Yanick Hart, a hurdler for the Gators from 2014-17, was hired as an Assistant Coach for the program in 2023 after spending 2019 as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2019 season and 2018 as a student assistant coach.
Hart primarily assists ninth-year assistant coach Adrain Mann with the oversight of Florida's hurdlers.
Hart was a 2016 USTFCCCA Indoor All-American in the 60-meter hurdles, as well as a two-time USTFCCCAÂ Outdoor All-American in the 110-meter hurdles (2015, 2016). The Jamaican also finished second in the 60 hurdles final at the 2016 SEC Indoor Championships, earning an All-SEC Second Team nod.
Hart's personal records of 7.71 and 13.58 rank fourth and sixth, respectively, on Florida's All-Time Indoor and Outdoor Top 10s.
In his final year of eligibility (2017), Hart earned a spot on the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll.
Collegiate Career
Yanick Hart’s TFRRS Profile (for top performances and meet results)
2017:Â Did not compete outdoors due to injury, ran one race indoors ... SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2016: USTFCCCA Indoor All-American (60mH) ... USTFCCCA Outdoor All-American (110mH) ... All-SEC Indoor Second Team ... Ran the 60mH preliminaries at NCAA Indoor Championships and NCAA Outdoor Championships ... Runner-up finisher in the 60mH at SEC Indoor Championships, clocking a PR of 7.71 ... Ran a season-best 110mH time and PR of 13.58 at the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary ... Finished eighth in the 110mH at SEC Outdoor Championships ... Won 110mH titles at the Power Conference Cardinal & Gold Meet and UF Tom Jones Memorial.
2015: USTFCCCA Outdoor All-American (110mH) … Finished 16th in the 110mH preliminaries at NCAA Outdoor Championships … Fifth-place finisher in the 60mH at SEC Indoor Championships … Ran the 110mH preliminaries at SEC Outdoor Championships … Took second in the 60mH at the Razorback Invitational, Rod McCravy Memorial and UAB Blazer Invite.
2014: Sixth-place finisher in the 60mH at SEC Indoor Championships … Took third in the 110mH at the FSU Relays … Nabbed a fourth-place finish in the 110mH at the UF Tom Jones Memorial … Finished third in the 60mH at the UAB Blazer Invitational and Texas A&M Invitational … Crossed fourth in the 60mH at the Doc Hale – Virginia Tech Elite Meet.
High School / Prep Career
Competed in Kingston, Jamaica during prep years … Semifinalist in the 110mH at the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships … Third-place finisher in the 110mH at the 2013 ISSA Boys & Girls Championships … Won the 110mH at the 2013 Western Milo Relays … Runner-up finisher in the 110mH at the 2013 Younger GoldSmith Classics … Participated in the 110mH preliminaries at the 2013 CARIFTA Games.
