BATON ROUGE, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana track and field team will send 12 student-athletes to the LSU Purple Tiger Invitational Saturday at Carl Maddox Field House.

For the men's team, SLU will feature six led by Southland Conference Indoor Champion in the high jump, Slavko Stevic. The Serbian native jumped six feet, 11 inches (2.11m) to claim the conference title helping the men's team claim their first Southland Conference Indoor team championship since 2014. Stevic will compete at 5 p.m. Friday in the men's high jump.

Southeastern's Adam Pennington, a Covington High School grad, will also be in action Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the pole vault. The senior placed seventh in the pole vault in the conference indoor championship vaulting 15-3.5 (4.66m). The Madisonville, Louisiana native holds a personal best of 15-5 (4.71m).

Also, for the men, Tommy Nedow (shot put and weight throw), Armonte Paulk (60m), Terrell Webb (weight throw) and Jacob Meek (600m) will compete. Meek, out of Waco, Texas, will be making his collegiate debut.

On the women's side, SLU will have five in action including Indya Jackson (600m), Kristian Jackson (shot put, weight throw), Destinee Jeanpiere (60m, 200m), Madelyn McCabe (high jump and 60m hurdles) and Grace Walford (weight throw).  

Walford, out of Lincoln, Kansas, finished fifth in the weight throw at the Southland Conference Championships throwing a personal best of 55-7.5 (16.95m). The senior will throw at 11:30 a.m. Friday.

McCabe, a freshman, will be making her collegiate debut as well. The Cashion, Oklahoma native will see action in the 60m hurdles prelims at 2:15 p.m. and the high jump at 2:45 p.m. McCabe was named the 2020 Jim Thorpe Athlete of the Year for Oklahoma.

"This is the first competition for us since winning the men's indoor championships," said SLU track head coach Corey Mistretta. "But we are going to be cautious early on with COVID and with the fact that we've got cross country and track going on at the same time. We're just wanting to make sure all of our student-athletes stay healthy."

Live stats of Friday's meet will be available at the SLU track schedule page at LionSports.Net.
 
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