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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 ....
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 Ri ....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida State track and field team will be returning to action at the Vanderbilt invitational this Friday and Saturday. Action will take place at the Commodores Indoor Facility with events starting at 3:30 p.m. on Friday and at 12:45 p.m. on Saturday. ESPN+ will be live streaming the event Previewing the Noles Starting the indoor season off strong, the Seminoles will enter the weekend with the confidence that their hard work is paying off in the record books. Ismael Kone now holds the school record for fastest 60m dash with a mark and personal best of 6.51. Honored as Men's Track ACC Performer of the Week, Kone will compete in the 200m dash this week. As for the jumper’s, ACC Performer of the Week, Jeremiah Davis will return to the runway in the triple jump. Davis jumped an indoor personal best mark of 16.04m in the event at the Clemson Invitational. Curtis Williams, Kyvon Tatham and Jaiden Rollins will all look to improve their long jump marks. Tatham ....
CLEMSON, S.C. - Jeremiah Davis and Ismael Kone ended the day with a bang as each of them posted world-leading marks at the first day of the Clemson Invitational.
Kone broke the school record in the 60m dash with a time of 6.51. Kone's mark is tied for the 11th-fastest mark in NCAA history, and it broke Andre Ewers' and Dentarius Locke's school record. Davis's mark of 8.17m is good enough for third on FSU's all-time list. ....