Florida Women Win Team Title, Florida Men Sweep Relays at 2022 SEC Outdoor Championships

OXFORD, Miss. –  If there’s one phrase to explain the Florida girls’s monitor and subject staff; it is resilient.
 
Weather delays interrupt prelims on Thursday and Friday? No drawback.
 
Two All-American sprinters get injured? Others step up.
 
In the ultimate two races of the staff competitors, like that they had all weekend, the Gators delivered.
 
Parker Valby shattered the college file within the 5000 meters (15:32.41) to win silver and bag eight essential staff factors as Arkansas and LSU creeped nearer to the highest of the leaderboard.
 
Her race was not solely her first-complete race since January, but it surely was her first collegiate 5000-meter race in the course of the out of doors season.
 
The eight factors from Valby moved Florida again into the lead with a 103-97 benefit over Arkansas heading into the 4×400 relay.
 
Once once more, the Gators delivered.
 
The staff of Taylor Manson, Sterling Lester, Doneisha Anderson and Talitha Diggs crossed the road in near-school file vogue at 3:26.85 to safe 4 factors.
 
Diggs, on her third race in three hours, break up 49.8 to keep up fifth place down the homestretch.
 
A win from Kentucky within the 4×400 ensured the staff victory for Florida with a 107-103 win over the Razorbacks to assert the 2022 SEC Outdoor Championship, the seventh out of doors title in program historical past for Florida’s girls.
 
Florida scored in 12 of the 15 occasions it contested this weekend with 19 wholesome athletes out of the 30 potential allowed to compete for every staff.
 
Imogen Barrett, simply an hour after inserting fifth within the 1500 meters, got here again and set a brand new private greatest of two:01.42 to win gold within the 800 meters.
 
Gabrielle Wilkinson took residence bronze guaranteeing a 1-3 end for the Gators and 16 staff factors.
 
Diggs completed fourth within the 400 meters after which got here again and took bronze within the 200 meters, transferring into No. 2 in class historical past with a run of twenty-two.64.

Sasha Wells (100mH) and Thea Jensen (Shot Put) mixed for 4 factors this weekend.

 

The margin of victory? Four factors.

 

The jumps have at all times been a staple of Florida’s program and this weekend, they have been additional particular.

 

Florida scored 38 factors within the girls’s horizontal jumps together with a gold-medal sweep from Jasmine Moore.

 

The Grand Prairie, Texas native turned the third girl in SEC historical past to go 4-for-4 on convention titles within the Long Jump and Triple Jump in the identical calendar 12 months.

 

The different two, Shara Proctor (2010) and Yanis David (2019), have been additionally Gators.

 

Claire Bryant took bronze within the Long Jump and Natricia Hooper took silver within the Triple Jump.

 

Anna Hall tallied 4 factors within the Long Jump as nicely.

 

Every week after profitable the USATF Heptathlon title, Hall turned in a silver medal within the 400mH to pair together with her efficiency within the Long Jump.

 

Vanessa Watson grabbed 4 factors within the 400mH as nicely.

 

In complete, Florida’s girls gained 10 medals, 4 particular person titles and took the staff trophy again to Gainesville.

 

It was a quick day on the monitor for the Florida males who completed in 4^th place with 78 factors.

 

The 4×100 staff of Dedrick Vanover, Tyler Davis, PJ Austin and Joseph Fahnbulleh proved as soon as once more it is the staff to beat within the occasion.

 

Florida’s quartet of sprinters blew away the sphere in 38.66 to win the SEC Title.

 

The Gators have been considered one of simply 5 groups to get the baton throughout the road and the one staff beneath 39 seconds. Every accomplished 4×100 relay for Florida this season has gone beneath the 39-second threshold.

 

Florida went 1-3-5 within the 400 meters behind Champion Allison’s gold medal in 44.74.

 

Allison swept the SEC titles within the quarter-mile within the indoor and out of doors season and moved into No. 3 in class historical past along with his personal-best run within the finals.

 

Jacory Patterson took Bronze in 45.12 whereas Ryan Willie grabbed fifth in 45.69.

 

Vanover (100 meters) and Fahnbulleh (200 meters) have been every silver-medalists of their respective occasions in opposition to a bevy of proficient sprinters.

 

Sam Austin (800 meters), Jonathan Miller (Triple Jump) and Edward Shelikoff (Discus) every added to Florida’s level complete on Saturday.

 

To shut out the weekend, Florida’s 4×400 relay staff lastly struck gold.

 

After lacking out on the SEC title in the course of the indoor season by .02 seconds and being unable to subject a full-strength quartet at the NCAA Indoor Championships, the Gators lastly bought what was theirs.

 

The staff of Patterson, Willie, Jacob Miley and Allison blazed the monitor in 2:59.44, smashing the meet and facility file and claiming the gold medal.

 

Their mark additionally means this group has run two of the top-five quickest instances in collegiate historical past.

 

Florida now will flip to the NCAA East Prelims in two weeks’ time. That meet serves because the qualifier to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June.

 

Saturday Point Scorers:

– Dedrick Vanover: 100 Meters: 2^nd (8)

– Sasha Wells: 100 Hurdles: 7^th (2)

– Talitha Diggs: 200 Meters: 3^rd (6)

– Joseph Fahnbulleh: 200 Meters: 2^nd (8)

– Talitha Diggs: 400 Meters: 4^th (5)

– Champion Allison: 400 Meters: 1^st (10)

– Jacory Patterson: 400 Meters: 3^rd (6)

– Ryan Willie: 400 Meters: 5^th (4)

– Anna Hall: 400 Hurdles: 2^nd (8)

– Vanessa Watson: 400 Hurdles: 5^th (4)

– Imogen Barrett: 800 Meters: 1^st (10)

– Gabrielle Wilkinson: 800 Meters: 3^rd (6)

– Sam Austin: 800 Meters: 8^th (1)

– Imogen Barrett: 1500 Meters: 5^th (4)

– Parker Valby: 5000 Meters: 2^nd (8)

– Florida Men: 4×100 Relay: 1^st (10)

– Florida Men: 4×400 Relay: 1^st (10)

– Florida Women: 4×400 Relay: 5^th (4)

– Jasmine Moore: Triple Jump: 1^st (10)

– Natricia Hooper: Triple Jump: 2^nd (8)

– Jonathan Miller: Triple Jump: 8^th (1)

– Edward Shelikoff: Discus: 6^th (3)

 

Men’s Team Score (Final)

1. Arkansas: 120

2. Alabama: 114

3. Tennessee: 83

4. Florida: 78

5. Georgia: 75

 

Women’s Team Score (Final)

1. Florida: 107

2. Arkansas: 103

3. LSU: 96.5

4. Kentucky: 85

5. Texas A&M: 74

 

An entire checklist of outcomes for the Gators is under.

 

Saturday, May 14: SEC Outdoor Championships
Event	Place, Gators – Time / Mark | Notes
Discus: Final (W)	9. Thea Jensen: 50.15m/164-06 | Personal Best
Triple Jump: Final (W)	1. Jasmine Moore: 14.46m/47-5.25 (+2.5) | Gold Medal, All Conditions Personal Best 2. Natricia Hooper: 13.74m/45-1 (+1.7) | Silver Medal 11. Alissa Braxton: 12.56m/41-2.5 (+2.2)
Discus: Final (M)	6. Edward Shelikoff: 56.40m/185-0
Triple Jump: Final (M)	8. Jonathan Miller: 15.41m/50-6.75 9. Michael Holloway II: 15.27m/50-1.25
4×100 Relay: Final (M)	1. Florida: 38.66 | Facility Record, Gold Medal – Dedrick Vanover, Tyler Davis, PJ Austin, Joseph Fahnbulleh
1500 Meters: Final (W)	5. Imogen Barrett: 4:14.79
1500 Meters: Final (M)	11. Matthew Mule’: 3:52.47
100mH: Final (W)	7. Sasha Wells: 13.75 DNF. Grace Stark
110mH: Final (M)	DNF. Caleb Foster
400 Meters: Final (W)	4. Talitha Diggs: 51.24 | Season Best
400 Meters: Final (M)	1. Champion Allison: 44.74 | Gold Medal, Facility Record, Personal Best, No. 3 School History, No. 2 NCAA 3. Jacory Patterson: 45.12 | Bronze Medal, Season Best 5. Ryan Willie: 45.69
100 Meters: Final (W)	DNS. Grace Stark
100 Meters: Final (M)	2. Dedrick Vanover: 10.10 (+0.6) | Silver Medal, Personal Record
800 Meters: Final (W)	1. Imogen Barrett: 2:01.42 | Gold Medal, Personal Best 3. Gabrielle Wilkinson: 2:02.73 | Bronze Medal, Season Best
800 Meters: Final (M)	8. Sam Austin: 1:47.87 | Personal Best
400 Hurdles: Final (W)	2. Anna Hall: 55.36 | Silver Medal 5. Vanessa Watson: 56.84
200 Meters: Final (W)	3. Talitha Diggs: 22.64 (+0.2) | Bronze Medal, Personal Best, No. 2 School History
200 Meters: Final (M)	2. Joseph Fahnbulleh: 20.13 (+0.3) | Silver Medal
5000 Meters: Final (W)	2. Parker Valby: 15:32.41 | Silver Medal, School Record, Personal Record, No. 12 NCAA DNS. Pamela O’Brien DNS. Vasileia Spyrou
5000 Meters: Final (M)	16. Nick Deal: 14:31.63 21. Ethan Geiger: 14:39.00
4×400 Relay: Final (W)	5. Florida: 3:26.85 – Taylor Manson, Sterling Lester, Doneisha Anderson, Talitha Diggs
4×400 Relay: Final (M)	1. Florida: 2:59.44 | Gold Medal, Meet Record, Facility Record – Jacory Patterson, Ryan Willie, Jacob Miley, Champion Allison

 
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