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When Dennis Shaver ascended to the rank of head coach of the LSU Track & Field program in July 2004, he took the reins of a national power recognized worldwide for its dominance at the collegiate level while racking up a total of 32 NCAA team championships in its history.
Along with anchoring the 4100 team that won SEC and NCAA gold in 2023, Oghenebrume saw a lot of individual success in the 60 meter and 100 meter. During the indoor season the Nigerian cut his 2022 PR of 6.89 seconds down to 6.60 seconds in 2023. His indoor success led to him taking bronze and being named Second Team All-SEC after clocking a time of 6.64 seconds. His title and much improved time sent him to his first NCAA Championship appearance.
Oghenebrume found a new level of speed during the 2023 outdoor season, breaking the 10-second barrier multiple times in the 100 for the first time in his career. Oghenebrume made his first NCAA Outdoor Championship appearance and made the most of it, clocking a time of 9.90 seconds in the finals to take silver. His new personal-best time ranks second in LSU history just behind Olympian Richard Thompson in first who clocked a time of 9.89. His time also ranks third in Nigerian history, seventh in African history, and seventh in collegiate history. Heading into the season Oghenebrume held a personal-best time of 10.12 seconds in the 100, seeing .22 seconds shaved off of his previous best this season.
The Tigers closed out the 2022 season with two top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships. The women finished fifth during the indoor season, and then went on to finish fourth outdoors at the NCAA Championships.
Alia Armstrong had the best season among collegiate hurdles during 2022. After having a stellar collegiate season, Armstrong took third at the USATF Outdoor Championships to punch her ticket for the World Athletics Championships. While at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, Armstrong clocked a time of 12.31w in the 100-meter hurdles at the World Championships to take fourth place. Armstrong, the New Orleans native, was crowned the NCAA Champion over 100mh with a time of 12.57 seconds in the NCAA Outdoor Championship final. She racked up two First Team All-American honors during the championship after helping the 4100-meter relay team to a fourth-place finish in the championship final. At the SEC Championships Armstrong was crowned a conference champion twice after taking gold in the 100mh and the 4100. During the outdoors regular season Armstrong ran the collegiate all-conditions record of 12.33 (+2.5 m/s) at the Texas Relays to take first.
Indoors, Armstrong was crowned the 60-meter SEC Champion with a final time of 7.11 seconds, which ranked third in LSU history and first in the nation for 2022. She made LSU history with the fastest time in the 60 hurdles ever, taking first at the Tyson Invitational with 7.81 seconds. Her time of 7.81 seconds also led the nation in 2022. Armstrong while being a member of The Bowerman Watch List member and being named SEC Track Athlete of the Week (02/01).
While in the indoor season Ofili was crowned a First Team All-American three times at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She finished second in the 200 meter with a time of 22.50, seventh in the 60 with a time of 7.25, and seventh with the 4400-meter relay team with a squad time of 3:33.81. Ofili earned one SEC Track Athlete of the Week honor during indoors (02/08).Favour Ofili accomplished a spectacular feat of being crowned a three-time SEC Outdoor Champion after winning the 100, 200, and 4100. The Bowerman Semifinalist finished with a collegiate and LSU record time of 21.96 seconds in the 200 during the season.
The men have added to their trophy case as well while racking up 17 team trophies with a top-four finish at the NCAA Championships as they have earned six second-place finishes, two third-place finishes and eight fourth-place finishes between the indoor and outdoor seasons along with their national championship in 2021.
The 2021 season was an immensely successful one in all stages. The program captured three NCAA trophies and had five athletes be recognized by The Bowerman. JuVaughn Harrison and Tonea Marshall were on The Bowerman Watch List all season long, while Noah Williams, Terrance Laird, and Sean Burrell made cameos on the watch list for the most prestigious award in collegiate track and field. Harrison was named a finalist for The Bowerman July 14, 2021.
Tonea Marshall and JuVaughn Harrison were mainstays on The Bowerman Watch List throughout the indoor season as well with three appearances by Harrison and two by Marshall. Entering the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships, LSU was the only program in America to have more than one athlete recognized by The Bowerman.
Over the 2017 and 2018 season, Shaver guided the most lauded 4100 meter relay in NCAA history as his squad went on to set six of the top eight times in NCAA history. Mikiah Brisco and Kortnei Johnson were mainstays on the most illustrious sprint relay to ever circle the track on the collegiate level; the other two legs of the relay consisted of a combination of Aleia Hobbs, Rachel Misher and Jada Martin.
Hobbs broke out individually in 2018 as well with NCAA sprint titles in the 60 meters and 100 meters. She followed that up with a gold-medal performance in the 100 meter dash at the USATF Outdoor Championships in late June. Hobbs was unblemished in her primary events (100 meters and 4100 meter relay) during the outdoor slate as she went a combined 15-0 between those two events.
Not only were the Tigers crowned NCAA Champions in the 4100-meter relay during the outdoor season, but they also won NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor championships in the 4400-meter relay to prove themselves as the deepest sprint squad in the country.
LSU lined up one of the most prolific sprint relay teams in collegiate history a year ago, culminating with a record-setting victory at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships where Jaron Flournoy, Renard Howell, Tremayne Acy and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake teamed for the Hayward Field facility record at the University of Oregon with a time of 38.42 seconds in the NCAA final.
The 2016 season also saw the women win their 14th NCAA Championship in school history in the 4100-meter relay, which helped clinch a sixth-place team finish at the national meet. Mikiah Brisco, Kortnei Johnson, Jada Martin and Rushell Harvey teamed to smash the Hayward Field record themselves with a winning 42.65 for the 11th-fastest time in collegiate history.
Norwood was crowned the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Champion in the 400-meter dash to highlight a historic senior season at LSU. In his final season, Norwood became just the 14th sprinter in collegiate history to sweep NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor titles in the 400 meters (or 440 yards) in the same season while also anchoring the Tigers to a national championship in the mile relay outdoors.
He first clocked an indoor personal best and became the second-ranked LSU Tiger indoors in history with his winning run of 45.31 at the NCAA Indoor Championships to win his first national championship in the 400-meter dash. Norwood completed his NCAA-title sweep outdoors with a time of 45.10 in the national final to join the great Xavier Carter in 2006 as the only two Tigers to win both NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor titles in the event.
Norwood wrapped up a brilliant career by anchoring the Tigers to the national title in the 4400-meter relay as he went out as a four-time NCAA Champion, eight-time All-American and nine-time All-SEC performer in just two seasons at LSU.
Stowers, who was crowned a five-time SEC Champion and seven-time All-American in her career at LSU from 2011-14, took the world by storm with a series of personal bests last spring culminating with an IAAF Diamond League all-time record of 12.35 in Doha, Qatar. Stowers became the eighth-fastest 100 hurdler all-time and the fourth-fastest American in history with her performance.
The curtain closed on one of the storied careers in the history of collegiate track and field in 2013 when Kimberlyn Duncan stepped onto the track for the final time in an LSU uniform at the NCAA Championships in Oregon.
The Katy, Texas, product stepped into history as she swept NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor gold medals for the third-straight season to become the first sprinter in collegiate history to claim six national titles in the 200-meter dash at the NCAA level. Duncan matched that output at the conference level with a sweep of SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor titles in the 200 meters for the third year in a row, even running an SEC Outdoor Championships meet record of 22.35 in her senior season in 2013.
Not only did Duncan match the fastest all conditions 200 meters in collegiate history as a senior, but she set the low-altitude collegiate record of 22.19 as a junior in 2012 in the NCAA semifinals. She ran three of the five fastest wind-legal times and five of the eight fastest all conditions times in NCAA history at the time as the most dominant 200-meter sprinter ever at the collegiate level.
Duncan earned the right to represent the United States on the international stage for the first time in her career in 2013 when she dropped her personal best of 21.80 in capturing her first career U.S. Outdoor title in the 200 meters to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.
Like Duncan, Tate wrapped up the 2012 campaign as a national champion as she recorded her collegiate best of 55.22 to win the NCAA title in the 400-meter hurdles. She also helped the LSU win the national title in the 4400-meter relay during the indoor season as she ran the second leg on a team that featured Rebecca Alexander, Siedda Herbert and Jonique Day as they claimed the 13th NCAA crown for the program in the event all-time with their victory.
Alexander, Tate and Day also joined leadoff leg Latoya McDermott on the team that set a new school record of 3:24.59 to finish as the national runners-up during the NCAA Outdoor Championships, marking the third-fastest 4400-meter relay performance in NCAA history.
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