Track and Field Returns to Baton Rouge for LSU Twilight

Friday, February 15

Baton Rouge, La.

Tulane University

LSU Twilight

Track and Field Returns to Baton Rouge for LSU Twilight

Feb 14, 2019 | Track & Field

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NEW ORLEANS – In its final tuneup before the indoor conference championship, the Tulane track and field team will stay close to home on Friday to take part in the LSU Twilight meet in Baton Rouge.

The Green Wave will be competing against a bevy of local and regional teams including Division I competition LSU, McNeese State, Nicholls, UNO and Northwestern State.

Tulane will see action in limited events during this meet as just a small group of athletes will compete. Pauline Helm and Emma King will be the only competitors in the field, participating in the high jump at 5:30 p.m.

On the track, Helm and Kyah Loyd will race in the 60-meter hurdles; Kyra Ness-Lanckriet, Oneke Gwan and Louise Jones will run the 400; and Jennifer LaMori and Mary Catherine Stovall will run the mile.

Live results will be available online through Delta Timing.

With the conference championship just a week away, Tulane has plenty of impressive marks in the league standings. Rebekah Markel currently ranks first in the American Athletic Conference and 11th in the nation in the pole vault when she cleared a height of 4.33 meters (14-2.5) at last week's Don Kirby Elite Invitational. Teammates Nastja Modic and Alex Potts are tied for sixth in the league so far with a clearance of 3.92 meters in the event.

Currently second in the conference in the 60-meter hurdles is Brandi Hughes who scored a time of 8.40 seconds the last time Tulane was in Baton Rouge two weeks earlier. Loyd is also seventh in the league so far in the 60 hurdles with her time of 8.53 seconds. In the 60-meter dash, Aldrianna Dupree has the eighth-best mark in the league at 7.49 seconds.

Freshman Tahja Mitchell had strong meet in New Mexico last weekend, running a 55.81-second 400 and a 24.51-second 200 that put her in the top 10 in school history in both events and in the top 16 in the league so far this year.

In the triple jump, Trina Malej's distance of 12.49 meters (40-11.75) puts her sixth in the league so far this year.

After this weekend's opportunity to put some more marks high in the league rankings, Tulane will take part in The American Indoor Championship at the Birmingham Crossplex on February 22-23. This will be Tulane's third meet at the Crossplex this season.

Tulane Entries
Track
60 hurdles: Pauline Helm, Kyah Loyd
400: Kyra Ness-Lanckriet, Oneke Gwan, Louise Jones,
Mile: Jennifer LaMori, Mary Catherine Stovall
Field
High jump: Pauline Helm, Emma King