Women Win American Conference Indoor Championship

Friday, February 27

Birmingham, AL

University of North Texas

American Indoor Championship

Women's Indoor Track Champions celebration in Birmingham, Alabama

2/28/2026 4:20:00 PM | Track & Field/XC

American Indoor Championship Women's Results American Indoor Championship Men's Results

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The UNT women's track team won the American Conference Indoor Championship on Saturday, claiming the program's second conference indoor championship, and first since 2005 as a member of the Sun Belt Conference, with an eight-point victory over second-place Charlotte over the two-day meet at Birmingham Crossplex.

By the time the final race of the meet, the 4x400 relay, came along, the Mean Green had all but wrapped up the championship, needing just one point to secure the win and picking up six with a bronze medal finish in the event.

The day got off to a hot, and surprising, start for UNT, when senior London Maxwell won the mile despite not even entering the race as a top-8 seed and got some valuable points for the team early on in the day, and the points kept coming for the Mean Green from that point. Maxwell's bronze medal late in the day in the 3,000 meters all but wrapped up the title for UNT. Earlier in the day, UNT got a silver medal from Aariyana Williams in the 400 and a bronze for Claire Spiller in the triple jump.

On Friday, the women got medal performances from Jasmyn Reece in the long jump after her sixth and final jump vaulted her onto the podium, and a gold medal for Fabrienne Foster in the weight throw with a new program record of 19.57 meters. The Mean Green also had several other top-8 finishes to earn points, including a handful of finishes just off the podium as Alliyah McNeil finished fourth in high jump and freshman Aniyah Harrison-Stewart finished fifth in the long jump. Reah DeGraffenried and Lailah Hudson finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 60 hurdles, and Trezeguet Taylor and C'Nai Childress took fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 60-meter dash. Aariyana Williams and Taylor took fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 200.

"So much sacrifice... These girls have been amazing from the start to now," UNT director of track and field Doug Marshall said. "It's just an amazing feeling. It's just so easy to come into work and grind. You go through so much from a day-to-day standpoint but showing up and seeing their faces happy in practice every day, they leave their baggage at the door and come in free. That's all we ask. They train and train and sacrifice, and this is the payoff for them. I'm so proud of them and I'm so proud of my staff. It's exciting."

The men's team finished fifth in the championship and also had several standout performances with three gold medals from Olu Williams in the shot put with a new program record, Chase Lehr in the 800 and Hendrick Hundl, who set a new meet and program record with a 7.70 in the 60-meter hurdles.