A UCF Knight is one race away from her ticket to the London Games.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Aurieyall Scott advanced to the 200-meter finals with her all-conditions best time of 22.56 (+3.4) in the semifinals Friday evening. The speedster jetted to the fourth-fastest time in the first heat and the seventh-fastest time overall for her shot at becoming UCF’s first track Olympian.<\/p>\n
Scott measured up against Jeneba Tarmoh, who finished in a dead heat with Allyson Felix in the 100 meters earlier this week, and Bianca Knight, 2011 World Championships gold medalist. Her time was good enough to advance to the eight-competitor final, which will take place Saturday at 9:50 p.m. on NBC.<\/p>\n
Scott is one of two collegiate athletes to advance to the finals, joining NCAA champion Kimberlyn Duncan in the field of eight.<\/p>\n
Freshman Octavious Freeman also competed in the 200-meter semis, lining up against Duncan; two-time Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross, who holds the world’s fastest time this year; and World Championships gold medalist Shalonda Soloman. Although she ran a school-record time of 22.71 (+0.6), she was disqualified for running out of her lane.<\/p>\n
Freeman wraps up her stellar freshman season as a four-time NCAA All-American, the Conference USA Track Athlete of the Year and the first true freshman ever named to the Bowerman Watch List.<\/p>\n
Junior Sonnisha Williams also finished her season at the Trials on Friday in the long jump, finishing 17th in the semifinals with a leap of 6.15m\/20-2.25 (-0.2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UCF Knight is one race away from her ticket to the London Games. Sophomore Aurieyall Scott advanced to the 200-meter finals with her all-conditions best time of 22.56 (+3.4) in the semifinals Friday evening. The speedster jetted to the fourth-fastest time in the first heat and the seventh-fastest time overall for her shot at becoming UCF’s first track Olympian.…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":38352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[381,739,3346,3470,4348,4764,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-38351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-aurieyall-scott","tag-caryl-smith-gilbert","tag-ncaa","tag-octavious-freeman","tag-sonnisha-williams","tag-track","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n