Final Results

CLEMSON, S.C. – It’s been quite a journey back to the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference mountain, but that’s where the Florida State men and women reside, after delivering spectacular Saturday performances to claim the ACC Indoor Track & Field Championship team titles.

The Noles were the class of the field on the final day at the Clemson Track & Field Complex, replicating their 2014 sweep at the same venue for their last indoor titles. It’s the 11th ACC indoor title for the men and the third for the women.

They are also the first ACC titles for Florida State athletics during the 2017-18 school year.

“It’s always special to come out of here with a title, but it’s an exceptional and rare occurrence when we can double up and come out of here with both trophies,” said FSU redshirt-senior Austin Droogsma, who is the only member of either squad who competed when the Noles brought home both titles from Clemson four years ago.

Droogsma’s late-in-the-day shot put victory – the first ACC title of his career – which provided the sixth-ranked Noles with their title-sealing, final points as the men unseated defending champion Virginia Tech by a 111-107 final margin.

FSU’s women, a decided underdog entering the meet, built an insurmountable lead behind dominant work across virtually every event area. The blazing 1-2 finish in the 200-meter dash by freshman Ka’Tia Seymour – the meet’s Most Valuable Track Performer – and junior Shauna Helps, coupled with Militsa Mircheva’s fifth-place finish in the 3000-meter run, pushed the Noles’ final total to 91 points. Virginia Tech was second, again, this time with 81.

“It was amazing to actually win the way we did,” said Helps, who also finished fourth in the 60-meter dash on Saturday. “I realized in the fall that we’ve always moved in unison. Even though the men and women are scored separately, we’ve always moved together as a unit and a family. That bond is what helped carry us through.”