DAY ONE RESULTS (XPRESS TIMING)
NEW ORLEANS – For the second year running
Alimot Alowonle took home long jump gold at the Southland Championships – shattering a school record in the process as the Privateers brought home a pair of gold medals, a silver and set a pair of records on the opening day of the Southland Indoor Championships.
Alimot's final jump of 6.11 meters broke Farydah Inoussa's record of 5.96 meters set at the 2017 Southland Indoor Championships, and her own personal best of 5.95 meters set in her gold medal performance at last season's Southland Indoor Championships. The sophomore's mark on Sunday evening would have won all but two Southland Championships dating back to 2005. It was also longer than UNO's outdoor record, 6.07 meters, currently held by Melissa Evans who set it in 1998.
She joins UIW's Sarea Alexander, McNeese's Jasmine Cornelius and Jenny Hockett of UT Arlington as the only female student-athletes to win multiple Southland Indoor long jump championships in their collegiate careers. Both Cornelius (2013 and 2014) and Hockett (1992 and 1993) also won the event in back-to-back years.
The Privateer women capped an exciting day at the Birmingham CrossPlex in thrilling fashion – winning the women's DMR by .25 seconds over Lamar.
Alexandra Weir took the handoff from
Sophia Wolf with work to do and was able to pass Lamar star runner Nia Clatworthy at the finish line for the victory in 11:47.40. The gold medal performance by
Emma Bourg,
Trinity Bracey, Wolf and Weir was the first Southland Championship UNO has won in the DMR and was the second-fastest time in school history.
New Orleans' second school record to fall came in the women's 400 meter preliminaries.
Trinity Bracey finished fifth with a time of 55.69, half a second faster than Priscilla Chapu's time at the 2005 Sun Belt Championships. Trinity's time qualified her for the finals on Monday afternoon and continues her streak of personal bests at 400 meters. She also qualified for the finals at 200 meters after a time of 24.52.
Rebecca DeKay got things started off well for the Privateers at lunchtime earning a silver medal in the women's 5000 meters. DeKay finished her race in 17:15.34 – a season best for the Canadian and grabbed an early eight points for the Privateer ladies.
Irene Bonanomi finished her 5000 meter run in 18:07.13 and picked up another three points for UNO after a sixth place finish.
In the men's 5000 meters the Privateers had a pair of top-10 finishes.
Matthew Hansen finished in fifth place with a time of 14:36.21 – good for four points, while fellow Australian Josh Johnson finished in seventh with a time of 14:37.90 – good for another two points.
Five of the six Privateer women who ran in a mile preliminary qualified for Monday's final. Weir had the third-best qualifying time in the entire field finishing her mile in 5:04.73, while
Emma Bourg finished with the fifth-best qualifying time after setting a personal best of 5:04.78.
Anna Martin finished with the seventh-best time and had a new season best after she finished in 5:05.18. Freshmen twins Agnes and
Ida Danner also had top-10 times on the afternoon at 5:06.79 and 5:09.26 – a new personal best for Ida.
A pair of Privateer men qualified in the mile as well –
Mason Appleton finished in 4:18.79, and
Cade Litolff finished in 4:19.04 – both top ten times on Sunday afternoon.
All three Privateer women who threw in the women's weight throw on Saturday set new personal bests. Brianna Bell finished in eighth after a throw of 14.92 meters and picked up an early point for the UNO women.
Jannah Sharpe and
Christina Davis also set new personal bests with throws of 13.90 meters, and 12.59 meters respectively.
Christopher Murphy picked up a point for the Privateer men after finishing eighth in the long jump with his best mark being 7.10 meters.
John Adesola and
Madonna Favour both qualified for the men's 60 meter dash finals with times of 6.796 and 6.78.
Jorim Bangue qualified for the men's 60 meter hurdle finals with the second-best qualifying time in the field – 8.09.
Baptiste Depril-Dupre qualified for the men's 800 meter finals with a time of 1:54.14. Although he just missed qualification Darryl Goerge Jr. set a new personal best in the men's 200 at 21.77.
As it stands the Privateer women sit in fourth place with 32 points – seven behind third place UIW. The Privateer men sit in ninth place with eight points.
New Orleans returns to action tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. with Alowonle competing in the triple jump for the first time this season, and
Christina Davis looking to pick up points in the shot put. Fans can watch the final day of the 2024 Southland Indoor Championships on
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