Brown Claims 2 Gold Medals, Women’s Track Finishes 6th At SWAC
BATON ROUGE, La. – The TSU women’s track & field team placed sixth overall at the 2025 SWAC Outdoor Championship at Southern University.
On Sunday, Destinee Payne brought home the first medal of the event for TSU with a third-place length (19-0.5) in the long jump. Alyvia Brown won the team’s first gold medal of the event with a first-place finish (38:43.29) in the 10,000 while Ronelle Plaza (159-01) placed seventh in the hammer to earn points.
Ryann Richards earned points for TSU on Monday with a jump of 9-11.25 in the pole vault while Shaunece Miller (4,259) and A’Keela McMaster (4,060) placed fifth and eighth, respectively in the heptathlon.
On Tuesday, Payne placed fifth with a personal-best mark in the triple jump of 39-09.25. Angela Sanchez (134-06) and Rehanna Roberts (132-08) went 5-6 in the discus. Brown finished fourth with a…