The LSU track & field teams couldn’t overcome their former coach at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships this weekend.Pat Henry’s Texas A&M squads swept the outdoor championships, while LSU finished in sixth place.LSU completed a season in which 23 Tigers and Lady Tigers earned All-American Awards. The teams also had nine individual Southeastern Conference championships and 30 All-SEC selections.The highlights of the meet for LSU included All-American honors, thrilling finishes and new records.LSU junior Zedric Thomas started things off on day one of the meet with a new personal best mark in the triple jump, and his third All-American award of the year.On the second day, junior pole vaulter Josh Dominguez survived a scare to finish as runner-up with a jump of 17 feet, 8 1/2 inches.Dominguez cleared his first jump, but then fouled the next three attempts, seemingly putting him out of the competition. But the official in charge of raising the bar had placed it at the wrong height, allowing him three more jumps. A 40-minute rain delay also prolonged the event, which ran from 2:30 p.m. until 9 p.m.”It’s unfortunate that they made a mistake like that, especially in a meet like this, but I just made the best of it given a second chance,” Dominguez said in a news release. “We were out there for a long time. I was getting tired there at the end, but I stayed focused enough to get second place and score some points for the team.”LSU junior thrower Walter Henning added another national title to his growing collection. Henning threw 237 feet, 10 inches on his final attempt to win LSU’s first hammer throw title.Henning also received his fifth All-American award for his efforts. “I got fourth indoor and second outdoor last year, and that is the only thing I kept saying to myself during the day today. ‘Do you really want to get second again?’ I didn’t,” Henning said in a news release. “My goal coming in was to be the NCAA champion. I did what I had to do today to reach that goal. I’m very happy.”The final day of the meet ended with a bang as LSU sophomore Barrett Nugent finished runner-up in the 110-meter hurdles with a school-record time of 13.49 seconds.”It just blows my mind to do what I did today. I’m so happy right now,” Nugent said in a news release.Eric Reid, the former holder of the 23-year-old record, sent Nugent a note of encouragement earlier in the season.”He just said I was doing an outstanding job this year and that he thought I had the potential to break his record,” Nugent said. “I’m very honored that I broke a record that has held up for so long. That says a lot about how great he was.”–Contact Katherine Terrell at [email protected]