Dendy, Holloway Represent Gators with SEC Track & Field Athlete and Coach of Year Honors
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 | Track and Field
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Gators head coach Mike Holloway and senior jumper Marquis Dendy made it a clean sweep indoors and outdoors, as the duo picked up SEC Outdoor Men's Coach and Field Athlete of the Year honors, respectively, Tuesday from the league office following Florida's SEC Outdoor Championship in Starkville in May.
A five-time individual national champion, seven-time SEC Champion and 11-time All-American during his career at Florida so far, Dendy swept both the long jump and triple jump crowns at the 2015 SEC Outdoor Championships as the Florida men's team picked up its fifth outdoor title in program history, the first since 2010. The indoor school record-holder in both the long and triple jump, Dendy has swept both horizontal jumps in every championship meet since NCAA Outdoors last year: NCAA Outdoors, SEC Indoors, NCAA Indoors and SEC Outdoors. Dendy will compete in both the long and triple jumps in Eugene next week looking to defend his crowns in both.
Behind every great team is a great coach, and for that, Holloway picked up his second SEC Outdoor Coach of the Year honor Tuesday (2010, 2015). Holloway has five national titles -- including back-to-back outdoor titles in 2012 & 2013 -- to his credit. Florida enters NCAA Outdoors ranked No. 1 in the National Team Computer Rankings with 13 event entries, third-most in the country.
Dendy and Holloway were the 2015 SEC and USTFCCCA Indoor Regional Coach and Field Athlete of the Year, while Dendy went on to win National Indoor Field Athlete of the Year accolades.
MARQUIS DENDY | SEC Outdoor Men's Field Athlete of the Year
· 2015 SEC Outdoor Men's Field Athlete of the Year
· SEC Champion in the long jump with an all-conditions PR 8.19m/26-10.5 (2.4w) which leads the country entering NCAAs
· SEC Champion in the triple jump with an all-conditions PR and the top mark in the NCAA (17.35m/56-11.25, +2.6) entering the national championships next week in Eugene
· The top seed from the East Preliminary in both jumps entering NCAAs
· Has now won LJ & TJ at last four championship meets ('14 NCAA outdoors, '15 SEC & NCAA indoors, '15 SEC outdoors
MIKE HOLLOWAY | SEC Outdoor Men's Coach of the Year
· 2015 SEC Outdoor Men's Coach of the Year
· Led Florida men to the 2015 SEC Outdoor Championship for first time since 2010, the program's fifth men's SEC outdoor title in school history
· Men's team had six SEC individual and relay champions & qualified 12 for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene next week with 13 event entries
· The men's squad qualified athletes in 10 different events, including both relays next weekend at Historic Hayward Field
2015 SEC TRACK & FIELD OUTDOOR AWARDS
· Men's Runner of the Year: Deon Lendore, Texas A&M
· Men's Field Athlete of the Year: Marquis Dendy, Florida
· Men's Co-Freshman Runner of the Year: Kenzo Cotton, Arkansas
· Men's Co-Freshman Runner of the Year: Christian Coleman, Tennessee
· Men's Freshman Field Athlete of the Year: Ioannis Kyriazis, Texas A&M
· Women's Runner of the Year: Dominique Scott, Arkansas
· Women's Field Athlete of the Year: Erica Bougard, Mississippi State
· Women's Freshman Runner of the Year: Brooke Feldmeier, Ole Miss
· Women's Freshman Field Athlete of the Year: Keturah Orji, Georgia
· Men's Coach of the Year: Mike Holloway, Florida
· Women's Coach of the Year: Lance Harter, Arkansas
· Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Nathanael Franks, Arkansas
· Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Jeannelle Scheper, South Carolina
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