Baton Rouge, La. – Michael Cherry (Team USA) and Mondo Duplantis (Team Europe) won individual titles at The Match, a two-day duel between track and field athletes from America and Europe that took place in Minsk, Belarus. Duplantis, a two-time SEC champ, the indoor NCAA champ, and a finalist for 2019 Bowerman award,…
BATON ROUGE – Top seven NCAA Outdoor finishes by LSU this season put the Tigers front and center on this year’s LSWA Track and Field honors list. Also announced were the best times in both men’s and women’s track as compiled based on the top qualifying times list posted by…
Baton Rouge, La. – Mondo Duplantis became the first man in LSU track and field history to be named a finalist for The Bowerman the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced on Thursday. Duplantis is one of three finalists with Florida’s Grant Holloway and Texas Tech’s Divine Oduduru. Duplantis,…
From the first day I pole vaulted, I knew. If I was going to go to college, I was going to LSU. That was never a question. It was a family thing. My mom and dad met at LSU. My brothers came to LSU. Before I ever stepped foot on…
Unlike his older brother, Mondo Duplantis’ college career at LSU was destined to be a short one. Just 15 hours after Antoine Duplantis completed his four-year career with the LSU baseball team, Mondo Duplantis said Monday he will compete as a professional on the lucrative European track and field circuit this summer.…
AUSTIN, Texas — After completing his first and perhaps only collegiate season, LSU pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis said there’s no timetable for deciding whether he’ll return to school for his sophomore season or turn pro. Duplantis, the 19-year-old phenom who is ranked the world’s top vaulter, told reporters after suffering the…
Even though he’s still 1½ years shy of his 21st birthday, it would have been laughingly easy for Mondo Duplantis to be living in the lap of luxury the past nine months. For more than two years, LSU’s star freshman pole vaulter had gotten a taste of what it’s like…
Mondo Duplantis. The SEC Championships. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Name a better trio. We’ll wait. A little more than two months after breaking the collegiate indoor record at the SEC Indoor Championships, Mondo did the same to the collegiate outdoor record at the SEC Outdoor Championships. Lo and behold, both meets were…
Welcome to America’s favorite game show, “Guess The Year.” (Cue audience applause … or jeers) Are you ready to play? HERE. WE. GO. The collegiate outdoor record in the women’s pole vault fell earlier in the season The long-standing collegiate outdoor record in the men’s pole vault is being threatened…
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – LSU pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis has been named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Association Division I National Athlete of the Week. LSU pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis clears second highest height in NCAA Duplantis became the second-best collegiate pole vaulter outdoors with a…
