While taking a walk through University Park Campus, visitors will undoubtedly pass by Allyson Felix Field at Katherine B. Loker Track Stadium, just one part of USC’s storied history with producing some of the best track talents in collegiate athletics.

The field’s namesake — the most decorated track athlete in history and USC alum Allyson Felix — is just one example of this trend. More recently, Trojans slotted nine total medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in track events, five of which were gold. Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown collected the men’s 4×100 meter relay win for Team Canada, while Americans Rai Benjamin and TeeTee Terry were a part of the men’s 4×400 meter and women’s 4×100 meter victories, respectively.

This year, USC already added the Indoor Track and Field championship to its list of historical track and field achievements on March 15, with the men sneaking past Georgia with 39 points. However, with triumph in the outdoor events on Sunday, the Trojans have officially pulled off the elusive indoor-outdoor sweep for the 2025 season.

“This team, these student-athletes, they just did a fantastic job staying focused and doing everything these last couple of days,” said USC Director of Track and Field Quincy Watts in an interview with Big Ten. “They’re champions and I’m just so proud of everyone, the student-athletes, the staff, just everybody. Teamwork makes the dream work.”

In outdoors, USC came in tied-first with Texas A&M, putting up a total of 41 points and winning USC’s 29th track and field championship. While none of the men finished first in individual events, the Trojans performed well overall. The relay team of senior Travis Williams, junior Max Thomas, graduate Taylor Banks and junior Garrett Kaalund placed second in the 4x100m with a time of 38.46. The performance put the athletes second on USC’s all time school record list.

As for breaking school records, sophomore Racquil Broderick broke his own school record on the discus throw, beating out his previous throw of 207.0 by 8 inches. Broderick earned fourth in the tournament, gaining USC 5 points.

In the men’s 400m final, junior William Jones earned second place with a time of 45.53 to earn the Trojans 8 more points. Jones earned All-America honors in the outdoor championship for his performance in the 400m, with his time being the fastest by a Trojan since 2018.

The men’s victory marks USC’s first outdoor track championship in 49 years, with the Trojans’ last outdoor championship coming in 1976. USC also became only the third school to win both indoor and outdoor track championships in the same year, a mark of USC’s return to historic track achievement.

On the women’s side, USC lost only to Georgia, with the Bulldogs putting up an impressive 73 points to the Trojans’ 47. Individually, the women performed well, winning two titles. USC won the first event of the day, with the relay team of senior Samirah Moody, junior Dajaz DeFrand, sophomore Madison Whyte and junior Jassani Carter putting up a 42.22 in the 4x100m relay. Moody also took home gold in the 100m dash, winning by a razor-thin margin of three-thousandths of a second.

Similar to the men, freshman Ashley Erasmus broke her own school shot put record with a mark of 59-0.25. Originally setting the record in her first-ever collegiate outdoor meet, Erasmus beat that mark in the USC and UCLA dual meet before cracking the ceiling once again on the national championship stage. Erasmus received fifth place in the individual shot put competition.

The women also added an array of All-America First Team honors with their performances in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m and shot put.

USC looks ahead to a new year of track and field progress, as well as the Summer Olympics further down the line in 2028. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is slated to host a catalog of track events, with the historic stadium hopefully becoming the perfect backdrop for another slate of successful Trojan Olympic dreams.