…New Balance All-American in the 400m in her first season…Three-time Florida high school state champion in the 400m as a freshman, junior and senior… Ran on the state champion 4x400m relay team as a junior and senior… Broke the state record in the 400m as a freshman…Captured district and regional titles in the 400m as a freshman, junior and senior… Won district and regional championships in the 200m in her first year…Personal bests of 23.64 (200m) and 52.25 (400m)…Member of National Honor Society…Graduated Magna Cum Laude and with the Superintendent Diploma of Distinction…Honor Student. Personal: Born Nov. 5, 2003…Daughter of Lashelle Oliver and Nickholas Butler…Brother, Daeqwan Butler, was on the FSU track and field team…Intending to major in Entertainment & Media Studies.
Bella Cammarota Distance
5-8 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Cumming, Ga. Lambert
Aaliyah Butler
2023: Cross Country – Made her collegiate debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, placing 33rd with a time of 18:37.50…Completed the 5k Gamecock Challenge in 17:53.4 to finish 22nd. prints High School: Placed fourth at the GHSA 7A state cross country meet, earning First-Team All-Region honors as a senior…Top-10 finishes in the 5-4 • So. (I)/So. (O) 1600 meters and 3200m at the 7A state track meet…Earned Atlanta Track Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Club All-Metro Second Team honors in her final season…Named AllCounty as a junior and senior…Medalist in the 4x800m relay at the 7A Miami Northwestern state track meet as a junior…Cross country state qualifier and First-Team All-Region honoree in her third year…Qualified for the 7A state cross 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (4x100m Relay) country meet as a sophomore…Personal bests of 5:11 (1600m), 11:20 (3200m) and 18:11 (5000m)…Graduated with honors from Lambert High 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (400m) School…Beta Club officer and National Honor Society member…Com2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (4x400m Relay) pleted two years of Internship Forsyth…Blessings in a Backpack member and three-time Lambert High School Triple Crown Award recipient. 2023: Outdoor – Placed fifth in the 400-meter dash at the SEC Personal: Born June 21, 2005...Daughter of Mary and Mark CammaChampionships with a time of 51.32, her fastest of the season that rota...Intending to major in Biology.
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5-7 • So. (I)/So. (O) Canton, Ga. Cherokee 2023: Cross Country – Made her season debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener (30th – 18:31.93)…Earned an eighth-place finish at the 5k Gamecock Challenge with a time of 17:18.1…Placed 142ndat the 6k Paul Short Run with a 22:06.70…Clocked a time of 21:49.5 to finish 89th at the 6k Crimson Classic…Ran a time of 23:29.0 at the 6k SEC Championships…Finished 144th at the 6k NCAA South Regionals with a time of 21:30.4. Outdoor – Ran her fastest 800 meters time of the season at the GT Invite, crossing the finish line in 2:13.47 to place 16th…Finished 11th in the 800m at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a time of 2:15.51… Ran a season-best time of 4:38.78 in the 1500m at the Raleigh Relays. Indoor – Placed seventh in the 800-meters and 1000m at the Clemson Invite, clocking times of 2:16.98 and 2:57.72, respectively…Ran a mile time of 4:57.80 at the Music City Challenge for 56th. 2022: Cross Country - Only action of the season came at the 5k North Alabama Invitational as she finished 185th (19:13.71). High School: Placed second in the 1600 meters at the GHSA 7A state meet as a senior while taking fourth in the 800m…Qualified for the Wingfoot Night of Champions in the 800m and 1600m…Set school records in the 800m and 1600m in her fourth year and was region champion in both events…Concluded her cross country career by earning All-Region First Team honors…Took fifth in the 1600m and ninth in the 3200m at the state meet in her third year…Was All-Region First Team in cross country as a junior…Earned All-County honors in cross country as a sophomore before the track season was suspended due to the pandemic…Finished sixth in the 3200m at the state meet as a freshman…Set a school record in the 3200m in her first year and was an All-County runner…Personal bests of 5:00.2 (1600m) and 2:16 (800m)…AP and Honor Roll student. Personal: Born July 28, 2004…Daughter of Mike Cincola and Suzanne Cincola…Intending to major in Journalism and Mass Communication.
0.75…Advanced to the NCAA East Prelims, placing 12th with a mark of 16.60m/54-5.5 to advance to the NCAA Championships. Indoor – Placed fourth in the shot put at the SEC Championships with a mark of 17.25 meters/56 feet, 7.25 inches, the best of the season by a Bulldog…Runner-up in the shot put at the Clemson Invite with a mark of 16.69m/54-9.25…Took third at the Tiger Paw Invite with a 16.60m/545.50…Victorious in the shot put at the MLK Invite (16.59m/54-5.25)… Posted a season-best mark of 18.21m/59-9.00 in the weight throw at the Clemson Invite, finishing sixth. 2022: Outdoor – Set a school record with a sixth and final shot put toss of 18.46/60-6.75 to win the SEC Championship and move to No. 19 on the all-time collegiate performer list…Posted victories in the shot at the Tom Jones Memorial (17.56/57-7.50), the Torrin Lawrence Memorial (17.24/56-6.75) and the Yellow Jacket Invitational (16.70/54-9.50)… Also won the hammer throw at the Yellow Jacket meet after reaching 62.92/206-5, which ranks seventh in school history…Continued her record-breaking tear in the shot put, taking second at the NCAA East Prelims with a long toss of 17.99/59-0.25…Barely missed qualifying in a second event after hitting a career-best mark of 63.91/209-8 for 14th in the hammer...Concluded her season by missing the shot put final by a single spot thanks to a 10th-place showing (17.14/56-2.75) at the NCAA Championships for a Second Team All-America certificate. Indoor – Topped her own school record after reaching 17.52 meters/57 feet, 5 ¾ inches for third place in the shot put at the SEC Championships…Earned First Team All-America honors in the shot after the NCAA Championships thanks to a top effort of 17.24m/566.75 for seventh place…Won the USC Indoor Open with a then school record mark of 17.19m/56-4.75…Finished first in another trio of meets, including a meet record performance of 16.82m/55-2.25 at the Samford Invite…Finished 16th in the weight throw (17.29m/56-8.75) at the SEC Championships. Barton CC – 2019-21: Two-time NJCAA national champion in the shot put…Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference’s Field Athlete of the Year…Personal-best marks of 16.21 meters (53 feet, 2 ¼ inches) in the shot put and 58.71m (192-7) in the hammer throw. High School: Three-time national champion in the shot put… Competed at 2016 World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland…State (Minas Gerais) record holder in the shot put and at least 15 state titles…Also grew up playing soccer and handball. Personal: Born February 12, 1999…Daughter of Rosangela Miguel Benedito and Aldermar da Silva…Majoring in Psychology.
Daszay Freeman
Ana da Silva
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5-7 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Mandeville, Jamaica Manchester/Arkansas
5-9 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Ribeirao das Neves, Brazil Escola Estadual Presidente
2021 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (60mH) 2022 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (Shot Put) 2021 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (100mH) 2022 SEC Outdoor Shot Put Champion 2022-23 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (Shot Put) Arkansas (2020-23): 2023 – Member of the team. 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (Hammer Throw) 2022 – Member of the team. 2023: Outdoor – Placed 10th in the hammer throw and 14th in the shot put at the NCAA Championships, recording respective marks of 64.60 meters/211 feet, 11 inches (No. 6 in school history) and 17.06m/5511.75…Victorious in the shot put at the LSU Invite with a season-best mark of 17.62m/57-9.75…Placed 11th in the hammer throw at the NCAA East Prelims with a throw of 62.27m/204-3…Finished 10th at the SEC Championships with a hammer throw of 60.59m/198-0…Placed sixth in the shot put at the SEC Championships with a mark of 16.78m/55-
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best six times during outdoor season with a progression of 13.27, 13.08, 12.93, 12.92, 12.85, 12.82…Finished as runner-up in Texas A&M, Florida, John McDonnell Invitational, and LSU in consecutive weeks…Won Arkansas Twilight in 13.01. Indoor: Earned All-America honor as silver medalist in 60m hurdles at NCAA Indoor with a career best of 7.99, moving to No. 3 on UA all-time list…Posted a then PR of 8.05 during the NCAA prelims…Silver medalist in SEC Championships with then career best of 8.07, after a then PR of 8.10 in prelims… Opened season placing fourth in Wooo Pig Classic (8.27), then finished fifth in Razorback Invitational (8.31)…Won Arkansas Qualifier in 8.20, then improved to a then career best of 8.12 in prelims of Tyson Invitational with an 8.16 in final to place fifth. 2020 – Competed in six meets in her debut indoor season with the Razorbacks…During her initial season running 60m hurdles, opened with an 8.38 in January and improved to 8.15 in February, placing fourth in the SEC Indoor Championships final…During the SEC Indoor prelims, she posted an 8.18 to place eighth overall and earn the final spot into the final… The 8.15 ranks her fifth on the Arkansas all-time list…Started campaign at Arkansas Invitational with a runner-up finish in 60m hurdles (8.38) and fourth place in 200m (24.62)…Finished third in 60m hurdles (8.28), with an 8.27 prelim, at Red Raider Invitational and seventh in 200m (24.66)…Placed fifth in 60m hurdles at Tyson Invitational, which included three rounds of racing – 8.35, 8.22, 8.24…Also ran indoor best of 24.41 in 200m…Won 60m hurdles (8.28) at Arkansas Qualifier. High School: Four-year letter for coach Carlos Samuels at Manchester High School… 2016 and 2019 Girls Champ 100mH Gold Medalist…2019 Girls Champs 200-meters Bronze Medalist…2016 CARIFTA U-18 Gold Medalist…2017 CARIFTA U-18 silver medalist…2018 CARIFTA U-20 silver medalist…2019 World Youth bronze medalist in Kenya…Personal-bests of 13.30 in the 100m hurdles and 23.6 in the 200m. Personal: Born Jan. 25, 2000...Has eight siblings...Graduated from Arkansas in 2023 with a degree in Financial Management and Investments…Pursuing a master’s in Financial Planning at Georgia.
Eddiyah Frye
Sprints/Hurdles 5-5 • Jr. (I)/RSo. (O) Miami Gardens, Fla. St. Thomas Aquinas 2023: Outdoor – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Clocked a season-best time of 8.36 in the prelims (15th) and semis (16th) of the 60-meter hurdles at the Tiger Paw Invite…Finished sixth in the 60mH finals and prelims with times of 8.40 and 8.42, respectively, at the Clemson Invite. 2022: Outdoor – Posted a season-best 100-meter dash time of 11.74 for sixth at the Georgia Tech Invitational…Shot to No. 8 on Georgia’s all-time list in the 100m hurdles after running a 13.38 to win the Georgia Tech Invitational…Finished 13th in the 100m hurdle prelims at the SEC Championships… Advanced to the NCAA East Prelims quarterfinals and finished 16th with the second-fastest time of her season (13.51)…Ran one 200m and was fifth at the Yellow Jacket Invitational thanks to a 24.58…Topped out at 5.78 meters/18 feet, 11 ¾ inches for 10th in the long jump at the Tom Jones Memorial. Indoor – Matched the third-fastest time in UGA history in the 60-meter hurdles with an 8.23 to take eighth at the Razorback Invite…Won the Samford Invite in the 60m hurdles (8.27)…
Was 11th in the hurdle prelims at the SEC Championships after registering an 8.29…Had a season-best 24.47 in the 200m at the Tiger Paw Invite…Ran on the 4x400m relay that registered a ninth-place finish (3:41.03) at SECs…Had a season-best mark of 5.91m/19-4.75 in the long jump at the Razorback Invite for seventh. High School: Ranked No. 1 nationwide in the 55-meter hurdles and 100mH as a senior…Undefeated in the 100mH and long jump in her final season…Registered Florida’s No. 1 all-time mark in the 100mH…Recorded Florida AAAA state titles in the 100mH and the long jump and was a leg on the winning 4x100m relay team…Included on the Miami Herald’s All-Broward First Team in the 100mH and long jump as a senior as well as the Sun Sentinel’s First Team…Named 2021 Florida Dairy Farmers Class 4A Girls Track Athlete of the Year as well as the Broward 4A Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year…Named USA Today Southeast Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year in her final season and was named the publication’s Female National Track & Field Athlete of the Year…Collected the 2019 state long jump championship and was included on the Sun Sentinel’s First Team in the long jump…Won the 2018 state 100mH title and was runner-up in the long jump as a freshman…Named to Sun Sentinel First Team in 100mH and the long jump…Personal-best times of 13.14 wind-aided/13.35 legal (100mH), 41.4 (300mH) and 6.15 meters (20 feet, 2 ¼ inches) in the long jump…Completed high school with a 3.8 GPA. Personal: Born April 22, 2003…Daughter of Eddie Frye and Victoria Cotton…Youngest of seven siblings…Intending to major in Finance.
Isabelle Gaharan Distance
5-2 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Duluth, Ga. Lambert 2023: Cross Country – Made her debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener with a 43rd-place finish (18:59.33). High School: Finished top 10 at the GHSA 7A state cross country meet after earning First Team All-Region honors with a runner up finish as a senior…The Lambert Female Athlete of the Week was named to the All-County Cross Country Team and helped her squad clinch the Region 6-7A region title in her final season…Earned her team’s Cross Country Leadership Award and the Longhorn Award as a senior…Named to Atlanta Track Club’s Powerade All-Metro Team in XC in her fourth year…Played a part as Lambert captured the Region 6-7A team championship in track after qualifying in both the 1600m and 3200m…Was a track sectionals and state qualifier in the 3200m as a senior…Letterman in both cross country and track all four years…After helping team win the Region 6-7A cross championship, finished in the top 25 at the 7A state cross meet in her third year…Named to All-County Cross Country Team and was Second Team All-Region as a junior while earning school’s Cross Country Coaches Award in her third season… Part of school record-breaking indoor and outdoor 4x800m relay while also setting a record on the distance medley relay…Helped her team win the 6-7A track Region title as a junior and was a state qualifier in the 32000m and 4x800m relay…Cross Country 7A state qualifier all four years…Earned Lambert’s Most Improved Female Varsity Runner Award in cross in her first two years…Personal bests of 5:19.75 (1600m),
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Kieley Gayle Mid-Distance
5-5 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) Atlanta, Ga. Westlake/South Carolina
a PR time of 2:12.65. Outdoor – Delivered promising marks in the outdoor season in five events, running the 800m in all five events…Finished runner-up twice and third twice…Her best 800m mark resulted in her outdoor PR with a time of 2:10.92, finishing second in the Gamecock Invitational…Personal-best times of 2:08.57 (outdoor 800m) and 2:09.43 (indoor 800m). High School: Returned for her senior season after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down her junior season to win the 800 meters title at the county, region and state level…Was one of four on the state runner-up 4x400m relay team at state that helped Westlake win the state championship…Captured the 1600m region championship and ran a leg on the winning 4x400m relay team…Won the region 800m crown and was fifth at the state meet as a sophomore…Also ran a leg on the second-place 4x400m relay team at the state championships in her second year. Personal: Born Oct. 29, 2003…Daughter of Brenda Haskell and Joseph Gayle…Majoring in Political Science.
2023 CSC Academic All-District 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete. College: South Carolina (2021-23) – 2023: Indoor – Appeared in six meets during the indoor campaign, running the 800 meters, the distance medley relay and the 4x400m relay…Opened the season at the Clemson Opener, finishing third in the 800m with a time of 2:13.60, while also running the second leg of the 4x400m relay team that finished fourth… Won the 800m in the first home event of the indoor season, clocking 2:13.15 at the Gamecock Opener…Set a new indoor 800m personal best at the South Carolina Invitational, running 2:09.43 for the ninth-fastest indoor 800m in Gamecock history…Also ran the 800m at the SEC Indoor Championship, finishing 17th overall…Ran one DMR event on the season, competing as the third leg for the relay team that finished second at the Columbia Challenge with a time of 11:42.88 for the sixth fastest DMR time in Gamecock history. Outdoor –Took part in seven meets on the season, running the 800m, 4x400m relay, 4x800m relay and one distance medley relay event…Opened the outdoor season at the Island Relays Bahamas, finishing fifth in the 800m (2:13.91) and running the third leg of the 4x800m relay team that won in the Bahamas with a time of 8:56.91 for the seventh fastest time in program history…Won the Weems Baskin Relays 800m when she ran 2:12.52 and was also part of the 4x400m squad that won after clocking 3:37.57…Set a new PR in the outdoor 800m at the Tom Jones Memorial, running 2:08.57 for the ninth fastest 800m time in Gamecock history…Also ran the 800m at the SEC Outdoor Championship, finishing 21st overall…Ran the third leg of the 4x400m relay team that won the USC Open, running 3:41.23…Shined in the relays, appearing on two more 4x800m relay teams that rank Top-10 in USC history…Was the leadoff leg at the Penn Relays 4x800m team, running 8:40.20 for a new program record…Was also the first leg of the 4x800m relay squad at the Florida Relays that captured the podium with a time of 8:45.92, the third fastest time in USC history… Ran as the second leg of the DMR team at the Penn Relays that won with a new program-record time of 11:19.09…A CSC Academic All-District selection…Selected to SEC Community Service Team…Member of SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2022: Indoor – Competed in eight indoor meets, making her debut in the 600m race at the Clemson Opener and running a 1:39.23…Ran the 800m four times and the 400m three times over the final seven indoor meets…Her best finish in the 400m was fourth at the Orange and Purple Elite, while her PR in the 400m came in the Carolina Challenge with a time of 1:00.51… Best finish in the 800m was 6th at the UofSC Indoor Open with
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Lorel Golden Distance
5-4 • RFr. (I)/So. (O) Marietta, Ga. Pope 2023: Cross Country – Placed 10th and scored at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener with a 17:49.53 in her season debut…Placed sixth and scored at the 5k Gamecock Challenge (17:07.1)…Recorded a 6k time of 21:43.40 at the 6k Paul Short Run to finish 100th…Scored at the 6k Crimson Classic, crossing the finish line in 54th overall with a time of 21:16.0… Was Georgia’s top scorer for the first time in her career at the 6k SEC Championships, finishing 65th overall with a 21:40.5… Took 117th at the 6k NCAA South Regionals, posting a time of 21:07.4 to score. Outdoor – Finished ninth in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the SEC Championships with a season-best time of 10:53.34… Placed 25th at the Raleigh Relays, clocking a steeplechase time of 11:06.93…Finished runner-up in the 1500m at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 4:32.98. Indoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. 2022: Cross Country - Ran in five of six meets for the Lady Bulldogs…Scored for the first time at the 5k Live In Lou Classic thanks to a 18:54.9 for 218th…Ran at both the 6k SEC Championships (117th – 22:21.93) and the 6k NCAA South Regional (204th – 23:54.60). High School: Named to Atlanta Track Club All-Metro Cross Country Team as a junior and senior…Helped set school record in 4x800m relay as a junior…Personal bests of 5:09 (1600 meters), 11:16 (3200m) and 18:42 (5k)…Was the track athlete with the highest GPA and earned Student-Athlete Award…AP Scholar on the Honor Roll. Personal: Born Oct. 20, 2003…Daughter of Latricia Golden and Jeff Golden…Majoring in Psychology.
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5-6 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Buford, Ga. Buford
Graduated with honors from Buford High School…Member of Hosa Club and Beta Club…Received her Patient Care Technician certification. Personal: Born Feb. 20, 2005...Daughter of Cortina and James Harris...Has three sisters, Kimberly, Olivia, and Carrington, who all compete in track & field…Kimberly also competes on the track & field team at the University of Georgia...Intending to major in Exercise and Sport Science.
2022 NCAA Indoor First-Team All-American (4x400m Relay) 2022 NCAA Indoor Second-Team All-American (400m) 2022 NCAA Outdoor Second-Team All-American (4x400m Relay) Southern California (2020-23): Personal bests of 51.84 (400-meter dash), 23.39 (200m), 11.55 (100) and long jump (6.22 meters, 20 feet, 5 inches)…Earned her degree in Communications…Pursuing a Master’s in Sport Management. 2023: Opened the outdoor season by placing third in the 400m at the Aztec Invitational with a time of 53.74…Had a season-best 400m time of 52.82 to place seventh at the Mt. SAC Relays…Recorded an indoor 200m PR of 23.78 at the Tiger Paw Invite…Had an indoor season best 400m time of 52.68 at the Ken Shannon Last Chance Meet. 2022: Battled injuries during most of the season, but came back to take third in the 400m with a time of 55.10 at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet…Competed in the long jump for the first time as a Trojan and had a jump of 17-4.00…Finished ninth in the 400m at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 54.50...Had a season-best time of 53.77 in the prelims…Helped the 4x400m relay to a second-place finish at the Pac12 Championships, fifth place at the NCAA West Prelims and 16th a the NCAA Championships…During the indoor season, ran a PR of 52.36 to win and set the meet record at the Arkansas Qualifier…That time moved her to eighth on USC’s all-time indoor list. 2021: Placed seventh in the 400m with a time of 53.46 at the Pac12 Championships…Set her personal best in the 400m of 51.84 at the NCAA West Prelims to finish 12th and advance to the NCAA Championships…Placed 20th in the NCAA semifinals with a time of 52.66. High School: Captured the 2019 New Balance indoor national championship in the 400m…Part of 4x400m world champion at the 2019 U-20 Pan Am Championships that set the world record in the relay (3:24.04)…Won GHSA state titles in 400m as a freshman, sophomore and junior…Earned the High Points Award as a freshman and junior at the state meet while leading Buford to a team state championship in 2019...Senior year saw all athletics shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic…Also played soccer at Buford…Part of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Debate Club and on the Honor Roll. Personal: Born July 11, 2002…Daughter of Cortina and James Harris...Father, James Harris, played football at NC A&T…Sister of current Lady Bulldog sprinter Sydney Harris…Has a cousin, Lauren Kelly, who is graduating from UGA in spring 2024.
Sydney Harris Sprints
5-6 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Buford, Ga. Buford
Alexa Hoppenfeld Distance
5-1 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Atlanta, Ga. Riverwood International Charter School 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. High School: Competed in cross country, track & field, swimming and triathlon in high school…Sat out senior season due to injury…GHSA 6A state champion in the 3200 meters and runner-up in the 1600m as a junior…Sectional and region champion in the 1600m and 3200m in her third season…Region 7-6A cross country champion, going on to place eighth at the 6A state meet as a junior…Finished eighth at the 6A state cross country championship after placing fourth at regionals as a sophomore…Placed third in the 4x800m relay, fourth in the 3200m and eighth in the 1600m at the GHSA 6A state track meet in her second year…Part of school record-breaking 4x800m relay, 4x1600m relay and DMR as a sophomore…Placed third at the regional cross country meet as a freshman…Personal bests of 5:06 (1600m), 10:59 (3200m) and 18:02 (5000m)…Four-time principal’s honor roll…Earned Columbia Book Award, PTSA Scholarship and Athletic Honors Award. Personal: Born Sept. 28, 2004...Daughter of Marla and Bernard Hoppenfeld...Has two brothers, Eli and Ryan...Twin brother, Ryan, competes in cross country and track at Kennesaw State…Cousin, Evan Tessler, plays lacrosse at Rollins College…Majoring in Psychology with a minor in Sport Management.
Kaila Jackson Sprints
5-2 • So. (I)/So. (O) Redford, Mich. Renaissance 2023 SEC Indoor Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year 2023 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (60m) 2023 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (200m) 2023 SEC Outdoor Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (100m) 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (4x100m) 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (200m)
High School: GHSA 7A state champion in the 400-meter dash as a senior…GHSA 6A state champion in the 400m as a sophomore…Also competed in basketball, helping Buford earn a state championship 2023: Outdoor – Placed sixth in the 100-meter dash prelims at the as a freshman…Personal bests of 52.84 (400m) and 23.98 (200m)… NCAA Championships with a time of 11.08 before finishing fourth in the final with a windy 10.96 (+2.3)…Ran a season-best time of 10.95
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(+2.6) to win her heat in the first round of the NCAA East Prelims…Later placed seventh in the quarterfinals at the NCAA East Prelims, clocking a time of 11.09…Finished second in the 100m at the SEC Championships, crossing the finish line in a wind-legal 11.04, which stands second in the school record books…Matched that 11.04 for a victory in the 100m at the Mt. SAC Relays with the wind at +2.2…Had another regular season victory in the 100m (11.19) at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invite…Placed 12th in the 200m prelims at the NCAA Championships with a time of 22.75…Placed fifth in the 200m quarterfinals at the NCAA East Prelims, clocking a time of 22.72…Placed third in the 200m at the SEC Championships with a season-best time of 22.65 (No. 6 in school record books)…Ran the opening leg on the 4x100m relay team that placed sixth at the NCAA Championships with a time of 42.87, setting a school record. Indoor – Set a school record in the 60-meter dash at the NCAA Championships, clocking a time of 7.07 to place third in the prelims…Went on to finish as the NCAA runner-up in the 60m with a 7.08… Ran the third-fastest 200m time in Georgia history at the NCAA Championships, crossing the line in 22.69 to place sixth in the prelims…Went on to finish eighth in the finals with a 22.80 at Nationals…Was first across the line in the 60m prelims at the SEC Championships (7.15) before finishing second in the finals with a time of 7.17…Runner-up in the 60m at the Texas Tech Open and the Clemson Invite… Finished fourth in the 200m at the SEC Championships with a time of 22.97. High School: Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior and the 2022 Detroit Athletic Club Michigan Athlete of the Year…Secured two Michigan high school state titles in the 100-meter dash, three in the 200m, three in both the 4x100m and 4x200m relays…Earned Academic All-State honors three seasons and was All-State all three of those years… Established school records in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and 4x200m relay…Swept regional titles in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and 4x200m relay all three years (2020 was canceled due to the pandemic)…Won 100m and 4x200m championships at the New Balance National Outdoors in his third year…Finished first in the 60m, 200m and 4x200m relay at the AAU Indoors as a junior…National champion in the 4x100m and 4x200m relays at the Nike Invitational in her third year…Collected national titles in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the 2021 AAU West Coast Outdoor Junior Olympics while setting a national record…Won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the AAU Outdoor Junior Olympics and set another national record…Named 2021 AAU National Track & Field Track Athlete of the Year…Earned 2021 AAU Junior Olympics Outstanding Performance as a junior and New Balance Invitational Female Star of the Meet…Set the record and secured the New Balance Invitational Freshman title…Won AAU 100m national championship in her first year…Captured AAU indoor national championships in the 60m, 200m and 4x200m relay…Was a silver medalist in the AAU outdoor 4x100m relay as a freshman… Collected AAU district and regional national titles in the 100m, 200m and 4x200m relay…Earned 2019 Michigan Indoor Track Series Award… School’s Outstanding Female Track Performer as a freshman…Personal bests of 7.26 (60m), 22.85 (200m) and 11.37 (100m)…Also played volleyball in high school…Member of National Honor Society. Personal: Born June 30, 2004…Daughter of Kimberlee Jackson and Anthony Jackson…Intending to major in Journalism.
finisher at the 5k Gamecock Challenge, finishing 11th with a 17:24.7… Clocked a time of 23:07.50 at the 6k Paul Short Run…Crossed the finish line in 22:52.7 at the 6k Crimson Classic. High School: Won a national title in the 2000-meter steeplechase at the Adidas Outdoor Nationals as a senior…Placed fourth in the 1600m at the NC State meet…Named NCHSAA West Region Runner of the Year…Two-time school record holder, three-time all-region track and cross country and two-time all-state track…Qualified and raced in every state championship of her high school career…Personal bests of 5:05 (1600m), 7:21 (2000m steeplechase), 2:20 (800m) and 19:04 (5000m)…Valedictorian, student body president and homecoming queen at AC Reynolds High School…Received North Carolina Top Scholar with highest honors…Member of National Honor Society… AP Scholar with Distinction and Arby’s Scholar Athlete of the Week. Personal: Born Aug. 31, 2005...Daughter of Rich and Julie Kepple... Intending to major in Environmental Engineering.
Audrey Knoper Distance
5-5 • So. (I)/So. (O) Thorntown, Ind. Western Boone
2023: Cross Country – Clocked a time of 17:35.7 at the 5k Gamecock Classic to finish 15th in her season debut…Ran a time of 22:47.60 at the 6k Paul Short Run…Finished 78th at the 6k Crimson Classic with a time of 21:40.2…Ran a time of 23:35.1 at the 6k SEC Championships. Outdoor – Posted her best 1500 meters time of the season at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, crossing the finish line in 4:47.26 to finish 24th…Finished 14th in the 1500m at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 4:49.52, adding a 14th-place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:27.54. Indoor – Was the lone Bulldog to compete in the 5,000-meters in 2023, clocking a time of 18:01.24 at the Music City Challenge for 47th… Finished 13th in the mile at the Clemson Invite with a 5:12.81…Ran a 10:24.00 for 20th in the 3,000m at the Clemson Invite. 2022: Cross Country – Scored at her first collegiate meet, taking 96th at the 5k North Alabama Invitational with an 18:26.86…Was Georgia’s fifth scorer at the 6k Crimson Classic thanks to a 22:12.2 for 70th… Became an SEC scorer at the 6k SEC Championships after completing the course in 22:12.47 for 108th…Wrapped up her first campaign as one of the first five Lady Bulldogs across the finish line at the 6k NCAA South Regional with a 21:59.00 for 108th. High School: Rewrote school record books with No. 1 marks in the 5k, 3200 meters, 1600m, 4x800m relay…Posted the highest individual finish in the Sectionals, Regionals, Semi-State and State in school history and highest team finish at Sectionals…Earned Indiana high school 2A All-State honors in cross and was First Team Cross Country and Track Academic All-State in her final year…Won cross conference championship with a record-breaking time…State qualifier in cross as a senior and All-State indoors in the 3200m (third place)…Cross country and track MVP in her final year with 4x800 and 1600m conference titles on the track…Cross country team won the conference lla epple title as a senior…Honored with Cross Country Team Star Award…Set a half dozen school records and was cross country All-State Honorable istance Mention on the course and in academics…Won the cross individual 5-8 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) conference title and finished first in the 3200m at the conference meet…Helped lead team to cross country conference championship… Asheville, N.C. Was cross MVP, Team Star Award winner and Semi State qualifier… AC Reynolds Broke six school records and was 2A All-State honorable mention as a sophomore…Was a cross Semi State qualifier and named to First 2023: Cross Country – Opened her collegiate career at the 5k Stan Team All-Conference in second season…Cross MVP as a sophomore Sims Cross Country Opener (41st – 18:55.45)…Was the top freshman and Cross Country Team Star Award winner…Set six school records as
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personal-best mark of 1.87m/6-1.50 for second at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival…Reached an indoor personal best of 1.84m/60.50 to earn runner-up honors at the 2019 Russia U-20 National Indoor Championships…Had a season-best mark of 1.82m/5-11.50 at the Russia U-20 National Indoor Championships to take fifth because the COVID-19 pandemic….Personal best of 1.87m (6-1.50). Personal: Born July 28, 2002…Daughter of Marina Kulichenko and Alexei Kulichenko…Majoring in Human Development and Family Science.
Katherine Law Distance
5-6 • So. (I)/RFr. (O) Jefferson, Ga. Jefferson
Elena Kulichenko High Jump
5-10 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) Odintsovo, Russia OLG School 2022 SEC Indoor Women’s Freshman Field Athlete of the Year 2022 SEC Outdoor Women’s Co-Freshman Field Athlete of the Year 2022-23 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (High Jump) 2022-23 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (High Jump) 2023: Outdoor – Won the high jump at the Texas Relays with a season-best time of 1.90 meters/6 feet, 2 ¾ inches to rocket to fifth on the school record books…High jump runner-up at the SEC Championships, reaching a mark of 1.88m/6-2…Victorious in the NCAA East Prelims with a jump of 1.82m/5-11.5…Placed third in the NCAA Championships with a mark of 1.87m/6-1.50. Indoor – Cleared a height of 1.92 meters/6 feet, 3.50 inches at the SEC Championships to take second and become the No. 18 all-time collegiate performer in the high jump…That mark also ranks third alltime in UGA history…Took third at the NCAA Championships with a mark of 1.88m/6-2.00…Victorious in the high jump at the Texas Tech Open (1.87m/6-1.50), MLK Invite (1.83m/6.00) and Clemson Invite (1.81m/5-11.25)…Placed third at the Tiger Paw Invite after clearing 1.84m/6-0.50. 2022: Outdoor – Moved to No. 7 on the school’s all-time list in the high jump after clearing 1.87/6-1.50 to win the Torrin Lawrence Memorial…Earned runner-up honors at the Tom Jones Memorial with a clearance of 1.86/6-1.25…Also hit 6 feet at the Florida Relays for second (1.84/6-0.50)…Tied for fourth in the high jump at the SEC Championships registering a clearance of 1.78/5-10…Advanced to her first NCAA outdoor meet after clearing 1.84/6-0.50 to take sixth at the NCAA East Prelims…Finished 11th for Second Team All-America honors in the high jump after clearing 1.80/5-10.75. Indoor – Named SEC Women’s Freshman Field Athlete of the Year… Won the Samford Invite after clearing 1.83m/6 feet in the high jump… Was fourth at the SEC Championships thanks to a mark of 1.82m/511.50…Had three other clearances at 1.78m/5-10 or better, including her eighth-place finish in the high jump at the NCAA Championships for First Team All-America honors (1.78m/5-10). High School: After climbing to 1.84 meters/6 feet, ½ inches to win the 2017 Russia U-18 National Outdoor Championships, she hit a
2023: Cross Country – Placed 22nd in her season debut at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener (18:18.61)…Posted a top-10 finish at the 5k Gamecock Challenge, finishing seventh with a 17:12.3 to score…Was the first Lady Bulldog to cross the line at the 6k Paul Short Run, finishing 95th (21:42.00)…Placed 48th to score at the 6k Crimson Classic with a time of 21:11.8…Ran a 22:03.8 at the 6k SEC Championships finishing 87th to score…Was the second Georgia runner across the line at the 6k NCAA South Regionals, finishing 93rd overall with a personal-best time of 20:50.6. Outdoor – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Finished sixth in the mile at the Clemson Invite with a 5:05.65…Also ran a 10:22.70 in the 3,000-meter run at the Clemson invite for 17th. 2022: Cross Country – Scored in her first collegiate meet after taking 26th (19:22.6) at the 5k Charlotte Opener…Also competed at the 6k SEC Championships, where she was 126th (22:43.81), and 6k NCAA South Regional, where she finished 195th (23:32.20). High School: Earned First Team All-State honors in track, cross country and swimming all four years (other than when COVID canceled her junior track season in 2020)…Finished seventh at the GHSA Class 3A cross country state meet as a freshman before taking fifth as a sophomore (4A), winning as a junior (4A) and crossing the line in third in her final season (4A)…Was the GHSA 4A state runner-up in the 3200 meters and third in the 1600m as a senior while her cross country and track teams took second at state…Established Jefferson records in the 1500m (4:40), 1600m (5:01), 5k XC (17:50) and the 4x800m relay in her last season…Set fresh school records in the 800m (2:18), 1600m (5:06), mile (4:59), 3200m (10:51), three mile XC (17:40) and 5k XC (17:55) as a junior…Was the state runner-up in the 800m and 1600m and took third in the 3200m in her third year while leading Jefferson to second-place honors on the track and in cross…Named Mainstreet News Cross Country Runner of the Year (2x), Athens-Area Prep Cross Country Runner of the Year and to Team Georgia (3x) as a junior… Broke school’s 5k cross record (18:36.59) as a sophomore…Named Blitz Cross Country Runner of the Year her last three years…Named to Team Georgia (3x)…Secured runner-up honors in the 3200m at state as a freshman…Second at region cross country meet as a freshman and then won three straight titles…Personal bests of 4:59.12 (mile), 10:51.94 (3200m) and 17:50.63 (5k XC)…Also swam at Jefferson…Set school records in the 200m freestyle, 200m medley and 400m freestyle relay…Placed fifth in the 200m free and seventh in the 100m free at the state Class 4-5A meet as a junior…Collected Northeast Georgia champion in the 100m free, 200m free, 200m free relay and 400m free relay…Anchor leg of 400m freestyle relay of team that finished on the podium at state and also was the Northeast Georgia Champion in the 200m and 400m freestyle relay as a sophomore…Finished ninth in the 100-yard freestyle and 10th in the 200-yard freestyle for the Class 4-6A
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state meet in her second year…Swam anchor leg on 200m freestyle relay that earned a spot on the podium at stadium for the first time in school history as a freshman while also taking eighth in the 100yard freestyle for the Class 1-3A…Valedictorian and Honor Graduate with Distinction…Jefferson Homecoming Queen and Miss Jefferson High School 2022…Played trumpet in school band…National Scholar with Distinction…Georgia Merit Award winner…Member of National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, Letter of Commendation from National Merit Scholarship Program, Beta Club (president), Watson Brown Junior Advisory Board (secretary), Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Principal’s Leadership Council, Total Person Program, Mu Alpha Theta Club and Spanish Club. Personal: Born June 4, 2004…Daughter of Steve and Elizabeth Law…Mother, Elizabeth, got a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from UGA…Father, Steve, played football at Vanderbilt…Also had a grandmother, Patti Law, and uncle, Pat Law, who achieved UGA degrees…Intending to major in Biological Engineering.
Erin McMeniman Javelin
5-8 • -- (I)/Jr. (O) Dracut, Mass. Dracut/Brown
Kelsie MurrellRoss Throws
6-8 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) St. David’s, Grenada J.W. Fletcher Catholic Secondary School/Barton CC
2022 NJCAA Indoor Champion (Weight Throw) 2022 NJCAA Indoor First Team All-American (Weight Throw) 2022-23 KJCCC/Region VI Indoor Shot Put Champion (JC) 2022-23 NJCAA Indoor Champion (Shot Put) 2022-23 NJCAA Indoor First Team All-American (Shot Put) 2022-23 KJCCC/Region VI Outdoor Shot Put Champion (JC) 2022-23 NJCAA Outdoor Champion (Shot Put) 2022-23 NJCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (Shot Put) Barton Community College (2021-23): 2023 – Won her second straight NJCAA Division I outdoor title in the shot put with a throw of 15.49 meters/50 feet, 9 ¾ inches, earning First Team All-America honors…Placed fifth in the discus at the NJCAA meet with a 45.66/14910…Captured the KJCCC/Region VI outdoor shot put title with a mark of 15.38m/50-5.50…Was runner-up at regional championships in the discus with a 48.78m/160-0, which ranks sixth in school history… Victorious in the shot put at the Texas Tech Masked Rider Open with a throw of 16.08m/52-9.25, the third-furthest throw in Barton history… Won the NJCAA Division I indoor shot put title for the second straight season with a mark of 16.12m/52-10.75…National champion in the weight throw indoors with a personal best 18.30m/60-0.50, which ranks fourth in Barton history…Named First Team Indoor All-American in the shot put and weight throw…Shattered the Region VI Indoor Championship meet record in the shot put with a school recordbreaking throw of 16.30m/53-5.75. 2022 – Named an NJCAA First Team Outdoor All-American after winning the NJCAA Division I national title in the shot put with a mark of 14.84m/48-8.25…Also placed third in the discus at the NJCAA Championships with a throw of 47.41m/155-06, helping the Barton women place fourth…Finished with the second-most points by a female field athlete in the meet’s history with 16…Won the shot put at the NJCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships with a throw of 15.21m/49-11.00, the top NJCAA mark that season…Region VI indoor champion in the shot put with a throw of 14.55m/47-9. Personal: Born June 9, 2002...Daughter of Deshan Murrell and Micheal Ross...One of three siblings...Majoring in Psychology with an intended major in Exercise and Sport Science.
2023: Outdoor – Finished third in the javelin and moved to No. 10 in the school record books at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a mark of 50.48 meters/165 feet, 7 inches…Placed seventh at the SEC Championships with a throw of 49.06m/160-11…Qualified for the NCAA Championships after placing 11th at the NCAA East Prelims with a mark of 48.15m/157-11…Posted a mark of 46.24m/151-08 to place 24th in the javelin at the NCAA Championships. Indoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. College – Brown University: Set school record in javelin…Took 24th (46.12 meters/151 feet, 4 inches) at the 2022 NCAA Championships…Received her Bachelor’s degree from Brown…Personal best of 51.22m (168-0). High School: Finished as an All-American in the javelin at the 2018 New Balance Outdoors thanks to a third-place finish as a senior…Was runner-up at the New England and All-State Massachusetts meets…Set the State Meet record to win in her final season and took first at the State Relay meet that season…Earned 2017 New Balance Outdoor All-America honors with a thirdplace finish in the javelin as a junior…Runner-up finish in the javelin and eighth-place finish in the discus at the All-State Massachusetts meet…Set state meet record in the javelin to win title as a junior while also taking fifth in the discus…Finished first in the javelin, second in the shot put and second in the discus at the State Relay in her third year…Established fresh meet records in the Andover Boosters and Haverhill Invitational…Named Most Outstanding Performer for Dracut as a junior and received 2017 Merrimack Valley Conference All-Conference Award…Was the indoor State Relays shot put champion in her third season…Set school record first three years of high ominique ustin school…Part of 2016 New Balance Outdoor National Championships as a sophomore...Earned 2016 All-Conference Award in her second year and was prints urdles a discus All-Star…Named Most Outstanding Field Performer at the Freshman/Sophomore state meet as a sophomore and set the meet record…Won 5-8 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) second straight javelin title at State Relays and was second in the discus Phoenix, Ariz. in her second year…Competed at the 2015 New Balance Outdoor Nationals (Emerging Elite Javelin) as a freshman…All-Star at conference in her first North Canyon/Texas A&M year in both the javelin and discus…Champion as a freshman in the javelin at State Relays in 2015…Also played volleyball and basketball at Dracut…Most 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (400m Hurdles) Valuable Player, team captain and conference All-Star in volleyball…Elected captain of basketball team…Member of National Honor Society, Business 2023 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (4x400m Relay) National Honors Society and DECA. Personal: Born Nov. 13, 1999…Daughter of Ken and Pam McMeniman and 2023: Outdoor – Placed 12th in the 400-meter dash prelims at the NCAA Championships with a season-best time of 56.68 to shoot to No. has a brother, Sean...Seeking a Master’s degree in Public Administration.
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2 in the school record books…Qualified for the NCAA Championships with a time of 57.56 in the quarterfinals of the NCAA East Prelims, placing 10th…Finished sixth in the first round of the NCAA East Prelims, clocking a time of 57.35…Finished 11th in the 400m prelims of the SEC Championships with a time of 57.09… Ran the anchor leg on the 4x400m relay team at the NCAA Championships, helping the Bulldogs post a school record (3:29.90) to finish eighth in the prelims… The 4x400m relay team went on to place ninth in the finals with a time of 3:30.55. Indoor – Competed in the 400-meter dash at the SEC Championships, clocking a time of 54.00 in the prelims to place 20th…Placed 10th at the Texas Tech Open and the MLK Invite, crossing the line at 54.55 and 54.62, respectively… Ran the second leg on the 4x400m relay team that took the crown at the Texas Tech Open with a time of 3:33.28, the second-fastest in Georgia history…Was also a member of the 4x400m teams that recorded UGA’s No. 5 mark all-time at the Clemson Invite (3:36.25) and the school’s No. 8 time at the Tiger Paw Invite (3:37.65). Texas A&M – 2020-22: 2022: Indoor - Competed in the season opener at the Wooo Pig Classic, ran 1:33.0 in the 600m...Was the first collegiate athlete to cross the line in the 800m (2:09.40) at the Ted Nelson Invitational...Placed seventh in the 400m at the Aggie Invitational with a personal best time of 57.04...Took second in the 800m at the Texas Tech Open with a time of 2:09.63...Ran on the 4x400m (3:37.31) at the Charlie Thomas Invitational placing second... Competed in the 800m at the SEC Indoor Championships finishing in 2:10.19 for 15th place in the prelims. Outdoor - At the Baldy Castillo Invite, she ran 1:01.50 in the 400m hurdles to finish seventh, along with running on the 4x400m team that finished third in 3:34.33... Ran the 400m hurdles at the Texas Relays, finishing in 1:01.03... Finished fourth in the 400m hurdles at the Texas A&M vs Texas Dual meet with a season best time of 59.65... Competed in the 400m hurdles at the 44 Farms Team Invite and UF Tom Jones Memorial meet, running 1:00.22 and 1:00.46, respectively. 2021: Indoor - Made her Aggie debut at the Ted Nelson Invitational finishing second in the 800m at 2:09.65, also ran as a member of the 4x400m that won with a time of 3:41.18...Finished third in the 600m (1:29.27) at the Aggie Invitational...Ran third leg of the 4x400m that clocked 3:31.09, the 10th best time in Aggie history Also clocked a personal best 800m time of 2:08.44 which is No. 7 on the Texas A&M all-time list...Made the SEC Championships team, placed ninth in the 800m prelims at 2:08.50. Outdoor - Opened her outdoor season winning the Willie Williams Classic 400m hurdles at 59.37, also ran as a member of the 4x400m that won at 3:37.92...Won the Texas vs Texas A&M dual 400m hurdles race at 58.48...Clocked 58.49 two weeks later at the Michael Johnson Invitational...Ran a personal best 400m hurdles time of 57.52 at the LSU Alumni Gold, earned her first career SEC weekly honor for her efforts...Scored two points at the SEC Outdoor Championships finishing seventh in the 400m hurdles at a time of 58.19, ran 58.50 in the prelims...Clocked 58.54 at the NCAA West Regional, finished as the 15th fastest missing qualification to the NCAA Championships by three positions. High School: Helped lead North Canyon to team titles as a freshman, sophomore and junior...Set state record in the 800m..Finished sixth in the 800m at the USATF U-20 Outdoor Championships…Secured nine individual state titles (four in 2019, three in 2018, two in 2017)…Named Gatorade Women’s Track & Field Athlete of the Year…Set school records in the 100m hurdles (14.24), 300m hurdles (42.03) and 2:06.01 (800m)…Competed for Showtyme Performance…Personal bests of 57.52 (400m hurdles) and 2:06.01 (800m). Personal: Born March 25, 2022…Daughter of Rose Thompson and Eli Mustin…One of five sisters…Majoring in Communication Studies.
Gracie O’Neal Distance
5-7 • Sr. (I)/Jr. (O) Chickamauga, Ga. Gordon Lee 2023: Cross Country – Scored at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener to place 18th(18:04.15)…Scored for the second-straight meet at the 5k Gamecock Challenge to finish fifth (17:06.4)…Was the Lady Bulldogs’ fourth scorer at the 6k Paul Short Run, placing 119th with a time of 21:54.90…Was the second Georgia runner across the finish line at the 6k Crimson Classic, posting a time of 21:10.0 and placing 46th…Finished as the team’s No. 2 scorer for the second-straight week, running a 21:40.5 to place 65th overall at the 6k SEC Championships… Finished 101st at the 6k NCAA South Regional, clocking a personal best 20:55.2 to score for Georgia…Scored in all six meets on the season. Outdoor – Placed 11th in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the SEC Championships with a season-best time of 10:55.05…Finished 25th at the Raleigh Relays, clocking a time of 11:06.93…Earned a fifthplace finish at the Virginia Challenge with a 3000m steeplechase time of 11:11.10…Placed sixth in the 1500m at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational, crossing the finish line in 4:38.79. Indoor – Ran a season-best mile time of 4:59.77 (63rd) at the Music City Challenge…Placed 10th in the mile at the Clemson Invite (5:11.62). 2022: Cross Country - Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Outdoor – Finished eighth in the 1500 meters thanks to a 4:46.59 at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial…Completed the 3000m in 10:32.66 for third at the Tom Jones Memorial. Indoor - Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. 2021: Cross Country- Her only action of the season came at the 4k Kennesaw State Opener as she finished 64th (17:15.81). Outdoor – Redshirted for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Finished seventh in the mile (5:11.81) at the Carolina Challenge…Finished fifth with a 10:21.38 in the 3000m at the USC Indoor Open. 2020: Cross Country - Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. High School: Captured top honors at the GHSA A state cross country meet as a sophomore, junior and senior…Named the 2019 Chattanooga Best of Preps XC Athlete of the Year…Finished first in the 1600 meters and 3200m at the state meet and helped lead her team to the state championship as a junior…Swept the 1600m and 800m during her sophomore spring…Won the 1600m state title and was the 800m runner-up as a freshman…Named 2017-2019 Walker County Female Athlete of the Year…Also played basketball and volleyball at Gordon Lee…Valedictorian, Class President and S.T.A.R. Student (highest SAT score)…Member of National Honor Society (President), Student Council (President), Key Club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes Leadership Team. Personal: Born June 13, 2002…Daughter of Terry and Janet O’Neal… Brother, Caleb, plays football at Kennesaw State and sister, Alli, graduated from UGA…Majoring in Dietetics...Recipient of the Ramsey Scholarship for Academic and Athletic Excellence.
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5-5 • So. (I)/So. (O) Sandy Springs, Ga. Riverwood 2023: Cross Country – Opened her season with a 23rd-place finish at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener (18:21.15)…Crossed the finish line in 17:40.7 to place 18th at the 5k Gamecock Challenge…Ran a 22:34.30 at the 6k Paul Short Run to finish 208th…Clocked a time of 22:30.3 at the 6k Crimson Classic…Ran a time of 23:58.5 at the 6k SEC Championships. Outdoor – Finished fifth in the 1500 meters at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a season-best time of 4:34.80… Earned top-10 finishes in two events at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, placing eighth in the 1500m with a time of 4:38.45 and ninth in the 800m with a time of 2:15.48. Indoor – Competed in the 800-meters at the Music City Challenge, crossing the line in 2:15.11 for 36th. 2022: Cross Country - Redshirted for the Lady Bulldogs. High School: Earned First Team All-State honors in the 800 meters and 1600m as a freshman and junior, adding First Team honors in cross country in her third year…Finished with a bronze medal in the 800m at the GHSA 6A state meet along with taking seventh in cross country meet at the state meet….Took sixth overall in the 800m and eighth in the 1600m at the 5A state meet as a freshman….Personal bests of 2:13.69 (800m) and 5:12 (1600m)…Also swam at Riverwood… IB Diploma Student who was an Honor Roll student and Senior Leader of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Personal: Born July 21, 2004…Daughter of Tom and Suzanne Ouellette…Intending to major in Elementary Education.
Gracey Owens Distance
5-9 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Germantown, Tenn. Houston 2023: Cross Country – Scored in her collegiate debut, climbing 25 places in the final 2,000m to finish 69th at the 6k Crimson Classic (21:27.2)…Ran a 22:43.0 at the 6k SEC Championships to finish 116thoverall…Scored as Georgia’s fifth finisher at the 6k NCAA South Regionals, placing 120th overall with a 21:07.4. High School: Broke the Houston HS girls 2000-meter steeplechase school record (8:14)…Captain of both the track and cross teams in her fourth year…Earned the Leadership Award as a senior…Voted to the All-Metro girls track team as a junior and senior…Earned 110% Award as a sophomore…Member of All-Metros girls cross team four years… Earned the Best Newcomer Award and nominated for Memphis Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year as a freshman…Personal bests of 5:13 (1600m), 2:20 (800m), 18:48 (5000m) and 11:25 (3200m)… Member of National Honor Society, Beta Club, Environmental Club (vice president), 30 and Above Club, Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta National Mathematics Honors Society… AP Scholar with Honor/Distinction...Graduated Summa Cum Laude… Youth elder at Germantown Presbyterian Church. Personal: Born July 21, 2005…Daughter of Forrest and Teresa Owens…Mother, Teresa, played basketball at Jackson State… Intending to major in Biology with a focus in neuroscience on a premed track.
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High School: Finalist in the 100-meter dash at the GHSA 7A state track meet as a senior…Broke the Mountain View High School long jump record five times and 200m record twice during her final season… Received All-Gwinnett County Track honors as a senior, also receiving the Sprint Award, Captain’s Award and Jumps Award that season… Broke the Mountain View school record in the 100m twice and in the 200m once as a junior…Qualified for the state track meet during her third season, also receiving the Sprint Award…GHSA 7A state finalist in the 200m as a sophomore…Set school records in the 100m, 200m and 4x400m relay during her second season, receiving the Sprint Award… All of Phillips’ personal bests of 7.49 (60m), 11.81 (100m), 24.87 (200m) and 5.48 meters/17 feet, 11 ¾ inches (long jump) were recorded during her junior and senior years of high school while battling through a series of hamstring injuries…Also played flag football and lacrosse in high school…Named Second-Team All-County in flag football as a senior, also receiving the Captain’s Award…As a junior, was named Flag Football MVP, Flag Football Summer Tournament MVP and Offensive Player of the Year…Also received Flag Football MVP and Offensive Player of the Year honors as a sophomore…Received Flag Football Rising Star Award as a freshman after being named First Team All-County…Graduated with honors from Mountain View with a 4.0 GPA from kindergarten through high school graduation…Received the Scholar Athlete Award for playing sports during all four years of high school…UGA/Georgia Merit Scholar…Earned perfect attendance and community service cord…Member of Key Club and NSHSS. Personal: Born June 20, 2005...Daughter of Gail Devers and Mike Phillips...One of three siblings...Mother, Gail, was a sprinter and hurdler at UCLA and went on to compete professionally where she set the American record twice (60m – 7.06; 100m hurdles - 12.33), won three Olympic gold medals (1992 – 100m, 1996 – 4x100m relay, 100m) and 11 World Championship titles…Father, Mike, was a wide receiver on the University of the Pacific football team…Aunt, Monica Moore, ran track at UCLA…Uncle, Chris Moore, played football at Cal State Northridge…Cousin, CJ Moore, played football at the University of Virginia…Cousin, Kryslyn Moore, attended UGA…Intending to major in Biological Engineering.
Zoe Pollock
Sprints/Hurdles 5-8 • So. (I)/So. (O) Oxford, U.K. Royal Latin School 2023: Outdoor – Won the 400-meter hurdles and moved to third in the school record books at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, running a time of 57.38…Runner-up at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 58.47, also running the third leg of the 4x400m relay team that took first at the same meet. Indoor – Ran Georgia’s fastest 600-meter time of the season at the Clemson Invite, clocking a 1:33.22 to place fifth…Ran a season-best 54.28 in the 400m to place eighth at theTexasTech Open…Also finished eighth at the MLK Invite with a 54.16…Added a 54.65 in the 400m at the SEC Championships for 23rd in the prelims… Ran the anchor leg
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Michaela Prevallet Pole Vault
5-5 • Sr. (I)/Sr. (O) Milton, Ga. Cambridge 2023: Outdoor – Tied for sixth in the pole vault at the GT Invite with a mark of 3.56 meters/11 feet, 8 inches…Victorious at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invite, reaching a mark of 3.40m/11-1.75…Placed sixth at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, recording a mark of 3.25m/10-8. Indoor – Cleared a season-best height of 3.45 meters/11 feet, 3.75 inches in the pole vault at the Tiger Paw Invite…Placed eighth in the pole vault at the Clemson Invite with a 3.15m/10-4.00 mark. 2022: Outdoor – Finished fourth in the pole vault at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial thanks to a 3.67/12-0.50 clearance. Indoor – Cleared 3.59m/11-9.25 for 11th in the pole vault at the Tiger Paw Invite. High School: Set Cambridge record in the pole vault as a senior… Four-year varsity letter winner in track and field and three-year Scholarly Athlete Award winner…Clocked a 14.44 and was second at the state meet in the hurdles…Set high school record in the hurdles… Team captain as a junior and senior…Took fifth in the pole vault at the state championship during her second year and was a qualifier in the hurdles as a sophomore and junior…Won Hurdler of the Year during her second and third years…State qualifier as a freshman… Personal-best pole vault mark of 3.81 meters (12 feet, 6 inches)…Also competed in gymnastics, tennis and diving in high school…Qualified for the state gymnastics meet as a freshman and the state diving meet as a junior…National Honor Society, HOSA, National Spanish Honor Society, National Social Studies Honor Society, Talented/Gifted Program, Key Club member…Internship with Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care…AP Scholar with Distinction…Gallant Hearts Guide Dog Center Puppy Raiser. Personal: Born December 7, 2001…Daughter of Mike Prevallet and Eric Prevallet…Majoring in Genetics (pre-Med) with a Spanish minor.
Stephanie Ratcliffe Throws
5-10 • So. (I)/So. (O) Melbourne, Australia Doncaster Secondary College/Harvard 2023 Ivy League Indoor Weight Throw Champion 2023 USTFCCCA Northeast Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year 2023 Ivy League Outdoor Hammer Throw Champion 2023 NCAA Outdoor Champion (Hammer Throw) 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (Hammer Throw) 2023 USTFCCCA Northeast Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year Harvard (2019-23): 2023 - Won the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the hammer throw with a personal-best mark of 73.63 meters (241 feet, 7 inches)…Her championship-winning throw was the longest in the NCAA that season while her longest regular season toss of 70.59m/231-7 earned her a victory at the Penn Relays with the country’s second-best throw…Ranks fifth on the all-time NCAA list in the hammer throw…Went undefeated in the hammer during her senior season and was named USTFCCCA Northeast Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year…Ivy League and Australian hammer throw record holder…Named Most Outstanding Field Performer at the 2023 Ivy League Indoor Championships after capturing the weight throw title with a mark of 21.88 meters (71 feet, 9 ½ inches), an Ivy League record…Earned 2023 USTFCCCA Northeast Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year honors…Earned Harvard’s Radcliffe Prize as a senior, given to the most outstanding athlete from a women’s team… Personal bests of 73.63m/241-7 (hammer throw) and 21.88m/71-9.50 (weight throw)…2023 Academic All-Ivy recipient…Graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience. 2022 – Did not compete. 2021 – Did not compete. 2020 - Opened her college career with a second-place finish in the weight throw at the Crimson Opener (17.72m/58-1)... Placed third in the weight throw at the Beantown Challenge before winning the Clemson Invitational (18.04m/59-2)...Collected three more third-place finishes at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge, the Crimson Elite (18.86m/61-10) and Ivy League Heps (18.54m/60-10)...Notched a career-best throw of 18.92m/62-1 at H-Y-P to finish at the front of the field..Outdoor season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Personal: Born Dec. 29, 2000…Daughter of David and Monica Ratcliffe…Seeking a Master’s degree in Business Analytics.
Reign Redmond Sprints
5-6 • Fr. (I)/Fr. (O) Carson, Calif. Carson High School: Won the CIF Los Angeles City Section title in the 100-meter dash and 200m as a senior… Placed third in the 100m at the Arcadia Invitational in her fourth year…Victorious in the 100m at the Mt. SAC Relays and Marine League Championships during her final season…Broke CA Winter Track and Field Championship records in the 60m and 150m as a senior…100m champion at the CIF state track meet as a junior…Also secured 100m titles at the CIF
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Los Angeles City Section Championships, Mt. Carmel/Asics Track and Field Invitational, West Coast Relays and Mt. SAC Relays in her third year…200m champion in the Marine League Championships and the Mt. Carmel/Asics Track and Field Invitational as a junior…100m and 4x200m relay champion at the Arcadia Invitational as a sophomore, also finishing third in the 200m and fourth in the 4x100m relay…Won CIF Los Angeles City Section titles in the 100m and 200m during her second season…Nike Chandler Rotary Invite and California Relays 100m champion as a sophomore…Personal bests of 11.45 (100m) and 23.86 (200m)…Silver and Gold Honor Roll during all four years… Class representative for three years and VP as a senior…Member of leadership group as a senior…Female lead of the Social Justice and Technology Club…CCA helper and Carson incoming tour guide. Personal: Born Sept. 19, 2005...Daughter of Lisa Scott Redmond and Joseph Redmond...Father, Joseph, played football at Arizona State... Majoring in Psychology.
Simone Rojas Distance
5-4 • So. (I)/So. (O) Augusta, Ga. Evans 2023: Cross Country – Was the fourth Georgia runner across the line at the 5k Stan Sims Opener, clocking a time of 18:03.10 to finish 17th…Posted a time of 17:39.8 at the 5k Gamecock Challenge to place 17th…Clocked a time of 22:56.30 at the 6k Paul Short Run…Placed 90th at the 6k Crimson Classic, crossing the finish line in 21:50.6…Ran a 22:45.2 at the 6k SEC Championships to finish 117th. Outdoor – Finished fourth in the 800 meters at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 2:13.27, also placing fourth at the Yellow Jacket Invite while posting a time of 2:13.62…Recorded a season-best time of 4:29.92 in the 1500m at the Raleigh Relays. Indoor – Ran a season-best mile of 4:51.97 at the Music City Challenge to take 36th…Placed 14th in the mile prelims at the SEC Championships with a 4:53.58…Finished 27th in the 3,000-meter run at the SEC Championships with a time of 9:54.84…Ran a season-best 2:14.69 in the 800m at the Music City Challenge…Placed fifth in the 800m (2:15.50) and sixth in the 1000m (2:56.05) at the Clemson Invite…Added a top-10 finish in the 600m at the MLK Invite (9th – 1:35.87). 2022: Cross Country - Was second for Georgia in her collegiate debut after running an 18:45.7 for 15th at the 5k Charlotte Opener… Scored for the Lady Bulldogs at the 5k North Alabama Invitational after taking 106th(18:30.69)…Was the team’s top finisher at the 5k Live In Lou Classic thanks to an 18:05.6 for 103rd place…Finished second on UGA and 45th overall (21:39.1) at the 6k Crimson Classic…Finished 65th at her first 6k SEC Championships and was the second Lady Bulldog finisher with a 21:51.74…Completed her season by scoring at the 6k NCAA South Regional with a 22:41.10 for 147th. High School: Won the GHSA 6A state cross country title as a senior while also grabbing top honors in the 1600 meters in the spring…Was second in the 3200m at the state meet in her final season…Earned runner-up honors at the state cross meet as a junior and was named Augusta Area High School Sports Awards Runner of the Year each of her last two years…Also finished sixth in the 1600m and was third in the 3200m at the state meet in her third year...Managed a ninth-place finish at the state cross meet in her second season…Pandemic canceled her sophomore track season…Finished fourth in the 3200m and sixth in the 1600m at the state meet as a freshman…Took 10th at the state cross meet in her first year…Named Columbia County Runner of the Year as a freshman…Personal bests of 4:55 (1600m), 11:08 (3200m) and 18:17 (5k)…Also played soccer at Evans…High Honor Roll, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), Beta Club, National Honor Soci-
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ety, Rho Kappa and National Math Honor Society member. Personal: Born Jan. 1, 2004…Daughter of Carol and Matt Rojas… Intending to major in Civil Engineering.
Ella Rush
Multi-Events 5-10 • So. (I)/So. (O) Repton, U.K. Repton School 2023: Outdoor – Placed ninth in the heptathlon at the Mt. SAC Relays, totaling 5,422 points…Recorded her best 100-meter hurdles time of the season as part of the heptathlon at the Mt. SAC Relays, crossing the finish line in 14.27 to place 13th. Indoor – Placed third in the pentathlon at the Texas Tech Multis while tallying 4,100 points, the 10th-highest total in Georgia history… Collected 4,081 points to finish fifth in the pentathlon at the SEC Championships…Recorded a season-best long jump of 6.08 meters/11 feet, 11.50 inches as part of the pentathlon for fourth at SECs. High School: Senior British Indoor pentathlon champion with a meet record of 4,365 points and the National indoor age 17 record in the long jump (6.34 meters/20 feet, 9 ¾ inches)…Won the Senior British Indoor pentathlon title at 17 years old…Ranked world No. 1 under-20 for indoor pentathlon in 2022…Won the national pentathlon and long jump (6.22m/20-5) titles in her final year…Silver medalist outdoors in the heptathlon at the British Championships as a senior…Finished sixth at the World Under-20 Championships in her final year after scoring a personal best 5,591 points in the heptathlon…Captured Danish and Latvian heptathlon championships and was the national pentathlon champion as a junior…Also went 5.97m (18-7) at Indoor Nationals in her third year…Champion of the Home Nationals in the combined events as a sophomore…Won the England combined events titles as a freshman…English Schools combined events champion in her first two years…Personal bests of 6.34m/20-9.75 (long jump), 1.76m/5-9.25 (high jump) and 2:16 (800m)…Also played field hockey and netball. Personal: Born April 8, 2004…Daughter of Caroline and Sam Rush… Father, Sam, played rugby for English professional teams Saracens and Nottingham and in the varsity match for Oxford University… Brother, Johnny, plays soccer for English professional team Burton Albion and for the Gibraltar national team…Majoring in Fashion Merchandising.
Janie Sandel Distance
5-5 • So. (I)/RFr. (O) Sandy Springs, Ga. Johnson Ferry Christian Academy 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Outdoor – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Finished 10th in the 1000-meters at the Clemson Invite with a time of 2:59.40…Clocked a time of 2:14.97 in the 800m at the Music City Challenge for 35th. 2022: Cross Country - Ran in a pair of meets during her first fall,
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finishing with a 119th-place standing (23:32.2) at the Crimson Classic. High School: State runner-up in cross country in the Georgia Association of Private & Parochial Schools (GAPPS) D2 as a freshman and a sophomore…Finished third at the state meet as a junior…Captured the 1600 meter and 3200m titles at the 2022 GAPPS state meet as a senior…Sat out senior cross country season with an injury…Fourtime cross country team captain…Personal bests of 18:46 (5k) and 5:19 (1600m)…Also played soccer at Johnson Ferry and was MVP as a sophomore...Earned Dr. Kimberly Maiocco Entrepreneurialism and Leadership Award…Member of Student Council, Yearbook Club, National Honor Society and Peer Leadership Program. Personal: Born May 25, 2004…Daughter of Beverly and Todd Sandel…One of four siblings…Brother, Joey, runs cross country and track at Georgia Tech…Intending to major in Management with a certificate in Leadership and Service.
Caitlin Schroeder Distance
5-8 • So. (I)/So. (O) Jefferson, Ga. Jefferson 2023: Cross Country – Clocked a time of 18:42.30 at the 5k Stan Sims Cross Country Opener to place 37th. Outdoor – Finished 13th in the 1500 meters at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a time of 4:48.39, her fastest of the season…Ran a 1500m time of 4:51.51 at the GT Invite. Indoor – Ran a 10:43.23 in the 3,000-meters at the Clemson Invite for 25th place. 2022: Cross Country – Finished 120th (23:33.4) at her only meet of the year, the 6k Crimson Classic. *Following high school, joined the UGA Club Cross Country and Track Team as a freshman and won the 3000-meter steeplechase running unattached at the Berry Invitational. High School: Finished sixth in the 800 meters at the GHSA state AAAA meet as a senior while also finishing eighth in the 1600m… Ran a leg on the state champion 4x800m relay after the unit clocked a school record…Managed a 10th-place finish at the state cross country meet in her final fall…Was the region runner-up in cross before the pandemic canceled her junior track season…Sixth at the state meet in both the 1600m and 800m after taking ninth at the state cross meet as a sophomore…Won region titles in cross and in the 1600m and 800m in her second year…Earned the cross country MVP award and was a letterwinner both on the track and on the course as a freshman… Personal bests of 19:09 (5k XC), 5:25 (1600m), 2:22 (800m), 12:16 (steeplechase), 5:01 (1500m)…Also played soccer at Jefferson…Earned the Chick-fil-A Character Award, was an AP Scholar in AP Statistics and garnered the Academic Award in Honors Physics and WWII History… Vice President of Mu Alpha Theta Math Club and part of Beta Club, Spanish Club, Principal’s Leadership Counsel and Total Personal Program…Honor Graduate. Personal: Born Oct. 17, 2002…Daughter of Matthew and Marylauren Schroeder…Both parents and her grandmother, Betty Schroeder, attended UGA…Oldest of her three siblings, Matthew, runs cross country and track at Emmanuel College…Majoring in Elementary Education.
Haley Tate Sprints
5-7 • So. (I)/So. (O) St. Louis, Mo. Seven Lakes - Houston 2023: Outdoor – Finished runner-up in the 400-meter dash at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational, clocking her seasonbest time of 53.43 to take over the No. 9 spot in the school record books…Placed eighth in the 200m at the same meet with a time of 23.83… Ran the second leg on the 4x400m relay team at the NCAA Championships, helping the Bulldogs post a school record (3:29.90) to finish eighth in the prelims…The 4x400m relay team went on to place ninth in the finals with a time of 3:30.55. Indoor – Finished seventh in the 400-meter dash at the MLK Invite, clocking a time of 54.36…Posted a 24.22 in the 200m to finish 19th at the Texas Tech Open…Ran the third leg on the 4x400m relay team that took the crown at the Texas Tech Open with a time of 3:33.28, the second-fastest in Georgia history. High School: Part of 4x100-meter relay and 4x400m relay teams that won the Texas Relays…Earned runner-up honors in the 400m at the Texas state meet in her third and fourth seasons…Relay leg on 4x100m and 4x400m teams that won district, area, regional and state championships…Captured district, area and regional titles in the 400m as a junior ad senior…Posted personal-best times of 54.6 (indoor 400m) and 52.97 (outdoor 400m)…Part of Leadership Academy. Personal: Born Jan. 16, 2004…Daughter of Brigette Bazile-Taylor and stepdad Garland Taylor…Intending to major in Business.
Ashley Thompson Distance
5-8 • RFr. (I)/RFr. (O) Gainesville, Ga. Gainesville 2023: Cross Country – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Outdoor – Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs. Indoor – Did not compete for the Bulldogs. 2022: Cross Country – Ran in a pair of meets during her first fall, topping out at 244th (19:56.87) at the 5k North Alabama Invitational. High School: Finished in the top 15 at the GHSA 7A state cross country meet and was a state qualifier on her squad’s 4x800-meter relay team in the spring as a senior…Runner-up at cross country region meet and grabbed top honors in the 3200m at the region track meet in her final year…Won the 7A state 3200m championship and was sixth in the 1600m as a junior…Was an All-State cross performer after taking second at the 7A state meet as a junior… Region cross champion during her third year while also winning the 1600m and finishing as the runner-up in the 3200m at the region meet….Earned All-State honors in cross as a sophomore and was a top-10 finisher at the state meet that year…Won the 6A region cross title in her second season…Top 25 finish at the state cross meet as a freshman…Collected region titles in both the 1600m and 3200m in her first year…Personal bests of 5:08 (1600m), 10:59 (3200m) and 18:17 (5k)…A Georgia Merit Scholar who was a Youth Leadership Hall graduate and a National Honors and Beta Club Scholar. Personal: Born Aug. 10, 2004…Daughter of Ali and Zack Thompson… Intending to major in Marketing.
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Mikesha Welcome Jumps
5-8 • -- (I)/Sr. (O) Toronto, Canada St. John Henry Newman/Oklahoma 2020 NCAA Indoor All-American (Triple Jump) 2022 NCAA Indoor Second Team All-American (Triple Jump) 2021-22 NCAA Outdoor Second Team All-American (Triple Jump) 2021, 2023 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (Triple Jump) 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (Triple Jump) St. Vincent National Record (Triple Jump) 2023: Outdoor – Posted the No. 13 all-time collegiate performance in the triple jump at the Mt. SAC Relays, finishing first with a mark of 14.07 meters/46 feet, 2 inches, which is third in the school record books…Placed third at the SEC Championships, leaping to 13.68m/44-10.75 (+2.2)…Qualified for the NCAA Championships after posting a mark of 13.50m/44-3.5 (+2.4) to finish third at the NCAA East Prelims…Finished eighth at the NCAA Championships with a mark of 13.62m/44-8.25 for First Team All=America honors. Indoor – Reached a mark of 14.21 meters/46 feet, 7.50 inches to place fourth in the triple jump at the NCAA Championships and set a St. Vincent national record…That mark was the No. 2 triple jump all-time in Georgia history…Took third in the triple jump at the SEC Championships with a 13.74m/45-1.00…Placed fourth or higher in the triple jump five times during the season…Placed ninth in the long jump at the SEC Championships, jumping 5.96m/19-6.75. Oklahoma – 2019-22: 2022: Indoor - Earned second team AllAmerica status at the NCAA Indoor Championships in triple jump, marking 41-8 (12.70m) ... Placed second in triple jump with a mark of 43-3 (13.18m) at the Big 12 Indoor Championships ... Placed second in triple jump with a mark of 44-6 (13.56m) at the Arkansas Qualifier ... Placed third in triple jump with a mark of 43-7.25 (13.29m) at the Texas Tech Shootout ... Clinched first in triple jump with a mark of 42-1.25 (12.83m) and placed second in long jump with a mark of 5.94m(19-6) at the Husker Invite ... Won triple jump at the Arkansas Invitational with a mark of 43-1 (13.13m). Outdoor - Placed ninth for second team All-America status in triple jump, marking 43-4.5 (13.22m) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships ... Qualified in triple jump for the NCAA West Prelims, where she leaped a wind-aided PR at 45-7 (13.89mw) (2.9) ... Scored for fifth place in triple jump with a mark at 44-0 (13.41mw) (2.4) at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships ... Grabbed first in triple jump with a 44-0 (13.41m), eighth in long jump with a 18-10.5 (5.75m) at the Alumni Muster ... Took the top spot in triple jump at the John Jacobs Invitational, marking 44-2.75 (13.48m) ... Came out on top in triple jump, leaping 44-2.5 (13.47m) at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational ... Placed third at the Texas Relays in triple, marking 44-4.75 (13.53m). 2021: Indoor - Earned first team All-America status at the NCAA Indoor Championships in triple jump, marking 43-9.75 (13.35m) ... Leaped a PR of 43-11.75 (13.40m) in triple jump for fifth place, marked a 19-8.75 (6.01m) in long jump at the Big 12 Indoor Championships ... Finished seventh in TJ with a 42-1.25 (12.83m), marked a 18-5.25 (5.62m) in LJ at the Texas Tech Shootout ... Took third in TJ with a 4111.25 (12.78m) at the Charlie Thomas Invitational ... Placed seventh in LJ with a mark of 19-0.75 (5.81m) at the Texas Tech Red Raider Invitational ... Took first in TJ with a 41-3.25 (1258m), fifth in LJ with a 18-8.5 (5.70m) at the Arkansas Invitational ... Finished fourth at the K-State Winter Invite in TJ with a 41-8 (12.70m). Outdoor - Finished 11th in triple jump with a mark of 43-10.75 (13.38m) at the NCAA Championships … Placed ninth in triple jump with a distance of 43-10 (13.36m) at the NCAA West Prelims … Took bronze in triple jump with a mark of 43-7.75 (13.30mw) and competed in long jump, placing 20th with a mark of 19-2 (5.84m) at the Big 12 Championships … PR’d in triple jump at the Desert Heat Classic with
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a distance of 45-0.25 (13.72m) … Clinched first at the John Jacobs Invitational in triple jump with a mark of 44-7.5 (13.60mw) … Clinched first place in triple jump with a mark of 43-9.25 (13.34mw), third in the 4x100 relay with a time of 45.91, and fifth in long jump with a distance of 18-9.75 (5.73m) at the Sooner Invite … Took second place in triple jump with a mark of 44-6.25 (13.57m) and fifth in long with a distance of 19-10.75 (6.06m) at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. 2020: Indoor - Competed in the long jump and triple jump at the indoor Big 12 Championships, taking second in the triple jump with a leap of 43-2.25 (13.16m) … Recorded a PR 20-2.25 (6.15m) in the long jump at the Tyson Invitational, claiming second … Took fifth in the triple jump at the Tyson Invitational … Earned first in the long jump at the J.D. Martin Invitational … Took fifth in the triple jump at the Razorback Invitational with a 42-8.25 (13.01m) … Claimed first place in the triple jump at the Mark Colligan Memorial … Took second in the triple jump at the Vanderbilt Invitational … Earned a PR 43-9.75 (13.35m) with a win in the triple jump at the K-State Invite in her debut. High School: MVP all four years at Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic. Personal: Born Aug. 6 , 2000...Daughter of Hanife Welcome...Majoring in Political Science.
Autumn Wilson Sprints
5-8 • So. (I)/So. (O) Austin, Texas St. Dominic Savio Catholic 2023 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (60m) 2023 NCAA Indoor First Team All-American (200m) 2023 NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American (4x100m Relay) 2023: Outdoor – Won the 200-meter dash and rocketed to fifth on the Lady Bulldog all-time top-10 list at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational with a season-best time of 22.56…Runner-up in the 100m and 200m at the Mt. SAC Relays, posting respective times of 11.05 (+2.2) and 22.71…Placed ninth in the 100m first round at the NCAA East Prelims with a wind-legal time of 11.17 (third in school history), going on to finish 14th in the quarterfinals with a time of 11.27… Ran a 200m time of 23.17 (+3.1) in the first round of the NCAA East Prelims, adding a time of 23.59 in the quarterfinals to place 21st… Ran the second leg on the 4x100m relay team that placed sixth at the NCAA Championships with a school record time of 42.87. Indoor – Set a school record of 22.42 in the prelims of the 200-meter dash at the NCAA Championships for third, before going on to place third in the finals with a 22.45…Finished fourth in the 60m at the NCAA Championships, clocking the No. 2 time in school history (7.12) in the prelims and finals…Took fourth in the 60m (7.22) and fifth in the 200m (22.97) at the SEC Championships… Was also a member of the 4x400m team that recorded UGA’s No. 8 mark all-time at the Tiger Paw Invite (3:37.65). High School: Finished with a bronze medal at the 2022 Under-20 National Championships in the 100-meter dash as a senior…Part of U-20 World Championships silver medal 4x100m relay team and set national record in the event with her teammates that same year… Collected Nike Indoor titles in the 60m and 200m in her fourth year while also winning the Nike Outdoor 100m…Locked down Texas high school state titles in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m as a senior…Earned a silver medal in the 100m at the AAU Junior Olympics and won state championships in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay as a junior…Captured Texas A&M indoor 60m and 200m titles as a sophomore while also becoming an AAU Junior Olympics medalist as a sophomore… New Balance Nationals medalist and AAU Junior Olympic medalist
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as freshman…Four-time state champion (100m, 200m, 4x400m, long jump) in her first year…Personal bests of 7.26 (60m), 11.14 (100m) and 23.50 (200m)…Member of National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society and Math Honor Society…Co-President of Women of God Club. Personal: Born Dec. 16, 2003…Daughter of Frank and Angela Wilson…Intending to major in Finance...Recipient of the Vickie and Leon Farmer Scholarship Endowment.
Bella Witt
Sprints/Hurdles 5-9 • Jr. (I)/Jr. (O) Calabasas, Calif. Calabasas 2023: Outdoor – Placed 17th in the first round of the 100-meter hurdles at the NCAA East Prelims with a season-best time of 13.15 (+4.9)…Later placed 19th in the quarterfinals with a time of 13.32… Finished 13th in the 100m hurdles prelims at the SEC Championships with a time of 13.25, moving to No. 8 in the school record books… Placed seventh in the 200m dash at the Spec Towns and Torrin Lawrence Invitational, crossing the finish line in 23.78. Indoor – Recorded Georgia’s fifth-fastest 60-meter hurdles time in school history at the Tiger Paw Invite, crossing the line in 8.20 to finish ninth…Competed in the 60mH at the SEC Championships, clocking a time of 8.26 to finish 14th in the prelims…Finished third at the Texas Tech Open with a 60mH time of 8.29…Recorded a 24.34 in the 200m at the Texas Tech Open to finish 20th. 2022: Outdoor – Took fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a 14.19 at the FSU Relays. Indoor – Ran her fastest time in the 60-meter hurdles of 8.33 (No. 9 in school history) for second at the Samford Invite…Completed her only 200m of the season in 25.00 for third at the Samford Invite… Ran on the 4x400m relay that clocked a 3:49.39 to take 11th at the Razorback Invite. High School: Team captain during junior and senior seasons where she was injured…Top three sophomore hurdler nationwide (No. 1 in California)…Finished second in the 100-meter hurdles at the Texas Relays and third in the 100mH at the Arcadia Invitational during her second year…Named to the All-City Team as a freshman and became the school record holder…Personal-best times of 13.6 (100mH) and 43.0 (300mH). Personal: Born April 7, 2003…Daughter of Angela and Ray Witt…Father, Ray, played basketball at the University of San Diego…Brother, Rameon Witt Jr., plays basketball at Fisher College (Boston)…Intending to major in Marketing.
After Keturah Orji captured three NCAA individual titles during her senior year and led the Lady Bulldogs to the 2018 national team championship indoors and to runner-up honors outdoors, she won The Bowerman as collegiate track and field’s top performer.
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2023 Men’s Indoor Results 2023 SEC Indoor Championships 2/23-25 • Randal Tyson Track Center • Fayetteville, Ark.
Men's Top Indoor Marks 60-Meter Dash............... Keshaun Black (MLK Invite)........................... 6.66 60-Meter Hurdles......... Kyle Garland (NCAA Championships)......... ^7.74 200-Meter Dash............ Matthew Boling (NCAA Championships).. $20.12 300-Meter Dash............ Matthew Boling (Clemson Invite)................ 32.40 400-Meter Dash............ Elija Godwin (NCAA Champs./SEC Champs.).... $44.75 600-Meter Dash............ Will Sumner (MLK Invite)......................... 1:15.32 800-Meter Run.............. Will Sumner (Music City Challenge)...... $1:47.28 1000-Meter Run............ KC Heron (Clemson Invite)........................ 2:23.47 Mile Run........................ Sam Bowers (Music City Challenge)........ 4:05.23 3,000-Meter Run........... Sam Bowers (SEC Championships).......... 8:12.38 5,000-Meter Run........... Sam Bowers (SEC Championships)........ 14:24.13 4x400-Meter Relay....... M. Boling, C. Cavanaugh, (Tiger Paw Invite)............. .............................................C. Morales Williams, E. Godwin....................... 3:02.90 High Jump..................... Kyle Garland (Texas Tech Multis)...... ^2.19/7-2.25 Long Jump..................... Kyle Garland (NCAA Champs.)...... ^#7.96/26-1.5 Pole Vault...................... Nikolai van Huyssteen (MLK Invite)..........5.30/17-4.50 Shot Put......................... Gavin Beverage (Texas Tech Open)......17.74/58-2.5 Weight Throw............... Alencar Pereira (MLK Invite).................... 21.89/71-10 Heptathlon.................... Kyle Garland (NCAA Champs.)..............*#$%6,639 pts ^mark achieved during heptathlon event; $school record; #meet record; *collegiate record; %facility record
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Arkansas Florida Alabama GEORGIA Tennessee Ole Miss
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SEC Indoor Championship SCORERS 400m......................................................................................1. Elija Godwin, 44.75. 800m.....................................................................................1. Will Sumner, 1:48.28 200m..................................................................................2. Matthew Boling, 20.44 4x400m Relay.............................. 2. Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner, Godwin, 3:03.32 Heptathlon.................................................................. 2. Johannes Erm, 5,935 pts. Pole Vault................................................. 5. Nikolai van Huyssteen, 5.30m/17-4.5 60mH........................................................................................6. Kyle Garland, 7.77 Long Jump...................................................................6. Kyle Garland, 7.95m/26-1 Weight Throw..................................................6. Alencar Pereira, 21.24m/69-8.25 60m........................................................................................7. Keshaun Black, 6.73
2023 Women's Indoor Results 2023 SEC Indoor Championships 2/23-25 • Randal Tyson Track Center • Fayetteville, Ark. TEAM RESULTS
Women's Top Indoor Marks
60-Meter Dash............... Kaila Jackson (NCAA Championships)........ $7.07 60-Meter Hurdles......... Bella Witt (Tiger Paw Invite)......................... 8.20 200-Meter Dash............ Autumn Wilson (NCAA Championships)... $22.42 400-Meter Dash............ Aaliyah Butler (Tiger Paw Invite)................. 52.92 600-Meter Dash............ Zoe Pollock (Clemson Invite).................... 1:33.22 800-Meter Run.............. Charlotte Augenstein (Music City Chall.)......... 2:11.58 1000-Meter Run............ Charlotte Augenstein (Clemson Invite)........ 2:52.57 Mile Run........................ Charlotte Augenstein (Music City Chall.)......... 4:51.48 3,000-Meter Run........... Sophia Baker (Music City Challenge)....... 9:53.20 5,000-Meter Run........... Audrey Knoper (Music City Chall.)......... 18:01.24 4x400-Meter Relay...... A. Butler, D. Mustin.............................................. ........................................ H. Tate, Z. Pollock (Texas Tech Open)....... 3:33.28 High Jump..................... Elena Kulichenko (SEC Champs.)..... 1.92/6-03.50 Long Jump..................... Titiana Marsh (Tiger Paw Invite)....... 6.48/21-3.25 Triple Jump................... Mikeisha Welcome (NCAA Champs.).......&14.21/46-7.50 Pole Vault...................... Courtney Long (Tiger Paw Invite)............ 3.75/12-3.50 Shot Put......................... Ana da Silva (SEC Championships)........17.25/56-7.25 Weight Throw............... Elsie Igberaese (Tiger Paw Invite)..........19.57/64-2.50 Pentathlon..................... Ella Rush (Texas Tech Multis)............... 4,100 pts.
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sec indoor championship SCORERS 60m........................................................ 2. Kaila Jackson, 7.17; 4. Autumn Wilson, 7.22 High Jump................................................................ 2. Elena Kulichenko, 1.92m/6-3.5 Triple Jump........................3. Mikeisha Welcome, 13.74m/45-1; 4. Titiana Marsh, 13.60m/44-7.5 200m...................................................4. Kaila Jackson, 22.97; 5. Autumn Wilson, 22.97 Shot Put..................................................................... 4. Ana da Silva, 17.25m/56-7.25 Pentathlon...............................................................................5. Ella Rush, 4,081 pts. Long Jump................................................................... 6. Titiana Marsh, 6.11m/20-0.5
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Men's Top Outdoor Marks 100-Meter Dash............. Keshaun Black (NCAA East Prelims)........... 10.17 110-Meter Hurdles....... Kyle Garland (NCAA Champs.)................ *^13.71 200-Meter Dash............ Matthew Boling (NCAA East Prelims)......... 20.17 400-Meter Dash............ Elija Godwin (SEC Championships)............. 44.55 400-Meter Hurdles....... Caleb Cavanaugh (SEC Championships)..... 49.04 800-Meter Run.............. Will Sumner (NCAA Champs.).............$%1:44.26 1500-Meter Run............ Clay Pender (Virginia Challenge).............. 3:44.43 3,000-Meter Steeple.... Wesley John (Raleigh Relays).................. 8:57.41 5,000-Meter Run........... Sam Bowers (Raleigh Relays)................ 13:57.72 1600m Sprint Medley.... C. Morales Williams, C. Cavanaugh.................. ........................................ W. Sumner, C. Pender (Texas Relays)....... 3:17.12 4x100-Meter Relay....... K. Black, M. Boling (NCAA Champs.).................. ........................................ C. Morales Williams, E. Godwin................. 38.62 4x200-Meter Relay....... K. Black, M. Boling (Texas Relays)...................... ........................................ C. Morales Williams, E. Godwin.............. 1:20.22 4x400-Meter Relay....... E. Godwin, M. Boling.......................................... ........................................ C. Cavanaugh, W. Sumner (Texas Relays)...... $2:58.82 High Jump..................... Kyle Garland (SEC Champs.).......... ^2.10/6-10.75 Long Jump..................... Kyle Garland (NCAA Champs.)................ ^7.72/25-4 Pole Vault...................... Nikolai van Huyssteen (Spec/Torrin Invite).........5.30/17-4.50 Shot Put......................... Gavin Beverage (Spec/Torrin Invite).......18.81/61-8.50 Discus............................ Gavin Beverage (Spec/Torrin Invite)......... 47.70/155-6 Hammer Throw............ Alencar Pereira (Texas Relays)................. 72.85/239-0 Javelin........................... Marc Minichello (Mt. SAC Relays)........... 80.62/264-6 Decathlon...................... Kyle Garland (NCAA Champs.)............. 8,630 pts.
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T7. Alabama T7. Ole Miss 9. Auburn 10. Kentucky 11. Mississippi State 12. South Carolina 13. MIssouri
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SEC Outdoor Championship SCORERS 800m.................................................................................. 1. Matthew Boling, 1:46.20 Javelin..................................................................1. Marc, Minichello, 79.50m/260-10 Decathlon...........................................................................1. Kyle Garland, 8,589 pts. 400m.......................................................................................... 2. Elija Godwin, 44.55 Hammer Throw..................................................... 2. Alencar Pereira, 70.07m/229-11 400mH................................................................................ 3. Caleb Cavanaugh, 49.07 3,000m Steeplechase........................3. Wesley John, 9.01.69; 8. Cole Heron, 9:12.04 4x100m Relay..................................3. Black, Boling, Morales Williams, Godwin, 38.87 4x400m Relay............................ 3. Godwin, Boling, Morales Williams, Sumner, 2:59.63 200m..................................................................................... 5. Matthew Boling, 20.52
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2023 Women's Outdoor Results 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships 5/11-13 • Bernie Moore Track Stadium • Baton Rouge, La. TEAM RESULTS
Women's Top Outdoor Marks
100-Meter Dash............. Kaila Jackson (SEC Championships)........... 11.04 100-Meter Hurdles....... Bella Witt (SEC Champs./LSU Invite).......... 13.25 200-Meter Dash............ Autumn Wilson (Spec/Torrin Invite)............ 22.56 400-Meter Dash............ Aaliyah Butler (SEC Championships)........... 51.32 400-Meter Hurdles....... Dominique Mustin (NCAA Champs.)........... 56.68 800-Meter Run.............. Charlotte Augenstein (Yellow Jacket Invite)..........2:08.65 1500-Meter Run............ Charlotte Augenstein (Raleigh Relays)........ 4:22.08 5,000-Meter Run........... Ellie Hall (Bryan Clay Invite)................... 16:47.97 3,000-Meter Steeple.... Sophia Baker (SEC Championships)....... 10:42.41 1600m Sprint Medley.... B. Presley, H. Tate.............................................. ........................................ Z. Pollock, D. Mustin (Texas Relays)......... 3:48.81 4x100-Meter Relay....... K. Jackson, A. Wilson......................................... ........................................ B. Presley, A. Butler (NCAA Champs.)....... $42.87 4x400-Meter Relay....... A. Butler, H. Tate................................................. ........................................ B. Presley, D. Mustin (NCAA Champs.)........... $3:29.90 High Jump..................... Elena Kulichenko (Texas Relays)......... 1.90/6-2.75 Long Jump..................... Titiana Marsh (SEC Championships).......6.35/20-10 Triple Jump................... Mikeisha Welcome (Mt. SAC Relays)......14.07m/46-2 Pole Vault...................... Michaela Prevallet (GT Invite).............. 3.56/11-8 Shot Put......................... Ana da Silva (LSU Invite)............... 17.62/57-9.75 Discus............................ Julia Harisay (LSU Invite)................. 50.41/165-4 Hammer Throw............ Ana da Silva (NCAA Championships).......64.60/211-11 Javelin........................... Erin McMeniman (Yellow Jacket Invite).... 50.48/165-7 Heptathlon.................... Ella Rush (Mt. SAC Relays).................. 5,422 pts. $school record; wind-legal times/marks included on the top marks
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Arkansas Florida Texas A&M Ole Miss Tennessee GEORGIA LSU
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8. Alabama 8. Kentucky 10. Missouri 11. Vanderbilt 12. Auburn 13. South Carolina 14. Mississippi State
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sec Outdoor championship SCORERS 100m.........................................................................................2. Kaila Jackson, 11.04 High Jump...................................................................2. Elena Kulichenko, 1.88m/6-2 200m.........................................................................................3. Kaila Jackson, 22.65 4x100m Relay............................................... 3. Jackson, Wilson, Presley, Butler, 43.20 Triple Jump...3. Mikeisha Welcome, 13.68m/44-10.75w; 5. Titiana Marsh, 13.47m/44-2.5 400m........................................................................................ 5. Aaliyah Butler, 51.32 4x400m Relay.................................................. 5. Butler, Tate, Presley, Mustin, 3:30.20 Long Jump....................................................................6. Titiana Marsh, 6.35m/20-10 Shot Put..................................................................... 6. Ana da Silva, 16.78m/55-0.75 3,000m Steeplechase........................................................ 7. Sophia Baker, 10:42.41 Javelin................................7. Erin McMeniman, 49.06m/160-11; 8. Julia Harisay, 48.45m/158-11
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Forrest “Spec” Towns is the greatest track and field legend in UGA history, winning SEC, NCAA and Olympic titles, setting a world record and coaching the Georgia track and field squad for over 30 years.
orn in Fitzgerald, Ga., on Feb. 6, 1914, Forrest “Spec” Towns became, over the next several decades, the greatest track and field legend in the history of the University of Georgia and the state. Towns and his family moved to Augusta in 1923, where he attended Richmond Academy and played only one sport — football. But Towns earned a track and field scholarship as a high jumper after a neighbor saw him win a backyard high jumping contest. He entered Georgia in September of 1933 and within three years was the Olympic 120-yard hurdles champion and held both Olympic and world records in the event. In 1934, Towns won the Southeastern AAU 120-yard hurdles in 15.1 seconds. The following year he won the SEC, NCAA and National AAU titles. In Berlin, Towns won the gold medal in the 120-yard hurdles with a record time of 14.1 seconds. Two weeks later in Oslo, he set a world record of 13.7 seconds (record stood for 14 years). During his prime from 1935-37, Towns won more than 60 races in a row in one of the most difficult athletic events. He also held the world record in the indoor 60-yard hurdles (7.3). Towns was named to the All-America Outdoor Track and Field Team in 1936 and 1937 and the All-America Indoor Track and Field Team in 1938. He led Georgia to the 1937 SEC team championship (the only one in
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rack and field is one of the oldest sports at the University of Georgia, first competing intercollegiately in 1897, five years after the inaugural football unit began play and just one year after the first baseball team took to the diamond. Interest in track and field at UGA began in the late 1800s with the annual intramural field days. At the request of Nash Broyles and Thomas Reed, the Athletic Association set up the first track and field contest in school history on May 28, 1887. A subsequent field day was added a day later. Many of the events of that weekend would be foreign to a meet held today as wrestling matches, the baseball throw, tugs of war and the greased pig chase provided the entertainment in the 19th Billy David won UGA’s century. first-ever SEC title in After 10 years 1933 in the high jump. of field days, the University participated in its first intercollegiate track contest at the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet in Nashville, Tenn., where Georgia accumulated 13 points to secure a fourth-place finish out of 14 teams. The school’s first dual meet came a year later against Georgia Tech with UGA taking a 75-30 victory. Regarded as track and field pioneers in the state of Georgia, The Atlanta Constitution noted in a May 26, 1894 article that “the University was much further along with their track program than any other state school.”
Coaches
In June 2021 following the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Caryl Smith Gilbert was named the 15th head coach of the Bulldog program. She also became the first female Georgia coach to lead a men’s team in school history. A two-time National Coach of the Year while earning a pair of NCAA team titles at USC prior to her arrival in Athens, Smith
Gilbert has already guided Georgia to six top-10 national team finishes, including a runnerup spot for the Bulldog men at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships. K y l e G a r l a n d ’s The 1995 women’s squad won the SEC outdoor team championship. collegiate record in the heptathlon in 2023 topped a number of accolades in her during the 1897 and 1898 seasons and ended his brief career with a perfect 1-0 dualfirst two years in Athens . Petros Kyprianou became the 14th head meet record. Following Mahan were Billy coach of the Bulldog program in July 2015. Reynolds, a Princeton graduate who also His teams finished with the 2018 NCAA indoor coached baseball, C.O. Heidler, an assistant women’s championship and the 2018 NCAA basketball coach, and W.A. Cunningham, one outdoor men’s championship to complement of Georgia’s football coaches. With interest in track and field waning, 16 top-10 national team finishes, including 13 the sport was revived by Herman J. Stegeman, top-five finishes. A UGA assistant from 2008a star at the University of Chicago who 14 after arriving from Boise State, Kyprianou developed track and field into a popular sport was named the team’s associate head coach at Georgia. Stegeman led UGA for 17 years in 2014 before his promotion to head coach. and built one of the strongest teams in the During a stretch from 2014-21, his crew was South during his tenure. Along with assistant on a torrid pace, accumulating 34 NCAA Weems Baskin, Stegeman guided Georgia titles, 69 SEC championships and *170 First to the 1937 SEC title, still the only men’s SEC Team All-American certificates (*counting team title in the program’s history. The star the 16 honors earned during the pandemic of the 1937 team was a youngster named shortened 2020 indoor season). Forrest Towns, whom everyone simply called Former head coach Wayne Norton “Spec”. Towns captured his second NCAA directed Georgia’s storied track program until 2015 after taking over for coach John title in the high hurdles that year. Baskin coached one more season after Mitchell after the 1999 season. Norton, who Stegeman ascended to the Athletic Direcfinished with a pair of SEC women’s team tor’s position, then turned the reigns over titles on his resume, guided his squads to 29 to another future Hall of Famer, Towns, who top-20 national finishes and led the Bulldogs would enjoy the longest tenure of any coach to scores of SEC and NCAA individual at UGA. He coached for 34 seasons before crowns. He previously served nine years as retiring in the fall of 1975. an assistant in charge of jumps at Georgia. Taking over for Towns was his long-time Mitchell, an esteemed member of the assistant and fellow Georgia track and field track and field fraternity, built his reputation great Lewis Gainey. Gainey directed the at the University of Alabama, where he won Bulldogs during one of their most successful three SEC Coach of The Year awards. Mitchell periods in the late 1970s and early 1980s. led the Georgia men’s team to five top-10 All-Americans such as Mel Lattany, finishes in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Stanley Blalock, Dothel Edwards, Lester Mitchell also helped elevate the UGA Benjamin and Herschel Walker were just a women’s team to a new level of excellence few of Gainey’s prized pupils. by guiding them to third at the 1995 NCAA Gainey was assisted by Georgia’s outdoor meet, second at the 1996 indoor first three women’s coaches, Bill Katz, event and fourth in the 1999 NCAA Outdoor Steve Sitler and Mike Sheeley, before Championships. The women earned their first taking over the female squad in 1988. The SEC team title outdoors in 1995, and Mitchell “Bulldog Babes”, as they were known at first, was named the SEC’s indoor and outdoor immediately began producing All-Americans Coach Of The Year. like Veronica Walker, Kathy Rankins, Linda The first Georgia coach was John Detlefsen and Gwen Torrence. Mahan, a native of New York, who coached
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One of the Commissioner’s Trophys captured by the Lady Bulldogs was in 1999 as Debbie Ferguson won the award and a total of nine have been claimed by the Georgia women. Ferguson scored 23.5 points at the outdoor championships to lead the Georgia women to a fourth place finish. Icolyn Kelly won it twice in 1995 thanks to her diverse talents. Kelly had 23 points in the indoor championships, but her 32.5 points outdoors led Georgia to its first ever women’s team crown. Kelly’s score of 32.5 points would have beaten five of the 11 teams competing. Kelly won the triple jump, took second in the long jump, fourth in the high jump, fourth in the javelin throw and fourth in the seven-event heptathlon. Kelly’s marks in the SEC meet were all season bests. Hyleas Fountain also earned double honors in 2004. Her 44 points at the SEC Indoor meet was a conference all-time points record. She also racked up 34.50 points at the outdoor meet to take home the trophy. Debbie Ferguson and Mel Lattany were two of the most prolific sprinters in Georgia track and field history.
Facilities
Five different facilities have housed Georgia’s track and field teams. Herty Field, named for Dr. Charles Herty, was the first and was also shared by the football and baseball. With the construction of Sanford Field and a track around it, the team was able to relocate for another 17 years. A new field with the same name was later constructed just 200 yards from the original Sanford Field. The second incarnation was used until World War II when the U.S. Navy came to Athens. The Navy completed a new track, described as a “million-dollar facility”, and gave it to UGA. In 1965, the track and field team found a permanent home on the southwestern corner of the athletic complex. The facility was renamed for Forrest “Spec” Towns in a dedication ceremony held during the 1990 SEC Outdoor Championships in Athens. Towns passed away a year later, but a granite marker honoring him stands at the southeast entrance to the facility he helped make possible.
SEC Commissioner’s Trophy
The SEC Commissioner’s Trophy is given annually to the male and female athletes who tally the most points at the SEC meets. Denzel Comenentia won the last two trophies for UGA at the 201819 SEC Outdoor Championships. In 2019, he won his third straight league shot put crown and was second in both the hammer throw and discus to score 26 points. Before Comenentnia, the Bulldogs most recent honorees were Patricia Sylvester and Ian Burrell. Sylvester won both the triple jump and the long jump and was the runner-up in the high jump at the 2006 SEC Outdoor Championships to rack up 28 points as her team captured the championship. She returned to score a whopping 26 points at the 2007 SEC indoor meet and was given the honor again. Burrell, standing at 5-foot-5, captured both the 3000- and 5000-meter titles on the men’s side at the 2007 SEC Outdoor Championships to pile up 20 points. Since 1933, Georgia has had 21 high-point performers, including Graham Batchelor in 1933 and ’34, Towns in 1937, Vassa Cate in 1939, and Lewis Gainey, who tied for the outdoors honors in 1965. Mel Lattany, however, had the most points ever by a Bulldog with 108.5 in four years, including 22.5 in 1981 when he won both the indoor Denzel Comenentia not only won back-to-back Commissioner’s Trophies, but his heroics also enabled to the Bulldogs to clinch their first NCAA and outdoor awards. Lester Benjamin took the long and triple jump team title at the 2018 outdoor Nationals. titles at the 1984 outdoor meet to win the trophy with 27.5 points.
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GEORGIA TRACK & FIELD TIMELINE 1887 - The UGA Athletic Assoc. sets up the first track contest in school history with a field day on May 28. 1897 - UGA participates in first intercollegiate contest at the SIAA meet in Nashville, Tenn. 1898 - Georgia completes its first undefeated season, beating Georgia Tech and winning the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet over Vanderbilt and Tech. 1904 - Georgia wins the first state meet, topping Emory and Georgia Tech. 1907 - The scheduled battle of the two Southern track powers, Georgia and Vanderbilt, is canceled because a bridge at the foot of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga is accidently dynamited, delaying train passage; the meet is never rescheduled. 1913 - Captain Dave Paddock convinces referees at a meet to not announce the height of the high jump bar because he believes freshman Pope Hill will place if he does not know the exact height of the bar; Paddock is right; Hill, a superstitious star, soars above the bar and scores Georgia’s only point of the meet. 1933 - Bill David (high jump) and Graham Batchelor (broad jump, javelin) capture Georgia’s first SEC titles. 1936 - Forrest “Spec” Towns wins the Gold Medal in the 120-yd. hurdles at the Berlin Olympics. 1937 - Behind the hurdling of Towns, who never ran track until he arrived at UGA, Georgia wins its only men’s SEC title. 1949 - A 9-year drought without an SEC champion is broken by J.B. Farr in the high jump. 1960 - Mark Carr outleaps the competition in the broad jump to win the Bulldogs’ first SEC indoor title. 1976 - James Barrineau wins the first of two SEC outdoor high jump honors and then places 11th at the Montreal Olympics. 1981 - Mel Lattany wins both the indoor and outdoor SEC Commissioner’s trophies and ends his career with an astonishing 108.5 points in conference competition. 1982 - Kathy Rankins earns the first All-America honor (indoor long jump) for the women. 1983 - The Bulldogs receive their first women’s individual SEC title, thanks to heptathlete Debbie DaCosta. 1984 - Lester Benjamin, Stanley Blalock, Neal Jessie and Sam Palmer win the 400-meter relay at the NCAA Outdoor Championships; it is Georgia’s first men’s title since Spec Towns; Linda Detlefsen captures Georgia’s first women’s individual NCAA championship in the indoor 1,500-meter run. 1986-87 - Gwen Torrence sprints to an unprecedented four NCAA championships: the indoor 55-meter dash (twice) and outdoor 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. 1989 - Kim Engel hurls the javelin a school-record 196-8 to win the NCAA outdoor title. 1992-94 - Brent Noon wins three straight NCAA titles in the outdoor shot put. 1995 - Hrvoje Verzi earns the NCAA indoor triple jump crown with a leap of 54-5.5; Georgia’s women, led by All-Americans Gudrun Arnardottir, Debbie Ferguson, Icolyn Kelly, Reeta Laaksonen and Monika Ronnholm, win their first SEC title during the outdoor season and then record a school-best third-place showing at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. 1996 - Debbie Ferguson wins the 200-meter dash at the NCAA Indoor Championships in leading the Bulldogs to second place overall, the top finish in school history. 1997 - Erin Jones earns All-America honors outdoors in the 5000-meter run as Georgia celebrates its track centennial. 1999 - Ferguson captures NCAA indoor title in 60-meter dash for her fourth career national title at Georgia; Vigdis Gudjonsdottir wins NCAA title in the javelin; women’s team finishes fourth in NCAA Outdoor Championships led by Ferguson’s 21 points to register second-best NCAA Outdoor finish in school history. 2001 - Andras Haklits wins NCAA titles in the weight throw indoors and hammer throw outdoors; Thorey Elisdottir wins the NCAA indoor pole vault with the best mark-ever in the event in collegiate women’s history (14-9.50); Georgia athletes garner eight additional All-America honors. 2002 - Andras Haklits wins his fourth NCAA title, winning the hammer throw for the second straight year; UGA earns a total of nine All-America certificates on the year; legendary Lady Bulldog Gwen Torrence elected to National Track and Field Hall of Fame. 2003 - Georgia earns 14 All-America honors, including Lucais MacKay’s NCAA title in the hammer throw and Hyleas Fountain’s NCAA title in the heptathlon. 2004 - Georgia’s 13 All-America awards include Hyleas Fountain’s three national titles,
as well as the American collegiate record in pentathlon for Fountain; freshman sensation thrower Jenny Dahlgren is a double All-American honoree. 2006 - The Lady Bulldogs swept both the SEC indoor (first in school history) and outdoor titles; Patricia Sylvester earns the SEC outdoor Commissioner’s Trophy. 2007 - Edging teammate Levern Spencer, who finished second, Sylvester won the NCAA indoor high jump title and Dahlgren won her second straight NCAA outdoor title in the hammer throw. 2008 - Chris Hill captured Georgia’s first NCAA men’s javelin title on the same track that he shattered the school record in the event earlier in the season at the Drake Relays. 2009 - Freshman Torrin Lawrence opens his career by breaking the school record in the indoor 200 before recording UGA’s first SEC indoor title in the event as well as an AllAmerica certificate; Chris Hill claims his second straight NCAA javelin title for the men. 2010 - Lawrence’s 45.03 and 45.10 400 times indoors makes him one of the world’s top performances of all-time; Nikola Lomnicka debuts for UGA and wins the NCAA hammer title. 2012 - The UGA men score the most points in history (85.5) at the SEC Indoor Championships; the teams combined for the best total (217) ever at the SEC outdoor meet. 2013 - For the first time since 2007, Georgia had a pair of NCAA champions in a single year as freshmen Shaunae Miller (indoor 400m) and Freya Jones (javelin) won. 2014 - UGA combined for three top-10 team NCAA finishes with five individual national champions; the Bulldogs lost former NCAA sprint champion and record holder Torrin Lawrence in a tragic car accident. 2015 - Kendell Williams topped her NCAA record in the pent (4,678) as UGA matched its 3rd and 5th-pl. finishes from ‘14; Maicel Uibo won his second NCAA decathlon title and third consecutive SEC title. 2016 - Lady Dogs scored a team record 45 pts. to take 3rd at NCAA Indoors, match UGA best with 3rd-pl finish at NCAA Outdoors; women’s team tied UGA record with five NCAA individual titles. 2017 - Four top-six national team finishes highlighted year as women were runner-ups indoors and outdoors; Devon and Kendell Williams completed the “sibling sweep” by winning NCAA multi titles 2018 - The Lady Bulldogs captured their first NCAA team title indoors after scoring a school record 61 points to top the nearest foe by 12 points; the Georgia men answered with their first outdoor national team championship by topping the Gators by 10 points with a program record 52 points. 2019 - The Georgia men highlighted the year with a fourth-place finish at NCAA outdoors thanks in part to Johannes Erm’s national title in the decathlon with the 10th-best score in NCAA history (8,352). 2020 - The indoor season was stalled before the NCAA Championships and the outdoor season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 - Georgia combined for four top-five team finishes at the NCAA Championships and four national individual titles, including a heptathlon-decathlon sweep by Karel Tilga. 2022 - Caryl Smith Gilbert’s first year was highlighted by a pair of top-10 finishes for the men at the NCAA Indoor & Outdoor Championships and a collegiate record in the decathlon by Kyle Garland. 2023: The Bulldogs combined for four top-10 national team finishes, including a runner-up placing by the men at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Garland’s collegiate heptathlon record (6,639 pts.), which was only six points shy of the world record, helped deliver Georgia with a program record 40 points at the meet.
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Men’s Year-by-Year Team Finishes Year Head Coach
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1933 Herman Stegeman — — 3 (26) NTS 1934 Herman Stegeman — — 3 (30) NTS 1935 Herman Stegeman — — 3 (21.5) NTS 1936 Herman Stegeman — — 2 (32) T13th (10) 11th (11) 1937 Herman Stegeman — — ^1 (65) 1938 Weems Baskin — — 3 (36.5) NTS 1939 Forrest Towns — — 6 (20) NTS 1940 Forrest Towns — — 2 (30.3) NTS 1941 Forrest Towns — — 12 (1) NTS 1946 Forrest Towns — — 10 (.5) NTS 1947 Forrest Towns — — 9 (3.75) NTS 1948 Forrest Towns — — 11 (5) NTS 1949 Forrest Towns — — 8 (13.7) NTS 1950 Forrest Towns — — 9 (3.3) NTS 1951 Forrest Towns — — 10 (7) NTS 1952 Forrest Towns — — T8 (9) NTS 1953 Forrest Towns — — 8 (12) NTS 1954 Forrest Towns — — 7 (11.2) NTS 1955 Forrest Towns — — 4 (31.25) NTS 1956 Forrest Towns — — 5 (22.5) T37 (4) 1957 Forrest Towns 5 (6.2) — 5 (21.5) NTS 1958 Forrest Towns T8 (3) — T3 (24) NTS 1959 Forrest Towns — — 8 (14.1) NTS 1960 Forrest Towns 7 (7) — 7 (12.5) NTS 1961 Forrest Towns T7 (8) — T6 (11) NTS 1962 Forrest Towns 11 (2) — 7 (15) NTS 1963 Forrest Towns 5 (10) — 7 (10) NTS 1964 Forrest Towns T7 (4) — 9 (5) NTS 1965 Forrest Towns T7 (5) NTS 7 (14) NTS 1966 Forrest Towns T8 (3) NTS T6 (12) NTS 1967 Forrest Towns 7 (9) T27 (3) 8 (6) NTS 1968 Forrest Towns T6 (6) NTS 8 (2) NTS 1969 Forrest Towns 7 (6) NTS 7 (8.5) NTS 1970 Forrest Towns T7 (4) NTS 8 (6) NTS 1971 Forrest Towns 8 (6) NTS 8 (9) NTS 1972 Forrest Towns 7 (7) NTS 6 (25) NTS 1973 Forrest Towns 6 (12) NTS 6 (30) NTS 1974 Forrest Towns 5 (20) NTS 7 (39) NTS 1975 Lewis Gainey 8 (9.5) NTS 8 (17) T61 (.25) 1976 Lewis Gainey 8 (8) T20 (4) 7 (16) NTS 1977 Lewis Gainey 7 (7) T28 (3) 6 (38) T28 (6) 1978 Lewis Gainey 8 (17) NTS 7 (42.5) NTS 1979 Lewis Gainey 6 (33) NTS 7 (38) NTS 1980 Lewis Gainey 7 (23) T37 (4) 5 (67) T50 (2) 1981 Lewis Gainey 6 (35) T20 (8) 3 (88) T11 (16) 1982 Lewis Gainey ^2 (71) T40 (3) 3 (84) NTS 1983 Lewis Gainey 5 (60) NTS 4 (73) 32 (15.5) 1984 Lewis Gainey 5 (67.5) T21 (8) 5 (60) 26 (21) 1985 Lewis Gainey 5 (42) NTS 6 (49.5) NTS 1986 Lewis Gainey 7 (39) T21 (8) 5 (52) T39 (9) 1987 Lewis Gainey 6 (42) T44 (6) 6 (53) T30 (9) 1988 Lewis Gainey 8 (39) 58 (.5) 5 (53) NTS 1989 Lewis Gainey 8 (22) NTS 9 (11) NTS 1990 John Mitchell 9 (6) NTS 7 (42) NTS 1991 John Mitchell T7 (30) NTS 7 (39) 10 (19) 1992 John Mitchell 5 (64) T36 (2) 5 (66) T10 (22) 1993 John Mitchell 5 (49) T15 (10) 6 (57) T10 (23) 1994 John Mitchell 3 (66) T6 (21) 5 (60) 8 (24) 1995 John Mitchell 7 (46) 6 (24) 5 (55.5) T10 (25) 1996 John Mitchell 8 (42.5) T45 (4) 11 (20) 54 (4.5) 1997 John Mitchell 9 (17) NTS 11 (20) NTS 1998 John Mitchell 9(25) NTS 6(64) T19(11) 1999 John Mitchell T7 (35) NTS 8 (63) T63 (2) 2000 Wayne Norton 7 (34.5) 41 (4) 7 (38.75) 17 (13) 2001 Wayne Norton 6 (62) 18 (12) 5 (78) T12 (22) 2002 Wayne Norton 6 (40.5) 41 (5.5) 5 (84.5) T11 (21) 2003 Wayne Norton 8 (46) T41 (5) 3 (89) T14 (19) 2004 Wayne Norton T4 (71) T34 (5) 3 (115) 26 (11) 2005 Wayne Norton 5 (67) NTS 4 (99) 15 (17.50) 2006 Wayne Norton 6 (48.50) 51 (2.50) 8 (52.50) T-52 (3) 2007 Wayne Norton 5 (66) NTS 4 (78) T26 (11) 2008 Wayne Norton 5 (72) T30 (8) 10 (43.40) T25 (10) 2009 Wayne Norton 8 (47) T53 (2) T5 (72) 11 (19) 2010 Wayne Norton 5 (61) T20 (10) 5 (83) T40 (6) 2011 Wayne Norton 5 (55.3) T26 (8) 3 (99) T54 (3) 2012 Wayne Norton 3 (*85.5) T23 (9) 3 (*109) T64 (2) 2013 Wayne Norton 4 (56) T18 (11) 5 (56) T49 (4) 2014 Wayne Norton 6 (39) T26 (8) 4 (92) ^6 (24) 2015 Wayne Norton 8 (46) T15 (12) 5 (71.5) 15 (13) 2016 Petros Kyprianou 5 (52) T24 (9) 7 (58) T29 (8) 2017 Petros Kyprianou 6 (67) 4 (35.50) 5 (75) 6 (22.5) 2018 Petros Kyprianou 5 (71) 3 (32) 5(71) ^1 (*52) 2019 Petros Kyprianou 7 (45) T9 (20) 9 (43) 4 (32.5) 2020 Petros Kyprianou 10 (32) !n/a !n/a !n/a 2021 Petros Kyprianou 10 (31) 3 (35) 8 (48) 8 (25) 2022 Caryl Smith Gilbert 7 (47) 8 (23) 5 (75) 5 (32) 2023 Caryl Smith Gilbert 4 (59) ^2 (*^40) 4 (75) 7 (28) *Highest point total for the Bulldogs at an SEC Indoor meet; at an NCAA Indoor meet; at an SEC Outdoor meet; at an NCAA Outdoor meet/^Best finish for team at aforementioned meets
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Indoor Outdoor SEC NCAA SEC NCAA Year Head Coach Pl. (Pts.) Pl. (Pts.) Pl. (Pts.) Pl. (Pts.) 1980 Bill Katz — — — — 1981 Bill Katz — — 4 (54) — 1982 Steve Sitler — — 5 (50) — 1983 Steve Sitler 5 (60) T10 (10) 5 (58) 32 (13) 1984 Steve Sitler 2 (89) 9 (11) 3 (62) T28 (19) 1985 Mike Sheeley 5 (35) T20 (8) 4 (71) T23 (11) 1986 Mike Sheeley 5 (53.3) T12 (10) 5 (67) 11 (19) 1987 Mike Sheeley 5 (58) T13 (10) 5 (38) T13 (20) 1988 Lewis Gainey 7 (33) NTS 6 (35) NTS 1989 Lewis Gainey 7 (16) NTS 6 (54) T14 (15) 1990 John Mitchell 7 (17) T45 (1) 5 (46) NTS 1991 John Mitchell 7 (12) NTS 5 (50) 32 (7) 1992 John Mitchell 7 (30) NTS 7 (42.5) NTS 1993 John Mitchell 7 (49) NTS 7 (45) NTS 1994 John Mitchell 9 (24.33) T27 (7) 6 (53) NTS 1 (135.5) 3 (41.3) 1995 John Mitchell 2 (96.5) 7 (20) ^ 1996 John Mitchell 3 (83.5) ^2 (34) 4 (88) 12 (21) 1997 John Mitchell 6 (35) NTS 6 (65) T56 (2) 1998 John Mitchell 7(50) 8(21) 3(103) 6(32) 1999 John Mitchell 6(44) 18(10) 4 (107.5) 4 (37) 2000 Wayne Norton 5 (62) 42 (4) 5 (85) 19 (12) 2001 Wayne Norton 5 (61.50) 13 (14.50) 7 (55) 25 (10.60) 2002 Wayne Norton 6 (26) NTS 7 (49) T45 (4) 2003 Wayne Norton 6 (55.5) T36 (4) 6 (66) 11 (22) 2004 Wayne Norton 4 (81) 6 (36) 3 (101.50) 7 (24) 2005 Wayne Norton 6 (54) 12 (16.50) 4 (106.20) 6 (28) T-5 (27) ^1 (*136) 9 (25.75) 2006 Wayne Norton ^1 (101.50) 2007 Wayne Norton 2 (*103) 4 (28) 3 (106) 9 (24) 2008 Wayne Norton 10 (14.50) NTS 10 (32) T60 (2) 2009 Wayne Norton 11 (14) NTS 9 (45.50) NTS 2010 Wayne Norton 5 (65.5) T42 (4) 5 (74.5) T26 (10) 2011 Wayne Norton 6 (54) NTS 4 (94) T40 (6) 2012 Wayne Norton 5 (52) T28 (8) 4 (108) T21 (14) 2013 Wayne Norton 5 (52.5) 10 (22) 5 (87) T11 (25) 2014 Wayne Norton 5 (64.5) T3 (40.5) 5 (70.5) 5 (35) 2015 Wayne Norton 6 (50) 3 (37) 6 (64) 5 (41) 2016 Petros Kyprianou 3 (65) 3 (45) 8 (59) 3 (41) 2017 Petros Kyprianou 4 (64) 2 (51) 4 (77) ^2 (*62.2) 2018 Petros Kyprianou 2 (84.5) ^1 (*61) 8 (61) ^2 (52) 2019 Petros Kyprianou 7 (49) 20 (11) 10 (42.5) T66 (1) 2020 Petros Kyprianou 3 (78) !n/a !n/a !n/a 2021 Petros Kyprianou 3 (69) 5 (31) 5 (64) 3 (37.5) 2022 Caryl Smith Gilbert 9 (23) 46 (2.2) 10 (33.5) T45 (4) 2023 Caryl Smith Gilbert 6 (53) 5 (31) 6 (57) T10 (19) *Highest point total for the Lady Bulldogs at an SEC Indoor meet; at an NCAA Indoor meet; at an SEC Outdoor meet; at an NCAA Outdoor meet/^Best finish for team at aforementioned meets NTS: No Team Score; !The 2020 indoor/outdoor seasons were shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic UGA ALL-TIME HEAD COACHES Head Coach # Of Seasons Years John Mahan 2 1897-1898 Billy Reynolds 1 1903 C.O. Heidler 1 1908 W.A. Cunningham 4 1913-1916 Herman Stegeman 17 1921-1937 Weems Baskin 1 1938 Forrest Towns 34 1939-1974 Lewis Gainey 15 1975-1989 Bill Katz* 2 1980-1981 Steve Sitler* 2 1983-1984 Mike Sheeley* 3 1985-1987 John Mitchell 10 1990-1999 Wayne Norton 16 2000-2015 Petros Kyprianou 6 2015-2021 Caryl Smith Gilbert 3 2021-Present *Head women’s coach
Caryl Smith Gilbert M&W: 2021-Present
Herman Stegeman Men: 1921-37
Weems Baskin Men: 1938
Forrest Towns Men: 1939-74
Lewis Gainey Men: 1975-89
Bill Katz Women: 1980-81
Steve Sitler Women: 1982-84
Mike Sheeley Women: 1985-87
John Mitchell M&W: 1990-1999
Wayne Norton M&W: 2000-2015
Petros Kyprianou M&W: 2015-21
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Name Gwen Torrence Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Shaunae Miller-Uibo Lynna Irby Forrest ‘Spec’ Towns Norman Edwards Hyleas Fountain Elija Godwin Reese Hoffa
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Track and field has produced some of the most memorable moments in Olympic history. The state of Georgia witnessed many such moments when the 1996 Centennial Olympics were held in Atlanta and surrounding cities, including Athens. Bulldog track and field was again well represented at the 2021 Games, with a programrecord 15 team members or alumni (seven men, eight women) participating in the Olympics. The Bulldogs captured four medals in the COVID-delayed 2021 Tokyo Olympics, bringing UGA’s total to 17. Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bahamas) won her second straight gold medal in the 400m, and Lynna Irby and Elija Godwin took home bronze in the mixed 4x400m relay for Team USA. Irby also captured gold as part of the women’s 4x400m relay team.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo helped shoot Georgia’s all-time medal total to 17, defending her Olympic gold in the 400-meter dash. The former Bulldog and 2016 Rio Olympics gold medalist etched her name into the record books in Tokyo by becoming the second woman to win two Olympic gold medals in the 400-meter dash. Miller finised within 0.11 of the Olympic record, running a blistering 48.36 to set a Bahamian national record. Already with an edge coming out of the second turn, she took off in the final 100m to claim victory by nearly a second. Miller’s time ranks sixth on the world’s all-time list.
1896: First modern international 1900: Alvin Kraenzlein wins an Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. unprecedented four events at the Games.
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While at UGA in 2013, Miller clocked what keeps her the No. 18 all-time indoor 400m performer (50.88) in collegiate track and field to capture the NCAA indoor title in the event. She went on to set Georgia’s then-outdoor record in the 400m (50.77) and earned an NCAA runner-up finish for another All-America honor. 1936: Jesse Owens overcomes 1952: An unprecedented “triple” as 1936: Forrest “Spec” Towns, a SEC and NCAA champion at UGA, hurdles to discrimination, wins spot on U.S. Team & four gold medals. a gold medal.
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Johannes Erm Represented Estonia in his first Olympics, placing 11th (8,213) in the decathlon.
Johannes Erm
Cejhae Greene
Elija Godwin Represented the United States in his first Olympics, winning BRONZE as a member of the mixed 4x400m relay team. Cejhae Greene Represented Antigua and Barbuda in his second Olympics, carrying the flag in the opening ceremonies and finishing 36th in the 100-meter dash (10.25). Charles Grethen Represented Luxembourg in his second Olympics, earning a 12th-place finish in the 1500-meter run (3:36.80). He set a national record of 3:32.86 in the event’s semis. Lynna Irby Represented the United States in her first Olympics, taking home GOLD as a member of the women’s 4x400m relay team and BRONZE as part of the mixed 4x400m relay team. Morgann Leleux Represented the United States in her first Olympics, reaching the pole vault final.
Elija Godwin
Charles Grethen
Shaunae Miller-Uibo Represented the Bahamas in her third Olympics, winning her second-straight GOLD in the 400-meter dash with a Bahamian record of 48.36. Miller-Uibo became the second woman to finish atop the standings in the event in back-to-back Olympics. Lynna Irby
Jasmine Moore Represented the U.S. in her first Olympics, placing 23rd in the triple jump (13.76/45-1.75).
Morgann Leleux
Chanice Porter Represented Jamaica in her first Olympics, finishing 24th in the long jump (6.22/20-5.00). Keturah Orji Represented the United States in her second Olympics, earning a seventh-place finish in the triple jump (14.59/47-10.50). Shaunae Miller-Uibo Garrett Scantling Represented the United States in his first Olympics, falling just short of the podium with a fourth-place finish in the decathlon (8,611). Levern Spencer Represented St. Lucia in her fourth Olympics, carrying her country’s flag in the opening ceremonies and placing 22nd in the high jump (1.86/6-1.25). Karel Tilga Chanice Porter Represented Estonia in his first Olympics, finishing 20th in the decathlon (7,018).
Jasmine Moore
Keturah Orji
Maicel Uibo Represented Estonia in his second Olympics, placing 15th in the decathlon (8,037). Kendell Williams Represented the United States in her second Olympics, earning a fifth-place finish in the heptathlon (6,508). Garrett Scantling
Levern Spencer
Karel Tilga Maicel Uibo Kendell Williams 1980: UGA record holder in outdoor 1964: U.S. sprinter “Bullet” Bob Hayes 1972: The Olympics in Munich are over1976: Years before Jim Barrineau’s son
wins gold in the 100-meter dash with the first time under 10 seconds. He also leads comeback as 4x100 anchor.
shadowed by members of the Israeli team Tommy wins 2010 SEC title for the Bulldogs 200-meter dash (20.14), Mel Lattany, earns being killed by Palestinian terror group “Black in the heptathlon, elder Barrineau competes spot on U.S. Olympic Team but the American September.” r a c high k jump in Montreal Games. i e l boycott d ends those hopes.
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All-Time Bulldog Olympians Berlin, Germany - 1936 Bobby Packard
Forrest ‘Spec’ Towns
U.S.A. Packard reached the semifinals of the 200-meter dash. He also won his first qualifying heat in Olympic record time, only to see his mark broken 15 minutes later by Jesse Owens.
U.S.A.- Gold Medalist Towns won a gold medal in the 110-meter high hurdles with a record time of 14.1 seconds. He tied the world high-hurdle record of 14.1 five times before running a 13.7 at Oslo, Norway three weeks after the 1936 Olympics to set the new mark.
James Barrineau
Montreal, Canada - 1976
U.S.A. Barrineau placed 11th with a long jump of 7 ft., 1/4 inch. He also cleared 7-4 5/8 at the United States Olympic Trials in Oregon, to finish third and earn a spot on the U.S. team.
Moscow, Soviet Union - 1980 Mel Lattany U.S.A. Lattany was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team in the 100 meters and 400-meter relay; however, he did not compete in the 1980 Games due to the United States boycott.
Los Angeles, Calif. - 1984 Norman Edwards
Lester Benjamin Antigua Benjamin competed in the long jump for Antigua.
Jamaica- Silver Medalist Edwards earned a silver medal as a member of the Jamaican 400-meter relay team. He was also a semifinalist in the 100m.
Seoul, South Korea - 1988 Dawda Jallow
Gwen Torrence
Gambia In his first Olympic appearance, Dawda competed in the 400-meter dash.
Dawda Jallow
Barcelona, Spain - 1992
Gambia In his second Olympic appearance, Dawda competed in the 400-meter dash.
1988: Gambia’s Dawda Jallow and American Gwen Torrence make the trip to Seoul, Korea as UGA’s two representatives.
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U.S.A.- Gold (2) & Silver Medalist In her second Olympic appearance, Torrence won the 200-meter dash and anchored the victorious 400m relay team. She also earned silver by running the second leg on the 1,600m relay squad that finished second.
1992: 12-time All-American Gwen Torrence 1996: U.S. decathlete Dan O’Brien bounced 1996: Gwen Torrence wins third wins gold in the 200-meter dash and the back from a failed Olympic campaign in ‘92 to gold of her career (4x100m relay) 4x100m relay as the anchor. Also wins silver win gold in the multi-events in Atlanta. and claims bronze in the 100m. iin the v4x400m e relay. r s i t y o f e o r g i a
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Gudrun Arnardottir
Jan Bielecki
Debbie Ferguson
Dawda Jallow
Iceland In her first appearance in the Olympics, Arnardottir finished 12th in the 400-meter hurdles.
Denmark In his first Olympic appearance, Bielecki competed in the hammer throw and registered a distance of 227 ft., 8 in.
Bahamas- Silver Medalist In her first Olympic appearance, Ferguson won a silver medal in the 400-meter relay and also ran in the 100m and 200m.
Gambia In his third, Olympic appearance, Jallow ran in the 400-meter dash.
Wolfgang Kreissig
Jon Arnar Magnusson
Gwen Torrence
Germany In his first Olympic appearance, Kreissig competed in the high jump for Germany.
Iceland In his first Games appearance, Magnusson competed in the decathlon, finishing seventh with a national record.
U.S.A.- Gold & Bronze Medalist In her third Olympic appearance, Torrence ran the anchor leg of the gold medal-winning 400-meter relay team and earned a bronze medal in the 100m.
Sydney, Australia - 2000 Gudrun Arnardottir
Jan Bielecki
Thori Elisdottir
Debbie Ferguson
Iceland In her second Olympic appearance, Arnardottir placed seventh in the women’s 400m hurdles final in a time of 54.63. 12th in the 400-meter hurdles.
Denmark In his second Olympic appearance, Bielecki recorded a hammer throw of 68.56m (224 ft., 11 in.) in the qualification round.
Iceland In her first Olympic appearance, Elisdottir recorded a mark of 13 ft., 1 1/2 in. in the pole vault.
Bahamas- Gold Medalist In her second Olympic appearance, Ferguson won gold as a member of the Bahamas’ 4x100m relay team. She also placed eighth in the 100m final (11.29) and fifth in the 200m final (22.37).
Andras Haklits
Wolfgang Kreissig
Jon Arnar Magnusson
Croatia Haklits recorded a hammer throw of 72.66m (238 ft., 5 in.) in the qualification round.
Germany In his second Olympic appearance, Kreissig placed eighth with a jump of 2.29m (7 ft., 6 in.).
Iceland In his second Olympic appearance, Magnusson competed in the decathlon; he did not record a finishing score.
Athens, Greece - 2004
Jennifer Dahlgren
Thorey Elisdottir
Debbie Ferguson
Argentina In her first Olympic appearance, Dahlgren registered a mark of 59.52m (195 ft. 3 in.) in the qualifying round for the hammer throw.
Iceland In her second Olympic appearance, Elisdottir recorded a 4.55m mark (14 ft., 11 in.) in pole vault and placed fifth.
Bahamas- Bronze Medalist In her third Olympic appearance, Ferguson brought home bronze for her 22.30 second finish in the 200-meter dash. She placed fourth in the 400m relay and came in seventh in the 100m.
Andras Haklits
Reese Hoffa
Jon Arnar Magnusson
U.S.A. Hoffa advanced to the qualifying round of the shot put and recorded a 19.40m (63 ft., 7 3/4 in.) throw.
Iceland In his third Olympic appearance, Magnusson competed in the 100m (11.05), long jump (23 ft., 4 1/2 in.) and shot put (49-1.8) portions of the decathlon; however, he did not record a finishing score.
Croatia In his second Olympic appearance, Haklits threw the hammer a distance of 74.43m (244 ft., 2 in.) in the qualifying round.
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All-Time Bulldog Olympians Beijing, China - 2008
Jenny Dahlgren
Thorey Elisdottir
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie
Argentina Dahlgren participated in her second Olympic Games in a row and advanced to the qualifying round.
Iceland In her third-straight Games, Elisdottir advanced to the qualifying round for pole vault.
U.S.A. She took home seventh-place finishes in both the 100m and 200m races.
Hyleas Fountain
Sultana Frizell
U.S.A.- Silver Medalist Fountain totaled 6,619 points in the heptathlon, bringing home silver.
Canada Frizell finished 17th in the qualifying round for the hammer throw.
Andras Haklits
Reese Hoffa
Levern Spencer
Patty Sylvester
Croatia Haklits had a top effort of 251 ft., 3 in. to finish 10th during his third trip to the Olympics.
U.S.A. In his second Games, Hoffa finished seventh in the shot put reaching a distance of 67 ft., 4 1/4 in.
St. Lucia Spencer made it to the qualifying round for the high jump.
Grenada Sylvester made it to the qualifying round for the long jump.
London, England - 2012
Jenny Dahlgren
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie
Hyleas Fountain
Sultana Frizell
Andras Haklits
Argentina Threw the hammer in her thirdconsecutive Olympic Games.
Bahamas Running in five straight Olympics, Ferguson-McKenzie finished 26th in the first round of the 100m and 38th in the 200m.
U.S.A. Completed her first four events of the heptathlon in just three points out of medal position but slipped out of medal contention on day two.
Canada Took 26th overall after launching her second attempt 221 ft., 3 in. This marked the second Games for Frizell as she represented Canada.
Croatia Competed in his fourth-consecutive summer Olympics in the hammer throw. Also competed in the 2010 Winter Games in bobsled.
Reese Hoffa
Kibwe Johnson
Martin Maric
Shaunae Miller
Levern Spencer
U.S.A.- Bronze Medalist Hoffa launched his third shot put attempt in the finals 69 ft., 8 in. to edge another of the American competitors by four centimeters.
U.S.A. Highlighted his first Games by taking ninth in the hammer with a top throw of 245 ft., 10 in.
Croatia Battled for a 17th-place finish in the discus during his second Olympic Games. Maric had a top effort of 206 ft., 3 in.
Bahamas Just a couple months removed from high school, former Lady Bulldog freshman competed in the opening round of the 400m dash.
St. Lucia After carrying her country’s flag during the opening ceremonies, Spencer cleared 6 ft., 2 3/4 in. to finish 19th in the high jump in the qualifying round.
Jenny Dahlgren
Tynia Gaither
Argentina In her fourth Olympic Games, Dahlgren finished 27th in the hammer with a top throw of 206 ft., 9 in.
Bahamas Finished 39th in the 100m dash, posting a time of 11.56 in her first Olympics.
Shaunae Miller
Keturah Orji
Bahamas - Gold Medalist Carried the flag for the Bahamas during the opening ceremonies, going on to win gold in the 400m dash with a personal-best time of 49.44.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2016 Cejhae Greene
Antigua and Barbuda Luxembourg Advanced to the 100m dash Competed in the 800m run in semis in his first games, tying his first Olympic appearfor 18th with a time of 10.13. ance, completing the race in 1:48.93 to finish 38th overall.
Karl Saluri
Levern Spencer
U.S.A. Estonia St. Lucia Posted an American triple Scored 7,223 points to finish Carried the St. Lucia flag in jump record of 48 ft., 3.25 in., 23rd in the decathlon while the opening ceremonies and finished sixth in the high finishing just three centime- competing in his first Olympic jump finals (6 ft., 4 in.) in her ters short of the medal stand Games. third Games. She became to place fourth in her first the first from her country to advance to a final. Olympic appearance.
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Kibwe Johnson
Leonita Kallenou
U.S.A. Competed in the hammer throw while represnting the United States in his second Olympic Games.
Cyprus Reached a mark of 5 ft., 10.75 in. while competing in the high jump, tying for 32nd place in her first Olympics.
Maicel Uibo
Kendell Williams
Estonia U.S.A. In his first Olympics, Uibo Represented the United finished 24th in the decathlon States in her first Olympic after scoring 7,170 points. appearance, placing 17th in the heptathlon with 6,221 points.
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Men’s Indoor Records Event
Bulldog Record
SEC Championships Record
NCAA Championships Record
55-Meter Dash
6.16 (Bode Osagiobare, 1995)
6.06c (Tim Harden, Kentucky, 1986)
6.00 WR (Lee McRae, Pittsburgh, 1986)
60-Meter Dash
6.51 (Kendal Williams, 2017)
6.48 (Leonard Scott, Tennessee, 2001)
6.45 (Christian Coleman, Tennessee, 2017)
200-Meter Dash 20.12 (Matthew Boling, 2023) 20.28 (Terrance Laird, LSU, 2021) 400-Meter Dash 44.75 (Elija Godwin, 2023) 44.75 (Elija Godwin, Georgia, 2023) 600-Meter Run 1:12.76 (Chris Buckner, 2002) Not Contested
20.02 (Elijah Hall, Houston, 2018)
800-Meter Run 1:47.28 (Will Sumner, 2023) 1,000-Meter Run 2:22.40 (Jimmy Futch, 1981)
1:45.24 (Brandon Miller, Texas A&M, 2022)
1:45.15 (Michael Saruni, UTEP, 2018)
2:21.47 (Robin Van Heldon, LSU, 1987)
2:18.74 (F. Williams, Abilene Christian, 1986)
1,500-Meter Run
3:44.23 (Jeff Pigg, Florida, 1987)
3:43.48 (Paul Donovan, Arkansas, 1985)
3:53.00 (Jon Paul, 1983)
Mile Run 4:02.73 (Sam Bowers, 2022) 3,000-Meter Run 7:56.50 (Brandon Lord, 2015) 5,000-Meter Run 13:43.92 (Brandon Lord, 2015) 55-Meter Hurdles 7.18 (Billy Richard, 1982)
44.52 (Michael Norman, USC, 2018) Not Contested
3:57.37 (Anass Essayi, South Carolina, 2022) 3:53.71 (Cole Hocker, Oregon, 2021) 7:47.34 (Amon Kemboi, Arkansas, 2022)
7:45.94 (Lawi Lalang, Arizona, 2013)
13:42.95 (Alistair Cragg, Arkansas, 2004)
13:19.01 (Abdihamid Nur, Northern Arizona, 2022)
6.94 (Terrence Trammell, South Carolina, 1999)
6.94 (Terrence Trammel, South Carolina, 1999)
60-Meter Hurdles 7.67 (Michael Nicholls, 2019) 7.44 (Grant Holloway, Florida, 2019) 1,600-Meter Relay 3:02.59 3:01.78 (Boling, Cavanaugh, McCray, Godwin, 2022) (Robinson, Jackson, Orogot, McRae, Alabama, 2023)
*7.35 (Grant Holloway, Florida, 2019) *collegiate record 3:00.77 (Shinnick, Benjamin, Morgan, Norman, USC, 2018)
Mile Relay
(Henderson, Griffiths, Hardy, Brooks, Auburn, 1980)
3:11.07 (Wilson, Bly, Duling, Carter, Oklahoma, 1982)
7:29.58
7:21.90
3:11.88 (McBee, Pace, Johnson, Jallow, 1992) Two-Mile Relay 7:28.80
3:11.07
(Hodges, Roseboro, Freeman, Lewis, 1982) (Brooks, Tuttle, Toles, Hicks, Auburn, 1980) (Borgese, Keyworth, England, O’Sullivan, Villanova, ‘83)
Dist. Medley Relay
9:35.97 9:29.35 (KC Heron, Cavanaugh, Pender, Bowers, 2022) (Mississippi, 2021)
9:19.98 (Oregon, 2021)
High Jump 7-5.75 (Keenon Laine, 2019) 7-7.25 (Ray Doakes, Arkansas, 1994) 7-9.25 (Hollis Conway, Southwestern LA, 1989) Long Jump 27-1 (Matthew Boling, 2022) 27-6.5 (Cameron Crump, MIss. State, 2023) 27-10 (Carl Lewis, Houston, 1981) Triple Jump 55-7.75 (Volker Mai, 1991) 56-11.50 (Christian Taylor, Florida, 2011) 57-6.5 (Jaydon Hibbert, Arkansas, 2023) *collegiate record Pole Vault 17-8.50 (Brad Smith, 2004) 19-5 (Mondo Duplantis, LSU, 2019) 19-8.25 (Sondre Guttormsen, Princeton, 2023) 17-8.50 (Haze Farmer, 2020) *collegiate record Shot Put 67-11.75 (Denzel Comenentia, 2019) 69-11.75 (Josh Awotunde, South Carolina, 2018) Weight Throw 80-2.00 (Andras Haklits, 2001) 79-3.00 (Thomas Mardal, Florida, 2021) Heptathlon *6,639 (Kyle Garland, 2023) 6,237 (Ayden Owens-Delerme, Arkansas, 2023) *collegiate record
71-3.50 (Ryan Whiting, Arizona State, 2008) 80-10 (Michael Lihrman, Wisconsin, 2015) *6,639 (Kyle Garland, Georgia, 2023) *collegiate record
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Men's Outdoor Records Event
Bulldog Record
SEC Championships Record
NCAA Championships Record
100-Meter Dash
9.98 (Matthew Boling, 2022)
9.93 (Richard Thompson, LSU, 2008)
200-Meter Dash
19.92 (Matthew Boling, 2021)
19.82 (Terrance Laird, LSU, 2021)
19.58 (Andre De Grasse, USC, 2015)
44.09 (Fred Kerley, Texas A&M, 2017)
43.61 (Michael Norman, USC, 2018)
1:44.76 (Devin Dixon, Texas A&M, 2019)
1:43.55 (Donavan Brazier, Texas A&M, 2016)
3:36.60 (Eliud Kipsang, Alabama, 2021)
3:35.30 (Sydney Maree, Villanova, 1981)
8:31.54 (Tim Broe, Alabama, 2000)
8:12.39 (Henry Rono, Washington St., 1978)
13:36.93 (Dylan Jacobs, Tennessee, 2023)
13:12.27 (Cooper Teare, Oregon, 2021)
28:23.01 (Tyson David, Arkansas, 2008)
27:41.87 (Patrick Dever, Tulsa, 2021)
13.07 (Grant Holloway, Florida, 2019) 13.07 (Daniel Roberts, Kentucky, 2019)
*12.98 (Grant Holloway, Florida, 2019) *collegiate record
48.26 (Ayden Owens-Delerme, Arkansas, 2023)
47.02 (Rai Benjamin, USC, 2018)
400-Meter Dash 44.34 (Elija Godwin, 2022) 800-Meter Run 1:44.26 (Will Sumner, 2023) 1,500-Meter Run 3:42.45 (Sam Bowers, 2022) 3,000-M Steeplechase 8:41.86 (Matt Cleaver, 2012) 5,000-Meter Run 13:43.05 (Simon Ngata, 2005) 10,000-Meter Run 28:48.78 (Ian Burrell, 2007) 110-Meter Hurdles 13.37 (Devon Williams, 2017) 400-Meter Hurdles 48.46 (Justin Gaymon, 2008) 400-Meter Relay 38.54 (Smith, Godwin, Dunkley, Boling, 2021) 800-Meter Relay 1:20.83
9.75 (Andre De Grasse, USC, 2015)
*37.90 (Hicklin, Camel, Fleming, Oghenebrume, LSU, 2023) *collegiate record Not Contested
37.97 (Ekevwo, Sani Brown, Holloway, Clark, Florida, 2019)
Not Contested
(Jessie, Palmer, Blalock, Benjamin, 1984)
1,600-Meter Relay
2:58.82 (Godwin, Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner, 2023)
3,200-Meter Relay 7:16.71
2:57.76 (Powell, Bamidele, Patterson, Willie, Florida, 2023)
*2:57.74 (Bamidele, Patterson, Powell, Willie, Florida, 2023)
Not Contested
*collegiate record Not Contested
(Freeman, Roseboro, DeBar, Burgess, 1983)
Sprint Med. Relay (1,600 meters)
3:19.08 (Walker, Campbell, Ford, Hodges, 1982)
Not Contested
Not Contested
High Jump
7-6.50 (Dothel Edwards, 1985) 7-6.50 (Darius Carbin, 2022)
7-8.75 (JuVaughn Harrison, LSU, 2021)
7-9.75 (Hollis Conway, Southwestern LA, 1989)
Long Jump 26-5.50 (Marcus Bailey, 1994) 27-10.25 (Melvin Lister, Arkansas, 2000) 28-0.00 (Erick Walder, Arkansas, 1993) 58-7.50 (Jaydon Hibbert, Arkansas, 2023) 58-4.75 (Christian Taylor, Florida, 2011) Triple Jump 55-10.50 (Volker Mai, 1991) *collegiate record 19-8.25 (Mondo Duplantis, LSU, 2019) 19-6.25 (Chris Nilsen, South Dakota, 2019) Pole Vault 17-9.00 (David Lemen, 2001) Shot Put 70-5.25 (Brent Noon, 1995) 70-5.25 (Brent Noon, Georgia, 1995) 72-2.25 (John Godina, UCLA, 1995) 220-0 (Kamy Keshmiri, Nevada, 1992) Discus Throw 201-5 (Alex Urlando, 1996) 225-2 (Roje Stona, Arkansas, 2023) 284-2 (Anderson, Peters, MSU, 2019) Javelin Throw 275-2 (Chris Hill, 2009) 273-5 (Anderson Peters, MSU, 2019) 249-1 (Denzel Comenentia, Georgia, 2018) 265-3 (Balazs Kiss, South Carolina, 1996) Hammer Throw 260-2 (Andras Haklits, 2002) Decathlon *8,720 (Kyle Garland, 2022) 8,589 (Kyle Garland, Georgia, 2023) *8,836 (Leo Neugebauer, Texas, 2023) *collegiate record from 2022-23; *collegiate record No. 7 all-time American performer
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Women’s Indoor Records Event
Lady Bulldog Record
SEC Championships Record
NCAA Championships Record
55-Meter Dash
6.56 (Gwen Torrence, 1987)
6.58 (Dawn Sowell, LSU, 1989)
6.56 (Gwen Torrence, Georgia, 1987)
60-Meter Dash
7.04 (Kaila Jackson, 2023)
7.08 (Remona Burchell, Alabama, 2015)
*6.94 (Julien Alfred, Texas, 2023
200-Meter Dash
22.42 (Autumn Wilson, 2023)
22.09 (Abby Steiner, Kentucky, 2022)
*22.01 (Julien Alfred, Texas, 2023)
400-Meter Dash
50.62 (Lynna Irby, 2018)
50.15 (Talitha Diggs, Florida, 2023)
*49.48 (Britton Wilson, Arkansas, 2023)
500-Meter Run
1:12.92 (Terri Julian, 1986)
1:11.74 (Sylvia Brydson, LSU, 1987)
1:08.89 (Linetta Wilson, Nebraska, 1987)
600-Meter Run
1:24.88 (Aisha Tull, 2002)
Not Contested
Not Contested
800-Meter Run
2:03.02 (Amber Tanner, 2020)
2:00.75 (Nicole Cook, Tennessee, 2005)
1:59.93 (Roisin Willis, Stanford, 2023)
1,000-Meter Run
2:42.61 (Linda Detlefsen, 1984)
2:44.33 (Alisa Harvey, Tennessee, 1987)
2:41.08 (Trena Hull, UNLV, 1987)
1,500-Meter Run
4:20.00 (Linda Detlefsen, 1983)
4:22.05 (Alisa Harvey, Tennessee, 1987)
4:17.85 (Tina Krebs, Clemson, 1985)
Mile Run
4:35.79 (Carly Hamilton, 2014)
4:31.96 (Lauren Gregory, Arkansas, 2023)
4:27.18 (Leah O’Connor, Michigan State, 2015)
3,000-Meter Run
9:11.01 (Jessica Drop, 2018)
8:56.02 (Joyce Kimeli, Auburn, 2021)
8:42.03 (Jenny Barringer, Colorado, 2009)
5,000-Meter Run
15:43.28 (Jessica Drop, 2018)
15:43.64 (Mercy Chelangat, Alabama, 2022)
15:14.18 (Kim Smith, Providence, 2004)
55-Meter Hurdles 7.63 (Gudrun Arnardottir, 1996) 7.34 (Michelle Freeman, Florida, 1992)
7.41 (Michelle Freeman, Florida, 1992; Angie Vaughn, Texas, 1998)
60-Meter Hurdles
^7.98 (Tara Davis, 2018)
7.77 (Masai Russell, Kentucky, 2023)
*7.73 (Ackera Nugent, Arkansas, 2023)
800-Meter Relay
1:38.81
Not Contested
Not Contested
1,600-Meter Relay
3:31.09 (Ransby, Lester, Tanner, Irby)
3:24.09 (Arkansas, 2022)
*3:21.75 (Anning, Reid, Effiong, Wilson, Arkansas, 2023)
3:42.22
3:40.67
3:37.08
(Hines, Julian, Houston, Torrence, ‘86)
(Laughlin, Benjamin, Martin, Oliver, UT, 1986)
(Rattray, Barksdale, Clark, Floyd, Tennessee, 1983)
8:58.30 (Topinka, Julka, Olsen, White,’87)
8:38.26
8:24.72
(Braasch, Braasch, Crowther, Nash, UF, 1987)
(Franey, Gallagher, DiMuro, Procadcio, Villanova, 1987)
Mile Relay 3,200-Meter Relay
(Walker, Thompson, Young, Jackson, 1981)
Dist. Medley Relay
11:03.27 10:56.39 (Christoforou, Gaither, Malasarte, Hamilton, 2013) (Ole Miss, 2022)
10:50.98 (Wright, Jones, Price, Bowman, Tennessee, 2009)
High Jump
6-4 (Mady Fagan, 2017) 6-4 (Leontia Kallenou, 2015)
6-4.75 (Lamara Distin, Texas A&M, 2023)
6-6 (Destinee Hooker, Texas, 2009)
Long Jump 22-1 (Kate Hall, 2018)
22-8 (Elva Goulbourne, Auburn, 2002) 22-8 (Jasmine Moore, Florida, 2023)
*23-0.75 (Jasmine Moore, Florida, 2023)
Triple Jump
47-8 (Keturah Orji, 2018)
46-11.75 (Keturah Orji, Georgia, 2017)
*49-7.25 (Jasmine Moore, Florida, 2023)
Shot Put
57-5.75 (Ana da Silva, 2022)
62-6.75 (Raven Saunders, Ole Miss, 2017) 64-2.25 (Raven Saunders, Ole Miss, 2017)
Weight Throw
78-10.50 (Jenny Dahlgren, 2006)
80-9.75 (Jalani Davis, Ole Miss, 2023)
Pole Vault
14-9.50 (Thorey Elisdottir, 2001)
15-4.25 (Alexis Jacobus, Arkansas, 2019) 15-3.50 (Alexis Jacobus, Arkansas, 2018)
Pentathlon
4,703 (Kendell Williams, 2016)
4,686 (Kendell Williams, Georgia, 2017) *4,746 (Tyra Gittens, Texas A&M, 2021)
83-10.25 (Brittany Riley, S. Illinois, 2007)
*collegiate record ^World Junior (U-20) record
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100-Meter Dash
10.97 (Debbie Ferguson, 1997)
Lady Bulldog Record
10.92 (Aleia Hobbs, LSU, 2018)
SEC Championships Record
NCAA Championships Record
200-Meter Dash
22.19 (Debbie Ferguson, 1999)
22.04 (Favour Ofilil, LSU, 2022)
21.73 (Julien Alfred, Texas, 2023)
400-Meter Dash !49.80 (Lynna Irby, 2018) 800-Meter Run 2:01.36 (Amber Tanner, 2021)
*49.13 (Britton Wilson, Arkansas, 2023) *collegiate record 1:59.73 (Michaela Rose, LSU, 2023)
49.20 (Rhasidat Adeleke, Texas, 2023)
1,500-Meter Run
4:12.15 (Carly Hamilton, 2013)
4:08.72 (Sintayehu Vissa, Mississippi, 2022) 4:05.98 (Sinclaire Johnson, Oklahoma State, 2019)
3,000-Meter Run
9:22.38 (Monika Ronnholm, 1995)
9:15.51 (Heidi Olafsdottir, Alabama, 1987)
3,000-Meter Stpl.
10:01.58 (Bret McDaniel, 2015)
9:48.16 (Jessica Kamilos, Arkansas, 2016) 9:16.00 (Courtney Wayment, BYU, 2022)
5,000-Meter Run
15:38.57 (Jessica Drop, 2018)
15:22.99 (Mercy Chelangat, Alabama, 2022)
15:15.08 (Sally Kipyego, Texas Tech, 2008)
10,000-Meter Run
33:21.63 (Jill Steffens, 2007)
32:13.13 (Mercy Chelangat, Alabama, 2021)
32:09.20 (Sharon Lodeki, Kansas, 2018)
100-Meter Hurdles 12.82 (Kendell Williams, 2017)
12.40 (Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Kentucky, 2018)
12.25 (Ackera Nugent, Arkansas, 2023)
400-Meter Hurdles
54.93 (Gudrun Arnardottir, 1996)
52.75 (Sydney McLaughlin, Kentucky, 2018)
53.21 (Kori Carter, Stanford, 2013)
400-Meter Relay
42.87
42.05
(Jackson, Wilson, Presley, Butler, 2023)
(Brisco, Johnson, Misher, Hobbs, LSU, 2018)
3:29.90 (Butler, Tate, Presley, Mustin, 2023) 8:55.30
10.72 (Julien Alfred, Texas, 2023)
12.40 (Alia Armstrong, LSU, 2023)
1:59.11 (Suzy Favor, Wisconsin, 1990)
8:47.35 (Vicki Huber, Villanova, 1988)
*41.60
(Alfred, Abba, Adeleke, Davis, Texas, 2023)
1:33.14 Not Contested 800-Meter Relay (Mahone, King, Miles, Collins, 2001)
*collegiate record Not Contested
1,600-Meter Relay
3:21.93
3:22.34
(Kentucky, 2022)
(Texas A&M, 2021)
Not Contested
Not Contested
Not Contested
Not Contested
3,200-Meter Relay
(Smith, Horne, Detlefsen, Stelljes, ‘82)
Sprint Med. Relay (800 meters)
1:39.24 (Smith, Houston, Torrence, Hines, 1985)
High Jump 6-4.25 (Levern Spencer, 2007) 6-5 (Jeannelle Scheper, South Carolina, 2015) 6-5 (Amy Acuff, UCLA, 1995) Long Jump 22-5 (Jasmine Moore, 2019) 22-7 (Jasmine Moore, Florida, 2023) 22-9.25 (Shelia Echols, LSU, 1987) Triple Jump %48-3.25 (Keturah Orji, 2016) 47-11.75 (Keturah Orji, Georgia, 2018) 48-6 (Jasmine Moore, Florida, 2023) *college record Shot Put 60-6.75 (Ana da Silva, 2022) 61-4.75 (Latavia Maines, Tennessee, 2021) 64-5.25 (Adelaide Aquilla, Ohio State, 2022) Discus Throw 184-7 (Ingrid Belz, 1991) 211-8 (Shelbi Vaughan, Texas A&M, 2015) Javelin Throw 196-8 (Kim Engel, 1989) 204-9 (Laverne Eve, LSU, 1987)
*215-1 (Jorinde Van Klinken, Oregon, 2023) *collegiate record 206-9 (Karin Smith, Cal Poly, 1981)
*New Javelin
201-4 (Marie-Therese Obst, 2021)
195-02 (Maggie Malone, Texas A&M, 2016) 204-0 (Maggie Malone, Texas A&M, 2016)
Hammer Throw
$239-4 (Jenny Dahlgren, 2007)
235-6 (Jenny Dahlgren, Georgia, 2006)
254-10 (Camryn Rogers, California, 2022)
15-5.75 (Sandi Morris, Arkansas, 2015)
15-5 (Demi Payne, Stephen F. Austin, 2015)
6,250 (Erica Bougard, Mississippi St., 2015)
6,527 (Diane Guthrie, George Mason, 1995)
Pole Vault 14-8.75 (Kayla Smith, 2021) Heptathlon 6,564 (Kendell Williams, 2017)
!Second-fastest time in NCAA history; %mark set for fourth place at 2016 Olympics in Rio; $collegiate record from 2007-17
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Men’s Indoor Top-10 Lists Dennis Baker is tied with Herschel Walker for the No. 4 spot on the 55m list and is also seventh on the 60m list.
55-Meter Dash 1. Bode Osagiobare ’95 Barnett Bank Inv. 6.16 2. Mel Lattany ’80 U.S. Olympic Inv. 6.19 3. Ricky Campbell ’80 Ohio State 6.20 4. Herschel Walker ’82 SEC 6.23 Dennis Baker ’03 SEC Champs. 6.23 6. Jarrell Stewart ’08 Tom Jones Classic 6.26 7. Lester Benjamin ’83 Florida 6.14* Norman Edwards’83 Florida 6.14* 9. Stanley Blalock ’83 VMI Relays 6.24* Neal Jessie ’83 Florida 6.24* * - Hand-timed finishes
60-Meter Dash 1. Kendal Williams ‘17 Tiger Tuneup 6.51 2. Matthew Boling ‘22 NCAA Champs. 6.56 3. Cejhae Greene ‘18 NCAA Champs. 6.61 4. Delano Dunkley ‘22 Tiger Paw Invite 6.65 5. Keshaun Black ‘23 Dr. MLK Jr. Invite 6.66 6. Eric Hall ’97 US Air 6.69 7. Dennis Baker ’02 Va. Tech 6.70 8. Johnathan Smith ’14 SEC Champs. 6.73 9. Justin Scott-Wesley (2x) 6.75 (most recently) ’13 Akron Invite Keith Marshall ’13 VT Elite 6.75 Michael Proctor ’09 Kentucky Invite 6.75 Torrin Lawrence ’09 Kentucky Invite 6.75 200-Meter Dash 1. Matthew Boling ‘23 NCAA Champs. 2. Elija Godwin ‘22 Tiger Paw Invite 3. Torrin Lawrence ’09 Kentucky Invite 4. Kendal Williams ‘17 Tiger Tuneup 5. David Dickens ’06 NCAA Champs. 6. Brandonn Hill ’01 SEC Champs. 7. Waymon Storey ’12 Tyson Invite 8. Johnathan Smith ’13 SEC Champs. 9. Maurice Freeman ’16 SEC Champs. 10. Raytez Jenkins ’16 SEC Champs.
20.12 20.60 20.77 20.93 21.05 21.11 21.12 21.14 21.21 21.22
400-Meter Dash 1. Elija Godwin ‘23 NCAA Champs. *44.75 2. Torrin Lawrence ’10 Tyson Invite 45.03 3. Matthew Boling ‘21 Carolina Challenge 45.51 4. Justin Gaymon ’08 SEC Champs. 45.94 5. David Dickens ’07 SEC Champs. 46.27 6. Demiko Goodman ’05 SEC Champs. 46.39 7. LaRon Bennett ’04 SEC Champs. 46.53 Paul Blue ’96 SEC Champs. 46.53 9. Stanley Blalock ’84 Florida 46.55 10. Forest Johnson ’92 NCAA 46.62 Dawda Jallow ’91 Florida Fast Times 46.62
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*Godwin also ran a 44.75 at the ‘23 SEC Champs.
800-Meter Run 1. Will Sumner ‘23 Music City 1:47.28 2. Aaron Evans ’12 Husky Classic 1:47.88 3. Steve Burgess ’84 Florida Fast Times 1:48.34 4. Kisean Smith ’16 McCravy Mem. 1:48.35 5. Ross Ridgewell ’08 Cyclone Qual. 1:48.57 6. Shaun Benefield ’96 ACC-SEC 1:48.78 7. Clay Pender ‘23 Music City 1:48.89 8. Charles Grethen ’15 McCravy Mem. 1:48.96 9. Christian Harrison ’16 SEC Champs. 1:49.01 10. Jeramey Hampton ’17 Music City 1:49.34
1,000-Meter Run 1. Jimmy Futch ’81 Gator Inv. 2:22.40 2. KC Heron ‘23 Clemson Invite 2:23.47 3. Jeff DeBar ’85 Florida 5-Way 2:24.45 4. Brad Freeman ’82 SEC Champs. 2:24.60 5. Doug Cornfield ’87 SEC Champs. 2:24.75 6. Will Sumner ‘23 Clemson Invite 2:25.33 7. Jeramey Hampton ‘18 Orange & Purple 2:25.88 8. Sam Bowers ‘22 Clemson Invite 2:26.33 9. Danny Neff ’10 Hokie Invite 2:27.41 10. Steve Burgess ’85 Clemson 2:27.53 Mile Run
1. Sam Bowers 2. Simon Ngata 3. Drew Griffin 4. Bryan Kamau 5. Clay Pender 6. Ryley Miller 7. KC Heron 8. Mabry McCray 9. Terry Reid 10. Henry Dwyer
‘22 Music City 4:02.73 ’04 Armory Coll. 4:03.45 ’00 SEC Champs. 4:03.71 ’17 Music City 4:03.73 ‘21 Music City 4:04.71 ’08 SEC Champs. 4:04.88 ‘23 Music City 4:05.49 ’79 LSU 6-Way 4:05.60 ’91 Florida Fast Times 4:05.92 ‘18 Tiger Paw Invite 4:05.98
3,000-Meter Run
1. Brandon Lord 2. Ian Burrell 3. Drew Griffin 4. Simon Ngata 5. Sam Bowers 6. Sid Vaughn 7. Bryan Kamau 8. Matt Cleaver 9. KC Heron 10. Chase Condra
’15 McCravy Mem. 7:56.50 ’07 Tyson Inv. 7:59.04 ’00 ND Inv. 8:03.88 ’04 SEC Champs. 8:05.10 8:06.50 ‘22 Music City ‘17 SEC Champs. 8:06.79 ‘17 SEC Champs. 8:07.70 ’13 SEC Champs. 8:07.78 ‘23 SEC Champs.8:12.80 ‘23 Music City 8:14.99
Former school record holder Ken Garrett now sits eighth on the school’s all-time 60m hurdles list after his 7.94 in 2001.
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Drew Griffin is No. 3 in the indoor 3000m run with an 8:03.88 in 2000.
5,000-Meter Run 1. Brandon Lord ’15 Husky Classic 13:43.92 2. Ian Burrell ’07 Tyson Inv. 13:46.97 3. Simon Ngata ’05 SEC Champs. 13:55.88 14:09.35 4. Sam Bowers ‘21 Music City 5. Austin Sprague ‘18 ISU Classic 14:13.94 6. Matt Cleaver ’13 SEC Champs. 14:14.72 7. Jon Moses ‘17 SEC Champs. 14:18.62 8. Brett Richardson ’12 SEC Champs. 14:19.75 ’15 SEC Champs. 14:20.12 9. Sid Vaughn 10. Brendan Hoban ’15 SEC Champs. 14:20.59
55-Meter Hurdles 1. Billy Richard ’82 SEC Champs. 2. Esteban Guzman ’04 Gator Inv. 3. Ralph Thompson ’92 Indiana Inv. 4. LaRon Bennett ’05 Va. Tech Chall. 5. Luis Pena ’81 Mason Dixon 6. Justin Gaymon ’07 Diet Pepsi Inv. 7. Ken Garrett ’99 SEC Champs. 8. Trey Fletcher ’06 SEC Champs. 9. Keelan Knox ’07 Diet Pepsi 10. Justin Carlin ’03 SEC Champs.
7.18 7.30 7.33 7.34 7.38 7.47 7.52 7.56 7.64 7.67
60-Meter Hurdles 1. Michael Nicholls ‘19 Clemson Invite 7.67 2. Kyle Garland ‘23 NCAA Champs. 7.74 3. Devon Williams ’17 NCAA Champs. 7.75 4. Esteban Guzman ’03 Indoor Madness 7.77 5. Cory Holman ’12 SEC Champs. 7.86 Justin Gaymon ’09 Carle/Health Cl. 7.86 7. Garrett Scantling ’16 Samford Invite 7.93 8. Ken Garrett ’01 SEC Champs. 7.94 9. LaRon Bennett ’04 Clemson Inv. 8.00 10. Johannes Erm ‘20 Razorback Invite 8.03 1,600-Meter Relay 1. Boling, Cavanaugh, McCray, Godwin ‘22 SEC Champs. 3:02.59 2. Boling, Cavanaugh, Morales Williams, Godwin ‘23 Tiger Paw 3:02.90 3. Boling, Morales Williams, Cavanaugh, Sumner ‘23 NCAA Champs. 3:03.10 4. Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner, Godwin ‘23 SEC Champs. 3:03.32
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Men’s Indoor Top-10 Lists Long Jump 1. Matthew Boling ‘22 Clemson Invite 27-1.00 2. Kyle Garland ‘23 NCAA Champs. 26-1.50 3. Champ Bailey ’98 SEC Champs. 25-10.75 4. Devon Williams ’17 NCAA Champs. 25-8.25 Darryl Simmons ’82 SEC Champs. 25-8.25 6. Volker Mai ’92 USAir Inv. 25-7.00 7. Lester Benjamin ’84 SEC Champs. 25-5.25 8. Clarence Christian ’79 SEC Champs. 25-3.50 25-0.75 9. Johannes Erm ‘18 NCAA Champs 10. Karel Tilga ’21 NCAA Champs. 25-0.00 12-Time NFL Pro Bowler and former two-sport star Champ Bailey held the UGA indoor long jump record from 1998 to 2022. 5. Boling, Cavanaugh, Dunkley, Godwin ‘21 SEC Champs. 3:04.72 6. Adams, Foster, Storey, Lawrence ’12 SEC Champs. 3:06.97 7. Gaymon, Proctor, Adams, Lawrence ’09 SEC Champs. 3:07.45 8. Evans, White, Freeman, Jenkins ’16 SEC Champs. 3:07.47 9. Dickens, Foster, Roberts, Bennett ’04 SEC Champs. 3:07.93 10. Storey, Adams, Mills, Lawrence ’11 ISU Qualifier 3:07.96
Distance Medley Relay 1. KC Heron, Cavanaugh, Pender, Bowers ‘22 SEC Champs. 9:35.97 2. Vaughn, Freeman, Hampton, Kamau ’17 SEC Champs. 9:40.26 3. Dwyer, Bevan, Hampton, Kamau ‘18 SEC Indoors 9:40.62 4. Pender, Dunkley, Cavanaugh, Bowers ‘21 SEC Champs. 9:43.51 5. Smith, Hampton, Harrison, Kamau ’16 SEC Champs. 9:43.55 6. Smith, Hampton, Harrison, Sims ’16 McCravy Mem. 9:47.21 7. Sullivan, Glover, Grethen, Sims ’14 SEC Champs. 9:47.53 8. Ridgewell, Miller, Ward, Burrell ’08 SEC Champs. 9:48.42 9. Grethen, Jenkins, Smith, Lord ’15 SEC Champs. 9:48.48 10. Kamau, Grethen, Harrison, Lord ’15 McCravy Mem. 9:51.85 High Jump 1. Keenon Laine ‘19 SEC Champs. 7-5.75 2. Dothel Edwards ’86 Florida Open 7-5.25 3. Darius Carbin ‘19 Tyson Invite 7-5.00 4. Patrick Thavelin ’92 Barnett Bank Inv. 7-3.50 5. Wolfgang Kriessig ’94 SEC Champs. 7-3.25 Dillon Phelps ’95 SEC Champs. 7-3.25 7. James Barrineau ’77 NCAA 7-3.00 Charles Willbanks’83 SEC Champs. 7-3.00 Thaddeus Hood ’96 Barnett Bank Inv. 7-3.00 10. Kyle Garland ‘23 Texas Tech Multis 7-2.25
Triple Jump 1. Volker Mai ’91 55-7.75 2. Hrvoje Verzi ’95 NCAA 54-5.50 3. Antonio Saunders ’04 Gator Inv. 52-7.25 4. Jerome Hutchins ’75 National USTFF 52-7.00 5. Jamaal Parker ’09 Virginia Tech 52-4.75 6. Lester Benjamin ’83 Eastman Inv. 52-4.25 7. Janne Kinnunen ’95 USAir Inv. 52-3.75 8. Aaron LaGarde ’10 VT Final Qual. 52-3.25 9. Amp Brown ’80 ETSU Inv. 51-7.50 10. Troy Glasgow ’88 Coca-Cola Inv. 50-9.25 Pole Vault
1. Haze Farmer ‘20 Tyson Invite 17-8.50 Brad Smith ’04 VaTech Qual. 17-8.50 3. David Lemen ’02 NCAA Champs. 17-7.75 4. Adam Sarafian (2x) 17-6.50 (Most recently) ’06 NCAA Champs. 5. Nikolai van Huyssteen ‘23 Dr. MLK Jr. Invite17-4.50 6. Maicel Uibo ’15 Tyson Invite 17-2.75 7. Alon Rogow ‘23 Tiger Paw 17-1.50 8. Paul Malquist ’11 Tyson Invite 17-0.75 Wes Fuller ’08 VT Elite 17-0.75 10. John Smith ’12 SEC Champs. 17-0.00 Allen Brandon ’10 VT Elite 17-0.00
Shot Put
1. Denzel Comenentia ’19 Tyson Invite 67-11.75 2. Ashinia Miller ’15 McCravy Mem. 66-7.75 3. Brent Noon ’95 SEC Champs. 66-3.00 4. Nick Vena ’15 VT Elite Meet 65-7.00 5. Reese Hoffa ’01 Va. Tech 64-0.50 6. Daniel Vanek ’07 SEC Champs. 63-4.25 7. Caleb Whitener ’13 SEC Champs. 62-9.25 8. Kyle Helf ’07 SEC Champs. 62-3.25 9. John Newell ’05 SEC Champs. 62-3.00 10. Mike Judge ’86 SEC Champs. 61-7.00
Dothel Edwards ranks as one of the best high jumpers in UGA history, ranking second indoors and sharing the outdoor mark.
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Andras Haklits, school record holder in the weight and hammer throws, recorded a collegiate all-time best mark of 80 ft., 2 in. in winning the 2001 NCAA weight throw title.
Weight Throw 1. Andras Haklits ’01 NCAA 80-2.00 2. Denzel Comenentia ‘18 SEC Champs. 77-9.50 3. Alex Poursanidis ’17 SEC Champs. 73-0.00 4. Alencar Pereira ‘23 Dr. MLK Jr. Invite 71-10.00 5. Tomas Sjöstrom ’95 S. Carolina Open 71-2.00 6. Pan. Mavraganis ’02 Fast Times 71-0.00 7. Lucais MacKay ’04 SEC Champs. 70-5.75 8. Boris Stoikos ’93 NCAA 69-4.75 9. Branislav Danis ’10 VT Final Qual. 69-3.25 10. John Freeman ’10 VT Final Qual. 69-1.25
Pentathlon
1. David Lemen 2. Steve Rowe 3. Greg Sewell 4. Kelly Basinger
’02 SEC Champs. ’88 Coca-Cola Inv. ’02 SEC Champs. ’02 SEC Champs.
3,920 3,567 3,261 3,073
Heptathlon 1. Kyle Garland ‘23 NCAA Champs. *6,639 2. Karel Tilga ‘21 NCAA Champs. 6,264 3. Devon Williams ’17 NCAA Champs. 6,177 4. Johannes Erm ‘20 Razorback Invite 6,114 5. Garrett Scantling ’15 NCAA Champs. 6,068 6. Karl Saluri ’17 NCAA Champs. 6,051 7. Maicel Uibo ’14 NCAA Champs. 6,044 8. Cory Holman ’12 NCAA Champs. 5,873 9. Tommy Barrineau’10 SEC Champs. 5,700 10. Michael Ayers ’11 SEC Champs. 5,578 *collegiate record, No. 2 in world history
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Men’s Outdoor Top-10 Lists Shaun Benefield set Georgia’s outdoor 800 meter run record at the 1995 NCAA meet and is now No. 5 on the list.
100-Meter Dash 1. Matthew Boling ‘22 Tom Jones Mem. 9.98 2. Kendal Williams ’18 SEC Champs. 9.99 3. Bode Osagiobare ’94 Sierra Medical Inv. 10.01 ’81 Florida/Florida St. 10.04 4. Mel Lattany 5. Cejhae Green ‘17 NCAA Champs. 10.05 6. Keshaun Black ’23 East Prelims. 10.17 7. Bill Breeding ’77 Auburn Inv. 10.19 8. Johnathan Smith (2x) (Most recently) ’14 Spec Towns Inv. 10.20 9. Norman Edwards ’84 Georgia Relays 10.21 10. Delano Dunkley ‘22 NCAA Prelims 10.22 200-Meter Dash 1. Matthew Boling ‘21 GT Invite 2. Mel Lattany ’79 SEC Champs. 3. Kendal Williams ‘18 SEC Champs. ‘21 Torrin Lawrence 4. Elija Godwin Richard Campbell ’80 NCAA 6. Bode Osagiobare ’94 Sierra Medical Inv. 7. Stanley Blalock ’83 Drake Relays 8. Torrin Lawrence ’12 Florida Relays 9. Johnathan Smith ‘14 Yellow Jacket Gary Duncan ‘87 SEC Champs.
19.92 20.14 20.15 20.32 20.32 20.49 20.50 20.51 20.54 20.54
400-Meter Dash 1. Elija Godwin ‘22 USATF Champs. 44.34 2. Gary Duncan ’87 Alabama Inv. 45.33 3. Torrin Lawrence ’12 Olympic Trials 45.40 4. Dawda Jallow ’93 Ga. Tech 45.48 5. Forest Johnson ’93 Ga. Tech 45.68 45.77 6. Maurice Freeman ’16 Yellow Jacket 45.87 7. Matthew Boling ‘21 Torrin Lawrence Christopher M. Williams ‘23 SEC Champs. 45.87 9. David Dickens ’07 SEC Champs. 45.91 10. Justin Gaymon ’08 Bulldog Lmtd. 46.17
800-Meter Run 1. Will Sumner ‘23 NCAA Champs. *1:44.26 2. Aaron Evans ’10 NCAA Regional 1:46.26 1:46.69 3. Christian Harrison ’16 SEC Champs. 4. Clay Pender ‘22 SEC Champs. 1:46.71 5. Shaun Benefield ’95 NCAAChamps. 1:47.13 6. Charles Grethen ’14 Florida Relays 1:47.22 7. Steve Burgess ’85 MLK Games 1:47.64 8. Jeramey Hampton ’17 VA Challenge 1:48.17
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1,500-Meter Run 1. Sam Bowers ‘22 Torrin Lawrence 2. Simon Ngata ’04 SEC Champs. 3. Drew Griffin ’99 Ga. Tech Inv. 4. Bryan Kamau ‘18 Yellow Jacket 5. Clay Pender ‘23 Va. Challenge 6. Terry Reid ’91 Ole Miss Inv. 7. Henry Dwyer ‘18 Yellow Jacket 8. Mabry McCray ’79 SEC Champs. 9. Mike Fussell ’79 SEC Champs. 10. Danny Neff ’11 Florida Relays
3:42.45 3:42.82 3:42.96 3:43.96 3:44.43 3:44.56 3:44.62 3:45.33 3:45.48 3:45.68
3,000-Meter Steeplechase 1. Matt Cleaver ’12 NCAA Regional 8:41.86 2. Sam Gillespie ’07 NCAA Regional 8:52.70 3. Philip Bett ’04 East Regional 8:55.93 4. Steven Spevacek ’16 SEC Champs. 8:57.07 5. Wesley John ‘23 Raleigh Relays 8:57.41 6. Kyle Poplin ’81 Auburn 8:57.80 7. John McCartney ’77 Tom Black Classic 8:58.00 8. Joe Kaufmann ’79 Athletic Attic Inv. 8:59.00 9. Brendan Hoban ’15 Mt. SAC Relays 9:00.59 10. Charlie Sparks ’14 SEC Champs. 9:01.95 5,000-Meter Run 1. Simon Ngata ’05 Stanford Inv. 13:43.05 2. Byran Kamau ’18 Mt. SAC Relays 13:44.48 3. Ian Burrell ’07 Payton Jordan 13:45.99 4. Sam Bowers ’23 Raleigh Relays 13:57.72 5. Sean Nicholl ’85 Dogwood Relays 13:57.78 6. Brandon Lord ’14 Mt. SAC Relays 13:58.46 7. Sid Vaughn ‘17 SEC Champs. 14:01.97 8. Matt Cleaver ’11 War Eagle Invite 14:04.80 9. Steven Spevacek ’16 Mt. SAC Relays 14:05.32 ’16 Mt. SAC Relays 14:07.32 10. Zack Sims
8. Ralph Thompson ’92 Drake Relays Esteban Guzman ’04 SEC Champs. 10. Cory Holman ’10 SEC Champs. *All-time collegiate decathlon best
13.90 13.90 13.99
400-Meter Hurdles 1. Justin Gaymon 2. LaRon Bennett 3. Caleb Cavanaugh 4. Drew Branch 5. Ken Garrett 6. Bryce McCray 7. Randy Bell 8. Phillip Adams 9. Stanley Blalock 10. Mike McAninch
’08 Olympic Trials 48.46 ’05 NCAA Champs. 48.74 ‘23 SEC Champs. 49.04 ’15 SEC Champs. 49.53 ’01 Georgia Inv. 49.76 ‘22 SEC Champs. 50.21 ’90 Last Chance Meet 50.35 ’12 Spec Towns Inv. 50.99 ’84 Florida Relays 51.21 ’88 Dogwood Relays 51.36
400-Meter Relay 1. Smith, Godwin, Dunkley, Boling ‘21 NCAA Champs. 38.54 2. Black, Boling, Morales Williams, Godwin ‘23 NCAA Champs. 38.62 3. Williams, Greene, Glover, Freeman ‘17 Spec Towns 39.21 4. Jessie, Palmer, Blalock, Benjamin ’84 Georgia Relays 39.24 5. Jessie, Benjamin, Blalock, Palmer ’83 NCAA 39.27
10,000-Meter Run 1. Ian Burrell ’07 Stanford Inv. 28:48.78 2. Sid Vaughn ’17 VA Challenge 29:08.11 ’15 Mt. SAC Relays 29:09.46 3. Brandon Lord ’04 Mt. SAC Relays 29:17.99 4. Philip Bett 5. Mark Plaatjes ’82 Penn Relays 29:22.00 ’04 Mt. SAC Relays 29:28.43 6. Mike Swope ’15 Mt. SAC Relays 29:36.95 7. Luke Baker 8. Austin Sprague ‘18 Mt. SAC Relays 29:45.31 ’10 Mt. SAC Relays 29:47.04 9. Bejan Abtahi 10. Jon Moses ’18 Mt. SAC Relays 29:48.70 110-Meter Hurdles 1. Devon Williams ‘17 SEC Champs. 13.37 ‘22 USATF Champs. *13.54 2. Kyle Garland 3. Michael Nicholls (2x) 13.61 (Most recently) ‘19 NCAA Champs. 4. Spec Towns ’36 Norway 13.7* ’80 Quad Conference 13.70 Billy Richard 6. Justin Gaymon ’07 Drake Relays 13.85 7. LaRon Bennett ’05 SEC Champs. 13.86
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Men’s Outdoor Top-10 Lists 8. Antonios Merlos ‘18 World Juniors Wolfgang Kriessig ’94 Ga. Tech 10. Steve Moore ’81 SEC Champs.
Volker Mai set the Georgia outdoor triple jump record at the 1991 NCAA Championships.
6. Hardman, Greene, Williams, Freeman ‘17 SEC Champs. 39.23 7. Williams, Greene, Nicholls, Nance ‘18 East Prelims 39.29 8. Jenkins, Greene, Nance, Williams ‘18 SEC Champs. 39.33 9. Jessie, Waller, Blalock, Edwards ’86 Dogwood Relays 39.41 10. Campbell, Walker, Johnson, Lattany ’81 Spec Towns Inv. 39.48
1,600-Meter Relay 1. Godwin, Boling, Cavanaugh, Sumner ‘23 Texas Relays *2:58.82 2. Godwin, Boling, Morales Williams, Sumner ‘23 SEC Champs. ^2:59.63 3. Boling, Cavanaugh, Morales Williams, Sumner ‘23 NCAA Champs. 3:01.51 4. Godwin, Morales Williams, Boling, Cavanaugh ‘23 Mt. SAC Relays 3:02.00 5. Cavanaugh, Boling, McCray, Godwin ‘22 Tom Jones Mem. 3:02.10 6. McBee, Johnson, Carter, Jallow ’91 Drake Relays 3:03.66 7. Gaymon, Proctor, Etelman, Dickens ’07 NCAA Champs. 3:04.13 8. Evans, Branch, Jenkins, Calhoun ’15 SEC Champs. 3:04.37 9. Freeman, Branch, Evans, Glover ’14 NCAA East Reg. 3:04.45 10. Godwin, Morales Williams, Cavanaugh, Sumner ‘23 LSU Invite 3:04.45 *No. 4 all-time collegiate performer/No. 7 performance ^No. 21 all-time collegiate performance High Jump 1. Darius Carbin ‘22 Torrin Lawrence 7-6.50 Dothel Edwards ’85 U.S./Canada Jr. 7-6.50 3. Keenon Laine ‘18 Spec Towns 7-5.00 James Barrineau ’77 State Relays 7-5.00 Patrick Thavelin ’92 Spec Towns Inv. 7-5.00 Dillon Phelps ’96 Drake Relays 7-5.00 7. Troy Glasgow ’87 SEC Champs. 7-4.25
7-3.75 7-3.75 7-3.50
Long Jump 1. Marcus Bailey ’94 Georgia Inv. 26-5.50 26-3.75 2. Matthew Boling ‘21 Spec Towns 3. Lester Benjamin ’84 SEC Champs. 26-3.25 4. Johannes Erm ‘18 NCAA Champs. 26-2.25 5. Darryl Simmons ’81 Georgia IC 26-1.75 6. Clarence Christian ’82 Georgia Relays 25-10.25 ‘22 USATF Champs. 25-9.50 7. Kyle Garland 8. Champ Bailey ’98 SEC Champs. 25-8.75 9. Maicel Uibo ’13 Bulldog Dec. 25-8.00 10. Jamario Calhoun ’15 Ga. Invite 25-6.25 Triple Jump 1. Volker Mai ’91 NCAA Champs. 55-10.50 2. Hrvoje Verzi ’95 Georgia Inv. 53-10.50 3. Janne Kinnunen ’94 Georgia Inv. 53-5.50 4. Antonio Saunders ’04 Clemson Classic 53-0.25 5. Lester Benjamin ’85 SEC Champs. 52-10.75 ’80 Georgia Relays 52-9.00 6. Amp Brown 7. Aaron LaGarde ’11 Spec Towns Inv. 52-7.50 8. Jerome Hutchins ’75 Florida Relays 52-7.00 9. Michael Hines ’86 Drake Relays 51-2.75 10. Labo Oke ‘21 NCAA Prelims 51-0.75 Pole Vault 1. David Lemen ’01 Sea Ray Relays 17-9.00 2. Brad Smith ’05 NCAA Champs. 17-8.50 3. Timo Makkonen ’02 Spec Towns Inv. 17-7.00 4. Caleb Ebbets ’12 Spec Towns Inv.17-5.50 Adam Sarafian ’06 Bulldog Limited17-5.50 6. Allen Brandon ’10 Ga. Invitational 17-5.00 7. Nikolai van Huyssteen ’23 Spec/Torrin Inv.17-4.50 Maicel Uibo ’16 NCAA Champs. 17-4.50 8. John Smith ’11 Spec Towns Inv. 17-2.75 9. Adam Godfrey ’93 SEC Six-Way 17-2.00 Shot Put 1. Brent Noon ’95 SEC Champs. 70-5.25 2. Denzel Comenentia ‘18 SEC Champs. 68-6.00 ’14 NCAA East Reg. 66-10.75 3. Nick Vena 4. Reese Hoffa ’01 Georgia Tech 66-4.25
5. Ashinia Miller ’16 NCAA Prelims 65-8.25 65-7.00 6. Jonathan Tharaldsen ‘21 FSU Relays 7. Caleb Whitener ’14 Mt. SAC Relays 65-0.75 8. Jarkko Haukijarvi ’98 SEC Champs. 63-1.25 9. Gavin Beverage ’23 Spec/Torrin Inv. 61-8.50 10. Kyle Helf ’08 Spec Towns 61-6.75
Discus Throw 1. Alex Urlando ’96 SEC Champs. 201-5 2. Denzel Comenentia ‘19 NCAA Champs. 196-9 3. Nate Rolfe ’07 Georgia Relays 191-11 4. Martin Maric ’06 NCAA Reg. 190-1 5. Israel Machovec ’09 Pumping Iron Cl. 188-8 6. Mike Van Winkle ’81 Spec Towns Inv. 187-9 7. Chad McClendon ’06 Clemson Inv. 185-4 8. Kibwe Johnson ’00 Tri-Meet 185-1 9. Lucais MacKay ’04 Pomona-Pitzer Inv. 184-9 10. Burke McCarty ’12 Triton Invite 183-7 Bradford Williams ’04 Pomona-Pitzer Inv. 183-7 Daniel Vanek ’07 McCravy Mem. 183-7 Javelin Throw 1. Chris Hill ’09 USA Champs. 275-2 2. Marc Minichello ‘23 Mt. SAC Relays 264-6 3. Trevor Snyder ’05 NCAA Champs. 249-5 4. Brian Moore ’11 SEC Champs. 248-2 5. Hans Schmidt ’93 SEC Champs. 248-1 244-1 6. Ahmed Magour ‘22 SEC Champs. 7. Riku Valleala ’98 Tampere 243-9 8. Karel Tilga ‘20 Olympics 240-8 9. Tero Angeria ’98 NCAA Champs. 238-0 10. Martin Maric ’06 NCAA Reg. 237-3 Hammer Throw 1. Andras Haklits ’02 Georgia Throws Inv. 260-2 2. Denzel Comenentia ‘19 Mt. SAC Relays *251-11 ‘22 Torrin Lawrence 232-1 3. Alencar Pereira 4. Tomas Sjostrom ’95 NCAA Champs. 237-0 235-10 5. Alex Poursanidis ’17 VA Challenge 6. Pan. Mavraganis ’02 Spec Towns 235-0 7. Lucais Mackay ’03 NCAA Champs. 230-3 8. Jan Bielecki ’94 Georgia Inv. 230-0 9. Boris Stoikos ’93 NCAA Champs. 227-11 ’10 Army Strong Invite 227-5 10. John Freeman *Dutch national record; No. 11 all-time collegiate performer
Decathlon 1. Kyle Garland ‘22 USATF Champs. *8,720 2. Karel Tilga ‘21 Spec Towns 8,484 8,445 3. Johannes Erm ‘19 European Champs. 4. Maicel Uibo ’15 NCAA Champs. 8,356 8,345 5. Devon Williams ‘17 Bulldog Dec. 6. Garrett Scantling ’15 Bulldog Dec. 8,232 7. Karl Saluri ’18 NCAA Champs. 8,137 8. David Lemen ’02 NCAA Champs. 7,972 9. Michael Ayers ’11 NCAA Champs. 7,903 7,654 10. Tommy Barrineau ’11 SEC Champs. *Collegiate record from 2022-23; No. 7 all-time American performer David Lemen broke school records in the pole vault and decathlon in 2001 and 2002.
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55-Meter Dash 1. Gwen Torrence ’87 NCAA Champs. 2. Debbie Ferguson ’99 SEC Champs. 3. Chequita Brady ’93 Iowa St. Inv. 4. Sandra Smith ’84 NCAA Champs. 5. Kelly Perryman ’99 SEC Champs. 6. Illia Miles ’03 SEC Champs. 7. Sherita King ’03 SEC Champs. Krysha Bayley ’05 Va. Tech 9. Icolyn Kelly ’96 Husker Inv. 10. Larika Burton ’97 SEC Champs.
6.56 6.71 6.87 6.89 6.90 6.91 6.92 6.92 6.93 6.98
800-Meter Run 1. Amber Tanner ‘20 Tyson Invite 2:03.02 2. Megan Malasarte ’14 SEC Champs. 2:03.08 2:05.99 3. Anna Marian Block ‘22 Music City 4. Angie Stanifer ’98 NCAA Champs. 2:06.20 5. Loreen White ’87 2:06.38 6. Linda Detlefsen ’84 2:07.11 7. Anna Hall ‘21 Carolina Challenge 2:07.91 ‘22 SEC Champs. 2:07.94 8. Halle McClintock 9. Devon Artis ’17 Music City 2:08.73 10. Mary McClung ’93 Iowa St. Inv. 2:08.93
60-Meter Dash 1. Kaila Jackson ‘23 NCAA Champs. 2. Autumn Wilson ‘23 NCAA Champs. 3. Kate Hall ‘18 NCAA Champs. 4. Debbie Ferguson ’99 NCAA Champs. 5. Victoria Perrow ‘22 Razorback Invite 6. Kenondra Davis ‘23 Tiger Paw 7. Lynna Irby ‘18 Tiger Paw Invite 8. Jayla Kirkland ‘22 Tiger Paw Invite 9. Brandee Presley ‘22 SEC Champs. 10. Illia Miles ’03 Va. Tech
7.04 7.12 7.17 7.24 7.27 7.30 7.31 7.33 7.35 7.36
Mile Run 1. Carly Hamilton ’14 SEC Champs. 4:35.79 2. Natalie Picchetti ’08 SEC Champs. 4:38.66 3. Jessica Drop ‘21 Clemson Invite 4:39.83 4. Linda Detlefsen ’84 Millrose 4:40.80 4:41.60 5. Anna Marian Block ‘21 Music City 6. Kristie Krueger ’10 Tyson Invite 4:41.64 7. Stella Christoforou ’13 SEC Champs. 4:44.46 4:47.45 8. Monika Rönnholm ’94 Husker Inv. 9. Kelly Cordell ’04 Alex Wilson Inv. 4:47.59 10. Megan Malasarte ’14 Auburn Invite 4:47.80
200-Meter Dash
1. Autumn Wilson ‘23 NCAA Champs. 22.42 2. Lynna Irby ‘18 NCAA Champs. 22.55 3. Kaila Jackson ‘23 NCAA Champs. 22.69 4. Kenondra Davis ‘23 Tiger Paw 23.12 5. Debbie Ferguson ’96 NCAA Champs. 23.17 6. Shaunae Miller ’13 VT Elite 23.26 7. Illia Miles ’03 Va. Tech 23.38 8. Aaliyah Butler ‘23 Texas Tech Open 23.48 9. Krysha Bayley ’05 SEC Champs. 23.54 10. Tynia Gaither ’13 SEC Champs. 23.66
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1. Lynna Irby ‘18 SEC Champs. 50.62 2. Shaunae Miller ’13 NCAA Champs. 50.88 3. Aaliyah Butler ‘23 Tiger Paw 52.92 4. Gudrun Arnardottir ’96 SEC Champs. 53.19 5. Marie Woodward ’02 NCAA Champs. 53.42 6. Trisha Carter ’90 SEC Champs. 53.61 7. Tonique Williams ’96 SEC Champs. 53.64 8. Micaiah Ransby ‘18 SEC Champs. 53.85 9. Ashley Henry ’16 Samford Open 53.86 10. Rashan Brown ’14 SEC Champs. 53.97
3,000-Meter Run 1. Jessica Drop ‘21 Razorback Invite 9:03.29 2. Carly Hamilton ’13 Razorback Invite 9:20.89 3. Jolly Earle ’90 9:23.10 4. Samantha Drop ‘20 Razorback Invite 9:26.50 5. Jill Steffens ’07 SEC Champs. 9:26.79 6. Erin Jones ’97 SEC Champs. 9:26.89 7. Sarah Madebach ’07 SEC Champs. 9:28.47 8. Kristin Heffelfinger ’07 SEC Champs. 9:29.71 9. Frida Thordardottir ’93 Florida Fast Times 9:31.37 10. Carla McCready ’97 SEC Champs. 9:32.49 5,000-Meter Run 1. Jessica Drop ‘18 ISU Classic 15:43.28 2. Jolly Earle ’90 SEC Champs. 16:11.22 3. Samantha Drop ‘20 SEC Champs. 16:16.25 16:17.48 4. Kristin Heffelfinger ’07 Tyson Inv. 5. Bridget Lyons ’10 SEC Champs. 16:18.68 6. Keli Butler ’91 Florida Fast Times 16:25.35 7. Kristie Krueger ’12 SEC Champs. 16:27.32 8. Jill Steffens ’07 Tyson Invit. 16:28.51 9. Sarah Madebach ’08 SEC Champs. 16:33.89 10. Leslie Boozer ’14 SEC Champs. 16:34.28
1996 and 2000 Olympian Gudrun Arnardottir is ranked No. 1 on UGA’s women’s 55-meter hurdles all-time list. This event is no longer competed at the NCAA level.
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1984 NCAA champion Linda Detlefsen is ranked No. 4 in the women’s mile.
55-Meter Hurdles 1. Gudrun Arnardottir ’95 SEC Champs. 7.69 2. Hyleas Fountain ’04 Gator Inv. 7.76 3. Monique Salter ’00 SEC Quad 7.82 4. Shaka Dennison ’06 SEC Champs. 7.90 5. Debbie Dacosta ’83 8.03 6. Randi Chapman ’02 SEC East 8.10 7. Latisha Rivers ’00 SEC Quad 8.13 8. Shenae Dawkins ’05 Va. Tech 8.14 9. Monique Salter (two times) 8.15 10. Latashia Rogers ’89 Florida All-Comers 8.18 60-Meter Hurdles 1. Tara Davis ‘18 NCAA Champs. *7.98 2. Kendell Williams ‘17 NCAA Champs. 8.03 3. Imani Carothers ‘21 Razorback Invite 8.06 4. Hyleas Fountain ’04 SEC Champs. 8.09 5. Bella Witt ‘23 Tiger Paw 8.20 6. Eddiyah Frye ‘22 Razorback Invite 8.23 Louisa Grauvogel ‘18 NCAA Champs. 8.23 8. Shaka Dennison ’07 SEC Champs. 8.25 9. Gudrun Arnardottir ’96 SEC Champs. 8.31 Sterling Lester ‘19 Husker Invite 8.33 Quintunya Chapman ’15 NCAA Champs. 8.33 *World Junior (under-20) record from 2018-20 1600-Meter Relay 1. Ransby, Lester, Tanner, Irby ‘19 NCAA Champs. 3:31.09 2. Butler, Mustin, Tate, Pollock ‘23 Texas Tech Open 3:33.28 3. Ransby, Hall, Lester, Tanner ‘20 Bob Pollock 3:36.07
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Distance Medley Relay 1. Christoforou, Gaither, Malasarte, Hamilton ’13 Alex Wilson 11:03.27 2. Christoforou, Gaither, Malasarte, Hamilton ’13 NCAA Champs. 11:12.49 3. Malasarte, Hollingsworth, Hamilton, Boozer ’14 Vandy Invite 11:24.86 4. Christoforou, Miller, Malasarte, Hamilton ’13 SEC Champs. 11:25.25 5. Ainslie, Ransby, Artis, J. Drop ‘17 SEC Champs. 11:26.58 6. Kirk, Hollingsworth, Malasarte, Hamilton ’14 SEC Champs. 11:30.66 7. Julka, Topinka, Olsen, Horne ’87 SEC Champs. 11:31.32 8. Christoforou, Malasarte, Kirk, Shiver ’11 Big 12 vs. SEC 11:35.38 9. Christoforou, Chapman, Malasarte, Shiver ’12 SEC Champs. 11:35.42 10. Hamilton, Artis, Bordes, Lippitt ’15 McCravy Mem. 11:35.79 Pole Vault 1. Thorey Elisdottir ’01 NCAA Champs. 14-9.50 2. Morgann Leleux ’13 Razorback Invite 14-9 3. Julia Fixsen ‘20 SEC Champs. 14-7.50 4. Kayla Smith ‘21 NCAA Champs. 14-5.50 5. Fanni Juhasz ’04 NCAA Champs.14-0.00
6. Kat Majester ’10 VT Final Qual. 13-11.25 7. Kierney Hiteshew ’06 NCAA Champs.13-9.25 8. Georgia Stefanidi ’16 Samford Invite 13-7.25 9. Jade Riebold ’10 VT Final Qual. 13-5.75 10. Emily Savage ‘18 Clemson Invite 13-2.25
High Jump 1. Mady Fagan ‘17 NCAA Champs. 6-4.00 Leontia Kallenou ’15 NCAA Champs. 6-4.00 3. Elena Kulichenko ‘23 SEC Champs. 6-3.50 4. Tatiana Gusin (2x) 6-2.75 (Most recently) ’17 NCAA Champs. Levern Spencer ’08 Clemson Inv. 6-2.75 6. Anna Hall ‘21 SEC Champs. 6-2.25 Patricia Sylvester ’07 NCAA Champs. 6-2.25 8. Kendell Williams ’14 NCAA Champs. 6-2.00 9. Chanice Porter ’16 VT Elite Meet 6-1.50 Latifah Long ’00 Minnesota Inv. 6-1.50 Long Jump 1. Kate Hall ‘18 NCAA Champs. 22-1.00 2. Keturah Orji ’17 SEC Champs. 22-0.75 3. Chanice Porter ’16 SEC Champs. 21-9.50 4. Hyleas Fountain ’04 NCAA Champs. 21-7.25 5. Kendell Williams ’15 VT Elite Meet 21-5.50 6. Krysha Bayley ’02 SEC Champs. 21-4.75 7. Tara Davis ‘18 NCAA Champs. 21-4.00 8. Titiana Marsh ‘23 Tiger Paw 21-3.25 9. Jasmine Moore ‘20 Tyson Invite 21-2.75 10. Tasha Mahone ’01 SEC Champs. 21-1.50 Triple Jump
1. Keturah Orji ‘18 Clemson Invite 47-8.00 2. Mikeisha Welcome ‘23 NCAA Champs. 46-7.50 3. Jasmine Moore ‘21 SEC Champs. 45-10.00 4. Titiana Marsh ‘23 NCAA Champs. 45-3.50 5. Patricia Sylvester ’07 Diet Pepsi Inv. 44-7.50 6. Colleen Felix ’11 SEC Champs. 44-3.50 7. Icolyn Kelly ’96 NCAA Champs. 44-0.50 8. Shenae Dawkins ’06 VT Last Chance 43-1.50 Monica Cabbler ’96 NCAA Champs. 43-1.50 10. Lynda Henry ’02 Va. Tech 43-1.00 Hyleas Fountain ‘03 SEC Champs. 43-1.00
Rhonda Hackett is third on the indoor shot put list while she ranks second on the outdoor shot and third all-time on the school’s discus list.
Shot Put 1. Ana da Silva ‘22 SEC Champs. 57-5.75 2. Hilenn James ’13 NCAA Champs. 55-10.50 3. Rhonda Hackett ’00 Minnesota Inv. 54-1.00 4. Jenny Dahlgren (2x) 51-0.00 (Most recently) ’06 Gator Invit. 5. Kim Tedder ’98 Husker Inv. 50-3.50 6. Sultana Frizell ’04 SEC Champs. 48-10.25 7. Jill Palmer ’85 Eastman Inv. 48-8.00 8. Heather Wood ’03 Virginia Tech 48-0.00 9. Rachel Travis ’08 Tom Jones Cl. 47-5.25 10. Mia Anderson ‘22 USC Indoor Open 47-0.75 Weight Throw 1. Jenny Dahlgren ’06 NCAA Champs. 78-10.50 2. Shelby Ashe ’17 Razorback Invite 71-4.75 3. Asianna Covington ‘17 SEC Champs. 68-10.00 4. Nikola Lomnicka ’10 Tyson Invite 67-6.75 5. Sultana Frizell ’05 NCAA Champs. 66-10.00 6. Alesha Asijie ’11 SEC Champs. 64-7.25 64-2.50 7. Elsie Igberaese ‘23 Tiger Paw 8. Katie McCoy ’01 Fast Times 63-6.00 9. Beatrice Llano ’17 Music City 62-11.50 10. Elizabeth Tepe ’14 VT Elite Meet 60-8.00 Pentathlon 1. Kendell Williams ’16 NCAA Champs. 4,703 2. Anna Hall ‘21 Razorback Invite 4,590 3. Hyleas Fountain ’04 SEC Champs. 4,417 4. Aliyah Whisby ‘19 Bob Pollock Invite 4,372 5. Louisa Grauvogel ‘18 NCAA Champs. 4,318 6. Xenia Rahn ’16 NCAA Champs. 4,268 Lucie Ondraschkova ’14 NCAA Champs. 4,268 8. Quintunya Chapman ’15 NCAA Champs. 4,259 9. Jessica Stockard ’05 NCAA Champs. 4,133 10. Ella Rush ‘23 Texas Tech Multis 4,100
Thorey Elisdottir broke the Georgia women’s indoor pole vault record, winning the NCAA indoor title in 2001 with a jump of 14 ft., 9 1/2 in.
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Women’s Outdoor Top-10 Lists
2000 Olympic gold medalist Debbie Ferguson finished her career as one of the most decorated athletes in Georgia track and field history.
100-Meter Dash 1. Debbie Ferguson ’97 Stockholm 10.97 2. Kaila Jackson ’23 SEC Champs. 11.04 3. Autumn Wilson ’23 East Prelims 11.17 4. Gwen Torrence ’86 SEC Champs. 11.20 5. Brandee Presley ’23 NCAA Champs. 11.25 6. Krysha Bayley ’04 NCAA Champs. 11.29 7. Kate Hall (2x) (most recently) ‘18 SEC Champs. 11.30 8. Keondra Davis ’23 Mt. SAC Relays 11.31 9. Briana Vaughn ’13 Georgia Relays 11.37 Georgina Nembhard ’10 Spec Towns Inv. 11.37 200-Meter Dash 1. Debbie Ferguson ’99 Saint-Denis 22.19 2. Lynna Irby ‘18 SEC Champs. 22.25 3. Gwen Torrence ’87 NCAA Champs. 22.37 4. Shaunae Miller ’13 Spec Towns 22.41 5. Autumn Wilson ’23 Spec/Torrin Inv. 22.56 6. Kaila Jackson ’23 SEC Champs. 22.65 7. Aaliyah Butler ’23 Spec/Torrin Inv. 22.82 8. Kenondra Davis ‘23 LSU Invite 22.89 Krysha Bayley ’04 East Regionals 22.89 10. Brandee Presley ’23 Spec/Torrin Inv. 23.17 400-Meter Dash 1. *Lynna Irby ‘18 NCAA Champs. 49.80 2. Shaunae Miller ’13 NCAA Champs. 50.70 3. Aaliyah Butler ’23 SEC Champs. 51.32 4. Gwen Torrence ’87 Drake Relays 51.60 5. Tonique Williams ’96 Jamaica NC 52.42 6. Trish Carter ’91 SEC Champs. 52.70 7. Marie Woodward ’02 SEC Champs 52.90 8. Ashley Henry ’15 NCAA Prelims. 53.31 9. Haley Tate ’23 Spec/Torrin Inv. 53.43 10. Aisha Tull ’02 Bulldog Ltd. 53.50 *No. 5 all-time collegiate performer with No. 12 all-time collegiate performance
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800-Meter Run 1. Amber Tanner ‘21 Tom Jones Mem. 2:01.36 2. Megan Malasarte ’13 USA Champs. 2:02.06 3. Angie Stanifer ’98 SEC Champs. 2:04.61 4. Mary McClung ’95 Crimson Classic 2:05.64 5. Anna Marian Block ‘21 Raleigh Relays 2:06.03 6. Devon Artis ’17 Spec Towns 2:06.31 7. Monika Ronnholm ’95 NCAA Champs. 2:06.36 8. Loreen White ’86 Spec Towns 2:06.38 9. Carly Hamilton ’14 Spec Towns 2:07.09 10. Natalie Picchetti ’07 Spec Towns 2:07.42
5,000-Meter Run 1. Jessica Drop ‘18 Mt. SAC Relays 15:38.57 2. Kristie Krueger ’12 Mt. SAC Relays 16:00.66 3. Erin Jones ’97 NCAA Champs. 16:13.96 ’90 NCAA Champs. 16:18.60 4. Jolly Earle ’11 War Eagle Invite 16:23.32 5. Bridget Lyons ’07 SEC Champs. 16:23.80 6. Jill Steffens 7. Samantha Drop ‘21 Torrin Lawrence 16:26.13 8. Carly Hamilton ’14 SEC Champs. 16:26.84 9. Sarah Madebach ’08 SEC Champs. 16:27.00 10. Nicole DiMercurio ’14 SEC Champs. 16:28.56
1,500-Meter Run 1. Carly Hamilton ’13 Drake Relays 4:12.15 2. Linda Detlefsen ’84 SEC 4:15.25 3. Natalie Picchetti ’07 USATF Outdoors 4:16.59 4. Anna Marian Block ‘22 SEC Champs. 4:16.94 5. Monika Ronnholm ’95 SEC 4:17.81 6. Kristie Krueger ’10 Florida Relays 4:18.58 7. Megan Malasarte ’14 Florida Relays 4:20.53 8. Jessica Drop ’18 Texas Relays 4:20.87 9. Charlotte Augenstein ’23 Raleigh Relays 4:22.08 10. Frida Thordardottir ’91 Spec Towns 4:22.95
10,000-Meter Run 1. Jill Steffens ’07 Stanford Inv. 33:21.63 2. Bridget Lyons ’11 USA Champs. 33:24.95 3. Samantha Drop ‘18 Mt. SAC Relays 33:28.89 4. Nicole DiMercurio ’14 SEC Champs. 34:30.21 5. Yanely Gomez ‘18 East Prelims 34:38.61 6. Jolly Earle ’90 Florida Relays 34:39.11 7. Keli Butler ’91 SEC Champs. 34:43.55 8. Kristie Krueger ’12 SEC Champs. 34:49.10 9. Kristin Heffelfinger ’06 SEC Champs. 34:53.55 10. Grace Tavani ’19 Raleigh Relays 34:56.08
3,000-Meter Run 1. Monika Ronnholm ’95 SEC 9:22.38 2. Jolly Earle ’90 Minnesota Inv. 9:23.10 3. Frida Thordardottir ’92 Seminole Twilight 9:28.17 4. Joanne Birkett ’91 Magic City Relays 9:33.35 5. Erin Jones ’97 Florida Relays 9:38.20 6. Lori Johnson ’87 SEC 9:42.60 7. Keli Butler ’91 Magic City Relays 9:45.35 8. Sabina Horne ’84 MLK Games 9:45.50 9. Lianne Horne ’87 Alabama Inv. 9:49.81 10. Birgitta Wahlin ’86 Springtime Inv. 9:50.50
100-Meter Hurdles 1. Kendell Williams ’17 USATF Champs. 12.82 2. Louisa Grauvogel ‘18 NCAA Champs. 12.95 3. Tara Davis ‘18 NCAA Champs. 13.09 4. Gudrun Arnardottir ’96 NCAA Champs. 13.10 5. Hyleas Fountain ’04 SEC Champs. 13.11 6. Imani Carothers ‘21 SEC Champs. 13.14 7. Sterling Lester ‘19 NCAA Champs. 13.23 8. Bella Witt ‘23 LSU Invite 13.25 9. Eddiyah Frye ‘22 USATF Champs. 13.26 10. Monique Salter ’00 Ga. Tech Inv. 13.38
3,000-Meter Steeplechase 1. Bret McDaniel ’15 NCAA Prelims. 10:01.58 2. Leslie Boozer ’13 SEC Champs. 10:02.02 3. Sarah Madebach ’08 NCAA Champs.10:07.16 4. Taylor Adams ’11 SEC Champs 10:23.16 5. Erika Ramsey ’15 Florida Relays 10:31.40 6. Erin Kelley ’03 SEC Champs. 10:37.95 7. Victoria Coppage ’15 Mt. SAC Relays10:37.96 8. Stella Christoforou ’11 Ga. vs. Miss. Dual 10:40.79 9. Savannah Kirk ’12 SEC Champs. 10:41.32 10. Sophia Baker ’23 SEC Champs. 10:42.41
400-Meter Hurdles 1. Gudrun Arnardottir ’96 NCAA Champs. 54.93 2. Dominique Mustin ‘23 NCAA Champs. 56.68 3. Zoe Pollock ‘23 Yellow Jacket Inv. 57.38 4. Val Morgan ’82 AIAW Champs. 58.16 5. Monica Westen ’86 SEC Champs. 58.35 6. Chelsea Zoller ’21 Torrin Lawrence 58.89 7. Sno Vilhelmsdottir ’95 SEC Champs. 59.73 8. Hilda Hinriksdottir ’97 Florida Relays 1:00.11 9. Tameeka McFarlane ’01 Spec Towns 1:00.57 10. Erna DeWaart ’87 SEC Champs. 1:00.66 400-Meter Relay 1. Jackson, Wilson, Presley, Butler ’23 NCAA Champs. 42.87 2. Jackson, Wilson, Presley, Davis ’23 LSU Invite 42.94 1\3. Rivers, Perryman, Mahone, Ferguson ’99 SEC Champs. 43.86
Three-time NCAA champion Jenny Dahlgren broke the weight and hammer throw records while at Georgia and held the collegiate hammer throw record from 2007-17.
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Women’s Outdoor Top-10 Lists 4. Hall, Irby, Grauvogel, Davis ‘18 Mt. SAC Relays 5. Hall, Irby, Ransby, Davis ’18 TL Memorial Rivers, Peryman, Burnett, Ferguson ’98 NCAA Champs. 7. King, Miles, Bayley, Collins ’02 Drake Relays 8. King, Miles, Fountain, Bayley ’03 Spec Towns 9. King, Miles, Mahone, Bayley ’02 NCAA Champs. 10. Smith, Houston, Julian, Torrence ’85 NCAA Champs.
6. Anna Machovec ‘17 Torrin Lawrence 49-8.25 7. Jenny Dahlgren ’04 Spec Towns Inv.49-3.50 8. Rachel Travis ’09 Tiger Classic 48-11.75 9. Heather Wood ’04 East Regionals 48-6.00 10. Quintunya Chapman ’15 NCAA Champs. 47-9.25
43.90 44.02 44.02
Discus Throw 1. Ingrid Belz ’91 Last Chance Meet 184-7 2. Hilenn James ’12 SEC Champs. 183-5 3. Rhonda Hackett ’00 SEC Quad 182-2 4. Elise Igberaese ‘22 Torrin Lawrence 174-5 5. Hayden Merrick ’19 NCAA Prelims 171-9 6. Josipa Jelicic ’07 Georgia Relays 169-2 7. Julia Harisay ’23 LSU Invite 165-4 8. Paula Saunders ’85 SEC 161-10 9. Asianna Covington’14 Mt. SAC Relays 161-3 10. Rachel Travis ’10 Georgia Inv. 160-0
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1,600-Meter Relay 1. Grant, Burnett, Tull, Ferguson ’99 SEC Champs. 3:33.83 Tull, Boyd, Murillo, Woodward ’02 NCAA Champs.3:33.83 3. Ransby, Lester, Zoller, Tanner ‘19 SEC Champs. 3:34.09 4. Collins, Boyd, Woodward, Tull ’01 Sea Ray Relays 3:34.79 5. Grant, Burnett, Stanifer, Ferguson ’98 SEC Champs. 3:34.89 6. Boyd, Collins, Tull, Woodward ’02 Fla. Relays 3:34.96 7. Boyd, Burnett, Grant, Tull ’00 NCAA 3:34.97 8. Burnett, Grant, Tull, Woodward ’00 Drake 3:35.24 9. Zoller, J. Hall, Jackson, Tanner ‘21 NCAA Prelims 3:36.00 10. Zoller, J. Hall, McClintock, Tanner ‘21 Torrin Lawrence 3:36.34 High Jump
1. Levern Spencer ’07 World Champs. 6-4.25 2. Leontia Kallenou ’15 SEC Champs. 6-4.00 3. Mady Fagan ‘17 NCAA Champs. 6-3.25 Tatiana Gusin ‘17 NCAA Champs. 6-3.25 5. Elena Kulichenko ‘23 Texas Relays 6-2.75 6. Saniel Atkinson ’12 Jamaica Natl Champs 6-2.25 7. Anna Hall ‘21 Spec Towns 6-2.00
Hyleas Fountain appears five times in the Georgia outdoor record books and is one of the all-time Bulldog greats.
Reeta Laaksonen ’95 Bulldog Limited 6-1.50 9. Jamari Drake ‘22 Tom Jones Mem. 6-1.25 10. Kendell Wiliams ’17 Bulldog Hep 6-0.75 Patricia Sylvester ’06 Bulldog Limited 6-0.75
Long Jump 1. Jasmine Moore ‘19 Spec Towns 22-5 2. Keturah Orji ‘18 SEC Champs. 22-4.25 3. Aliyah Whisby ‘19 Torrin Lawrence 22-2.25 4. Kate Hall ‘17 NCAA Champs. 22-1.00 5. Tara Davis ‘18 USATF Juniors 22-0.25 6. Chanice Porter ’16 NCAA Champs. 21-10.75 7. Hyleas Fountain ’04 SEC Champs. 21-8.25 8. Patricia Sylvester ’06 SEC Champs. 21-7.50 Tasha Mahone ’00 Sierra Inv. 21-7.50 10. Kathy Rankins ’84 Spec Towns 21-6.00 Triple Jump 1. *Keturah Orji ’16 Olympics 48-3.25 2. Jasmine Moore ‘21 SEC Champs. 47-2.50 3. Mikeisha Welcome ‘23 Mt. SAC Relays 46-2.00
4. Icolyn Kelly
’95 Central America 45-0.00
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‘21 NCAA Champs. 44-10.75 ’11 Spec Towns Inv. 44-6.75
6. Colleen Felix 7. Patricia Sylvester ’06 Mt. SAC Relays 44-2.75 8. Hyleas Fountain ’04 SEC Champs. 43-11.75 9. Shenae Dawkins ’06 SEC Champs. 43-9.75 10. Aliyah Johnson ’17 VA Challenge 43-8.50 *Orji’s recognized collegiate record was 47-11.75 from the 2018 SEC Outdoor Championships, which stood until 2023
Pole Vault 1. Kayla Smith ‘21 SEC Champs. 14-8.75 2. Morgann Leleux ’12 SEC Champs. 14-6.75 3. Thorey Elisdottir ’01 Spec Towns 14-3.50 4. Fanni Juhasz ’04 Florida Relays 14-0.00 5. Kierney Hiteshew ’06 SEC Champs. 13-11.00 6. Jade Riebold ’10 Bulldog Lmtd. 13-8.25 7. Georgia Stefanidi ’17 VA Challenge 13-6.50 8. Kat Majester ’10 Georgia Inv. 13-5.25 Julianne Toto ’09 Georgia Inv. 13-5.25 10. Emily Savage ’18 East Prelims 13-4.50
Vigdis Gudjonsdottir won an NCAA title in 1999, while setting what was UGA’s new javelin record.
Shot Put 1. Ana da Silva ‘22 SEC Champs. 60-6.75 2. Rhonda Hackett ’00 Alabama Relays 55-2.25 3. Hilenn James ’12 NCAA Champs. 54-3.25 4. Jill Palmer ’85 Tenn./UVa. 50-11.50 5. Sultana Frizell ’04 Florida Relays 50-8.00
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UGA T1994:rack And Field Honors Matthew Boling, Caleb Cavanaugh 1600-Meter Relay Wolfgang Kreissig High Jump
Men’s Honors
2018: 1937: 1995: 2001: 2010: 2017: 2021: 2023:
1936: 1937: 1984:
NCAA Team Champions SEC Team Champions
Outdoor Outdoor
NCAA Indoor Champions
Hrvoje Verzi Triple Jump (54-5.50) Andras Haklits Weight Throw (80-2) Torrin Lawrence 400-Meter Dash (45.23) Devon Williams Heptathlon (6,177 pts.) Matthew Boling 200m (20.19) Karel Tilga Heptathlon (6,264 pts.) Matthew Boling 200m (20.12) Elija Godwin 400m (44.75) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (*6,639 pts. *collegiate record)
NCAA Outdoor Champions
Forrest Towns 110-Yard Hurdles (14.3) Forrest Towns 120-Yard Hurdles (14.2) Neal Jessie, Sam Palmer, Stanley Blalock, Lester Benjamin 400-Meter Relay (39.39) 1992: Brent Noon Shot Put (65-6.75) 1993: Brent Noon Shot Put (66-11.50) 1994: Brent Noon Shot Put (67-9.75) 2001: Andras Haklits Hammer Throw (247-8) 2002: Andras Haklits Hammer Throw (253-8) 2003: Lucais MacKay Hammer Throw (230-3) 2008: Chris Hill Javelin (257-3) 2009: Chris Hill Javelin (268-4) 2014: Maicel Uibo Decathlon (8,182 pts.) 2015: Maicel Uibo Decathlon (8,356 pts.) 2018: Denzel Comenentia Shot Put (67-7.50) Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw (250-8) 2019: Johannes Erm Decathlon (8,352 pts.) *There was no 2020 outdoor season because of the COVID-19 pandemic 2021: Karel Tilga Decathlon (8,261 pts.) 2023: Will Sumner 800m (1:44.26) 2003: 2007: 2008: 2009: 2010: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2017: 2018: 2019: 2022:
NCAAEEast ast R Regional egional CChampions NCAA hampions Panagiotis Mavraganis Justin Gaymon Chris Hill Justin Gaymon Chris Hill Kevin Dickson Aaron Evans Aaron Evans Nick Vena Alex Poursanidis Keenon Laine Denzel Comenentia Denzel Comenentia Keenon Laine Caleb Cavanaugh
Hammer Throw 400-Meter Hurdles Javelin 400-Meter Hurdles Javelin Long Jump 800-Meter Run 800-Meter Run Shot Put Hammer Throw High Jump Hammer Throw Shot Put High Jump 400-Meter Hurdles
Indoor All-Americans 1967: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1980: 1981: 1982: 1984: 1986: 1987: 1988: 1992: 1993:
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Kent Lawrence James Barrineau James Barrineau James Barrineau Mel Lattany Mike Fussell Mabry McCray Mel Lattany Mel Lattany Herschel Walker Clarence Christian Lester Benjamin Dothel Edwards Manley Waller Dothel Edwards Dothel Edwards Forest Johnson Brent Noon Boris Stoikos
60-Yard Dash High Jump High Jump High Jump 60-Yard Dash Mile Run Mile Run 60-Yard Dash 60-Yard Dash 60-Yard Dash Long Jump Long Jump High Jump 55-Meter Dash High Jump High Jump 400-Meter Dash Shot Put Hammer Throw
Janne Kinnunen Triple Jump Hrvoje Verzi Triple Jump Brent Noon Shot Put 1995: Bode Osagiobare 55-Meter Dash Thad Hood High Jump Dillon Phelps High Jump Hrvoje Verzi Triple Jump Tomas Sjostrom Weight Throw 1996: Dillon Phelps High Jump 2000: Andras Haklits Weight Throw Drew Griffin 3,000-Meter Run 2001: Andras Haklits Weight Throw Reese Hoffa Shot Put 2002: Panagiotis Mavraganis Weight Throw David Lemen Pole Vault 2003: Lucais MacKay Weight Throw 2004: Lucais MacKay Weight Throw Antonio Saunders Triple Jump 2005: John Newell Shot Put 2006: David Dickens 200-Meter Dash Adam Sarafian Pole Vault 2007: Ian Burrell 5000-Meter Run 2008: Ian Burrell 5000-Meter Run Ross Ridgewell 800-Meter Run Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Dash 2009: Torrin Lawrence 200-Meter Dash Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Dash 2010: Torrin Lawrence 400-Meter Dash 2011: Torrin Lawrence 400-Meter Dash Aaron Evans 800-Meter Run 2012: Aaron Evans 800-Meter Run Torrin Lawrence 400-Meter Dash Cory Holman Heptathlon Phillip Adams, Chris Foster 1600-Meter Relay Waymon Storey, Torrin Lawrence 2013: Garrett Scantling Heptathlon Maicel Uibo Heptathlon Nick Vena Shot Put Caleb Whitener Shot Put 2014: Maicel Uibo Heptathlon Nick Vena Shot Put 2015: Brandon Lord 5000-Meter Run Ashinia Miller Shot Put Nick Vena Shot Put Garrett Scantling Heptathlon Devon Williams Heptathlon 2016: Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Ashinia Miller Shot Put Garrett Scantling Heptathlon Karl Saluri Heptathlon 2017: Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Kendal Williams 60-Meter Dash Keenon Laine High Jump Darius Carbin High Jump Devon Williams Heptathlon Karl Saluri Heptathlon Alex Poursanidis Weight Throw 2018: Cejhae Greene 60-Meter Dash Kendal Williams 60-Meter Dash Michael Nicholls 60m Hurdles Darius Carbin High Jump Keenon Laine High Jump Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Denzel Comenentia Weight Throw Johannes Erm Heptathlon Karl Saluri Heptathlon 2019: Michael Nicholls 60-Meter Hurdles Keenon Laine High Jump Darius Carbin High Jump Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Denzel Comenentia Weight Throw Johannes Erm Heptathlon *2020: Matthew Boling 200-Meter Dash Darius Carbin High Jump Johannes Erm Heptathlon Kyle Garland Heptathlon Elija Godwin 400-Meter Dash Karel Tilga Heptathlon 2021: Elija Godwin 400-Meter Dash (9th - 46.04)
U n i v e r s i t y
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2023:
Delano Dunkley, Elija Godwin (4th - 304.84) Matthew Boling Long Jump (7th - 7.75m/25-5.25) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (2nd - 6,200 pts.) Matthew Boling 200m (1st - 20.12) Karel Tilga Heptathlon (1st - 6,264 pts.) Matthew Boling 60m (5th - 6.63) Matthew Boling 200m (DQ) Elija Godwin 400m (14th - 47.18) Matthew Boling, Caleb Cavanaugh 1600-Meter Relay Bryce McCray, Elija Godwin (3:05.46) Matthew Boling Long Jump (3rd - 7.86m/25-9.50) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (2nd - 6,200 pts) Matthew Boling 200m (1st - 20.12) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (1st - 6,639 pts.) Elija Godwin 400m (1st - 44.75) Matthew Boling, Christopher Morales Williams 1600-Meter Relay Caleb Cavanaugh, Will Sumner (2nd - 3:03.10) Will Sumner 800m (7th - 1:52.46) Johannes Erm Heptathlon (13th - 4,037 pts.)
Outdoor All-Americans 1936: Forrest Towns 110-Meter Hurdles 120-Yard Hurdles Bobby Packard 100-Yard Dash 1937: Forrest Towns 110-Meter Hurdles 120-Yard Hurdles 1957: Bill Duckworth Javelin 1977: James Barrineau High Jump 1980: Mel Lattany 200-Meter Dash 1981: Mel Lattany 100-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Bill Richard 110-Meter Hurdles Mel Lattany, Herschel Walker, Richard Campbell, Paul Johnson 400-Meter Relay 1983: Lester Benjamin, Stanley Blalock, Neal Jessie, Sam Palmer 400-Meter Relay 1984: Lester Benjamin, Stanley Blalock, Neal Jessie, Sam Palmer 400-Meter Relay 1985: Lester Benjamin Long Jump 1986: Dothel Edwards High Jump 1987: Manley Waller 100-Meter Dash Dothel Edwards High Jump 1991: Forest Johnson 400-Meter Dash Donald Carter, Dawda Jallow, Forest Johnson, Jeff McBee 1,600-Meter Relay Volker Mai Triple Jump Hans Schmidt Javelin 1992: Patrick Thavelin High Jump Brent Noon Shot Put Jan Bielecki Hammer Boris Stoikos Hammer 1993: Dawda Jallow 400-Meter Dash Brent Noon Shot Put Hans Schmidt Javelin Boris Stoikos Hammer 1994: Shaun Benefield 800-Meter Run Wolfgang Kreissig High Jump Dillon Phelps High Jump Marcus Bailey Long Jump Brent Noon Shot Put Alex Urlando Discus Jan Bielecki Hammer 1995: Shaun Benefield 800-Meter Run Hrvoje Verzi Triple Jump Brent Noon Shot Put Tomas Sjostrom Hammer 1996: Dillon Phelps High Jump 1998: Tero Angeria Javelin Rik Valleala Javelin Jarkko Haukijarvi Shot Put Reese Hoffa Shot Put 1999: Ken Garrett 400-Meter Hurdles Reese Hoffa Shot Put Jay Harvard Hammer Throw 2000: Andras Haklits Hammer Throw Reese Hoffa Shot Put 2001: Andras Haklits Hammer Throw
G e o r g i a
UGA Track And Field Honors 2018: Denzel Comenentia
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Reese Hoffa Shot Put David Lemen Decathlon Ryan Sheppard High Jump Andras Haklits Hammer Throw David Lemen Decathlon Panagiotis Mavraganis Hammer Throw Lucais MacKay Discus/Hammer Throw Panagiotis Mavraganis Hammer Throw Trevor Snyder Javelin LaRon Bennett 400-Meter Hurdles LaRon Bennett 400-Meter Hurdles Lucais MacKay Discus/Hammer Throw Antonio Saunders Triple Jump LaRon Bennett 400-Meter Hurdles Trevor Snyder Javelin Brad Smith Pole Vault Martin Maric Javelin Nate Rolfe Hammer Throw Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Hurdles David Dickens, Justin Gaymon Brian Etelman, Michael Proctor 1600-Meter Relay Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Hurdles Ian Burrell 5000-Meter Run Chris Hill Javelin Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Hurdles Chris Hill Javelin Nate Rolfe Hammer Throw John Freeman Hammer Throw Aaron Evans 800-Meter Run Michael Ayers Decathlon Brian Moore Javelin Aaron Evans 800-Meter Run Torrin Lawrence 400-Meter Dash Phillip Adams, Chris Foster 1600-Meter Relay Drew Branch, Torrin Lawrence Justin Welch Hammer Throw Caleb Whitener Shot Put Maicel Uibo Decathlon Garrett Scantling Decathlon Nick Vena Shot Put Johnathan Smith 100-Meter Dash Maurice Freeman, Drew Branch 1600-Meter Relay Ayrian Evans, Reggie Glover Nick Vena Shot Put Alex Poursanidis Hammer Throw Alex Larsson Hammer Throw Maicel Uibo Decathlon Garrett Scantling Decathlon Charles Grethen 800-Meter Run Drew Branch 400-Meter Hurdles Ayrian Evans, Drew Branch 4x400-Meter Relay Raytez Jenkins, Jamario Calhoun Nick Vena Shot Put Alex Poursanidis Hammer Throw Alex Larsson Hammer Throw Maicel Uibo Decathlon Maurice Freeman, Reggie Glover 4x400-Meter Relay Jeramey Hampton, Ayrian Evans Ashinia Miller Shot Put Alex Poursanidis Hammer Throw Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw Maicel Uibo Decathlon Karl Saluri Decathlon Devon Williams Decathlon Cejhae Greene 100-Meter Dash Keenon Laine High Jump Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw Alex Poursanidis Hammer Throw Devon Williams Decathlon Cejhae Greene 100-Meter Dash Kendal Williams 200-Meter Dash Keenon Laine High Jump Antonios Merlos High Jump Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw Johannes Erm Decathlon Karl Saluri Decathlon Michael Nicholls 110-Meter Hurdles Keenon Laine High Jump
Darius Carbin High Jump Denzel Comenentia Shot Put Denzel Comenentia Discus Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw Johannes Erm Decathlon *There was no 2020 outdoor season because of the COVID-19 pandemic 2021: Matthew Boling 100m (6th - 10.19) Matthew Boling 200m (5th - 20.48) Elija Godwin 400m (11th - 46.18) Caleb Cavanaugh 400mH (14th - 50.59) Arian Smith, Elija Godwin 1600-Meter Relay Delano Dunkley, Matthew Boling (2nd - 38.54) Karel Tilga Decathlon (1st - 8.261 pts.) 2022: Matthew Boling 100m (6th - 10.18) Matthew Boling 200m (2nd - 20.13) Elija Godwin 400m (3rd - 44.50) Clay Pender 800m (12th - 1:47.71) Caleb Cavanaugh 400mH (11th - 49.99) Caleb Cavanaugh, Matthew Boling 1600-Meter Relay Bryce McCray, Elija Godwin (12th - 3:03.73) Darius Carbin High Jump (2nd - 2.24m/7-4.25) Alencar Pereira Hammer Throw (14th - 67.66m/222-0) Ahmed Magour Javelin (8th - 73.14m/239-11) Kyle Garland Decathlon (3rd - 8,333 pts.) 2023: Will Sumner 800m (1st - 1:44.26) Kyle Garland Decathlon (2nd - 8,630 pts.) Marc Minichello Javelin (4th - 77.27m/253-6) Caleb Cavanaugh 400mH (6th - 49.20) Matthew Boling, Caleb Cavanaugh 1600-Meter Relay Christopher Morales Williams, Will Sumner (7th - 3:03.22) Ahmed Magour Javelin (8th - 73.14m/239-11) Alencar Pereira Hammer Throw (9th - 70.20m/229-11) Matthew Boling 200m (10th - 20.25)
SEC Indoor Champions
1960: Mark Carr 1963: James Rutland 1967: Kent Lawrence 1971: Phillip Tucker 1973: Glynn Griffin 1980: Mel Lattany 1981: Mel Lattany 1982: Darryl Simmons 1983: Charles Willbanks 1984: Stanley Blalock Steve Burgess Lester Benjamin 1985: Lester Benjamin 1986: Dothel Edwards 1988: Dothel Edwards 1989: Gary Duncan 1991: Volker Mai 1992: Boris Stoikos 1993: Brent Noon 1994: Brent Noon 1995: Brent Noon Tomas Sjostrom 1996: Shaun Benefield Dillon Phelps 2000: Andras Haklits 2001: Andras Haklits 2002: Andras Haklits 2003: Pan. Mavraganis 2004: Lucais MacKay 2005: Brad Smith 2007: Ian Burrell 2008: Justin Gaymon 2009: Torrin Lawrence 2010: Torrin Lawrence Tommy Barrineau 2012: Torrin Lawrence Aaron Evans 2013: Garrett Scantling 2014: Maicel Uibo 2015: Garrett Scantling 2016: Ashinia Miller Garrett Scantling 2017: Darius Carbin Denzel Comenentia Devon Williams
Broad Jump (23-2) High Jump (6-2) 60-Yard Dash (6.2) Long Jump (23-9.25) Shot Put (58-0.75) 60-Yard Dash (6.14) 60-Yard Dash (6.16) 440-Yard Dash (47.7) Long Jump (25-8.50) High Jump (7-3) 300-Yard Dash (29.63) 880-Yard Run (1:52.66) Long Jump (25-5.25) Long Jump (24-11) High Jump (7-5.25) High Jump (7-4.50) 500-Yard Run (1:02.40) Triple Jump (54-5.25) Weight Throw (65-7) Shot Put (65-1.75) Shot Put (64-8.50) Shot Put (66-3) Weight Throw (70-5.75) 800-Meter Run (1:49.06) High Jump (7-3) Weight Throw (68-2.25) Weight Throw (74-11) Weight Throw (70-10.50) Weight Throw (69-8.25) Weight Throw (70-5.75) Pole Vault (17-6.50) 3000-Meter Run (8:03.48) 5000-Meter Run (14:00.93) 400-Meter Dash (45.94) 200-Meter Dash (20.81) 400-Meter Dash (45.10) Heptathlon (5,700) 400-Meter Dash (46.15) 800-Meter Run (1:48.22) Heptathlon (5,889) Heptathlon (5,859) Heptathlon (6,036) Shot Put (65-9.75) Heptathlon (6,003) High Jump (7-1.75) Shot Put (64-3.75) Heptathlon (6,047 pts.)
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Weight Throw (77-9.50) Johannes Erm Heptathlon (5,716 pts.) Denzel Comenentia Shot Put (66-9.75) Johannes Erm Heptathlon (5,996 pts.) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (5,856 pts.) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (6,012 pts.) Matthew Boling 60m (6.64) Matthew Boling, Caleb Cavanaugh 1600-Meter Relay Bryce McCray, Elija Godwin (3:02.59) Kyle Garland Heptathlon (6,205 pts.) Elija Godwin 400m (44.75) Will Sumner 800m (1:48.28)
SEC Indoor High Point Scorers
Lester Benjamin Ian Burrell Matthew Boling
18 points(tie) 20 points 19.5 points
SEC Outdoor Champions
Bill David High Jump (6-3) Graham Batchelor Javelin (203-10.50) Broad Jump (22-7.50) 1934: Birch Wilcox Broad Jump (23-7.75) 1935: Forrest Towns 120-Yard Hurdles (14.8) Maurice Green Discus (144-5.25) 1936: Forrest Towns 120-Yard Hurdles (14.1) 220-Yard Hurdles (21.8) Birch Wilcox Broad Jump (23-4) Maurice Green Discus (149-9.75) 1937: Bobby Packard 100-Yard Dash (9.7) 200-Yard Dash (21.6) Forrest Towns 120-Yard Hurdles (14.3) 220-Yard Hurdles (23.6) 1938: Vassa Cate 100-Yard Dash (9.8) Henry Fredricksen Mile Run (4:26.4) Bob Salisbury Javelin (201-4.50) 1939: Henry Fredricksen Mile Run (4:26.4) Vassa Cate Low Hurdles (23.8) 1940: Henry Fredricksen Mile Run (4:22.7) Vassa Cate Low Hurdles (24.6) Bob Salisbury Javelin (212-10.25) 1949: J.B. Farr High Jump (6-1.75) 1955: Kermit Perry High Hurdles (15.5) Bob Davis High Jump (5-10) 1956: Bob Davis High Jump (5-10) Bill Duckworth Javelin Throw (220-6) 1957: Sonny Poss High Jump (6-3.5) Bill Duckworth Javelin (229-9.5) 1958: Denny Jackson 220-Yard Dash (22.0) 440-Yard Dash (47.4) Sonny Poss High Jump (6-2) 1960: Mark Carr Broad Jump (23-6.25) 1962: John Crawford Pole Vault (13-9) 1965: Lewis Gainey Long Jump (24-10) 1972: Joe Shearouse 220-Yard Dash (21.2) 1973: Joe Shearouse 220-Yard Dash (20.8) Glynn Griffin Shot Put (60-3.75) 1974: Phillip Tucker Long Jump (24-7.25) 1976: James Barrineau High Jump (7-2) 1977: James Barrineau High Jump (7-1) 1978: Roy Dykes High Jump (7-1.75) 1979: Mel Lattany 100-Meter Dash (10.31) Rick Campbell, Darryl Simmons, Greg Baker, Mel Lattany 440-Yard Relay (39.93) 1981: Mel Lattany 100-Meter Dash (10.06) 200-Meter Dash (20.28) Eddie Hodges 800-Meter Run (1:48.66) Rick Campbell, Herschel Walker, Paul Johnson, Mel Lattany 400-Meter Relay (39.40) Steve Moore High Jump (7-3.5) 1982: Darryl Simmons Long Jump (26-0.5) 1983: Steve Burgess 800-Meter Run (1:49.83) 1984: Lester Benjamin Long Jump (26-3.75) Triple Jump (52-8.25) 1985: Lester Benjamin Long Jump (25-10.5) 1986: Dothel Edwards High Jump (7-1.5) 1987: Gary Duncan 400-Meter Dash (45.42) Troy Glasgow High Jump (7-1.25) 1988: Gary Duncan 400-Meter Dash (45.40) Dothel Edwards High Jump (7-4.5) 1991: Volker Mai Triple Jump (55-3)
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UGA Track And Field Honors
Forest Johnson 400-Meter Dash (45.94) Boris Stoikos Hammer Throw (221-5) Brent Noon Shot Put (65-8.75) Boris Stoikos Hammer Throw (225-9) Jan Bielecki Hammer Throw (224-11) Brent Noon Shot Put (70-5.25) Tomas Sjostrom Hammer Throw (231-0) Dillon Phelps High Jump (7-4.25) Alex Urlando Discus Throw (201-5) Tero Angeria Javelin (237-04) Jay Harvard Hammer Throw (215-03) Andras Haklits Hammer Throw (242-07) Andras Haklits Hammer Throw (219-11) Reese Hoffa Shot Put (66-0.25) Andras Haklits Hammer Throw (247-4) David Lemen Decathlon (7514) Trevor Snyder Javelin (216-11) Pan. Mavraganis Hammer Throw (231-2) Josh Reid High Jump (7-0 1/2) Lucais MacKay Hammer Throw (216-5) Trevor Snyder Javelin (248-09) Brad Smith Pole Vault (16-10) Simon Ngata 1500-Meter Run (3:46.00) Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Hurdles (49.25) Justin Gaymon 400-Meter Hurdles (48.53) Chris Hill Javelin (261-4) Brian Moore Javelin (239-4) Israel Machovec Shot Put (60-10.50) Brian Moore Javelin (248-2) Matt Cleaver 3000M Steeple. (8:49.12) Matt Cleaver 3000M Steeple. (8:42.64) Aaron Evans 800-Meter Run (1:49.61) Maicel Uibo Decathlon (7,781) Alex Poursanidis Hammer Throw (218-3) Maicel Uibo Decathlon (7,863) Brandon Lord 10,000-Meter Run (29:36.24) Maicel Uibo Decathlon (8,326) Alex Poursanidis Hammer Throw (223-10) Ashinia Miller Shot Put (64-6.50) Devon Williams 110mH (13.37 Keenon Laine High Jump (7-4.50) Denzel Comenentia Shot Put (65-7.50) Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw (234-3) Denzel Comenentia Shot Put (68-6) Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw (249-1) Kendal Williams 100m (9.99) Kendal Williams 200m (20.15) Karl Saluri Decathlon (7,934) Denzel Comenentia Shot Put (65-7) Kyle Garland Decathlon (8,196 pts.) Matthew Boling 200m (20.01) Darius Carbin High Jump (2.24m/7-4.25) Johannes Erm Decathlon (8,132) Will Sumner 800m (1:46.20) Marc Minichello Javelin (79.50m/260-10) Kyle Garland Decathlon (8,589 pts.)
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SEC Academic Honor Roll 1984: 1986: 1987: 1989: 1990: 1991: 1992: 1993: 1994: 1995: 1996: 1997:
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SEC Outdoor High Point Scorers 1933: 1934: 1937: 1939: 1958: 1965: 1981: 1984: 2018: 2019:
Graham Batchelor Graham Batchelor Forrest Towns Vassa Cate Denny Jackson Lewis Gainey Mel Lattany Lester Benjamin Denzel Comenentia Denzel Comenentia
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Ian Burrell (USTFCCCA) Sam Gillespie, Sean Cuevo, Wes Fuller (USTFCCCA) Sam Gillespie, Wes Fuller, Ross Ridgewell (USTFCCCA) Ian Burrell (Co-SIDA, USTFCCCA) Wes Fuller, Ross Ridgewell, David Schiedt (USTFCCCA) Jamaal Parker, Ross Ridgewell, David Schiedt (USTFCCCA)
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17 point 10 points (5-way tie) 16.5 points 12 points 10 points (4-way tie) 10 points (3-way tie) 22.5 points 27.5 points 23 points 26 points
All-Academic Teams
David Schiedt (USTFCCCA) 2007: Asaph Levy, David Schiedt (USTFCCCA) Caleb Ebbets, Brandon Lord, Burke McCarty (USTFCCCA) Drew Branch, Burke McCarty 2008: (USTFCCCA) Nick Vena, Alex Larsson, Brandon Lord, Charles Grethen, Maicel Uibo, Caleb Ebbets, Drew Branch (USTFCCCA) Braydon Anderson, Luke Baker, Drew Branch, 2009: Caleb Ebbets, Charles Grethen, Alex Larsson, Brandon Lord, Kisean Smith, Maicel Uibo, Nick Vena (USTFCCCA) Jeramey Hampton, Kisean Smith, Zack Sims, Maicel Uibo (USTFCCCA) 2010: Jeramey Hampton, Bryan Kamau, Alex Larsson, Jonathan Raines (USTFCCCA) Jeramey Hampton, Johannes Erm, Bryan Kamau, Alex Larsson, Austin Sprague (USTFCCCA) 2011: Johannes Erm (USTFCCCA) Matthew Boling, Johannes Erm (USTFCCCA) Matthew Boling, Johannes Erm, Labo Oke, Clay Pender, Jonathan Tharaldsen, Ziggy Zoller 2012: (USTFCCCA) Matthew Boling, Darius Carbin, Johannes Erm, Ahmed Magour, Clay Pender, Nikolai van Huyssteen (USTFCCCA) 2013:
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S. Dailey D. Bloodworth, T. Briggs, S. Cranford, C. Franzman, S. Mele, J. Tamblyn 2014: S. Cranford, C. Franzman, S. Harvey, C. Patton M. Darbey, M. Ralson, D. Hudson D. Jumpeter, S. Rowe, E. Tyson B. Barber, R. Coleman, D. Jumpeter, S. Tanner 2015: B. Barber, V. Mai, J. Mayne J. Bielecki, S. Moore, H. Schmidt, B. Stoikos, H. Verzi J. Bielecki, G. Jordan, J. Mayne, S. Moore, B. Noon, T. Sjostrom, A. Urlando, H. Verzi B. Arngrimsson, J. Glass, J. Kinnunen, 2016: A. Morris, D. Phelps, B. Pickerel, J. Scott B. Arngrimsson, C. Carter, C. Hales, A. Morris, D. Phelps, A. Urlando 2017: B. Arngrimsson, J. Campbell, C. Carter, N. Christopolis, M. Eicholtz, D. Griffin, C. Hales, J. Harvard, A. Morris, T. Robinson, J. Stempel, S. Traub 2018: B. Arngrimsson, C. Carter, M. Eicholtz, D. Griffin, C. Hales, J. Harvard, A. Howard, D. Lasseter, S. Traub, C. Wieters, P. Young J. Campbell, B. Corona, C. DeFoor, M. Eicholtz, J. Harvard, D. Lasseter, C. Nelson, T. Robinson, 2019: C. Teasley, C. Teasley, P. Young M. Barron, J. Campbell, B. Corona, C. DeFoor, T. Gower, D. Griffin, D. Lasseter, T. Makkonen, F. Rawcliffe, A. Robinson, B. Williams, P. Young 2020: D. Baker, M. Barron, B. Corona, C. DeFoor, B. Dempsey, B. Fletcher, T. Gower, W. Howard, B. Jackson, T. Makkonen, A. McQueen, A. Tribble, B. Williams, P. Young 2021: M. Barron, C. Brown, C. DeFoor, B. Dempsey, B. Fletcher, T. Gower, W. Howard, B. Jackson, T. Makkonen, P. Mavraganis, A. McQueen, A. Tribble, P. Young M. Barron, K. Basinger, C. Brown, B. Dempsey, 2022: S. Geiser, S. Emery, W. Howard, T. Makkonen, W. Mazyck, A. McQueen, E. Morris, C. Rupert, G. Sewell, G. Smith, A. Tribble, M. Weese J. Carlin, G. Eichenlaub, S. Emery, K. Foley, A. 2023: Saunders, G. Sewell, B. Smith K. Kimmons, D. Dixon, D. Sherer, P. Bett, G. Eichenlaub, S. Gillespie, B. Smith, I. Burrell, G. Mays, S. Emery, A. Saunders, B. Taylor D. Balena, D. Brennan, I. Burrell, S. Cuevo, C. Dickhaus, G. Eichenlaub, S. Emery, W. Fuller, S. Gillespie, A. Glass, N. Hermance, 2018: Z. Hunter, K. Kimmons, M. Maric, M. Roberson, B. Taylor
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B. Abtahi, I. Burrell, S. Cuevo, C. Dickhaus, J. Egan, B. Etelman, W. Fuller, S. Gillespie, K. Helf, N. Hermance, Z. Hunter, K. Kimmons, J. Marino, R. Philyaw, M. Roberson, K. Ward S. Arnold, I. Burrell, S. Cuevo, C. Dickhaus, J. Egan, W. Fuller, J. Gaymon, C. Hunter, Z. Hunter, J. Marino, G. Noe, J. Parker, M. Price, B. Potts, R. Ridgewell, M. Roberson, A. Sarafian, D. Schiedt, D. Tetley, C. Vogt B. Abtahi, A. Agbaere, S. Arnold, B. Brown, K. Dickson, J. Egan, J. Gaymon, Z. Hunter, A. Levy, J. Marino, J. Parker, M. Proctor, R. Ridgewell, N. Rolfe, D. Schiedt, D. Silverstein, D. Tetley, C. Vogt, T. Voyles B. Abtahi, A. Agbaere, T. Barrineau, B. Brown, B. Danis, J. Egan, J.P. Hackney, A. Levy, B. Moore, J. Parker, M. Proctor, B. Richardson, D. Schiedt, D. Silverstein, D. Tetley, C. Vogt, T. Voyles B. Detweiler, J. P. Hackney, A. Levy, N. Long, B. Matthews, B. Potts, F. Reade, B. Richardson, D. Schiedt, D. Silverstein, M. Svoboda, C. Vogt, T. Voyles L. Baker, M. Cleaver, B. Detweiler, J. Dunn, C. Ebbets, J.P. Hackney, K. James, N. Long, B. Lord, B. McCarty, B. Moore, F. Reade, B. Richardson, T. Sprague, M. Svoboda, G. Ward L. Baker, D. Branch, M. Cleaver, Z. Coburn, B. Detweiler, J. Dunn, C. Ebbets, A. Evans, C. Grethen, B. Hoban, K. James, B. Lord, B. McCarty, P. Novotny, B.Richardson, Z. Sims, J. Smith, K. Smith, C. Sparks, M. Uibo, N. Vena B. Anderson, L. Baker, D. Branch, J. Dunn, C. Ebbets, M. Giuliano, C. Grethen, J. Hicks, B. Hoban, B. Lord, M. Malanoski, B. McCarty, S. Selvey, Z. Sims, J. Smith, K. Smith, C. Sparks, M. Uibo, N. Vena B. Anderson, L. Baker, D. Branch, C. Ebbets, A. Evans, M. Giuliano, C. Grethen, C. Harrison, J. Hicks, B. Hoban, A. Larsson, B. Lord, M. Malanoski, B. McCarty, A. Miller, K. Saluri, Z. Sims, K. Smith, M. Uibo, N., Vena, B. Kamau, E. Westog E. Graf, A. Larsson, A. Miller, M. Uibo, T. Estime, M. Giuliano, C. Harrison, J. Hicks, B. Kamau, M. Malanoski, Z. Sims, K. Smith, E. Westog D. Comenentia, T. Estime, A. Evans, J. Hampton, T. Jones, B. Kamau, J. K. Smith, A. Larsson, S. Martinez, J. Moses, J. Pelham, R. Peppenhorst, J. Raines, K. Saluri, S. Vaughn, E. Westog J. Bradley, T. Estime, C. Greene, J. Hampton, M. Hans, T. Jones, B. Kamau, J.K. Smith, A. Larsson, J. Moses, P. Nail, J. Pelham, R. Peppenhorst, J. Raines, N. Reichard, K. Saluri, A. Sprague, D. Stockwell, E. Westog J. Bradley, Q. Burden, J. Hampton, M. Hans, T. Jones, J. Pelham, R. Peppenhorst, N. Reichard, D. Smith, D. Stockwell, J. Erm, J. Raines, T Scarbrough, A. Sprague S. Bowers, J. Bradley, Q. Burden, A. Collins, J. Erm, T. Fox, E. Godwin, M. Hans, A. Magour, M. Malkowski, D. Milton, L. Oke, C. Pender, N. Reichard, T. Scarbrough, D. Stockwell, N. Yanek, Z. Zoller J. Autry, M. Boling, S. Bowers, J. Bradley, Q. Burden, D. Carbin, A. Collins, C. Condra, J. Erm, N. Fontova, T. Fox, M. Hans, W. John, A. Magour, M. Malkowski, J. Nance, L. Oke, C. Pender, N. Reichard, N. Yanek, Z. Zoller J. Autry, G. Beverage, M. Boling, S. Bowers, Q. Burden, D. Carbin, C. Cavanaugh, A. Collins, J. Erm, N. Fontova, T. Fox, N. Hayes, C. Heron, W. John, A. Magour, C. Pender, Z. Roe, Z. Zoller J. Autry, G. Beverage, C. Bocko, M. Boling, S. Bowers, C. Cavanaugh, A. Collins, J. Erm, N. Fontova, M. Howie, W. John, C. Pender, D. Potts, Z. Roe, Z. Zoller
Women’s Honors
NCAA Team Champions
G e o r g i a
Indoor
UGA Track And Field Honors SEC Team Champions 1995: 2006:
Outdoor Indoor & Outdoor
NCAA NCAA IIndoor ndoor C Champions hampions
1984: Linda Detlefsen 1500-Meter Run(4:21.32) 1986: Gwen Torrence 55-Meter Dash (6.62) 1987: Gwen Torrence 55-Meter Dash (6.56) 1996: Debbie Ferguson 200-Meter Dash (23.17) 1999: Debbie Ferguson 60-Meter Dash (7.24) 2001: Thorey Elisdottir Pole Vault (14-9.50) 2004: Hyleas Fountain Long Jump (21-7.25) Pentathlon (4,412) Fanni Juhasz Pole Vault (13-11.25) 2006: Jenny Dahlgren Weight (78-10.50) 2007: Patricia Sylvester High Jump (6-2.25) 2013: Shaunae Miller 400-Meter Dash (50.88) 2014: Leontia Kallenou High Jump (6-1.50) Kendell Williams Pentathlon (4,635 - coll. rec.) 2015: Kendell Williams Pentathlon (4,678 - coll. rec.) Leontia Kallenou High Jump (6-4) 2016: Kendell Williams Pentathlon (4,703 - coll. rec.) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-4) 2017: Mady Fagan High Jump (6-4) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-3.50) Kendell Williams Pentathlon (4,682 pts.) 2018: Kate Hall Long Jump (22-1) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-10)
NCAA Outdoor Champions 1987: Gwen Torrence 100-Meter Dash (11.25) 200-Meter Dash (22.37) 1989: Kim Engel Javelin (196-8) 100-Meter Dash (10.94w) 1998: Debbie Ferguson 200-Meter Dash (22.66) 1999: Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin Throw (182-3) 2003: Hyleas Fountain Heptathlon (5,999) 2004: Hyleas Fountain Long Jump (21-8.25) 2006: Jenny Dahlgren Hammer (226-4) 2007: Jenny Dahlgren Hammer (232-0) 2010: Nikola Lomnicka Hammer (215-1) 2013: Freya Jones Javelin (180-3) 2014: Leontia Kallenou High Jump (6-2.25) Kendell Williams Heptathlon (5,854) 2015: Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-5.25) 2016: Keturah Orji Triple Jump (47-8 - coll. rec.) Kendell Williams Heptathlon (6,225) Chanice Porter Long Jump (21-10.75) 2017: Mady Fagan High Jump (6-3.25) Kate Hall Long Jump (22-1) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-10.75) Kendell Williams Heptathlon (6,265 pts.) 2018: Lynna Irby 400m (49.80) Keturah Orji Long Jump (21-01.75) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-0.75) *There was no 2020 outdoor season because of the COVID-19 pandemic 2021: Marie-Therese Obst Javelin (59.69m/195-10) ncaa east regional champions
2007: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017:
2018: 2021:
Jenny Dahlgren Krista Woodward Nikola Lomnicka Shaunae Miller Megan Malasarte Leontia Kallenou Keturah Orji Keturah Orji Mady Fagan Tatiana Gusin Kate Hall Keturah Orji Lynna Irby Tara Davis Keturah Orji Kayla Smith
Hammer Throw Javelin Hammer Throw 400-Meter Dash 800-Meter Run High Jump Triple Jump Long Jump, Triple Jump High Jump High Jump Long Jump Triple Jump 400m Long Jump Triple Jump Pole Vault
Indoor All-Americans 1982: 1983:
Kathy Rankins Linda Detlefsen Kathy Rankins 1984: Gwen Torrence Linda Detlefsen Kathy Rankins 1985: Gwen Torrence 1986: Gwen Torrence 1987: Gwen Torrence 1990: Trish Carter Jolly Earle 1994: Gudrun Arnardottir Monika Ronnholm 1995: Debbie Ferguson Icolyn Kelly 1996: Debbie Ferguson Gudrun Arnardottir Monica Cabbler Icolyn Kelly 1998: Debbie Ferguson Angie Stanifer 1999: Debbie Ferguson 2000: Rhonda Hackett Latifah Long Tasha Mahone 2001: Thorey Elisdottir Latifah Long 2003: Fanni Juhasz Illia Miles Hyleas Fountain 2004: Jenny Dahlgren Hyleas Fountain Fanni Juhasz 2005: Jenny Dahlgren Jessica Stockard Krysha Bayley Kierney Hiteshew 2006: Levern Spencer Patricia Sylvester Jenny Dahlgren Kierney Jackson 2007: Patricia Sylvester Levern Spencer Jenny Dahlgren Natalie Picchetti 2010: Nikola Lomnicka Kristie Krueger 2011: Colleen Felix Latroya Darrell Saniel Atkinson Lucie Ondraschkova 2012: Morgann Leleux Saniel Atkinson Colleen Felix 2013: Shaunae Miller Lucie Ondraschkova Carly Hamilton Hilenn James Chanice Porter Saniel Atkinson-Grier S. Christoforou, T. Gaither, M. Malasarte, C. Hamilton 2014: Megan Malasarte Carly Hamilton Leontia Kallenou Morgann Leleux Chanice Porter Kendell Williams Lucie Ondraschkova Quintunya Chapman 2015: Leontia Kallenou Tatiana Gusin
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Long Jump Mile Run Long Jump 55-Meter Dash 1,500-Meter Run Long Jump 55-Meter Dash 55-Meter Dash 55-Meter Dash 400-Meter Dash 5,000-Meter Run 55-Meter Hurdles Mile Run 55-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Triple Jump 55-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash 55-Meter Hurdles 400-Dash Triple Jump Triple Jump 55-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash 800-Meter Run 55-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Shot Put High Jump Long Jump Pole Vault High Jump Pole Vault 200-Meter Dash Triple Jump Weight Throw Long Jump Pentathlon Pole Vault Weight Throw Pentathlon Long Jump Pole Vault High Jump Triple Jump Weight Pole Vault High Jump High Jump Weight Throw Mile Weight Throw Mile Triple Jump Triple Jump High Jump Pentathlon Pole Vault High Jump Triple Jump 400-Meter Dash Pentathlon Mile Shot Put Long Jump High Jump DMR 800-Meter Run Mile High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Pentathlon Pentathlon Pentathlon High Jump High Jump
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2023:
Morgann Leleux Pole Vault Chanice Porter Long Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Keturah Orji Triple Jump Kendell Williams Pentathlon Quintunya Chapman Pentathlon Chanice Porter Long Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Kendell Williams Long Jump Kendell Williams Pentathlon Xenia Rahn Pentathlon Tatiana Gusin High Jump Mady Fagan High Jump Chanice Porter High Jump Keturah Orji Triple Jump Mady Fagan High Jump Tatiana Gusin High Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Kate Hall Long Jump Kendell Williams Long Jump Kendell Williams Pentathlon Shelby Ashe Weight Throw Louisa Grauvogel Pentathlon Kate Hall 60m Lynna Irby 200m Lynna Irby 400m Jessica Drop 5000m Tara Davis 60mH Kate Hall Long Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Tara Davis Long Jump Keturah Orji Triple Jump Louisa Grauvogel Heptathlon Mady Fagan High Jump Lynna Irby 400m Amber Tanner 800m M. Ransby, S. Lester 4x400-Meter Relay A. Tanner, L. Irby Aliyah Whisby Pentathlon Jessica Drop 5000m Julia Fixsen Pole Vault Anna Hall High Jump Anna Hall Pentathlon Titiana Marsh Triple Jump Jasmine Moore Long Jump Jasmine Moore Triple Jump Kayla Smith Pole Vault Amber Tanner 800m Shelby Tyler High Jump Jessica Drop 3000m (6th - 9:05.98) Imani Carothers 60mH (10th - 8.19) Anna Hall High Jump (3rd - 1.87m/6-1.50) Shelby Tyler High Jump (T13th - 1.76m/5-9.25) Kayla Smith Pole Vault (2nd - 4.41m/14-5.50) Julia Fixsen Pole Vault (T1tth - 4.16m/13-7.75) Jasmine Moore Long Jump (6.40m/21-0) Titiana Marsh Long Jump (13th - 13.14m/43-1.50) Jasmine Moore Triple Jump (4th - 13.73m/45.050) Titiana Marsh Triple Jump (13th - 13.14m/43-1.50) Anna Hall Pentathlon (2nd - 4,401 pts.) Elena Kulichenko High Jump (T8th - 1.78m/5-10) Titiana Marsh Long Jump (6.26m/20-6.50) Titiana Marsh Triple Jump (13.40m/43-11.75) Ana da Silva Shot Put (7th - 17.24m/56-6.75) Kaila Jackson 60m (2nd - 7.08) Elena Kulichenko High Jump (3rd - 1.88m/6-2) Autumn Wilson 200m (3rd - 22.45) Autumn Wilson 60m (4th - 7.12) Mikeisha Welcome Triple Jump (4th - 14.21m/46-7.50) Kaila Jackson 200m (8th - 22.84) Titiana Marsh Triple Jump (9th - 13.80m/45-3.50) Titiana Marsh Long Jump (12th - 6.08m/19-11.50)
Outdoor All-Americans 1982:
Veronica Walker 100-Meter Dash Valerie Morgan 400-Meter Dash Kathy Rankins Long Jump Kathy Rankins, Tanaya King, Renee Thompson, Veronica Walker 400-Meter Relay
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1983: 1984: 1985:
UGA Track And Field Javelin HonorsJamari Drake Krista Woodward
Linda Detlefsen 1,500-Meter Run Gwen Torrence 100-Meter Dash Gwen Torrence 100-Meter Dash Sandra Smith, Terri Julian, Kara Houston, Gwen Torrence 400-Meter Relay 1986: Gwen Torrence 100- and 200-Meter Dash Sandra Smith, Stephanie Hines, Terri Julian, Gwen Torrence 400-Meter Relay 1987: Gwen Torrence 100- and 200-Meter Dash 1989: Latashia Rogers Long Jump, Triple Jump Kim Engel Javelin 1990: Jolly Earle 5,000-Meter Run 1991: Trish Carter 400-Meter Dash Keli Butler 5,000-Meter Run Ingrid Belz Discus 1995: Debbie Ferguson 100-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Monika Ronnholm 800-Meter Run 1,500-Meter Run Gudrun Arnardottir 400-Meter Hurdles Reeta Laaksonen High Jump Icolyn Kelly Triple Jump Yolanda Flowers, Chequita Brady, Larika Burton, Debbie Ferguson 400-Meter Relay 1996: Debbie Ferguson 100-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Gudrun Arnardottir 400-Meter Int. Hurdles Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin Yolanda Flowers, Tanja Reid, Tonique Williams, Debbie Ferguson 400-Meter Relay 1997: Erin Jones 5,000-Meter Run 1998: Debbie Ferguson 100-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin Angie Stanifer 800-Meter Run Dana Burnett, Debbie Ferguson, Kelly Perryman, Latisha Rivers 400-Meter Relay 1999: Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin Debbie Ferguson 100-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash Rhonda Hackett Shot Put Lastisha Rivers, Kelly Perryman Tasha Mahone, Debbie Ferguson 400-Meter Relay 2000: Rhonda Hackett Shot Put Tasha Mahone Long Jump Thorey Elisdottir Pole Vault Latifah Long High Jump Celly Martinez High Jump 2002: Sherita King, Illia Miles, Tasha Mahone, Krysha Bayley 400-Meter Relay 2003: Fanni Juhasz Pole Vault Krista Woodward Javelin Hyleas Fountain Long Jump Hepthathlon Sherita King 100-Meter Dash 2004: Jenny Dahlgren Hammer Throw Hyleas Fountain Long Jump Heptathlon 2005: Patricia Sylvester High Jump Jessica Stockard Heptathlon Jenny Dahlgren Hammer Throw Sultana Frizell Hammer Throw Krista Woodward Javelin Sigrun Sveinsdottir Javelin 2006: Patricia Sylvester Long Jump Levern Spencer High Jump Krista Woodward Javelin Jenny Dahlgren Hammer Throw Kierney Jackson Pole Vault 2007: Jill Steffens 10,000-Meter Run Jennifer Dahlgren Hammer Throw Levern Spencer High Jump 2001:
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Natalie Picchetti 1500-Meter Run 2008: Sarah Madebach 3000-Meter Steeplechase 2010: Nikola Lomnicka Hammer Throw 2011: Nikola Lomnicka Hammer Throw 2012: Morgann Leleux Pole Vault Saniel Atkinson High Jump Nikola Lomnicka Hammer Throw Megan Malasarte 800-Meter Run Allison Updike Javelin Hilenn James Shot Put 2013: Freya Jones Javelin Shaunae Miller 400-meter dash Leontia Kallenou High Jump Lucie Ondraschkova Heptathlon Tynia Gaither 200m Megan Malasarte 800m Morgann Leleux Pole Vault Chanice Porter Long Jump Saniel Atkinson-Grier High Jump Leslie Boozer 3000-Meter Steeplechase 2014: Leontia Kallenou High Jump Megan Malasarte 800-Meter Run Carly Hamilton 1500-Meter Run Tatiana Gusin High Jump Chanice Porter Long Jump Elizabeth Tepe Hammer Throw Freya Jones Javelin Kendell Williams Heptathlon Quintunya Chapman Heptathlon 2015: Leontia Kallenou High Jump Tatiana Gusin High Jump Chanice Porter High Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Chanice Porter Long Jump Keturah Orji Triple Jump Freya Jones Javelin Kendell Williams Heptathlon Quintunya Chapman Heptathlon 2016: Kendell Williams Heptathlon Keturah Orji Triple Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Chanice Porter Long Jump Mady Fagan High Jump Aliyah Johnson Triple Jump 2017: Mady Fagan High Jump Tatiana Gusin High Jump Kayla Smith Pole Vault Kate Hall Long Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Keturah Orji Triple Jump Aliyah Johnson Triple Jump Beatrice Llano Hammer Throw Kendell Williams Heptathlon 2018: Lynna Irby 200m Lynna Irby 400m Jessica Drop 5000m Tara Davis 100mH Tatiana Gusin High Jump Keturah Orji Long Jump Tara Davis Long Jump Kate Hall Long Jump Keturah Orji Triple Jump Marie-Therese Obst Javelin Louisa Grauvogel Heptathlon 2019: Aliyah Whisby Long Jump Titiana Marsh Triple Jump Sterling Lester Heptathlon *There was no 2020 outdoor season because of the COVID-19 pandemic 2021: Amber Tanner 800m (10th - 2:04.27) Shelby Tyler High Jump (5th - 1.84m/6-0.50) Anna Hall High Jump (7th - 1.81m/5-11.25) Kayla Smith Pole Vault (4.35m/14-3.25) Jasmine Moore Long Jump (3rd - 6.65m/21-10) Jasmine Moore Triple Jump (2nd - 14.13m/46-4.25) Titiana Marsh Triple Jump (7th - 13.68m/44-10.75) Asya Reynolds Heptathlon (7th - 5,754 pts.) Marie-Therese Obst Javelin (1st - 59.59m/195-10) 2022: Elena Kulichenko High Jump (11th - 1.80m/5-10.75)
U n i v e r s i t y
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2023:
High Jump (12th - 1.80m/5-10.75) Titiana Marsh Long Jump (11th - 6.26m/20-6.50) Titiana Marsh Triple Jump (5th - 13.55m/44-5.50) Ana da Silva Shot Put (10th - 17.14m/56-2.75) Elena Kulichenko High Jump (3rd - 1.87m/6-1.50) Kaila Jackson 100m (4th - 10.96 W+2.3) Titiana Marsh Triple Jump (5th - 1.16m/44-10.25) Kaila Jackson, Autumn Wilson 400-Meter Relay Brandee Presley, Aaliyah Butler (6th - 42.87) Mikeisha Welcome Triple Jump (8th - 13.62m/44-8.25) Aaliyah Butler, Haley Tate 1600-Meter Relay Brandee Presley, Dominique Mustin (9th - 3:30.55) Ana da Silva Hammer Throw (10th - 64.60m/211-11) Titiana Marsh Long Jump (11th - 6.12m/20-1) Kaila Jackson 200m (12th - 22.28) Dominique Mustin 400mH (12th - 56.68) Ana da Silva Shot Put (14th - 17.06m/55-11.75) Aaliyah Butler 400m (16th - 51.66) sec indoor champions
1983:
Ellen Alsobrook Linda Detlefsen 1984: Gwen Torrence Linda Detlefsen 1985: Gwen Torrence 1986: Gwen Torrence 1987: Gwen Torrence 1994: Gudrun Arnardottir 1995: Debbie Ferguson Mary McClung Gudrun Arnardottir Icolyn Kelly 1996: Gudrun Arnardottir 1998: Debbie Ferguson 1999: Debbie Ferguson Rhonda Hackett 2000: Latifah Long Tasha Mahone 2001: Latifah Long Tasha Mahone Thorey Elisdottir 2003: Hyleas Fountain 2004: Hyleas Fountain Hyleas Fountain Hyleas Fountain Fanni Juhasz 2006: Jenny Dahlgren Kierney Jackson Levern Spencer Natalie Picchetti 2007: Patricia Sylvester Jenny Dahlgren Jill Steffens 2011: Colleen Felix 2012: Colleen Felix 2013: Hilenn James Chanice Porter 2014: Leontia Kallenou Morgann Leleux 2015: Leontia Kallenou Keturah Orji Kendell Williams 2016: Kendell Williams Keturah Orji 2017: Mady Fagan Keturah Orji Kendell Williams 2018: Lynna Irby Kate Hall Keturah Orji 2019: Lynna Irby 2020: Amber Tanner Jasmine Moore 2021: Julia Fixsen Jasmine Moore
G e o r g i a
880-Yard Run (2:14.69) Mile Run (4:46.10) 60-Yard Dash (6.87) 1,000-Yard Run (2:31.97) Mile Run (4:45.68) 60-Yard Dash (6.81) 60-Yard Dash (6.67) 300-Yard Dash (33.54) 55-Meter Dash (6.60) 300-Meter Dash (37.35) 55-Meter Hurdles (7.77) 55-Meter Dash (6.78) 200-Meter Dash (23.56) 800-Meter Run (2:09.59) 400-Meter Dash (54.11) 55-Meter Hurdles (7.69) Triple Jump (42-7 1/2) 400-Meter Dash (53.19) 55-Meter Dash (6.76) 60-Meter Dash (7.29) Shot Put (52-1.75) High Jump (5-11.50) Long Jump (21-0.50) High Jump (5-10) Long Jump (21-1.50) Pole Vault (14-5.25) Pentathlon (4,164) High Jump (5-10.50) Long Jump (21-1.5) Pentathlon (4,417) Pole Vault (13-10.50) Weight (73-3.25) Pole Vault (13-0.75) High Jump (6-2) Mile (4:49.17) High Jump (6-0.50) Weight Throw (72-2.25) 5000-Meter Run (16:37.99 Triple Jump (44-3.50) Triple Jump (42-8.25) Shot Put (55-0.75) Long Jump (21-0.50) High Jump (6-2.75) Pole Vault (14-4.50) High Jump (6-2.75) Triple Jump (45-0.25) Pentathlon (4,519) Pentathlon (4,420) Triple Jump (46-2.50) High Jump (6-1.50) Triple Jump (46-11.75) Pentathlon (4,686 pts.) 200-Meter Dash (22.66) Long Jump (21-9.50) Triple Jump (46-6.25) 400-Meter Dash (52.02) 800-Meter Run (2:04.35) Triple Jump (45-1) Pole Vault (4.40m/14-5.25) Triple Jump (13.97m/45-10)
Anna Hall 1984: 1995: 2003: 2004: 2007:
UGA T2012: rack And Field Honors Pentathlon (4,521) Nikola Lomnicka Hammer (205-9) MEN - G. Beverage, M. Boling, S. Bowers,
SEC Indoor High Point Scorers Linda Detlefsen Icolyn Kelly Hyleas Fountain Hyleas Fountain Patricia Sylvester
20 points (tie) 23 points 28 points 44 points 26 points
SEC Outdoor Champions
1983: Debbie Dacosta Heptathlon (5,579) 1984: Kathy Rankins Long Jump (21-1) 1985: Gwen Torrence 100-Meter Dash (11.31) 200-Meter Dash (22.96) Jill Palmer Shot Put (50-2) 1989: Catherine Colter Long Jump (20-4.50) Triple Jump (41-3) Kim Engel Javelin (182-5) 1990: Jolly Earle 10,000-Meter Run (35:00.32) 1991: Keli Butler 10,000-Meter Run (34:43.55) Ingrid Belz Discus (175-9) Amanda Cockburn Javelin (145-11) 1992: Frida Thordardottir 3,000-Meter Run (9:28.49) 1995: Mary McClung 800-Meter Run (2:06.59) Monika Ronnholm 1,500-Meter Run (4:17.81) 3,000-Meter Run (9:22.38) Gudrun Arnardottir 400-Meter Hurdles (56.88) Reeta Laaksonen High Jump (5-10.75) Icolyn Kelly Triple Jump (43-4.25) 1996: Gudrun Arnardottir 400-Meter Hurdles (56.86) Reeta Laaksonen High Jump (6-0.50) Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin (170-6) 1997: Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin (175-4) 1998: Debbie Ferguson 100-Meter Dash (11.09w) 200-Meter Dash (22.53) Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin (162-9) Chukwuwete Olomina Triple Jump (42-6.25) 1999: Debbie Ferguson 100-Meter dash (11.05) 200-Meter dash (22.35) Vigdis Gudjonsdottir Javelin (171-1) Rhonda Hackett Shot Put (52-1.75) Discus (180-4) Latifah Long High Jump (5-11.50) 2000: Rhonda Hackett Shot Put (53-3) Latifah Long High Jump (5-10) Katie McCoy Hammer Throw (183-0) 2001: Latifah Long High Jump (5-10.50) Katie McCoy Hammer Throw (203-10) 2002: Lindsay Daniel Javelin (161-10) 2003: Krista Woodward Javelin (163-9) Hyleas Fountain Heptathlon (5,626) 2004: Hyleas Fountain High Jump (5-9.75) Hyleas Fountain Long Jump (21-7.50) 2005: Krista Woodward Javelin (168-06) Kierney Hiteshew Pole Vault (13-6.50) Jessica Stockard Heptathlon (5,720) Patricia Sylvester High Jump (5-8.75) Sultana Frizell Hammer Throw (213-03) 2006: Krista Woodward Javelin (167-5) Patricia Sylvester Triple Jump (43-9.75) Long Jump (21-7.50) Jenny Dahlgren Hammer (235-6) Levern Spencer High Jump (5-11.50) Kierney Jackson Pole Vault (13-11) 2007: Jill Steffens 10,000-Meter Run (35:45.48) 5000-Meter Run (16:23.80) Krista Woodward Javelin (169-4) Levern Spencer High Jump (6-1.25) Jenny Dahlgren Hammer (227-0) 2008: Sarah Madebach 3000M Steeple. (10:14.89) 2010: Bridget Lyons 10,000-Meter Run (34:44.88) Nikola Lomnicka Hammer (207-7) 2011: Nikola Lomnicka Hammer (208-4) Maria Augutis Triple Jump (43-7.25)
Kristie Krueger 10,000-Meter Run (34:49.10) Morgann Leleux Pole Vault (14-6.75) Allison Updike Javelin (161-2) 2013: Carly Hamilton 1500m (4:14.27) Saniel Atkinson-Grier High Jump (6-0.75) Morgann Leleux Pole Vault (13-9.25) Elizabeth Tepe Hammer (203-4) 2014: Leontia Kallenou High Jump (6-3.50) Elizabeth Tepe Hammer Throw (210-6) Kendell Williams Heptathlon (5,877) 2015: Keturah Orji Triple Jump (46-4.25) 2016: Keturah Orji Triple Jump (47-10.75) Mady Fagan High Jump (6-0.50) 2017: Tatiana Gusin High Jump (6-2) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (45-9.25) Beatric Llano Hammer Throw (215-0) 2018: Lynna Irby 200m (22.25) Tatiana Gusin High Jump (6-0) Keturah Orji Long Jump (22-4.25) Keturah Orji Triple Jump (47-11.75 - coll. rec.) 2021: Amber Tanner 800m (2:02.94) Jasmine Moore Triple Jump (14.39m/47-2.50) Marie-Therese Obst Javelin (57.29m/187-11) 2022: Ana da Silva Shot Put (18.46/60-6.75) 1995: 1999: 2004: 2006: 1996: 2002: 2003: 2004: 2005: 2006: 2007:
C. Cavanaugh, J. Erm, M. Minichello, C. Pender, A. Rogow, W. Sumner (USTFCCCA - M&W)
SEC Academic Honor Roll 1984: 1985: 1986: 1987: 1988: 1989: 1990: 1991: 1992: 1993: 1994: 1995: 1996:
SEC Outdoor High Point Scorers Icolyn Kelly Debbie Ferguson Hyleas Fountain Patricia Sylvester
32.5 points 23.5 points 34.50 points 28 points
All-Academic Teams
Dianne Woodend Corrie Drakulich (Co-SIDA-Third Team) Corrie Drakulich (Co-SIDA-First Team Celly Martinez (Co-SIDA-First Team) Natalie Picchetti, Kierney Hiteshew (USTFCCCA) Kristin Heffelfinger, Natalie Picchetti (USTFCCCA) K. Heffelfinger, J. Toto, J.Dahlgren, S.Dennison, N. Picchetti (USTFCCCA) 2008: Women’s Team, C. Carr, N.Picchetti (USTFCCCA) 2009: K. Krueger, J. Toto, E. Sanders (USTFCCCA) 2010: M. Augutis, K. Krueger, B. Lyons, K. Majester, L. Ondraschkova, J. Riebold (USTFCCCA) 2011: M. Augutis, B. Lyons, L. Ondraschkova (USTFCCCA) 2012: M. Augutis, K. Krueger, M. Leleux, L. Ondraschkova, A. Updike (USTFCCCA) 2013: C. Hamilton, M. Leleux,L. Ondraschkova (USTFCCCA) 2014: L. Ondraschkova, G. Stefanidi, A. Covington, M. Leleux, C. Hamilton (USTFCCCA) 2015: Q. Chapman, A. Covington, L. Kallenou, M. Leleux, B. McDaniel, *K. Orji, J. Wargo (USTFCCCA) *National Women’s Outdoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year 2016: D. Artis, A. Covington, ^L. Kallenou, ^K. Orji, X. Rahn, G. Stefanidi (USTFCCCA) 2017: A. Covington, J. Drop, S. Drop, L. Grauvogel, K. Hall, B. Llano, T. Montgomery, ^K. Orji, K. Smith, G. Stefanidi, M. Terry, K. Williams (USTFCCCA) ^CoSIDA First Team Academic All-Americans 2018: J. Drop, S. Drop, M. Fagan, L. Grauvogel, K. Hall, T. Montgomery, M. Obst, K. Orji, A. Tanner (USTFCCCA) 2019: I. Carothers, J. Drop, M. Obst, K. Smith, A. Tanner (USTFCCCA) 2020: I. Carothers, J. Drop, S. Drop, J. Fixsen, A. Hall, J. Moore, K. Smith, A. Tanner, S. Tyler (USTFCCCA) 2021: A. Block, I. Carothers, J. Drop, S. Drop, J. Fixsen, A. Hall, D. Jackson, G. Jauch, H. McClintock, J. Moore, M. Obst, K. Smith, A. Tanner, K. Thompson, S. Tyler, C. Zoller (USTFCCCA) 2022: A. Block, I. Carothers, J. Drake, J. Harisay, T. Marsh, S. Tyler (USTFCCCA) 2023: WOMEN - L. Anderson, E. Frye, J. Harisay, K. Jackson, T. Marsh, E. McMeniman, D. Mustin, Z. Pollock, A. Wilson
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CIRCLE OF HONOR RECIPIENTS Forrest “Spec” Towns Brent Noon Debbie Ferguson Reese Hoffa Hyleas Fountain
2015: 2014:
Kendell Williams Kendell Williams
Outdoor - Field 2018: Denzel Comenentia 2018: Keturah Orji 2016: Keturah Orji 2014: Kendell Williams 2007: Jenny Dahlgren 2006: Jenny Dahlgren
JOEL EAVES AWARD WINNERS
2023-24: Cooper Bocko 2022-23: Nicolas Fontova 2021-22: Shelby Tyler 2020-21: Samantha Drop 2018-19: Tiffany Yue 2017-18 Keturah Orji 2013-14: Jared Dunn 2011-12: J.P. Hackney 2010-11: David Schiedt 2008-09: Julianne Toto 2003-04: Celly Martinez 2002-03: Corrin Drakulich 2001-02: Jacqueline Seibert 1998-99: Tracy Watson 1996-97: Dianne Woodend; Sigurbjorn Arngrimsson
*All competitors who qualified for the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships were declared All-Americans after the meet was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic
USTFCCCA REGIONAL ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Indoor - Track 2019: Lynna Irby 2018: Lynna Irby 2012: Torrin Lawrence 2010: Torrin Lawrence 2009: Torrin Lawrence
Indoor - Field 2023: Kyle Garland 2021: Anna Hall 2020: Jasmine Moore 2019: Denzel Comenentia 2018: Denzel Comenentia Keturah Orji 2017: Keturah Orji 2016: Garrett Scantling 2015: Kendell Williams 2013: Lucie Ondraschkova 2007: Patricia Sylvester Outdoor - Track 2023: Will Sumner 2018: Lynna Irby 2008: Justin Gaymon Outdoor - Field 2023: Kyle Garland 2022: Kyle Garland 2021: Karel Tilga Jasmine Moore 2018: Denzel Comenentia Keturah Orji 2017: Devon Williams Keturah Orji 2016: Maicel Uibo Keturah Orji 2014: Kendell Williams 2012: Morgann LeLeux 2009: Chris Hill 2007: Jenny Dahlgren
USTFCCCA NATIONAL ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Indoor - Track 2010: Torrin Lawrence
Indoor - Field 2023: Kyle Garland 2018: Keturah Orji 2017: Keturah Orji 2016: Kendell Williams
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J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics & UGA President J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks – 2023 Sports Business Journal Athletic Director of the Year finalist – has led the University of Georgia Athletic Association through historic success. Georgia finished seventh in the 2023 LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup, the Association’s best mark since 2005 and tying for the fourth-highest ranking in program history. Seventeen of the Bulldogs’ athletic programs finished with a top-20 ranking, while nine ended the year in the top 10. The Bulldogs became the first program to earn back-to-back College Football Playoff National Championships, while three of Georgia’s athletic teams won SEC titles and five athletes won NCAA individual crowns during the 2022-23 athletics season. Among notable achievements, the women’s soccer and volleyball programs made history as both teams earned bids to their respective NCAA tournaments in the same year for the first time ever. Georgia’s track and field programs finished with four top-10 rankings in the indoor and outdoor championships, both men’s and women’s tennis captured SEC championships, softball finished with a second-place mark in the conference and both golf programs swept team and individual titles at their respective NCAA regionals. The Bulldogs also posted a record-breaking academic year, setting a new school-high mark with a 3.19 cumulative GPA in 2022-23, breaking the fall GPA record before earning the second-highest spring GPA in school history. From academic and athletic success to historic fundraising and a multitude of facility projects, Brooks has continued to sustain Georgia’s standing as a national powerhouse. The Georgia Bulldog Club set new fundraising records in each of the last two years with $86.4 million raised in 2022 and $97.7 million in 2023. Brooks has overseen substantial facility upgrades that include the brandnew Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Tennis Courts, improvements to the south side of Sanford Stadium, a $45 million renovation to Foley Field, a $38 million upgrade to the Jack Turner Softball Stadium, a new $1.8 million men’s and women’s basketball weight room as well as expansive updates to Stegeman Coliseum and a renovation project in the Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall. Georgia also built a new, state-of-the-art track and field locker room and recently announced plans to construct a one-of-a-kind track facility off South Milledge Avenue. This project will include the only indoor track and field venue in the state of Georgia and will allow the Bulldogs to host NCAA and SEC events as well as summer camps. Brooks’ tenure has also included impactful and significant coaching hires, with a pair of national champions in track and field’s Caryl Smith Gilbert and soccer’s Keidane McAlpine. In 2021, he hired Tony Baldwin to take over the softball program, while Stefanie Williams Moreno and Neil Versfeld were named head women’s and men’s swimming and diving coaches. He also hired two prominent coaches to lead the Georgia Basketball programs in Mike White and Katie Abrahamson-Henderson. Following the 2022-23 baseball season, Brooks brought on renowned pitching coach Wes Johnson to lead Georgia Baseball. A native of Hammond, La., Brooks’ vision of competing for championships and postseason success and his passion for student-athletes began well before his time as Athletic Director. Before returning to UGA in 2016 as Executive Associate Director of Athletics, Brooks served as Deputy Athletics Director at the University of ULM from 2015-16 and Director of Athletics at Millsaps College from 2014-15. He also served in capacities as Director of Football Operations (2008-11) and Assistant and Associate Athletic Director for Internal Operations (2012-14) in his previous stint at UGA. Brooks also served as director of football operations at the University of ULM beginning in 2004. He gained experience as a student at LSU University, working as an equipment manager and a student assistant coach. During his four years at LSU, the Tigers participated in the 2000 Peach Bowl, 2002 Sugar Bowl, and won the 2001 Southeastern Conference championship. Brooks graduated from LSU (’02) with a degree in Kinesiology and completed his master’s degree in Sport Management from UGA (‘14). He and his wife, Lillie, have twin sons, Jackson and James, born in July of 2009 and a third son, Davis, born in March of 2012. He and his wife Lillie have become a vital part of the Athens community. On January 20, 2021, just two weeks after becoming Athletic Director, Brooks pledged $100,000 to create a need-based scholarship to support UGA students from Athens-Clarke County. His gift created a Georgia Commitment Scholarship (GCS), adding to the more than 550 endowed, need-based scholarships created under the GCS program since its launch in January 2017.
President Jere W. Morehead began his tenure as the 22nd University of Georgia President on July 1, 2013. Under his leadership, UGA has risen in the rankings of the best public colleges and universities and has completed a series of initiatives to enhance student learning and success, including a requirement for experiential learning for all undergraduates. Additionally during President Morehead’s tenure, the University completed the most successful capital campaign in its history and established the UGA Innovation District, through which students and faculty partner with industry leaders to create products and enterprises that strengthen Georgia’s economy. UGA has increased its research expenditures by more than 50% over the past decade and has been ranked first or second in the U.S. for research-based products reaching the marketplace for the past seven years. In keeping with his focus on student success, President Morehead launched the ALL Georgia program to support students from rural areas and created the Double Dawgs program, which enables students to save time and money by earning an undergraduate and graduate degree in five years or less. Demand for a UGA education has more than doubled during the past decade, with a record 43,000 applications submitted for a spot in the incoming Class of 2027. President Morehead has served the University of Georgia for more than 35 years in both faculty and administrative roles. Before becoming President, he was Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost from 2010 to 2013. Prior to 2010, he held several key administrative assignments, including Vice President for Instruction, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Associate Provost and Director of the Honors Program, and acting Executive Director of Legal Affairs. He is the Meigs Professor of Legal Studies in the Terry College of Business, where he has held a faculty appointment since 1986. He is a co-author of several books and book chapters, including The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business, and he has published scholarly articles on legal topics ranging from export controls to jury selection. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal. President Morehead currently serves as Co-Chair of the University Leadership Forum, a national initiative led by the Council on Competitiveness. Additional service includes membership on the boards of the Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and Emory University Candler School of Theology. He is Chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Board of Directors and a member of the NCAA Division I Administrative Committee. He previously served as President of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Chair of the SEC Executive Committee and as a member of the NCAA’s Board of Governors; Presidential Forum; Working Group on Name, Image, and Likeness; and Federal and State Legislation Working Group. He also is a member of the National Football Foundation Board of Trustees. In 2021, he received the Chief Executive Leadership Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District III for outstanding leadership and service in support of education. He has received several University-wide teaching awards, including the Josiah Meigs Award—UGA’s highest honor for teaching excellence, the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Teacher of the Year Award in the Terry College of Business, and the Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award. He also earned the UGA School of Law’s premier honor for alumni, the Distinguished Service Scroll Award. President Morehead holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University and a law degree from the University of Georgia.
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Georgia Track & Field 2024 Schedule Indoor
Jan. 12-13 Clemson Invite Clemson, S.C. Jan. 19-20 Vanderbilt Invitational (Distance) Nashville, Tenn. Jan. 20 The Track at New Balance Collegiate Showdown Boston, Mass. Jan. 26-27 Razorback Invitational Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 2-3 New Mexico Collegiate Classic (Multis) Albuquerque, N.M. Feb. 9-10 Tiger Paw Invite Clemson, S.C. Feb. 9-10 Music City Challenge (Distance) Nashville, Tenn. Feb. 16 Arkansas Qualifier Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 23-24 SEC Indoor Championships Fayetteville, Ark. March 8-9 NCAA Indoor Championships Boston, Mass.
March 15-16 March 23 March 28-30 March 29-30 April 5-6 April 12-13 April 19-20 April 26-27 April 27 May 9-11 May 22-25 June 5-8 June 21-30
Outdoor
Yellow Jacket Invitational Hurricane Collegiate Invitational Raleigh Relays (Distance) Battle on the Bayou Hurricane Alumni Invitational (Multis) Tom Jones Memorial Georgia Tech Invitational Music City Challenge LSU Invitational SEC Outdoor Championships NCAA East Prelims NCAA Outdoor Championships U.S. Olympic Team Trials
Atlanta, Ga. Coral Gables, Fla. Raleigh, N.C. Baton Rouge, La. Coral Gables, Fla. Gainesville, Fla. Atlanta, Ga. Nashville, Tenn. Baton Rouge, La. Gainesville, Fla. Lexington, Ky. Eugene, Ore. Eugene, Ore.
All times TBA | Schedule subject to change
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