BATON ROUGE – The LSU High School Qualifier scheduled for Saturday at the Carl Maddox Field House on the LSU campus has been cancelled.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The LSU Track & Field teams came out firing in their opener of the 2014 indoor season on Saturday as the Tigers and Lady Tigers combined to win five event titles and record 11 indoor personal-best performances as part of a strong 12-team field competing at the Auburn Indoor Invitational at the Birmingham Crossplex.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Junior Philip Primeaux finished 53rd overall and led the Tigers to a 13th-place finish in the men’s 8k with 376 points, while junior Andria Aguilar finished 51st to cross the finish line first for the Lady Tigers for the fourth straight race, as she led her squad to a 17th-place finish in the women’s 5k with 438 points at the Harry Pritchett Running Course.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Junior Andria Aguilar led the Lady Tigers for the third consecutive contest to a ninth place finish in the women’s 5k, while junior William Wiesler paced the men in their 8k to an 11th place finish this Saturday at the Chile Pepper Festival at Agri Park.
BATON ROUGE – The LSU men’s and women’s cross country teams begin their 2013 season Saturday when they compete in Florida’s Mountain Dew Invitational at the Mark Bostic Golf Course in Gainesville, Fla.
BATON ROUGE – The LSU Track & Field program is excited to welcome one of the nation’s rising stars in the coaching ranks as head coach Dennis Shaver announced Tuesday that two-time Olympian Khadevis Robinson has been appointed an assistant coach to lead the men’s and women’s middle distance and distance groups and cross country teams.
BATON ROUGE � After more than 20 years in service of the LSU Track & Field program as both a student-athlete and coach, it was announced Tuesday that Mark Elliott has resigned his position as assistant head coach of the program and has been named the new director of track and field at Clemson University. (via LSUsports.net)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The LSU men's and women's cross country teams posted solid performances while opening their 2012 season this Saturday at Vanderbilt's Commodore Classic held at Percy Warner Park.
DES MOINES, Iowa - The No. 1-ranked LSU women's track and field team showed its might in Saturday's finale at the 2012 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships as the Lady Tigers captured the program's 32nd national championship all-time with a decisive 76-62 victory over the No. 3-ranked Oregon Ducks in the four-day event held at Drake Stadium.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Defending NCAA champion and Bowerman Award candidate Kimberlyn Duncan set the track on fire in Saturday's finale at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds as she crushed her own low-altitude collegiate record in the 200-meter dash to lead 12 semifinal qualifiers on the final day of competition at Hodges Stadium at the University of North Florida.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The LSU Track & Field teams enjoyed an outstanding day of qualifying in Thursday's opener of the 2012 NCAA East Preliminary Rounds as five Tigers and Lady Tigers moved on to the national semifinals in field-event action held at North Florida's Hodges Stadium.
BATON ROUGE - LSU's junior NCAA championKimberlyn Duncan solidified her Bowerman Award candidacy as a national title favorite in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100-meter relay with a sweep of sprint titles in record-setting fashion during Saturday's LSU Alumni Gold meet at Bernie Moore Stadium.
TEMPE, Ariz. - Lady Tiger senior Brieanna Kennedyadded nearly two feet to her personal bests in the hammer and discus throws to highlight 14 personal-best performances by the LSU Track & Field teams at the inaugural Arizona State Tri-Meet held Saturday afternoon at Sun Angel Stadium.
AUSTIN, Texas - Never in the storied history of the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays had a collegiate team walked away with four women's relay championships in a single event until the Lady Tigers made history during Saturday's finale at Mike A. Myers Stadium as they claimed the title of Most Outstanding Team in the 85th running of one of the premier events of the outdoor season.
BATON ROUGE - While proving herself as an early All-America contender in the hammer throw with a fast start to the 2012 outdoor season, Lady Tiger senior Brieanna Kennedy nearly set LSU's school record in the event with a personal-best mark of 203 feet, 0 inches on her very first throw in Friday's competition at the LSU Relays being held at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium.
LAFAYETTE, La. - The LSU throwers stole the show during Saturday's action at the Louisiana Classics meet as senior Brieanna Kennedy, freshman Rodney Brownand freshman Jeremy Tuttle led the way with personal bests the 2012 outdoor season opener at the Ragin' Cajuns Track Stadium.
NAMPA, Idaho - The No. 3-ranked Lady Tigers lived up to their billing as a trophy team at this year's NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships while wrapping up the competition with the gold-medal winning run in the 4x400-meter relay on Saturday to take third place in the final team standings for the two-day meet held this weekend at the Jacksons Indoor Track.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Tigers and Lady Tigers set the track on fire in Sunday's finale at the 2012 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships while combining for six event titles on the final day of competition at the Nutter Field House on the campus of the University of Kentucky.
BATON ROUGE - Perhaps no athlete in the NCAA has displayed the level of consistency and improvement during the 2012 indoor season quite like Lady Tiger sophomore Denise Hinton as she threw a new personal best in the weight throw for the sixth-straight meet while shattering her own school record during Friday's LSU Twilight at the Carl Maddox Field House.
Heat Sheets and Meet info posted for this weekend's LHSAA State Indoor Championships.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The No. 2-ranked Lady Tigers went out with a bang in Saturday's finale of the 2012 Tyson Invitational by dominating the invitational 4x400-meter relay with the NCAA-leading time of 3 minutes, 31.55 seconds to take the title at the Randal Tyson Track Center.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Junior All-American Damar Forbes certainly lived up to his billing as an NCAA Championships contender in the men's long jump with another dominating victory Friday night at the 2012 Tyson Invitational as he emerged as the new NCAA leader with his mark of 26 feet, 7 ¾ inches to highlight the action at the Randal Tyson Track Center.
NEW YORK - The LSU Track & Field teams added a pair of event championships with two of the NCAA's leading performances by senior Michael Lauro in the men's weight throw and junior Kimberlyn Duncan in the women's 200-meter dash while wrapping up the 2012 New Balance Collegiate Invitational on Friday night at The Armory Track & Field Center.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - NCAA qualifying performances by junior Charlene Lipsey in the 800-meter run and the men's 4x400-meter relay team and a school-record setting effort by sophomore Denise Hinton in the weight throw helped set the stage for an exciting conclusion for the LSU Track & Field teams while competing in Saturday's finale at this year's Razorback Invitational.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Lady Tigers saved the best for last during Friday's opening day of competition at the 2012 Razorback Invitational as defending NCAA Indoor champion Kimberlyn Duncan and Rebecca Alexandersprinted to the two fastest times in the NCAA this season in the 200-meter dash at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas.
BATON ROUGE - The LSU Track & Field teams will compete as part of a NCAA Championships caliber field at the Razorback Invitational this weekend as many of the nation's elite programs make a trip to Fayetteville, Ark., for the two-day competition beginning Friday at the Randal Tyson Track Center.