Gators Headed to FSU Relays for Outdoor Opener

Friday, March 22

Tallahassee, FL

10:30 AM

Florida Gators

FSU Relays

Ryan Clark and Grant Holloway make up half of what could be one of collegiate track and field's fiercest 4x100 relays.

Gators Headed to FSU Relays for Outdoor Opener

Thursday, March 21, 2019 | Track and Field

By: Zach Dirlam

TALAHASSEE, Fla. – Outdoor season is here for the Gators track and field program, which won the men's team title at NCAA Indoor Championships for a second consecutive year and placed sixth on the women's side. Florida's outdoor opener, FSU Relays, is on the agenda Friday.

Florida's men, who have won two of the last three NCAA Outdoor Championships and a Division I-leading nine overall national titles since 2010, enter the spring ranked No. 4 in the preseason National Track and Field Rankings Index, published by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The Gators' women check in at No. 10 in the USTFCCCA's preseason rankings.

National champions Yanis David and Grant Holloway will open the season in the long jump, while returning first-team All-Americans Nikki Stephens (400-meter hurdles) and Jhonny Victor (high jump) will compete in their primary events. David won the indoor triple jump title, while Holloway is the two-time defending 110-meter hurdles champion and boasts four career indoor NCAA titles.

Holloway is also expected to run a leg for Florida's 4x100 relay, which is should be a formidable squad featuring a trio of 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships 60 meters finalists (Holloway, Ryan Clark, Hakim Sani Brown) and transfer Raymond Ekevwo, who joined those three in the 60 final at SEC Indoor Championships.

For more on Florida's recent victory at the NCAA Indoor Championships, visit this feature story assembled with Adobe Spark:

FSU RELAYS INFORMATION (all times Eastern)

Live Results (Prime Time Timing)
Teams Competing: Alabama (No. 3 men; No. 12 women), Auburn, Florida State (No. 6 women; No. 11 men), Georgia Tech (No. 25 women), Liberty, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech (No. 18 women)
Venue: Mike Long Track (Florida State University)

*Friday, March 22 (all events are finals)*
Time	Gators – Event
10:30 a.m.	Amara Wiggan – Women's Hammer Throw (follows conclusion of 9:30 men's)
12 p.m.	Connor Bandel; Edward Shelikoff; Adam Shuler – Men's Discus Throw
	Kristina Moore – Women's Discus Throw (follows conclusion of men's)
12:30 p.m.	Mike Harris; Davis Ott – Men's Pole Vault
	Grant Holloway – Men's Long Jump
	Yanis David; Kala Penn – Women's Long Jump
1:30 p.m.	Jhonny Victor – Men's High Jump
1:40 p.m.	Brandee' Johnson – Women's 100-meter Hurdles
2 p.m.	Sam Ahrenholz; Marshall Dillon; Justin Pacifico; Magnus Pettersen; Dominic Williams – Men's 800 meters
	Imogen Barrett; Elisabeth Bergh; Grace Blair; Caitlin McQuilkin-Bell; Madison Morse; Pamela O'Brien – Women's 800 meters
2:40 p.m.	Raymond Ekevwo-Hakim Sani Brown-Grant Holloway-Ryan Clark – Men's 4x100 relay
3 p.m.	Dawson Guillory; Jabari Hill; Cole Johnson – Men's 400 meters
	Lauryn Ghee – Women's 400 meters
	Bandel – Men's Shot Put
3:30 p.m.	Denzel Villaman – Men's 400-meter Hurdles
	Nikki Stephens – Women's 400-meter Hurdles
	Asa Garcia – Women's Triple Jump
4:30 p.m.	Dillon – Men's 2,000-meter Steeplechase
	Blair; McQuilkin-Bell – Women's 2,000-meter Steeplechase
5 p.m.	Jacob Stanko – Men's Javelin Throw
	Megan Reed – Women's Javelin Throw (follows conclusion of men's)
5:10 p.m.	Nick Deal; Trevor Foley; Blake Lowery; Colin Schaefer; Cavan Wilson – Men's 1,500 meters
	Sophie Ebihara; Abbie Harrelson; Sophia Piniella; Gabrielle Wilkinson – Women's 1,500 meters
5:30 p.m.	Benjamin Lobo Vedel; Cameron Mahorn; Chantz Sawyers – Men's 200 meters
	Doneisha Anderson; Sharrika Barnett; Johnson; Taylor Manson – Women's 200 meters
7:10 p.m.	Men's 4x400 relay
	Women's 4x400 relay