{"id":218255,"date":"2026-04-04T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218255\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:01:08","slug":"white-frattura-eclipse-liberty-records-at-florida-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218255\/","title":{"rendered":"White, Frattura Eclipse Liberty Records at Florida Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Liberty opened the Florida Relays with a pair of program record-breaking performances, Friday at Percy Beard Track. Markus White<\/a> won the men’s long jump invite section with a program-record 25-10.25 leap, while freshman Isabella Frattura<\/a> reached 166-1 to break the women’s javelin standard for the second time in as many meets to begin her collegiate career.
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\nMen’s Day 1 Recap

\nCompeting against a field which included Florida’s Temoso Masikane (sixth place at the 2026 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships), White reached 25-6 into a headwind in round one to take the lead for good.
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\nHis record-breaking 25-10.25 effort came in round five, improving upon White’s own 25-8 standard from the 2025 CUSA meet. It also marked the top wind-legal effort in Flames history, bettering Chad Wilson’s 25-6.75 leap from the 2004 IC4A Championship.
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\nWhite’s distance from Friday ranks No. 4 nationally during the early stages of the 2026 outdoor campaign. It also earns him a trip to the NCAA Division I East First Rounds meet for the second year in a row.
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\nJust prior to an approximately 90-minute weather delay, Josh Blalock<\/a> lowered his 400 hurdles season best to 52.26. He took 19th place in the event, best among CUSA competitors on the day.
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\nWomen’s Day 1 Recap
\nFrattura put an exclamation point on the Flames’ day of competition, under the James G. Pressly Stadium lights. For the second meet in a row, her top javelin effort (166-1) came in round six.
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\nThe distance was good for fourth place in the competition and eclipsed her 163-4 heave from the March 21 Virginia Opener. Frattura became the Lady Flames’ first member of the 50-meter club, reaching 50.62 meters on her final attempt of the night.
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\nSophie Gonzalez<\/a> also found success in round six, posting a season-best 199-9 for sixth place in both the women’s hammer competition and in program history.
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\nLiberty got top-10 performances in both vertical jumps, courtesy of Katie Urbine<\/a> (tied for eighth in women’s pole vault, 12-9.5) and Eva Whiteman<\/a> (tied for eighth in women’s high jump, 5-3.75).
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\nLong jumping in competition for the first time since January, Rebecca Allen<\/a> finished a team-best 16th in the event’s open section. Her best mark of 18-1.5 came into a considerable headwind.
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\nMen’s Day 1 Event Winners
\nMarkus White<\/a> \u2013 Long Jump Invite \u2013 25-10.25
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\nMen’s Day 1 Record Breakers
\nLiberty Record \u2013 Markus White<\/a> \u2013 Long Jump \u2013 25-10.25
\nPrevious Record: 25-8 by White at the 2025 CUSA Championship on May 16, 2025 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
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\nWomen’s Day 1 Record Breakers
\nLiberty Record \u2013 Isabella Frattura<\/a> \u2013 Javelin \u2013 166-1
\nPrevious Record: 163-4 by Frattura at the Virginia Opener on March 21
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\nNew Men’s Day 1 NCAA Division I East First Rounds Qualifiers
\nMarkus White<\/a> \u2013 Long Jump \u2013 25-10.25
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\nDay 1 Updates to Liberty’s All-Time Men’s Top 10 List
\nLong Jump \u2013 No. 1 \u2013 Markus White<\/a> \u2013 25-10.25
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\nDay 1 Updates to Liberty’s All-Time Women’s Top 10 List
\nJavelin \u2013 No. 1 \u2013 Isabella Frattura<\/a> \u2013 166-1
\nHammer \u2013 No. 6 \u2013 Sophie Gonzalez<\/a> \u2013 199-9
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\nUp Next
\nLiberty will close out its stay at the Florida Relays on Saturday. The Flames’ first event of the day will be the open men’s discus at 9 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Liberty opened the Florida Relays with a pair of program record-breaking performances, Friday at Percy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-218255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}