Illinois Track & Field and Cross Country

The women's squad is bringing home bronze 🥉 They score 42 points to earn the women's track and field program's first indoor team trophy. This third-place showing ties the second-highest team finish ever for an Illinois women’s sport! #WhyNotILL

Outdoor season opener! Live Results: ow.ly/OXgQ50YCxfi #WhyNotILL

Who's ready for our outdoor season opener this weekend?!?! #WhyNotILL

Writing our own history. #WhyNotILL

Congratulations to assistant coach @Baldwin1Heath on his silver medal in the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships! He earned silver with a new personal-best score of 6,337 points 🔥 #WhyNotILL

Best of luck to alum Abria, assistant coach Heath and director of track and field Petros at the World Indoor Championships! Release: ow.ly/iC8a50Ywxfy #WhyNotILL

That's our coach! @Illini_tfxc_dir is now a two-time USTFCCCA Indoor Midwest Region Women's Coach of the Year 🟠🔵 Release: ow.ly/PCPt50YwsUs #WhyNotILL

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‘Life is a game of inches’. Inch by inch, brick by brick we are building something special at Illinois track & field 💙🧡. Thankful to my boss @IlliniAD for all the support and belief in our Teams. #whynotILL

Awesome to be with ⁦@IlliniTrackXC⁩ in Fayetteville yesterday to see them record the highest finish in program history for our women — 3rd in the country and just getting started! Couldn’t be prouder of this team and excited about where they’re headed! #WhyNotIllinois #ILL

First freshman heptathlon All-American in school history: Luuk Pelkmans! He takes fourth place with a score of 6,081 points. #WhyNotILL

Highest heptathlon finisher in program history: Jip de Greef 🥉 He uses the program's second-best score (6,120 points) to take bronze and earn All-America honors. #WhyNotILL

MVP JaiCieonna! She earns her second All-America honor of the week when she placed fourth in the HJ 1.85m (6-0 3/4). She's is the first freshman in program history to All-American in two separate individual events ⭐️ #WhyNotILL

Rose is an All-American for the third-straight time in the high jump 🥈 She's the national runner-up matching her school record mark of 1.94m (6-4 1/4). She joins Stacy Ann Grant (1997-99) as the only Illini high jumpers to AA three-consecutive times indoors. #WhyNotILL

And that's a wrap on the indoor season! #WhyNotILL

That highest finish in program history feeling 🤩🥳🥉 #WhyNotILL

JIP JIP HOORAY! De Greef becomes the third heptathlon All-American in program history on the school's second-best score of 6,120 points. His bronze medal is the highest finish program history 🥉 #WhyNotILL

All-American Luuk Pelkmans 🇺🇸 He's the first freshman in Illinois history to earn All-America honors in the heptathlon in his fourth-place finish with 6,081 points! #WhyNotILL

JaiCieonna gets her second All-America honor of the weekend! She's now the program's sixth individual to become a high jump All-American indoors on her 1.85m (6-0 3/4) clearance. #WhyNotILL

🥈🌹 Yeboah is the national runner-up in the high jump on the new school record, 1.94m (6-4 1/4)! She's the second high jumper in school history to earn indoor HJ All-America honors in three-straight seasons. (Stacy Ann Grant, 1997-99). #WhyNotILL