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LSU Lady Tigers Track And Field
The LSU Lady Tigers track and field team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's indoor and outdoor track and field. History The Lady Tiger program began in August 1978. The LSU Lady Tigers track and field program is the premier women's track and field program in the NCAA, winning more NCAA championships than any other school in history. The Lady Tigers have won a total of 25 NCAA championships (11 indoor, 14 outdoor). The closest school is Texas with 10 total championships. The Lady Tigers won their first NCAA championship in 1987 under head coach Sam Seemes. The following year Pat Henry took over the program and led the team to an unprecedented 11 straight NCAA outdoor championships, the most consecutive NCAA titles by a women's team in any NCAA sport. In 2004, Dennis Shaver became the LSU Lady Tigers head coach. He coached the team to the 2008 NCAA outdoor championship. The first Lady Tiger team formed in August of 1978 following Title IX mand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Shaver
Dennis Shaver is the current track and field coach at Louisiana State University. Shaver came to LSU in 1995 as an assistant coach. Since his arrival, he has coached 22 Olympians, 6 Olympic medalists, 411 All-Americans, 39 individual National Champions, 49 NCAA event titles and 19 national championship relay teams. He began his college coaching career at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1981 as an assistant football and track coach. In 1982, he became the head coach for the track team at Hutchinson Community College. He left Hutchinson in 1985 to become the head track coach at Barton Community College, where he had tremendous success. During his last year there, he became the first coach to ever win the NJCAA "triple crown" winning the cross-country, indoor, and outdoor titles. After Barton, Shaver became an assistant at Auburn University for the next three years before arriving in Baton Rouge in 1995 as an assistant coach. In 2004, he replaced Pat Henry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bowerman
The Bowerman is an annual track and field award that is the highest accolade given to the year's best student-athlete in American collegiate track and field. It is named after Oregon track and field and cross country coach Bill Bowerman and is administered by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). The winners of the award are announced in a mid-December ceremony held in conjunction with the USTFCCCA The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based professional association representing men's and women's cross country and track & field coaches in the United States. The organization has abo ... annual convention. List of recipients References External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowerman Sport of athletics awards College sports trophies and awards in the United States Most valuable player awards Awards established in 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muna Lee (athlete)
Muna Lee (born October 30, 1981 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American sprinter. Lee ran track collegiately at Louisiana State University. Lee was a seven-time NCAA champion, 12-time SEC champion and 20-time All-American with the Lady Tigers from 2001-04. Lee made her Olympics debut for the United States immediately following an exceptional senior season in 2004. In Athens, Greece, Lee qualified for her first career final in international competition as she took seventh place overall in the 200-meter dash. She had an impressive performance at the 2004 Olympic Trials, moving up in the final stretch while running in lane 1 to place second and win a spot on the Olympic Team. She went on to place 7th at the Olympic Games. Lee won a gold medal as part of the women's 4 x 100m relay team at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. Lee went on to place 7th at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she competed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Burnett
Marian Joan Burnett (born 22 February 1976 in Linden) is a female middle-distance runner from Guyana who specialises in the 800 metres. She competed in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games, reaching the second heat of the 800 metres on both occasions. She won her first international medal at the 1999 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, where she finished third in the 1500 metres. She went to study at Louisiana State University and, representing the LSU Lady Tigers track and field team, she took the 800 m NCAA indoor title in 2002. She competed for Guyana at the 2003 Pan American Games and after initially finishing third in the 800 m, she was promoted to the silver medal after event winner Letitia Vriesde was disqualified for excessive caffeine use. The following year she took part in the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and also reached the semi-finals of the women's 800 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She attended the 2005 World Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keisha Spencer
Keisha Spencer (born 16 February 1978) is a Jamaican athlete. She competed in the women's triple jump at the 2000 Summer Olympics. While at Louisiana State University, she won the Honda Sports Award The Honda Sports Award is an annual award in the United States, given to the best collegiate female athlete in each of twelve sports. There are four nominees for each sport, and the twelve winners of the Honda Sports Award are automatically in th ... as the nation's best female track and field competitor in 2000. References External links * 1978 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Jamaican female triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Jamaica Place of birth missing (living people) LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes Jamaican Athletics Championships winners {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peta-Gaye Dowdie
Peta-Gaye Dowdie (born 18 January 1977) is a Jamaican sprinter. As a member of the Jamaican sprint relay team she won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships and gold medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2007 Pan American Games. Dowdie ran track collegiately at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 n .... External linksIAAF profile for Peta-Gaye Dowdie {{DEFAULTSORT:Dowdie, Peta-Gaye 1977 births Jamaican female sprinters Living people LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Jamaica Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica Pan American Games medalists in athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzette Lee
Suzette Lee (born 6 March 1977 in Houston, Texas) is a Jamaican triple jumper. Career Her personal best jump is 14.16 metres, achieved in April 2005 in Baton Rouge. She has an indoor mark of 14.25 metres, achieved in March 1997 in Indianapolis. In July 2005 Lee was found guilty of salbutamol Salbutamol, also known as albuterol and sold under the brand name Ventolin among others, is a medication that opens up the medium and large airways in the lungs. It is a short-acting β2 adrenergic receptor agonist which works by causing rel ... use at the EAA Karelia Games in Finland. She received a public warning rather than a lengthy ban. - IAAF.org Nonetheless, she has not competed internationally since 2005. Achieveme ...
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D'Andre Hill
D'Andre "DeeDee" Hill (born April 19, 1973) is an American track and field coach and former athlete. She competed in sprint events, mainly in 100-meter dash. Her personal record in the event was 10.92 seconds. She represented her country over 100 m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and shared in a gold medal in the 4×100-meter relay at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, having run in the heats only. Hill was a three-time individual American collegiate champion at Louisiana State University: twice in the 100 m and once in the indoor 60-meter dash. She also won three NCAA relay titles. She has since gone on to be a women's college track coach and head coach at Vanderbilt University (the first African-American head coach in the school's history). Career Sprinting Hill was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Mount Healthy High School while living there. She took up track and field and quickly established herself as a sprinter. She won three high school state title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astia Walker
Astia Walker-Eastwood (born 4 April 1975 in Trelawny Parish) is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mostly in the sprinting and hurdling events. She represented her country in the 200 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics reaching the second round. Most of her successes came in the 4 × 100 metres relay. Walker-Eastwood ran track collegiately Riverside Community College and Louisiana State University. She was inducted into the Riverside Community College Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 11.28 (+0.2 m/s) (Kingston 2001) *200 metres – 22.79 (+0.7 m/s) (Linz 2000) *100 metres hurdles – 12.82 (+0.8 m/s) (Leverkusen 2000) Indoor *60 metres – 7.41 (Baton Rouge 1999) *200 metres – 23.15 (Baton Rouge 1998) *60 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danyel Mitchell
Danyel Mitchell (born September 16, 1972) is a female former discus thrower and shot putter from the United States. She set her personal best (54.62 metres) in the women's discus throw event on August 10, 1995 at the World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. Mitchell was a member of the Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 n ... track and field team. References * 1972 births Living people American female discus throwers American female shot putters LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes 20th-century American women {{US-shotput-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahlia Duhaney
Dahlia Duhaney (born 20 July 1970) is a Jamaican retired sprinter who competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She won the world title in the women's 4 × 100 m relay at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, alongside Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald and Merlene Ottey. Duhaney ran track collegiately at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 near .... International competitions References * * External links * 1970 births Living people Jamaican female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Sowell
Dawn Sowell (born 27 March 1966) is an American former sprinter who ran the fastest times in the 100 meters and 200 meters in 1989, with 10.78 secs and 22.04 secs. The 10.78 clocking made her the third-fastest woman of all-time at that time, and still ranks her 16th on the world all-time list (as of 2021). Early life Dawn was born in Philadelphia, one of seven children, the daughter of an electrician. Her mother worked three jobs simultaneously, until moving to a career in real estate. Sowell attended Chester High School in Chester, Pennsylvania. She had no interest in sport until she realized that she was faster than the boys in her gym class. Her family moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she graduated from Jefferson-Huguenot-Wythe High School in 1984. She matriculated to junior college and moved to Texas. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
