Tag: Track and Field

Jacious Sears named USTAF Athlete of the Week

Lay Vols’ senior sprinter named USTAF Athlete of the Week.

Lady Vols’ senior sprinter Jacious Sears was named USA Track and Field Athlete of the Week after her performance on April 13 at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational in Gainesville, Florida.

Sears recorded a historic finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.77 seconds, her first individual race of the 2024 outdoor season.

Sears’ mark in the event ranks as the second fastest time in collegiate history and is 0.02 seconds behind the fastest time recorded in the 100-meter dash. The fastest time of 10.75 seconds is held by reigning world champion Sha’Carri Richardson.

Sears also broke her own school record in the event and established the world lead for 2024 by 0.17 seconds.

A native of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Sears now ranks No. 15 on the all time world list and No. 7 on the United States all time list.

She is also the first collegiate athlete to post a sub-10.800 time in the 100-meter dash.

Jacious Sears named SEC Runner of the Week

Tennessee’s Jacious Sears named SEC Runner of the Week.

Tennessee senior sprinter Jacious Sears was named Southeastern Conference Runner of the Week.

Sears earned the award for a second time this season.

She won the 60-meter and 200-meter dash at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On Saturday, Sears won the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.09, the second fastest mark in the NCAA this season. Her time is also the No. 7 time on the 2024 World Athletics top list. She ran the event in 7.18 seconds during the preliminaries.

In the 200-meter dash on Friday, Sears recorded a season-best time of 22.57, which is the No. 3 time recorded in the world this season. It is also the fastest time recorded in the NCAA this season in all conditions.

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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