GSC To Host 2011 Jimmy Carnes Indoor Meet
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | Track and Field
The Gainesville Sports Commission (GSC) will serve as host of the fourth-annual Jimmy Carnes Indoor Track and Field Meet this Saturday and Sunday at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.
The meet is formatted to allow for youth, high school, open and collegiate competition for men and women; boys and girls. The Jimmy Carnes Meet begins at 9 a.m. ET each day.
The Jimmy Carnes Indoor Track and Field Meet is an independent meet being run by the Gainesville Sports Commission and NOT the University Athletic Association.
The meet is named in honor of legendary former University of Florida head men's track and field coach Jimmy Carnes (1965-76), who later went on to a distinguished career as a key contributor and advocate for track and field on the national and international level. He recently was inducted into USA Track and Field's National Hall of Fame.
During Carnes' 12-year tenure as Florida's head track and field coach, he directed the Gators to 15 top-three finishes at the Southeastern Conference Indoor and Outdoor Championships combined, including SEC indoor championships in each of his final two seasons as the program's head coach. Carnes' Florida teams went 93-3 overall in dual meets during his career.
Carnes mentored 65 Southeastern Conference individual champions (indoor and outdoor) and 24 All-America selections during his tenure as Florida's head coach. He also mentored Ron Jourdan (High Jump, 1969), Earmonn O'Keefe (1,000 yd, 1972), Beaufort Brown (600 yd, 1973) and the men's mile relay (1975) to indoor national championships during his coaching career with the Gators.
For further information about the meet, please contact GSC Executive Director Jack Hughes (Hughes@gainesvillesportscommission.com). For information regarding timing, entries and the distribution of final results, please contact Scott Peters of Half-Mile Timing (scott@halfmiletiming.com).
The official meet Web site is: http://www.halfmiletiming.com/Datafiles/Spring2011/JimmyCarnes11/JCI11.htm
