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What are you talking about???? I never witnessed any turmoil that compares to anything that goes on with the track team these days? Lancon's teams got along so well that they were like family; they lived together, did great things together, hell...they even did less honorable things together...but they were a family that brought home gold...not last place!Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun nation
You are on the money CDEB! What Lancon did was amazing. A certain ADministration didn't help him do squat.Quote:
Originally Posted by CDeb
Boo Schexnayder has made enough money at LSU to take care of himself now; the university better get its act together before UL Track is competing in the SWAC instead of Sunbelt.
Well I do not want to name any names, but I can say one very good male triple jumper and a hurdler threw down outside of the weight room. Also, two female sprinters were involved in an altercation midway through a 200 meter sprint dunring practice. Yes the track team for the most part is a family but family's do fight. Thats just two that happened at the complex there were many others off campus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xlettrman
For those of you picking on UL Track,particularly about the "fighting" going on, let me just let you know that there are fights in other UL sports, particularly when women are involved. They are just not publicized as they are here on this site. Obviously the Track girls are more inclined to "spread the gossip/word." Let's also keep in mind that Track is such an individualized sport, so you don't necessarily have the same "team" support and friendships that you would have with other sports. This can certainly affect the way individuals deal with their teammates. I assure you Veazey has his hands full with coaching, monitoring and disciplining both men and women student-athletes. I hate to hear such negativity about the UL Track team, particularly for the current student-athletes who are working hard to build a reputable program. The negative talk about the program and the coaching staff can also hurt recruiting which will only hinder any efforts being made to build and market UL Track. Let's also keep in mind that the Track Program needs more financial and administrative support from the University.
I agree, in other sports in other universities in other states as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiki92
I can remember in the 5th grade every time I woul beat a certain person in a race he would just start hitting on me. What fun :)
I think the setup or makeup of the track world makes for a tinderbox of sorts. It is much harder to get the team concept across when you have a large group of individuals, competing as individuals, constantly trying to motivate themselves and using teammates as motivation between meets.
"One way or another I'm going to beat you" :) ?
lets skip to the bottom line...no offense to the few track athletes working hard; but the track program is horrible and Veazey is doing nothing to fix it. I saw the "throws coach"...lol...what a joke! at a district track meet this week; did he talk to one prospective athlete?... no, not one, I watched to make sure...was Veazey around to do the same ?...no!
Don't forget to come out and support the UL Track Team at the conference meet May 12th to the 14th.
On the night of the 12th the 10k will be run. The 13th and 14th will be packed with races so come support the team if you can make it!
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Lance Veazey's been spending a lot of hours preparing to host the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The University of Louisiana track coach is now trying to make sure he's still spending the time he wants and needs with his team, as the Ragin' Cajun men and women prepare for this weekend's league meet.
"I told someone the last couple of days that it didn't seem like this in 1998," Veazey said of the last time that UL hosted the league meet. "It's quite a bit of work, but you don't want to put on a bad show."
That show gets underway Friday in the first day of the three-day meet at the Cajun Track/Soccer Complex. Friday's action includes the first day of the decathlon and the heptathlon, the men's and women's discus and the men's and women's 10,000-meter runs.
The action picks up steam Saturday with five field event finals, two running event finals and preliminaries in most of the other running events. Finals in 29 different events are scheduled for Sunday's final day.
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Just putting together the logistics for the 10-team men's and women's meet can be a nightmare. The UL officials association has over 70 individuals involved in staging the meet, and the athletic department has provided new hurdles, a new shot put area and other improvements and finishing touches on the two-year-old track facility.
But Veazey said it's worth it to have the meet on familiar turf.
"For some reason we haven't traveled well the last couple of years," Veazey said. "I'm sure it has something to do with being on a bus for 10 or 12 hours and stepping off and running. Not having the travel problems with a league as spread out as this one will help.
"I'd like to think there's a home-field advantage, with a lot of the 'northern' teams having to acclimate to the humidity. But this track's still only a year old, and our guys aren't even fully used to it. And a lot of them are still trying to fight their way through finals this week."
The Cajuns are also fighting through a rash of injuries, one that has depleted squads that are already void of upperclassman leadership. Three key men's performers - Kyle Ward (hamstring injury on the first day of spring football), Luke Moody (broken leg at the conference indoor meet) and Chance Perkins (ankle ligament) - will be watching from the sidelines.
No member of the men's 4x100-meter relay squad has ever competed in the conference meet. The women's squad, meanwhile, also has youth issues ... all four legs on its 4x100 team are freshmen.
"Most of our women's team is freshmen and sophomores anyway," Veazey said, "and a lot of our experienced men are hobbled and won't be competing."
That's what makes this final week of preparation so important, and having the meet at home at least gives one extra day for that preparation.
"It could play against us," Veazey said, "but I think overall it's much more of a benefit to be running here. Everyone just has to play their role."
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Lancon never had to worry much when hosting conference because he built up fabulous relationships with people, drummed up support, and had a team that would go and work for him...no additional comment.
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Between 1991 and 1998, the University of Louisiana filled the trophy cases at Cajun Track past the overflow point.
The Ragin' Cajun men and women won a total of 17 conference track and field championships, indoor and outdoor, in both the old American South and Sun Belt Conferences.
The men's squad claimed seven straight Sun Belt outdoor titles between 1992-1998, the longest streak for any UL sport in league history, after winning the final American South title in 1991. The Cajun women won the American South in 1991 and added Sun Belt outdoor crowns in 1993 and 1997.
Since then, those trophies have gathered dust and no new awards have joined those shelves. None will be hoisted this weekend, either, when the Cajuns serve as host team for the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships which begin today at the Cajun Track Complex.
The league coaches pick the Cajuns to finish 10th - last - in both the men's and women's meets when the final results are tallied Sunday night. That's happened twice with the women since 2000, but the men have never finished lower than sixth in the outdoor meet.
However, this is a very different program from the one that was the envy of the Sun Belt less than a decade ago.
"It's definitely a combination of a lot of things since 1998," said UL track coach Lance Veazey, who as a student assistant under coach Charles Lancon from 1990-93 helped the Cajuns start that impressive streak. "Back then we weren't fighting a lot of things that we have to fight now."
Veazey, an assistant the last time UL's men won the outdoor title in 1998, cited restricted budgets and enrollments, additions to the league that brought established track powers to the Sun Belt, and a reduction in multi-sport athletes as factors in the Cajuns' recent struggles.
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The most glaring, though, was a two-year stretch without a functional home track. The Cajuns ran home meets in 2005 for the first time in two seasons, after an extensive renovation and resurfacing of Cajun Track. The lack of a facility virtually killed recruiting ... at least, the recruiting that was possible given budgetary constraints.
This year's Cajun senior class numbers two - one male and one female - out of a roster of 53 men and women.
"The freshmen that ran in 2002 got to run on it as seniors last year," Veazey said. "Those two years in between made it tough to get guys in here. Fortunately, we've been able to sign some good kids that will be with us next year. Last year we had 12 or 13 athletes that finished up, and with only the two seniors our team's mostly freshmen and sophomores."
Great for the future, but it makes it tough for this year. At the March indoor championships, UL's men finished eighth and the women 10th.
"It's a much more competitive league," Veazey said.
In the highly-successful '90s, UL had success recruiting a small number of international performers that provided instant credibility. The Cajuns also successfully brought in athletes from a solid group of Texas junior college programs, and were able to convince athletes from other UL sports to take part in track - especially around conference meet time.
Those sources have virtually dried up. NCAA regulations have tightened on junior college eligibility, most Texas juco programs have disbanded within the last decade, and Veazey said that international recruiting is a completely different game than a decade ago.
"We used to recruit a lot of those guys over the phone," he said. "Now it's much harder to convince international athletes to come in sight-unseen unless you have a huge recruiting budget, and you also face NCAA Clearinghouse, APRs and limited enrollment."
It was also common a decade ago for other Cajun athletes, mostly football players, to compete in track. Because of that, UL would dominate many of the throws and horizontal jumps.
There are a couple of footballers on this year's UL team, notably sprinters Jason Chery and Michael Adams and injured hurdler Kyle Ward, but they are the exceptions, Veazey said.
"College athletics has changed, and athletes are more sport-specific," he said. "You can't blame people for wanting to concentrate on their particular sport, since now just about all of them are year-round.
"We'll recruit athletes in the fall, but the guys all now wait until February to see if they're going to sign in football. Most of them don't make any decisions until then."
Veazey said the university, in addition to the facility renovation, has done much work on the complex itself to make this weekend's league meet possible.
"That will help us in the long run recruiting-wise," he said. "We have something to show recruits now. But it's probably going to take us maybe two years to rebuild it."
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"the last time UL's men won the outdoor title in 1998"Quote:
Originally Posted by NewsCopy
That is almost as bad as the string of bad years the football team had. I don't no what it will take but if the football team could get better again so can the track squad.
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3 p.m., Women's Long Jump finals
3 p.m., Women's Shot Put finals
6 p.m., Men's Shot Put finals
6 p.m., Men's Long Jump finals
6 p.m., Women's 100 Hurdles prelims
6:15 p.m., Men's 110 Hurdles prelims
6:30 p.m., Women's 400 Dash prelims
6:45 p.m., Men's 400 Dash prelims
7 p.m., Women's High Jump finals
7 p.m., Women's 100 Dash prelims
7:15 p.m., Men's 100 Dash prelims
7:30 p.m., Women's 800 Run prelims
7:45 p.m., Men's 800 Run prelims
8 p.m., Women's 400 Hurdles prelims
8:15 p.m., Men's 400 Hurdles prelims
8:30 p.m., Women's 200 Dash prelims
8:45 p.m., Men's 200 Dash prelims
9 p.m., Women's 3000 Steeple finals
9:25 p.m., Men's 3000 Steeple finals
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Men
Team Scoring After Two Events
1. (tie) Western Kentucky and South Alabama, 18; 3. Arkansas State, 13; 4. Troy, 8; 5. (tie) Middle Tennessee and Fla. International, 6; 7. Louisiana, 5.
Field Events
Discus - 1. Matthew Taitt, WKU, 161-7; 2. Jesse Williams, ASU, 159-10; 3. Michael Heck, Troy, 159-1; 4. Isaiah Rucker, ASU, 158-7; 5. James Thomas, MT, 158-5; 6. Oliver Kilk, WKU, 155-3; 7. Ryan Schmeling, Troy, 149-7; 8. Michael Letterbugh, FIU, 146-10. Also: 16. Ben Leonards, UL, 111-3.
Running Events
10,000 - 1. Vincent Rono, USA, 29:04.04; 2. Tonny Okello, USA, 29:07.38; 3. Derek Dell, MT, 32:42.10; 4. D.J. Keller, FIU, 32:47.05; 5. Travis Keown, WKU, 32:49.93; 6. Justin Lemaire, UL, 32:51.27; 7. Joshua Falgout, UL, 33:05.98; 8. Cosmas Sigei, WKU, 34:04.28.
Decathlon
First-day Scoring - 1. Matt VanZandt, Troy, 3623; 2. B. J. Parish, ASU, 3535; 3. Mike Conley, UNO, 3289; 4. Brian Gifford, WKU, 3250; 5. Andrew Turner, UNT, 3232; 6. Cory Harris, Troy, 3213; 7. James Hatchett, WKU, 3105; 8. Ryan Heberling, FIU, 2805.
100 - 1. VanZandt, 11.22 (812); 2. Harris, 11.33 (789); 3. Parish, 11.35 (784); 4. Conley, 11.55 (742); 5. Turner, 11.87 (677); 6. Gifford, 11.88 (675).
Long Jump - 1. Parish, 21-2 1/2 (688); 2. VanZandt, 20-10 1/2 (666); 3. Conley, 20-5 3/4 (639); 4. Turner, 19-9 1/2 (593); 5. Hatchett, 19-7 1/2 (582).
Shot Put - 1. Parish, 40-4 3/4 (625); 2. Conley, 38-3 1/2 (586); 3. VanZandt, 37-10 3/4 (579); 4. Hatchett, 37-0 1/4 (563); 5. Harris, 36-10 1/2 (560); 6. Gifford, 35-5 (533).
High Jump - 1. Gifford, 6-4 3/4 (758); 2. Turner, 6-3 1/2 (731); 3. Heberling, 6-2 1/4 (705); 3. Parish, 6-2 1/4 (705); 3. VanZandt, 6-2 1/4 (705);.
400 - 1. VanZandt, 49.01 (861); 2. Conley, 50.45 (794); 3. Hatchett, 51.05 (767).
Women
Team Scoring After Two Events
1. Fla. International, 23; 2. Western Kentucky, 15; 3. Troy, 13; 4. New Orleans, 10; 5. (tie) North Texas and Arkansas State, 8; 7. Arkansas-Little Rock, 1.
Field Events
Discus - 1. Joeane Jadotte, FIU, 141-11; 2. Monique Jordan, Troy, 140-6; 3. Sarah Lambrecht, WKU, 137-0; 4. Shenita Howell, Troy, 136-10; 5. Porsha Butler, FIU, 135-1; 6. Geri Brown, WKU, 130-1; 7. Shauna Shepherd, UNT, 128-3; 8. Rebecca Gosnell, UALR, 123-1. Also: 9. Michelle Sonnier, UL, 112-7; 15. Amy Doucet, UL, 95-3.
Running Events
10,000 - 1. Diana Jipchirchir, UNO, 35:23.02; 2. Whitney Kerth, ASU, 35:31.66; 3. Cassie Storms, UNT, 38:02.72; 4. Amanda Howard, FIU, 39:12.92; 5. Amanda Adams, WKU, 39:18.42; 6. Deidra Witherspoon, FIU, 39:27.99; 7. Danah Whitley, WKU, 39:55.69; 8. Apryl Wall, FIU, 40:09.02. Also: 13. Suzanne Boudreaux, UL, 42:26.79.
Heptathlon
First-day Scoring - 1. Deidra Wesley, UNT, 3233; 2. Florence Edi, USA, 3108; 3. Latoria English, USA, 2843; 4. Brittney Leftwich, ASU, 2768; 5. Jessica Delaunay, WKU, 2737; 6. Heather Hammond, WKU, 2698; 7. Tassia Cendejas, WKU, 2661; 8. Jennifer Hogg, Troy, 2655; 9. Erin Clymer, Troy, 2633; 10. Laureni Louissaint, FIU, 2608; 11. Kyra Kasprzyk, FIU, 2546; 12. Casey Zeller, UL, 2325; 13. Meghan Dean, ASU, 2033.
100 Hurdles - 1. Wesley, 14.55 (902); 2. Edi, 15.00 (842); 3. Leftwich, 15.01 (840); 4. Cendejas, 15.19 (817); 5. Louissaint, 15.39 (791); 6. English, 15.70 (751).
High Jump - 1. Wesley, 5-9 3/4 (941); 2. Edi, 5-6 (830); 2. English, 5-6 (830); 2. Clymer, 5-6 (830); 5. Hogg, 5-2 1/2 (724); 6. Cendejas, 5-1 1/4 (689); 6. Hammond, 5-1 1/4 (689); 6. Kasprzyk, 5-1 1/4 (689).
Shot Put - 1. Edi, 38-1 1/2 (636); 2. Delaunay, 35-10 (590); 3. Leftwich, 35-0 1/4 (573); 4. Wesley, 34-3 (558); 5. Louissaint, 33-4 3/4 (541); 6. Kasprzyk, 32-1 1/2 (516).
200 - 1. Wesley, 25.61 (832); 2. Edi, 25.97 (800); 3. English, 26.02 (795); 4. Hogg, 26.14 (785).
5. Hammond, 26.15 (784); 6. Delaunay, 26.48 (756).
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The University of Louisiana's Justin Lemaire and Joshua Falgout provided the Ragin' Cajuns with their first points of the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships late Friday.
Lemaire took a sixth-place finish in the grueling 10,000-meter run in a 32:51.27 time in his last 10K at Cajun Track, while Falgout finished one spot behind with a 33:05.98 clocking.
Lemaire, a senior from Kaplan, narrowly missed his personal best of 32:40 he ran at last year's Louisiana Classics meet.
"All I wanted to do was score," Lemaire said. "For cross country the competition was really stiff, so I just wanted to place somewhere. I felt really good, and the weather was the best you could ask for...no humidity and cool."
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The two gave the Cajuns five points after the first day, which included two men's and two women's finals. South Alabama runners went 1-2 with Vincent Rono first in 29:04.04 - believed to be the best 10,000-meter time ever in Louisiana - and Tonny Okello was second in 29:07.38.
"Two places and five points were more than I was hoping," said UL distance coach Tim Lemaire. "I'm really pleased with that. Justin ran well and Josh had a PR."
FIRST IN LINE: Florida International's Joeane Jadotte became the league's first champion this year, winning the women's discus Friday afternoon with a 141-11 effort.
Jadotte, the Sun Belt leader with a best of 163-2 this year, had a sub-par day and trailed Troy's Monique Jordan (140-6) with one throw left before uncorking her winning throw.
"I felt good in warmup," Jadotte said, "but I struggled after we got started. My coach pulled me aside and said I was going through too fast. My last throw didn't feel great, but a win is a win and it's 10 points toward that ring."
MULTI-EVENTS: North Texas' Deidra Wesley and Matt VanZandt of Troy hold solid leads after Friday's first day of activity in the heptathlon and decathlon, respectively.
Wesley, who won the Sun Belt indoor pentathlon title in February, had the best mark among the 13 heptathletes in three of Friday's four events and takes a total of 3,233 points into today's final three events. She has a 125-point lead over defending champion Florence Edi of South Alabama (3,108).
Wesley, who did not compete in last year's league meet due to injury, had the best times in both the 100-meter hurdles (14.55) and the 200-meter (25.61) and also had a best of 5-9 3/4 in the high jump which was good for 941 points. She is tied for the league's top mark in the high jump this year at 5-10.
"It was tough last year to just watch," Wesley said, "but it was good that Florence won since we're friends."
Wesley's biggest problem Friday was killing time before the high jump, since she didn't enter the competition until most of the competitors had finished. The next-best mark from the field was 5-6, and Wesley narrowly missed her attempts at 5-11.
"It was probably an hour and a half after the hurdles before I jumped," she said. "It's hard to stay in a hyped-up state of mind. I kept nicking 5-11 with my heels. That's the height I want to get before regionals."
VanZandt, who has a league-leading 6,883 total he assembled at the Alabama Relays in late March, used running-event success on his way to 3,623 first-day points. The senior opened up with a best mark of 11.22 in the 100-meter for 812 points and ended the first day with a 49.01 mark in the 400-meter for 861 points, with both marks the best in the eight-decathlete field.
Arkansas State's B. J. Parish also had the day's top mark in two events and is less than 100 points behind VanZandt with 3,535. Mike Conley of UNO stands well back in third at 3,289.
Parish had a field-best 21-2 1/2 in the long jump and 40-4 3/4 in the shot put and held the lead after four events before finishing nearly three seconds behind VanZandt in the 400.
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Veazey gives a bunch of excuses like NCAA rule changes affecting athletes from out of Country, construction of the track, etc, but most of what he said if not all affects ALL university track programs. UNO is rated above UL and they certainly suffered more during this past year '05 hurricanes.Quote:
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I do not see Veazey as the type to go out and hustle up funds/support. I went early last year prior to their season and asked about some things to be done in specific, pressure washing the facility. I then spoke with the good people that went out of their way to help me pressure wash the Baseball stadium. We took this to Gerald Hebert, found more help and more things to do at the soccer/track complex. Veazey was appreciative but just has not formed the network of support that Robe, Bustle, Steph, etc have.
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Our track program is simply flat-out embarrassing.Quote:
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The University of Louisiana stands 10th in both the men's and women's team competitions, the women picking up eight points Saturday and the men not scoring on Saturday after getting five points in Friday's 10,000-meter.
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Doesn't that just say it all. We need a real coach.Quote:
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I laughed when I read the paper today...I saw the picture of the shotputter and looked at the results and saw that he threw 43 feet; How can a track program in south LA not have one guy that can throw 50 ft.?
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Andree Bonvillain entered the University of Louisiana track and field season expecting to do well in her senior year.
Quenton Jones, fresh out of Berwick High School, didn't have such expectations for his freshman season.
When the two finished their competition Sunday at the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, each had earned all-conference honors.
Bonvillain finished tied for second in the women's pole vault with an 11-9 3/4 clearance in earning her second all-league honor in her final collegiate competition. Jones, meanwhile, finished a surprising third in the men's 400-meter hurdles with a 53.68 clocking.
The two provided the high points for the hosts in the league meet that wrapped up Sunday at the Cajun Track Complex with UL finishing 10th out of 10 teams in both the men's and women's competition. That's where the Cajuns had been predicted in the pre-meet coaches' poll.
Also as predicted, Middle Tennessee ran away with the men's team title with a total of 163 points, almost 60 ahead of runner-up Troy (104 1/2). Not as predicted, Western Kentucky rallied on the final day to claim its first-ever women's outdoor crown with 141 1/2 points, just ahead of Florida International (131 1/2).
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Bonvillain's runner-up effort was only two inches off her personal best, and she narrowly missed on her third attempt at a regional-qualifying 12-5 1/2 mark. That's the height that Arkansas State's Sara Young cleared to win the event.
"I felt good the whole day," said Bonvillain, a senior from Houma. "I only had one miss all day, and that was only when my run and steps were way over. I was pretty excited on that last clearance."
Bonvillain, Young and South Alabama's Erin Kinnear moved the bar to the regional qualifying height as the final three competitors.
"I was way over on my third attempt," she said, "but I hit it with my shin coming down."
Jones was not even ranked among the league's top 10 in the 400-meter hurdles entering the meet and narrowly qualified for the finals on Saturday. But in the finals, running out of lane one, he took advantage of that position.
"That's the worst lane you could have," he said, "but I was able to see everybody and I could see some of those guys slowing down in the last curve. I had them in my sights."
Jones finished behind Middle Tennessee's Pete Senatus, the league's Freshman of the Year who won the event in 52.76, and Jason Browhow of Western Kentucky (52.84).
"Early in the season I was dying in that curve," Jones said. "I've been working hard on my endurance, and I was able to kick it on the straightaway. It kind of surprised me that I was where I was coming off the curve."
"He's been working hard on his endurance, and on switching lead legs over the hurdles," said UL coach Lance Veazey. "When those two guys faced, he seized the opportunity."
Middle, winning its second-ever men's title, got a double-win effort from sprinter Orlando Reid and also swept both relays. South Alabama's Vincent Rono, who added the 1500 title to his 10,000 win Friday, was the Top Track Performer and the Top Point Scorer, while Troy's Michael Acree swept the horizontal jumps to earn Top Field Performer honors.
Western Kentucky only had two wins on Sunday, those from Courtney Wood (170-1) in the hammer and from the 4x100 relay squad (45.27), but got enough places to overhaul FIU. Golden Panther sprinter Donita Harmon won the 100 and 200 to earn Top Point Scorer honors while South Alabama's Ajoke Odumosu, who set meet records in both the 400 and 400 hurdles, was the Top Track Performer. North Texas' Deidra Wesley and Brandi Stanfield were named Top Field Performer and Freshman of the Year respectively.
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I'd be willing to bet that those point totals from this year's conference meet are an all-time record for lowest amount scored. And this coming from the team that once owned everybody in the conference. Is the UL administration blind?Quote:
Originally Posted by NewsCopy
Well excuses, excuses. Worst men's and womens cross country teams, worst men's and women's indoor track and field teams, and Worst men's and womens outdoor track and field teams. And to think they won CC conference and the men's team was runner up just two seasons ago. Excuses mean nothing. The proof is in the pudding. Something must be done. Lets face it. There is no team in this conference that is just that good that ULL can't compete with them. To put on this type of performance in front of a home crowd is just down right ridiculous. This is nothing against the kids who have worked their butts off all year. The problem lies much higher. You obviously have people who could care less about what happens to this program in the drivers seat. This includes coaches and administrators . They lack guidance, preparation, and motivation. Now some might see most of us "naysayers" as just people wanting to relive the glory days. The fact of the matter is that the glory days should have been this weekend. Losing is not an option.
Ok. You guys keep bagging on Coach but do any of you realise that there is no support from the university for the mens or womens program. No finacial or moral support at all. Lancon had been a fixture in the track community here for a very long time. Half of the budget he generated came from his salary. You guys want to change the track program start by donating large sums of money for recruiting, hell for that matter fund a scholarship because the university will not fund all of the ncaa allowed scholarships. You think there are great track athletes in this state you are sadly mistaken. The program will turn around due to the new track. We will hot the conference meet again next year also. Why don't you guys help out instead of _____ing about it, donate time, money, equipment ect.Quote:
Originally Posted by haha300
I can promise you the results this year will not be duplicated next year.
The time to recruit to a new track is before it is built.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun nation
What I want to know is why in the heck are we SPENDING all this money to HOST the conference meet when our program is such an imbarrassment?:confused: Our head track coach in a few years has taken a once dominant program and tanked it right into "DEAD LAST"!! Something must change! I know track and field is not a big money maker but some of our other programs are not either and they(golf, tennis, volleyball, etc) compete still near the top year in and out as of late and some have even won championships. Coaching change? I do not know, but something drastic has to happen, yesterday!Quote:
Originally Posted by king kickz
DaddyCajun:mad: