Lindon Victor

Position:
Decathlon
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
St. Georges, Grenada

2017 – Placed fifth in the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships, hosted by Texas A&M, producing a school record score of 5,976 points. The Aggies won the NCAA Indoor team title by half a point over Florida. It was the first NCAA Indoor championships for Texas A&M and the ninth national championship since 2009, joining the eight NCAA Outdoor team titles the Aggies have claimed with four each for the men and women.

Prior to the NCAA heptathlon, Victor improved his school record score of 5,776 set in 2016 twice during runner-up performances at the Razorback Invitational (5,805) and SEC Championships (5,851).

2016 – Won SEC decathlon with a career best score of 8,446 points that broke the SEC meet record of 8,326. Also broke the Texas A&M school record of 7,931 set in 1991 and the national record for Grenada of 8,320 that was held by his brother, Kurt Felix.

Lindon and Kurt currently hold the world best score by brothers. After Kurt improved his score to 8,323 in placing ninth in the Rio Olympics, the score by the tandem is now at 16,769 points. The previous world best of 16,529 was set by Tom (8,784) and Billy (7,745) Pappas.

Victor’s score of 8,446 ranks fourth on the all-time collegiate list and it’s the top score by an international collegian. He threatened the collegiate record of 8,465 that was set in 2006 at the Texas Relays by Trey Hardee of Texas.

Won the NCAA Championship in decathlon with a score of 8,379 points, becoming the first Aggie to win the NCAA decathlon title. His score ranks as the fifth-best performance on the all-time collegiate list. It was also the second best score in a NCAA meet, with only Ashton Eaton’s score of 8,457 in 2010 being better.

The NCAA field included five scorers over 8,000 points and the deep field generated the best score for place in second through 10^th place.

In winning the SEC title with a meet record performance, Victor defeated three-time defending champion Maicel Uibo of Georgia, who scored 8,315 points as runner-up. Victor bettered the previous SEC meet record of 8,326 set by Uibo in 2015.

Lindon’s previous best score in the decathlon was 7,453 from a seventh-place finish at the Pan Am Games in 2015. He produced nine career best marks among the 10 events of the SEC decathlon. Prior to the final event, Victor’s score of 7,810 had already surpassed his previous career best tally.

Other records from Victor’s SEC decathlon included the best first day score in SEC history with 4,309 points, which topped the 4,224 set by Uibo in 2015. Victor’s second day score of 4,137 points just missed the collegiate all-time best of 4,145.

Victor established the collegiate all-time best mark in the decathlon discus with a mark of 179 feet at the SEC Championships. He bettered the previous collegiate decathlon best of 176-8 as he topped the SEC field by 32 feet. Only three athletes in the world have thrown the discus further in a decathlon.

When taking all the throwing events of the SEC decathlon into account, Victor produced the fifth best score in history. His total of 2,675 points from the shot put, discus and javelin were less than 75 points away from the world’s top score of 2,748 points by Canada’s Michael Smith in 1996.

Victor bettered the NCAA meet record for the decathlon discus with a throw of 175-5, which also served as the best discus mark in any decathlon held at Hayward Field.

Represented Grenada in the Rio Olympics, placing 16^th with a score of 7,998 points.

Honors during the 2016 season included USTFCCCA National Field Athlete of the Year, USTFCCCA South Central Field Athlete of the Year and SEC Field Athlete of the Year.

Also was a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, which recognizes the top collegian of the year.