Freshman sprinter Jasmin Stowers must be getting used to this.
For the third time this season, Stowers earned Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week for her performance Saturday at the Texas Relays.
Stowers, a Pendleton, S.C., native, grabbed a third-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a wind-aided time of 12.86 seconds.
She wasn’t alone in the fiesta. Junior Semoy Hackett claimed SEC Female Runner of the Week, while fellow junior Barrett Nugent won SEC Male Runner of the Week.
The awards were both Hackett’s second and Nugent’s first.
Nugent shined at the Texas Relays, winning the men’s university 110-meter hurdles championship.
The 13.19-second effort is good enough for No. 1 in the NCAA this season. He is also the first Tiger male runner to win the Relays event since 1975.
Hackett, a Trinidad and Tobago native, found success at the Relays as well, nabbing a runner-up finish in the 100-meter dash. Her wind-aided time of 10.89 seconds is No. 1 in the SEC this season and No. 2 in the NCAA.
Both Hackett and Nugent, a Maurice native, competed in the female and male 4×100-meter relays, respectively. Hackett also ran in the women’s university 4×200 relay.
Nugent, along with juniors Horatio Williams and Keyth Talley and senior Gabriel Mvumvure, posted a runner-up finish with a time of 38.78 seconds.
Hackett and company — juniors Rebecca Alexander and Cassandra Tate along with sophomore Kimberlyn Duncan — won the 4×200 event, recording the fastest 4×200 relay time in the country thus far.
 
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