BATON ROUGE – After being honored as the SEC Women’s Runner of the Week on Tuesday, Lady Tiger junior All-American Charlene Lipsey has been selected Wednesday morning as a CollegeSports360 Primetime Performer of the Week following her performance at the Razorback Invitational last weekend.
A native of Hempstead, N.Y., Lipsey has continued her momentum from the 2011 season, which ended in a fourth-place finish in the 800 meters at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
While making her 2012 season debut in the 800 meters on Saturday, Lipsey emerged as the NCAA leader and an NCAA title contender with an indoor personal record of 2 minutes, 3.79 seconds for the win in the invitational race at this year’s Razorback Invitational. In the win, Lipsey defeated Arkansas All-American Stephanie Brown (2:03.93) on her home track at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville.
Lipsey, who entered the meet with an indoor PR of 2:04.55 set during her sophomore season in 2011, rose to the top of the NCAA rankings for the 2012 campaign with the No. 3-ranked performance on LSU’s all-time indoor performance list in its storied history in the women’s 800-meter run.