FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Florida won two individual titles, broke a meet record and two facility records, and kept itself in the running to retain both team crowns on the second day of the SEC Outdoor Championships Friday night.
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Sophomore combined events athlete
Amanda Froeynes entered the seventh and final event of the heptathlon, the 800 meters, trailing by 319 points – which meant she would need to finish the race almost 25 seconds faster than the leader (something unlikely, but not unheard of) to win. Froeynes set a personal record of 2:11.97 and crossed 24.95 seconds clear of six-event leader Tyra Gittens from Texas A&M. That gap was enough for Froeynes to win the heptathlon by eight points, a razor-thin margin, with the nation's fourth-highest overall score (5,801 points).
Froeynes' heptathlon title is the third in program history. The other two belong to Brittany Harrell (2012) and Heidi Mann (1987).
Senior
Yanis David, who swept both the long jump and triple jump titles at February's SEC Indoor Championships, broke the John McDonnell Field record en route to her third conference title of the year. David's top mark of 6.65 meters (21 feet, 10 inches) secured the fourth SEC Outdoors long jump title in school history, and the first since Olympian Shara Proctor won two in a row in 2009 and 2010. Her mark also ranks second nationally.
Junior
Grant Holloway broke the facility record and his own SEC Outdoors record in the 110-meter hurdles, as he ran the second-fastest time in collegiate history (13.07 seconds). Holloway, who last year ran what is now the third-fastest time in collegiate history (13.15) to set the previous meet record, will attempt to defend his title at 6:45 p.m. Saturday.
Later in the evening, the Chesapeake, Va., native scored three points with a sixth-place finish in the long jump.
Florida's men also got five important points from junior
Clayton Brown in the high jump, another four from redshirt sophomore
Connor Bandel's fifth-place finish in the shot put, three from freshman
Trevor Foley in his first collegiate 3,000-meter steeplechase, and two from redshirt senior high jumper
Jhonny Victor. Brown's top clearance tied him for ninth nationally and secured an NCAA East Preliminary berth.
The Gators qualified relatively well as a whole, with sophomore
Hakim Sani Brown once again leading the contingent.
Sani Brown, the top qualifier in Thursday's 200 meters preliminary, threw down a wind-legal 10.10 seconds and was the fastest qualifier in the 100 meters prelim by almost two tenths of a second. His time also ranks sixth on the program's All-Time Top 10 list.
Sophomore
Imogen Barrett was the No. 2 qualifier in the women's 1,500 meters. Senior and defending champion
Sharrika Barnett easily won her women's 400 meters heat to automatically advance, while freshman
Doneisha Anderson ran a season-best time to qualify for the final. On the men's side of the 400 meters, sophomore
Benjamin Lobo Vedel ran a season-best time to earn a spot in Saturday's final. And junior
Raymond Ekevwo joined Sani Brown as a heat winner and finalist in the 100.
SEC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS INFORMATION (all times Eastern)
- Live Results (Flash Results)
- Day One Recap
- Nationally-Ranked Teams: Alabama (No. 8 women; No. 10 men), Arkansas (No. 1 women, No. 20 men), Georgia (No. 15 men, No. 19 women), Kentucky (No. 4 women), LSU (No. 2 men; No. 7 women), Mississippi State (No. 13 men), South Carolina (No. 17 men, No. 25 women), Texas A&M (No. 2 women; No. 5 men),
- Venue: John McDonnell Field (University of Arkansas)
| Thursday, May 9 (only scorers listed; see Day One Recap for full results) |
| Event |
Place (Score), Gators – Time / Mark [Wind] | Notes |
| 10,000m (W) |
1 (10). Jessica Pascoe – 34:08.41 | No. 16-ranked time in East Region; No. 4-ranked time on UF's All-Time Top 10; topped personal record by 1 minute, 53.11 seconds |
| HT (M) |
1 (10). Thomas Mardal – 73.00 meters (239 feet, 6 inches) | Improved No. 5-ranked mark in Division I; improved No. 2-ranked mark on UF's All-Time Top 10 by 80 centimeters (2 feet, 8 inches) |
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3 (6). AJ McFarland – 70.99 meters (232 feet, 11 inches) | No. 10-ranked mark in Division I; topped season best mark by 77 centimeters (3 feet, 2 inches) |
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5 (4). Anders Eriksson – 69.12 meters (226 feet, 9 inches) | No. 13-ranked mark in Division I |
| JT (W) |
8 (1). Megan Reed – 46.95 meters (154 feet) | First career SEC Championships points |
| Friday, May 10 (* - denotes preliminary; all other events are finals) |
| Event |
Place (Score), Gators – Time / Mark [Wind] | Notes |
| 100m (M)* |
1. Hakim Sani Brown – 10.10 [0.0] | No. 6-ranked time on UF's All-Time Top 10; advanced to final (automatic) |
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3. Raymond Ekevwo – 10.31 [-0.8] | Advanced to final (automatic) |
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14. Ryan Clark – 10.50 [-0.8] |
| 400m (M)* |
6. Benjamin Lobo Vedel – 46.52 | Advanced to final (time); season-best time |
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12. Cole Johnson – 46.83 |
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16. Jabari Hill – 47.25 | Topped personal record by 0.38 seconds |
| 400m (W)* |
5. Sharrika Barnett – 52.12 | Advanced to final (automatic) |
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6. Doneisha Anderson – 52.55 | No. 21-ranked time in Division I; topped personal record by 0.22 seconds; advanced to final (time) |
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12. Taylor Manson – 53.16 |
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27. Lauryn Ghee – 56.37 |
| 1,500m (M)* |
10. Sam Ahrenholz – 3:50.53 |
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18. Justin Pacifico – 3:54.61 |
| 1,500m (W)* |
2. Imogen Barrett – 4:19.33 | Advanced to final (automatic) |
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15. Elisabeth Bergh – 4:29.04 |
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23. Madison Morse – 4:43.30 |
| 110mH (M)* |
1. Grant Holloway – 13.07 [+0.8] | Second-fastest time in collegiate history; Meet Record; Facility Record; Broke own school record by 0.08 seconds; advanced to final (automatic) |
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12. Cory Poole – 13.91 [+0.8] | Tied No. 39-ranked time in Division I |
| 100mH (W)* |
12. Brandee' Johnson – 13.47 [+0.2] |
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14. Timetria Mitchell – 13.56 [+0.2] | Season-best time |
| 3kSC (M) |
6 (3). Trevor Foley – 9:06.59 | First collegiate 3,000-meter steeplechase |
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15. Marshall Dillon – 9:28.64 |
| 3kSC (W) |
16. Grace Blair – 11:03.48 | Season-best time |
| HJ (M) |
4 (5). Clayton Brown – 2.21 meters (7 feet, 3 inches) | Tied No. 9-ranked mark in Division I |
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7 (2). Jhonny Victor – 2.17 meters (7 feet, 1.5 inches) |
| LJ (M) |
6 (3). Holloway – 7.84 meters (25 feet, 8.75 inches) [+0.7] |
| LJ (W) |
1 (10). Yanis David – 6.65 meters (21 feet, 10 inches) [+1.3] | No. 2-ranked mark in Division I; Facility Record; passed final three attempts |
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9. Kala Penn – 6.14 meters (20 feet, 1.75 inches) [+1.8] |
| SP (M) |
5 (4). Connor Bandel – 18.72 meters (61 feet, 5 inches) |
| Heptathlon |
1 (10). Amanda Froeynes – 5,801 points | No. 4-ranked score in Division I; topped personal record and No. 2-ranked score on UF's All-Time Top 10 by 7 points |
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Event-by-Event Heptathlon Scoring (Day 2) |
| LJ |
3. Froeynes – 5.93 meters (19-5.5) [+1.7] | 828 points |
| JT |
1. Froeynes – 43.13 meters (141 feet, 6 inches) | 727 points |
| 800m |
1. Froeynes – 2:11.97 | 936 points; topped personal record by 0.07 seconds |
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Event-by-Event Heptathlon Scoring (Day 1) |
| 100mH |
9. Froeynes – 14.25 [+2.9] | 971 points |
| HJ |
2. Froeynes – 1.70 meters (5 feet, 7 inches) | 855 points |
| SP |
2. Froeynes – 11.81 meters (38 feet, 9 inches) | 649 points |
| 200m |
8. Froeynes – 25.26 [+1.1] | 863 points |
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