Class of 2026

DEMETRIA WASHINGTON
FAYETTEVILLE TERRY SANFORD

Inducted into Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame, 2016

Inducted into the Univ. of South Carolina Association of Lettermen’s Athletics Hall of Fame, 2023

2-time Track & Field News All-American in the 400 meters (1997 and 1998)

North Carolina Gatorade Track & Field Girls’ Athlete of the Year (1998) 

U.S. Junior Championships (19-under) bronze medalist (1998), 400 meters (as a senior in high school)

World Junior Bronze Medalist (1998) in 4x400-meter relay in Annecy, France as a senior

7-time state track champion 
-3-time NCHSAA state indoor champion (1998: 55 meters, 300 meters and 500 meters, setting all-class state meet records in the 300 and 500) 

- 4-time NCHSAA state outdoor champion (100 in 1998; 200 in 1998 and the 400 in 1996 and 1997, setting an all-class state meet record in the 400 in 1996)

- 1998 NCHSAA all-class Indoor State Meet MVP
 

- Graduated ranked No. 1 all-time in 3 events: outdoor 400 meters (52.74, still No. 2 all-time), No. 1 in the indoor 400 meters (55.28, still No. 7 all-time); No. 1 in the indoor 500 (1:17.42) and was also No. 4 in the outdoor 200. 

- Inducted into the Fayetteville Sports Club Hall of Fame, 2016
 
IN COLLEGE (South Carolina)
- 2002 NCAA National Indoor Athlete of the Year

- 21-time All-American, the most in school history

- 6-time NCAA champion
 

- Inducted into the Univ. of South Carolina Association of Lettermen’s Athletics Hall of Fame, 2023
 
-POST-COLLEGIATE:
*2003 World Championships Gold medal, 4x400-meter relay

*2003 U.S. Championships Silver medal, 400 meters
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