March 4, 2021 - by Jodie Judd Sixteen Noles Advance To NCAA Indoor Championship
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – After a successful ACC Championships, the good news keeps on coming for the Florida State track and field team. It has been released that sixteen Seminoles have earned their spots to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas which will take place March 11-13.
“I’m really proud of our athletes and coaches for doing such a great job under such trying conditions,” said Head Coach Bob Braman.”This is one of the largest groups of athletes that we’ve ever had qualify for Indoor Nationals. The sixteen individual athletes is more than double any other Track and Field program in the ACC, so we’re really proud of that.”
CLEMSON, S.C. – The Florida State track and field team competed in the third and final day of the 2021 Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship. The women put on an impressive display to claim the ACC crown by scoring an amazing 95 points on the final day to jump and take first place. The men’s team claimed third place behind Virginia Tech and the University of North Carolina.
Florida State captured its fourth ACC women’s indoor championship, all of which have come under current head coach Bob Braman since 2009. The Seminoles have placed first in the last three women’s championships held at Clemson – 2014, 2018 and this season – and their four total ACC titles rank third in league history.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s team wanted more than a third-place finish at the Big Ten indoor championships, but team members will return home with a feeling of pride knowing they competed and performed with outstanding effort on Saturday at the SPIRE Institute, in Geneva, Ohio.
Ohio State was in sixth-place with 17 points entering the day, but the team scored 66 points to trail only Iowa, with 119 points and Indiana, with 92. Ohio State finished with 83 points. The Ohio State women finished in eighth place with 42 total points. Iowa won the men’s championships and Minnesota won the women’s.
Shawn Price February 26, 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Razorbacks scored 25 points on the second day of the SEC Indoor Championships, while advancing 18 entrants to Saturday finals at Randal Tyson Track Center.
“That’s beyond any expectations, to say the least,” said Arkansas women’s head coach Lance Harter. “The SEC is so loaded and talented, and to be able to step up in very challenging prelims and have 18 of 19 entrants advance that is beyond any person’s wildest dreams.
“We had some kids run some lifetime bests, and definitely season best marks. So, the number of scoring opportunities we have tomorrow are better than anyone else here. The kids did a great job today to take care of tomorrow.”
Shawn Price February 25, 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – G’Auna Edwards and the Razorback distance medley relay both claimed bronze medals as the SEC Indoor Championships started Thursday inside the Randal Tyson Track Center.
Edwards produced a career best score of 4,068 points in the pentathlon to finish third behind the winning score of 4,521 points by Georgia’s Anna Hall and 4,095 for runner-up Sterling Lester of Florida. Edwards improved her previous best score of 4,047 and remains at No. 10 on the Arkansas all-time list.
“I think I still have something left to PR again at nationals,” said Edwards, who set her previous best last season in earning a bronze medal at the SEC Indoor. “Effort and execute, with no excuses.”