By: Matt Sullivan, Associate Director of Athletics Communications
NEW ORLEANS – The freshman tandem of Obdarius Ware and Hannes Burger claimed individual awards for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns track and field team on Friday as the Sun Belt Conference released its 2019 outdoor track and field specialty awards and all-conference teams, as voted on by the league's head coaches.
Ware, who claimed the long jump title with the second-best mark in school history (25-4¾), was selected as the league's Men's Freshman of the Year while Burger, the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase champion (8:56.