After nearly ten hours of travel, the UCF women's track and field has arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska to participate in this weekend's Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. The Knights will compete against some of the top teams in the nation inside the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Knights men's basketball team continues its hot play
winning five of its last six games and has a 4-1 record in Conference USA. UCF will hit the road and head to New Orleans
for a Wednesday night matchup against the Tulane Green Wave. The team will then
head north to Huntington, West Virginia to face the Marshall Thundering Herd on
Saturday afternoon.
Junior Isaiah Sykes has been scoring from everywhere on the
court recently. In the last three games, the Detroit, Michigan native scored at
least 20 or more points. He also had a 21 point and 10 rebound performance
against the SMU Mustangs, which was his third double-double of the regular
season.
The women's track and field team will compete in one of its
most competitive indoor meets of the season at the Frank Sevigne Husker
Invitational. The Knights are coming off another successful meet at the Hokie
Invitational where distance runner Anne-Marie Blaney set another freshman
record. Blaney ran a record 17:07.74 for first place in the 5,000 meters.
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from this week's Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. Continue to check
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The men's basketball team is getting ready for another
contest against a team from Texas after an exciting overtime win against the Houston
Cougars this past weekend.
Isaiah Sykes scored a game-high 22 points and grabbed nine
rebounds, while both Keith Clanton and Calvin Newell combined to score 34 of
the team's 79 points. The win marked UCF's second victory in Conference USA
play and puts them in a tie for fourth place in C-USA.
This Wednesday, the men's basketball team will face the Rice
Owls. On Saturday, the Knights will go up against the SMU Mustangs and new head
coach Larry Brown. The longtime head coach has spent the majority of his
coaching career in the NBA, but the last college team he coached was the Kansas
Jayhawks in 1988. He led them to the NCAA Championship that season.
In track and field, the Knights will compete in the Hokie
Invitational in Blacksburg, Virginia. UCF has been off to a hot start and was
very impressive last week at the Gator Invitational and the Auburn
Invitational.
At the Auburn Invitational, freshman distance runner
Anne-Marie Blaney broke the school record in the 3000 meters for the second
week in a row with a time of 9:44.58. Sophomore Octavious Freeman ran a nation's
best 7.19 seconds in the 60 meter dash.
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A tough overtime loss for the UCF men's basketball team
overshadowed career games for Keith Clanton and Tristan Spurlock, the Knights
will look to bounce back this weekend when they hit the road again and travel
to Houston to take on the Cougars Saturday night.
Clanton scored 36 points and Spurlock added a double-double
with 23 points and 11 rebounds in UCF's 88-85 overtime loss against ECU. The
Knights will face the Pirates one more time this season when ECU travels to
Orlando on February 9th.
The women's basketball team will be back home this upcoming
weekend after a tough 69-54 loss against the SMU Mustangs. UCF will host the
Southern Golden Eagles Sunday afternoon in the UCF Arena.
The women's track and field is coming off a very successful
Kentucky invitational where the team finished with eight marks that rank among the NCAA's top 10
and a new freshman record in the 3,000 meters by Anne-Marie Blaney.
The Knights will travel to Gainesville to compete in the
Gator Invitational and to Birmingham, Alabama to take part in the Auburn
Invitational.
Also, keep a close eye Thursday night on the MLS Draft. UCF
men's soccer standout Deshorn Brown is expected to be a Top 10 selection. Find
out more about Brown and the rest of the UCF athletic squads in the video
above.
With Christmas only weeks away, the UCF track and field team got into the holiday spirit by spending time Saturday morning volunteering at the Safehouse of Seminole County.
Twenty-four members of the team helped the shelter, which serves women and children who are victims of domestic abuse, get a little more festive by decorating the house with Christmas lights. The Knights also helped sort gifts - enough to fill 10 shopping carts -- and cleaned the home's outside deck.
Check out some photos of today's community service.
Several members of the track and field team were on hand Thursday night to receive a special honor from the UCF Student Government Association.
The SGA presented the Knights with a resolution to congratulate the team on its successful 2012 season that saw the Knights clinch their fourth Conference USA championship, claim 13 All-American honors and send four competitors to the USA Olympic Trials.
"The reason the Senate chose to honor the team was because it is a huge source of UCF pride to see the success of our athletic teams," said Matthew Goodison-Orr, chairman of the Campus Relations Committee. "The Senate, especially the Campus Relations Committee, serves to acknowledge the accomplishments of the students that make this university as great as it is. Winning a championship is not easy as it requires hard work and determination of unimaginable levels. The women's track team deserves to recognized for the fruits of their labor."
Assistant coach Paul Brown and sophomore Sandy Jean along with UCF
captains Erica Weiss and Sonnisha Williams accepted the recognition on the
team's behalf. The quartet received a standing ovation from the Senate.
