JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Ravin Gilbert missed by. 1 of a second of moving on to the semifinals in the 200m race on Day 2 of the NCAA East Preliminaries on the campus of North Florida.
Gilbert, the senior from Wesley Chapel, Fla., ran 23.71 Friday evening to place 27th of the 48 runners, missing by a slim fraction of making the 24 semifinalists for Saturday. The 24th qualifier ran 23.60, the 23rd ran 23.59 and the 22nd clocked 23.587. With the heats, Gilbert did not actually race against those in 22nd, 23rd, or 24th and that .