2021 TRACK & FIELD RECORD BOOK 1 Mondo broke his own world record with a clearance of 6.18 meters in Glasgow, Scotland, on February 15, 2020. 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year Baton Rouge, La. – Mondo Duplantis was named Renaud Lavilennie’s previous world record of 6.14 Greg, were given the Coaching Achievement Award. the winner of the 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete of meters that was set in 2014. Helena and Greg serve as Mondo’s coaches and the Year award on December 5, 2020. The virtual cer- It was only a week later and he re-upped his world training advisors; Greg still serves as a volunteer emony announced a plethora of awards in what was a record by a centimeter with a clearance of 6.18 meters assistant coach with the LSU track and field program. celebration of the sport of track and field. on February 15 at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Mondo also was part of an award that was won by Mondo won the award over Joshua Cheptegei Glasgow. The indoor season saw him compete five Renaud Lavillenie – the COVID Inspiration award. In the (Uganda), Ryan Crouser (USA), Johannes Vetter times and at each event he cleared six meters or early stages of COVID-19 lockdowns, Lavillenie came (Germany), and Karsten Warholm (Norway). Duplantis, higher. up with the concept of the ‘Ultimate Garden Clash’. It who is 21 years old, becomes the youngest winner of Following a three and a half month hiatus due was event that three pole vaulters – Lavillenie, Mondo, this award. to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mondo returned to pole and Sam Kendricks – competed in remotely from “I just really wanted to go out there and show vaulting outdoors on June 11 at the Impossible Games their backyards. Mondo did so from his backyard in the world who I was,” Duplantis said on his mindset in Oslo, Norway. It wasn’t until August 14, his fourth Lafayette, La. coming into the season which was supposed to be an meet outdoors in 2020, that he cleared the 6.00 meter Olympic year. “It was a strange season for everybody barrier again. He went on to clear six meters three but I was able to stick with it and put together some more times before he became the highest vaulter ever pretty impressive results.” outdoors on September 17. He went up and over 6.15 “I just try to go out there and jump high and break meters at the Golden Gala Peitro Mennea meeting in world records. Just going to keep giving it my all and Italy to break Surgey Bubka’s previous outdoor world whatever happens, happens. I’m so grateful for my record of 6.14 meters that dated all the way back to support group that I have around me and I wouldn’t be 1994. here without them.” Duplantis cleared 6.00 meters 14 times during his It was a breakout year for Mondo in 2020 where he 2020 campaign in what is a sign to come as the young went an unblemished 16-0 in competitions and broke professional’s career is just getting started. He will both the world indoor and outdoor records in the pole enter 2021 as the Olympic favorite in the pole vault – vault. He broke the world indoor record for the first he will represent Sweden at the Tokyo Olympics. time on with a 6.17-meter clearance on February 8 in It was a grand day for the Duplantis family as a Torun, Poland, at the Orlen Copernicus Cup. It broke whole. Mondo’s mom, Helena, and Mondo’s father, 2 2021 TRACK & FIELD RECORD BOOK Table of Contents INTRO THIS IS LSU TRACK & FIELD HISTORY CREDITS 1 LSU Track & Field Staff 42 A Long Time In The Making Editor: Aaron Hyder 2 JuVaughn Harrison Feature 43 Golden Tigers Graphic Design: Jason Feirman 3 2019 SEC Outdoor Champions 44 World-Class Tigers Photography: Chris Parent, Gus Stark 4 The Bowerman Award 46 NCAA Champions Bryan Wayne, Brandon Gallego 6 LSU Track & Field: An Era of Excellence 51 SEC Champions 9 All-Time Results 60 Commissioner’s Trophy 10 Dominance on the Track 61 Men’s All-Americans © Copyright LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 12 The Winning Streak 65 Women’s All-Americans The 2021 LSU Track & Field Record Book was 13 History of the 4x100-Meter Relay 69 Career All-Americans written by the LSU Athletic Communications Department and 14 The X-Man 70 LSU at the Texas Relays designed by the LSU Creative Services Staff on an Apple Mac Pro 16 The Best To Ever Do It 71 LSU at the Penn Relays using InDesign and Adobe Photoshop CS3. 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Harrison lived Be clean, or jump your butt off. techniques,” Harrison says. “For long jump, you’re with three U20 gold medalists this year, and they Doing one or the other, Harrison knew, would give going out – high jump, you’re going up. used to joke with him about his bronze medal during him a shot at the high jump national title. “Sometimes I’ll be long jumping, and instead of the fall semester. Doing both, Harrison knew not, would give him a going out, I’ll go up and and come straight back Safe to say, after netting 20 points for the team shot at history. down into the sand and not jump as far. So it’s really with a historic double at the 2019 NCAA outdoor Two days after Harrison claimed the 2019 NCAA just finding the balance between knowing when to championships, Harrison’s had the last laugh. outdoor title in the long jump by leaping 8.20 meters go out versus when to go up.” “JuVaughn had an incredible year,” Duplantis into the pit – not too bad for a guy who used to Harrison’s found that balance, and he has the noted. “He was probably the fourth best athlete at consider himself “a high jumper who did long jump” – hardware to prove it. He arrived at LSU in the fall of the time when we first moved into the apartment, he was after the same result in the high jump. 2017 with more pedigree going up than out. His 2.18 he’s now at the top of it, for sure.” The high jump has always been Harrison’s meter PR high jump in high school was elite, ranking The recipe for his ascension was simple: hard forte.