The University of Florida women’s track and field team used an all-around impressive performance, earning points in all areas, to capture its first Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championship since the 2003 season. The Gators scored 135.5 total team points on Sunday at Percy Beard Track and James G. Pressly Stadium to secure the victory in front of a raucous home crowd.

The unranked Florida women claimed the event, defeating No. 4 LSU (113) and No. 12 Tennessee (106). The Gator men’s team finished second overall with 129 points. Arkansas won the 2009 SEC men’s outdoor championship with 141 points, while LSU was third with 98.50.

In total, the Florida men’s and women’s teams won nine individual SEC championships during the course of the weekend, claiming league crowns in the men’s decathlon, women’s steeplechase, women’s long jump, women’s triple jump, women’s javelin, women’s shot put, men’s 4x100-meter relay, men’s 200-meter dash and the men’s 400-meter dash.

Junior sprinter Calvin Smith captured the 2009 men's Commissioner’s Trophy, awarded to the league’s high-points scorer at the outdoor championships. Smith finished with 22 total points, earning an SEC individual championship in the 400-meter dash, a runner-up finish in the 200-meter dash and he was also part of an SEC Champion 4x100-meter relay team and a third-place 4x400-meter relay team.

Junior thrower Mariam Kevkhishvili set a new Southeastern Conference outdoor record in the women’s shot put with a winning throw of 59-2.75/18.05m. That personal-best mark goes down as the top throw in the country so far this season and breaks former Gator Kimberli Barrett’s SEC shot put record of 57-6, achieved during the 2004 campaign.

Freshman thrower Keely Medeiros finished second in the women’s shot put with an NCAA regional-qualifying toss of 54-3.25/16.54m to help the Gators earn 18 points in that event and lock up their league championship.

Junior sprinter Jeremy Hall turned in the ninth-fastest men’s 200-meter dash time in school history, clocking a personal-best time of 20.51 (-1.1) to win the event. Smith, who was second in the men’s 200-meter dash in a time of 20.72, captured the men’s 400-meter dash title in a personal-best time of 44.96.

The Florida men’s 4x100-meter relay team registered the third-fastest time in that event in school history (38.74), winning the school’s first title in that event. The relay team consisted of Hall, Smith, Wilks and Jeff Demps. Hall turned in a major personal-best in the men’s 100-meter dash to finish as the runner-up in that event. He clocked a 10.08 (+1.1), which marks the fourth-fastest time in school history in the men’s 100-meter dash.

Junior jumper Shara Proctor claimed the SEC women’s triple jump on Sunday after claiming the long jump on Saturday. She finished second in the Commissioner’s Trophy standings with 20 total points. Her triple jump leap of 44-0.75/13.43m (+3.6) broke her own school record in the event.

Junior thrower Evelien Dekkers won the SEC women’s javelin title for the second consecutive year, using a winning and NCAA regional-qualifying toss of 173-11/53.02m. That mark was a personal-record for Dekkers, who eclipsed her previous best of 173-4/52.84m. Junior Star Sansone was fifth in the women’s javelin, helping the Gators to earn 13 points in the event. Sansone turned in an NCAA regional-qualifying mark of 142-5/43.40m.

Junior distance runner Charlotte Browning finished as the runner-up in the women’s 1,500-meter run, clocking a personal-best time of 4:19.66. Sophomore Kaitlin Shiver was sixth in a time of 4:26.66, as the Gators earned 11 points in the event. Browning also finished sixth in the finals of the women’s 800-meter run.

Florida returns to action May 29-30, when it travels to Greensboro, N.C., to participate in the 2009 NCAA East Regional.