The Pepsi Florida Relays was Cameron Mahorn’s first home meet.
Hakim Sani Brown, the sophomore sprinter from Tokyo, placed the baton cleanly into the hands of junior Grant Holloway. Holloway rounded the curve to give it to senior Ryan Clark, who finished the relay with nobody on either side of him, clearly in first place.
For the second time in as many years, and for the fifth time since 2010, the Florida men’s track and field team won the NCAA Indoor Championship.
The championship was already locked up.
Yanis David finally got her first gold.
Just like on the track, UF’s the long-distance runners have much farther to travel this weekend for their meet than everyone else.
The record books for UF throwing events seemingly change every time the page is refreshed.
The field eventers will bring their sprinters with them this time around when they head to Blacksburg, Virginia, for the second time in two weeks.
Grant Holloway is quite literally on top of the world. His time of 6.51 seconds in the 60 meters broke a seven-year-old school record, was good for the world lead and put him in the top 10 on the all-time collegiate list for the event. Holloway also holds the national lead in the 60-meter hurdles and the No. 2 marks in the long jump and 200 meters.
Florida’s track and field teams will travel to Arkansas this weekend for the first of two times this season to face off against some of the top teams in the nation.
It was a successful season-opening weekend for the Florida track and field teams.
Time has expired for the Florida track and field season.
Taylor Manson and Cory Poole’s debut outdoor seasons are still alive.
Florida needed everything to go right at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.Its men needed at least 53 points to complete the three-peat, and its women needed at least 47 to get their first podium finish since 2014.
With one event left in the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Florida’s women’s track and field team was four points away from its first podium finish since 2014.
It was a much closer race than expected.
With her left leg stretched behind her body, Darrielle McQueen repeatedly tapped her baby blue cleat against the ground before taking off down the lane.
A tough long-jump competition left reigning national champion KeAndre Bates looking for a big jump to lift him out of seventh place on his last attempt of the event's final.
History lies within the lanes of Hayward Field.
Solutions by The State News
