"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
For sophomore sprinter Tony McQuay, the distance between
Fayetteville and College Station measures 400 meters.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
McQuay finished third in the 400-meter dash at the Tyson
Invitational at Arkansas Friday with a time of 45.95 seconds, good
enough to send him to the national meet at season’s end.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
“We have always known Tony is a special athlete,” head coach Mike
Holloway said. “He has trained hard and had the second-fastest time
of his life.”
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
McQuay will join fellow sprinter Jeff Demps and jumpers Christian
Taylor, Omar Craddock and Will Claye at the NCAA Indoor
Championships hosted by Texas A&M in March.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">In
addition to McQuay, Claye and Demps also posted
automatic-qualifying marks for their efforts in Arkansas
Friday.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
However, while Demps has already qualified in his event (60-meter
dash), Claye’s fourth-place finish in the long jump (7.95m/16-1)
will allow him to compete in two events (long jump and triple jump)
at the national meet.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">“I
was very pleased with Will Claye qualifying in the long jump,”
Holloway said.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
Demps finished second in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.58
seconds, just one-hundredth of a second off his winning time last
weekend.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
Other top-five finishers for UF in Fayetteville include
pole-vaulters Claire Spurling, Daisy Glasser and sprinter Terrell
Wilks.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
Spurling and Glasser placed second and fourth, respectively,
posting the same mark (3.75m/12-3.5).
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
Wilks turned in a time of 6.64 seconds in the 60-meter dash final,
which goes down as his best time of the season and is just 0.04
seconds away from an automatic-qualifying score.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
The Gators also competed in the Iowa State Classic and the FloTrack
Husky Classic Friday with one top-five result out of Ames,
Iowa.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
Jeremy Postin, a sophomore, finished fifth in the men’s weight
throw with a 19.34m/63-5.5 mark.
"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman;">
The top finisher from Friday’s action in Seattle came from
Genevieve LaCaze in the 5,000-meter run (16:37.21).
