COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Florida Gators Track and Field completed day two of the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday, ultimately seeing four more athletes qualify for their respective event finals.
Tomorrow's slate holds 22 event finals, 11 of which will now feature athletes in Orange and Blue.
Highlights
Sprints/Hurdles
Anthaya Charlton qualified by time in the 60m sprint on Friday, and her stellar 7.24 time was the sixth-fastest performance in program history in the event. The Multitalented junior is poised to score for the Gators yet again, after having already tallied 5 points with a fourth-place finish in the long jump on the first day of the meet.
Demaris Waters finished fourth in what would be the fastest 60mH heat of the evening, taking the final spot in Saturday's final with a 7.75 qualifying time.
Florida's representatives in the 400m all set either personal or season bests in the event, with
Rios Prude Jr. and
Nicholas Spikes each breaking into the 46-second range for the first times in their careers.
Mid-distance
Sam Austin, Florida's program indoor 800m record holder, posted the top time of the 800m preliminary round, securing his spot in the final. Last season's SEC indoor 800m bronze medalist fought to an exceptional 27.71 second split in the final 200, over half of a second faster than the rest of his heat in the final lap.
Tia Wilson, already a standout in some of the longer distance events, shined in the preliminaries for the Mile. The English native delivered a 4:40.99 time en route to a win in heat three, the second fastest time in the field. She already holds the eighth-fastest Mile time in program history (4:36.39), and another performance of that caliber could lead her to SEC Gold.
Throws
All three of the Gators' weight throwers progressed to the event's final throws. Johnathan Witte Tallied a point with his eighth-place, 21.37m performance.
Imani Washington set yet another personal best at 20.39m, which gave her a ninth-place finish. Washington's toss continued a streak of five-consecutive personal-best efforts in the Weight Throw, a stretch dating back to last season's SEC Indoor Championships. She has incrementally progressed from 18.43m to today's 20.39m over the course of her exceptional run.
Up Next
The Gators will compete in 11 of Saturday's 22 event finals, starting with the men's Shot Put at 3:30 p.m. ET.
SEC Indoor Championships Day Two Results – Florida Gators Entrants
Friday, February 28
