BATON ROUGE, La. – The Nicholls State University track and field teams combined for 24 top 10 finishes as they opened the 2026 indoor season at the LSU Purple Tiger at Carl Maddox Fieldhouse on Friday.
The Colonels performance on the track that included most of the top 10 marks was highlighted by
Issy Rivault who won the women's 2000-meter race with a time of 6:44.88. The Red & Gray dominated the race as she was joined by
Kassidy Besson (7:02.42),
Ana Letran Cartes (7:08.29),
Gracie Daigle (7:14.16),
Lotte Aerts (7:21),
Payton Theriot (7:25.59), and
Gabriella O'Neal (7:42.72) who finished third, fourth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and 10th , respectively.
The Colonels strong performances continued into the other distance races. Rivault also took fifth in the women's one mile race with a time of 5:08.58 while
Isabelle Seijhouwer placed sixth with a personal best time of 5:08.73. In the women's 1000-meter race Letran Cartes (3:08.46) placed seventh, Besson (3:09.12) took eighth, and Aerts (3:15.34) finished 10th.
Anne De Jong placed ninth in the women's 400-meter race with a personal best time of 1:03.87 while Seijhouwer earned fourth place in the women's 600-meter race with a personal best time of 1:39.41.
The men's squad also shined on the track as
Trent Granberry placed 10th in the men's 400-meter race with a time of 53.08. In the men's 1000-meter race,
Mason Heffernan and
William Nizzo finished sixth and seventh with times of 2:3965 and 2:40.30. The pair of Heffernan and Nizzo also finished seventh and eighth in the 2000-meter race with times of 6:04.54 and 6:04.55.
Christian Rowe and
Brison Legnon joined them in the top 10 as they claimed ninth and 10th place with times of 6:17.39 and 6:18.79.
In the field,
Benjamin Rodrigue soared 14.02 meters to place fourth in the men's triple jump.
Iradi Blasco leaped a personal best 1.68m to finish fifth in the women's high jump.
Chad Clark Jr. had a 6.41m mark to place eighth in the men's long jump.
UP NEXT
After the strong showing to open the indoor season, the Colonels will have two weeks off before returning to action at the McNeese Indoor II in Lake Charles on Friday, Jan. 30.
