BATON ROUGE – Brittany Mack won the 2010 edition of the Tiger Triathlon as the LSU softball team recently competed in the yearly event around campus.
Mack won the eighth-annual event with an overall time of 47:03 and edged out Jessica Mouse by 28 seconds. Heidi Pizer, Ashley Applegate and Allison Falcon rounded out the Top 5.
“I’m proud to know that our team is full of competitors who push themselves to win no matter what,” Mack said. “I was especially proud to see my fellow teammates who are recovering from surgery or other injuries beast through the Tiger Tri. Every player on this team went all out and gave everything they had just to catch the girl ahead of them. I’m a proud teammate.”
The Tigers began the triathlon by swimming 300 yards, the equivalent of 12 laps, at the Natatorium. Immediately after finishing the swimming event, they picked up a bike and rode 5.2 miles along a course that wove around various athletic venues and finished with the levee portion. The triathlon wrapped up with a two-mile run as the players crossing the finish line at the levee flagpole.
“The swim is definitely the hardest part considering most of us don’t swim on a daily basis,” Mouse said. “In fact, I haven’t been in a pool competitively since the last triathlon. We pretty much look like fish out of water. The race is tough but certainly impressive to see everyone finish.”
For the first time since the 2008 season, LSU will spend opening weekend inside the friendly confines of Tiger Park. Bowling Green, Louisiana Tech and Purdue head to the Capitol City as part of the Wilson/DeMarini Tiger Classic from Feb. 11-13.
LSU earned a runner-up finish at the SEC Tournament en route to a 45-16 finish, its 10th season with at least 45 victories since softball was reinstated in 1997. The Tigers also reeled off a program-best 24-game winning streak and recorded their 12th NCAA Regional appearance in 2010.