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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 DeFrand, Amir Wil
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 in Jack