Women T&F Repeat As National Champions At NCAA Outdoors

EUGENE, Ore. --- Powered by a pair of collegiate records, the Lady Bulldogs scored 50 points to win their second consecutive outdoor title to wrap up the NCAA Championships Saturday.

Redshirt freshman Adaejah Hodge, who set a collegiate record in the 100-meter dash on Thursday during the semifinal, returned to establish a fresh No. 1 all-time national mark in the 200m final.  Three events before, senior teammate Dejanea Oakley locked down the NCAA record in the 400m to also pick up a national individual crown.

This marks the Lady Bulldogs' second straight national title after registering the 2025 championship.  The program now has 10 top five finishes all-time.

Florida finished second in the women's race with 43 points, Arkansas was third with 38 and Oregon finished fourth on its home track with 36 points.

The Georgia men finished second behind Arkansas on Friday, marking the Bulldogs' top finish since winning the 2018 crown.

Oakley, a senior from Jamaica, parlayed her runner-up finish in 2025 into a gold medal in the 400m with a collegiate record finish (48.79).  This bumped Oakley at the No. 2 spot past the 48.89 set in 2024 for the nation's No. 1 all-time finish.

Hodge, who was the runner-up in the 100m final, blasted a 21.68 to leave Kentucky's Abby Steiner (21.80 – 2022) in a distance second for the record.  The legendary Gwen Torrence (1987) and Debbie Ferguson (1998) were the other two women's 200m champions in school history prior to Saturday.

The Georgia women's track and field team joins Equestrian (2008-10), gymnastics (2005-09) and women's tennis (2025-26) as UGA squads to capture at least three straight national championships counting track's 2025 outdoor, 2026 indoor and 2026 outdoor titles.  Georgia's Director of Track & Field Caryl Smith Gilbert joins Texas' Bev Kearney (1998-99) as the only female coaches to win two consecutive women's outdoor titles and Smith Gilbert also becomes the first female head coach to win four NCAA outdoor women's championships (two while at USC).

What Bulldogs Scored On Day Four: Here is a summary of what Georgia women scored on Saturday:
*Kaila Jackson, Hodge, Reign Redmond and Jassani Carter passed the baton to a third-place finish with a school record.  The relay last scored in 2023 with Jackson as one of the legs.  She finishes her career as a 12-time scoring indoor/outdoor All-American.
*Hodge blazed to her fifth sub-11 second 100m to earn silver.  This was the second of three events Hodge ran in during the meet's final day.
*Oakley then popped a collegiate record in the 400m to give Georgia back-to-back titles in the event after Aaliyah Butler won in 2025.
*Sophomore Michelle Smith made it two-for-two scoring at the NCAA meet after taking fourth in the 400m hurdles.
*Hodge took the track in the 200m after her silver in the 100m and ran a determined collegiate record to put Georgia on track to capture the team title.
*In the meet's finale, the Lady Bulldogs came through with a runner-up finish in the 4x400m relay to pull of their seven-point team victory.

The Bulldogs had five scorers on Friday: Kimani Jack, high jump – 1^st; men's 4x400m relay – 1^st; Jonathan Simms, 400m – 2^nd; Sidi Njie, 400m – 3^rd; Riyon Rankin, high jump – 5^th.

Junior Nina Ndubuisi was Georgia's sole scorer on Thursday with a sixth-place finish in the women's shot put.

On Wednesday, Georgia had three scorers for the men: Jordan Davis – javelin, 4^th; Nick Reynolds – javelin, 5^th; Jayden Keys – long jump, 7^th.

Meet Breakdown: Other than the decathlon running Wednesday-Thursday and the heptathlon going Friday-Saturday, the meet was set up to be a men's competition on Wednesday and Friday and a women's competition on Thursday and Saturday.

Heptathlon Summary: Senior Ella Rush tallied 5,709 points through the seven events over two days and finished 14^th with 5,709 points.

Rush was in 19^th with 3,370 points going into Saturday's final three events.

Live Results: To check out results, please check: https://gado.gs/evp

The Lowdown: Georgia competed in five events, two relays and the last three events of the heptathlon on Saturday.

Oakley took the track after the 100m final in the 400m and promptly broke a two-year-old collegiate record (Nickisha Pryce, Arkansas – 48.89).  Oakley came around on the final turn and muscled past USC's Madison Whyte (48.97) for the women's first national championship of the meet.  Oakley is now the third Georgia woman to win it after Olympic medalist Lynna Irby captured gold in 2018.

Three events after Oakley's collegiate record in the 400m, Hodge complemented her collegiate 100m record on Thursday with another NCAA record in the 200m.  The second-year sprinter shot past the rest of the field in the straightaway to record a 21.68.  This time shattered Steiner's former collegiate No. 1 mark of 21.80 at this meet in 2022.

Oakley then used a 48.79 anchor split on the 4x400m relay to help clinch silver with a 3:20.96.  This trimmed two seconds off the school record and clinched the team victory.  Freshman Tianna Springer posted her yet another strong leg, going 50.07 before the handoff to Oakley.  Vimbayi Maisvorewa and Michelle Smith also took part in the second-place relay.

The Lady Bulldog foursome finished third after clocking a blistering 41.89 in the first event on the track.  Jackson, Hodge, Redmond and Carter took over their own school record set during the semifinal and moved to No. 4 on the all-time collegiate performer list.  Prior to Saturday, the best finish for a UGA 4x100m relay team was fourth in 1999.

Hodge returned to the track in the 100m final and clocked a 10.93 to finish second by just .05.  After setting the collegiate record in the event during the semifinal, Hodge had three events to recover before her third final of Saturday, the 200m.

Smith, who earned a bronze medal as a freshman in 2025, made her lap with the hurdles in 55.10 to collect another expected First Team All-America certificate by taking fourth.

Rush began the final three events of the heptathlon in the long jump.  The fourth-year competitor answered a second attempt foul with a mark of 6.29m/20-7.75 to give her fourth in the event and surged her into 11^th from 19^th overall.

She returned in the javelin and approached her personal best with a third throw of 34.86m/114-4.  This earned her a 17^th spot in the competition and placed her 16^th overall going into the hep's finale. Rush wrapped up her seven events by taking 12^th in the 800m with a 2:19.54.

In the women's triple jump, sophomore Danah Nembhard hit a top effort of 12.90m/42-4 on her opening attempt and that gave her expected Second Team All-America honors with a 16^th-place finish.

How To Keep Up With The Dogs: Results and recaps from the NCAA Outdoor Championships will be found at georgiadogs.com.  News and updates from Georgia's track and field and cross country teams are always located on X/Instagram at @UGATrack.

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Women T&F Repeat As National Champions At NCAA Outdoors

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Aaliyah Butler

Jassani Carter

Jordan Davis

Adaejah Hodge

Kimani Jack

Kaila Jackson

Jayden Keys

Vimbayi Maisvorewa

Nina Ndubuisi

Danah Nembhard

Sidi Njie

Dejanea Oakley

Riyon Rankin

Reign Redmond

Nick Reynolds

Ella Rush

Jonathan Simms

Michelle Smith

Tianna Springer

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