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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