BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS (Feb. 27, 2025)-----The Texas A&M and the Arkansas women claimed the team leads after the first day of the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships here Thursday at R.A. Murray Fasken Indoor Track. Four events in each gender were scored on the opening day of competition.
Texas A&M leads the men’s standings with 30.5 points, while Tennessee (21) is second, Arkansas (20) is third, Alabama (19) is fourth and Georgia (17.5) is fifth. Oklahoma is sixth with 16.5 points, followed by Ole Miss (14.5), South Carolina (6), Missouri (4), Texas (4), Kentucky (2) and Florida (1).
Arkansas leads the women’s standings with 32 points, while Oklahoma (31) standings second, LSU (19) is third, Texas A&M (13) is fourth and Florida (11) is fifth. Texas (10) is sixth, ahead of Vanderbilt (9), Alabama (8), Auburn (8), South Carolina (8), Kentucky (3), Ole Miss (3) and Mississippi State (1).
Oklahoma’s Pippi Lotta Enok won the women’s pentathlon with 4,593 points. She placed first in the pentathlon high jump and second in the shot put, long jump and 800m. Arkansas’ Gabriel Emmanuel leads the men’s heptathlon with 3,287 first day points.
Arkansas’ Patrick Kiprop won the men’s 5,000m with a time of 13:37.52. The Razorbacks also won the women’s 5,000m as Paityn Noe finished with a meet record 15:11.27, topping the meet record set last year by Arkansas’ Sydney Thorvaldson (15:42.45).
Another record fell on Thursday as Kentucky’s Carli Makarawu set a new mark in the prelims of the men’s 200m with a time of 20.20. The previous record was set by Terrance Laird of LSU in 2021.
In the distance medley relays, Texas A&M won the men’s DMR in a meet record 9:23.92 and LSU won the women’s DMR in 10:50.15.
Georgia freshman Jaden Keys won the men’s long jump with a leap of 7.92m/26-0, Oklahoma’s Jasmine Akins won the women’s long jump with a mark of 6.62m/21-8.75, and Tennessee’s Blake Sifferlin won the men’s pole vault with a mark of 5.50m/18-0.5.
The second day of the SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships starts Friday at 11 a.m. CT with the men’s weight throw. The meet will be streamed on SECN+.