Gamecocks Travel to Gainesville for Pepsi Florida Relays

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 30, 2023) – South Carolina Monitor & Discipline is headed to Gainesville for the primary of two meets that the Gamecocks will compete in on the College of Florida. First up on the docket is the 2023 Pepsi Florida Relays that can happen on Friday, March 31 and conclude on Saturday, April 1.

Observe the Meet
Reside outcomes for the Florida Relays may be discovered by clicking the next hyperlink. There will even be a hyperlink to stay streaming of the meet (hyperlink to come back later). Streaming on Friday will start at 4:05 p.m. with the ladies’s 1500m and can run till the conclusion of the opening day. Saturday’s stream will start at 12:55 and proceed by way of the 4x400m relays. Followers also can observe together with updates on Twitter by following @GamecockTrack.

Meet Data
The Florida Relays will include 32 groups and might be a two-day meet held at Percy Beard Monitor at James G. Pressly Stadium. Collegiate competitors is about to start on Friday at 11 a.m. with the ladies’s hammer throw. The primary monitor occasion on Saturday would be the ladies’s 4x800m relay at 11:40 a.m. Saturday will start with males’s discus at 9 a.m. and the primary working occasion at 10:30 a.m. in type of the 4x200m relays.

Coaches Nook
Competing within the annual Florida Relays:
“The Florida Relays is a meet that’s identified nationwide, even to those that aren’t essentially ‘monitor’ individuals. Annually this meet produces sturdy competitors and pushes us to be higher than we had been once we arrived. I anticipate this 12 months to be no totally different. We’re coming off of a very good residence meet on the Weems Baskin Relays and we gained occasions we would have liked to win and set sturdy requirements within the East Area. I’m excited to see how our group responds to such a high-quality meet in Gainesville and I do know they are going to be up for the problem.”

Successful on the Weems
South Carolina is coming off a powerful efficiency on the 2023 Weems Baskin Relays, successful 14 total occasions. On day one, the Gamecocks gained three relays and one particular person title. The lads’s 4x800m relay of George Luke, Jackson Dawson, Jake Mangione and Alex Galbraith set a brand new Cregger Monitor facility report after they crossed the end line in 7:43.13. The ladies made it a clear 4x800m sweep as Savannah Bowers, Emily Pierontoni, Emily Smith and Ally Wilson captured the rostrum with a time of 9:18.26.

Saturday noticed 10 extra wins of Carolina, together with seven particular person titles. On the lads’s aspect, Evan Miller dominated within the males’s 400m with an NCAA-best time of 45.60. Filip Demsar additionally set an NCAA-leading mark within the males’s 110m hurdle when he ran a private greatest 13.67 (1.1). Dylan Targgart posted the second-best shot put mark within the East Area when he tossed a brand new private report of 19.42m (63-8.75).

There have been 4 particular person wins on the ladies’s aspect on Saturday, together with Jayla Jamison within the ladies’s 100m with a time of 11.44 (1.2). Becoming a member of Jamison within the winners column was Jahnile Registre within the ladies’s 200m, working 23.76 (1.5). Kieley Gayle and Brooke Donoghue every picked up wins of their respective occasions with Gayle successful the 800m (2:12.52) and Donoghue capturing the open 1500m victory (4:41.72).