Track & Field Earn Pair of USTFCCCA Outdoor Regional Honors

COLUMBIA, S.C. (June 20, 2025) – The USTFCCCA announced its regional award winners for the 2025 outdoor season on Friday afternoon. Head Coach Tim Hall and sophomore sprinter JaMeesia Ford secured outdoor regional recognition for the second consecutive season.

Hall, in his second season with the Gamecocks, earned Southeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year honors for the second time in as many years. The veteran coach led the Gamecocks to a seventh-place team finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, their highest since 2006 while earning 14 All-America honors. South Carolina also had a fifth-place team finish at the SEC Championships, winning five events that were led by Commissioner’s Trophy winner JaMeesia Ford winning or being a part of four of the event titles.

Ford earned Southeast Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year for the second straight season. The sophomore sprinter scored 20 points at the NCAA Outdoor Championships thanks to a national title in the 200 meters, runner-up finish in the 100 meters and a tote on the runner-up 4x100m relay. It was during the semifinals in Eugene, Ore., where Ford went 10.87 and 21.98 to clock the seventh fastest one-day 100-200 double in world history. Earlier in the season, Ford starred at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where she pulled off an unprecedented quadruple: individual titles in the 100 and 200; totes on both winning the 4x100m relay and the 4x400m relay.