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=North Carolina A&T Aggies track and field=

The North Carolina A&T Aggies Track and Field program represents North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the sports of indoor & outdoor track and field and cross country. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, the program competes at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). The Aggies host their home outdoor meets at Irwin Belk Track at Aggie Stadium and their indoor meets at the JDL Fast Track in nearby Winston-Salem.

History
<!-- ===Early history=== The first track team was established in 1930 with head coach C. G. Cooke. In the program's second season, the Aggies took third in the crack mile relay in front of 60,000 spectators at the Penn Relays.

Roy Thompson era
Roy "Spaceman" Thompson career as director of the Aggie track and field programs lasted over a 26 season span. Thompson is credited by officials in the city of Greensboro's sports community for building the A&T track program's national reputation, in addition to helping shape an athletics center that hosts major national, state and regional track meets. Thompson's most notable accomplishments include coaching 65 individual MEAC champions and five All-Americans through 2009, and earning four MEAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, One MEAC Indoor Track & Field Championship, and four MEAC Coach of the Year awards. In 2005, a Thompson-coached 4x100 meter relay team placed fifth in the NCAA Division I national championship. Thompson has also coached Olympians Ruth Morris and Troy Douglas. Both Morris and Douglas both competed in the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics in Athletics. Thompson retired from coaching in 2010.

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In 1903, Bill Hayward coached Albany College's track team. Following Oregon's defeat at the hands of Albany College, Oregon hired Bill Hayward as the track and field head coach for the following season. Hayward's career at Oregon was long and illustrious, lasting 44 years as head coach. His athletes included nine Olympians and produced five world records. In 1919, a new stadium was constructed for football and named Hayward Field for him. Two years following construction, a track was added and track schedules were transferred there from nearby Kincaid Field. -->

Venues
The Aggies host their home track meets at Irwin Belk Track inside Aggie Stadium. The facility, installed in 2004, is named after the former president of Belk Department Stores and a major financial contributor to the project. The surface is Mondo Super X Performance track and features eight 48-inch lanes and wide turns. Belk Track has played host to many regional, national, and international events, such as International Friendship & Freedom Games, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships – East Regional, the New Balance Outdoor Nationals (formerly the Nike Outdoor Nationals), and the USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships.

Head coaches
Since the program's inception in 1930, the Aggies have had XX coaches in their 84-year history. Roy Thompson Jr. holds the distinction of winning the most conference championships at five. The following coaches are a chronology of A&T track and field head coaches to serve at the head of the program.

Team achievements
Conference Championships

Notable athletes
The track and field program over the years has created a number of All Americans. Alumni have gone on to compete in international competitions such as the Olympics, Pan-American Games and win championships in other professional sports such as Football.

There have been several members of the track and field team that lettered in other sports, particularly football. Football Hall of Famer Elvin Bethea was a standout in Discus and Shot Put and won the 1965 NAIA National Championship in the latter. Additionally NFL Running Back Tarik Cohen and former Wide Receiver Desmond Lawrence ran track during the football offseason. Lawrence holds the MEAC record in the 60 meters and is also the only male athlete in A&T history to earn All-American honors in outdoor and indoor track and field.

Olympians
Aggie Track & Field alumni have represented 3 Countries in 3 different Summer Olympic Games. The first, and most notable Aggie olympian is Bob Beamon, who won a gold medal, and set a world record, in the Men's long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico

World record holders
The following A&T athletes have achieved world records: