Track and field set to kickoff indoor postseason at SEC Championship

The Tigers begin postseason action this weekend.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU track and field program begins its 2023 indoor postseason action this weekend at the SEC Championships February 24-25 in the Randal Tyson Indoor Track in Fayetteville, Ark.

Live Results | Meet Schedule | Heat Sheets | Competition Guide

LSU has 35 athletes (22 men, 13 women) making the trip to Fayetteville for the SEC Championships. The two-day meet begins on Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. CT and concludes on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Both days of the meet will be streamed on SEC Network+ (links directly below), while a three-and-a-half-hour re-air of the championship meet will be shown on the SEC Network Sunday evening at 7 p.m.

Friday 1:30 – 3 p.m. | Friday 4 – 8:30 p.m. | Saturday 2 – 3 p.m. | Saturday 4 – 7:30 p.m.

The majority of Friday’s action will consist of preliminary events on the track. Points will be scored in 11 events on Friday with finals of the 5,000 meters (m&w), distance medley relay (m&w), weight throw (m&W), long jump (m&w), pole vault (m&w), and women’s pentathlon being contested. Saturday’s action will see 23 finals being contested. A linked schedule for the whole meet is viewable above.

The women enter the SEC meet ranked No. 8 in the nation in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association Ratings Index; the men are No. 28. In the SEC ratings index, the LSU women are projected to finish ninth, while the men are slated to be fifth.

LSU’s women are tied with the host Arkansas for the most SEC indoor team titles in conference history with 12.  Dennis Shaver has led the women’s team to SEC indoor titles in 2008 and 2011. The LSU men own four SEC indoor titles in program history.

In order to score at the SEC meet, an athlete must finish in the top eight of her/his respective event. First Team All-Conference goes to event winners, while Second Team will go to those that finish in second or third place. Entering the weekend, 15 Tigers hold an individual-event spot in the SEC’s top eight.

Women’s SEC Top-Eight Marks

Favour Ofili – 60 meters – 7.15 seconds – No. 3

Favour Ofili – 200 meters – 22.36 seconds – No. 1

Michaela Rose – 800 meters – 2:00.18 – No. 1

Cindy Bourdier – 800 meters – 2:05.60 – No. 7

Leah Phillips – 60-meter hurdles – 8.02 seconds – No. 3

4×400 Meter Relay – 3:29.94 – No. 5

DMR – 10:56.41 – No. 4

Morgan Smalls – High jump – 6’ 0.5” (1.84m) – No. 4

Morgan Smalls – Long jump – 20’ 4.5” (6.21m) – No. 8

Men’s SEC Top-Eight Marks

Godson Oghenebrume – 60 meters – 6.58 seconds – No. 3

Brandon Hicklin – 60 meters – 6.66@ seconds – No. 7

Alex Selles – 800 meters – 1:47.33 – No. 6

Davis Bove – One mile – 4:01.11 – No. 7

Davis Bove – 3000 meter – 7:53.73 – No. 7

4×400-meter relay – 3:05.91 – No. 8

DMR – 9:22.83 – No. 4

Beau Domingue – Pole Vault – 17’ 1.5” (5.22m) – No. 5

Brandon Hicklin – Long Jump – 26’ 1.75” (7.97m) – No. 4

Apalos Edwards – Triple jump – 52’ 11” (16.13m) – No. 6

John Meyer – Shot put – 66’ 9.75” (20.36m) – No. 1

Luke Witte – Weight throw – 71’ 11” (21.92m) – No. 4

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LSU track and field’s Brianna Lyston, Matthew Sophia earn SEC weekly honors

Lyston and Sophia were named Freshmen of the Week by the league.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletic’s department.

BATON ROUGE, La. – The conference office announced that both Brianna Lyston and Matthew Sophia have been named SEC Freshman of the Week on Tuesday afternoon. Combined, this is the fourth and fifth weekly honor from the conference for the Tigers this season.

Lyston ran the fifth fastest 60-meter time in the nation this week at 7.30 seconds in LSU Twilight’s final. She finished in second in both the prelims and finals behind her teammate junior Favour Ofili. Her final time shaved .09 seconds off of her 7.39 second time from the prelims. This is Lyston’s first weekly honor from the SEC.

Sophia placed first in the 60-meter hurdles’ prelims and finals at the LSU Twilight. The freshman ran a time of 7.89 seconds in the prelims and a time of 7.93 seconds in the finals. He currently ranks tied for ninth in the SEC with a 7.75 (converted from 7.73) earlier this season at the Red Raider Open. This is Sophia’s first weekly honor from the SEC.

LSU SEC Athletes of the Week – Indoors

Favour Ofili – Women’s Runner of the Week (February 7)

Favour Ofili – Co-Women’s Runner of the Week (February 14)

Michaela Rose – Co-Women’s Runner of the Week (February 14)

Brianna Lyston – Women’s Freshman of the Week (February 21)

Matthew Sophia – Men’s Freshman of the Week (February 21)