track & field
EBENEZER AGGREY
Sprints • 6-3 • Freshman Baton Rouge, La. Catholic-BR HS
High School: Contributed to the dominant Catholic High track program that won two state team titles in Aggrey’s four seasons … Aggrey ran a leg on gold medal relay teams in the 4x200 4x400 as a junior at the LHSAA Outdoor Championships … added two more gold medals at the state meets, both in the 4x400 relay as a freshman and sophomore … as a senior, part of a 4x400 and 4x200 team that each placed second in the LHSAA Indoor Championships … took fourth in the 200 at the LHSAA Indoor Championships with a personal record of 50.57 … competed in the high jump, finishing seventh in indoor … vice president and public relations officer for the student council … member of the CHS honor board … vice president for the African American Affinity Group. Personal: Son of Ebenezer and Georgina Aggrey … three siblings, brothers Kingsley and George and sister Eunice … a mass communications major who wants to run for political office and live a “good and humble life.”
MIKE ALUKUNYANG
Distance • 5-7 • Junior Kapenguria, Kenya St. Anthony’s Boys HS Kitale/Central Baptist 2020 SLC Spring Honor Roll 2020 Outdoor Season: Canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic. 2020 Indoor Season: Competed in the distance events of the 800, mile run and distance medley relay at five meets on the season ... ran in the 800 at three meets with a season-best time of 1:55.05 coming at the Texas A&M Invitational where he took sixth overall his highest finish of the season in the event ... clocked times of 1:58.28 at the Southland Conference Championship and 1:59.78 at the Houston G5-Super 22 Invitational ... competed in the mile at one meet posting his fastest time of 4:36.41at the LSU Purple Tiger ... ran the in the distance medley relay at the Ted Nelson Invitational (10:35.69) taking fourth with Yannik Gerland, Dwan Stuckey and Darius Groves ... finished with a time of 10:17.08 in the event at the SLC Championship taking ninth overall. High School: Ran cross country and track... graduated in 2014 with a 3.0 GPA. Personal: Son of Margarina Kiyara and Charles Lokwakis... father Charles and mother Margarina are farmers... brother of Moses, Josephat, Aaron, Elizabeth, Agnes, and Jackline... majoring in psychology and wants to become a registered nurse and help the elderly... his life’s ambition is to help those who need him, especially elderly and children throughout society. Alukunyang’s Career Bests: Indoor 800 Meters 1:55.05 6th Texas A&M Invitational (2/22/20) 1 Mile 4:36.41 11th LSU Purple Tiger (1/10/20) Distance Medley 10:17.08 13th SLC Indoor Championship (3/2/20) (P. Vidourek, B. Alexander, M. Alukunyang, Y. Gerland)
RAY ANIKWUE
Sprints • 6-2 • Redshirt Junior Gainesville, N.Y. Letchworth HS/Buffalo
2020 SLC Spring Honor Roll 2020 Outdoor Season: Canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic. 2020 Indoor Season: Did not compete. 2019 Outdoor Season: Redshirt season. 2019 Indoor Season: Redshirt season. Before NSU: Ran track for the Buffalo Bulls for two seasons… Best indoor 60m was 7.04 at the Cornell Upstate Challenge….Best indoor 200m was 22.28 at the SPIRE Midwest Indoor Track & Field Open…Led the team during the 2018 outdoor season with a 100m time of 10.89 at the Jim Thorpe Open and a 200m time of 21.54 at the Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships. High School: Ran track at Letchworth Central School in the 100m, 200m, 4x100 relay, and 4x400 relay…Personal best 10.76 in the 100 in is senior year. Personal: Son of Jim and Pat Cole…Siblings are Jim, Colette and Jay … favorite athletes are Tyson Gay, Reggie Bush, and Jordan Kilganon… Favorite food is lobster.
JAVIN ARRINGTON
Sprints • 5-10 • Senior Laurel, Miss. Laurel HS/Meridian CC
2020 Outdoor Season: Canceled because of COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Indoor Season: Short sprinter who finished seventh in the Southland Conference Indoor Championships with a 6.89 (60 meters) ... two other top 10 finishes in the 60 meters (fifth at the Texas A&M Invitational and ninth and the Ted Nelson Invitational) ... in the 200 meters, placed 17th at SLC Indoors ... best finish came at the Ted Nelson (ninth). 2019 Outdoor Season: Competed in the 100 and 200 meters as well as the 4x100 meter relay... placed fourth at the SLC Championship with a personal best 10.58... placed 10th in the 200 meters at the TCU Invitational with a career best 21.66... part of the 4x100 meter relay team that placed 13th at the NCAA East Regional (39.42), second at the Southland Conference Championship (40.02), first at the Leon Johnson NSU Invitational (39.51), and third at the McNeese State Cowboy Relays (41.97). 2019 Indoor Season: Placed seventh in the 60 meters at the Southland Conference Championship with a career best 6.83 and eighth at the Ted Nelson Invitational (6.92)... placed sixth in the 200 meters at the Ted Nelson Invitational with a career best 21.92. Before NSU: Ran at Meridian CC for two seasons. High School: Ran track and played football…Won the state championship in the 100 meter dash in his junior and senior years…Won the state championship in the 200 meter dash in his senior year…Football state champion in his sophomore year. Personal: Parents are Kimberly Harris and Kevin Arrington…Has four siblings: Kedarrius, Demarcus, Rapheal, and Alexys…Plans to be a bank teller and own his own bank someday. Arrington’s Career Bests: 60 Meters 6.83 7th SLC Indoor Championship (2/25/19) 100 Meters 10.58 4th SLC Outdoor Championship (5/5/19) 200 Meters 21.66 10th TCU Invitational (3/16/19)
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