HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana track and field teams will not have far to go to open their outdoor season on Friday.

    The Tulane Early Bird Twilight, originally scheduled to be held at Tad Gormley Stadium, was moved to the Southeastern Track Complex due to a conflict at the facility in New Orleans.

    The throwing events get underway at 9:30 a.m. The jumps will begin at 12:30 p.m. with the track events scheduled for 2 p.m. A link to live stats, provided by Tulane, will be accessible on the track and field schedule page at www.LionSports.net.

    Southeastern will be joined in the field by host Tulane, New Orleans, Xavier-Louisiana and Dillard.

    Headlining the Lions will be four-time All-American pole vaulter Devin King, and junior Brian Donna, who took fourth in the heptathlon at the Southland Conference Championships last week. Donna will compete in the shot put, high jump and 110-meter hurdles.

    Also scheduled to compete for the Lions in the field will be senior Brandon Hollier (pole vault), junior Michael Seither (hammer), sophomore Alex Bertrand (javelin) and freshmen Evan Landry (javelin) and Adam Pennington (pole vault). In the running events will be senior Albert Martinez (400-meter hurdles, 4x400 relay); junior Jebarri Cumberbatch (100, 300); sophomores Justin Taylor (110 hurdles, 4x400), Martavius James (100, 300, 4x400) and Devin Dixon (300); and freshmen Greysan Moehrs (110 hurdles), Gerald Coleman (400 hurdles, 4x400) and Tahrike Jones (300).

    Sophomore Ashley Davis, the reigning Southland indoor shot put champion, will compete in the weight throw for the Lady Lions. Junior Dekayta Alex, who placed fifth in the 400 at the conference indoor meet, is set to run in the 300.

    Freshman Katherine Strahan is scheduled to have a busy day, competing in the high jump, long jump and 100-meter hurdles. Joining Davis in the weight throw will be freshmen Sydney McSlarrow, Vigdis Jonsdittir and Grace Walford, junior Alexia Stein and senior Natalia Redondo. Freshman Charlotte Wissing will be in the javelin in her first meet as a Lady Lion. Scheduled to run are junior Breanne Bias (100 hurdles), freshmen Taylor Mumford (100, 300) and Jacquelyn Walker (400 hurdles) and junior A'Dreama Johnson (300).

    "We're taking a small crew," Southeastern head coach Corey Mistretta said. "After our big weekend at Conference, we had a lot of personal bests and a lot of kids are still a little tired, a little sore, so we're not taking a full team. We're bringing a lot of the people that didn't run at conference and just a few other people, some of our low hurdlers and javelin throwers. They've been champing at the bit to go compete because they don't compete indoors. We're looking to just go out there and see where the kids are. I think you will see we are continuing to improve and catching up from the winter break. I'm excited about it and I think it will be good for us."

    Southeastern is scheduled to compete at the McNeese Bob Hayes Invitational in Lake Charles next Saturday.