GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) men's and women's track teams will begin the 2026 calendar year with the Mondo College Invitational on Saturday at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Meet: Mondo College Invitational
When: Saturday, Jan. 17
Start time: Track events – 10:00 a.m.
Where: Winston-Salem, N.C.
Stadium: JDL Fast Track
Live Results | Schedule (PDF)
 
MEET/FACILITY INFORMATION
This will be the second out of four times that UNCG will compete at the JDL Fast Track during the indoor season.

• Facility Records: WOMEN | MEN
• The JDL Fast Track recently installed a new Mondotrack El permanent banked track in time for the 2025-26 season.
• This surface was developed for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
• JDL is the first permanently banked track in the state of North Carolina.

Admission to the JDL Fast Track is $8 for adults and $5 for students 12 and older. Children under 12 are free. Tickets may be purchased at the front or rear entrance. There are no online tickets available. The facility accepts cash or card but not Apple Pay.

SPARTANS AT THE STARTING LINE – MEN (subject to change) –
60m – Aaron Cobb
600m – Jeremiah Jones
1000m – Samuel Barnard, Donovan Johnson, Spencer Connick, Lane Prochaska
Mile – Logan Ruffner, Khalid Abdullahi, Luke Hühn, Lane Prochaska, Pierson Guerrant, Spencer Slayton
400m – Emery Anderson, Josh Gordon, Amarius Gregory-Wyatt,
800m – Glodi Mvovi
200m – Emery Anderson, Aaron Cobb, Amarius Gregory-Wyatt
3000m – Luke Ward, JT Brownlee, Donovan Johnson, Spencer Connick
4x400m – Josh Gordon, Jeremiah Jones, Glodi Mvovi, Samuel Barnard
 
SPARTANS AT THE STARTING LINE – WOMEN (subject to change) –
60m – Ayzia Jefferson, Alana Hill, Milania Millard, Olivia Congleton
Mile – Tenley Douglass, Erica Rash, Camryn Oates, Kaitlyn Harrison
400m – Chelsea Valdivia-Rizo, Lily Butler
200m – Ayzia Jefferson, Maddison McIntyre, Milania Millard, Alana Hill, Olivia Congleton, Lily Butler
3000m – Vicky Sosa, Emma Berrier, Sierra Collins, Hailey Meyers
4x400m – Chelsea Valdivia-Rizo, Maddison McIntyre, Lily Butler, Hailey Meyers
 
LAST TIME OUT

• The men's and women's track teams began the indoor track season at the Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-Off on Saturday Dec. 6, 2025, at the JDL Fast Track.
• The women saw freshman Maddison McIntyre break the 400-meter school record, while four Spartans recorded personal bests and eight made their collegiate debuts.
• McIntyre clocked in a time of 1:00.38 in the 400-meter run, placing 10^th out of 36 competitors. The freshman now sits atop the 400-meter UNCG records, breaking Reagan O'Quinn's mark of 1:00.83 from Jan. 21, 2023. 
• In the men's 3000-meter run, five of the eight Spartans placed in the top 10 with junior Khalid Abdullahi taking home the title with a personal best time of 8:24.02.
• His time now sits fifth on the UNCG indoor performance list. Luke Hühn made his collegiate indoor track debut, finishing third out of 48 competitors, clocking in a time of 8:27.14.

CROSS COUNTRY SEASON RECAP

• The men's team finished first at the Blue & Gold's Spartan Classic in October. Sophomore Logan Ruffner and freshman Hühn finished first and second, respectively.
• The men's third-place finish at The 2025 Southern Conference (SoCon) Championships matched last year's result of third place, which was the best mark since the 2011* season when UNCG was crowned champion. This is the sixth* time in program history that UNCG has finished third or better.
• Hühn led the charge with his time of 25:24.8 in the eight-kilometer run. He finished 12^th out of 79 competitors. Hühn earned SoCon All-Freshman Team honors, Second Team recognition and was voted, by the coaches, as the SoCon Freshman of the Year.
• He is just the second** SoCon Freshman of the Year for UNCG since Paul Katam earned the honor in 2011.
• Junior Abdullahi also finished in the top 20, placing 18^th with his time of 25:45.9. Abdullahi bested his mark from last year, where he finished in 50^th place.
• The men went on to compete at the 2025 NCAA Division I Southeast Regionals and placed 22^nd out of 33 teams. This matched the Spartans' result from 2024.
• Abdullahi paced the Blue & Gold, in his first NCAA Regional, placing 113th out of 240 competitors in the 10-kilometer race. Abdullahi clocked in a time of 32:13.4.
• The women's squad finished third at its own Spartan Classic in October, where five from the team placed in the top 20 out of the field of 102 competitors.
• Graduate student Emma Berrier led the way with her 14^th-place finish and time of 18:43.7.
• The women placed eighth at the SoCon Championships with freshman Camryn Oates leading the way with her 30^th-place finish out of 77 competitors in the five-kilometer race. Oates clocked in a time of 18:58.8, the only sub-19-minute result for the Spartans.

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UP NEXT
The Spartans will travel to Lynchburg, Virgina, to take on the Liberty Open, at the Liberty Indoor Track Complex from Friday, Jan. 23 to Saturday, Jan. 24.

*NOTE: The 2011 SoCon Championship was later vacated.
**NOTE: Paul Katam's 2011 SoCon Freshman of the Year award was later vacated.