The UAB Blazers track and field team is the track and field program that represents University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Blazers compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the American Conference. The team is based in Birmingham, Alabama, at the UAB Track and Field Facility.
The program is coached by Kurt Thomas. The track and field program officially encompasses four teams because the NCAA considers men's and women's indoor track and field and outdoor track and field as separate sports.
In April 1998, athletic director Gene Bartow announced that the school would be cutting the men's track and field and cross country teams, leaving only a women's team. Vonetta Flowers earned the most All-American finishes on the team before becoming a bobsledder and winning a gold medal in the 2002 Olympic two-woman race. In 2023, Olympic sprinter Muna Lee was hired as an assistant coach.
Postseason , a total of 0 men and 4 women have achieved individual first-team All-American status for the team at the Division I men's outdoor, women's outdoor, men's indoor, or women's indoor national championships (using the modern criteria of top-8 placing regardless of athlete nationality).
First team NCAA All-Americans Team Championships Name Event Place Women's Angela King Heptathlon Women's Vonetta Jeffery 200 meters Women's Vonetta Jeffery 100 meters Women's Vonetta Jeffery 200 meters Women's Vonetta Jeffery 200 meters Women's Vonetta Jeffery Long jump Women's Vonetta Jeffery Long jump Women's Elizabeth Ambrus 5000 meters Women's Elinor Kirk 3000 meters Women's Elinor Kirk 5000 meters Women's Elinor Kirk 10,000 meters
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