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Octavious Freeman
 Octavious Freeman
Class:
Sophomore

Hometown:
Lake Wales, Fla.

High School:
Lake Wales H.S.

Position:
Sprints

05/16/2013

NCAA East Region Preliminary Qualifiers Announced

UCF boasts 16 entries in 10 events

05/14/2013

UCF Track & Field Climbs to Best National Ranking Ever in Outdoor Season

The Knights stand among USTFCCCA's top programs at No. 9.

05/13/2013

UCF Track & Field Etches Name in History Books with C-USA Outdoor Title

The Knights become the first women's program in conference history to win four-straight crowns.

05/11/2013

UCF Freshman Claims C-USA Long Jump Crown

Alexis Faulknor makes history as first C-USA freshman to win long jump title.

05/09/2013

No. 12 UCF Track & Field On the Hunt for Fourth-Straight C-USA Outdoor Title

The Knights begin their final C-USA championship run Friday at Rice.

Personal Bests
60M: 7.15 (school and freshman record)
100M: 11.02 (school record)
200M: 22.72 (In); 22.57 (Out; school record)

2013 (Sophomore):
-Two-time NCAA Indoor bronze medalist and All-American (60M, 200M)
-Scored 12 points at the NCAA Indoor Championships to help UCF secure its best finish ever at the meet (5th place)
-C-USA outdoor 100M and 4x100 relay champion and 200M and 4x400 relay silver medalist
-Earned two silver medals at the C-USA Indoor Championships (60M, 200M) to help UCF claim its fifth overall conference championship
-Won every 60M final of the regular season and capped the year with a season-best time (7.16) in the finals at the NCAA Indoor Championships for third place
-Jetted to a personal-best 22.72 in the 200M prelims at the NCAA Championships before taking third in the finals with the second-best time of her career, 22.87
-Two-time C-USA Indoor Track Athlete of the Week
-Two-time C-USA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week
-Ran anchor for UCF's 4x100 relay team that set a school record with a time of 43.32, which sits 10th on the all-time collegiate women's 4x100 relay list
-C-USA, USTFCCCA and USATF Athlete of the Week (4/8) after rewriting her own Florida Relays meet and the Percy Beard Track facility records with an all-conditions world- and NCAA-leading 11.02 (+1.2). The time is tied for the ninth-fastest, wind-legal in-season performance in collegiate history
-Helped UCF break the program's sprint medley relay record (3:26.52) at the Pepsi Florida Relays
-Appeared in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd after adding the then-world's fastest 200M time (22.57) to her resume by edging Olympian and three-time world champ Lauryn Williams at the Hurricane Miami Invitational

2012 (Freshman):
-In her outdoor 100-meter debut at Pepsi Florida Relays, clocked then-world's fastest time by a female this year with a then-school and freshman record time of 11.10. The performance earned her a spot on SportCenter's Top 10 on April 6
-One of four Knights to compete at the USA Olympic Trials
-Two-time First Team Indoor All-American (60 and 200 meters)
-Two-time Outdoor First Team All-American (100 and 200 meters)
-Two-time C-USA Indoor Champion
-C-USA Outdoor 100m and 4x100 relay champion in addition to third-team honors in the 200M
-C-USA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year
-First true freshman ever named to The Bowerman Watch List
-Three-time C-USA Indoor Female Track Athlete of the Week
-USTFCCCA South Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
-Shattered school, freshman and personal records in the 60M after emerging as UCF's highest medalist in school history with a second-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/9) with a time of 7.15
-Posted personal-best time of 23.18 for fourth place in the 200M at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/9)
-Earned All-Conference First Team honors at the C-USA Indoor Championships (2/26) with a first-place finish of 23.54 in the 200M
-Took gold and earned All-Conference First Team recognition with a time of 7.25 in the 60M
-Named the Freshman of the Meet and the High Point Scorer of the Meet
-A member of the 4x100 relay team that broke the school record with a first-place time of 43.35, which ranked fourth among the NCAA's top performances this year, at the Tom Jones Invitational (4/21)
-Topped her own school record and set the C-USA Outdoor Meet record in the 100-meter finals with her gold-medal finish of 11.09
-Named the Freshman of the Meet en route to helping the team to its third-straight C-USA Outdoor Championship title
-One of a school-record 14 competitors to represent the Knights at the NCAA East Preliminaries (5/24) and one of UCF's nation-best four entries in the 100M
-Topped her own school record, freshman record and personal best in the 200M in the semifinals at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a time of 22.74 before finishing fourth in the event in the finals
-Took fifth place in the 100M finals at the NCAA Championships
-Advanced to the 100M semifinals of the USA Olympic Trials, where she missed the finals by two-hundredths of a second

Prior to UCF:
-Named to USA Today's All-USA Track and Field Sprints Team
-Earned 10 individual gold medals during her four-year career at Lake Wales Senior High School
-Finished her senior year ranking first in the nation in the 100M and 200M
-Became the third girls runner in Florida state history to win the state championship in the 100 and 200-meter races all four years of high school
-Placed second in the 100 and 200-meter races at the 2010 Nike Outdoor Nationals and broke the meet record in the 100M with a time of 11.27...Set a New Balance Nationals meet record in the 100M with a time of 11.27 for the gold medal in June 2010
-Placed first in the 100m at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals in June 2011

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