Tennessee sophomore jumperhas been named the Southeastern Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Year, as the league office announced its indoor track & field postseason awards Wednesday afternoon. McLeod was also selected to the All-SEC First Team, one of 11 Vols to earn all-conference recognition.The SEC yearly awards were voted on by the league's 15 head coaches, and All-SEC teams were determined based on performances at the indoor conference championships last week in College Station, Texas. Individual champions were named to the All-SEC First Team, while silver and bronze medalists were tabbed All-SEC Second Team. Additionally, the top freshman in each event earned a spot on the SEC All-Freshman Team.McLeod is the second Vol to be named SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Year since the award's inception in 2004. VFL Jangy Addy took home the honor in 2008 following a gold-medal performance in the men's heptathlon, scoring 5,836 points for the No. 3 total in program history.A Kingston, Jamaica, native, McLeod is the reigning SEC champion in the men's long jump and silver medalist in the men's triple jump. His team-high 18 points at the conference meet last week helped Tennessee to a fifth-place team finish, the highest placement for UT at the SEC indoor meet since 2009.McLeod posted an NCAA-leading long jump of 8.19 meters (26-10.5) at the SEC Championships, improving his all-time Tennessee record by three centimeters. The mark broke the facility record at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium and currently stands as the No. 4 performance in the world this season. He is Tennessee's first conference champion in the long jump since Darius Pemberton won the title in 1995.In the SEC men's triple jump, McLeod claimed silver with a distance of 16.49 meters (54-1.25) — just one centimeter shy of the gold medal. It was the first podium finish in the men's triple jump for Tennessee since Akeem Hardnett also placed second in 2007. McLeod sits atop the SEC triple jump performance list with a season-best 16.68 meters (54-8.75), recorded February 15 at the Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational.With respective gold medal finishes in the women's and men's shot put,andwere both named to the All-SEC First Team. Their performances marked the eighth time in SEC history that a school won both shot put events at the indoor conference meet.Maines was atop the conference performance list for the shot put all season long, as her personal-best of 17.49 meters (57-4.75) ranks fourth in program history and seventh in the country this season. Maxwell owns the indoor school record in the event with his toss of 19.89 meters (65-3.25) and will enter the NCAA Championships as the No. 10 seed.Tennessee had seven athletes garner Second Team All-SEC honors by way of bronze medal performances at the indoor conference championships last weekend.The Lady Vol distance medley relay finished third at the meet, asandcombined for a time of 11:24.59. It was UT's first appearance on the SEC women's DMR podium since 2012, when the Lady Vols won the event eight times in a nine-year span from 2004-12.Vol juniortook home the bronze in the men's weight throw, as his sixth-round throw of 21.21 meters (69-7) was good for a new personal-best. It was the first medal for UT in the event since Cameron Brown took gold in 2016.Lady Vol senior hurdlerclaimed her first career SEC medal in her first career SEC final, running a time of 8.11 in the women's 60-meter hurdles. Her mark was the No. 3 performance in Tennessee history, ahead of Olympic gold medalist Benita Fitzgerald and three-time World Champion Nia Ali.rounded out Tennessee's medalists with her third-place finish in the women's triple jump, as the sophomore from Smiths Station, Alabama, recorded a mark of 13.28 meters (43-7) at the conference meet. She is the only Lady Vol to go 13 meters and above in every indoor meet of her career, now reaching that standard nine consecutive times.Tennessee rookieearned a spot on the SEC All-Freshman team, as he was the only freshman to run the 800-meter final at the conference championships — placing eighth overall. In the prelims, Kay clocked in at 1:49.97 for the fastest time by a Vol since 2016 (Antonio Carter, 1:49.45).Kay was also the first Vol to qualify for the SEC indoor 800-meter final since 2011, when Peter Sigilai and Joe Franklin placed third and sixth respectively.Seven Vols have traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, this week to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The national meet is set for Friday and Saturday, March 13-14 at the Albuquerque Convention Center.A complete listing of Tennessee's SEC postseason honors can be viewed below. For the most up-to-date information on Tennessee track & field, follow @Vol_Track on Twitter.