🐾 Clemson @ Black & Gold Challenge
🗓️ Date: Friday, March 20 & Saturday, March 21, 2026
📍 Venue: UCF Soccer & Track Complex | Orlando, Fla.
🏃 Meet Central: Black & Gold Challenge
📊 Live Results: Half-Mile Timing
📺 Live Streaming on ESPN+: ESPN+ (3/21 - 12:30 p.m.)
📙 TFRRS Pages: Clemson Women | Clemson Men
🐯 Rosters: Clemson
CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson Track & Field will open the outdoor season in Orlando, Fla. this weekend to compete in the Central Florida-hosted UCF Black & Gold Challenge. The entire two-day meet can be followed along on Half-Mile Timing and only Saturday’s events will be shown on ESPN+, starting at 12:30 p.m.
FINAL SCHEDULE | MEET PROGRAM | PERFORMANCE LIST
TIGERS IN THE WORLD ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
In addition to the Black & Gold Challenge, current Tigers Gladys Chepngetich, Shantae Foreman and Oneka Wilson, along with former Tiger Natoya Goule will compete in the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze held at Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena Toruń in Toruń, Poland from March 20-22. Chepngetich will compete for Kenya while Foreman, Wilson and Goule will represent Jamaica. Results can be found HERE and a live stream will be available through WorldAthletics+.
INDOOR SEASON RECAP
- The Tigers had 27 athletes combine for a total of 38 wins in 24 different events.
- Foreman and Jalen Johnson tied for the most with three each.
- Foreman won the Clemson Invite women’s long jump (6.50m) and the women’s triple jump twice, once at the Orange & Purple Invitational (14.17m) and then at the ACC Indoor Championships (13.20m)
- Johnson’s three wins all came in the men’s 200m at the Clemson Invitational (20.76 seconds), Bob Pollock Invitational (20.80 seconds) and the ACC Indoor Championships (20.58 seconds).
- Clemson reeled in 11 ACC weekly awards with Chepngetich (women’s track), Cherop (women’s rookie), Foreman (women’s field) and Kimeka Smith (women’s rookie) each winning weekly awards twice.
- Chepngetich set an ACC record in the women’s 800m after running a 1:58.81 at the BU John Thomas Terrier Invitational.
- Eleven athletes combined for a total of 14 broken records throughout the span of the indoor season.
- Brian Kweyei led with three between the men’s 600m (1:15.42, Clemson Invite), 800m (1:46.02, BU John Thomas Terrier) and the 1000m (2:20.42, Orange & Purple Invite).
- Smith broke the women’s freshman shot put record at the Clemson Opener with 15.06m. She then broke her own record three more times, with her highest mark being 16.29m at the Tiger Paw Invitational.
- The Clemson women became repeat ACC Indoor Champions after scoring 82 points – 14 more points than runner-up Duke.
- The men placed second with 88 points, trailing Florida State by six points.
- Wilson was the ACC Champion in the women’s 60m hurdles, marking the fourth-consecutive year of her claiming the title. In 2025, she became the first woman to three-peat in the women’s 60m hurdles, elevating this accomplishment after going four-for-four.
- Additional ACC Champions:
- Shyhiem Scotland (repeat men’s high jump champion, 2.14m)
- Johnson (men’s 200m, 20.58 seconds)
- Cherop (women’s 3000m, 8:56.32)
- Foreman (women’s triple jump, 13.20m)
- All-ACC:
- Divine Aniamaka | First Team Men’s Triple Jump
- Chepngetich | First Team Women’s 800m
- Cherop | First Team Women’s 3000m
- Foreman | First Team Women’s Triple Jump & Second Team Women’s Long Jump
- Grant Holliday | First Team Men’s 400m & Second Team Men’s 200m
- Johnson | First Team Men’s 200m
- Ian Johnson | First Team Men’s 60m & Second Team Men’s 200m
- Brandon Pottinger | First Team Men’s High Jump
- Scotland | First Team Men’s High Jump
- Sharvis Simmonds | First Team Men’s 60m Hurdles
- Smith | First Team Women’s Shot Put
- Aiya Webb | Second Team Women’s Long Jump
- Wilson | First Team Women’s 60m Hurdles
- Clemson had three men and three women qualify for NCAA National Indoors. The list includes:
- Chepngetich | Women’s 800m
- Foreman | Women’s Triple Jump
- Holliday | Men’s 400m
- Johnson | Men’s 200m
- Kweyei | Men’s 800m
- Wilson | Women’s 60m Hurdles
- Chepngetich became Clemson’s 12th NCAA Champion overall and sixth to do so in the indoor season after winning the women’s 800m with a time of 2:00.01.
- Collectively, the three women scored enough points for Clemson to finish as a top 10 team nationally.
- All-Americans:
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- Chepngetich | First Team Women’s 800m
- Foreman | First Team Women’s Triple Jump
- Holliday | Second Team Men’s 400m
- Johnson | Second Team Men’s 200m
- Kweyei | Second Team Men’s 800m
- Wilson | First Team Women’s 60m Hurdles
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