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
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
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State’s annual FSU Relays kicked off Thursday at Mike Long Track in Tallahassee, Fla. With the majority of the events set for Friday, the Seminole men’s and women’s teams will go into the final day in fine shape.
Senior Amani Heaven was FSU’s top finisher winning the women’s shot put with a throw of 16.84 meters. A second team All-America in the event at the 2022 NCAA Championships as a junior, Heaven finished second in the shot put at the ACC Indoor Championships last month. Her winning throw was a personal best.
A trio of Seminoles finished second in their Thursday events. Tallahassee native Curtis William’s 7.59 meter long jump was second best in the men’s field and junior Faith Banks was runner-up in the women’s 200 meters with a personal best time of 23.60. Riley Bahr was second in the 5,000 meters at 17:13.01.
Sophomore Riley Simmons, from Bradenton, Fla., was seventh in the women’s hammer throw with a best effort