LEXINGTON, Ky. – Florida Gators Track and Field competed in the SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday, with five athletes scoring points in event finals and six more qualifying for tomorrow’s final races.
 
Highlights
Jumps
Florida’s biggest wins of the day came in the horizontal jumps, headlined by Anthaya Charlton’s individual title in the Women’s Long Jump. Her title stands as just one highlight in a breakout season that includes and NCAA all-time No. 2 indoor Long Jump, the current NCAA No. 2 outdoor Long Jump for 2025, a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships and now an SEC outdoor title. The individual championship is the first of her career at the conference or national level.
 
Her 6.47m [21′ 2.75″] third attempt was enough to stave off the competition and secure victory. Her win earned ten team points for the Orange and Blue, and Alyssa Banales’s seventh-place finish in the Long Jump earned an additional two points.
 
Malcolm Clemons posted a season-best 7.91m [25′ 11.5″] mark in the Men’s Long Jump, and earned himself SEC Bronze in the process. Clemons’ performance marked a milestone in his comeback, as he reached the podium after an indoor season in which he was hampered by injury and failed to reach the final jumps at the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships. Now, back in the condition that made him an Olympian in 2024, Clemons appears poised for a strong run in the NCAA Championship meets.
 
Distance
All three Gator entries advanced in the Women’s 1500m preliminaries. Tia Wilson, the SEC Indoor champion of the Mile; Hilda Olemomoi, the SEC silver medalist in yesterday’s 10,000m; and Beth Morley, Florida’s lone qualifier in the Mile for this season’s NCAA Indoor Championships all earned spots in tomorrow’s final. The race marked the first 1500m race for Olemomoi in over a year, and just the second in her Division I career.
 
Wilson won her heat and Olemomoi finished third, automatically qualifying them for the next round. Morley’s time was the 11^th-fastest in the field, and she advanced based on her time.
 
Throws
Gracelyn Leiseth and Alida van Daalen each scored in the Women’s Shot Put, finishing fifth and sixth with their respective 17.74m [58′ 2.5″] and 17.51 [57′ 5.5″] marks. They earned a combined seven team points.
 
Sprints/Hurdles
Freshman sensation Habiba Harris delivered yet another incredible performance in the 100m Hurdles. After setting the collegiate lead at the Pepsi Florida Relays in Gainesville earlier this season, she paced the field in the preliminary rounds on Friday, running a 12.62-second race and besting her own previous collegiate lead. The time stands as the second-best in Florida’s program history, behind only Grace Stark’s 2024 NCAA Championship-winning effort.
 
Demaris Waters, who currently holds the NCAA’s best wind-legal time and the No. 2 time in Florida’s program history in the 110m Hurdles, finished fourth in his heat with a 13.47 time and qualified for Saturday’s title bout.
 
Charlton, within an hour of winning the Long Jump title, qualified for Saturday’s 100m sprint final with an 11.36-second prelim performance.
 
Ashton Schwartzman (45.72, PB), Reheem Hayles (45.61), Jenoah McKiver (46.10) and Nicholas Spikes (46.42) all ran strong times in the 400m, though none would advance to Saturday’s final.
 
Looking Ahead
Florida’s women sit in fourth place in the team rankings heading into the final day of the conference championship meet, and have the potential to advance into a podium spot on Saturday, with 14 entries slated to compete in the day’s 13 event finals. The Gator men will race eight entries on the meet’s final day.
 
Live results can be found here. Broadcasts of the day’s events can be found here (2:30 p.m.) and here (5:00 p.m.). The second session will be broadcast on SEC Network.
 
SEC Championships Results – Florida Gators Athletes
Friday, May 16, 2025