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Sands Named ACC Men’s Track Performer Of The Week
February 17, 2026 | Track & Field
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Graduate student Colton Sands earned his first Atlantic Coast Conference track and field accolade of the season when the ACC named him Men's Track Performer of the Week on Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Carolina now has three of the fastest 3000m times in NCAA history, as Colton Sands (7:34.05) ran the fourth fastest 3000m time in NCAA history at the David Hemery Valentine Invite in Boston. Sands now has the third fastest time in program history.
Last season, Ethan Strand and Parker Wolfe set the first two fastest 3k times in NCAA history and program history in Boston as well.
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