Things just keep getting better for LSU junior thrower Walter Henning.Henning threw his way into history Saturday at the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships, grabbing the SEC title in the weight throw and smashing the meet record along the way with a throw of 78 feet, 1 inch.His win places him into history as one of only four athletes to win at least two SEC titles in the weight throw.”My goal coming into the meet was to get the win and score 10 points for my team. I’m very happy about what we were able to do today in the very first event of the meet,” Henning said in a news release. “Knowing that it was the SEC meet record makes it even better.”In total, four Tigers and one Lady Tiger won individual titles, helping the Tiger and Lady Tiger teams each claim third place finishes overall.Junior Brittani Carter won the high jump for the Lady Tigers with a jump of 5 feet, 11 ¼ inches.Junior Richard Jones won the 800-meter run with a time of 1 minute, 47.78 seconds. Sophomore Barrett Nugent won the 60-meter hurdles in 7.65 seconds, an LSU school record.”This shows just how much I’ve improved and how far I’ve come since last year,” Nugent said in a news release. “Pretty much everything I’ve been working for finally came together today … It was a great race between me and Booker [Nunely]. He’s a great hurdler and a great competitor. It’s an incredible what I’m feeling right now. Now, it’s time to get ready to come back for NCAAs.”It was a tight race to the finish in a competitive SEC. The Lady Tigers finished only 2 ½ points behind runner-up Arkansas, while the Tigers finished 10 ½ points behind runner-up Florida.”That’s what makes the SEC the greatest conference in the country,” LSU coach Dennis Shaver said in a news release. “You come to a meet like this, and four or five teams have a shot to win it. You have to congratulate the Arkansas men and Florida women for the way they performed. They went out and won their championship.”Shaver said the meet ran just like he envisioned it.”We knew coming in that it would be a tight three-team or four-team race in both genders with the winner not being decided until the relays,” Shaver said. “That’s exactly how the meet unfolded.”The Tigers and Lady Tigers fell short of their goals to obtain SEC indoor championships, but the NCAAs indoor championship crowns are still attainable  — and very close on the horizon.”We had a number of really outstanding performances this weekend. This was another big step for us with the NCAA Championships now just two weeks away,” Shaver said. “That will be our focus. We work for this all year long, and it is now time for us to perform at our very best when we come back in two weeks.”–Contact Katherine Terrell at [email protected]