A young Gator squad finishes in the top half with focus on future.
Six Florida athletes qualified for the finals Saturday.
The women’s team finished in second place and the men in fifth in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
On day two of the SEC Indoor Championship, Florida track and field started in second on the women’s side and third on the men’s. By the end of the day, they had fallen to 6th and 9th respectively.
On the first day of the SEC Championship, Florida had a promising start.
In Florida’s final regular season indoor meet, the track and field team finished sixth and eighth.
Despite all the high performing talent on Florida’s roster this year, the competition on Friday and Saturday will be the toughest it has faced.
Nine Gators broke into the top 10 in the South Carolina Invitational.
In a meet 330 days in the making, Florida walked away from the Carolina Challenge T-third place with four victories.
This meet will be the Gators’ first competition since the COVID-19 pandemic halted the 2020 season.
This will be the first time the Gators compete since March because their 2020 season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With championship season approaching for the indoor track season, an SEC championship is the expectation this weekend for the Florida men’s team in College Station, Texas.
The Gators continued their excellent indoor campaign, returning to the site of their first meet of the year and posting excellent results and exhibiting notable progress.
Coming off of a dominating performance by Florida’s sprinting corps last week at the Razorback Invitational, the distance runners made their mark by breaking several personal records and earning a few nationally ranked times
Eight Florida athletes earned personal record-breaking marks this past weekend in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as the Gators continued their strong start to the indoor season.
After having just three athletes competing last week, the Gators will bring a massive squad of 45 runners, jumpers and throwers to compete in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday and Saturday.
Florida’s throwers continued its strong start to its indoor campaign as Amara Wiggan and Connor Bandel took first place at the Hokie Invitational in the women’s weight throw and the men’s shot put, respectively.
Three Florida throwers will make the trip up to Blacksburg, Virginia, to participate in the Hokie Invitational, the third event of the indoor season.
Florida found success in South Carolina for the second week in a row. Competing in the Gamecock Opener, it closed the meet with Cameron Miller and the women’s 4x400-relay team posting NCAA-leading times.
Florida is back in South Carolina this weekend for the second week in a row.
Solutions by The State News
