MEET: NCAA Championships
DATE: June 5th-8th, 2024
LOCATION: Eugene, Ore.
Schedule
 
Tampa, Fla. May 27, 2024 – The South Florida Track and Field program is sending a program record 12 athletes, eight men and four women, to compete for NCAA Championships across seven different events, six men's and one women's.
 
South Florida Track and Field program looks to win back-to-back individual NCAA Championships for the first time since 1993 and just the second time in school history. The Bulls track and field program has garnered four National Championships from two athletes. Jon Dennis won the outdoor 5,000m in 1992 and 1993, and Romaine Beckford swept the indoor and outdoor high jump last season (2023).
 
The Bulls' men's team has two athletes who qualified for three Semifinals each, Shevioe Reid and Abdul-Rasheed Saminu. Saminu will compete in the 100m dash, 200m dash, and 4x100m relay Semifinals. Reid will compete in the 200m dash, 4x100m relay, and 4x400m relay Semifinals.
 
South Florida also had two men who qualified for two Semifinals each, Devontie Archer and Jaleel Croal. Archer will compete in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay Semifinals. Croal will compete in the 200m dash and 4x100m relay Semifinals.
 
The Bulls will also have three athletes in the men's 200m dash semifinals for the first time in program history. No other school has three athletes competing in any of the sprinter Semifinals (100m dash, 200m dash, or 400m dash).
 
For the first time in program history, South Florida will send both men's relay teams (4x100m and 4x400m) to NCAA track and field's biggest stage.
 
HOW IT WORKS
For Track events, the Championships will consist of two rounds per gender over four days. The Semifinal will occur first and feature 24 competitors, the top 12 qualifiers from each region (East and West). Then the top 12 times will move on to the Final, the first nine seeds coming from the top three times from each of the three Semifinal heats, and the final three seeds drawing from the remaining three fastest times. Athletes will then have one off day before competing in the Championship event.
 
NCAA Championship Field events begin in the Final round. A field of 24 competitors (12 from each region) vie for first place and the NCAA Championship. These events are spread out randomly over their gender's two competition days.
 
All-American status is determined by an athlete's finish in these rounds. First-Team is given to the top eight finishers, and Second-Team All-American status follows with finishers ninth through 16^th. Honorable-Mention All-American is given to the remaining eight finishers in places 17^th through 24^th.
 
SOUTH FLORIDA SCHEDULE
The men's competition opens up on Wednesday, June 5^th. At 4:32 p.m. PT as Zayquan Lincoln, Jaleel Croal, Shevioe Reid, and Abdul-Rasheed Saminu will compete in the 4x100m relay semifinal. The four men enter the event as the two-seed after running the second-fastest qualifying time (38.64) overall in the quarterfinals. South Florida will also have Nathan Metelus, Shomari Pettigrew, Jermaine Dyges, and JeyQuan Smith as alternates for this event.
 
At 5:46 p.m. PT Saminu will compete in the 100m dash Semifinal. Saminu qualified for this event by running the eighth-fastest qualifying time (10.06) in the East Quarterfinals and will be seeded 19^th overall. Saminu also finished eighth in the indoor 60m dash NCAA Championship earlier this season.
 
At 6:00 p.m. PT Goodness Iredia will be the first Bull with a shot at a national championship as he competes in the long jump Final. Iredia is seeded ninth overall, after finishing third in the East Quarterfinals (7.75m / 25'-5.25").
 
While Iredia is competing for a title in the in-field, at 6:30 p.m. PT Devontie Archer will compete in the 400m hurdles Semifinal on the track. Archer is seeded 15^th after running the 10^th-fastest East Quarterfinals qualifying time (50.22).
 
At 6:44 p.m. PT, South Florida will be the only school this year to have three competitors in the 200m dash Semifinal, as 18-seed Reid (20.32), 20-seed Saminu (20.36), and 22-seed Croal (20.38) look to finish in the top-12 and move onto the finals. No other school has three athletes in any other sprint Semifinals this year.
 
To close out the first day of NCAA Championship action, Tre'Sean Bouie, Nathan Metelus, Reid, and Archer will compete in the 4x400m relay at 7:48 p.m. PT. The men enter the event with the 11 seed after running the sixth-fastest East First Round qualifying time. The Bulls will also bring Gabriel Moronta, Markel Jones, Darian Mills, and Daunte O'Banion as alternates.
 
The women's competition opens up on Thursday, June 6^th. At 8:48 p.m. PT as Shaniya Benjamin, Zahria Allers-Liburd, Terren Peterson, and Amenda Saint Louis will compete in the 4x400m relay Semifinal. The four women ran a program-record qualifying time (3:29.37) in the Quarterfinals. Their time has them seeded 14^th out of 24 in the event. South Florida will also bring Chakiya Plummer and Je'Nyia Burton as alternates for this event.
 
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The USF track and field men's team won the 2024 Indoor and Outdoor 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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