TAMPA, Fla. - The Florida State track and field team had a solid performance at the South Florida Invitational Friday afternoon. The Noles picked up two individual titles and one relay title during Friday's action. The 4x100m relay team had a really nice opener. The got their region mark in the books with a really good time under windy conditions, Head Coach Bob Braman said. A good day for our jumpers, but unfortunately, the wind was too strong for those marks to earn them a qualifying spot. The 4x100m relay team of Taylor Banks, Amir Willis, Don'dre Swint and Jo'Vaughn Martin shined, as they ran away with the race in the final 200 meters. The four athletes combined to for a time of 39.26, which is the ninth-fastest time this season in the country and will put the Noles in good position to qualify for the NCAA East Region Preliminaries. The Noles had two jumpers take home individual titles with Jeremiah Davis (long jump) and Jacore Irving (triple jump) each picking up ti
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida State track and field program will be competing at the South Florida Invitational in Tampa, Fla., this Friday. The meet is split over two days with the men competing on Friday and the women competing on Saturday, but the Noles will just be sending a select group of men to compete on Friday. The men's sprinters, Jacore Irving, Jeremiah Davis and Nick Napier will all be competing on Friday. The Noles added this meet to the schedule on Tuesday after weather altered their plans last weekend at the Pepsi Florida Relays. The Noles competed on Friday but only three athletes were able to compete on Saturday before a six hour rain delay. The Noles did not compete following the delay. The biggest group heading down to Tampa will be the men's sprints group. Amir Willis has led that group so far this season with three great performances to start the outdoor season. Willis leads the team in both the 100m dash (10.21) and the 200m dash (20.77). Willis is No
Bryand Rincher - Wilma Rudolph Award Winner TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Bryand Rincher, who helped lead the Florida State Men’s Track and Field Team to the 2021 ACC Outdoor Championship, has been selected as one of six recipients of the 2021 Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award, by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals. The award honors student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in athletics. Rincher will accompany the Seminoles to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship meet in Eugene, Oregon (June 9-12) as an alternate member of the Seminoles’ 4X100 meter relay team. Just after the conclusion of his freshman year in July 2019, Rincher was involved in a grease fire that left much of his body with severe burns and forced him to spend several months in a hospital. In the spring of 2020, he enrolled in classes again at Florid