USF Track and Field Opens Outdoor Season With Tampa Classic

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USF Track and Field Opens Outdoor Season With Tampa Classic

February 29, 2024 | Track & Field

Bulls send seven distance runners to the University of Tampa on Friday

Tampa, Fla. Feb. 29, 2024 – The University of South Florida track and field will send seven distance runners to the Tampa Classic hosted by the University of Tampa this Friday, March 1 to kick off the Outdoor season.

The Bulls will run just two events with the light distance runner crew set to race. The team will be sending Catalina Edwards and Victoria Valdez to compete in the 800m at 6:50 p.m.

Then at 7:50 p.m., Sydney Granack, Katelyn Thompson, Callie Wakefield, Thomas Ashley, and Sean Perry will run the 5,000m for South Florida.

UP NEXT
Abdul-Rasheed Saminu and Shevioe Reid will prepare to represent South Florida at the NCAA Indoor Championships the following weekend, March 8-9 in Boston, Mass.

The rest of the Bulls Track and Field team train to start the full Outdoor season at home in the USF Alumni Invitational on March 15 and 16.

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The USF track and field team has earned 56 All-America selections and at least one All-American in 10 of the last 12 years, including a record eight athletes claiming 11 honors in 2021. Romaine Beckford won the 2023 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the men's high jump. Tampa native Shaniya Benjamin set a program record earning three All-American honors during the 2021 outdoor season, while triple jumper Matthew O'Neal, a 2016 graduate, became USF's first six-time NCAA All-American. Bulls have posted two NCAA runner-up finishes since 2013 - O'Neal (triple jump, 2016) and Courtney Anderson (high jump, 2013). Head coach Erik Jenkins took over the program in 2020 and in the 2021 outdoor season the Bulls posted seven program records and 40 top 10 all-time program marks. The Bulls men's team won the 2024 AAC Conference Championship. USF hosted the 2018 NCAA Track and Field East Preliminary and the 2021 AAC Outdoor Championship at the USF Track and Field Stadium located on the east end of campus.

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