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The Florida Gators Cross Country teams begin their postseason by traveling to Oxford, Mississippi, for the SEC Championships on Friday, October 28.
The women will compete in the 6k at 11:08 a.m. EST., and the men will begin their race at 11:50 a.m. EST. SEC Network will broadcast the SEC Championships starting at 11 a.m. EST. on Friday, with John Anderson (play-by-play) and Larry Rawson (analysis) calling the race. The awards ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. EST and will broadcast on SECN+. Fans can watch the meet by clicking here<https://www.espn.com/watc
The Gators raced in Oxford at the Ole Miss Course earlier this season as part of the SEC Preview Meet. At that meet, Ethan Geiger and Lucinda Rourke were the top-finishing Gators coming in third and sixth, respectively.
Florida enters the SEC Championships with momentum, having recently competed at the Arturo Barrios Invite at Texas A&M. At the meet, the men’s team finished 7th out of 40 teams, with Ethan Geiger placing 15th out of 360 finishers. The women’s team came in 3rd out of 41 teams and was led by Parker Valby, whose race earned her SEC Women’s Runner of the Week honors. She crossed the finish line first out of 326 competitors with a time of 18:58.2 in the 6k. This time improved upon her previous best of 19:41.38 (2021 NCAA South Regional) by 43.18 seconds. This gives Valby the second-fastest 6k time in Florida history, only 3.22 seconds behind the school record.
The SEC Championships have been held in Oxford three other times, and two of the three saw a Gator women’s runner cross the finish line first. In 2009 Rebecca Lowe finished first with a time of 20:57.35 in the 6k, and in 1996 Becki Wells finished first with a time of 17:04.7 in the 5k.
The Gators competing in the 2022 SEC Championships are below:
Women
Men
Caroline Bauer
Orlando Cicilioni
Emily Culley
Ethan Geiger
Olivia Jones
Eoin McNally
Kathryn Nohilly
Ryan Miller
Stephanie Ormsby
Josh Stern
Rylee Pustilnik
Javi Vento
Lucinda Rourke
Aiden Villasuso
Jordan Shapiro
Cavan Wilson
Emma Solis
Mac Wright
Vasileia Spyrou
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Parker Valby
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Liina Winborn
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Live results will be provided by Delta Timing and are available here<https://live.deltatiming.
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