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Track & Field Athletes Receive SEC Outdoor Recognition - LSUsports.net—The Official Web Site of LSU Tigers Athletics

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RunnerSpace com   May 27th 2008, 10:11pm
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(05/26/2008) BY www.LSUsports.net

BATON ROUGE -- As the LSU track and field teams prepare for this weekend’s NCAA Mideast Regional Championships, 22 student-athletes were honored by the SEC on Monday as the league office announced its postseason awards for the outdoor season.

Headlining this year’s honorees were seniors Richard Thompson and Kelly Baptiste, who swept SEC Male and Female Outdoor Runner of the Year honors, while head coach Dennis Shaver was named the SEC Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year for the second straight season.

Thompson has quickly become one of the more dominant sprinters at the collegiate level and has been rewarded with his first career SEC Male Runner of the Year honor.

He became the first LSU athlete since Byron Logan in 1998 and the first SEC athlete since Tyson Gay in 2004 to...



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