The 2026 outdoor track and field season was another successful campaign for VMI, as the Keydets earned multiple individual titles at the recent Southern Conference Championships and All-Conference honors.
- Cameron Thomas ’27 won the men’s pole vault individual title at the Southern Conference Championships to earn All-Conference recognition.
- Morgan Fraser ’27 won the women’s high jump individual title with a height of 5’ 6”, which ties for the second-best height in program history. The mark also gave her All-SoCon honors.
- The VMI men took sixth place at the SoCon Championships with 50.5 points.
- The VMI women placed seventh at the SoCon Championships with 37.0 points.
- Naturale Faison ’28 earned All-Conference honors by placing second in the 100-meter dash, while Reagan Gilman ’28 also achieved All-SoCon by arriving in third in the 800-meter.
- Ruth Dickersheid ’28 came in fifth in the shot put with a new personal-best distance of 41’ 11.50”, the sixth-best shot put in program history.
- Besides Thomas, Deonte Harris ’29 also registered All-Conference honors in the triple jump by placing second overall with a distance of 14.37 meters.
- Gilman broke her own school record in the 800-meter by running a 2:07.67 in 13th place at the UVA Challenge, beating her time of 2:10.50 set 1 week prior at the JMU Invitational.
- Thomas broke his own school pole vault record in the first meet of the outdoor season at the SoCon-Big South Challenge, where he vaulted a 5.11-meter (16’ 9.25”), besting his former school record mark of 16’ 8.75” set in 2025.
