FAYETTEVILLE — Because the Arkansas males’s and ladies’s observe and subject groups celebrated their newest SEC championships and referred to as the Hogs on Saturday on the Randal Tyson Heart, blue- and gold-colored streamers fell throughout them.

Blue and gold are what the SEC makes use of for its brand and occasions as a result of none of its 14 member faculties — and shortly to be 16 with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas within the fall of 2024 — have these as their main colours.

However given the Razorbacks’ wealthy custom of successful titles in cross nation and indoor and outside observe, maybe the SEC ought to contemplate having pink — Cardinal if you wish to be technical — and white streamers prepared for celebrations.

The Arkansas girls, led by victories by senior Lauren Gregory within the mile and three,000 meters and junior Amanda Fassold within the pole vault, gained their ninth consecutive SEC Indoor title and thirteenth total with 130.5 factors with Florida second with 84.

Arkansas’ males, led by victories within the heptathlon by junior Ayden Owens-Delerme within the heptathlon and freshman Jaydon Hibbert within the triple bounce, gained a fourth consecutive SEC Indoor title and twenty sixth total with 101.25 factors. Florida obtained one other distant second-place end with 73 factors.

The SEC Indoor Championships marked the thirty third time since Arkansas joined the convention within the fall of 1991 the Razorbacks have swept males’s and ladies’s titles in cross nation, indoor and outside observe on the similar meet.

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It began in Arkansas’ first SEC competitors on the 1991 cross nation meet in Athens, Ga., when the Razorbacks males’s and ladies’s groups swept titles.

For the lads’s program, it was the 18th consecutive convention cross nation title below Coach John McDonnell after the Razorbacks gained their last 17 meets within the Southwest Convention.

For Arkansas’ girls, it was solely the second convention championship together with the 1988 SWC cross nation meet they gained — and it was their first title below Coach Lance Harter, who changed Bev Lewis in 1990 when she took over as girls’s athletic director.

Arkansas’ males additionally had dominated the SWC in observe and subject with 20 indoor and outside titles from 1979-91, however the girls didn’t win a title — with the primary SWC meet for girls in 1983 — earlier than leaving for the SEC.

“After we [won the SEC title] the primary time, Coach Mac was so emotional about it,” Harter stated. “For him it was simply commonplace, however when the ladies got here up and complemented that, it made him really feel actually, actually good.”

On Saturday night time Harter’s Razorbacks gained their forty fourth SEC title.

“I bear in mind telling Bev, ‘I believe going to the SEC will not be a good suggestion,’ ” Harter stated with a chuckle. “Properly, turned out it labored out fairly good. To win that many SEC titles is simply mind-boggling.”

Chris Bucknam changed McDonnell as Arkansas’ males’s coach in 2008 and has led the Razorbacks to 29 SEC titles in nation and indoor and outside observe. The Razorbacks gained 38 SWC and 46 SEC championships below McDonnell.

“I’m excited for the youngsters that proceed to return by way of this program and win SEC Championships,” Hunter Yurachek, employed as Arkansas’ athletic director in December 2017, stated as he watched each UA groups have fun. “It’s why we invested within the [$15 million] Frank O’Mara Heart [at John McDonnell Field] to ensure this legacy continues that John McDonnell began and Chris Bucknam continues to construct on the lads’s aspect, and what Lance Harter has constructed on the ladies’s aspect.

“I’m positive Chris Johnson will proceed that subsequent 12 months.”

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Johnson, sprints and hurdles coach for Arkansas’ girls’s crew, will succeed Harter when he retires as coach in June after the NCAA Out of doors Championships.

Yurachek stunned Harter with an announcement on Thursday night time the observe at Randal Tyson Heart can be named in his honor. A big copy of Harter’s signature was embedded contained in the observe oval close to the end line and on show for the SEC meet.

“I’m simply so comfortable for Lance to have him win a championship on this newly anointed observe,” Bucknam stated. “Successful doesn’t get previous, and it is a exhausting league to win.”

The ladies’s victory ended an emotional weekend for Harter that included about 150 former athletes returning to campus to assist honor him.

“It was actually neat having so many alumni again,” Gregory stated. “Not solely did we win a ninth title in a row — and I’ve been part of a number of of them — however the alumni who gained the early ones had been right here.

“So it simply looks like passing the baton and carrying on the legacy.”

Harter stated he was humbled so many former athletes had been available for the announcement the observe was being named for him.

“To be bestowed that honor was past my wildest goals and my household’s goals,” Harter stated. “And it was actually neat to have my household all right here.

“There are people who got here again from generations in the past. Some that I haven’t seen in 20 years and generally 30. A few of them had been on Bev’s groups.

“It’s simply cool they took the time and the power and the monetary duty to return right here and make it a particular weekend.”

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The lads’s and ladies’s groups usually journey collectively on constitution flights and so they prepare on the similar time on the indoor and outside amenities.

Arkansas’ males’s crew members had been cheering on the ladies’s relay to cap the meet.

“You’ll be able to see the power we’ve got collectively as groups,” stated Arkansas sophomore Britton Wilson, who anchored the Razorbacks’ victorious 1,600-meter relay crew after taking second within the 800. “All of us work actually exhausting, and we’ve got very gifted and mentally pushed groups.”

Arkansas junior sprinter Amber Anning is a switch from LSU, the place she was an All-American, however by no means gained an SEC crew championship.

“I’ve at all times needed a crew ring, so to have the ability to do it with these ladies is superior,” stated Anning, who ran on the 1,600 relay and took second within the 400. “Once I was at LSU, watching Arkansas sweep SEC titles was very annoying.

“It’s truly good to complete on prime.”

At Arkansas, it’s the expectation for the women and men.