No. 17/13 Track and Field's Garrett and Smallwood win SEC hurdle titles

Saturday, May 17

Lexington, KY

University of Texas

SEC Outdoor Championships

No. 17/13 Track and Field's Garrett and Smallwood win SEC hurdle titles

05.17.2025 | Track & Field / Cross Country

Results

Longhorns claim two team top-10 finishes at SEC Outdoor Championships.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Akala Garrett and Kendrick Smallwood led No. 17/13 Texas Track and Field with hurdle titles on the final day of the SEC Outdoor Championships. The 17th-ranked men finished seventh with 53.5 points, and the No. 13 women tied for ninth with 52 points.

Smallwood became the first male Longhorn to ever win a SEC track and field title on Saturday with a school-record time of 13.13 in the 110-meter hurdles. Smallwood now owns the five fastest times in UT history and is tied for the 12th-fastest time in NCAA history. The win gave the Longhorns 10 team points.

Garrett later won the second-ever SEC track and field title for UT's women in the 400-meter hurdles with her time of 54.84. Her time equals her eighth-fastest time in school history and she has now won back-to-back 400mH conference titles after setting the Big 12 Championship record last season at 54.73. Freshman Mackenzie Collins was seventh with a time of 58.37, and the two combined for 12 team points.

In the men's 400m hurdles, Kody Blackwood improved his personal best by .01 second to finish in 48.78 for the silver medal. Blackwood's time improves his spot to No. 3 on the school's all-time performer list. Chris Brinkley Jr. was seventh with a personal-best time of 50.58. The two combined for 10 team points.

Grad transfer Elizabeth Stockman used an 80-meter kick to secure the bronze medal in the 1500-meter run with her time of 4:20.88. She scored six team points for the Longhorns.

Sophomore Osawese Agbonkonkon returned to the high jump and finished tied for seventh clearing 2.12m (6-11.5) to score 1.5 points. Kelsey Daniel was also seventh in the men's triple jump with a season-best mark of 15.79m (51-9.75) to score two points.

Back on the track, Kenondra Davis finished fourth with a personal-best time of 22.68 in the 200-meter, while freshman Holly Okuku was eighth in 23.10. Davis later finished eighth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.35 and the two combined for seven points.

Xavier Butler added a fifth-place finish in the men's 200m with a time of 20.28 for four points.

The women's 4x100-meter relay of Carleta Bernard, Okuku, Davis and Nita Koom-Dadzie finished eighth with a time of 43.85 to score one team point. The men's relay saw Smallwood, John Rutledge, Almond Small and Butler finish fourth with a season-best time of 38.81 – the seventh-best time in program history.

Isaac Alonzo added a point for the men finishing eighth in the 5000-meters with his season best performance of 13:56.61.

Texas ended the competition with the women's 4x400 relay of Ramiah Elliott, Garrett, Carleta Bernard and Okuku finishing sixth in 3:31.90. The men's 4x400 relay of Nabil Tezkratt, Logan Popelka, Blackwood and Rutledge were fifth in 3:04.42.

Texas Scorers:
Nina Ndubuisi – Shot Put (1^st) – 10 pts
Akala Garrett – 400mH (1^st) – 10 pts
Elizabeth Stockman – 1500m (3^rd) – 6 pts
Aaliyah Foster – Long Jump (4^th) – 5 pts
Kenondra Davis – 200m (4^th) – 5 pts
Eva Jess – 10K – (5^th) – 4 pts
Meagan Humphries – Heptathlon - (5^th) - 4 pts
Elliott, Garrett, Bernard, Okuku – 4x4 (6^th) – 3 pts
Mackenzie Collins – 400mH (7^th) – 2 pts
Bernard, Okuku, Davis, Koom-Dadzie – 4x100 (8^th) – 1 pt
Holly Okuku – 200m (8^th) – 1 pt
Kenondra Davis – 100m (8^th) – 1 pt
Kendrick Smallwood – 110mH (1^st) - 10 pts
Kody Blackwood – 400mH (2^nd) – 8 pts
Solomon Washington – Long Jump (4^th) – 5 pts
Smallwood, Rutledge, Small, Butler – 4x100 (4^th) – 5 pts
Brock Lewis – Decathlon – (5^th) – 4 pts
Xavier Butler – 200m (5^th) – 4 pts
Tezkratt, Popelka, Blackwood, Rutledge – 4x400 (5^th) – 4 pts
Logan Patete – 3K Steeple – (7^th) – 2 pts
Isaac Alonso – 10K – (7^th) – 2 pts
Kelsey Daniel – Long Jump (7^th) – 2 pts
Chris Brinkley Jr. – 400mH (7^th) – 2 pts
Kelsey Daniel – triple Jump (7^th) – 2 pts
Osawese Agbonkonkon – High Jump (t-7^th) – 1.5 pts
Isaac Alonzo – 5K (8^th) – 1 pt