Riverview’s Favors has list of seven schools

Posted Jun 1, 2011 by Bill Ward

Updated Jun 1, 2011 at 11:29 AM

Riverview senior Ashley Favors, the Tampa Tribune’s Girls Track Athlete of the Year, has narrowed her list of college choices to seven Division I schools.

The schools Favors is considering include Florida, South Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Miami-Ohio, Michigan State and the University of Texas-El Paso. Favors, an honors student at Riverview, took a visit to Florida on Tuesday and is visiting Virginia today.

Favors finished the season ranked No. 1 in Hillsborough County in four events—100-meter hurdles (14.16), 300 hurdles (43.75), long jump (18-2) and 200 (25.44). At a competitive Class 4A state finals, she finished second in the 300 hurdles and, despite clipping a hurdle early in the event, ran a wind legal time of 15.04 to finish eighth.