Eight Tennessee indoor track and field athletes earn SEC honors

Eight Tennessee indoor track and field athletes earn SEC honors.

Eight Tennessee track and field athletes received All-Southeastern Conference honors at the league’s recent indoor championships.

A pair of UT athletes were named to the first team after winning their respective events.

The Volunteers and Lady Vols had a combined four athletes achieve second-team honors, claiming either second or third in their events at the championships.

Tennessee also had two athletes make the SEC’s All-Freshman team as top rookie finishers.

In the men’s long jump, Carey McLeod was a first team standout as he won the league title with a leap of 8.07 meters (26 feet, 5.75 inches).

The Lady Vols had three earn second-team honors, including one, Charisma Taylor, who medaled in a pair of events.

Taylor claimed a silver medal in the 60-meter hurdles and earned bronze in the triple jump. Sydney Seymour finished second in the women’s 5,000-meter run.

The Vols’ Georgios Korakidis earned second-team honors as he claimed a silver medal in the men’s weight throw.

Yariel Soto won a bronze in the heptathlon and earned UT’s first medal at the SEC indoor championships since 2009.

Jordan West won silver in the men’s shot put.

Fuji Anday made the league’s all-freshman team as he finished 10th in the men’s 5,000-meter run. Lady Vols’ Mikele Vickers was a top finisher in the women’s triple jump (seventh place).