Wingate Picked as Top Team in 2024 SAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field Preseason Poll

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – The Wingate Bulldogs have been picked as the top team in the 2024 South Atlantic Conference Women's Outdoor Track & Field Preseason Poll, the League announced Tuesday (March 19). The Bulldogs picked up 10 first-place votes and received 142 points from the League's head coaches.

Lenoir-Rhyne placed second in the poll with 135 points and collected the remaining 3 first-place votes. Carson-Newman took third with 120 points, and Catawba was voted No. 4 with 113 points. Anderson came in at No. 5 with 99 points, followed by Limestone at No. 6 with 84 points.

Tusculum took the No. 7 spot with 78 points, while Lincoln Memorial took the No. 8 spot with 64 points. Newberry earned 62 points to come in at No. 9, while Mars Hill finished at 47 points in tenth. Emory & Henry had 32 points in the No. 11 spot, UVA Wise had 21 points for No. 12, and Coker took No. 13 with 17 points.

The 2024 SAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships will take place May 1-2 at the Lenoir-Rhyne University track in Hickory, N.C.

Below is a look at the top athletes from each member institution heading into the 2024 season:

Anderson

Rylie Jenkins

Emma Whitaker

Carson-Newman

Sade De Sousa

Kadidja Sangare

Catawba

Mikayla Jones

Efe Egberi

Carmen Bishop

Coker

Mariah Mitchem

Emory & Henry

Delaney Eller

Madison Ricketts

Lenoir-Rhyne

Alexis Brown

Victoria Aransiola

Holly Kone

Limestone

Amari Smith

Daryn McDonald

Lincoln Memorial

Nevaeh Kerns

Harper Russell

Mars Hill

Simone Giggetts

Makayla Rogers

Haley Eddinger

MyKayla King

Newberry

Andrea Pascual Rivera

Leonie Samuels

Tusculum

Theresa Green-White

Caley Sosnowski

UVA Wise

Nia Rogers

Mady Buchanan

Wingate

Olivia Cosby

Valerie Daehler

Naiobi White

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