COLLEGE HEAT SHEETS | COLLEGE MEET SCHEDULE
HIGH SCHOOL HEAT SHEETS | HIGH SCHOOL MEET SCHEDULE
McNeese track
The mile run, both men and women, is expected to be one of the highlights of the Jeff Davis/McNeese II indoor track and field meet on Friday in the Ralph O. Ward Rec-Complex on the McNeese State campus.
Runners will be shooting at complex records of 4:07.90 for the men and 4:49.40 for the women.
The meet is scheduled to get underway at 1 p.m. and the mile run is slated for 4:30 p.m.
Teams entered are those from Texas Southern, UL Lafayette, Nicholls State, Grambling, Southeastern Louisiana, Dillard, Texas-Pan American, TAM-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State, Southern (BR), Southern (NO), Loyola and Arkansas Baptist.
McNeese State's Jarrett LeBlanc will be one of the favorites in the men's mile. He won the event at the first McNeese indoor meet held this season with a 4:10 clocking and that mark leads the Southland Conference.
Expected to provide him the most competition will be teammate Johnathan Koenck who finished second in the event in the earlier meet, and Patrick Kimeli of TAM-Corpus Christi.
Also entered are Cowboy runners Alex Bruce-Littlewood and Joshua Sawe.
In the women's mile, McNeese has two strong contenders in Amy Talbot and Fionnuala Ross. Talbot won the race in the earlier meet with Nicholls' Ingvild Vedde second.
A couple of other Southland Conference leaders will be participating, these being Southeastern Louisiana sprinter Shannon Grove and shot putter Shalicia Rochon.
Grove is entered in the 55 meters and the 200 meter runs and Rochon in the women's shot put for which she has a 46-6.75 best.
On Saturday high schools will take over with over 800 prep athletes expected to be in attendance. Action that day will begin at 9 a.m.