NEW ORLEANS – Florida horizontal jumper
Yanis David and all-around standout
Grant Holloway were named semifinalists for The Bowerman, collegiate track and field's highest individual honor and the sport's equivalent to the Heisman Trophy. The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced the 10 men's and women's semifinalists
Wednesday and
Thursday.
Florida and LSU are the only programs with a men's and women's semifinalist. The USTFCCCA will name three women's finalists next Wednesday (June 19), followed by three men's finalists next Thursday (June 20).
Holloway, now the second three-time semifinalist in history, gives Florida a nation-leading 12 men's semifinalist recognitions by eight Gators. The Chesapeake, Va., native was one of last year's three finalists, and was a semifinalist as a freshman in 2017.
This is the first such recognition for David, who becomes the third women's semifinalist in school history, joining
Kyra Jefferson (2017) and Mariam Kevkhishvili (2010).
Both David and Holloway turned in historic seasons.
David, the USTFCCCA National Women's Indoor and Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year, won indoor triple jump and outdoor long jump national titles en route to a nation-leading 34 points at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. No other woman reached 29 points this year.
The Lamentin, Guadeloupe native also made history outdoors, as she became the first woman to crack the collegiate all-time top 10 list in both horizontal jumps.
Yanis David's Additional 2019 Achievements
- Posted the third-farthest triple jump mark and No. 2-ranked triple jump performance in collegiate history (14.35 meters / 47 feet, 1 inch) to win the SEC Outdoors title
- Tied the 10th-farthest long jump mark and tied the No. 7-ranked long jump performance in collegiate history (6.84 meters / 22 feet, 5.25 inches) to win the NCAA Outdoors title
- Also posted third-farthest long jump mark in NCAA Outdoors history, with only future Olympic gold medalists Sheila Echols (1987) and Brittney Reese (2008) jumping farther
- Seventh woman in NCAA Outdoors history to score 18-plus points in the horizontal jumps (won long jump, second in triple jump)
- Second woman in history to sweep the horizontal jumps titles at both SEC Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the same year, with the other being Gator Great Shara Proctor (2010)
- Posted four wind-legal triple jumps of 14-plus meters, a distance no other collegian reached this year
- Won NCAA Indoor Championships triple jump title by 20 centimeters
- SEC Women's Indoor and Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year
Holloway, the USTFCCCA National Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, won four individual national titles, set three collegiate records and an American record, and put his name all over the collegiate all-time top 10 lists.
Holloway won his third consecutive 110-meter hurdles national title in 12.98 seconds, breaking Renaldo Nehemiah's 40-year-old collegiate record of 13.00 seconds and tying Americans Mark Crear (1999) and Jason Richardson (2012) for the No. 18 ranking on the world all-time list. The victory also made Holloway the only collegian in history to sweep the indoor and outdoor high hurdles titles three consecutive years.
The same day, Holloway ran the third leg for Florida's collegiate record-breaking 4x100 relay team, which won the NCAA Outdoors title in 37.97 seconds. And he capped it all off with a 43.75-second split for Florida's 4x400 relay team, which finished second and tied the fourth-fastest time in collegiate history (2:59.60).
At the NCAA Indoor Championships, Holloway demolished his own collegiate record and broke a 32-year-old American record to win the 60-meter hurdles, crossing in 7.35 seconds. The time was the fourth-fastest in history and made him the No. 3 performer on the world all-time list.
Holloway also won the 60 meters title, making him the third man in Division I history to complete the straightaway sweep (60 meters, 60-meter hurdles). Even more impressive, he did it with the fastest single-day combined time in the sport's history (13.85 seconds).
Grant Holloway's Additional 2019 Achievements
- Third man in the world to break 13.00 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles since the start of 2016 (Omar McLeod, Sergey Shubenkov)
- Scored second-most individual points in NCAA Indoor Championships history (27.5 – won 60 meters and 60-meter hurdles, third in long jump, third in 4x400 relay)
- Posted five 110 hurdles times that rank among the 11 fastest in collegiate history (12.98 / 13.07 / 13.10 / 13.12 / 13.16), as well as the world-leading time and five of the world's 10 fastest times this year
- Posted four of the six fastest 60 hurdles times in collegiate history (7.35 / 7.43 / 7.44 / 7.44 – fifth man in history to break 7.45 seconds four times in a season), as well as the world-leading time and seven of the world's 10 fastest times this year
- 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)
- Only man in outdoor track and field history to break 13.10 seconds in the 110 hurdles and wind-legally long jump at least 8.00 meters, according to athlete bios maintained by the IAAF
- 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 run 6.51 seconds or faster 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
- Became No. 8 performer on the collegiate all-time top 10 in the 60 meters with a time equal to 10th-fastest in collegiate history (6.50 seconds – broke Jeff Demps' school record)
- Ran the third- and fourth-fastest 60 meters times in the world for 2019 (6.50 / 6.51)
- Broke Marquis Dendy's school record for career individual national titles (eight)
- Scored 28 individual points at SEC Indoor Championships (second man in history to win 60 meters and 60-meter hurdles; took second in long jump), breaking the previous meet record of 22.5
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 (Jan. 16, 1987) / Jackson (Feb. 12, 1994) / Allen Johnson, United States (2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships) / Robles (Feb. 2, 2008) / Terrence Trammell, United States (2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships) – 7.36
Fastest 110 Hurdles Times in the World Since 2016
- McLeod – 12.90 (2017)
- Shubenkov – 12.92 (2018)
- Shubenkov – 12.95 (2018)
- McLeod – 12.96 (2017)
- Shubenkov – 12.97 (2018)
- Grant Holloway (2019) / McLeod (2016) – 12.98
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