The Book CC Track & Field 2008-09

[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.

RaginCajuns.com

[NewsCopy]

  Sophomore Taryn Simmons finished eighth in the women’s 400 meter dash.

Sophomore Paula Parker finished eighth in the 800m, Senior Lina Futi finished ninth.

Jasmine Anderson a sophomore finished fourth in the 55m hurdles.

The 4x400m relay team finished third with a time of 3:58.56. The team was made up of Taryn Simmons, junior Constance Robinson, Lina Futi and Jasmine Anderson.

Senior Kioloni Readeaux finished ninth in long jump with a distance of 5.58m, freshman Jasmine Manuel finished tenth in the same event with the same distance.

Manuel finished third in the triple jump with a distance of 11.95m. Readeaux finished ninth with a jump of 11.38m.

Freshman Jesseka Jones finished tenth in pentathlon.

RaginCajuns.com

[GetTheFacts1st]

I have double-spaced these so the results will not look so bad.



WOMEN’S SCORES

1. Western Kentucky -- 142

2. Middle Tennessee -- 93

3. Florida Atlantic -- 86

4. Arkansas State – 80.50

5. North Texas – 73

6. Troy – 51.50

7. ULM – 40.50

8. UALR – 32

9. South Alabama – 23.50

10. FIU -- 21

11. Louisiana-Lafayette – 20



MEN’S SCORES

1. Middle Tennessee – 131

2. Western Kentucky – 127

3. ULM – 90

4. Arkansas State – 77.50

5. North Texas – 69

6. South Alabama – 60.50

7. Louisiana-Lafayette – 55

8. UALR – 34

9. FIU – 19