No. 1 Gators Qualify 23 for NCAA Indoor Championships March 14-15
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | Track and Field
2014 Female Qualifiers | 2014 Male Qualifiers
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee has announced the participants that will compete in the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships March 14-15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Orange and Blue qualified a contingent of 23 student-athletes, second-most in school history, between its No. 1 men's and women's squads.
WOMEN
· Florida's 2014 SEC Champion and USTFCCCA No. 1 women's team qualified 12 Gators with 14 event entries – and will take a contingent of 14 athletes, including two relay alternates, to Albuquerque next week. UF's 12 competitors represent the second-largest number of qualified women for indoor nationals in school history, with 2004's 13 qualifiers slightly edging the 2014 contingent in size.
MEN
· On the men's side, UF's SEC runner-up and USTFCCCA No. 1 Gators qualified 11 student-athletes for NCAAs – third-most in Gator history – with 13 event entries, and will take freshman Nick Uruburu as a relay alternate to compose a squad of 12 UF men's athletes with their eyes on the prize.
NCAA INDOORS HISTORY
· The Orange and Blue own a combined four NCAA Indoor Championships, including one on the women's side in 1992 and three straight for the Florida men from 2010-12. The Gators own five of the last eight possible national titles in men's indoor and outdoor track and field action dating back to 2010 NCAA Indoors.
BROADCAST INFO
· ESPN3 will stream the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships live on March 14 starting at 7:55 p.m. ET and March 15 starting at 7:50 p.m. ET. A tape delayed broadcast of the NCAA Championships will air Saturday, March 22, at 6:30 p.m. ET on ESPNU.
FLORIDA 2014 INDOOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS DECLARATIONS (by event)
WOMEN
{12 + 2 alternates: Bostic, Brewer, Burke, Curtis (alt), Eutsey, Gause, Greene, Harrell, Jefferson, McGee, Reynolds, Sanders, Strausa, Tubbs (alt)}
· 60m
o Shayla Sanders (7.24)
· 200m
o Kyra Jefferson (22.87)
o Destinee Gause (23.30)
o Shayla Sanders (23.45)
· 400m
o Robin Reynolds (51.77)
o Ebony Eutsey (52.76)
· Mile
o Cory McGee (4:35.03)
o Becky Greene (4:38.03)
· 4x4
o Robin Reynolds, Destinee Gause, Kyra Jefferson, Ebony Eutsey (3:30.16)
o Loreal Curtis alternate
· DMR
o Becky Greene, Ebony Eutsey, Agata Strausa, Cory McGee (11:00.16)
o Taylor Tubbs alternate
· High Jump
o Taylor Burke (1.87m/6-1.5)
· Triple Jump
o Ciarra Brewer (13.59m/44-7)
· Weight Throw
o Jayla Bostic (21.36m/70-1)
· Pentathlon
o Brittany Harrell (4,137)
MEN
{11 + 1 alternate: Arroyo, Dendy, Dukes, Glass, Graham, Jr., Hall, Lovett, Obinwa, Parrish, Schnulle, Uruburu (alt), Wright}
· 60m
o Antwan Wright (6.63)
· 200m
o Dedric Dukes (20.55)
o Arman Hall (20.58)
· 400m
o Arman Hall (45.28)
o Hugh Graham, Jr. (45.94)
o Najee Glass (45.95)
· 800m
o Sean Obinwa (1:47.76)
o Andres Arroyo (1:47.97)
o Ryan Schnulle (1:48.05)
· 5000m
o Mark Parrish (13:43.15)
· 60mH
o Eddie Lovett (7.65)
· 4x4
o Najee Glass, Hugh Graham, Jr., Dedric Dukes, Arman Hall (3:03.50)
o Nick Uruburu alternate
· Long Jump
o Marquis Dendy (7.87m/25-10)
