The Tennessee Volunteers women's track and field program represents the

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in the sport of

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. The indoor and outdoor programs compete in Division I of the

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(NCAA) and the

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(SEC). The Lady Vols host their home outdoor meets at the newly renovated

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, located on the university's

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campus. They formally held meets indoors at

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until the arenas demolition in 2012, but will soon have a new indoor track facility sometime in the 2020s. The team is led by current head coach

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who took over the program after the firing of Beth Alford-Sullivan in May 2022. Along with all other UT women's sports teams, it used the nickname "Lady Volunteers" (or the short form "Lady Vols") until the 2015–16 school year, when the school dropped the "Lady" prefix from the nicknames of all women's teams except in

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. In 2017 the university announced the return of the “Lady Volunteer” name. Throughout the program's history, the Lady Vols have produced 23 NCAA Indoor Individual Champions, 14 NCAA Outdoor Individual Champions, won 8 conference titles, and 3 team national championships. While not as successful historically as the Tennessee men's program, the Lady Vols have appeared in 32 NCAA Indoor Championships (4th most in SEC) and 37 Outdoor Championships (3rd most in SEC). Additionally, the program has finished as national runner up 7 times in Indoor Track and 2 times in Outdoor Track, and produced 4 Olympic Medalists.

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Yearly Record

Source Note: The 2020 season was canceled after the SEC Indoor Championships due to the

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, the SEC Outdoor and both NCAA Championships were not held.

NCAA Individual Event Champions

The Lady Vols have claimed 23 NCAA Indoor individual titles, 14 NCAA Outdoor individual crowns, 13 AIAW individual champions, and 3 DGWS wins.

Conference Individual Event Champions

Through the end of the 2022 season, the Lady Vols have won a total of 76 SEC Indoor individual championships, and 110 SEC Outdoor individual titles.

Tennessee Lady Volunteer Olympians

Through the

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, 18 current and former Lady Vols have represented 8 different nations in the

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. They have brought home a total of 8 medals, including 6 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal.https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/utsports.com/documents/2021/7/30/TRACK_AND_FIELD_2021_22_Record_Book.pdf

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