Tag: OLLU Track and Field

Saints women conclude spring season, relay team will prepare for nationals

The women’s track and field team hosted and participated in the Saints Last Chance event on Friday at Holy Cross High School, a short distance from the OLLU campus.

Head Coach Patrick Torres commented, “Alexandria Segura hit a huge jump, and we had some good sprint and distance performances, as well. Nobody new squeaked into nationals, but our women’s 4x100m relay will be ready for Nationals later this month”.

Full results are listed below:

ParticipantsEventResultsFinish
Autumn Roberts200m26.663rd
Larrisa McHenry200m27:064th
Roxana Guerrero200m28:275th
Brianna Pantoja800m2:35.143rd
Alexandria Segura800m2:35.334th
Nadia Sifuentes1500m4:59.192nd
Alexandria SeguraLong Jump5.60m3rd
Autumn RobertsLong Jump4.95m7th
Natalie MartinezJavelin22.96m3rd

What’s next

The 4x100m relay team will participate in the 41st Annual Women’s Outdoor Track and Field National Championships on May 25-27 at the Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Ala. The team consists of Autumn Roberts, Larrisa McHenry, Alondra Toledo and Kiana Kebbie, with Alexandria Segura as an alternate.

Men win and women were second in track and field conference championships

Hear from Head Coach Patrick Torres and watch highlights from OLLU athletes.: https://youtu.be/ezfsbz2wrh8

The men’s track and field team captured its first Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) Track and Field Championship earlier today. OLLU hosted the event at Antonian High School, and participants included OLLU, the University of the Southwest and Jarvis Christian College.

Since the track and field teams began competing in 2015, the men have placed fifth in 2015, third in 2016, second in 2017, third in 2018 and second in 2019. The season was canceled in 2020.

The Saints finished with a total of 169 points, Jarvis had 137 points and Southwest had 44.

The women’s team finished as runners-up.

Since track and field began competing at OLLU in 2015, the women placed fourth in 2015, second in 2016, second in 2017 and second in 2019. The Saints won the RRAC title in 2018.

The Saints finished with 155 points, while first-place winner Jarvis Christian College had 170 and third-place finisher the University of the Southwest tallied 88 points.

After the meet, OLLU celebrated seniors Destiny Joseph and Victoria De La Cruz.