Texas A&M Men place 3rd, Women place 6th at the SEC Indoor Championships

Texas A&M Track & Field played host for the 2020 Indoor SEC Championships at Gilliam Stadium in College Station the weekend of February 28-29.

From the first day of the meet on Friday, the Arkansas Razorbacks dominated the field of events, finishing the first day of competition with a strong lead. The momentum continued into Saturday, with Arkansas sweeping the podium and taking home the SEC Championship crown in both the men’s and women’s teams, recording 106 and 102 points respectively. LSU also secured a sweep coming in second in the men’s and women’s teams (88 men’s and 88.7 in women’s).

Texas A&M came in third on the men’s side, standing with 82 points, marking a strong rise from last year’s showing, where the Aggies finished 6th. The Aggie women’s team finished this year in 6th place with 58 total points, a drop from last year’s second-place finish. The Aggies finished the 2020 SEC Championship with 11 medals and five event titles; four from individual events, and one in relay.

Men’s team highlights

Texas A&M finished in the top two spots of the men’s 400m dash. Bryce Deadmon took first place recording 45.51, and Jamal Walton took second at 45.62.

Devin Dixon won the men’s 800m open with a time of 1:49.63. Dixon set the third highest-ranking NCAA record at last year’s 2019 SEC Indoor Championship.

Jake Lambert set a personal record 2.11m/6-11 and finished seventh in the men’s pole vault.

Zephyr Seagraves finished fifth in the men’s 3000m with a time of 8:12.09.

The Texas A&M men’s 4x400m relay team raced away with the gold medal with a final time of 3:04.86.

SEC men’s team scores: Arkansas (106), LSU (88), Texas A&M (82), Florida (75), Tennessee (67), Kentucky (55.5), Missouri (43), Ole Miss (41), Alabama (35), Georgia (32), South Carolina (20), Auburn (12.5) and Mississippi State (4)

Women’s team highlights

Tyra Gittens became the first Aggie to win the SEC Championship in the pentathlon, setting a school record of 4,391 points, bringing a gold medal to Texas A&M’s medal count. Gittens was awarded the Women’s Cliff Harper Award as the top female point scorer of the competition with 21 points.

Deborah Acquah took first in the women’s long jump, the first Aggie to do so, with a clearance of 6.45m/21-2. Tyra Gittens finished fourth at 6.27m/20-7. 

Acquah also placed second in the women’s triple jump with a mark of 13.70m/44-11½, the second-best performance in school history.

True freshman Charokee Young made a statement with her collegiate athletic debut, finishing 3rd in the 800m with a personal best of 2:05.80.

SEC women’s team scores: Arkansas (102), LSU (87.5), Georgia (78), Alabama (67), Kentucky (63), Texas A&M (58), Florida (45), Ole Miss (43), Tennessee (43), Missouri (24.5), Auburn (19), South Carolina (18), Mississippi State (9) and Vanderbilt (6).

Coming up for Track and Field

Texas A&M will have a bye week before traveling with their national qualifiers to Albuquerque, N.M. to compete at the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships March 13-14.