Category: Women’s Track & Field

Track and field star seeks Gators’ third-ever The Bowerman award

Florida track and field star Jasmine Moore was named one of three finalists for The Bowerman.

Florida track and field star [autotag]Jasmine Moore[/autotag] was named a finalist for The Bowerman, an award given to the top male and female collegiate athletes in her sport. The senior from Grand Prairie, Texas, put up a historic performance for the Gators last season, which landed her among the final three contestants.

Also named were the Texas Longhorns‘ Julian Alfred and Arkansas Razorbacks‘ Britton Wilson.

Moore is one of seven track and field athletes in the program’s history named a Bowerman Finalist and one of three times that a Florida women’s athlete has been named a finalist. Anna Hall was the most recent finalist in 2022, preceded by horizontal jump Yanis David in 2019.

On the men’s side, Christian Taylor was a finalist in 2011, followed by Tony McQuay (2012), Marquis Dendy (2015) and Grant Holloway (2018, 2019). Dendy brought home the trophy in 2015 while Holloway did the same in 2019.

The Bowerman presentation is set to be held on Dec. 14 in Denver, Colorado. and will be broadcast live on RunnerSpace.

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Gators sprinter named Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country Academic All-American of the Year

Another day, another accolade for a Florida Gator.

Florida track and field sprinter Talitha Diggs was named the NCAA Division I Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country Academic All-American of the Year by the College Sports Communicators on Wednesday afternoon. She joined jumper Claire Bryant on the Academic All-American First Team — the first CSC All-American honors of both their careers.

Digg’s also earned the SEC Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year award this season, adding to her other accomplishments which included the 2023 SEC Indoor 400m Champion, while further bolstering her collegiate resume that dates back to 2021.

She is the 2022 World Champion in the 4×400, 2022 USATF Outdoor 400m Champion, 2022 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor 400m Champion, and 2021 SEC Indoor 400m Champion.

Off the track, the junior maintains a 3.67 GPA while double majoring in political science and international studies with a regional focus on Asia. Her academic accolades also include 2021 and 2022 USTFCCCA All-Academic honors, as well as 2021 and 2022 SEC Academic Honor Roll awards.

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Florida’s Jasmine Moore is Indoor National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year

Florida’s track and field program continues to stand out from the rest.

For the second consecutive season, Florida’s track and field athlete [autotag]Jasmine Moore[/autotag] earned the Indoor National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year award presented by the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the organization announced on Monday. The honor puts her in rare company, making her the fourth field athlete to ever win back-to-back awards.

Moore’s standout event is the horizontal jump, in which she became the first woman to ever clear the 15-meter mark in the triple jump as well as the 7-meter mark in the long jump indoors — also making her only the fourth woman ever in indoor or outdoor horizontal jumps to clear these marks.

The senior out of Grand Prairie, Texas, originally competed for Florida’s fierce rivals, the Georgia Bulldogs, before transferring to Gainesville following the 2020-21 season. She has won every SEC and NCAA horizontal jump competition she has participated in as a Gator, giving her six conference crowns and the same number of national titles.

Moore set the American and collegiate record in the triple jump and the collegiate record in the long jump at this year’s NCAA Indoors on her way to her fifth and sixth national title wearing the Orange and Blue. Her final collegiate campaign continues on March 23 and 24 in Tallahassee when Florida kicks off its outdoor campaign at the FSU Relays.

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PHOTOS: Florida women’s track and field team earns 1st outdoor national title

The Gators women’s track and field team matched their male counterparts with a national championship of their own this weekend.

The hardware keeps rolling in as Florida’s women’s track and field team matched its male counterparts by sweeping the NCAA Outdoor National Championships for the program’s first-ever title. It gets even better — the triumph is the second for the squad this season after collecting the indoor trophy in March while also representing the third title this year for head coach [autotag]Mike Holloway[/autotag] and the 12th of his storied career.

Florida’s women also laid claim to all 11 individual titles this year.

Among the notable names who propelled the Orange and Blue into the history books was Jasmine Moore, whose efforts resulted in the first woman in NCAA history to go sweep all four conference and national titles in the horizontal jump events during the same calendar year. Anna Hall also added a title in the heptathlon and Talitha Diggs took home the 400-meter brass.

Below are a few shots from Saturday’s epic championship win for Florida women’s track and field.