AUBURN, Ala. - Auburn Tigers track and field travels to Bryan-College Station for the 2026 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, Feb. 26–28 at the R.A. "Murray" Fasken '38 Indoor Track & Field Facility. Action begins Thursday at 5 p.m. CT with the men’s long jump and 200m prelims.
Led by fourth-year head coach Leroy Burrell, Auburn will face some of the nation’s best teams this weekend. The men enter the weekend ranked 20th, while the women come in at 32nd in the most recent USTFCCCA poll.
On the men’s side, Auburn will compete against 11 nationally ranked SEC programs, including six in the top 10, while the women will face nine ranked in the top 25.
“We’re really looking at this weekend as another date on the calendar and an opportunity to qualify facing really high-quality competition, as usual,” Burrell said. “At the same time, getting through this and setting our sights on nationals.”
Auburn sends 20 men and 18 women to this year’s championships, including 13 men and 11 women who have previously competed at the conference indoor meet. Seven men and six women are previous SEC indoor scorers, including defending 60m hurdles champion, Ja’Kobe Tharp.
At last year’s SEC Indoor Championships, the Tigers delivered seven podium finishes and won two gold medals behind Tharp and Makanakaishe Charamba, who finished first in the men’s 200m. Four school records and two freshman records were set at the meet last year, including sophomore Israel Okon’s silver medal and set an Auburn freshman record in the men’s 60m.
“The 60 meters is going to be outstanding” Burrell said. “On the men’s side in particular, there are several athletes that are top ten in the world, including a couple of our own who will be competing.”
Sprints have been crucial for the Tigers this season. Senior Kayinsola Ajayi owns the nation’s fifth-fastest time in the 60m (6.54) and captured gold at the 2024 SEC Championships in the event. Okon ranks 10th nationally in the 60m (6.58) and is 12th nationally in the 200m (20.63).
“I’m really looking forward to the 60m hurdles,” Burrell said. “We’ll have a battle between Ja’Kobe and the hurdlers from Arkansas, Texas, and Florida as well. It’s going to be an interesting matchup. Ja’Kobe always rises to the occasion, and we’re going to see some sparks and fireworks there.”
Bowerman Award finalist and national champion Tharp owns the fastest time in the NCAA in the men’s 60m hurdles (7.46) and looks to defend his SEC title. The junior holds nine of the top-10 performances in Auburn history in the event.
On the women’s side, senior Danae Nembhard holds the second fastest 60m hurdles time in school history (8.06) and ranks 10th nationally this season. Senior Reese Webster leads the way in the 60m as she has made three podium appearances in her first four competitions in an Auburn uniform and currently.
Senior Megan Hague is coming off back-to-back school-record performances in the shot put. The All-American set a new Auburn indoor record of 18.42m (60-5.25), breaking her own mark set two weeks earlier. Hague currently leads the SEC and ranks fourth nationally.
In the pole vault, senior Alyssa Quinones-Mixon owns the 26th-best mark in the nation and five of the top six performances in Auburn history as she looks to make a push toward qualifying for nationals.
Over the course of the season, Auburn has set four new school records, including one freshman mark. Sophomore Nickson Chebbi broke the men’s 5000m record (13:35.20), Hague set the women’s shot-put record (18.42m), Camila Gomes set a new women’s mile record (3:36.34), and Ibukunolwa Daramola established a freshman record in the men’s long jump (7.82m).
At the 2025 SEC Indoor Championships, the men took sixth place scoring 47 points, while the women finished eighth with 40.33 points. Texas A&M is the reigning SEC indoor champion on the men’s side, while Arkansas has won the last 13 SEC indoor titles on the women’s side.
Live results can be found at, here and the meet will be live streamed throughout the week on ESPN+.