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Three Lady Vols qualify for NCAA Outdoor Championships

Three Tennessee women’s track athletes advance to NCAA outdoor finals.

Three Tennessee women’s track and field athletes qualified for Saturday’s NCAA Outdoor Track Championships. The Lady Vols’ second-ranked 4×400-meter relay team also advanced to the finals.

2000-meter finals will be contested at 6:32 p.m. EDT on Saturday at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Brianna White qualified for the finals after recording a time of 51.40 seconds in the 400-meter dash. She finished fifth in her heat and ninth overall.

In the 200-meter dash, Lady Vols’ senior Dennisha Page finished the event in 22.44 seconds and earning an automatic bid in the finals. She finished second in her heat and sixth overall.

The 200-meter final is slated for Saturday at 7:07 p.m. EDT.

Tennessee’s 4×400-meter relay team of Javona Valcourt, Kyla Robison-Hubbard, Dalour Miles and White recorded a fourth-place overall finish, posting a time of 3:27.65. The final is scheduled for 7:51 p.m. EDT Saturday.

Five Lady Vols earned Second-Team All-America honors in the Thursday’s semifinals.

Joella Lloyd and Page both competed in the 100-meter dash. Lloyd finished 11th and Page 13th, marking the first time since 2008 Tennessee had multiple All-Americans in the event.

Junior pole vaulter Sara Schmitt finished in 13th place, becoming the second All-American pole vaulter in Lady Vols’ history.

Valcourt earned an All-America certificate in the 400-meter dash as she finished 16th.

In the 400-meter hurdles, Robinson-Hubbard finished in 10th place.

Three Vols, one relay team advance in NCAA outdoor championships

Vols open 2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships by earning three spots in Friday’s finals.

Three Tennessee men’s track and field athletes and one relay team advanced in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Two veteran Vols advanced in the 400-meter hurdles at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on the first day of competition.

Tennessee graduate student Clement Ducos received an automatic bid into the finals with a victory in Heat 3 of the event. He finished the race in 48.64 seconds.

Tennessee fifth-year senior Ja’Kwan Hale qualified for his first NCAA final as an individual. He recorded a time of 49.88 and posted an eighth-place overall finish.

Tennessee is one of three programs to have multiple qualifiers in the event, joining Alabama and Texas Tech. The NCAA final will be contested Friday at approximately 10:27 p.m. EDT.

Vols’ fifth-year senior Emmanuel Bynum placed third in the 400-meter dash and eighth overall, recording a time of 44.50 seconds.

He will compete in the finals of the event, which will be contested at approximately 10:02 p.m. EDT on Friday.

Bynum and Ducos were part of the Vols’ 4×400-meter relay team, combining with Rasheeme Griffith and Christian Parker to finish third in their heat and eighth overall (3:04.28). The finals for the 4×40-meter relay will be contested Friday at approximately 11:02 p.m. EDT.

T’Mars McCallum, Griffith and Kevin Burr Jr. also earned Second-Team All-America status on Wednesday.

McCallum finished 15th in the 100-meter dash. Griffith was 13th in the 400-meter hurdles and Burr Jr. posted an 11th-place finish in the javelin.

Charisma Taylor earns three All-America certificates

Charisma Taylor earns three All-America certificates.

Tennessee graduate student Charisma Taylor earned three All-America certificates Thursday at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas.

Taylor achieved first-team All-America honors with a sixth-place finish in the women’s long jump with a leap of 6.41 meters (21 feet, 0.5 inches).

Taylor also achieved second-team All-America status in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.94. She finished in tenth place and failed to qualify for the finals.

Taylor, Jacious Spears, Nicole Sreenan and Jonah Ross finished tenth in the 4X100-meter relay, completing the race in 42.35 seconds.

Sears, a senior, qualified for the finals of both the 100-meter and 200-meter events. She posted a time of 11.06 seconds in the 100-meter and finished the 200-meter in 22.49 seconds.

Lady Vol Chandler Hayden made her debut in the national championships. She finished 19th in the hammer throw with a mark of 61.47 meters.

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Javonte Harding, Rasheeme Griffith highlight NCAA outdoor championships opening night

Tennessee’s Javonte Harding and Rasheeme Griffith highlight NCAA outdoor championships opening night.

Tennessee competed at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Wednesday at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas.

Junior Javonte Harding finished fifth in the men’s 200-meter semifinals (19.88 seconds), joining Justin Coleman and Justin Gatlin as the only Tennessee sprinters to record a sub-20 second time in the event.

Harding will compete in Friday’s final at 10:37 p.m. EDT.

He also competed in the 100-meter dash, finishing 17th and recording a time of 10.12 seconds.

In the 400-meter semifinals, junior Rasheeme Griffith finished in third place (49.00 seconds). He advances to Friday’s final at 10:27 p.m. EDT.

Tennessee graduate student Rasheem Brown recorded a personal best time in the 110-meter hurdles semifinals (13.53).

Brown advances to the finals on Friday at 9:42 p.m. EDT.

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