The Book CC Track & Field 2008-09

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  Lake Charles, La.- Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns track and field team performed well in their first indoor meet of the 2009 season. The Cajuns brought back five first place finishes at the Cowboy Indoor Invite. UL took home first in the men’s pole vault, men’s high jump, women’s distance medley, women’s 55 meter hurdles and men’s 55 meter hurdles.

Chris Roy took home first place in the men’s pole vault with a winning mark of 5.15 meters. Atwain Keyes took home first place in the men’s high jump by clearing the bar at 2 meters. Louis Stevens was the third man to take home first place when he won the 55 meter hurdles with a time of 7.79 seconds.

The women took home the distance medley title with a time of 13:16.01. Making up the team for the Cajuns were Ashley Faulk, Paula Parker, Lina Futi and Constance Robinson. Jasmine Anderson won first place in the 55 meter hurdles with a time of 8.46 seconds.

The men’s distance medley team took second place with a time of 11:02.40. Reese Lee, Cory Richard, Stuart Theriot and Jaron Ortego made up the relay team. Kelvan Turner took second place in the men’s 55 meter dash with a time of 6.63 seconds.

The Cajuns will be back in action Friday, January 23, when they travel to Baton Rouge to compete in the Purple Tiger Classic hosted by LSU.

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[ulforlife]

This is good, nice to see track moving forward

[GetTheFacts1st]

_ This is good, nice to see track moving forward _

Not really moving forward.... these 1st places would not have placed in the top 10 at the LSU High School meet last week. Just a sport to keep football at D1.

[Turner]

_ Not really moving forward.... these 1st places would not have placed in the top 10 at the LSU High School meet last week. Just a sport to keep football at D1. _

Any fool can find the negative, if you knew how far this program had fallen you would be shouting from the roof tops that five firsts in any meet was moving forward.

[GetTheFacts1st]

_ Any fool can find the negative, if you knew how far this program had fallen you would be shouting from the roof tops that five firsts in any meet was moving forward. _

How can you say it is moving forward by competing at McNeese (where they don't freakin let you wear track shoes) and which does NOTHING for our athletes' confidence -- over Houston, where BONAFIDE competition was occuring? ANYONE can get 5 firsts when NO ONE WORTH A FLIP TO COMPETE AGAINST is there. And how is a SELF-IMPOSED, PERMANENT reduction in mens scholarships (within the last REBUILDING YEAR) and hiring a coach without ANY, I REPEAT ---A N Y --- college experience moving forward? That helps it in any way to come up out of the doldrums? A former coach who helped them to the dominance they once enjoyed in the 90's -- also one of the best coaches in the WORLD was shunned by not even acknowledging his resume last year and they hire someone with NO COLLEGE expereince instead? THAT is moving forward? I dare say that medicocre HS perfromances dispayed over the weekend and voluntarily cutting our own scholarships is NOT moving this or any other collegiate program forward. If basketball or football played the Louisiana School for The Deaf, and voluntarily dropped scholarships along the way, I think more than me would be calling a spade a spade, like I am. 1st they hire a bonafide whacko track coach without due diligence, keep him for a year, find the gonads to run him off, and then this? My friend, nothing is about to change with this sport, or womens basketall, or even the big two. Mens and womens BB have inexpereinced HS coaches as well, and look where THEY are! Just rock on and take the mediocre products with good guys at the helm and don't say ANYTHING? Do you see what is going on here? It's called MORE OF THE CRAPOLA SAME and by your post to me, you obviously condone it.

[DestinCajun]

Any fool can find the negative,.......

It's getting to where that's about all there is on this forum - no matter what sport or what day of the week.

[ULexcite]

_ It's getting to where that's about all there is on this forum - no matter what sport or what day of the week. _

Fan negativity has to do with the school only winning 15 out of 45 games going back to September. It is hard to be positive when the teams you love disapoint your at a rate of 2-1. Not to worry baseball will fix all this.

[CajunRed]

Fan negativity has to do with the school only winning 15 out of 45 games going back to September. It is hard to be positive when the teams you love disapoint your at a rate of 2-1. Not to worry baseball will fix all this.

Its interesting that baseball seems to always get a pass/

[cjr3888]

Its interesting that baseball seems to always get a pass/

That is because since 1995, baseball has a winning percentage of around 64% overall and 67% in conference play.

[ULBaby!]

Originally Posted by GetTheFacts1st
_ Not really moving forward.... these 1st places would not have placed in the top 10 at the LSU High School meet last week. Just a sport to keep football at D1. _

Not entirely true - perhaps you should live up to your name and get the facts first - try directathletics.com and look at LHSAA performance list. While you are at it, they post the results for the sun belt, check out the performance list there as well - the 16'10" vault is good in any conference and for this early in the indoor season, it represents something and someone to watch. Get the facts first.

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  UL - The Ragin’ Cajuns Track and Field team will compete in their second indoor meet of the season Friday at the Purple Tiger Classic hosted by LSU. Louisiana is coming off a good start of the season last week at the Cowboy Indoor Invite. The men finished second and combined with the women for five first place finishes.

Competing at the Purple Tiger Invite will include; LSU, Grambling, McNeese State, Nicholls State, Southern, SE Louisiana, Southern-NO, UL-Monroe, Tulane, Arkansas State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, South Alabama, Southern Miss., Hinds CC, Mississippi College, Southwest Mississippi, Southwest Mississippi and Northwestern St. Also competing will be a select number of unattached athletes under the Tiger Olympians, Sprint Athletics Track Club (M), Quantum and Athletics T.C. (M).

“We are a very young team on both the mens and womens side. We have a total of three seniors and three juniors on the team, we are full of great kids who work hard on the track and in the classroom,” said Coach Charlie Mahfouz about his team. Mahfouz added, “We need to worry about ourselves, the work ethic and attitude are there and we had a pretty good showing last weekend at the Cowboy Indoor Invite.”

Chris Roy is coming off a win in the pole vault and currently ranks first in the Sun Belt Conference with a height of 5.15 meters. He will look to improve his height and extend his lead over the rest of the Sun Belt. He is the top qualifier in the pole vault entering the meet. If he can improve his height by .05 meters he will provisionally qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.

“Chris has come a long way recently and has a good chance to qualify for the NCAA’s if he maintains the work ethic he has displayed this season,” stated Mahfouz.

Jasmine Anderson enters the meet as the top attached qualifier in the 60 meter hurdles. She will have the chance to test her skills against Olympian Lolo Jones, a former All-American at LSU.

The Cajuns Louis Stevens is the top attached qualifier in the 60 meter hurdles.

Coach Mahfouz spoke about Anderson and Stevens and had this to say, “UL has always had a rich tradition in the hurdles and Anderson and Stevens look to continue that trend. They still have a lot of work to do but they work hard and take care of their business.”

Following the Purple Tiger Classic the Cajuns will travel to Houston, Texas to compete in the Cougar Classic February 7.

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  Baton Rouge- Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns competed in the Purple Tiger Classic Friday at the campus of LSU. The Cajuns had six top five finishes highlighted by Chris Roy’s second place finish in the pole vault. Roy finished with a height of 5 meters.

Other top five finishers include; Tyler Guidry, fourth, in the shot put with a distance of 15.82 meters. Jasmine Anderson finished fifth in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.94 seconds. Louis Stevens completed the 60 meter hurdles in 8.30, good enough for a fifth place finish. In the mens triple jump Kenneth Bollard finished fifth with a jump of 14.31 meters. The sixth Cajun to have a top five finish was Stuart Theriot in the one mile run with a time of 4:34.97.

UL had other notable finishes in the womens 4x400 relay, the mens high jump and the womens triple jump. The womens 4x400 team finished sixth with a time of 4:01.61. Jasmine Manuel finished sixth in the triple jump with an 11.59 meters jump. Antwain Keyes placed seventh in the high jump with a height of 1.98 meters. Jesseka Jones finished sixth in the womens pentathlon with 2849 points.

The Cajuns will be back in action February 7, when they travel to Houston, Texas to compete in the Cougar Classic.

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