Florida Gators

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Behind a barrage of Saturday scoring efforts and one of the greatest single-session performances in the sport's history from Grant Holloway, Florida's men successfully defended its NCAA Indoor Championships team title. For the women, senior Yanis David's first career national title led the Gators to a sixth-place finish, making UF the only program with top-10 finishes by both its men and women.
 
Florida Men's Track & Field All-Time NCAA Championships

• Indoor (5) – 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019
• Outdoor (4) – 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017

 
Notables from an Active Dynasty

• This is Florida's fifth men's team title at NCAA Indoor Championships since 2010, two more than any other Division I program in that span. The Gators' five titles are also the most since 2003, when head coach Mike Holloway took over the men's program.
• Adding in the four outdoor national titles, Florida's nine team titles at NCAA Championships since 2010 lead all of Division I by four titles. The only other programs to win multiple national titles within that span are Oregon (five) and Texas A&M (four).
• Florida's nine overall national titles are also four more than any other program has won since 2003. Only Arkansas, Oregon, and Texas A&M (five apiece) have more than two in that time frame.
• Florida's fifth NCAA Indoor Championships victory breaks a tie with Oregon for the third-most titles in the event's history, only trailing UTEP (seven) and Arkansas (20).
• Florida's ninth all-time national title breaks a tie with UCLA for the fifth-highest total in NCAA Championships history.
• Coach Holloway's nine men's national titles are the fifth-highest total in Division I history, only sitting behind LSU and Texas A&M's Pat Henry (10), UTEP's Ted Banks (11), Southern California's Dean Cromwell (12), and Arkansas' John McDonnell (29).
• Coach Holloway joins Banks and McDonnell as the only men's coaches in Division I history to win five NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Florida's men finished second or won the title at 22 of 33 NCAA Championships (66.7 percent) Holloway has been head coach for. No other program has more than nine top-two finishes in that span (2003-19).

 
Holloway, the junior all-around sensation, had an evening that will go down as one of the greatest in not just collegiate history, but the history of indoor track and field. Within 40 minutes, Holloway became the third man in history to sweep the straightaway events (60 meters and 60-meter hurdles), highlighted by an all-timer in the hurdles, his signature event.
 
Holloway's Historic Night

• Won the hurdles title with a time of 7.35 seconds, breaking the American record of 7.36 held by Greg Foster (1987), Allen Johnson (2004), and Terrence Trammell (2010).
• The time was also the fourth-fastest in indoor track and field history and made him the No. 3-ranked performer on the world all-time 60 hurdles list, only trailing Great Britain's Colin Jackson (7.30) and Cuba's Dayron Robles (7.33; 7.34).
• Holloway became the first man in Division I history to win three high hurdles titles, as he claimed the crown each of the last three seasons.
• Holloway joined South Carolina's Terrence Trammell (2000) and Tennessee's Willie Gault (1983) as the only men to sweep the 60 hurdles and 60 meters titles at NCAA Indoors (Gault did it in the 55-meter hurdles and 55 meters, the distance run prior to 1999).
• Holloway's winning time in the 60 meters (6.50 seconds) broke his own school record of 6.51 and moved him into a tie for No. 8 on the collegiate all-time top 10; he also tied the 10th-fastest time in collegiate history.
• Including his third-place finish in the long jump Friday and his run for Florida's third-place 4x400 relay team, Holloway totaled 27.5 points, the second-highest individual total in NCAA Indoors history, only behind Edward Cheserek's 28 for Oregon in 2017.
• Holloway also moved to fourth on the career NCAA Indoors scoring list, as his 59 career points only sit behind Cheserek's 91, Suleiman Nyambui of UTEP's 78, and Erick Walder of Arkansas' 60.

 
David captured the fourth indoor triple jump national title in program history, as she bounded to 14.03 meters (46 feet, 0.5 inches) on her sixth and final attempt to win the title by 20 centimeters. In David's six-jump series, she posted four jumps good enough to win the title.
 
Florida's men opened the day with eight points in two field events, well before anyone took the track. Redshirt senior AJ McFarland tied Jeremy Postin (2012) for the highest weight throw finish in school history, placing fourth. Sophomore Thomas Mardal took seventh in the weight, which marked the third-highest finish in school history. Redshirt senior Jhonny Victor finished eighth in the high jump, marking the third time he's scored at a national meet (and he entered all three not projected to score at all).
 
While Holloway took the 60 meters title, sophomore Hakim Sani Brown collected bronze and senior Ryan Clark scored his first career individual points at a national meet with a sixth-place finish. Holloway and Sani Brown became just the third pair of teammates since 2003 to finish in the top three, joining LSU (2008) and Clemson (2007).
 
The Gators also got points from junior jumper Clayton Brown and sophomore quarter-miler Benjamin Lobo Vedel. Brown placed fifth in the triple jump with a 12-centimeter season best, while Lobo Vedel clocked a personal best of 46.07 seconds to finish seventh overall and take over the No. 10 spot on the program's All-Time Indoor Top 10 list.
 
University of Florida National Championship Notes

• Florida is one of two programs to win at least one team national title each of the last 11 seasons, and this is the 20th national title in that span.
• The Gators' 20 national titles in the last 11 seasons only trail Stanford's 23. Oregon is the next-closest program, boasting 19.
• This is the 41st national title for the Gators' program.
• Fourteen different Gators sports have won national titles, which is the nation's fourth-largest array of sport titles for a program (and highest east of Mississippi).
• Florida is the only Southeastern Conference program to win team national titles in 10 or more sports.

 
NCAA Indoor Championships Meet Information (all times Eastern)

• Results (FlashResults)
• Day One Recap
• Television Replays: Sunday, March 10 – 7 p.m. (ESPN); Monday, March 11 – 9 pm. (ESPNU)
• Meet Notes (PDF)
• Venue: Birmingham CrossPlex (Birmingham, Ala.)
• Photo Gallery

 

Saturday, March 9 (all events are finals)
Event	Place (Score), Gators – Time / Mark | Notes
60m (M)	1 (10). Grant Holloway – 6.50 | Tied No. 8 performer in collegiate history; tied 10th-fastest time in collegiate history; fourth title in school history
	3 (6). Hakim Sani Brown – 6.55
	6 (3). Ryan Clark – 6.61 | Tied own No. 7-ranked time on UF's All-Time Top 10
400m (M)	7 (2). Benjamin Lobo Vedel – 46.07 | No. 10-ranked time on UF's All-Time Top 10
400m (W)	8 (1). Sharrika Barnett – 53.32
60mH (M)	1 (10). Holloway – 7.35 | No. 3 performer in indoor track and field history; fourth-fastest time in indoor track and field history; American record; collegiate record; third consecutive title; fourth title in school history
4x400 (M)	3 (6). Lobo Vedel-Holloway-Clark-Chantz Sawyers – 3:05.24
4x400 (W)	5 (4). Taylor Manson-Nikki Stephens-Barnett-Doneisha Anderson – 3:32.02
HJ (M)	8 (1). Jhonny Victor – 2.20 meters (7 feet, 2.5 inches) | Has scored at all three career NCAA meets, though previous two were outdoors
TJ (M)	5 (4). Clayton Brown – 16.41 meters (53 feet, 10.25 inches) | Season-best mark
TJ (W)	1 (10). Yanis David – 14.03 meters (46 feet, 0.5 inches) | Fourth title in school history, first since Ciarra Brewer in 2015
WT (M)	4 (5). AJ McFarland – 22.51 meters (73 feet, 10.25 inches) | Tied highest finish in school history
	7 (2). Thomas Mardal – 21.93 meters (71 feet, 11.5 inches) | Third-highest finish in school history

Friday, March 8 (only scorers listed – see Day One Recap for full results)
Event	Place (Score), Gators – Time / Mark | Notes
LJ (M)	3 (6). Holloway – 7.95 meters (26 feet, 1 inch) | Passed final three jumps
LJ (W)	3 (6). Yanis David – 6.43 meters (21 feet, 1.25 inches) | Highest long jump finish at an NCAA Championship

Top 5 Men's Teams
Place	Team – Points
1.	No. 2 Florida – 55
2.	No. 6 Houston – 44
3.	No. 3 LSU – 31
t-4.	No. 14 Stanford – 30
	No. 7 Wisconsin – 30

Top 5 Women's Teams
Place	Team – Points
1.	No. 1 Arkansas – 62
2.	No. 2 Southern California – 51
3.	No. 8 Oregon – 32
4.	No. 4 Ohio State – 28
5.	No. 5 New Mexico – 23
6.	No. 6 Florida – 21

 
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