Freshmen Shine and Personal Records Fall as Bulldogs Open Outdoor Season

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Freshman Leilani Lopez (San Antonio/St. Anthony Catholic) collected top five finishes in the 100 and 200-meter dash as Texas Lutheran opened it's outdoor season at the Trinity Invitational in San Antonio this weekend.

Lopez, a San Antonio native, finished fourth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.54 seconds and fifth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.35 seconds. Both times made for personal records for the freshman.

Freshman Kristin Lucero (San Antonio/Brennan) finished second in the 5K distance run with a personal record time of 19:25.84 and also collected a ninth-place finish in the 1500-meter run with a time of 5:07.46.

Freshman Cameron Miller (Spring/Grand Oaks) finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:11.52.

In throws, freshman Julissa Rodriguez (Pasadena/Deer Park) collected two top ten finishes in her first outdoor meet including a fourth place finish in the shot put with a mark of 12.59-meters - a personal record.

Full Results: For all results to this weekend's meet please visit: https://tlubulldogs.com/sports/mtrack-out/2021-22/files/2022_trinity_invite_results.pdf

Coach Holland's Comments: "We have a very young group of ladies and I'm extremely proud of their opening performances.

Notable performances for the women came from a trio of freshmen with Leilani Lopez in the 4x100, 100 and 200 with big PRs, Kristin Lucero in the 1,500 and 5K also with big PRs, and Julissa Rodriguez in the throwing events- most notably the shot put - in which she had 3 PRs subsequently broken with each throw she threw in the event. The female 100 hurdlers led by freshmen Taylor Norrell and Ciara Cavazos, had a quick start to the outdoor season as well.

We don't compete again until our home meet in three weeks, so we are going to put the work in and continue to improve in all of our events. It was a great start, and the excitement is there! Can't wait to see how the next one goes!