UF T&F: Florida Announces 2024 Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Schedule

The Gators are set to host three home meets including the 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The schedule for the 2024 Florida Gators Track & Field program was announced by Head Coach Mike Holloway on Monday afternoon.

The 2023 NCAA Outdoor Men’s NCAA Champions and 2023 NCAA Outdoor Women’s NCAA Runner-Ups will attend a total of eleven regular season meets over the course of both the indoor and outdoor season. This includes two meets in Gainesville at James G. Presley Stadium at Percy Beard Track.

Following regular season competition, the Gators can qualify for up to five postseason contests, one of which will be hosed by Florida: SEC Outdoor Championships which is scheduled for May 9th-May 11th. This is the first time the Gators will host the event since 2009 and only the eighth time in the program’s history.

2023 SEASON IN REVIEW

Members of the Track & Field program participated in fifteen contests last season. During the indoor season both the Men’s and Women’s teams recorded second place finishes at SEC Indoor Championships and both finished third at NCAA Indoor Championships.

The outdoor season was highlighted by the Men’s team winning the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championship, as well as the Women’s team placing second at both SEC Outdoor Championships and NCAA Outdoor Championships.

In terms of individual accolades, the Gators totaled twelve 2 SEC Individual Championships and six NCAA Individual Championships. Furthermore, athletes dawning the orange and blue set the collegiate record in the Men’s 4x100m Relay, Men’s 4x400m Relay and Women’s Triple Jump during the 2023 season.

2024 SEASON DETAILS

The Florida Gators will open the indoor season before the start of the new year as they travel to Boston for the first of three times during the season. The team will participate in the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.

Nearly a month later, the Gators will travel to College Station, Texas for the first time during the indoor season in over ten years.

The first of three meets n Fayetteville, Arkansas will occur at the end of January as they will compete at the Razorback Invitational. Participating in this meet is almost a yearly endeavor for the Florida Gators. Last year at the invitational the Gators women’s program set two new school records in the distance medley relay and 4x400m relay.

For the final regular season meet during the indoor season, the Track & Field program, as they did last year, will split on the weekend of February 9th as a portion of the team will attend the Tyson Invitational hosted by the University of Arkansas and another portion will participate in the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University.

After the five regular season competitions described above, the Florida Gators will participate in SEC Indoor Championships on February 23rd and 24th, hosted by the University of Arkansas, the third of three meets in Fayetteville.

The Gators will conclude the indoor season with NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, Massachusetts spanning March 5th through March 9th.

Just a few weeks later, outdoors begins with competition in Tallahassee as the Gators are set to participate at FSU Relays before hosting their first of three home meets a week later: Pepsi Florida Relays.

On April 4th the Gators will make a trek across the country to the University of San Diego for an invitational that will span the weekend. The Gators have not traveled to California for a meet since participating in the Power Conference Cardinal & Gold Challenge hosted by USC in 2016. The Gators will do so again two weeks later for Mt. Sac Relays.

Sandwiched between two trips to California the Gators will host the annual Tom Jones Memorial meet here in Gainesville.

The final regular season contest before post season action will be in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as the University of Florida will compete in the LSU Invitational.

The Florida Gators have the privilege of hosting the SEC Outdoor Championships for the first time since 2009. The University of Florida will welcome all conference opponents to James G. Presley Stadium at Percy Beard Track for the competition. Florida has hosted SEC’s six times previously including 1960 (Men), 1970 (Men), 1974 (Men), 1981 (Men), 1989 (Men & Women), 1998 (Men & Women).

The postseason competition will continue in Kentucky as the Gators will travel to Lexington for the opportunity to qualify for NCAA Outdoor Championships. NCAA Championships will take place on June 5th – June 8th and are hosted by the University of Oregon, the same location that the Men’s and Women’s programs were named the 2022 Outdoor Champions.

2024 INDOOR SCHEDULE
Date

Meet

Host/Location

12/2

Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener

Boston University

1/12-1/13

McFerrin 12 Degree Invitational

Texas A&M

1/26-1/27

Razorback Invitational

University of Arkansas