Jaguars show improvement

 
It was all about improvement this past weekend as the Southern Jaguar track team spent the weekend at a fair weather Bernie Moore Stadium on LSU’s campus to compete in the 2012 Tiger Relays.
The Jags competed Saturday and Sunday, and were looking to improve from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette meet.
Men’s and women’s hurdles had a good weekend having two athletes finishing in the top nine.
Maya Anderson finished made it into the finals Saturday finishing ninth with a time of 1:05.55 in the prelims and on Sunday finished in eighth with a lower time of 1:06.50.
Erich Seals avoided the distractions of falling hurdles to take first place with in the Men’s 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.40.
“I’m pretty proud about what Erich did, said men’s and women’s hurdle coach Beau Walker, “he’s probably one of the hardest guys we have out there he’s really consistent, in that race in particular there were so some distractions some hit hurdles and I think that he held his composure nicely.”
Seals also won first place in the ULL meet with a time of 14.56.
“We have expectations that are even greater than what we saw today,” said Walker, “we’re getting ready for New Orleans in our conference meet, and I would like to see them run at regionals following that meet so we are still in a training mode we’re not peaking that won’t come until the end of April.”
In the men’s 1600-meter medley finished fourth with a time of 3:26.80, and Terrance Clayton was the fastest among the Jaguars in the 100-meter dash at the meet with a time of 10.95.
In the men’s 4×400-meter relay SU finished in sixth place with a time of 3:14.15, and the women finish in eight place with 4×400 with at time of 3:52.54.
“I think we did pretty good we did well yester day in the sprint melody for the guys,” said head coach Brian Johnson, “the girls did well in the 4×400 so did the guys, but we got a little work to do to get over this injury bug but we’re moving in the right direction.”
The throwers seen much improvement and will seem to be really competitive come time for the Southwestern Athletic Conference championships.
“I feel that my group at southern university is the best throwers group in the whole SWAC,” said throwers coach Teremine White, “we are going to compete every weekend and try to put it all on the line for the SWAC Championships.”
Hansoni Alfred marked a Personal Record in Javelin throwing 190 feet, what is more impressive is that he hasn’t picked up a javelin in four years.
The last time Alfred picked up a javelin was in high school and then his best was a 179 feet, in the four year absents Alfred was on the football team.
When asked about improving his throwing technique Alfred said, “of course I expect more, especially after your first track meet you just want to do better after your done, I want to at least get to around the 210 220 mark and continue to reach.”
Among the other throwers notching personal bests were Demetrius Boone in the men’s hammer, Melissa Stephenson in women’s shot put and   Kashmia Weary and Brittany Lacy in women’s hammer.
When asked about which athlete stood out Johnson stayed away from personal accolades saying, “We’re a team just one big team, so not one person stood out more than the other, they all did an ok job, not the best they can do, but we’re coming and we’re trying to make a little noise, and I think we’re on that right track to do that.”