Florida wins two weekly honors for the second time this season
GAINESVILLE, Fla.- Florida Gators Alida van Daalen and Jasmine Moore received SEC Weekly Honors on Tuesday afternoon. Van Daalen was named Women’s Freshman of the Week and Moore was named Women’s Field Athlete of the Week for their performances at the Tom Jones Memorial.
For Alida van Daalen, this is her second career SEC weekly honor, adding to the one she received after the Pepsi Florida Relays.
At the Tom Jones Memorial, van Daalen earned silver in both the shot put invite and discus invite. In the discus competition, van Daalen’s threw the seventh best mark in the nation this year (56.82m/186’5″). In the shot put, her mark of 18.14m/59’6.25″ is a new outdoor personal best, improving upon her fourth-best mark in school history. It is also the best throw in the SEC this season and the fourth best in the country.
Jasmine Moore received second weekly honor of the season. Her previous honor came after her performance at the Clemson Invitational.
Moore finished with gold in the long jump invite at the Tom Jones Memorial with a mark of 6.98m/22’10.75″, the farthest jump in the country this year. In the triple jump Moore (13.91m/45’7.75″) earned silver for her performance with the third-farthest jump in the country and the fifth-farthest in the world this year. Her mark in the long jump was the fourth-farthest all-conditions jump in collegiate outdoor history.
Next up for the Gators is the Virginia Challenge on April 21-23 in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is the second to last weekend of competition for the Gators’ outdoor regular season.
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