Track and Field Wins Six Events in SEC Finale

Published by LSU SID on May 14th, 2016

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Nethaneel Mitchell-Blakebecame the first LSU sprinter in eight years to win three SEC gold medals and the Tigers smashed two meet records in the relay events to highlight six event wins for the LSU Track & Field teams on Saturday in a furious finale at the 2016 SEC Outdoor Championships held at Sam Bailey Stadium.

The Lady Tigers added an SEC relay title of their own with a win in the women’s 4x100-meter relay, and juniorJordan Moore completed his season sweep of SEC titles in the sprint hurdles in one of the most impressive final days for the program at the SEC Championships as the second-winningest team in the meet.

LSU’s six SEC Outdoor event titles were second only to the seven gold medalists between the Arkansas men and women over three days of competition at Alabama’s Sam Bailey Stadium in Tuscaloosa.

Mitchell-Blake enjoyed one of the most impressive individual performances ever seen by an LSU athlete at the SEC Outdoor Championships as he not only anchored the team to a meet-record time of 38.33 seconds in the men’s 4x100-meter relay, but he also came back to win the sprint double with a time of 10.16 in the 100 meters and eye-popping 19.95 in the 200 meters.