Anna Hall Breaks Heptathlon School Record, Vanessa Watson Makes Finals of 400-Meter Hurdles on Day 2 of Texas Relays

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Anna Hall Breaks Heptathlon School Record, Vanessa Watson Makes Finals of 400-Meter Hurdles on Day 2 of Texas Relays

Thursday, March 24, 2022 | Track and Field

By: Jared Rigdon

AUSTIN, Texas – Anna Hall continued her outstanding 2022 season on Thursday afternoon by posting a personal best 6412 points in the Heptathlon at the Texas Relays.

The Highlands Ranch, Colo. Native set PR's in five of the seven events to shatter the school record in the Heptathlon and put up the fourth-best score in collegiate history.

This comes just two weeks after she won the NCAA Indoor Championship in the Pentathlon in Birmingham.

To close out the two-day event, Hall ran 2:04.61 in the 800 meters. That time set a new collegiate and American record in a Heptathlon 800 meters. Hall's 6412 points makes her the NCAA and World leader so far in the outdoor season.

Sterling Lester set a new Florida PR in the Heptathlon by scoring 5616 points including big-time performances in the Long Jump and 800 meters.

Her mark is the fifth-best in school history and the fifth-best in the NCAA this season.

Vanessa Watson made her Florida debut in her primary event, the 400-meter hurdles. The 2021 NCAA Outdoor qualifier posted a 57.80 in the prelims, the fourth-best mark in the NCAA this season and eighth-best time in school history.

She qualified directly to tomorrow's final with the third-fastest preliminary time.

Collin Sieffert and Miles Green also made their season debut in the 400-meter hurdles. The duo ran 52.61 and 52.80 respectively in the preliminaries.

Zach Godbold made his Florida debut Thursday afternoon in the javelin. He set a new personal best in the event with a mark of 63.60m/208-8 on his final attempt of the day.

The Gators return to the track tomorrow with prelims in the relay events as well as individual event appearances from Edward Shelikoff, Caleb Foster, PJ Austin, Kurt Powdar, Jonathan Miller and Natricia Hooper.

Watson is set to run the finals of the 400-meter hurdles at 5:35 p.m. CST tomorrow evening.

A complete list of results for the Gators at the Texas Relays is below.

Thursday, March 24^th: Texas Relays
Event	Place, Gators – Time / Mark \| Notes
Heptathlon: Final	1. Anna Hall: 6412 \| School Record, Personal Record, No. 1 in NCAA, No. 1 in World, No. 4 in NCAA History, Highest Collegiate Score by an individual at age 21 or younger 5. Sterling Lester: 5616 \| Florida PR, 5^th in School History, No. 5 in NCAA
Heptathlon: Long Jump	1. Anna Hall: 6.23m/20-5.25 (0.9) \| Personal Record 7. Sterling Lester: 5.93m/19-5.5 (1.2) \| Personal Record
Heptathlon: Javelin	6. Anna Hall: 40.98m/134-5 16. Sterling Lester: 30.74/100-10 \| Personal Record
Heptathlon: 800 Meters	1. Anna Hall: 2:04.61 \| Personal Best, NCAA and American Record in Heptathlon 800 meters 4. Sterling Lester: 2:15.02
Javelin (M): Section B	6. Zach Godbold: 63.60m/208-8 \| Personal Record
400 Hurdles (W): Prelims	3. Vanessa Watson: 57.80 \| No. 4 in NCAA, No. 8 in School History, Advances to Finals
400 Hurdles (M): Prelims	18. Collin Sieffert: 52.61 19. Miles Green: 52.80

Raleigh Relays Results
Men's 1500m:
85. Caden Monk: 3:50.05
98. Joe Wester: 3:50.79 | Personal Record
107. Matthew Mule': 3:51.42 | Personal Record
133. Eoin McNally: 3:52.98 | Personal Record
148. Javier Vento: 3:53.98 | Personal Record

Men's 5000m:
128. Cavan Wilson: 14:34.67 | Personal Record
129. Nick Deal: 14:35.35
203. Angel Vicioso: 15:01.39 | Personal Record
204. Ryan Miller: 15:01.69 | Personal Record

Women's 10000m:
84. Gianna Forte: 37:07.03

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