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FSU OPENS TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES
Florida State’s entries at the ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at NC State positioned themselves nearly perfectly on an opening day that featured mostly preliminary events.
Amir Willis blistered the Wolfpack track to win the preliminary heats of the men’s 200 meters with a time of 20.46. He will be joined in the finals by teammate Ismael Kone who placed seventh overall with a time of 20.94. Denzell Feagin’s time of 21.00 put him just out of the upcoming final in ninth place, and Taylor Banks was clocked at 21.21 for 12th place.
2023 ACC Indoor Performer of the Year Jeremiah Davis emerged from the men’s long jump preliminary flights as the favorite with a field-leading 7.94 meter leap. Teammate Curtis Williams will also compete in the finals having finished sixth with a leap of 7.50 meters.
Dajaz DeFrand’s time of 23.11 in the women’s 200 meters ....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State’s track and field program pulled off an upset last year at the ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships and they are hoping for the same kind of performance this year at the conference championships being held at NC State Thursday-Saturday.
“We were picked to finish third in the league on the men’s side last year and fifth on the women’s,” said Head Coach Bob Braman who leads all active ACC coaches with 12 men’s outdoor championships and five women’s titles. “We ended up winning the men’s championship by the largest scoring margin in ACC history and the women were only nine points shy of a title of their own.
“This feels like a similar scenario, but it would be very difficult to have as monstrous a meet as we had last year,” Braman said.
The Seminoles will count on their leaders at the always-challenging conference championships and they have been up to the task all season. Jeremiah Davis, Dajaz ....
Florida State’s track and field team had an exceptional day on Saturday at both the Texas Invitational held on the University of Texas track in Austin and the East Coast Relays held in Jacksonville, Fla. FSU won four of the eight events in which it competed along with three other top three finishes in Texas on the second day of competition and Dajaz Defrand won the women’s 100-meter at UNF.
In Austin, Ismael Kone set a new personal best in winning the 100 meter dash with a time of 9.98. Jeremiah Davis continues to be one of the country's best in the jumps winning the triple jump (he won the long jump yesterday) with a leap of 16.01 meters. Milton Ingraham’s best throw in the discus of 58.95 meters won the event and is the fourth longest throw in Nole history, and the men’s 4 x100 relay team of Taylor Banks, Amir Willis, Denzell Feagin and Ismael Kone blazed through the field for the win in a time of 38.88 which is among the 10 best in school history. And i ....
Florida State’s track & field teams competed at the East Coast Relays in Jacksonville, Fla. on Friday and at the University of Texas for the first day of their two-day meet.
FSU’s men made the 200 meter field at the Texas Invitational look more like the Seminole Invite led by Amir Willis who won with a time of 20.25, which is among the Top 10 best times in FSU history. Right on his heels was teammate Ismael Kone in second place with a time of 20.37. More garnet and gold led the sprint with Denzell Feagin clocked at 20.58 in a fourth place finish and Taylor Banks took seventh with a time of 20.81.
The Seminoles dominated the only other event in which they were entered in Austin with Jeremiah Davis winning the men’s long jump with a leap of 8.02 meters. Jayden Rollins finished 12th with a top leap of 7.03 meters.
At the East Coast Relays held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, James Rivera and Dajaz Defrand recorded individual w ....
GAINESVILLE, Fla. Florida State’s men’s and women’s track teams finished an outstanding first day of competition at the Pepsi Relays in Gainesville, Fla. on Friday. Men’s 400 meter hurdler James Rivera was just edged out at the finish line for the win in the event with a time of 50.84 which gives him an NCAA qualifying mark early in the outdoor season. FSU’s women’s 4x100 relay team posted an NCAA qualifying time of 44.45 with a sixth place finish against the loaded field. Caise-Marie Lindfors had a dramatic lifetime best toss throw of 58.75 meters in the women’s discus good for second place. Curtis Williams’ best jump of 7.78 meters in the men’s long jump was the best of his collegiate career and was good for sixth place in a national-class field. Three Seminoles placed in the women’s 400 meter hurdles led by Tyra Wilson whose time of 57.47 is among the top three collegians at the meet and the top four in the ACC this season. Ava Klein also had an outs ....