BATON ROUGE, LA.  - The Cats will travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for the 2025 SWAC Outdoor Championships. Last year, the Wildcat men finished tenth and the women eleventh, respectively. The Wildcat men finished 10th out of eleven total teams with 30.5 points. Texas Southern took the team title with 161 points, followed by Jackson State with 133 and Arkansas - Pine Bluff with 102.



Sunday, May 11- Tuesday, May 13
SWAC Championships
9:00 a.m.
Baton Rouge, La.
Live Stats: https://www.timinginc.com/




The last time out for the Cats was a local contest at the UCF Invite. Kasie Ugeh was the only Wildcat to grab a first place finish in the shot put with a mark of 13.36m, this past weekend at the UCF Invite. She also finished second in the discus (13.36m) and third in the javelin (39.75m).

Valencia Butler and Morgan Middleton also did well on the women's side. Valencia finished fifth in the 1500m run with a time of 5:08.01. Morgan grabbed sixth in the 1500m with a time of 5:14.49. Zion Harvey finished seventh in the long jump with a mark of 5.76m, and Mychaela Parker third in the shot put with a mark of 12.30m. Camille Armstrong also had a strong showing in the discus with a mark of 35.48m.

The 2025 Southwestern Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships are slated to take place at A.W. Mumford Stadium located on the campus of Southern University on May 11-13.

The championships will begin on Sunday, May 11 at 9:30 am CST with the Decathlon.

The final day of competition (May 13) will be streamed live on the SWAC Digital Network beginning at 5:00 pm CST with the women's 4x100 meter relay event.

A.W. Mumford Stadium is a 25,500 seat multi-purpose stadium on the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA. It opened in 1938 and is home to the Jaguars football team as well as the Southern men's and women's track and field teams. 

The Wildcats have had a very successful year under head coach Garon Jackson. Multiple season highs and record breaking accolates have proven a great season for B-CU. The Wildcats have been National Performers for two weeks in a row in the long jump and high jump, broken records in the 200m, high jump and long jump, and been named SWAC Athlete of the week multiple times.