{"id":274419,"date":"2026-05-17T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:57:11","slug":"three-gold-medals-highlight-miami-track-and-fields-acc-championship-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274419\/","title":{"rendered":"Three gold medals highlight Miami track and field\u2019s ACC Championship performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sophomore Edgar Campre competes in the ACC Championships indoor championships from Feb. 22\u201324 in Boston. Photo credit: Miami Athletics<\/p>\n

The University of Miami track and field team\u00a0delivered a strong showing at\u00a0the ACC Outdoor Championships\u00a0from\u00a0Thursday through Saturday\u00a0at Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park at the University of Louisville.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes left the meet with\u00a0three\u00a0gold medals,\u00a0multiple\u00a0podium finishes and\u00a0two\u00a0school-record performances. Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams finished seventh in the 17-team field, with the women scoring 55 points and the men tallying 53.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

George Franks\u00a0led Miami with an\u00a0ACC title in the men\u2019s 400m, posting a\u00a0season-best time of 45.27\u00a0and\u00a0winning\u00a0the race\u00a0by nearly eight-tenths of a second.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Franks also made history in the 200m\u00a0preliminaries,\u00a0breaking a\u00a029-year-old\u00a0school record\u00a0with a\u00a0time of 20.55.\u00a0He later placed fourth in the event final in 20.86.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sanaa Hebron\u00a0continued her\u00a0standout senior season\u00a0by\u00a0winning\u00a0the women\u2019s 400m hurdles\u00a0for the second\u00a0consecutive year.\u00a0Hebron crossed the line in\u00a055.19, the second-fastest time in program history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s third gold medal\u00a0came in\u00a0the men\u2019s decathlon, where Edgar\u00a0Campre\u00a0captured the ACC title with 7,749 points.\u00a0Campre\u00a0won the shot put,\u00a0110m hurdles and discus\u00a0en\u00a0route to his second ACC decathlon championship after previously winning the event in 2024.\u00a0He also placed second in the pole vault and third in\u00a0both\u00a0the 100m and long jump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Campre\u2019s\u00a0performance\u00a0gave\u00a0Miami one of its biggest scoring boosts of the meet, while teammate\u00a0Dominique Hall\u00a0finished\u00a0seventh\u00a0in the event\u00a0with\u00a07,048 points.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several other Hurricanes added podium finishes\u00a0and key team points throughout the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: @CanesTrack via X \/\/ Desmond Coleman takes first in the men\u2019s discus throw with a mark of 55.24m at the UNF East Coast Relays in Jacksonville, Fla. on May 2, 2026.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Sauder\u00a0earned silver in the men\u2019s high jump after\u00a0clearing\u00a02.12m,\u00a0while\u00a0Magdaline Campo took bronze\u00a0in the women\u2019s high jump with a mark of\u00a01.77m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Serena Tate\u00a0captured\u00a0bronze in the women\u2019s 400m with a\u00a0season-best time of\u00a052.69,\u00a0and\u00a0Nandy\u00a0Kihuyu\u00a0finished fourth in\u00a054.15.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senior\u00a0Desmond Coleman\u00a0placed third\u00a0in the men\u2019s discus\u00a0with a\u00a0throw\u00a0of 58.00m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maddie Scheier\u00a0broke her own school record in the women\u2019s 3000m steeplechase, finishing in\u00a010:16.69.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The women also\u00a0excelled in the throwing events.\u00a0Jocelyn Pringle\u00a0recorded the second-longest\u00a0hammer\u00a0throw in program history\u00a0at\u00a065.03m\u00a0to place fourth.\u00a0In the women\u2019s javelin, Alva Back\u00a0finished\u00a0fourth with a throw of 48.38m,\u00a0while\u00a0Deisiane\u00a0Teixeira\u00a0placed\u00a0seventh with a mark of 47.62m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gabriella Grissom\u00a0added a\u00a0fifth-place finish\u00a0in the women\u2019s 800m\u00a0with a time of\u00a02:03.90, and\u00a0Adriana Kruzmane\u00a0placed\u00a0fifth in the women\u2019s triple jump\u00a0at\u00a012.98m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes also showed depth in the relay events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s\u00a0men\u2019s 4x100m\u00a0relay\u00a0team\u00a0of Ashton Torns, Tristen Washington, Carter\u00a0Cukerstein\u00a0and Dylan Woodruffe\u00a0placed fourth with the\u00a0second-fastest time in school history\u00a0at\u00a039.52.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s 4x100m relay\u00a0team\u00a0of Janay Moorer,\u00a0Kihuyu,\u00a0Aniyah Brown and Iyonna Codd also finished fourth,\u00a0recording\u00a0a season-best time of 43.88.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes\u00a0will look\u00a0to carry\u00a0their\u00a0momentum into the NCAA postseason, beginning with the\u00a0NCAA East Preliminaries from\u00a0May 27-30 in Lexington, Kentucky. Miami will aim to qualify\u00a0multiple athletes for the\u00a0NCAA\u00a0Outdoor\u00a0Championships, scheduled for June 10-13\u00a0in\u00a0Eugene, Oregon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: @CanesTrack via X \/\/ Miami men\u2019s track and field takes group photo ahead of the Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla. on Friday April 4 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophomore Edgar Campre competes in the ACC Championships indoor championships from Feb. 22\u201324 in Boston. Photo credit: Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-274419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}