Florida State Seminoles track and field

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Florida State Seminoles track and field
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Founded1948
University Florida State University
Head coachBob Braman (21st season)
Conference ACC
Location Tallahassee, FL
NicknameSeminoles
ColorsGarnet and gold [1]
   
NCAA Indoor National Championships
Women: 1984
NCAA Outdoor National Championships
Men: 2006, 2007, 2008
Women: 1985
Conference Indoor Championships
Men: 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
Women: 2009, 2014, 2018, 2021
Conference Outdoor Championships
Men: 1950, 1951, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022
Women: 1989, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021

The track and field teams of Florida State University, (variously Florida State or FSU), are currently coached by Bob Braman and compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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The men's team has won fourteen indoor conference championships, thirty-five outdoor conference championships, and two outdoor national championships. The women's team has won four indoor conference championships, nine outdoor conference championships, four indoor national championships, and three outdoor national championships. In 2022, Trey Cunningham won the individual national title in hurdles [2] and won the Bowerman Award. [3]

History

FSU's NCAA Championship trophies FSUtrackNCs.JPG
FSU's NCAA Championship trophies

The FSU men's Track & Field team won the NCAA National Championship three times in a row from 2005 to 2007. Since 2006, Head Coach Bob Braman and Associate Head Coach Harlis Meaders helped lead individual champions in the 200 m (Walter Dix), the triple jump (Rafeeq Curry), and the shot put (Garrett Johnson) to consecutive outdoor national titles. Individual runners-up were Walter Dix in the 100 m, Ricardo Chambers in the 400 m, and Tom Lancashire in the 1500 m. Others scoring points in the National Championship were Michael Ray Garvin in the 200 m (8th), Andrew Lemoncello in the 3000 m steeplechase (4th), Rafeeq Curry in the long jump (6th), and Garrett Johnson in the discus (5th). [4] In 2007, when FSU won its second straight men's Track & Field NCAA National Championship when Dix became the first person to hold the individual title in the 100 m, 200 m, and 4*100 m Relay at the same time. [5]

Entrance to the Mike Long Track & McIntosh Building Mike Long Track & McIntosh Building.jpg
Entrance to the Mike Long Track & McIntosh Building

The Florida State Seminoles have a new track and field building complex on the south end of Mike Long Track, the Mcintosh Track and Field Building, named after Michael A. Mcintosh.

On February 7, 2010, the Seminoles vacated their 2007 Men's Outdoor Track and Field NCAA Championship in the wake of an academic cheating scandal.

Championships

Individual conference championships

Women

Indoor

60-meter Dash

  • Tonya Carter
    • 2000
  • Marecia Pemberton
    • 2014

55-meter Dash

  • Sheryl Covington
    • 1993, 1994

200-meter Dash

  • Sheryl Covington
    • 1994
  • Tonya Carter
    • 2000

400-meter Dash

  • Samantha George
    • 2000

800-meter Dash

  • Erica Shepard
    • 1996, 1997
  • Rikke Ronholt
    • 1998
  • Laura Gerber
    • 1999

Mile Run

  • Natalie Hughes
    • 2004
  • Susan Kuijken
    • 2008, 2009
  • Pilar McShine
    • 2010
  • Amanda Winslow
    • 2011
  • Colleen Quigley
    • 2014, 2015

3000-meter Run

  • Amanda Winslow
    • 2012, 2013

5000-meter Run

  • Vicky Gill
    • 2004

60-meter High Hurdles

  • Kim Jones
    • 2002, 2003
  • Meme Jean
    • 2016

4x400-meter Relay

  • 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007

Distance Medley Relay

  • 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012
  • 2013 (Winslow, Watson, Peel, Quigley)
  • 2015 (Peel, Swanepoel, Over, Quigley)

Long Jump

  • Trinette Johnson
    • 1993
  • Kim Jones
    • 2002
  • Kimberly Williams
    • 2011
  • Amy Haris
    • 2012
  • Der'Renae Freeman
    • 2014

Triple Jump

  • Kimberly Williams
    • 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Shot Put

  • Shannon Cook
    • 1997
  • Makiba Batten
    • 2000
  • Kamorean Hayes
    • 2009
  • Kellion Knibb
    • 2015

Pole Vault

  • Lacy Janson
    • 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006

Weight Throw

  • Lakeisha Mosley
    • 2000
Outdoor

100-meter Dash

  • Deletea Bradley
    • 1995
  • Tonya Carter
    • 2000
  • Teresa Bundy
    • 2002
  • Marecia Pemberton
    • 2010
  • Shauna Helps
    • 2016

200-meter Dash

  • Tonya Carter
    • 2000
  • Nakeya Crutchfield
    • 2002
  • Teona Rodgers
    • 2010

400-meter Dash

  • Sophia Danvers
    • 1997
  • Samantha George
    • 1999, 2000
  • Brittany St. Louis
    • 2009

800-meter Run

  • Erica Shepard
    • 1996, 1997
  • Laura Gerber
    • 1999
  • Samantha George
    • 2000
  • Laura Gerber
    • 2003
  • Hannah England
    • 2008

1500-meter Run

  • Natalie Hughes
    • 2004, 2006
  • Pilar McShine
    • 2009, 2010
  • Colleen Quigley
    • 2015

5000-meter Run

  • Vicky Gill
    • 2004
  • Susan Kuijken
    • 2009
  • Jessica Parry
    • 2011
  • Hannah Brooks
    • 2012

3000-meter Steeplechase

  • Barbara Parker
    • 2006, 2007
  • Lydia Williemse
    • 2009
  • Jennifer Dunn
    • 2010
  • Colleen Quigley
    • 2014

110-meter Hurdles

  • Kim Jones
    • 2002, 2003

400-meter Hurdles

  • Radhiya Teagle
    • 1994, 1995
  • Sage Watson
    • 2015

4x100-meter Relay

  • 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009

4x400-meter Relay

  • 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009

High Jump

  • Indianne Henry
    • 1994

Long Jump

  • Trinette Johnson
    • 1992, 1993
  • Zuzette Mullings
    • 1998
  • Kim Jones
    • 2003
  • Kimberly Williams
    • 2008, 2009, 2011
  • Amy Harris
    • 2012
  • Der'Renae Freeman
    • 2014, 2015, 2016

Triple Jump

  • Alyce Williams
    • 2007
  • Kimberly Williams
    • 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Michelle Jenije
    • 2012

Pole Vault

  • Lacy Janson
    • 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
  • Lizbeth Mabry
    • 2011

Shot Put

  • Shannon Cook
    • 1996, 1997
  • Makiba Batten
    • 2000

Hammer

  • Lakeisha Mose
    • 1998, 2000
  • Katja Vangsnes
    • 2016

Heptathlon

  • Chinette Johnson
    • 1998, 1999, 2000
  • Grete Sadeiko
    • 2014
  • Melissa-Maree Farrington
    • 2016

Discus

  • Kellion Knibb
    • 2014
  • Kellion Knibb
    • 2016

Individual national championships

Men

Indoor
AthleteYearEvent
Danny Smith1974, 197560-yd Hurdles
Walter McCoy1978600-yd Run
Ross, Boodie, Simmons, McCoy1980Mile Relay
Phillip Riley199555M Hurdles
Walter Dix2006, 2007200M Dash
Garrett Johnson2006Shot Put
Ricardo Chambers2007400M Dash
Gonzalo Barroilhet2008Heptatholon
Drew Brunson200860M Hurdles
Ngoni Makusha2011Long Jump
James Harris2014High Jump
Dentarius Locke201460M Dash
Outdoor
AthleteYearEvent
Bradley Cooper1978Discus
Mike Roberson1980200M Dash
Walter Dix2005, 2006, 2007, 2008100M Dash, 200M Dash
Rafeeq Curry2006Triple Jump
Garrett Johnson2006Shot Put
Ricardo Chambers2007400M Dash
Bolden, Dix, Garvin, Clark20074x100M Relay
Ngoni Makusha2008, 2009, 2011Long Jump, 100M Dash
Charles Clark2008, 2009200M Dash
Jonathan Borlée2009400M Dash
Williams, K. Borlée, Clark, J. Borlée20094x400M Relay
Maurice Mitchell2011, 2012200M Dash
Hyman, Makusha, Mitchell, J. Byram20114x100M Relay

Women

Indoor
AthleteYearEvent
Garcia, Bennett, Payne, Givens19814x200M Relay
Wood, O.Brown, Borovicka, Coomber19824x800M Relay
O. Brown, Cliette, Davis, Levy19844x400M Relay
Michelle Finn198555 Dash
Esmeralda Garcia1985Triple Jump
Tonya Carter200060 Dash
Lacy Janson2003Pole Vault
Kimberly Williams2009, 2010, 2011Triple Jump
Outdoor
AthleteYearEvent
Garcia, Bennett, Payne, Givens19814x100M Relay
Tonja Brown1982400M Hurdles
Marita Payne1982, 1984400M Dash
Wright, Payne Cliette, Givens19834x100M Relay, 4x400M Relay
Finn, Payne, Cliette, Givens19844x100M Relay
Davis, Cliette, Givens, Payne19844x400M Relay
Randy Givens1984100M Dash, 200M Dash
Michelle Finn1985100M Dash
Esmeralda Garcia1985Triple Jump
Levy, Davis, Thompson, Finn19874x100M Relay
Teresa Bundy2002Triple Jump
Lacy Janson2006Pole Vault
Susan Kuijken20091500M Run
Kimberly Williams2009Long Jump, Triple Jump
Colleen Quigley20153000M Steeplechase
Kala Funderburk2015400M Dash

Honors

Indoor (Men)
Outdoor (Men)
Indoor (Women)
Outdoor (Women)

All-Americans

Men

Women

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