TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – With a host of his top performers from a record-breaking indoor season having exhausted their eligibility or being red-shirted, Southeastern Louisiana track and field head coach Sean Brady is anxious to see how his team responds when it resumes the outdoor season Thursday at the John Mitchell Alabama Relays hosted by the University of Alabama.
   
     "I'm excited about this meet because it is at Alabama and it is a big meet," Brady said. "It will be our first big team outdoor meet and it's an invitational, a qualifiers meet, so not everybody met the standard to get into the competition. So for those who did, our expectations are high. We have the opportunity now to see some of the athletes that were kind of the number two or three on our depth chart have the chance to step up and see if they can respond in a pressure situation."
   
    The competition gets underway Thursday at Sam Bailey Track & Field Stadium at 1 p.m. with the men's and women's hammer throw and the women's javelin. Friday's competition opens at 5 p.m. with both field and track events. The meet wraps up Saturday with the field events starting at noon and the track events at 2 p.m.
    
    The meet will be streamed live on SEC Network + on Friday and Saturday. Live stats, courtesy of Alabama, will be available at www.LionSports.net.
   
    Among the schools scheduled to compete are Alabama, Tulane, New Orleans, Loyola (N.O.), Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Middle Tennessee State, Southern Miss, UAB, South Alabama, Troy, Samford Jackson State, Alabama State, Alabama A&M, Alabama-Huntsville, Belmont, Morehouse, Stillman, Jacksonville and Southern Illinois.
   
    The Southeastern men took 12^th at the NCAA Division I Indoor National Championships this past weekend and finished the indoor season ranked 21^st by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Both the Lions and Lady Lions opened the outdoor season with strong performances at the Tulane Twilight Invitational two weeks ago.
   
    Seniors Jimmy LeBlanc and Austin Funk will lead the Lions in the throws while 2015 All-American Jermisha Frazier and juniors Addie Shafer and Nicole Delesdernier will pace the Lady Lions. Frazier will also compete Friday in the shot put and Saturday in the discus. Senior indoor national champion and All-American Alex Young will compete unattached in the hammer throw after being red-shirted for the outdoor season. LeBlanc and Young both come back to compete in the shot put on Friday and the discus on Saturday.
   
    Indoor All-American Steven Barze and fellow junior Julian Maze start off Friday's action in the triple jump for the Lions. Barze will also compete in the high jump on Saturday along with senior Clarence Robinson and freshman Rodney Ruffin. Robinson finished third in the event at the Southland Indoor Championships. Barze, Maze and Ruffin complete their weekend in the long jump.
   
    Indoor All-American Devin King, coming off a third-place finish at the National Championships, will be in the pole vault Friday.    
   
    Junior Dwayne Woodard will compete in the 400 hurdles while senior Kadarius Williams and junior Shadrack Adu-Gyamfi will be in the 100-meter dash. Freshman Cameron Hubbard is in the 400 Friday while junior Harry Wiggins runs the 1,500 Friday and the 3,000 steeplechase Saturday.
   
    Senior Raheem Brown and juniors Maverick Bowleg, Woodard and Alex Holden form the Lions' 1,600 sprint medley relay on Friday. Brown and Bowleg will also join Adu-Gyamfi and Williams in Saturday's 4x100. Bowman, Brown, Holden and freshman Tajh Lewis conclude the meet in the 4x400.

    Brown will be in the 100-meter Invitational earlier that day while Holden and Lewis will be in the 800.
   
    Freshmen Breanne Bias will compete in the triple jump Friday and the long jump on Saturday for the Lady Lions. Freshmen Taylor Celestine and Raven Davis will run the 400 hurdles on Friday, then return Saturday for the 100 hurdles. Senior Sharonna Williams, a third-team All-Southland Conference selection in the 60 during the indoor season, will run the 100 meters Friday along with junior Kaelynn Smith and freshman Aaerion Jackson.
   
    Running the 400 will be freshmen Dekayta Alex and Ariane Williams and junior Domonique White. Freshman Shekira Price is in the high jump. Sophomore Clarissa Smith will run the 1,500 on Friday and the 3,000 steeplechase on Saturday.
   
    Second-team All-Southland senior Sharron-Ann Ourso, senior Addison Martinez and junior Whitney Adams will compete in a second section of the pole vault Saturday.
    
    Sharonna Williams, Smith, freshman Jaslyn Bowman and sophomore Lekesha Jelks join up to run the 1,600 sprint medley relay. Williams, Jackson, Smith and Bowman will run the 4x100 on Saturday with Alex, Ariane Williams, White and Jelks competing in the 4x400. Jelks will also run in the 800.