NEW ORLEANS – Florida all-around sensation
Grant Holloway made his 12th consecutive appearance on The Bowerman Men's Watch List, as the U.S Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association
released the post-indoor season list for collegiate track and field's highest individual honor.
Earlier this week, Holloway was named USTFCCCA National Men's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year, joining Kerron Clement (2005), Marquis Dendy (2015), and
KeAndre Bates (2017) as the only other Gators to garner national recognition from the USTFCCCA. Bates and Dendy were both USTFCCCA National Indoor Field Athlete of the Year, while Clement was the final USTFCCCA National Indoor Athlete of the Year.
Holloway turned in one of the most impressive seasons in indoor track and field history, capping an incredible three months with 27.5 individual points at NCAA Indoor Championships, just a half-point behind the meet record of 28, set by Oregon's Edward Cheserek in 2017.
The Chesapeake, Va., native became the third man in Division I history to complete the straightaway sweep (60 meters, 60-meter hurdles) at NCAA Indoors, and he did it with the fastest single-day combined time in the sport's history (13.85 seconds).
Holloway became the first man in history to win three 60 hurdles national titles, having won each of the last three and securing his latest victory in record-breaking fashion. His winning time of 7.35 seconds broke the American and collegiate records, in addition to being the fourth-fastest time in history and making him the No. 3 performer on the world all-time list.
Fastest 60-meter Hurdles Times in Indoor Track and Field History
- Colin Jackson, Great Britain – 7.30 (March 6, 1994)
- Dayron Robles, Cuba – 7.33 (Feb. 8, 2008)
- Robles – 7.34 (2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships)
- Grant Holloway, Florida – 7.35 (2019 NCAA Indoor Championships)
- Greg Foster, United States – 7.36 (Jan. 16, 1987)
- Jackson – 7.36 (Feb. 12, 1994)
- Allen Johnson, United States – 7.36 (2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships)
- Robles – 7.36 (Feb. 2, 2008)
- Terrence Trammell, United States – 7.36 (2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships)
Holloway became the fifth man in the sport's history—Jackson (1994-95), Johnson (1995), Anthony Jarrett (1995), Robles (2008)—to break 7.45 seconds at least four times in a season, doing so in four of his final five 60 hurdles races. The junior also finished the season holding 10 of the 17 fastest times in collegiate history, seven of which he ran this year.
Fastest 60-meter Hurdles Times in Collegiate History
- Grant Holloway, Florida – 7.35 (2019 NCAA Indoor Championships)
- Daniel Roberts, Kentucky – 7.41 (2019 NCAA Indoor Championships
- Holloway – 7.42 (2018 Tiger Paw Invitational)
- Holloway – 7.43 (2019 Tyson Invitational)
- Holloway – 7.44 (2019 NCAA Indoor Championships)
- Holloway – 7.44 (2019 SEC Indoor Championships)
- Omar McLeod, Arkansas – 7.45 (2015 NCAA Indoor Championships)
Roughly 40 minutes after that record-setting performance, Holloway tied the 10th-fastest 60 meters time in collegiate history (6.50 seconds) to win another national title. It was also the third-fastest time in the world this season, broke his own school record of 6.51 he set in January, and tied the No. 8-ranked performer on the collegiate all-time top 10.
Fastest 60 meters Times in the World (2019 season)
- Bingtian Su, China – 6.47 (Feb. 16, 2019)
- Su – 6.49 (Feb. 20, 2019)
- Grant Holloway, Florida – 6.50 (2019 NCAA Indoor Championships)
- Holloway – 6.51 (2019 Razorback Invitational)
- Su – 6.52 (Feb. 13, 2019)
- Divine Oduduru, Texas Tech – 6.52 (2019 Big 12 Championships)
Holloway also took third place in the long jump the night prior, finishing just two centimeters behind the national champion despite only taking three of a possible six jumps (he led until late in the fifth round of attempts). And to top it all off, he ran second for Florida's 4x400 relay team, which finished third overall.
Additional Notes and Achievements from Holloway's 2019 Season
- Joined South Carolina's Terrence Trammell (2000) and Tennessee's Willie Gault (1983) as the only men to sweep the 60 hurdles and 60 meters titles at NCAA Indoors (Gault did it in the 55-meter hurdles and 55 meters, the distance run prior to 1999).
- Joined Trammell (1999-2000) as the only other man in history to sweep the 60 meters and 60 hurdles at the SEC Indoor Championships.
- Scored 28 individual points at SEC Indoor Championships, breaking the previous meet record of 22.5.
- SEC Men's Indoor Runner of the Year
- USTFCCCA Men's Indoor South Region Track Athlete of the Year
- SEC Indoor Championships long jump silver medalist
- Joined Trammell and Great Britain's Colin Jackson as the only other men in indoor track and field history to break 7.40 seconds in the 60 hurdles and run 6.50 or faster in the 60 meters.
- Joined Leroy Burrell and Dwight Phillips as the only men in indoor track and field history to break 6.51 seconds in the 60 and long jump at least 8.00 meters, a feat Holloway accomplished in less than 21 hours at January's Razorback Invitational.
Holloway and the Gators begin their 2019 outdoor season next Friday at the FSU Relays in Tallahassee.
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