No. 9/10 Sooners Ready to Compete at SEC Indoor Championships

NORMAN – The No. 9/10 Oklahoma men's and women's track and field team is geared up its first SEC Indoor Championships hosted by Texas A&M Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the R.A. 'Murray' Fasken '38 Indoor Track & Field Facility in Bryan-College Station, Texas.

The three-day meet will kick off with combined events on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. CT. The Friday session starts at 11 a.m. CT with field events and preliminary running events set to follow at 4 p.m. CT. On Saturday, field events begin at 2 p.m. CT and final running events at 4:05 p.m. CT.

Live results for the SEC Indoor Championships can be found via Flash Results. A broadcast of the championships will air on SEC Network+ Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The Sooner women go into the meet ranked No. 2 and the men No. 3 in the SEC per USTFCCCA. OU aims for its first top-five league finish since 2022, facing a total of 15 SEC men's and women's programs included in the top-25 of the latest NCAA Division I national rankings.

Junior BJ Green enters the championships No. 2 in the SEC in the triple jump. The Ruston, La., native returns to the conference stage after sweeping the Big 12 indoor and outdoor triple jump titles in 2024. Other league champions returning for the Sooners include graduate student Nikaoli Williams (2023, long jump), and seniors Olivia Lueking (2023, pole vault) and Pippi Lotta Enok (2023, pentathlon).

More information on the conference meet can be found on the SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships homepage.

Date: Thursday, Feb. 27, Friday, Feb. 28, Saturday, March 1
Venue: R.A. 'Murray' Fasken '38 Track & Field Facility
Time: Thursday (11:30 a.m. CT), Friday (11 a.m. CT), Saturday (2 p.m. CT)
Live Results: Flash Results
Broadcast: SEC Network+; Thursday (AM), Thursday (PM), Friday (AM), Friday (PM), Saturday (AM), Saturday (PM)
Field: No. 22 Alabama, No. 1/1 Arkansas, No. 7 Auburn, No. 12/18 Florida, No. 2 Georgia, Kentucky, No. 9 LSU, No. 15 Mississippi State, No. 23 Missouri, No. 17 Ole Miss, No. 13 South Carolina, No. 16 Tennessee, No. 4/12 Texas A&M, Texas, Vanderbilt

ABOUT 2025

TOP-10 SOONERS
The Oklahoma men's and women's T&F teams rank top-10 nationally, per the USTFCCCA's Track & Field Rating Index, with the men coming in at No. 9 and the women No. 10.

The OU men's team is ranked top two in four events and leads the nation in the shot put (19.02m (62'5.00") average) and triple jump (15.50m (50'10.00"). The men rank second in the high jump (2.15m (7'0.50")) and long jump (7.61m (24'11.75")).

The Sooner women are ranked second in the nation in the triple jump (13.32m (43'9.75")) and third in the shot put (15.70m (51'6.25")) and long jump (6.34m (20'9.75")). Pippi Lotta Enok's program record breaking performance in the pentathlon at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational helped OU in the TFRI, her 4,411 score is third in the NCAA so far this season.

BACK AND BETTER
Oklahoma returns all six 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships qualifiers.

Senior Olivia Lueking aims for her fourth consecutive First Team All-America honor in the pole vault. Ranked as the top-two combined events athletes in OU history, Angel Richmore and Pippi Lotta Enok hope to return to the NCAA Championships after placing seventh and ninth in 2024. Shot putter Paige Low earned 14th at last year's championships for Second Team All-American.

BJ Green and Nikaoli Williams headline the men's team. Green returns after sweeping the Big 12 triple jump titles and earning two NCAA First Team All-American awards in 2024. Williams looks for redemption after qualifying for last year's site but was unable to attempt due to injury.

NEW CONFERENCE, NEW OPPORTUNITIES
The Sooners enter their first season in the SEC, a league known for track & field dominance. The conference accounted for 14 individual national titles during the 2024 indoor season. Oklahoma leaves behind a 30-year legacy in the Big 12 that includes 84 individual champions.

PRIMED IN PARIS
Ralford Mullings suites up for Oklahoma after competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he placed ninth in the discus throw. The Jamaican standout debuted indoors for OU this season in the shot put.

SETTLED IN
Head Coach James Thomas enters his second season at the helm of Oklahoma Track & Field. In his inaugural season, Thomas directed the program to three school records, one Olympian, two individual conference titles, 15 All-America honors, 47 all-conference awards and 59 top-ten performances in OU history.

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