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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.

PHOTOS: Florida men’s track and field team earns 5th outdoor national title

The Gators added some more hardware to its illustrious athletic program’s trophy case this weekend.

The Florida men’s track and field team won its fifth outdoor national championship on Saturday thanks to a standout effort by sprinter [autotag]Joseph Fahnbulleh[/autotag], who earned an individual title in both the 100- and 200-meter dash. The Gators finished at the top of the competition for the third time in five years to claim their tenth overall title in program history.

UF legend [autotag]Mike Holloway[/autotag], who also coached the women’s team to a title in 2022 as well as the US Team at the Tokyo Olympics, won the 11th championship of his storied career at the helm of the program. During his 20 years in Gainesville, his team finished in the top five on 27 different occasions out of 38 total championship contests.

In the 100-meter dash, Fahnbulleh set a personal- and school-record time of 19.83, earning him the title in the event for the second straight year. The Gators almost broke their own collegiate record in the 4×400-meter relay in the final event of the meet, falling .35 seconds shy with a time of 2:58.88.

Take a look below at some highlights from Florida men’s track and field’s fifth outdoor title and tenth overall.