THIBODAUX, La. – After sending a handful of competitors to the Texas Relays, the Nicholls State University men's and women's track and field teams will travel to Baton Rouge to compete in the Pelican Relays hosted by Southern University at A.W. Mumford Stadium on April 4-5.
The loaded field will include Alcorn State, Centenary, Dillard, Grambling, Hinds CC, Louisiana, Loyola-New Orleans, North American, Northwestern State, Southeastern, St. Thomas, and Xavier-Louisiana.
Last week the Red & Gray sent two relay squads and three distance runners to compete in the 97th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
Issy Rivault (38:20.45) and
Elaina Hansen (40:25.06) had strong performances in the women's 10K as they placed 10th and 12th respectively.
Lucas Futey placed 13th in the men's 10K with a time of 32:27.77.
In the men's 4x100m relay,
Nisiah Bennett, Michael "Trey Crawford",
Jordan Jackson, and
Andrei Fuentes finished 38th out of 46 with a time of 42.43. While in the combination of
Isabelle Seijhouwer,
Layla Ingalls, Anne de Jong, and
Maria Nikolaou placed eighth in the women's DMR with a time of 12:09.64.
Head coach
Stefanie Slekis gave her thoughts on upcoming Pelican Relays.
"We are excited to have our second full team meet of the season. For those who didn't travel to Austin for Texas Relays we had a great week of training and are excited to see where we are this weekend. Some of our top performers focused on relays at our first two meets so I am excited to see them in their individual events after a strong training block this past month since the Southland Conference Indoor championship."
"You will see more of our roster competing in multiple events as well. We also have a good number of the men & women competing in the 3000m; which is rarely competed outdoors. Our Javelin throwers and 200m competitors kick us off Friday and I am excited to see where we are in those events since usually the 200 is at the end of the meet. This is a great opportunity for those student-athletes to see where they are running that event fresh."
