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Butler Moves Up in Program Record Books at LSU Purple Tiger
Jan 10, 2020 | Track & Field
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — The Tulane track and field team recorded two first-place finishes in its second meet of the indoor season at the LSU Purple Tiger, totaling 12 top 10 finishes and one new top-five program record in eight events.
"I am happy to have our team back from the break and am excited about getting back to competition," head coach Eric Peterson said. "Today we saw strong performances from Maren [Butler] in the shot put, from Kyah [Loyd] and Brandi [Hughes] in the hurdles and our 4x400 meter relay team concluded the meet with a nice victory. These athletes will be key to our team's success this season and it was great to see them return from the holiday healthy and fit."
Freshman Maren Butler moved up two spots in the Tulane record books after her performance on Friday, now standing in fourth in school history with a distance of 13.99 meters in the shot put. The Green Wave newcomer finished fourth overall in the meet and was first among all freshmen competitors, recording a new career-high in her second collegiate meet.
Junior Kyah Loyd and senior Brandi Hughes both demonstrated strong performances in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing in fourth- and fifth-place overall, respectively. Loyd recorded a time of 8.56 seconds, with Hughes right behind her at 8.67 seconds.
The Olive and Blue 4x400 meter relay team finished first among 15 teams in the final event of the day, as Loyd, senior Maya Harewood, sophomore Oneke Gwan and sophomore Hunter Robinson crossed the finish line with a time of 3:51.96. The squad finished just under seven seconds ahead of the second-place Louisiana-Lafayette team.
Gwan was impressive in both events she competed in during the meet, as the second-year sprinter also won the 400-meter dash with a career-best time of 58.24 seconds.
Sophomore Louise Jones and graduate student Jessica Duckett also earned top 10 finishes among 24 runners in the 400-meter, finishing in seventh and eighth with respective times of 59.43 and 59.59 seconds. Junior Pauline Helm was next up for Tulane in 11th-place with a time of 1:00.67 and was followed by junior Asja Thompson in 15th at 1:02.04 and senior Paige Fatland in 22nd at 1:04.03.
Junior Bridgid Selfors and senior Mary Catherine Stovall finished within one second of each other in the mile, recording sixth- and eighth-place finishes, respectively. Selfors finished with a time of 5:28.50 while Stovall closed out the race at 5:29.13.
Finishing ahead of Tiger Olympian Lolo Jones in the 60-meter preliminaries was sophomore Aldrianna Dupree with a time of 7.68 seconds to stand in 11th overall. Harewood finished in 19th with a time of 7.88 seconds, while Robinson was just short of qualifying for the semifinals, finishing in ninth of 48 in the qualifier with a time of 7.88 seconds.
Thompson, Helm and Fatland wrapped up their day in the 200-meter dash, recording sixth-, eighth- and ninth-place finishes with respective times of 27.64, 27.90 and 29.25 seconds.
Next up for the Green Wave is the Samford Invitational, as the team heads back to Birmingham, Alabama to compete in the meet on Friday.
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