Gator Relay Teams Honored by ACCUSPLIT
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | Track and Field
Florida head coach Mike Holloway and the Florida track and field teams received two ACCUSPLIT Relay Awards last week for posting the nation's top collegiate times in 2009 in the men's 4x100-meter relay and the men's shuttle hurdle relay. The awards were given out at the ACCUSPLIT/Nike Coaches Party last week prior to the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
The 2009 season marked the 27th consecutive year that ACCUSPLIT presented the relay awards.
ACCUSPLIT presented relay awards for eight different events on both the men's and women's sides, and they were based on the nation's top times entering the NCAA Championship meet. The Gators were the only school to earn more than one ACCUSPLIT Relay Award on the men's side.
The Florida men's 4x100-meter relay team posted the nation's fastest time (38.57) in the preliminaries of the NCAA Outdoor Championships and went on to win the program's first national title in that event since 2004 in a time of 38.58. The relay team consisted of Dennis Martin (Anderson, S.C.), Calvin Smith (Lutz, Fla.), Terrell Wilks (New Haven, Conn.) and Jeremy Hall (Jacksonville , Fla.). It marked the third 4x100-meter relay NCAA Championship in men's school history. Florida's 4x100m squad also captured the 2009 SEC Outdoor Championship.
The men's shuttle hurdle relay team in April captured the Championship of America title at the Penn Relays for the second consecutive year. The Florida quartet of Kallinka Pitt (Largo, Fla.), Martin, William Wynne (Marietta, Ga.) and Jarius Cooper (Palm Coast, Fla.) broke the school record in that event in a time of 54.30. That shattered the previous school record of 54.76, set during the 2004 campaign.
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ACCUSPLIT Men's Relay Awards
- 4x100m – Florida
- 4x200m – Texas A&M
- 4x400m – Florida State
- 4x800m – Texas
- 4xMile – Oregon
- Sprint Medley – Baylor
- Distance Medley – Arkansas
- Shuttle Hurdle – Florida
ACCUSPLIT Women's Relay Awards
- 4x100m – Texas A&M
- 4x200m – Texas A&M
- 4x400m – LSU
- 4x800m – Tennessee
- 4xMile – Tennessee
- Sprint Medley – LSU
- Distance Medley – Tennessee
- Shuttle Hurdle - UCF
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