The Book CC Track & Field 2008-09

[CajunNation]

FINALLY we have a serious distance runner to compete on the world stage.


http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns



<< Rupp broke two 5,000-meter records Friday night that had stood since the early 1980s, setting American and collegiate marks at the Tyson Invitational with a time of 13 minutes, 18.12 seconds....... Doug Padilla had the American record since 1982 after running the 5,000 in 13:20.55. Suleiman Nyambui of Texas-El Paso set the collegiate record of 13:20.40 in 1981.>>

[ULBaby!]

I am interested in track and field but have seen little discussion of such here. Anyone else interested at all?

I believe Tand F will show evidence of progressive sports management much quicker than any of the other "team" sports. Much like a canary in a coal mine - where goes track and field, so go the other sports. Changes in overall strategy are more evident here than in any aother arena. I could be an idiot (don't go there) but am i at least on base (sorry for the cross-sport metaphor)?

I have seen a couple of good to outstanding individual performances at indoor meets and was wondering what the collective brain trust that is the RP might think.

Please. Proceed.

[Boomer]

Oh no---now we have to bring up the Erath shot putter at McNeese that is having a great year-----Beau is his name Domingues?????

[DaddyCajun]

My son runs track(high jump, relays, and hurdles) at TCH and was excited yet disappointed today when he came home from school. He was excited that the team was supposed to have gone run at the Cajun Track complex, but disappointed that the rain kept them from going. There is some excitement around the area for Cajun Track and Field. I know I would like to see a track or football scholarship in the family!

[BeauCajun]

_ Oh no---now we have to bring up the Erath shot putter at McNeese that is having a great year-----Beau is his name Domingues????? _

Leave that along Boomer. Jacob is having a very good year.

I also look for much improvement in the T & F program. I see we have a couple of home meets. Lots of local kids with plenty of potential.

[NOCajun]

I wish we could have some 2-sport football/track athletes like many of the big schools have. Nothing like a good receiver or running back with world-class speed!! :O)


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[GetTheFacts1st]

_ Leave that along Boomer. Jacob is having a very good year.

I also look for much improvement in the T & F program. I see we have a couple of home meets. Lots of local kids with plenty of potential. _

There will be improvement from the get-go when assistant coaches are tweaked. Mafouz may want to surround himself with some better recruiters and technical people who can get better horses in the stable who will be around for four years and then know what to do with them once they are on campus. Right now, he is VERY thin in that category and will not make any significant moves in Sun-Selt standings and return to better days until he addresses that.

As for two sport performers, we will seldom get football players who are talented enough to do two sports at an elite level. Those athletes end up at BCS schools where their families and friends see them on TV each week in football and where they fly to track competitions in New York and California rather than in 16 passenger vans to McNeese, Northwestern State and Funroe. And Boomer, as long as we stay away form Vermilion parish athletes, we will do ok.

[cajun4life]

_ There will be improvement from the get-go when assistant coaches are tweaked. Mafouz may want to surround himself with some better recruiters and technical people who can get better horses in the stable who will be around for four years and then know what to do with them once they are on campus. Right now, he is VERY thin in that category and will not make any significant moves in Sun-Selt standings and return to better days until he addresses that.

As for two sport performers, we will seldom get football players who are talented enough to do two sports at an elite level. Those athletes end up at BCS schools where their families and friends see them on TV each week in football and where they fly to track competitions in New York and California rather than in 16 passenger vans to McNeese, Northwestern State and Funroe. And Boomer, as long as we stay away form Vermilion parish athletes, we will do ok. _

We get what we pay for. Our assistant coaches make what a high school coach makes with a 100% increase in workload. We do have a few tremendous athletes considering how bad we have been the last decade.

Until the athletic department is willing to give them a real budget to work with we will stay in the bottom half of the Belt.

[CajunFun]

I took a few moments and summarized how our kids did in the LSU Twilight Meet last night.

[GetTheFacts1st]

Kinda embarrased for our women. Last place with one point going into Day 2 of the meet. Men are 4th with few qualifiers/hope for day 2 today. Me still Cajun Proud in the crowd at a wierd track layout. Sprinters have to don a prachute to stop within 4 or 5 meters from finishline. OUCH when they hit that wall.

Women Rankings after 6 Events
1) Arkansas State----------45.50
2) Western Kentucky-------44
3) Mid. Tenn. State--------37
4) UL-Monroe--------------26.50
5) Florida Atlantic----------18
6) Troy--------------------15.50
7) North Texas-------------15
8) Florida Int'l--------------13
9) Arkansas-Little Rock-----10
10) South Alabama---------8.50
11) UL---------------------1


Men Rankings after 5 Events
1) Mid. Tenn. State--------41
2) Arkansas State----------36
3) Western Kentucky-------31
4) UL---------------------25
5) UL-Monroe--------------23
6) South Alabama----------20
7) Arkansas-Little Rock-----12
8) North Texas-------------6
9) Florida Int'l--------------1

[CajunFun]

For some reason, the article isn't up on RaginCajuns.com yet, so I posted the full results on ultoday.com.

[NewsCopy]

  Jonesboro, Ark. – Sophomore Christ Roy continued his great indoor season Sunday at the Sun Belt Conference Championships, winning the pole vault with a height of 5.20m and provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Meet.

The Ragin' Cajuns of UL took home three top ten finishes in the 55m hurdles. Sophomore Louis Stevens finished second with a time of 7.59, freshman Bresshaud Woodard finished sixth with a time of 7.77 and junior Kevin Powell finished seventh with 8.03.

Freshman Antwain Keyes finished second in the high jump with a height of 2.09m.

Sophomore Brent Adams finished fourth with a height of 2.01m, teammate Marcus Rosendoll, a freshman, finished fifth with the same height.

Junior Jeffrey Vidacovich was seventh with a height of 1.91m.

Kenneth Bellard, a sophomore, finished fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 14.50m.

In the Men’s shot put freshman Tyler Guidry finished sixth with a throw of 14.82m.

Donnie Broussard, a freshman, finished tenth with a throw of 14.11m.

Vidacovich finished seventh in the heptathlon with 4311 points.

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