MEET: Pepsi Florida Relays
DATE: March 29-30, 2024
LOCATION: Gainesville, Fla.
Schedule
Results

Tampa, Fla. March 30, 2024 – The University of South Florida track and field team set five new program records on the track in Gainesville, Fla. this weekend. They also took home two event wins, in the men's 4x100m relay and the men's long jump.
 
RECORDS
Though this South Florida men's team is ranked fifth in the nation, it was the women who opened up the record books first. Shaniya Benjamin once again broke a record she and Zahria Allers-Liburd constantly fight for, the 200m dash (22.98), as Benjamin took fourth place.
 
Later Friday, Devontie Archer, Shevioe Reid, Darian Mills, and Gabriel Moronta ran the fastest 4x400m relay in men's program history (3:05.40) to qualify for finals. Then on Saturday in the finals, Tre'Sean Bouie, Reid, Moronta, and Nathan Metelus broke the record again (3:02.16) to take third place.
 
The women also set a new standard in the 4x400m relay. Shaniya Benjamin, Zahria Allers-Liburd, Terren Peterson, and Je'Nyia Burton ran a program record time (3:30.77) to take third place as well.
 
The remaining broken record came courtesy of Zayquan Lincoln, Jaleel Croal, Metelus, and Abdul-Rasheed Saminu in the men's 4x100m relay (39.03) as they claimed first place.
 
TRACK
In the men's 200m dash, Jaleel Croal ran the second-fastest time in school history (20.52) to finish seventh. In the women's, Zahria Allers-Liburd followed Benjamin's program record with the second-fastest time in school history (23.36).
 
For the women in the 400m dash, Amenda Saint-Louis ran the fifth fastest time in program history (53.99) to finish 10th.
 
Karim Belmahdi ran the seventh-fastest time in program history (3:47.81) in the men's 1500m.
 
The women came into the Pepsi Florida Relays with Allers-Liburd, Peterson, Burton, and Benjamin having the fifth-ranked 4x100m time in the nation (44.06), they shaved it down further running 44.05 in preliminaries on Friday.
 
The men also had another 4x400m relay team of Devontie Archer, Daunte O'Banion, Darian Mills, and Joshua Crum in a separate section final. They finished third (3:09.72), running the seventh-fastest time in program history.
 
FIELD
Goodness Iredia got the first Bulls' victory on Friday, winning the men's long jump final (7.48m/24'-6.50") with the eighth best jump in program history.
 
Vincent Ugwoke finished fifth in the discus throw with the second-longest throw in program history (58.04m/190'-5.00"). For the women, Jazmyn James finished ninth with the fourth-longest throw in program history (47.88m/157'-1.00").
 
In the women's shot put, James finished second (15.43/50'-4.00") again with the fourth-longest throw in school history.
 
UP NEXT
The Bulls will head back home for the South Florida Invitational April 5th and 6^th.
 
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The USF track and field men's team won the 2024 Indoor AAC Championship. Romaine Beckford won the 2023 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the men's high jump as a Bull. The 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. 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. 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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