Sanu Jallow-Lockhart earns SEC Indoor Scholar-Athlete honor

FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas junior Sanu Jallow-Lockhart was named SEC Indoor Track & Field Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year, sharing the honor with Alabama’s Doris Lemngole, through voting by the league coaches.

A three-time All-American on the track, Jallow-Lockhart earned USTFCCCA All-Academic in 2024 and was on the Chancellor’s List in Fall of 2023. She is majoring in Recreation & Sports Management and the multi-talented Gambian can speak four languages.

Jallow-Lockhart is the sixth Razorback to claim the women’s SEC Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolade and the first since Katie Izzo in 2021. Previous Arkansas women’s SEC Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors include Sandi Morris (2005), Taylor Ellis-Watson (2006), Tori Weeks (2017), and Taylor Werner (2019).

After representing Gambia in the 2024 Paris Olympics, Jallow-Lockhart recently set a pair of national indoor records in the 600m and 800m.

During the 2025 indoor season, Jallow-Lockhart opened with a 1:25.37 600m victory, producing the No. 2 performance on the collegiate all-time list behind the collegiate record of 1:25 16 set by Razorback Britton Wilson.

At the Tyson Invitational, she became the first Razorback to run sub-2 minutes indoors in the 800m with a 1:59.77 school record to better the previous mark of 2:01.22 set by Shafiqua Maloney in 2021. The time ranks as the No. 4 performer on the all-time collegiate list.

In relay action this indoor season, Jallow-Lockhart ran the 800m leg of the distance medley relay, splitting 2:01.81, as Arkansas produced a time of 10:55.09 which ranks No. 7 on the UA all-time list.

On the 4 x 400m relay, she supplied an anchor leg split of 51.91 as the Razorbacks won at the Razorback Invitational in a collegiate-leading 3:27.47, which ranks No. 2 in the world for 2025 and No. 7 on the UA all-time list.