BATON ROUGE, La. – The Nicholls State University men's and women's cross-country teams traveled to Baton Rouge to compete in the LSU Invitational on Friday, Sept. 12.
The action from LSU UREC Field Complex began with the men's 2 x 4K Relay followed by the women's 2 x 3K Relay. The event hosted by LSU featured local talent from LSU, Louisiana, Southeastern and Southern.
Both Red & Gray squads finished third ahead of Southern and Southeastern. The men finished with 87 points and an average time of 13:37, while the women scored 84 points with an average time of 11:34.
Brady Sins led the men's charge as he placed 11th overall with a time of 13:02.5. He was followed up by
William Nizzo (13:31.1) who placed 19th. Next,
Mason Heffernan (13:44.1) crossed the finish line third for the Colonels and 24th overall while
Michael Keller (13:53.4) and
Noah Richard (13:56.4) played 28th and 29th respectively.
In the women's race,
Isabelle Seijhouwer was the first Colonel to cross the finish line with a time of 11:05.1 to place 11th overall. She was followed by
Kassidy Besson (11:23.5) who placed 17th overall. The trio of
Payton Theriot (11:41.8),
Gracie Daigle (11:46.6), and
Ana Letran Cartes (11:56.6) also finished in under 12 minutes to place 25th, 26th, and 29th , respectively.
Nicholls cross country head coach
Stefanie Slekis gave her thoughts the meet and how it can keep the sharp moving forward.
"This was an exciting opportunity we missed last year (due to hurricane) and we were looking forward to racing ULL and LSU again especially after two great weeks of training," Slekis said. "It's great for training that we are going down in distance with the women racing 3k and the men 4k so we can practice being aggressive which will help a lot for when we get to college station next month."
UP NEXT
After a week off, the Red & Gray will host the seventh annual Nicholls XC Invitational Presented by Walk-On's on Saturday, Sept. 27 at Nicholls Farm.
