Track & Field Stays in State for Friday Meet at LSU

Friday, February 1

Baton Rouge, La.

Tulane University

LSU Bayou Bengal

Track & Field Stays in State for Friday Meet at LSU

Jan 31, 2019 | Track & Field

Live Results | Meet Information/Schedule | Meet Entries

NEW ORLEANS – After a week in West Texas, the Green Wave will be back much closer to home on Friday for the LSU Bayou Bengal meet at Carl Maddox Fieldhouse in Baton Rouge.

Competing against the Green Wave in Baton Rouge will be a group of mostly Louisiana teams including UNO, Grambling, Nicholls, Northwestern State, Southern, ULM and Louisiana-Lafayette along with the host Tigers.

Live results will be available online here.

Field events for the women will begin Friday afternoon with the pole vault starting at 2:30 p.m. Tulane will also complete in the long jump at 3:30 p.m., and the high jump and triple jump at 6 p.m.

On the track, action starts at 2:15 p.m. with the 60-meter dash preliminary round. Running continues with the 60-meter hurdles, mile, 400, 800, 200 an 3K in that order throughout the afternoon. The final races will be the 4x400 relays at 7:10 p.m.

Last week in Lubbock, Texas, at the Texas Tech Classic, the Green Wave had some excellent marks that stood out in Tulane history as well as the 2019 American Athletic Conference performance list.

Maya Harewood set two new top-10 times in program history in the 200 and the 400, with her 400 altitude-adjusted time of 55.69 being the fourth-fastest time in the conference this season. Hunter Robinson also ran a great 400 with a time of 55.85 that put her seventh in the league this season.

Brandi Hughes' 60-meter hurdles mark of 8.42 seconds (altitude adjusted) was just short of the school record and is the second-fastest time in the league this year. Nastja Modic won the 'B' section of the pole vault by clearing 3.87 meters (12-8.25) that puts her sixth in the conference, and Rebekah Markel was second in the 'A' section with a 4.07 clearance (13-4.25).

Following Friday's meet in Louisiana, the team will be heading back out west for the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 8-9.

Tulane Entries
Pentathlon: Pauline Helm
60 hurdles: Brandi Hughes, Kyah Loyd
Mile: Jennifer LaMori
60 meters: Aldrianna Dupree, Maya Harewood
400 meters: Oneke Gwan, Louise Jones, Tahja Mitchell, Kyra Ness-Lanckriet
200 meters: Aldrianna Dupree, Kyra Ness-Lanckriet, Hunter Robinson
Pole vault: Rose Brutkiewicz, Megan Fitzgerald, Rebekah Markel, Nastja Modic, Alex Potts
High jump: Olivia Hicks