On Wednesday, Scott became the third-straight Knight to clinch the conference’s highest honor. Hurdler Jackie Coward (2011) and sprinter Octavious Freeman (2012) have been saddled with the award in previous years.

Scott became 麻豆原创’s first NCAA champion of any sport by matching her NCAA-leading time and school record 7.13 in the women’s 60-meter dash final. She also picked up a silver medal at nationals in the 200m clocking 22.71.

Scott won gold in the 60M, 200M and 4×400 Relay at the C-USA Indoor Championships in February. The junior has been recognized as a USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week and a two-time C-USA Track Athlete of the Week.

She won six-of-seven finals this season at both 60M and 200M. With 11 All-American honors to her name, she is 麻豆原创’s most decorated student-athlete.

Scott and the rest of the No. 11 Knights will be in action in their final home meet of the season on Friday and Saturday at the 麻豆原创 Track and Field Complex. Admission is free.

Freeman finished fourth in her heat in 11.17, with the top three finishers moving on to the finals. Freeman’s time was the eighth-fastest among the 21 athletes in action in the semifinals. She missed out on the finals by two-hundredths of a second.

Scott placed fourth in her heat in 11.37.

Both Freeman and Scott will aim to earn a spot in the Olympics in the 200m. Qualifying begins Thursday at 8:45 p.m. ET.

Freeman and Scott advanced to the 100m semifinals by posting strong first-round times Friday. The pair competed in the same heat and Freeman placed second at 11.20, automatically advancing to the semifinals. Scott finished fourth in 11.31, but moved on by posting the fastest time among the top non-automatic qualifiers in the five total heats.

A total of four current Knights are competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials. On Friday, senior Jackie Coward competed in the first round of the 100m hurdles. She finished fifth in her heat in 13.27. Junior Sonnisha Williams will participate in the long jump, which starts next Friday.

Former Knight Tiki James, who ended her collegiate career in 2010, was also in action Saturday. James participated in the semifinals of the 100m hurdles, placing ninth overall in 13.06. She was unable to advance to the finals.

Coward will be in action in the 100-meter hurdles, which open Friday. Freeman and Scott will participate in the 100m (Friday) and 200m (June 28). Williams will compete in the long jump, which starts June 29.

All four Knights earned All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships earlier this month. Coward concluded her collegiate career by taking All-America First Team accolades by advancing to the finals and finishing fourth in the 100 hurdles. Freeman placed fourth in the 100m and fifth in the 200m to receive All-America First Team recognition in both events.

Scott also earned All-America First Team status by placing eighth in the 100m. She also received All-America Second Team distinction in the 200m. In the long jump, Williams garnered All-America Third Team honors. The group helped head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert’s Knights record an impressive 19th-place team finish at the championships.

The Olympic Trials will be held at historic Hayward Field. The facility has hosted the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 2008 Olympic Trials. The largest national championship meet in the world, the Olympic Trials will include more than 1,000 athletes competing for the right to represent the U.S. at the Olympic Games.

NBC and NBC Sports Network will provide television coverage of the Olympic Trials.

麻豆原创 Athletes U.S. Olympic Trials Schedule

Jackie Coward
Friday, June 22 – 100m Hurdles First Round – 8:40 p.m. ET
Saturday, June 23 – 100m Hurdles Semifinals – 6:15 p.m. ET
Saturday, June 23 – 100m Hurdles Finals – 8:45 p.m. ET (NBC)

Octavious Freeman/Aurieyall Scott
Friday, June 22 – 100m First Round – 9 p.m. ET (NBC Sports Network)
Saturday, June 23 – 100m Semifinals – 6:40 p.m. ET
Saturday, June 23 – 100m Finals – 8:52 p.m. ET (NBC)
Thursday, June 28 – 200m Qualifying – 8:45 p.m. ET
Friday, June 29 – 200m Semifinals – 6 p.m. ET
Saturday, June 30 – 200m Finals – 9:50 p.m. ET (NBC)

Sonnisha Williams
Friday, June 29 – Long Jump Qualifying – 6:30 p.m. ET
Sunday, July 1 – Long Jump Finals – 6 p.m. ET

The Lake Wales native received All-America honors in the 100m and the 200m and took the C-USA title in the 100m. She placed fourth at nationals in the 200m with a time of 23.25 and finished fifth in the 100m in 11.41.

“To accomplish what she accomplished as a freshman shows her level of talent,” 麻豆原创 head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert said. “We have been pleased with her performances this year and all of the great things she has done in the classroom and in the community. We are excited to see Octavious compete at the Olympic Trials and in the Black & Gold again next year.”

Freeman was named C-USA Freshman of the Meet after winning the 100m in an outdoor championship record time of 11.09, finishing third in the 200m (23.53) and ran the second leg of the winning 4x100m relay team (43.47). At the Pepsi Relays in April, she posted a then-world-leading time of 11.10 in 100m that qualified her for the Olympic Trials.

Freeman, who helped the Knights claim their third-straight C-USA title last month, is the second Knight in as many years to garner the league’s outdoor athlete of the year award. Jackie Coward was honored in 2011.

Senior Jackie Coward advanced to Saturday’s finals in the 100 hurdles by besting her own school record by .06 with a qualifying time of 12.81 (+1.7). The blistering performance was the third-quickest of her heat and the fourth-fastest time overall as she heads into the finals looking to medal once again in the event.

Freshman Octavious Freeman advanced to Saturday’s finals of the 200 meters by topping her own school record, freshman record and personal record in the event with a time of 22.74 (+1.9). Her performance was the fastest by a freshman on Thursday, the third-fastest time in her heat and the seventh-fastest overall.

Sophomore Aurieyall Scott secured All-American Second Team distinction with her all-conditions personal-best time of 22.76 (+2.2). Although Scott finished among the semifinals’ top eight spots, Texas A&M’s Ashley Collier’s automatic qualifying time of 23.01 as the second-fastest performance of the third heat edged Scott for a place in the finals.

Senior Sheila Paul also took All-America honorable mention recognition in the 200m with a time of 23.65 (+1.9) for 21st overall.

Senior Jacquelyn Gilchrist wrapped up her career by becoming the 13th athlete in school history to earn All-American honors. Gilchrist claimed second team laurels after her personal-best outing in the long jump with a mark of 6.25m/20-6.25 (+1.7) for 13th place. It capped a memorable season for the senior, who improved her personal record on four occasions throughout the year.

Junior Sonnisha Williams also earned the third All-American honor of her career with a spot on the second team thanks to her 14th-place performance in the long jump with a leap of 6.19m/20-3.75 (+1.5).

Freeman and Scott will be 麻豆原创’s only competitors Friday when they look to make some noise in the 100-meter finals at 7:02 p.m. eastern. The event will be streamed live online and is available for free on ESPN3.com. In addition, ESPNU will televise Saturday’s action from noon until 2 p.m. ET.

For the past 20 weeks, the No. 13 麻豆原创 track and field team has trained, sweated, breathed and dreamed of this moment.

The moment is here.

The Knights will be represented by six student-athletes at the NCAA Outdoor Championships this week at Drake in Des Moines, Iowa. The team will look to improve upon its eighth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, which marked the best finish in school history.

麻豆原创 will compete in four different events as the group aims to add more All-American accolades to their resumes. Prior to head coach 聽arrival five years ago, the Knights had never produced an All-American. The program now boasts 12 athletes with 28 All-American distinctions.

Jumpers and 聽will start things off Wednesday in the long jump. 麻豆原创 is one of six schools to earn multiple entries in the event. Williams finished ninth in the long jump at the indoor championships and was a national qualifier in the outdoor championships as a freshman in 2010. Gilchrist is making the most of her senior year as a first-time qualifier after registering a personal-best performance at the NCAA East Preliminaries on May 24.

The Knights’ nation-best three entries in the 100 meters will also compete Wednesday as , and 聽all look to finish among the top eight to advance to Friday’s finals. Scott and Freeman both medaled in the 60 meters at the indoor championships and boast performances that rank among the NCAA’s top 10 this year. Paul qualified for her third-straight appearance at the outdoor championships in the 100 meters.

The trio will also represent 麻豆原创 in the 200 meters Thursday, and the Knights again own the most entries in the event of any program in the country.

Senior 聽will compete Thursday as well in the semifinals of the 100 hurdles. She finished fifth at this year’s indoor championships in the 60 hurdles and took bronze at last year’s outdoor championships.

The entire event will be streamed live online and is available for free on NCAA.com (Wednesday) and ESPN3.com (Thursday-Saturday). In addition, ESPNU will televise Saturday’s action from noon until 2 p.m. ET.

麻豆原创 at the NCAA Championships

Wednesday, June 6

Long Jump Finals — 5:30 p.m.
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100 Meters Semifinals – 7:30 p.m.
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Thursday, June 7

200 Meters Semifinals – 5:45 p.m.
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Friday, June 8

100 Meters Finals – 7:02 p.m.

Saturday, June 9

200 Meters Finals – 1:47 p.m.

100 Hurdles Finals – 2:14 p.m.

Senior Jackie Coward clinched her spot at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 100 hurdles for the third-consecutive year by winning her heat and clocking the second-fastest qualifying time overall of 12.96 (+1.3). The performance ranks as her best wind-legal time of the year and ranks among the top 10 in the NCAA.

Senior Karessa Farley narrowly missed the cut to advance to the 100-hurdles semifinals by .004. While also running in heat two, Farley’s time of 13.395 was edged by Louisiana Tech’s Kim Francis, who crossed the finish line at 13.391 to secure the 12th and final spot in the field.

A day after qualifying for the semifinals of the 100 meters, Aurieyall Scott, Sheila Paul and Octavious Freeman also qualified to advance in the 200 meters. Scott pulled away in the final heat to secure her berth with a season-best time of 22.90 as the Knights’ top finisher with the fourth-fastest time of the day and a top-20 time in the NCAA. Freeman came in third in her heat and seventh overall with a time of 23.08 to also automatically qualify for the championships. Paul rounded out the trio with a personal-best 23.25 to finish fourth in the first heat and 10th overall.

Senior Tomika Story finished her career on a high note with a personal-best performance in the triple jump. She fouled on her first two attempts but refused to be rattled. On her third jump, she hit 12.54m/41-1.75 (+1.8) to emerge as 麻豆原创’s highest finisher in the event at 21st place.

Senior Jacquelyn Gilchrist, who qualified for the NCAA Championships in the long jump, posted her second-best triple jump performance of the season with a mark of 12.44m/40-9.75 (+1.8) for 28th place.

Although the 4×100 relay posted the third-fastest qualifying time of the day, 麻豆原创 was disqualified from the event when Freeman and Scott failed to hand off the baton within the zone. After the pair struggled with their handoff between the second and third leg, anchor Sheila Paul recovered for the squad as she nearly caught up with leader Ohio State. The Knights finished second in their heat by .05 with a time of 44.03 but unfortunately will not advance to the national semifinals in Des Moines.

Throughout the three-day meet, the team produced six marks that either ranked first or second overall in each round of its respective events.

麻豆原创 will send a total of six athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, June 6-9. The Knights look to improve upon their eighth-place finish at the Indoor Championships, which marked the program’s top placing in school history.

The Knights claim 12 marks that rank among the region’s top 25. Freshman Octavious Freeman, sophomore Aurieyall Scott and senior Sheila Paul hold six of 麻豆原创’s region-best seven entries in the 100 and 200 meters and will be joined by sophomore Dominique Booker in the 200.

Freeman won gold in the 100 meters and bronze in the 200 meters at the Conference USA Championships as she heads into the preliminaries with the third-best time in both events. Scott also ranks among the region’s top 10 in both events after emerging as league champion in the 200 and runner-up in the 100. Paul took silver in the 200 to help 麻豆原创 earn a clean sweep of the podium in the event at the championships.

Sophomore Afia Charles earned her spot for the second-consecutive year in the 400 meters. Freshman Ne’Ausha Logan secured her first appearance at the preliminaries with her personal-best and gold-medalist performance in the 800 meters at the Conference USA Championships.

All-conference selections Jackie Coward and Karessa Farley will represent the Black and Gold in the 100 hurdles while Aisha-Maree Frazier returns to the preliminaries in the 400 hurdles after missing last year’s competition. All three hurdlers earned all-conference distinction a week ago.

Junior Sonnisha Williams will lead 麻豆原创’s four entries in the long jump as she currently ranks third in the region in the event. She will be accompanied by all-conference honoree Jacquelyn Gilchrist, Tomika Story and Jen Clayton. Gilchrist and Story will also perform in the triple jump.

Freshman Precious Ogunleye becomes 麻豆原创’s first freshman since 2007 to represent the Knights in the throws by earning her spot in both the shot put and discus.

The top 24 finishers in each event will move on to the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 6-9. For more information about the East Preliminaries, visit the meet central page via www.unfospreys.com.

The Knights claimed the title with 160 team points, besting C-USA Indoor Champion East Carolina by nearly 28 points.

Octavious Freeman was named the Freshman of the Meet, Aurieyall Scott won the High Point Scorer of the Meet for the second year in a row and head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert was awarded her third-consecutive Coach of the Year accolade.

Freeman set a meet record, school record, freshman record and personal best in the 100 meters with a blistering performance of 11.09 (+1.5) for first place. The time ranks second in the NCAA and 11th in the world this year. Scott finished in step behind her and also tied the previous meet record of 11.21 (+1.5), which ranks among the top 10 in the NCAA.

Senior Sheila Paul and sophomore Dominique Booker scored points in the 100 meters as well with fourth and fifth place finishes, respectively. Paul registered a season-best time of 11.40, which ranks among the NCAA’s top 25, and Booker clocked 11.59.

As a unit in the 4×100 relay, the group clinched 麻豆原创’s first gold medal of the day by churning out a time of 43.47, which fell just .05 shy of the squad’s Conference USA Championship meet record in 2011. The performance ranks among the top 15 in the NCAA this year.

The quartet also shined in the 200 meters as the Knights swept the podium. Scott reclaimed her gold medal in the event with a time of 23.13 (+0.8), which ranks among the top 15 in the NCAA. Paul and Freeman went neck and neck for silver and bronze as both clocked a time of 23.53. Rounding out the bunch, Booker scored points in seventh place with a time of 23.98.

Senior Tomika Story earned all-conference third team honors in the triple jump with a personal-best leap in all conditions of 12.74m/41-09.75 (+2.6). Competing in the event for the first time of her collegiate career, Scott also scored points in eighth place with a mark of 12.25m/40-02.25 (+2.0), which topped her heat.

Junior Sonnisha Williams recorded a personal-best 11.92m/39-01.25 (+1.7) to finish second in her heat behind Scott and 12th overall. Williams also hit a personal-record 1.73m/5-08 in the high jump to match her best showing in the event at the Outdoor Championships in fifth place.

A day removed from setting a personal best in the 800 meters, Ne’Ausha Logan led the finals from start to finish and again shaved nearly two seconds off her PR for the first gold medal of her career with a time of 2:07.25.

Two seniors medaled and recorded times among the NCAA’s top 25 in the 100 hurdles. Jackie Coward retained her title as the 100 hurdles champion by picking up her third gold medal of her career in the event with a time of 13.10 (+1.1), and Karessa Farley posted a season-best time of 13.34 (+1.1) for third place.

Coward also defended her gold medal in the 400 hurdles with a season-best time of 58.35, and fellow senior Aisha-Maree Frazier joined her on the podium with a third-place, season-best time of 59.46.

Satrina Oliveira set a personal best en route to winning her heat and finishing fourth in the discus with a mark of 46.80m/153-06. A day after earning all-conference honors in the shot put, Precious Ogunleye also scored points in the discus with a sixth-place finish of 45.10m/147-11.

Junior Erica Weiss tallied a point in the pole vault with a mark of 3.60m/11-09.75 for eighth place.

The 4×400 relay of Afia Charles, Christal Peterson, Erica Winston and Williams closed out the evening with a season-best time of 3:38.69 for fourth place. Earlier in the day, Charles scored points in the 400 meters with a fifth-place time of 54.03.

Complete coverage of the final day of competition will air on tape delay on Fox Sports Florida on Friday at 2 p.m. and on SportSouth on Sunday at 8 p.m. Up next, the Knights will travel to Jacksonville for the NCAA East Preliminary Round of the Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 24-26.

Champion Event(s)

Team Points

1. 麻豆原创 160
2. East Carolina 132.16
3. Southern Miss 81
4. Houston 74
5. Rice 60.50
6. SMU 60
7. UAB 58
8. Memphis 55
9. UTEP 54
10. Tulane 33.33
11. Marshall 28
12. Tulsa 23

Four Knights currently rank among the NCAA’s top 25 in their respective individual events, and two of 麻豆原创’s 4×100 Relay squads weigh in at No. 3 and No. 8, respectively, in the country.

麻豆原创 concluded its outdoor regular season this past weekend and the Knights are enjoying a week off from competition before they head to New Orleans on May 11-13 in pursuit of a third-straight C-USA outdoor championship.

Among the team’s national rankings, Octavious Freeman ranks first in the 200M and third in the 100M, Jackie Coward ranks ninth in the 100 hurdles, Sonnisha Williams ranks 18th in the long jump and Dominique Booker ranks 23rd in the 100M. 麻豆原创’s 4×100 relay teams rank third and eighth in the country.