Three was the lucky number for the Gators on Saturday night in Nampa, Idaho.
Three
consecutive team NCAA Championships. Three straight individual 60 meter
titles for sprinter Jeff Demps. Three individual NCAA crowns for Demps,
junior sprinter Tony McQuay and junior jumper Omar Craddock . Third
straight year that the Gator men have had to overcome adversity to take
it all.
After losing senior multi-event athlete Gray Horn, the
projected winner of the men's heptathlon headed into Saturday's
competition, to an injury during pole vault warm-ups, the Gators
responded.
Florida's men won the 2012 NCAA Indoor Track &
Field Championship with a total of 52 points, edging SEC Champion
Arkansas by five points (47). The Gator women scored 22 points for a
ninth-place finish, as Oregon's women earned their third consecutive
NCAA Indoor Championship with 49 points, easily cruising past runner-up
Kansas with 30.
