Marvin Bracy

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Marvin Bracy
Florida State Seminoles — No. 10
Wide Receiver Freshman
Major: Undeclared
Date of birth: (1993-12-15) December 15, 1993
Place of birth: Orlando, Florida
Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Weight: 172 lb (78 kg)
Career history
High school: Orlando (FL) Boone
 College(s):
Stats at ESPN.com

Marvin Bracy (born December 15, 1993) is an American football wide receiver for the Florida State Seminoles. He also was one of the fastest junior athletes in the world. Bracy has run 10.19 or better five times, but each with slightly above legal wind assistance.[1]

High school career

Bracy attended William R. Boone High School in Orlando, Florida, where he also played American football at the wide receiver position. In August 2010, the Orlando Sentinel ranked him as the No. 6 prospect from Central Florida in the class of 2012.[2] By October 2010 he had received at least six scholarship offers, including from Florida State University and the University of Miami.[3] In July 2011, Bracy committed to Florida State University for football and track.[4][5]

Bracy participated in the 2012 Under Armour All-America Game. He made ESPN SportsCenter’s top 10 plays of the night with an acrobatic one-handed, 32-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter.[6]

Track

Marvin Bracy
Medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for the  United States
Pan American Junior Championships
Gold 2011 Miramar 100 m
Gold 2011 Miramar 4×100 m relay

At the Florida High School Class 4A track and field meet in May 2010, Bracy swept the 100 meter and 200 meter dash. He won the 100 meter in 10.19 seconds, the fastest time in state meet history.[7][8][9] If it had not been for the wind assistance (+2.8 m/s), this also would have been a new World Youth Best (currently held by Rynell Parson). His fastest wind-legal time of the season, 10.42, tied Damiere Byrd and Odane Skeen for third place among youth sprinters in 2010, behind David Bolarinwa and Miles Shuler.[7]

Easily the youngest in a race dominated by college runners, Bracy finished sixth in the 100-meter dash at the USA Track & Field Junior National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.[10] In July, at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada, Bracy ran a relay leg for the U.S. squad in the 4×100 metres relay heat.[11]

He was an All-USA high school track and field team selection by USA Today in 2010, and 2011.[12][13]

On March 26, 2011 Bracy won the men's open 100-meter dash title at FSU Relays in Tallahassee.[14] He clocked a 10.28-second time, a new career best. Bracy also tied for No. 4 on the Florida all-time list with 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix, who clocked a 10.28 time as a Coral Springs High School senior in 2004.[14]

In June 2011 Bracy ran away with the 100-meter dash title at the 2011 USA Track and Field Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, clocking the second-fastest time in Florida high school history, 10.05 seconds.[15] Only Jeff Demps, co-holder of the junior world record (10.01 sec), sits atop of Bracy in the all-time list. If it had not been for the wind-assistance (+2.2 m/s), Bracy's time would be placed sixth on the IAAF all-time junior toplist, behind only Demps, Darrel Brown, Marcus Rowland, D'Angelo Cherry and Christophe Lemaitre.

Starting of the 2012 track season, Bracy ran a world leading 6.08 seconds in the 55 meters at the Jimmy Carnes Youth Invitational track and field meet in Gainesville.[16] He competed in the 2012 United States Olympic Trials.

Personal bests

Event Time (seconds) Venue Date
60 meters 6.54 Fayetteville, Florida February 8, 2013
100 meters 10.05 Eugene, Oregon June 24, 2011
200 meters 21.02 Jacksonville, Florida May 5, 2012

References

  1. ↑ Collings, Buddy (March 31, 2012). "Marvin Bracy takes Texas Relays 100 dash title in blazing 10.06 time". Orlando Sentinel. 
  2. ↑ "Sentinel's 2012 Central Florida Super60". Orlando Sentinel. August 13, 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Want Speed?". Scout.com. October 26, 2010. 
  4. ↑ Long, Corey (July 14, 2011). "Marvin Bracy picks Florida State". ESPN. 
  5. ↑ Krider, Dave (July 16, 2011). "Florida State lands nation's No. 1 sprinter Marvin Bracy in two sports". MaxPreps.com. 
  6. ↑ Under Armour All-American Game: Marvin Bracy TD earns No. 3 spot on ESPN top 10 plays
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "100 Metres Youth 2010". IAAF.org. Retrieved April 3, 2011. 
  8. ↑ "Bracy 10.19 *Unofficial State Record, 2010 Florida 4A". FloTrack. May 8, 2010. 
  9. ↑ Collings, Buddy (August 15, 2010). "Florida State tells Boone speedster Marvin Bracy he'll be getting an early fax on Sept. 1". Orlando Sentinel. 
  10. ↑ Collings, Buddy (June 24, 2010). "Boone’s Mavin Bracy places sixth in Jr. Nationals 100 dash". Orlando Sentinel. 
  11. ↑ "4x100 Metres Relay Heats Results". IAAF.org. July 23, 2010. 
  12. ↑ "All-USA high school track and field teams". USA Today. July 22, 2010. 
  13. ↑ "All-USA high school track and field teams". USA Today. August 11, 2011. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Collings, Buddy (March 26, 2011). "Boone's Bracy blows away college runners". Orlando Sentinel. 
  15. ↑ Collings, Buddy (June 24, 2011). "Boone sprinter runs second-fastest time ever for Florida high-schooler". Orlando Sentinel. 
  16. ↑ Hays, Chris (January 29, 2012). "Orlando's Marvin Bracy runs world's fastest indoor 55 meters of season". Orlando Sentinel. 

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