RESULTS | SAC championships live results

Winston-Salem, N.C.----The three-time defending champion Wingate University indoor track and field teams look to defend their titles Saturday and Sunday, as the Bulldogs venture to the JDL Fast Track for the 2026 South Atlantic Conference indoor championship meet. Both Wingate teams claimed the top spot in the 2025 SAC indoor event at the same facility.
 
The Bulldog men's indoor track and field team is ranked No. 2 in the latest edition of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NCAA Division II ratings index, while the Wingate women are No. 14. Both Bulldog indoor teams are No. 1 in the Southeast Region.
 
What They Are Saying
Wingate director of cross country and track and field Matt van Lierop
 
"The track and field Bulldogs are ready to defend their titles this weekend. We always train with outdoors in mind, but take an indoor detour, used as a bit of a mid-semester checkpoint for us to say 'how's our fitness now?' With this being said, we still throw it down…going for as many personal bests, season bests, school records, conference records, NCAA qualifiers, etc., as physically possible."
 
Defending individual champions
 
Wingate welcomes back five '25 SAC indoor individual champions. They are:
 
- Aleix Lago won the men's 800 meters with his meet-record time of 1:52.74
- Lago won the men's 800 meters for the second consecutive season
- Lars Laros won the men's 3000 meters with his time of 8:03.31
- Luca Poppe won the men's mile run with his time of 4:06.63
 
- Assiya El Hafyan won the high jump with her leap of 1.68 meters
- Amber Lawless won the shot put with her mark of 13.04 meters
 
USTFCCCA NCAA Division II squad group rankings
 
Men's mile – No. 1
Men's 3000 meters – No. 1
Men's 5000 meters – No. 1
 
Wingate University
 
Wingate University is a lab of difference-making that serves more than 3,400 students in North Carolina and offers 60 degree pathways, including 37 undergraduate majors, 10 pre-professional tracks and five dual-degree programs. Graduate students choose from seven master's and five doctoral programs. The University is home to the Cannon College of Arts and Sciences, the Levine College of Health Sciences, the Byrum School of Business, the Thayer School of Education and the School of Sport Sciences.
 
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a leader in healthcare education where nearly one in five undergraduate students is preparing to be a pharmacist, physician assistant, physical therapist, occupational therapist or nurse. Student-athletes on Wingate's 30 teams compete in NCAA Division II and have brought home the SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award the past 17 times it has been awarded. The University's motto is "Faith, Knowledge, Service." View current news and videos at www.wingate.edu.
 
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