The Georgia track and field team was in Blacksburg, Va. for the Virginia Tech Elite meet this weekend — their fourth meet of the season. With only three weeks before the SEC Indoor Championships, the trip to Blacksburg was a pivotal one. The Bulldogs had 27 top 10 finishes, including wins by freshman Morgann Leleux, seniors Torrin Lawrence [...]
This weekend Georgia’s men’s and women’s indoor track and field squads travel to Blacksburg, Va. for the Virginia Tech Elite Meet. This is Georgia’s fourth meet of the indoor season and first in the month of February. Things will get going Friday at 5 p.m. with the women’s long jump and go through the men’s 200m [...]
Georgia got their split squad weekend started with a bang in Arkansas. Senior Cory Holman led the charge, winning the heptathlon at the Razorback Invitational. Holman had 3,316 points after his events Friday with three career-best performances. This included a 14 foot 1 ¼ inch pole vault, the best of his career. Saturday Holman was [...]
Georgia’s men’s track and field team is preparing for its third meet of the season, as split squads will travel to Arkansas for the Razorback Invitational on Friday while the rest will head to Nebraska for the Mark Colligan Memorial on Saturday. The Bulldogs are coming off last week’s Auburn Invitational, where they had what head coach [...]
Coming off of of their first meet of the season last week in Lexington, Ky., Georgia’s men’s and women’s track and field teams were looking to build on their opening weekend successes this weekend in Birmingham, Ala at the Auburn Invitational. Sophomores Justin Welch and Caleb Whitener along with freshman Burke McCarthy got things started [...]
Georgia senior Torrin Lawrence and freshman Morgann Leleux have received weekly Southeastern Conference honors following their performances at the Kentucky Invitational in Lexington, Ky., according to a league announcement. Lawrence was named the SEC Men’s Runner of the Week while Leleux, competing in her first collegiate meet, was honored as the SEC Women’s Freshman of [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Both senior Cory Holman and freshman Morgann Leleux had second-place finishes with near personal-best marks at the season-opening Kentucky Invitational in Lexington, Ky., on Friday night. “I thought we had a very nice start to the meet,” said Georgia head coach Wayne Norton. “Cory Holman looked really strong in his first meet [...]
Former Georgia gymnast Grace Taylor Johnson has been named one of the Southeastern Conference’s two nominees for the 2011 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, it was announced by the league office. The NCAA Woman of the Year Award honors graduating student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in the areas of academic [...]
MIRAMAR, Fla. – Georgia signee Morgan Leleux captured a gold medal in the pole vault during the opening day of the Pan American Junior Track & Field Championships in Miramar, Fla., on Friday. Leleux, a recent graduate of Catholic High (New Iberia, La.), cleared 13 feet, 7 1/4 inches on her second attempt to best [...]
TORUN, Poland – Georgia track and field’s Lucie Ondraschkova and Tommy Barrineau concluded action at the European Cup Combined Events – Super League late Saturday in Torun, Poland. Ondraschkova, a heptathlete from Opava, Czech Republic, made a three-place improvement from her 2010 finish after taking 21stthrough seven events. Ondraschkova scored 5,239 points and was the [...]
