These girls got it goin' on
After a promising first season in garnet and gold, Armani Wallace is looking like right at home in red, white and blue. (via Seminoles.com)
The Bolles girls picked up their fourth consecutive 2A crown in 2015 and are the favorites again for number five in 2016. Winter Park has a very strong team as well with a team average under 19 minutes (18:58.44). We rank the top 100 boys team regardless of class heading into the 2016. See where your squad stacks up.
The Trinity Prep boys went undefeated all the way to the Cross Country Finals claiming their third 2A state title in a row. in 2015. The Saints lose three of their top seven, but have the depth needed to make it a four peat. We rank the top 100 boys team regardless of class heading into the 2016. See where your squad stacks up.
Jamal Walton is comfortable on the international stage. As an eighth grader, Walton competed in his hometown of the Cayman Islands at the Cayman Invitational and since then has run at the CAC Junior Games, CARIFTA Games, 2014 IAAF World Junior Championship, and 2015 IAAF World Youth Championships where he placed 4th in a PR of 45.99. This week he will compete in the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Poland where he will face one of the most challenging fields in his career.
Cross country season is less than one month away. We want to know how the summer training is going? Are you running on your own? Running with your team? We want to hear about your training!
Ocoee senior Nathalya McMillion isn't ranked first in any of the sprint categories, not even in the top five. However, her improvement in the 100 and 200 since her freshman year is astounding. In the 200, she went from a SB of 26.98 in 2013 to 24.52 in 2016. In the 100, she improved over a second in that time span running 13.12 to 11.88. Scroll through to see the top 100 senior girl in each sprint event and see how they've progressed over four years!
Lakewood's Terence Ware recorded the fourth fastest time of any senior this season in the 100m dash. What's even more impressive is that his PR was 12.06 as a freshman! Scroll through to see the top 100 senior boys in each sprint event and see how they've progressed over four years!
Two former Seminoles and Florida high school standouts Kendal Williams (UGA) and Kali-Davis White (Tennessee) brought home gold medals along with the 4x1 and 4x400m relays at the 2016 NACAC U23 Champions in San Salvador, El Salvador. The relays brought together some of the Sunshine State's best athletes who competed for state titles several years ago and are now working together in international competition.
Katia Seymour and Tyrese Cooper proved just how fast Florida really is bringing home a combined five gold medals in the sprints and a record setting final day for Sunshine State athletes at the AAU National Club Championships.
UF signee and Miami Northwestern standout Timetria Mitchell improved nearly a second in the 100m hurdles and over four seconds in the 300m hurdles since her freshman year. Scroll through to see the top 100 senior girls in each hurdle event and see how they've progressed over four years!
University of Oregon signee Braxton Canady has rose to one of the best hurdlers in the state and in the nation at both the 110 and 300m distance. Scroll through to see the top 100 senior boys in each hurdle event and see how they've progressed over four years!
Watch the 2016 AAU Club Nationals LIVE from Orlando, Florida.
The 2015-2016 school year has provided some great highlights in both cross country and track across the Sunshine State. In the coming weeks many of our seniors will head out to start their college careers both athletically and academically. We wanted to salute them one more time in this special feature and say thank you for your support over the years.
Amuru Patterson and Katia Seymour, two of the top class of 2017 sprinters in the state of the Florida and the United States will face off for the first time at 200m in their careers Saturday at the AAU National Club Championship. Let's take a further look at this match up.
Oklahoma State signee Sinclaire Johnson improved over 23 seconds in the 1,600m since her freshman year and over eight seconds in the 800m run.Scroll through to see the top 100 senior girls in each distance event and see how they've progressed over four years!
Air Force Academy signee Jordan Armstrong improved over a minute in the 3,200m since his freshman year and over 17 seconds in the 1,600m run.Scroll through to see the top 100 senior boys in each distance event and see how they've progressed over four years!
The 2015-2016 school year has provided some great highlights in both cross country and track across the Sunshine State. In the coming weeks many of our seniors will head out to start their college careers both athletically and academically. We wanted to salute them one more time in this special feature and say thank you for your support over the years.
The heart of Jacksonville will become a make shift pole vault hub on Saturday. The JAC Street Vault will be held at the Jacksonville Landing and welcome over 70 athletes including the best from Florida, Georgia, and even an entrant from Egypt!
FSU signee Nicole Breske of Winter Park won the pole vault while freshman phenom Tyrese Cooper broke another meet record at AAU National Club Championships to highlight Thursday's action in Orlando.
Someone asked me today when does the track season and the summer end? My response "it ends?" With the Olympic Trials in the books many of those same Florida athletes who competed at Hayward Field at the beginning of the month will push on at this weekend's NACAC Championships in San Salvador, El Salvador.
New rules allow runners to assist injured competitors without disqualification.
The 2015-2016 school year has provided some great highlights in both cross country and track across the Sunshine State. In the coming weeks many of our seniors will head out to start their college careers both athletically and academically. We wanted to salute them one more time in this special feature and say thank you for your support over the years.
The 2015-2016 school year has provided some great highlights in both cross country and track across the Sunshine State. In the coming weeks many of our seniors will head out to start their college careers both athletically and academically. We wanted to salute them one more time in this special feature and say thank you for your support over the years.
FloTrack filmed this video a month before the Olympic Trials
In the hottest part of the Florida afternoon, rising sophomore Tyrese Cooper blazed the track at the AAU National Club Championships with a time of 20,66 in the 200m PRELIMS! The time is two one-hundredths better than his freshman national record of 20.68 set in week one of the season, back in February, at the Louie Bing Classic. Over the course of the 2016 outdoor season, the sixteen year old sensation has run sub 21 seconds an outstanding twelve times!
The 2015-2016 school year has provided some great highlights in both cross country and track across the Sunshine State. In the coming weeks many of our seniors will head out to start their college careers both athletically and academically. We wanted to salute them one more time in this special feature and say thank you for your support over the years.
Scroll through the slideshow to see all 13 Olympic flags
The 2015-2016 school year has provided some great highlights in both cross country and track across the Sunshine State. In the coming weeks many of our seniors will head out to start their college careers both athletically and academically. We wanted to salute them one more time in this special feature and say thank you for your support over the years.