THIBODAUX, La. – The Nicholls State University track and field teams will open the 2024 outdoor season at the Louisiana Classics in Lafayette on Saturday, March 16.
It'll be an all-Louisiana contest with Dillard, Tulane, ULM, Southern, Xavier, and Southland Conference foes McNeese, Northwestern State, Southeastern scheduled to compete.
The Colonels are coming off a solid indoor campaign that saw multiple student-athletes record personal-bests across the board. The Red & Gray also got major contributions from freshmen on both sides.
At the 2024 SLC Indoor Track and Field Championships, the women's unit received scoring contributions from the distance competitors while the men had one scorer in the field.
Freshman Miaria Nikolaou scored four points after placing fifth in the women's 800m race with a time of 2:18.66. Her classmate
Sophia Harrison notched a point after placing eighth in the women's 5K with a time of 18:23.31.
Additionally, Nikolaou teamed up with fellow freshmen
Layla Ingalls, and
Kassidy Besson, and senior
Nia Maye to score two points in the Women's Distance Medley (12:45.97).
Freshmen
Cherie Neal and
Jinte Braas placed sixth and eighth in the pentathlon with scores of 3223 and 3188, respectively. Their efforts move them to No.2 and No.3 on the program's all-time lists.
On the men's side, freshman
Christopher Tucker had the lone Red & Gray point after leaping 14.35m to place eighth in the men's triple jump.
