As the Gators wrap up their final day at their last-chance meets, they come away qualifying for another event at the NCAA Indoor Championship.
Thrower Jeremy Postin improved on his Southeastern Conference championship performance on Saturday by breaking a UF record, setting a personal-best mark and winning the event. Postin’s throw of 21.60m/70-10.50 qualified him for his first NCAA Indoor Championship appearance.
“I’m incredibly proud of Jeremy,” coach Mike Holloway said. “He broke his own school record and qualified for his first NCAAs … what a huge performance for him.”
Florida is now qualified for nine events at the NCAA Indoor Championship. The men will send Jeff Demps (60m), Omar Craddock (triple jump), Sean Obinwa (800m), Kemal Mesic (shot put), Gray Horn (heptathlon) and Postin (weight throw). The women’s squad will send its 4x400m relay team (Lanie Whtitaker, Alishea Usery, Bria Goodson and Ebony Eutsey), Cory McGee (mile run) and distance medley relay (Agata Strausa, Eutsey, Shelby Hayes and McGee).
Darshay Davis (200m) and Ugonna Ndu (60m hurdles) will find out Monday if they have made the NCAA meet.
Like Postin, Davis (60m) and Ndu (60m hurdles) set personal and UF records at the Alabama High Tide Indoor Qualifier. However, both Davis (7.35) and Ndu (8.31) missed the NCAA qualifying mark in their events by .11 seconds and .21 seconds, respectively.
“We didn’t get all the performances we wanted out of the weekend, but I couldn’t be more pleased with Darshay and Ugonna’s performances this weekend,” Holloway said. “Great [personal records] out of both of those ladies, who just set their previous [personal records] last weekend.”
Now Ndu and Davis will have to wait for Monday’s announcement to see if their performances Saturday was good enough to make it to the Championship.
“We’re looking forward to Monday evening when the official qualifier lists come out,” Holloway said. “We think we have a strong group for both the men and the women traveling to the national meet and we’re looking forward to that.”
