RALEIGH, N.C. The ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships came down to the final race to determine both the men’s and women’s champions. Florida State’s men held the slimmest of leads over Clemson with only the 4x400 relay left. Unfortunately, Head Coach Bob Braman wouldn’t have his normal relay team as injuries suffered during the championship to three of the stalwarts meant FSU’s final race would have just one experienced member on the team. FSU fought, just as they had the entire meet on both the men’s and women’s side, but the fourth place relay finish was not good enough to hold onto the championship trophy and the men finished as ACC runners-up by a single point. The Seminole women also had an outstanding conference championship finishing fourth. “It was just a tremendous ACC Championship, one of the best ever,” said Braman. “I am so proud of both our teams. We fought so hard and overcame some really tough breaks with the injuries, but I can’t
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
BATON ROUGE, La. Florida State’s Curtis Williams recorded a personal best and his first-ever collegiate win in the long jump at the LSU Alumni Invitational in Baton Rouge on Saturday. Williams’ leap of 7.87 meters topped an outstanding field, and teammate Jaiden Rollins finished seventh in the event with a top jump of 7.26 meters.
It was an outstanding day all around for the Seminoles who saw several personal best recorded including a win by multiple All-American Jeremiah Davis in the men’s triple jump with a leap of 16.78 meters. In fact, the Noles had a very strong showing in the event with Kyvon Tatham taking sixth with a jump of 15.18 meters just ahead of Xavion Lockwood in seventh at 14.94 meters.
Amir Willis finished second in the men’s 200 meters with a time of 20.30 and Milton Ingraham also finished runner-up in the men’s discus at 58.32 meters.
A pair of Seminole turned in top-level performances in third place finishes with James Rivera clocked at 50
AUBURN, Ala. Milton Ingraham’s win in the men’s discus led Florida State’s track and field throwers at the Auburn Classic on Saturday.
Ingraham, a senior from Miami Gardens, Fla., had the field’s longest throw of 56.68 meters in the discus. Ingraham was second team All-ACC honor in the event as a junior in 2022 and was a first team performer in 2001.
Redshirt sophomore Jacob Hoeffner finished third in the discus with a throw of 49.29 meters.
Riley Simmon finished sixth in the women’s discus with a best effort of 40.06 meters and was ninth in the shot put with a throw of 12.98 meters.
Florida State will host the FSU Relays March 24-25 at Mike Long Track in Tallahassee, Fla., while the Seminole distance runners will travel to Raleigh, N.C. for the Raleigh Relays on the same dates. www.seminoles.com
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A stormy afternoon spoiled the final day of the Pepsi Florida Relays for the Florida State track and field team. Just three Noles competed before the meet was delayed for several hours due to inclement weather.
Jacob Hoeffner, Milton Ingraham and Nick Napier were the lone Noles to compete Saturday morning. Hoeffner finished eighth in the college portion of the discus with a mark of 50.21m. Ingraham finished seventh in the discus invitational with solid throw of 53.94m. The pole vault did not finish before the storm rolled in.
The Noles are next scheduled to compete at the Tom Jones Memorial on Apr. 15-16 in Gainesville, Fla.
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