The Book CC Track & Field 2006-07

[Turbine]

Did ya'll read/enjoy my op/ed in today's Advertiser?

Fan-tastic

More, more, more . . .

[Cajunrunner]

Nice job Nick. Keep pushing our Cajuns.

We've missed you the last couple of years in our Erath 4th of July Run. Try to make it back next year.

Your race director and fellow alum.

Skeeter, is that you?

I don't like racing unless I'm in shape, something I haven't been for about 2 years now. Now my wife is due in April, so getting into shape for July could be tough, but hey, maybe I'll give it a shot.

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Two names symbolize UL's track and field program: Bob Cole, for those who have been around the program for a long time, and Charles Lancon, for those whose Ragin' Cajun experiences are more recent. Now both of them are gone, and it's time to put their names where they belong ... over the entrance to the Cajuns' track facility just off Bertrand Drive. Lancon left us in 2002, in the middle of his 13th year as UL's track coach following an already-legendary three-decade career in the local prep ranks. Cole retired in 1984 after two decades of running the Cajun program, and spent most of his time since then fishing Toledo Bend and tending his gardens until his health deteriorated over the last few weeks. The rest of the story Dan McDonald Advertiser

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BATON ROUGE – The 2007 indoor track and field season began for Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns as the men’s and women’s teams participated in the Purple Tiger Indoor Track and Field Classic Saturday, Jan. 13 at Carl Maddox Fieldhouse. The Ragin’ Cajuns took abbreviated squads to the meet as only 12 women and 13 men competed in the season opener. Freshman Constance Robinson had a spectacular debut. The Desoto, Texas, native claimed the championship in the women’s 400-meter dash stopping the clock in 1:01.18, edging out Southern Miss’ Jamaka Wall (1:01.56). Chiara Obey and India Bell both qualified for the women’s 60-meter hurdles finals. Obey came in 13th (9.78) while Bell was 17th (9.88). Sophomore Toni Lee gave a great effort for UL in the women’s long jump. Lee came in a close second with a leap of 18-3 1/4. She was right behind Southern Miss’ Ashley May who jumped 18-8 1/2. On the men’s side Stacey Fuller gave UL another stellar freshman debut. The Dallas product finished in second place in the 400-meter run completing the trek in 50.01 seconds. He was barely bested by Sam Houston’s Michael Courtney who ran in 49.83 seconds. The Ragin’ Cajuns had Chreston Anderson qualify in the men’s 60-meter dash. Anderson clocked in at 7.03 in the prelims and ran an even 7.00 in the finals, finishing 11th overall. The Cajuns other Top 10 finish on the men’s side came from sophomore Quenton Jones in the 400-meter dash. Jones was ninth with a time of 52.85. Luke Moody gave the men’s team a qualifier in the 60-meter hurdles. Moody crossed the finish line in 8.75 seconds during prelims and came back with a time of 8.81 seconds to place 15th in the finals. The Cajuns had three participants in both the men’s and women’s 3,000-meter run. Brandon Orso, D.J. Hebert and Phillip Guidry were the men’s representatives with Orso and Hebert each in the Top 20. The women’s trio included Casey Brown, Callie Picou and Stephanie Harris. Brown posted the best time of any Cajuns runner in the event (men or women) as she finished 11th ending the run in 11:35.54. The Ragin’ Cajuns will continue their 2007 indoor season Thursday-Friday, Jan. 25-26 as they return to Baton Rouge for the LSU Combined Events (Jan. 25-26) and the Bayou Bengal (Jan. 26). LOUISIANA SI

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BATON ROUGE, La.-Louisiana’s Lady Cajuns track and field team competed in the LSU Twilight on Friday. The women faired well in the field events, with Latoya Celestine finishing second in flight 1 of the long jump with a distance of 5.78 meters. Constance Robinson placed first in section 4 of the women’s 400-meter dash with a time of 1:00.15, while Lina Futi placed second. Quantisha Rambo placed sixth in section 1 of the women’s 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.29 seconds. Chiara Obey finished 2 in section 2 with a time of 9. 46 seconds while India Bell finished third. Callie Picou placed sixth in section 1 of the 3000-meter run with a time of 11:21.08, and Alix Stelly followed with a close seventh. The Cajuns men’s and women’s track and field team will compete at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Meet Saturday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 25 In Jonesboro, Ark. LOUISIANA SI

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BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns track and field team competed in the LSU Twilight on Friday. The men’s field events produced the biggest wins for the Cajuns with Justin Arceneaux finishing second in flight 1 of the long jump with a distance of 6.86 meters. Joseph Dickens finished third in flight 1 of the triple jump with a distance of 14.32 meters. Arceneaux also competed in section 1 of the 60-meter dash and placed third with a time of 6.90 seconds. Roderick Houston finished first in section 4 of the 200-meter dash with a time of 23. 46 seconds while Quenton Jones finished third with a time of 23.53 seconds. Luke Moody posted a time of 8.68 seconds in section 2 of the 60-meter hurdles to finish in fifth place. DJ Hebert finished sixth in section 2 of the 3000-meter run with a time of 2:08.99. The Cajuns men’s and women’s track and field team will compete at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Meet Saturday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 25 In Jonesboro, Ark. LOUISIANA SI

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JONESBORO, Ark.- Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns men’s and women’s track and field teams completed day one of the 2007 Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships on Saturday. The Cajuns were well represented in the women’s 3000-meter run, with three Cajuns finishing in the top four. Callie Picou led the way with a second place finish with a time of 11:14.17. Suzane Boudreaux finished third while Stephanie Harris finished fourth. Ashley Faulk finished sixth. Quantisha Rambo finished 10th in the women’s 55-meter hurdles. Justin Arceneaux was one of the top men’s finishers of the day after placing first in heat 1 of the men’s 55-meter prelims recording a time of 6.40 seconds. Arceneaux also finished first in section 2 of the men’s long jump with a distance of 6.99 meters. Patrick Reid also competed in the event recording a jump of 5.70 meters. Joby Gisclair finished fifth in the men’s 3000-meter run with a time of 9:25.19. Freshman Brent Almand earned a sixth place finish with a time of 9:52.67. Alexander Wiltz finished sixth in the men’s shot put with a throw of 11.52 meters. Chance Perkins represented the Cajuns in the men’s heptathlon finishing seventh with 2450 points. Junior Kyle Ward finished second in heat 1 of the men’s 55-meter hurdles preliminaries with a time of 7.56 seconds. Toni Lee and Chiara Obey finished fourth and fifth respectively in heat one of the women’s 55-meter prelims. Lee posted a time of 7.45 seconds while Obey finished with a time of 7. 92 seconds. Jamie Blue finished fifth in heat one of the women’s 400-meter preliminaries after posting a time of 1:01.91. Jazmin Greer, Rambo and Blue competed in the 200-meter dash preliminaries. Greer had the best finish with a time of 26.04 seconds. Andree Bonvillain finished sixth in the pole vault with a height of 3.35 meters while Kelli Hebert finished 10th. Readeaux finished fourth in heat 2 of the women’s long jump with a jump of 5.43 meters. Freshman Stacey Fuller finished fourth in heat 1 of the men’s 400-meter prelims, posting a time of 50.51 seconds. Quenton Jones followed with a fifth place finish with a time of 51.43 seconds. Nathan Cormier finished sixth in heat 3 of the men’s 800-meter preliminaries with a time of 2:05.44. The Sun Belt Conference Championships will conclude Sunday, Feb. 25. LOUISIANA SI

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JONESBORO, Ark. - Lafayette's Justin Arceneaux came within an eyelash of winning the title of fastest man in the Sun Belt Conference Sunday. Instead, he had to settle for the best individual performance by a UL athlete in the first conference meet of his career, the league's Indoor Track and Field Championships that concluded Sunday at Arkansas State. Arceneaux, a product of Northside High, was the runner-up in the 55-meter dash with a 6.36 time. Middle Tennessee's Orlando Reid was also timed at 6.36, but Reid was declared the winner by a photo-determined finish. Arceneaux, who had the fastest time in Saturday's 55-meter preliminaries with a 6.40, added that effort to his fourth-place finish in Saturday's long jump finals with a 22-11 1/4 leap. Those outings gave him 13 points, almost half of the Cajuns' 27-point total in the men's competition. The rest of the story

[CajunRed]

UL's current Tack and Field program is an embarrassment!

[cajun nation]

UL's current Tack and Field program is an embarrassment!

Well considering it is not funded by the University and can not even pay 3 full time coaches what do you expect. i would like to see you try and give the individual attention each track athlete needs to excell at this level when you only have one full time assistant and a part time distance coach. It can not get done.