The Gators need to make room for one more on their flight to
College Station, Texas, next week.
Senior sprinter Terrell Wilks automatically qualified for the NCAA
Indoor Championships at the Virginia Tech Qualifier Saturday.
Wilks tied his personal record and the second-best mark in school
history running the 60-meter dash in 6.59 seconds Saturday.
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“Obviously I’m very pleased with Terrell today,” Florida coach
Mike Holloway said. “He has been battling injuries all season, and
to come back and do what he did today was big.”
Wilks will compete alongside fellow Gator and Southeastern
Conference champion Jeff Demps, who ran the 60-meter dash in a
school-record 6.55 seconds last weekend.
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The women’s 4x400 relay team traveled to the Alex Wilson
Invitational in South Bend, Ind., Saturday and nearly left with an
automatic-qualifying time.
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Florida’s relay team clocked a time of 3:34.61, just short of the
qualifying mark (3:34.00) for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
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“I am very proud of our women’s 4x400 team, running a time that
will surely get them in,” Holloway said.
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Several Gators came close to qualifying, including SEC triple jump
champion Christian Taylor in the long jump and freshman sprinter
Ebony Eutsey in the 400-meter dash.
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Taylor’s 7.53m/24-9.75 mark fell just short (7.90m/25-11) and
Eutsey’s personal-best 53.56 seconds was less than one second off
the automatic qualifying mark (52.60 seconds).
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Jimmy Carnes passes away at 76
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After a three-and-a-half year bout with prostate cancer, former
Florida head coach and USA Track and Field Hall of Famer Jimmy
Carnes passed away at age 76 Saturday.
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Carnes, who coached the Gators from 1964-1976, won two SEC Indoor
Championships in his final two seasons as the head coach in
Gainesville.
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Carnes served as an assistant coach for the 1976 United States
Olympic track and field squad and was the head coach of the 1980
team that was forced to boycott the Moscow Olympics.
