Florida Hosts 66th Pepsi Florida Relays This Weekend
Thursday, April 1, 2010 | Track and Field
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- LIVE RESULTS
A full complement of University of Florida track and field athletes are slated to participate in one of the season's most anticipated events – the 66th Pepsi Florida Relays this Friday and Saturday at James G. Pressly Stadium at Percy Beard Track.
Gates open at 9 a.m. each day for the event's 10 a.m. start. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children and seniors. Complete coverage of the Florida Relays can be found at http://www.gatorzone.com/trackfield/floridarelays. Live results also will be available through www.halfmiletiming.com.
“I'm really excited about this upcoming weekend,” Florida head coach Mike Holloway said. “We've got one of the best fields we've had come in here in a long time. A lot of great post-collegians will be coming in here, plus all the Gators will be competing this weekend. This is a good chance for us to compete in front of our home crowd and we're really looking forward to the competition.”
Collegiate teams highlighting the meet include Alabama, Bethune-Cookman, Buffalo, Clemson, host Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and UCF.
“This is the 66th edition of the Florida Relays and it has always been kind of the premier relay meet of the south,” Holloway said. “With us being the hosts, obviously we want to put on a good show for our home fans and we've got the kind of team where we can be competitive in a lot of areas. We really feel it's a privilege to be able to put on this meet.”
The Gators enter the meet ranked No. 1 nationally on the men's side and No. 4 on the women's side according to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll released Wednesday afternoon by the New Orleans-based organization.
Florida is coming off an impressive weekend at the UCF Invitational where the Gators won 13 events, including redshirt freshman Jeremy Postin (Andover, Kan.) setting a new school record in the men's hammer throw at 59.90m/196-6. Freshman sprinter Tony McQuay (Riviera Beach, Fla.) was exceptionally impressive, as a part of three event victories. He won the 100m and 200m and ran a stellar leg of the team's dynamic 4x400-meter relay team.
Senior thrower Mariam Kevkhishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia) will compete in the last Florida Relays of her collegiate career this weekend, looking to break Florida's school record in the outdoor women's shot put. She is a four-time NCAA Champion, including being the defending NCAA Outdoor Women's Shot Put Champion, and a seven-time All-American.
The Florida men's 4x100-meter relay team is the defending SEC and NCAA Champion and will look to defend that title beginning Saturday at the Pepsi Florida Relays.
For all of the latest information on Florida track and field, please log on to www.GatorZone.com/trackfield or, for up-to-the-minute updates, follow the team's Twitter account @GZTrackField or www.twitter.com/GZTrackField.
QUICK NOTES
- The Florida track and field teams are coming off a pair of top-four national finishes at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships as the men's team won its first-ever national championship in program history and the women finished fourth.
- Head Coach Mike Holloway was named the 2010 U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Men's Indoor Head Coach of the Year after leading the Gators to the NCAA Indoor Championship.
- Four Gators are up for consideration for The Bowerman – track and field's highest honor. Women's athletes Charlotte Browning, Mariam Kevkhishvili and Shara Proctor, as well as men's jumper Christian Taylor, are all among The Bowerman watch list.
- The Gators won four NCAA individual championships indoors this year – men's 60m (Jeff Demps), men's triple jump (Christian Taylor), women's shot put (Mariam Kevkhishvili) and women's mile (Charlotte Browning).
- The UF track and field roster is represented by athletes from nine different countries, including the United States. The other countries represented on the roster include Anguilla, Australia, Bosnia, Brazil, England, Georgia, The Netherlands and Trinidad.
- The Florida men's 4x100-meter relay team is the defending SEC and NCAA Champion. That relay corps ranks third all-time in school history with a time of 38.57. The school record in the men's 4x100-meter relay is 38.35.
- The Gators' women's distance corps scored 47 of the team's 110 total points en route to the SEC Indoor Championship in February in Fayetteville, Ark. Florida impressively scored 24 points alone in the women's 3,000-meter run at that meet.
- Redshirt freshman thrower Jeremy Postin broke Florida's school record in the men's hammer throw last weekend at the UCF Invitational with a personal-record toss of 59.90m/196-6.
- Senior sprinter Tony McQuay enters the Pepsi Florida Relays ranked second in the nation in the men's 200-meter dash with a personal-record time of 20.80 (+1.5). McQuay won three events at last weekend's UCF Invitational, capturing the 100m and 200m and running a leg of Florida's winning 4x400-meter relay team.
- Senior sprinter Calvin Smith became Florida's all-time career record holder in men's All-America honors and now has 16 combined All-America honors (indoors and outdoors).
- Senior thrower Mariam Kevkhishvili is a four-time NCAA champion and the defending NCAA outdoor women's shot put champion. Kevkhishvili is a seven-time All-American and has won three consecutive NCAA indoor shot put championships.
- Senior distance runner Charlotte Browning is the NCAA Indoor women's mile champion and ranks fourth on UF's all-time outdoor 1,500m run list (4:19.66). Browning was second at the 2009 SEC Outdoor Championships in the women's 1,500-meter run and placed sixth in the women's 800m.
- Sophomore distance runner Genevieve LaCaze is the defending SEC Outdoor Champion in the women's steeplechase with a personal-record time of 10:26.92, which ranks second all-time in school history. LaCaze holds the Florida Relays record in the women's steeplechase, set at last season's event at 10:30.79.
PEPSI FLORIDA RELAYS – GAINESVILLE, FLA. – APRIL 2-3, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Women's 100m Hurdles – 12:05 p.m. ET
- Ugonna Ndu
Men's 110m Hurdles – 12:45 p.m. ET
- Jarius Cooper
- Gray Horn
Women's 400m Dash – 1:05 p.m. ET
- Ije Iheoma
- Michelle Stegall
Men's 400m Dash – 1:25 p.m. ET
- R.J. Anderson
- Tony McQuay
- Calvin Smith
- Christian Taylor
- Preston Wilson
Men's Long Jump – 2 p.m. ET
- Omar Craddock
- Gray Horn
Women's 100m Dash – 2:25 p.m. ET
- Madison McNary
- Shara Proctor
- Alishea Usery
Men's 100m Dash – 2:40 p.m. ET
- Jeff Demps
- Jeremy Hall
- Jeremy Rankin
- Terrell Wilks
Women's 800m Run – 2:55 p.m. ET
- Charlotte Browning
Women's Pole Vault – 3 p.m. ET
- Daisy Glasser
- Claire Spurling
Men's 800m Run – 3:20 p.m. ET
- John Mitchell
- Sean Obinwa
- Carlos Phillips
- Ethan Philpot
- Daniel Wehunt
Women's 400m Hurdles – 3:45 p.m. ET
- Ugonna Ndu
- Ashley Usery
Women's Discus – 4 p.m. ET
- Kaitlin Davis
- Keely Medeiros
- Ashley Miller
Women's Hammer Throw – 4 p.m. ET
- Jeremy Postin
- David Triassi
Men's 400m Hurdles – 4:05 p.m. ET
- Jamaal Johnson
Women's Invitational 200m Dash – 4:25 p.m. ET
- Madison McNary
- Alishea Usery
- Danielle Williams
Men's Invitational 200m Dash – 4:35 p.m. ET
- Jeremy Hall
- Tony McQuay
- Jeremy Rankin
- Calvin Smith
- Terrell Wilks
Women's High Jump – 5 p.m. ET
- Rebecca Goldring
- Alexis Muniz
Women's Long Jump – 6 p.m. ET
- Shara Proctor
Women's Steeplechase – 8:15 p.m. ET
- Callie Cooper
- Julie Northrup
Men's Steeplechase – 8:35 p.m. ET
- Michael Anderson
- James Uthmeier
Women's 1,500m Run – 8:50 p.m. ET
- Stacey Johnson
- Genevieve LaCaze
- Rebecca Lowe
- Mandy Perkins
- Kaitlin Shiver
Men's 1,500m Run – 9:20 p.m. ET
- Geoffrey Anderson
- Jeremy Criscione
- Tim O'Loughlin
- Justin Taylor
Women's 5,000m Run – 9:45 p.m. ET
- Ali Crabb
- Sydney Devore
Men's 5,000m Run – 10:05 p.m. ET
- Matt Hensley
- Josh Izewski
- Anthony Morales
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Men's Javelin – 11:30 a.m. ET
- Gray Horn
- Doug Nelson
Men's Sprint Medley Relay – 12:15 p.m. ET
- Florida (R. Anderson, J. Toppin, P. Wilson, C. Phillips)
Men's Pole Vault – 1 p.m. ET
- Eric Foran
- Gray Horn
- Max Lang
Women's Javelin – 1:30 p.m. ET
- Evelien Dekkers
Men's Triple Jump – 1:30 p.m. ET
- Omar Craddock
Women's 4x100m Relay – 2:20 p.m. ET
- Florida (M. McNary, Al. Usery, U. Ndu, D. Williams)
Men's 4x100m Relay – 2:45 p.m. ET
- Florida (J. Rankin, J. Hall, T. Wilks, J. Demps)
Men's Shot Put – 3:30 p.m. ET
- Gray Horn
- Kemal Mesic
Men's 4x800m Relay – 3:55 p.m. ET
- Florida (S. Obinwa, J. Mitchell, E. Philpot, D. Wehunt)
Men's High Jump – 4 p.m. ET
- Bryan Turner
Women's Triple Jump – 4 p.m. ET
- Daniela Griffin
- Jenicia McFadden
- Shara Proctor
Men's 4x200m Relay – 4:30 p.m. ET
- Florida (T. McQuay, J. Hall, T. Wilks, C. Smith)
Women's Distance Medley Relay – 4:50 p.m. ET
- Florida “A” (G. LaCaze, M. Stegall, S. Johnson, C. Browning)
- Florida “B” (K. Shiver, As. Usery, M. Perkins, J. Northrup)
Men's Distance Medley Relay – 5:10 p.m. ET
- Florida (J. Taylor, P. Wilson, C. Phillips, J. Criscione)
Women's Shot Put – 5:45 p.m. ET
- Keely Medeiros
- Mariam Kevkhishvili
Women's 4x400m Relay – 6:40 p.m. ET
- Florida (Al. Usery, D. Williams, U. Ndu, I. Iheoma)
Men's 4x400m Relay – 7:05 p.m. ET
- Florida (R. Anderson, T. McQuay, C. Taylor, C. Smith)
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