Track + Field

Eighteen current and former LSU track and field athletes will be competing at three different meets this weekend – USATF Championships, Jamaica Championships, and the Trinidad Championships.

LSU had three junior competitors earn their spot at the 2018 IAAF U20 World Championships in July.

Three LSU student-athletes recently travelled to Destin, Florida, to attend the Southeastern Conference Spring Meetings.

JuVaughn Blake, Abby O'Donoghue, Jurnee Woodward and Milan Young will compete at the USATF Junior Championships this weekend in Indiana.

Another big honor came in on Wednesday for LSU superstar Aleia Hobbs. She was announced as a semifinalist for The Bowerman.

LSU sprinter Aleia Hobbs was named the 2018 USTFCCCA Women's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year on Wednesday, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association of America announced.

The LSU women's track field team scored 41 points on the final day of competition at Hayward Field to earn a sixth place finish at the 2018 NCAA Championships on Saturday.

The LSU men's track and field team scored 17 points on the final day of the men's competition at the 2018 NCAA Championships to finish in a tie for eighth place with a total of 28 points.

The No. 7 LSU women's track and field team had six individuals and two relays punch their tickets to Saturday's finals on day two of the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field.

Freshman hammer thrower Jake Norris registered the best toss of his career, a 240 foot, 3 inch throw, that broke an eight-year old school record to highlight day one of the NCAA Championships.

The No. 7 LSU women's and No. 8 LSU men's track and field teams are set to take on the 2018 NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., this Wednesday through Saturday at the historic Hayward Field.

Aleia Hobbs (Track Athlete of the Year) and head coach Dennis Shaver (Women's Head Coach of the Year) of the LSU track and field program were the South Central Region award recipients.

Jace Attuso has been named to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District Men's Track & Field Team. The squad is selected annually by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Mikiah Brisco and Dajour Braxton of the LSU track and field program have been named to the 2018 SEC Community Service Team, the league office announced on Wednesday.

The Greater New Orleans Sports Award Selection Committee announced on Wednesday that Aleia Hobbs is the Greater New Orleans Amateur Athlete of the Month for May.

Fourteen members of the LSU track and field program were named to All-SEC teams on Tuesday the conference offices announced.

The LSU track and field program capped off a successful NCAA East Preliminaries by advancing a total of 15 individuals to the NCAA Championships in two weeks in Eugene, Ore.

Senior sprinter Aleia Hobbs set an NCAA East Preliminaries record in the 100 meter dash, and the LSU track and field program advanced six more athletes to 2018 NCAA Championships

Jake Norris (hammer throw), Kaitlyn Walker (high jump), JuVaughn Blake (long jump) and Rayvon Grey (long jump) all punched their first-career tickets to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

The LSU track and field team will have 30 athletes (17 women and 13 men) in action this Thursday through Saturday (May 24-26) at the NCAA East Preliminaries in Tampa, Fla.

Future LSU sprinter Sha'carri Richardson led her Carter High School team to a state title last weekend at the UIL 4A State Championships hosted in Austin, Texas, with an impressive three gold medals.

Coming off an impressive showing at the SEC Championships, senior sprinter Aleia Hobbs has retained her spot on the The Bowerman Watch List.

The women's 4x100 meter relay of Mikiah Brisco, Kortnei Johnson, Rachel Misher and Aleia Hobbs put together the best race in collegiate history on the final day of the SEC Championships at the Tom Black Track. The foursome circled the track in a blazing time of 42.05 of to edge the previous collegiate record of 42.12 held by LSU (2017) and Oregon (2017).

Aleia Hobbs dashed out of the block and clocked a time of 10.93 to break former LSU sprint star Kimberlyn Duncan's SEC meet record of 10.96 seconds.

Competing at his first career SEC outdoor meet, freshman Jake Norris scored the first points of the SEC Championships for the LSU men's track and field team in the hammer throw on Friday night.