NCAA CHOMP-ions again! Florida claimed its second consecutive NCAA Indoor Track & Field national team title in 2019. The national title led 11 Gators team that finished among the nation's top 10 as Florida took third in the Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup all-sports standings.
Gator Athletics Program Third in the Nation
Friday, June 28, 2019 | General
This is Florida's 11th consecutive top-five Learfield IMG College Sports Directors’ Cup finish.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A NCAA title led 11 top-10 team finishes as the University of Florida athletics program took third in the 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup standings. This is Florida's 11th consecutive top-five national all-sports finish.
Florida is the only program to finish among the nation's top 10 in each of the last 36 national all-sports standings.
Florida's Top-10 Finishes:
The men's indoor track & field team claimed the NCAA Championship at the 2019 event, held in Birmingham, Ala. It was Florida's second consecutive and fifth overall indoor title. Florida boasts nine NCAA track & field team titles since 2010—a total that leads all of Division I programs by four during that span.
This is the 11th consecutive season with a Gators team winning a national team title. Florida is one of three programs with a national title each year since the 2008-09 season. UF has 20 championships in that span.
This season, 11 Gators teams placed among the nation's final top 10. This is the 18th consecutive season 10 or more Gators teams were among the nation's top 10. Here's the complete list of Gators top-10 teams:
Florida is the only program to finish among the nation's top 10 in each of the last 36 national all-sports standings.
Florida's Top-10 Finishes:
The men's indoor track & field team claimed the NCAA Championship at the 2019 event, held in Birmingham, Ala. It was Florida's second consecutive and fifth overall indoor title. Florida boasts nine NCAA track & field team titles since 2010—a total that leads all of Division I programs by four during that span.
This is the 11th consecutive season with a Gators team winning a national team title. Florida is one of three programs with a national title each year since the 2008-09 season. UF has 20 championships in that span.
This season, 11 Gators teams placed among the nation's final top 10. This is the 18th consecutive season 10 or more Gators teams were among the nation's top 10. Here's the complete list of Gators top-10 teams:
- Men's Indoor Track & Field (No. 1)
- Men's Outdoor Track & Field (No. 2)
- Men's Tennis (No. T-3)
- Football (No. 6)
- Men's Swimming & Diving (No. 6)
- Women's Indoor Track & Field (No. 6)
- Women's Outdoor Track & Field (No. 6)
- Softball (No. T-7)
- Gymnastics (No. T-9)
- Lacrosse (No. T-9)
- Volleyball (No. T-9)
| 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup Standings | ||
| Rank | School | Points |
| 1. | Stanford | 1567.75 |
| 2. | Michigan | 1272.25 |
| 3. | FLORIDA | 1156.75 |
| 4. | Texas | 1148.50 |
| 5. | Southern California | 1075.75 |
| 6. | UCLA | 1056.50 |
| 7. | Florida State | 1046.25 |
| 8. | Virginia | 1037.50 |
| 9. | Duke | 1001.00 |
| 10. | North Carolina | 987.00 |
About The Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup
The Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup, presented annually by the nation's athletics directors, recognizes the schools with the best overall sports performances in an academic year. The scoring system uses finishes in NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball, baseball and women's volleyball championship action. Additionally, a program can receive points in up to 15 other sports toward its final score. Stanford received its 25th consecutive Directors' Cup at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) convention in June.
In the last 11 seasons, 15 different programs appeared among the Directors' Cup final top five. Only Florida and Stanford appear in each top five since 2008-09, with Southern California (6) earning the next highest number of top-five finishes in that span.
UF Athletics Director Scott Stricklin says:
"The numerous strong finishes by Gator teams – including another NCAA title by men's indoor track & field – led to another third-place finish in the Learfield IMG College Directors' Cup. Every day our staff strives to provide Florida student-athletes, coaches and fans a championship experience with integrity. All Gators should take pride in having a top-five athletic program at a school striving to be among America's top-five public universities." – UF Athletics Director Scott Stricklin
2019 Individual NCAA Champions for the Gators:
Six Gators claimed seven NCAA individual titles in 2019.
Alicia Boren closed her Gator career with a share of the NCAA title in her signature event, the floor exercise. Florida is the nation's only program to have a gymnast claim at least one NCAA individual event title each of the last nine seasons.
Junior Grant Holloway won three individual NCAA titles and ran a leg on UF's collegiate record-setting 4x100-meter relay. Holloway joined Raymond Ekevwo, Hakim Sani Brown and Ryan Clark on the relay that shattered the collegiate record, posting the first sub-38 second time in NCAA history. The time of 37.97 gave Florida its seventh 4x100 title – with all coming since 2000, and giving it a nation-leading total in that span.
Holloway returned to the track 40 minutes later to break the 40-year-old collegiate record and win his third consecutive 110-meter hurdles title, with a clocking of 12.98 seconds. He is the first in Division I history to win three consecutive indoor 60-meter hurdles and outdoor 110-meter hurdles NCAA titles.
At the NCAA Indoor meet, he became the third man in history to sweep the straightaway events (60 meters and 60-meter hurdles). He set an American and collegiate record (7.35) with his 60 hurdles win. Holloway returned to the track less than an hour later to break his own school record and win the 60 meters title (6.50). His eight NCAA titles (seven individual, one relay) in a three-year span sets Florida's career record, usurping the seven titles Marquis Dendy claimed from 2013-15.
Senior jumper Yanis David was golden at both NCAA Indoors and Outdoors. At NCAA Indoors, she posted four marks good enough to win the title but it was her final attempt of 14.03 meters (46 feet, 0.5 inches) that gave David the triple jump crown. Three months later, she set a Gators record with her leap of 6.84 meters (22 fee, 5.25 inches), which secured the school's first outdoor women's long jump national title. David also became the only woman on the current collegiate all-time outdoor top 10 lists for both horizontal jumps.
Other Gator successes:
Two Gators earned double 2019 national athlete of the year honors from U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association:
Earlier this week, Davis was in Los Angeles to claim the Honda Award as the season's top female track & field collegiate athlete.
Florida's four Southeastern Conference titles (gymnastics, men's swimming & diving, men's tennis, men's indoor track & field) shared the league high in 2018-19.
In addition, the lacrosse team swept the American Athletic regular-season and tournament titles in its first season in the league. Softball won its second consecutive SEC tournament title in 2019.
Seven Gators picked up eight conference athlete of the year honors in 2018-19:
The Learfield IMG College Sports Directors' Cup, presented annually by the nation's athletics directors, recognizes the schools with the best overall sports performances in an academic year. The scoring system uses finishes in NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball, baseball and women's volleyball championship action. Additionally, a program can receive points in up to 15 other sports toward its final score. Stanford received its 25th consecutive Directors' Cup at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) convention in June.
In the last 11 seasons, 15 different programs appeared among the Directors' Cup final top five. Only Florida and Stanford appear in each top five since 2008-09, with Southern California (6) earning the next highest number of top-five finishes in that span.
UF Athletics Director Scott Stricklin says:
"The numerous strong finishes by Gator teams – including another NCAA title by men's indoor track & field – led to another third-place finish in the Learfield IMG College Directors' Cup. Every day our staff strives to provide Florida student-athletes, coaches and fans a championship experience with integrity. All Gators should take pride in having a top-five athletic program at a school striving to be among America's top-five public universities." – UF Athletics Director Scott Stricklin
2019 Individual NCAA Champions for the Gators:
Six Gators claimed seven NCAA individual titles in 2019.
Alicia Boren closed her Gator career with a share of the NCAA title in her signature event, the floor exercise. Florida is the nation's only program to have a gymnast claim at least one NCAA individual event title each of the last nine seasons.
Junior Grant Holloway won three individual NCAA titles and ran a leg on UF's collegiate record-setting 4x100-meter relay. Holloway joined Raymond Ekevwo, Hakim Sani Brown and Ryan Clark on the relay that shattered the collegiate record, posting the first sub-38 second time in NCAA history. The time of 37.97 gave Florida its seventh 4x100 title – with all coming since 2000, and giving it a nation-leading total in that span.
Holloway returned to the track 40 minutes later to break the 40-year-old collegiate record and win his third consecutive 110-meter hurdles title, with a clocking of 12.98 seconds. He is the first in Division I history to win three consecutive indoor 60-meter hurdles and outdoor 110-meter hurdles NCAA titles.
At the NCAA Indoor meet, he became the third man in history to sweep the straightaway events (60 meters and 60-meter hurdles). He set an American and collegiate record (7.35) with his 60 hurdles win. Holloway returned to the track less than an hour later to break his own school record and win the 60 meters title (6.50). His eight NCAA titles (seven individual, one relay) in a three-year span sets Florida's career record, usurping the seven titles Marquis Dendy claimed from 2013-15.
Senior jumper Yanis David was golden at both NCAA Indoors and Outdoors. At NCAA Indoors, she posted four marks good enough to win the title but it was her final attempt of 14.03 meters (46 feet, 0.5 inches) that gave David the triple jump crown. Three months later, she set a Gators record with her leap of 6.84 meters (22 fee, 5.25 inches), which secured the school's first outdoor women's long jump national title. David also became the only woman on the current collegiate all-time outdoor top 10 lists for both horizontal jumps.
Other Gator successes:
Two Gators earned double 2019 national athlete of the year honors from U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association:
| Yanis Davis | USTFCCCA D1 Indoor & Outdoor Field Athlete of Year |
| Grant Holloway | USTFCCCA D1 Indoor & Outdoor Track Athlete of Year |
Earlier this week, Davis was in Los Angeles to claim the Honda Award as the season's top female track & field collegiate athlete.
Florida's four Southeastern Conference titles (gymnastics, men's swimming & diving, men's tennis, men's indoor track & field) shared the league high in 2018-19.
In addition, the lacrosse team swept the American Athletic regular-season and tournament titles in its first season in the league. Softball won its second consecutive SEC tournament title in 2019.
Seven Gators picked up eight conference athlete of the year honors in 2018-19:
| Yanis David | SEC Indoor & Outdoor Field Athlete of Year | |
| Jessica Pascoe | SEC Cross Country Runner of the Year | |
| Haley Hicklin | American Athletic Lacrosse Goalkeeper of the Year | |
| Grant Holloway | SEC Indoor Runner of the Year | |
| Shannon Kavanagh | American Athletic Lacrosse Midfielder of the Year | |
| Lindsey Ronbeck | American Athletic Lacrosse Attacker of the Year | |
| Cara Trombetta | American Athletic Lacrosse Defender of the Year |
| Gators by the Numbers |
| 1 NCAA team title (men's indoor track & field) marks the 11th straight season a Gator team won a national team title. Florida has won 20 national team titles since the 2008-09 season. |
| 11 top-10 national team finishes. 18th consecutive season 10 or more Gator teams among final top 10. |
| 5 conference titles by the Gators in 2018-19, including 4 Southeastern Conference wins. |
| 2 Gators picked up national athlete of the year awards. 10th consecutive season a Gator named national athlete of year, with 20 different Gators honored in that span. |
| 7 conference athlete of the year honors claimed by Gators |
| 85 percent Graduation Success Rate for UF, as reported last fall in the 2018 NCAA Federal Graduation Rate Data. All Gator teams are in good academic standing in latest Academic Progress Report released earlier by the NCAA earlier this spring. |
| 3.12 grade point average by Gator student-athletes in 2018-19 academic year |
| 423 student-athletes participated in 3,772 hours of community service in 2018-19, partnering with 90 organizations, including 20 Alachua County schools |
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