Texas Tech swept the Big 12 outdoor track titles for the second straight year, with the women clinching it in a school-record 4x400.
Texas Tech track and field did it again — and this sweep came with serious drama.
The Red Raiders captured both the men’s and women’s Big 12 Outdoor Championships in Tucson, completing a full season sweep of the indoor and outdoor conference titles.
It’s the second straight year Texas Tech has swept the outdoor crowns, and head coach Wes Kittley now owns 20 Big 12 team championships.
The Texas Tech men finished first with 127 points, comfortably ahead of Arizona’s 101. Houston, Kansas State and Iowa State rounded out the top five.
The women’s race was much tighter. Texas Tech entered the final event, the 4x400 relay, leading BYU by just 1.5 points.
Then Collinique Farrington, Mekenze Kelley, Vanessa Balde and Lovina Ewusi delivered the championship-clinching moment, winning the relay in a school-record 3:28.05 while BYU finished ninth.
That sealed the women’s title with 119.5 points, ahead of BYU’s 108.
Texas Tech won five events overall. Malchi Snow took the men’s 110 hurdles in 13.08, and Tonie-Ann Forbes won the women’s 100 hurdles in 12.75. Temitope Adeshina continued her Big 12 dominance by clearing 1.94 meters in the high jump for her fifth straight conference title.
Tamiah Washington also came through in the triple jump, taking the lead on her fifth attempt with a mark of 13.53 meters.
The women’s field-event depth proved huge late, with McKenzie Davis placing third in the discus and Olga Szlachta and Grace Oshiokpu scoring in the triple jump.
Balde and Ewusi added a massive 2-3 finish in the 400 hurdles.
For Texas Tech, this wasn’t just another title weekend. It was another reminder that the Red Raiders have become the Big 12 standard in track and field.
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