Track & Field Hosts Annual Team Banquet

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Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU)Associate SID



BATON ROUGE – The LSU Track & Field program held its seventh-annual Team Awards and Alumni Recognition Banquet on Friday night at the Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel in which 19 student-athletes received awards for their performance in competition, in the classroom and in the community during the 2015-16 athletic season.
The LSU Track & Field Team Awards and Alumni Recognition Banquet has been established to not only recognize the current members of the program for their performance in the past year, but also honor the alumni who have laid the foundation of success still enjoyed by the program today.
Awards were presented to members of the program for their outstanding performance during the 2015 and 2016 cross country seasons as well as the 2016 indoor and 2016 outdoor track and field seasons while leading the Tigers and Lady Tigers in all aspects of the program.
Highlighting the festivities on the night was a celebration of the LSU’s “Decade of the Dynasty” when the Lady Tigers brought home a staggering 19 NCAA team championships between the indoor and outdoor seasons from 1987-97. That included an unprecedented 11-straight national titles won at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, a streak that will surely never be broken in the sport.

Proud to have so many of these women from the #DecadeOfDynasty back with us at tonight's team banquet! #LSU #Legends pic.twitter.com/Suu8wI7rpz
— LSUTrackField (@LSUTrackField) April 22, 2017
“What a special event this has become for our program each and every year as we continue to celebrate our history, while also recognizing those still on our team who carry that standard of excellence with them,” said LSU head coach Dennis Shaver. “We’re especially proud to have so many women from that ‘Decade of the Dynasty’ come back and be recognized for what they accomplished. We’ll likely never see an era like ...

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