BATON ROUGE — Lady Tiger sprinter Muna Lee was named the Mondo NCAA Division I Women’s Track Athlete of the Week, it was announced Friday by the United States Track Coaches Association.
Tennessee’s Gary Kikaya was awarded the men’s honor, as both were recognized for their performances ending with the weekend of April 5-6.
Lee, the Mondo Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year, was honored for her phenomenal sprint performance at the prestigious Texas Relays last week. The junior from Kansas City, Mo., took part in three outstanding performances as she began with a win in the 100-meter dash, taking the event title with an NCAA-leading time of 10.97.
The three time national champion then went on to anchor both the Lady Tigers’ 4×100 and 4×200-meter relays to event titles, also in world-leading times. The 4×200 squad set a collegiate record with a blistering mark of 1:30.07, a time that shattered the previous collegiate mark of 1:30.93 set by Texas during the 1999 season.
In the 4×100 relay, Lee anchored the squad to the second-best time in collegiate history, 42.63, as the Lady Tigers set a Texas Relays meet record and a Mike A. Myers Stadium record in the process.
Lee and the rest of the LSU track and field team will return to action this weekend when they play host to the Alumni Gold Invitational, April 11-12, at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium. Competition will begin Friday at 4 p.m. with men’s decathlon and the women’s heptathlon and will conclude Saturday with the field events at 10:30 a.m. and the running events at 1 p.m.