Blaney won the meet for the second year in a row while topping the runner-up and 165-competitor field by 33 seconds. Her personal-record time of 16:50.19 broke a 13-year-old school record.

With her honor Tuesday, she becomes the first Knight to earn a conference athlete of the week distinction since Jenny Clausen on Oct. 10, 2006 (Conference USA).

Blaney and the rest of the Knights will be back on the course this Saturday in Gainesville for the Mountain Dew Invitational at 8:30 a.m.

The Lake Wales, Fla., native signed with Icon Management after the USA Championships in June. They represent numerous U.S., World and Olympic champions including LaShawn Merritt, Duane Soloman, Jeneba Tarmoh and William Claye.

“I love 麻豆映画传媒 and my teammates, and I’m really proud of everything we achieved,” Freeman said. “I’m thankful for everything my coaches did to help me get to this point. Right now, I’m just focused on getting ready for Worlds, and I’m really happy and excited to start this next part of my life. I will always be a Knight.”

In just two years at 麻豆映画传媒, Freeman left a lasting legacy. She is a nine-time First Team All-American. A two-time Conference USA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. A four-time C-USA individual champion and an eight-time medalist that helped 麻豆映画传媒 clinch three team championships during her tenure.

She was the first true freshman considered for collegiate track and field’s highest honor, the Bowerman Award, and a seven-time appointee to the watch list.

At the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships, she earned the best finish by a Knight in any event of the meet in school history with her second-place time of 11.00. The performance tied for the eighth-best mark in collegiate history and the third-best in meet history.

She capped her collegiate career at the USA Championships at the end of June by clinching silver in the 100-meter finals with the No. 2 all-time, all-dates collegiate best (10.87). As a result, she will represent Team USA at the IAAF World Championships this weekend in Moscow, Russia.

She was a part of two top-five team finishes at the NCAA Championships and a member of 麻豆映画传媒’s first top-10 national ranking during the outdoor regular season.

She ranked among the world’s fastest women in both 2012 and 2013, appeared in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd, on ESPN and has been dubbed a USA and USTFCCCA Track and Field Athlete of the Week.

“I’m very excited to have Ms. Freeman as part of the Icon branding,” her agent, Kim Holland, said. “She’s an excellent addition to our already stellar roster. I’m honored to work with such a tremendous talent.”

On Wednesday, long-time UCLA women鈥檚 head coach Jeanette Bolden was appointed as the next head coach of the 麻豆映画传媒 track and field program.

鈥淚鈥檓 extremely excited and also honored that Todd Stansbury has the faith in me to lead the track and field program,鈥� Bolden said. 鈥溌槎褂郴� is a fresh and vibrant university and has a lot of opportunities for young people. I plan to continue the upward arc of the program. Coach Caryl (Smith Gilbert) invested a lot in the team, and I just want to continue the successful path that she started to pave.

鈥淚 have been at UCLA all my life and I am grateful for the opportunities I had there. I will always be indebted to them, and I thank the athletic department, especially (athletic director) Dan Guerrero, for all they have done for me.鈥�

Bolden, who comes to Orlando after spending the last 20 years at her alma mater, will fill the void left by Caryl Smith Gilbert, who accepted the position of director of men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 track and field at USC in early June. Bolden inherits a program that has skyrocketed to the top of collegiate track and field in recent years. The Knights have won six Conference USA titles (4 outdoor, 2 indoor), recorded two top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships and racked up more than 50 All-America honors.

鈥淲e鈥檙e very excited to have a coach the caliber of Jeanette Bolden join the 麻豆映画传媒 family,鈥� said Todd Stansbury, Vice President and Director of . 鈥淭o hire a Hall of Fame coach, who has won an Olympic gold medal, coached Olympic champions and led teams to multiple NCAA Championships shows the level of commitment we have to women鈥檚 track and field here at 麻豆映画传媒. We currently have one of the top teams in the nation. With Coach Bolden leading our efforts, I believe we can become a long-term powerhouse track and field program.鈥�

Bolden’s accomplishments as a collegiate head coach, U. S. Olympic head coach and gold-medal winning U. S. Olympic athlete are unmatched in the world of track and field. As the Bruins鈥� head coach from 1994-2013, she led UCLA to three NCAA team championships — the 2004 outdoor and the 2000 and 2001 indoor titles. They were the first national indoor track and field crowns 鈥� men鈥檚 or women鈥檚 鈥� in school history.

A specialist with sprinters and hurdlers, Bolden also mentored four Bruins to six NCAA outdoor individual championships: Nicole Leach (2007/2009, 400H), Monique Henderson (2005, 400M), Sheena Johnson (2003/2004, 400H) and Joanna Hayes (1999, 400H). Since 1994, Bolden has coached more than 50 UCLA All-Americans in the sprints, hurdles and relays.

Under her direction, the Bruins won 10 Pac-10 Conference titles, including eight consecutive from 1997-2004. She is a 10-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year and nine-time United States Track Coaches Association (USTCA) West Region Coach of the Year.

In 2006, Bolden earned one of the highest honors of her distinguished coaching career when she was named head coach of the U.S. women’s track and field team for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. She was the first head coach in U.S. Olympic history to have won an Olympic medal as an athlete. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Bolden earned a gold medal on the U.S. women’s 4×100 relay and placed fourth in the 100 meters.

In Beijing, Bolden led the American women to, at the time, their third-highest medal count (23) in U.S. Olympic history and the most since the 1992 Barcelona Games. Bolden helped coach Dawn Harper (gold, 100H), Johnson (bronze, 400H) and Henderson (gold, 4×400 Relay) to Olympic glory.

On Feb. 13, 2004, Bolden was presented the prestigious C. Vivian Stringer Award, an accolade which is presented to a woman who has experienced outstanding achievement as a coach – exhibiting a high standard of propriety, imagination and innovation as a character builder in the tradition of great teacher-coaches.

Six years later, she was inducted to the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame.

Bolden has served on a number of NCAA and track and field boards and has been an assistant coach for the World Indoor and Outdoor Championships. In 1998, she was named the USOC Track & Field Developmental Coach of the Year. In 1994, Bolden served as an assistant coach for the West squad at the Olympic Festival in St. Louis, Mo. and in 2006, she served as the head coach for the 2006 World Cup, which was held in Greece.

As an athlete at UCLA from 1981-83, Bolden was a five-time All-America performer. In 1982, she helped lead the Bruins to their first NCAA Outdoor championship. She graduated in 1983 with a degree in sociology. She served as an assistant for two years before taking over the program in 1994.

Bolden and her family own the famous 27th Street Bakery in Los Angeles. She and her husband of 25 years, Al, have two children, twins Anthony and Kimberly, age 13.

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鈥淚 set out on a mission to make this program a track and field superpower,鈥� Smith Gilbert said. 鈥淲e were in the top five, both indoor and outdoor, this year. So I think the program is definitely headed in the right direction. I want to thank Todd Stansbury, Jessica Reo, Keith Tribble and so many others for the opportunity, the help and all the assistance they gave us to get us to this point. President Hitt is very supportive of the team and everybody at 麻豆映画传媒 embraced us. We made major strides in this program.

鈥淥rlando is a great place. 麻豆映画传媒 is a great place,鈥� Smith Gilbert continued. 鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be very sad. I鈥檓 excited about embarking on a new adventure. But it is going to be very hard for me to leave. We grew as a family, so they鈥檙e more than just my athletes. They鈥檙e like my little sisters and daughters. I taught them everything I could.鈥�

In her new role at USC, Smith Gilbert will be responsible for all aspects of the Trojans鈥� men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 track and field programs.

During her 麻豆映画传媒 tenure, the Knights won six Conference USA outdoor and indoor crowns. Her athletes were named All-America more than 100 times and set more than 100 school records. In the classroom, her team鈥檚 GPA exceeded 3.0 nearly every term during her tenure.

鈥淐aryl Smith Gilbert and our student-athletes are responsible for our women鈥檚 track and field program being recognized among the best in the nation,鈥� said 麻豆映画传媒 Vice President and Director of Athletics Todd Stansbury. 鈥淪he is an amazing coach and an amazing person. We certainly understand that when you have a coach who has accomplished the sort of things Coach Caryl has, that she will be presented with other opportunities. We thank her for everything she has done at 麻豆映画传媒 and wish her and her family nothing but the best in the future.鈥�

In 2013, 麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 fifth-place showing at the NCAA outdoor meet was the best finish by a non-BCS school since 2000 and its 35 points more than doubled the previous program best. Smith Gilbert was named the USTFCCA South Region Coach of the Year for a fifth time in 2013 as she guided 麻豆映画传媒 to its first-ever Top-10 outdoor ranking in the USTFCCCA poll. She was the only coach to have three 100-meter runners ranked among the Top 10-seeded qualifiers at the NCAA meet. Twelve school records were broken during the 2013 outdoor season while the team won its fourth-straight C-USA title, a feat unmatched by any other women’s track and field program in C-USA history. Octavious Freeman was the C-USA Track Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year.

麻豆映画传媒 also finished fifth at the 2013 NCAA indoor meet, as Aurieyall Scott won the 60-meter dash to become the school鈥檚 first NCAA champion in any sport. Scott was also the C-USA Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.

麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 eighth-place finish at the 2012 NCAA indoor meet was the program鈥檚 best at the time. 麻豆映画传媒 won the C-USA outdoor title and capped the season by sending four Knights to compete at the USA Olympic Trials. In 2011, 麻豆映画传媒 swept the indoor and outdoor C-USA titles as Jackie Coward was named C-USA Track Athlete of the Year and 麻豆映画传媒’s first two-time All-America first-teamer. Smith Gilbert was C-USA’s outdoor and indoor Coach of the Year. She led the 2010 Knights to the C-USA Outdoor championship. Coward became 麻豆映画传媒鈥檚 first NCAA Outdoor All-American, finishing fourth in the 100-meter hurdles.

In Smith Gilbert鈥檚 first two seasons at 麻豆映画传媒, 2008 and 2009, her athletes broke 30 of the school’s indoor and outdoor school records. She also served as the jumps and multi-events coach of Team USA at the 2009 IAAF World Outdoor Championships in Berlin.

Smith Gilbert came to 麻豆映画传媒 after five seasons (2003-07) as an assistant coach at Tennessee, where she was responsible for coaching sprints, hurdles and jumps. Smith Gilbert was an assistant coach at Alabama for three years (2000-02) and held similar responsibilities as an assistant at Penn State for two seasons (1998-99). Prior to becoming a collegiate coach, Smith Gilbert was the head coach for four seasons (1994-97) at her prep alma mater, George Washington High in Denver.

With 35 points, the Knights earned the best finish by a non-BCS team since 2000 (BYU, 4th place). They more than doubled their previous program-best point total (16 points, 2011) at an NCAA Outdoor Championship meet to take fifth place behind perennial powers national champion Kansas, Texas A&M, Oregon and LSU.

“This is the best finish in 麻豆映画传媒 history so I’m very excited about it,” 麻豆映画传媒 head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert said. “It was a big year. It was an exciting year. It was a year full of surprises. More than the finishes, the records and the championships – all of the things and injuries we overcame is (an even bigger deal) to me. Everyone stepped up and pulled through. Everyone on the team started believing that we could make things happen.”

麻豆映画传媒 entered the final day of competition with three scoring opportunities up for grabs in the 4×100 relay and 200 meters.

Alexis Faulknor, Aurieyall Scott, Afia Charles and Octavious Freeman finished runner-up to SEC Champion Texas A&M in the relay with their time of 43.36. Freeman blitzed down the final stretch, blowing by the field while hunting down the Aggies to give the Knights their best relay finish at the meet in school history, first team All-America status and eight points toward the team standings.

Roughly 30 minutes later, Freeman and Scott were at the blocks again ready to challenge LSU’s Kimberlyn Duncan – the two-time defending champion – in the 200-meter finals. Although Duncan successfully repeated, Scott earned her best finish in an individual outdoor championship final with her third-place, all-conditions personal-best of 22.48 (+3.5).

The NCAA indoor 60-meter national champion collected three first team All-American honors at this year’s meet, bringing her career total to an unparalleled 14 distinctions.

Freeman finished seventh in the race in 22.92, also picking up her third first team All-American honor of the meet. She now boasts nine career awards.

Throughout the four-day meet, the Knights brought in four medalist performances from Jen Clayton (long jump), Scott (200M), Freeman (100M) and the 4×100 relay in front of a combined attendance of 40,446.

Several Knights will set their sights on the Junior and Senior USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, held June 20-23.

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) to break her own school record. The performance ties for the eighth-best mark in collegiate history.

She finished four-hundredths of a second behind defending champion English Gardner of Oregon, who clocked the second-best time (10.96) in the history of the meet.

Scott crossed the finish line in fourth place at 11.14, just two-hundredths of a second shy of her personal best. Combined, 麻豆映画传媒’s dynamic duo hauled in 14 points in front of a national television audience while picking up All-American First Team honors. 麻豆映画传媒 is the only team in the country that boasted two top-five finishers.

The Knights have 19 points and currently stand in seventh place heading into the final day of the meet with three scoring opportunities still up for grabs. 麻豆映画传媒 has already tallied more points than any team in school history at the outdoor championships.

Freeman and Scott will compete in the 200 meters and have also qualified for Saturday’s 4×100 relay along with freshman Alexis Faulknor and junior Afia Charles after breaking the school record in the event in the semifinals.

And all of this was just in day one of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Junior Jen Clayton made history as the 麻豆映画传媒 track and field team’s highest finisher in a jumps event at the championships thanks to her third-place, wind-aided leap of 6.42m/21-00.75 (+3.3). She is just the second long jumper in school history to earn first team All-American laurels.

Meanwhile on the track, the 4×100 relay improved upon the school record set earlier this season and boasted two automatic qualifiers for Friday’s 100-meter finals.

Sophomore Octavious Freeman’s strong final leg of the 4×100 relay helped her team automatically qualify for Saturday’s finals. Alexis Faulknor, Aurieyall Scott, Afia Charles and Freeman edged SEC Championship runner-up LSU for the fastest time of the third heat (43.15) and were second only to Texas A&M for the day. The group now appears at No. 8 among all-time collegiate performers in the event.

The quartet aims to become 麻豆映画传媒’s first team to medal in a relay event in program history.

Freeman and Scott set the 100M semifinals ablaze with the two-fastest qualifying times of the day thanks to their all-conditions personal bests.

Freeman jetted to her first sub-11 performance with a wind-aided 10.99 (+2.8) to edge defending NCAA champion English Gardner. Scott clinched her heat, as well, by besting Pac-12 champion Jenna Prandini of host Oregon in 11.00 (+2.6). 麻豆映画传媒 and Oregon are the only two programs in the country with multiple entries in the finals.

Running alongside SEC champion Kimberlyn Duncan of LSU in the 100M’s final heat, Faulknor fell short of qualifying for the finals by three-hundredths of a second but earned All-American Second Team distinction with her time of 11.37 (+2.3) for 14th place.

Sophomore Sandy Jean racked up All-American Second Team laurels in the 400 hurdles with her time of 58.38 to just miss out on the finals in 10th place.

Scott and Freeman will represent the Black and Gold in 麻豆映画传媒’s only event Thursday, the 200 meters. They enter the race, which will air on ESPN3, as the top-two regional qualifiers looking to clinch their spot in Saturday’s final.

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Freshman Anne-Marie Blaney pulled out a gutsy performance in the 10,000 meters with a new school-record time of 35:03.62 to become 麻豆映画传媒’s first long-distance medalist at a C-USA Outdoor Championship. She led for 23 of the 25 laps before seniors Risper Kimaiyo (UTEP) and Rhiannon Johns (UAB) – who both rank among the NCAA’s top 20 this season – were able to capitalize off the final kick.

Blaney shaved roughly 36 seconds off her personal best to erase 麻豆映画传媒’s 12-year-old record and claim the bronze medal. Her performance impressed Johns, who approached the freshman after the race to commend her for spirited run.

Sophomore Precious Ogunleye and redshirt freshman Kalen Hambrick became the first throwing duo in program history to medal in the same event at a C-USA Championship meet thanks to their outstanding performances in the hammer throw.

The Knights kept loose and had to adapt to several schedule changes after flash flood warnings in the area turned the sky black early. Luckily, by the time the hammer was supposed to begin at 3:30 p.m. ET, the sun came out and the Knights were ready to make their mark.

Ogunleye recorded her best throw on her final attempt (55.70m/182-09) to clinch silver for the best finish of her career. She finished third in the shot put at last year’s outdoor meet. Hambrick bested her personal record by nine feet, posting 54.60m/179-02 for the first medal of her career. Both became the first Knights to medal in the hammer at a C-USA meet.

After their first day of competition, the Knights are in second place with 20 points, trailing leader SMU by eight points. Competition begins Saturday at 5 p.m. ET with the long jump.

Sunday, all events are final with the championship set to conclude with the awards presentation at 10 p.m. ET. Both @麻豆映画传媒_Track and @ConferenceUSA1 will provide updates on Twitter, and the official hashtags of the championships are #CUSAChamp and #CUSATF.

Live results will be posted at the C-USA Outdoor Track and Field Championship Central and provided by Flash Texas. The Knights hope to become the first women’s program in conference history to clinch four-straight outdoor crowns.

Freeman proved unstoppable once again by topping the 200-meter school record with the world’s top wind-legal time this year, 22.57 (+0.1). The world’s current 100-meter leader edged three-time World Champion and two-time Olympic medalist Lauryn Williams in a photo finish to claim first place.

Logan catapulted herself into the NCAA’s top 25 this year with the best performance by a Knight in the 800M since 2009, finishing third in 2:06.37. She shaved nearly three seconds off her previous season best and continues to reign as Conference USA’s top 800M runner in 2013.

After a lengthy weather delay that sidelined the field athletes for more than four hours and pushed back the race schedule by 30 minutes, the 4×100 relay opened the meet with a performance that was worth the wait. Afia Charles, Aurieyall Scott, Alexis Faulknor and Freeman combined to cross the finish line in 43.58 for the third-best time in the NCAA this season. 麻豆映画传媒 and Texas A&M are currently the only two programs in the country to boast multiple times in the event that rank among the nation’s top 10.

Charles had a breakthrough in the 400 meters with her fastest race in more than a year, clinching first place with a time of 53.77. Charles moved up on the NCAA East Region leaderboard to No. 15.

Scott etched her name on the NCAA’s top-10 leaderboard this season in her first 100-meter race since her gold-medal finish at the NACAC U-23 Championships last July. She won the second heat in 11.30 and finished second overall only to Lauryn Williams. Senior Amanda Leland produced the second-best wind-legal time of her career (11.85) in the race before topping her personal best in the 200M soon after with a time of 24.64 (+0.0).

Junior Erica Winston clocked a new personal-record 2:10.55 in her best 800M race in two years to finish seventh. Freshman Caroline Pauls won the second heat of the event in 2:13.24, which was good enough for ninth place.

Sandy Jean emerged as the top collegiate finisher in the 400 hurdles with her time of 59.20, marking her second time of 2013 that ranks among the East Region’s top 15. Freshman Rayeisha Lowe-Chin recorded the best time of her career at 1:03.60.

Three Knights finished among the top five in the 1500 meters. Sophomore Amelia Williams led the way in third place by improving her personal best for the second time this season (4:45.07). Sophomore Cody Castillo finished fourth in 4:51.58 and freshman Rachel Petrik was close behind in fifth with a time of 4:55.17.

Freshman Jocelin Adona capped the races as the Knights’ lone representative in the 3,000- meter finals and cruised to third place with a personal-record time of 11:00.56.

Freshman Megan Patterson boasted the best finish by a field athlete of the day with a second-place toss of 14.21m/46-07.25 in the shot put. The Knights also earned two top-three finishes from Erica Weiss in the pole vault after clearing 3.60m/11-09.75, and Precious Ogunleye in the discus with a mark of 45.75m/150-01.

Ogunleye led three Knights in the hammer throw with a fourth-place showing of 53.43m/175-03 for another mark that ranks among Conference USA’s top five this season.

Up next, the Knights will visit Gainesville for the second time in three weeks when they compete at the Tom Jones Invitational on April 20.

Last year, Octavious Freeman announced her presence in her collegiate outdoor debut with a Florida Relays meet record in the 100 meters with the then-world’s fastest time. On Friday, she decided to one-up herself by besting her meet record and rewriting a 15-year-old Percy Beard Track record in her first 100M race of 2013.

Her first-place, personal-best and new-school-record 11.02 (+1.2) is currently the fastest time in the world this year. It not only leads the NCAA but also matches the ninth-best time on the all-time collegiate performance list.

And her day wasn’t over, yet.

Freeman also shined in the 200 meters two hours later when she matched the NCAA’s top time this season with a wind-legal 22.85 (+1.8). She held off three-time World and Olympic gold medalist Natasha Hastings for first place.

Freshman Anne-Marie Blaney made quite a statement in the first 5000-meter race of her career by setting a new school, freshman and personal record. Her fourth-place time of 16:40.31 erased the 14-year-old school record by more than 23 seconds and currently ranks third in Conference USA. Her classmate Heather Classe also improved her personal record by roughly 30 seconds, crossing the line in 17:43.13.

Despite facing a headwind, Sonnisha Williams won the university division long jump for the second-straight year with a season-best leap of 6.15m/20-02.25 (-1.1), which ranks third in C-USA and among the NCAA’s top 20.

Sophomore Precious Ogunleye recorded the second-best discus throw of her career with a fourth-place finish of 46.03m/151-00 to jump into the top 10 of the C-USA standings.

Junior Ne’Ausha Logan continued her strong start to the outdoor season by improving upon her C-USA-best 800M time for the third-straight week, crossing the finish line in 2:09.27 for 15th place.

Sandy Jean posted the best performance by a runner in C-USA this season and jumped into the NCAA’s top-25 list this year. She narrowly missed her personal best with a season-best time of 58.96 for ninth place.

Junior Afia Charles held on firmly to her No. 2 spot among Conference USA leaders this season in the 400M with a season-best 54.01 for 18th place.

Freshman Alexis Faulknor finished 12th in the 100M with a wind-aided time of 11.61, and junior Jen Clayton produced an all-conditions personal-best 11.87 (+2.1).

Senior Erica Weiss matched the second-best mark of her career in the pole vault, breaching C-USA’s top-five leaders this season by clearing 3.75m/12-03.50 to tie for ninth place.