TRACK & FIELD: Lamar earns eight entries on All-SLC teams
Published 6:01 pm Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Lamar track and field athletes earned eight spots on the All-Southland Conference teams announced Wednesday.
Those who finished in the top three of Southland events were automatically named All-Southland Conference. The top 48 ranked athletes nationally in each event will advance to the NCAA West Preliminaries, May 23-25 in Sacramento, California.
Southland men’s 5,000 meters champion Jamie Crowe and women’s heptathlon Migle Muraskaite were named to the first team. Crowe earned second-team honors in the 10,000 meters, with Jordan Rowe (5,000) and Matthew Arnold (3,000 steeplechase) earning the same honor. Third-team members included Webster Slaughter (400), Arnold (5,000) and Javon McCray (triple jump).
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I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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