During a mid-morning team meeting, UCF’s head women’s track and field coach informed her team that she had accepted the Director of Track and Field position at the University of Southern California. Later in the afternoon, the Knights were honored with a luncheon and reception to celebrate their many accomplishments during the past year, which [...]
After another stellar campaign, UCF sophomore Octavious Freeman was named the Conference USA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, the league office announced Thursday. A native of Lake Wales, Fla., Freeman also won the C-USA honor as a freshman a year ago. Freeman ended the NCAA Championships as a USTFCCCAA All-American in the women’s 100m, [...]
The 2013 UCF track and field team has a habit of writing and rewriting history. It comes as no surprise, then, that the Knights capped their ground-breaking season Saturday as a top-5 team at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. With 35 points, the Knights earned the best finish by a non-BCS team since 2000 (BYU, 4th [...]
UCF sprinters Octavious Freeman and Aurieyall Scott produced a bit of magic in Friday’s 100-meter final at the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field. Freeman earned the best finish by a Knight in any event of the NCAA Outdoor Championships in school history with her second-place, personal best time of 11.00 (+0.9) [...]