BATON ROUGE — Lafayette High’s Lady Lions don’t have the numbers they’ve had in the past, so their ambition is a bit tempered entering Saturday’s LHSAA State Indoor Meet at LSU. But don’t count the Lions out without giving new faces a chance to excel. “The season has been really…
You know what time it is? Time to rank the best athletes of 2018. Here’s our top five U.S.-based high school male athletes of 2018. Read More
With each new adventure, the growing legend of Armand “Mondo” Duplantis soars another step higher. Duplantis, who did things no one had done before in American high school pole vault competition while he was at Lafayette High, conquered new horizons in Europe this summer. Read More
Lafayette High pole vault star Armand “Mondo” Duplantis received the Louisiana Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year award, which was also announced Thursday. Duplantis, an LSU signee, was Gatorade’s National Boys Track & Field Athlete in 2017 and won the state honor for a third straight season. Duplantis…
Mondo Duplantis isn’t just another high achieving teenage track & field star. He’s already one of the world’s best at his event, and before long he may be recognized as the guiding light in an event that too often goes overlooked, even as its stars literally fly above the competition.…
Mondo Duplantis cleared 18 feet, 0.5 inches (5.50m) to break the National High School Record on Saturday afternoon at the LSU High School Last Chance Qualifier in Baton Rouge. The sophomore from Lafayette High School in Louisiana is the first prep to clear the 18-foot barrier indoors. Don’t expect the…
