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Shermund Allsop
Position: Sprints
Height: 5'11"
Class: Junior
Experience: 1 Letter
City/State: Plaisance Garden, Trinidad
High School: Queen’s Royal College
Major: Interdisciplinary Studies
Born: 03/21/1991
Shermund Allsop Bio
Courtesy: LSUsports.net (@LSUsports)
Release: 11/13/2012

Events: 60M (6.82), 100M (10.29), 200M (20.71)

NCAA Champion
All-American

2012
Emerged as one of the nation's leading sprinters with his performance during the outdoor season ... Anchored the Tigers to a national championship in the 4x100-meter relay with a seasonal-best performance at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships ... Teamed with Barrett Nugent, Aaron Ernest and Keyth Talley to capture LSU's eighth NCAA title in the 4x100-meter relay in program history ... Anchored the team to a winning seasonal-best time of 38.38 seconds to tie the Drake Stadium record with the third-fastest time in school history ... Also tied for the No. 7-ranked performance in collegiate history ... Broke 39 seconds for the first time in the NCAA semifinal after running 38.77 for the second-fastest time of the qualifying round at the NCAA Outdoor Championships ... Ran the anchor leg on the team that advanced to the national semifinal with a time of 39.61 for fourth place in the NCAA quarterfinal at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds held in Jacksonville, Fla. ... Anchored the team to a third-place finish at the Penn Relays with a run of 39.49 ... Shattered personal records in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints during his sophomore season in 2012 ... Followed the collegiate season by clocking back-to-back 100-meter PRs of 10.29 in the qualifying round and final round at the Sagicor National Open Championships in his native Trinidad & Tobago ... Earned an eighth-place finish in the 100-meter final while finishing just out of the running for a spot on Trinidad's Olympic team ... An NCAA Championships qualifier in both sprints during the outdoor season ... Smashed his 200-meter PR with a wind-legal run of 20.71 (+0.2) for 15th place in the quarterfinals at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds ... Clocked back-to-back PRs at the NCAA East Prelims after crossing the finish line in 20.85 (+0.6) in the qualifying round ... Finished in 16th place overall in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds with his previous wind-legal PR of 10.38 in the quarterfinal round ... Earned an 11th-place finish in the 200 meters at the SEC Outdoor Championships held at LSU's Bernie Moore Track Stadium, clocking in at 21.20 in the preliminary round ... Earned a seasonal-best third-place finish in the event at the Louisiana Classics (21.64) ... Claimed a pair of runner-up finishes in the 100-meter dash during the outdoor season at the Louisiana Classics (10.44w) and Battle on the Bayou (10.43w) ... An SEC Championships participant in both the 60 meters and 200 meters during the indoor season ... Placed 14th in the 60-meter dash in the qualifying round at the SEC Indoor Championships with a previous personal best of 6.85 ... Added a finish of 17th place in the 200-meter dash at the SEC Indoor meet with a run of 21.74 in the prelim round ... Wrapped up the indoor season by setting a  new best of 6.82 in the 60-meter dash in a fifth-place finish at the LSU NCAA Indoor Qualifier.

2011
Competed in five meets during his true freshman season in 2011 ... Swept 100-meter and 200-meter titles at the Cole-Lancon Invitational during the outdoor season ... Clocked wind-legal times of 10.58 in the 100 meters and 21.66 in the 200 meters in two wins at the Cole-Lancon Invitational ... Set a wind-legal seasonal best of 10.41 in the 100-meter dash to take 27th place in his outdoor opener at the Louisiana Classics ... Posted a wind-legal 10.59 to take ninth place in the B section of the 100-meter dash at the LSU Alumni Gold ... Followed with a wind-aided 21.30 for fifth place in B section of the 200 meters at the LSU Alumni Gold ... Made his collegiate debut indoors at the Razorback Invitational ... Finished in 25th place in the 200-meter dash (21.98) and 30th place in the 60-meter dash (7.03) at the Razorback Invitational during the indoor season ... Also competed in the 60 meters for the Tyson Invitational during the indoor season.

PRIOR TO LSU
Joined the LSU program following his prep career at Queen's Royal College in the country of Trinidad & Tobago ... Represented his nation at the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada ... Anchored the Trinidad & Tobago 4x100-meter relay team to a bronze-medal winning third-place finish at the World Junior Championships with a time of 39.72 in the final ... Was a World Junior Championships semifinalist in the 100-meter dash ... Also ran the anchor leg for Trinidad & Tobago on the 4x100-meter relay team that set a meet record of 39.77 en route to the gold medal at the 2010 Central American & Caribbean Championships held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ... Helped the Trinidad & Tobago team win a silver medal in the 4x100-meter relay at the 2010 Carifta Games with a time of 40.41 in the final ... Ran a 2010 seasonal-best time of 10.50 to place sixth in the 100-meter dash final at the Carifta Games ... Set personal bests of 10.39 in the 100-meter dash and 20.89 in the 200-meter dash in sweeping Under-20 gold medals at the 2009 Sagicor National Open Championships held in the capital city of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad .

PERSONAL
Full name is Shermund Lamon Malcolm Allsop ... Born on March 21, 1991 ... Majoring in interdisciplinary studies.

 

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