Florida Gators

• Three-time USTFCCCA All-South Region (2012-13, 2015)
• Two-time All-SEC Second Team (2013, 2015)
• 2011 All-SEC Freshman Team
• 2015 USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual
• Three-time SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll

Collegiate XC PR | 10k: 30:45.75; 8k: 23:49.5; 5 Miles: 24:20.4; 6.4k: 20:18.95; 5k: 15:14.7


High School Track PR | 1,600m: 4:16.65; 3,000m: 9:05.57; 3,200m: 9:26.80
Collegiate Track PR | 1,500m: 3:49.58; 3,000m: 8:16.15; 5,000m: 14:06.17; 10,000m: 29:35.92


Eddie Garcia’s 2013-15 TFRRSXC Profile (for top performances and meet results)

Eddie Garcia’s 2012 TFRRSXC Profile (for top performances and meet results)


2015: Qualified for the NCAA Championship as an individual, placing 86th and becoming the fifth Gator in history to finish three NCAA Championship races in a career ... Time of 30:51.0 as the ninth-fastest 10k ever run by a Gator at the NCAA Championship ... Finished fifth at the NCAA South Regional Championship ... Finished 11th at the SEC Championship ... Career-best time of 23:49.5 at the SEC Championship was the sixth-fastest 8k ever run by a Gator at the conference meet ... Won the Mountain Dew Invitational ... Earned SEC Men's Runner of the Week honors following his victory at the MDI … Took fourth place and was Florida’s top finisher at the Covered Bridge Open (6.4k) ... First Gator since Mark Parrish (2011) to earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual honors.

2014: Redshirted.

2013: Was UF’s third (of five) scorer in all six meets … Placed fourth overall at both the Western Carolina Invite and Mountain Dew Invitational … Posted a ninth-place finish at the NCAA South Regional Championship … Earned All-SEC Second Team honors with his 13th-place finish at the SEC Championship in Gainesville.

2012: Scored third for UF, 14th overall at the NCAA South Regional Championship … Scored fifth or higher for UF in four of five meets he ran in ... Highest individual finish was eighth at the season-opening Western Carolina Invitational.

2011: Competed in six races for the Gators, including the 2011 NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. … Also raced at Western Carolina Invitational, the USF Invite, Florida’s Mountain Dew Invitational, SEC Championship and the NCAA South Region Championship … Had season-best times in the 8k (25:35.56) at the SEC Championship in Knoxville and in the 10k at the NCAA South Region Championship with a mark of 32:14.9 … Took 10th place at the USF Invite, his highest individual finish of the season.

HIGH SCHOOL/PREP: Distance runner from Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Fla. … Capped off his senior cross country season with a third-place finish at the FHSAA Class 4A State Championships.

TRACK: Eddie Garcia’s FloridaGators.com Track Bio