While the outside temperatures across Louisiana may be below freezing this week, things are heating up indoors as the Louisiana HS indoor heads into week No. 3 and this Saturday's LSU HS Qualifier at the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse on the campus of LSU. MileSplit LA will have all of the action beginning for you at 9:55am.
West Feliciana's Tristen Harris is one of only two long jumpers in the nation who have broken the 20 ft barrier. She jumped 20-0.5 at the North Texas Showcase in December. The performance held as the No. 1 time in the nation until last Saturday when Skylynn Townsend, a University of Georgia signee, jumped 20-2.5 at the Arkansas HS Invitational.
Harris is not the only high school athlete in Louisiana who has had a No. 1 ranking during the early part of the season. Scotlandville's Makeriah Harris clocked a time of 8.50 in the 60m hurdles at the FasTrak Athletix Indoor Challenge in Houston last month.
Harris returned to Houston last weekend where she competed at the C...