Mizzou’s Sam Innes to represent Tigers at NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
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- Sam Innes qualified in the weight throw and will represent Mizzou March 13-14.
- Innes holds Mizzou indoor weight throw record at 75 ft, 4 in set in January.
- The NCAA Indoor Championships will air on ESPN channels; start lists come out 3/11/26.
Sam Innes is headed back to the national stage to compete in the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Innes will be the lone representative for the Missouri Tigers when competition takes place March 13-14 at the Randal Tyson Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Battle High School alum qualified in the men's weight throw and enters the event seeded 11th nationally.
Innes set the Tigers' indoor weight throw record at 75 feet, 4 inches in January at the Bob Teel Invitational.
The qualifying window ran from Nov. 28 through March 1, with conference championship performances accepted through Monday. The final list of accepted athletes was released Tuesday. Start lists are scheduled to be released March 11.
While Innes is the only current Tiger to make the field, several former Mizzou standouts will also compete at nationals.
Two will compete in the men's triple jump: Texas Tech's Jonathan Seremes is the nation's top seed, while Ole Miss' Sterling Scott is seeded 15th. And Ole Miss' Alicia Burnett is ranked No. 1 nationally in the women's 60-meter dash.
Burnett and Seremes both set school records during their time in Columbia.
The 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships will air on the ESPN family of networks, with live results and final start lists available leading into the meet.
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This story was originally published March 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM with the headline "Mizzou’s Sam Innes to represent Tigers at NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships."