LAKE CHARLES – The McNeese track and field program will continue its indoor season on Friday when it hosts the McNeese Indoor II College meet at the Ralph O. Ward Recreation Complex. A high school meet on Saturday will complete the two-day event.
The meet will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Friday with the women's weight throw and men's shot put. Running events will kick-off at 4:30 p.m. with the men and women's 55-meter hurdles and 55-meter dash preliminaries.
Joining McNeese on Friday will be: Grambling, Huston-Tillotson, LeTourneau, Loyola-New Orleans, Southeastern, Southern, TAMU-Kingsville, UL-Lafayette, UL Monroe, Next Level Athletic Club, Premier Performance Athletics, and a few McNeese alumni.
Coming off of a great showing at the Samford Invite,
Tyler Smith will toe the line in the 55m dash. His time of 6.75 in the 60m currently ranks him third in the conference.
Men' high jumper
Lentz Similien currently holds the third best jump in the Southland Conference with a height of 6-6.25. He will also be competing in the triple jump where he holds the fourth best leap of 48-6.
On the women's side, mile runner
Alex Eykelbosch will toe the line as the league leader with a time of 9:55.86.
Alanna Arvie will be competing in the weight throw and shot put, two events that she ranks in the top five of conference standing.
Also competing on Friday will be former distance runner Jarrett LeBlanc, a 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier who will run in the 3,000-meters while
Olandis Johnson will compete in the 800-meters.
Live results can be followed by logging onto McNeeseSports.com.
McNeese Entries
11:00 AM –
W Weight Throw (
Kira Benkmann,
Alanna Arvie)
M Shot Put (Garrett Dietart)
To Follow Women –
M Weight Throw (Garrett Dietart)
To Follow Men –
W Shot Put (
Alanna Arvie)
1:00 PM –
W Long Jump (
Heaven Terrell,
Malaiya Jedkins,
Carli McDonald,
Shaelyn Hines, Kionte Sampson)
2:00 PM –
W Pole Vault (
McKenzie McCoy,
Camryn Istre)
3:00 PM –
M Long Jump (
Zackery Boatright,
Darion Dunn,
Lucas Voigt,
Lewis Cain)
W High Jump (
Morgan Talley,
Carli McDonald,
Crystal Coulter)
W Triple Jump (
Shaelyn Hines,
Morgan Talley)
To Follow Women –
M Pole Vault (
Brendan Ford,
Tyler Hixon,
Adriano Theriot,
Andrew Treme,
Lewis Cain)
M High Jump (
Zackery Boatright, Kevin Tripeaux,
Lentz Similien,
Lewis Cain)
M Triple Jump (
Lentz Similien,
Darion Dunn,
Nemanja Koviljac)
4:30 PM –
M 55m Hurdles Prelims (Kevin Tripeaux,
Lentz Similien,
Darion Dunn,
Lucas Voigt,
Blake Grace)
W 55m Hurdles Prelims (
Brentney Carroll,
Shaelyn Hines,
Rachel Woods)
M 55m Dash Prelims (
Tyler Smith,
Terrill Banks,
Kobe Nevills, Andrew Socha,
Gared Brown,
Blake Comeaux,
Nemanja Koviljac,
Ethan Rapp,
Morgan Frederick)
W 55m Dash Prelims (
Morgan Talley,
Aleyah Donald,
Heaven Terrell,
Malaiya Jedkins,
Carli McDonald,
Taneisha Allen,
Brentney Carroll, Kionte Sampson)
5:15 PM –
M 1 mile (
Markus Kopp,
Joey Croft,
Luke Horgan,
Niall Holt)
W 1 mile (
Alex Eykelbosch)
5:30 PM –
M 400 meters (
Ethan Rapp)
W 400 meters (
Victoria Pierson)
5:50 PM –
M 800 meters (William Devaney,
Niall Holt,
Luke Horgan)
W 800 meters (
Bailey Fruge)
6:00 PM –
M 55m Hurdles Final
W 55m Hurdles Final
M 55m Dash Final
W 55m Dash Final
6:15 PM –
M 200 meters (
Tyler Syrie,
Blake Grace)
W 200 meters (
Victoria Pierson,
Taneisha Allen)
6:50 PM –
M 600 meters (
Terrill Banks,
Kobe Nevills,
Jakalub Rhodes,
Dimitri Thornton,
Morgan Frederick,
Blake Comeaux)
W 600 meters (
Destiny Johnson,
Shania Anthony,
Rachel Woods,
Priscilla Ibarra)
7:05 PM –
M 3000 meters (Miguel Barrera Lopez,
Aaron Gilliam,
Eric Greene,
Damian O'Boyle,
Daniel Saina)
W 3000 meters (
Jessica Fox,
Jordan Waine,
Sophie Grabner,
Ciara Gilroy, Sally Hughes,
Gladys Jerotich,
Alissa Lander,
Estela Pina, Marta Lukijaniuk)
7:35 PM –
M 4x400 relay (Smith, Rhodes, Socha, Brown, Rapp, Frederick, Cain)
W 4x400 relay
