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Raleigh, N.C. - Florida State’s men’s and women’s teams find themselves in the same eighth place in the team standings going into the final day of the 2023 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships being held on NC State’s campus.
The finals are set in virtually every event with a handful having finished today and two Seminoles earned visits to the podium with top-three finishes on Friday.
Amani Heaven finished second in the women’s shot put with her personal best career throw of 16.98 meters. Caisa-Marie Lindfors finished ninth with a best toss of 15.99 meters.
Jeremiah Davis’ top leap in the men’s triple jump was measured at 16.08 meters good for third place in the ACC. Kayvon Tatham finished seventh with a jump of 15.20 meters.
Alexandra Webster will be in contention for the ACC Championship in the women’s 110 meter hurdles after qualifying with the best time in the field at 13.30. Faith Banks did not reach the finals of the women’s 400 meter after finishing 10th in the preliminaries with a time of 53.26.
A pair of Seminoles finished just one spot away from the podium with Stella Weinberg finishing fourth in the women’s javelin with a top throw of 48.56 and Kayla Pickard who was fourth in the women’s triple jump at 12.72.
Milton Ingraham was fifth in the men’s shot put with a top throw of 17.49.
Suus Altorf’s time of 2:07.63 in the women’s 800 meters put her in 14th place, while Joab Francis and Winston Quinn were clocked at 1:52.04 and 1:52.89, respectively, in the men’s 800 meters.
Ella Madson finished 12th in the ACC in the heptathlon on Friday with 4,773 points. She was 12th in each of the three events (long jump, javelin, 800 meters) on Friday.
Expanded coverage of the championships will be streamed live Saturday via ACC Network Extra from 2 p.m. until the championship’s conclusion at approximately 9 p.m. Steve Schlanger will be on the call, with former Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie returning on color commentary and Hailey Hunter as sideline reporter.
ACC Network will re-air Saturday’s finals on Sunday (May 14) from 8 a.m. until noon.
Flash Results will again score this year’s ACC Championships, and live results may be accessed at https://flashresults.com/2023_Meets/Outdoor/05-11_ACC/.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida State senior Milton Ingraham totaled four throws over 58 meters including his career-best throw of 59.35 meters to win the discus at the 2023 Pepsi Relays in Gainesville, Fla. on Saturday. “It was a solid weekend for the Noles,” Head Coach Bob Braman said. “We had several NCAA Region qualifying performances as well as Top Five ACC marks. “We will have a much-needed weekend off before we return here for the Tom Jones Invitational April 14-15.” Taylor Bank’s fourth place finish in the men’s 100 meter dash with a time of 10.41 was impressive given it was his first outdoor competition of the season. Also finishing among the Top Five in his event was freshman Kynon Tathum who took third in the triple jump with a best leap of 15.38 meters. Amir Willis finished seventh in the men’s 400 meter dash with a lifetime best time of 46.49 which ranks fifth best in the ACC so far this season. James Rivera finished 22nd in the event with a time of 47.40 and Danzell Feagin was 36th clocking in at 49.24. In the women’s 100 meter dash, Kaniya Johnson was FSU’s top entry finishing 18th with a time of 11.85. Jacoria Burton was 34th at 12.38. Suus Altorf led three Seminoles in the women’s 800 meters finishing 22nd with a time of 2:09.38. Checking in at 32nd was teammate Bieke Schipperen (2:11.85) and Yasmine Abbes went 2:14.18 and finished 37th. Amani Heaven’s best throw of 14.37 meters in the women’s shot put took 13th place. Winston Quinn finished first among FSU’s three men’s 800 meter runners with a time of 1:53.05 good for 39th. Joab Francis was 41st (1:53.62) and DaeQwan Butler 51st (1:58.43). --seminoles.com--