2018 Cross Country Roster
Biography
2018-2019
- Named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll.
- Named a C-USA Academic Medalist.
- Competed in five events during the cross country season, including the C-USA Championships.
- Finished seventh at the Southern Arkansas Lois Davis Invitational (10/5/18) with a time of 21:18.90.
- Finished 10th at the Louisiana Tech Mook 4 (9/15/18) with a time of 16:42.70.
2017-2018
- Named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll.
- Named a C-USA Academic Medalist.
- Competed in the 800m run for the Lady Techsters, notching nine top 10 finishes on the season, including placing first three times and in the top five on eight occasions.
- She placed first in the 800m run at the LSU Alumni Gold in April with a time of 2:11.47
- Won the 800m run at the NSU Invitational with a time of 2:13.41.
- Both first place finishes during outdoor season rank in the top 10 in Tech history.
- Earned a bronze medal in the 800m run at the 2018 C-USA Outdoor Championships.
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2016-2017
- Named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll.
- Named a C-USA Academic Medalist.
- Competed in the 400m dash and 800m dash during both the indoor and outdoor seasons, while also competing in the 1,500m run once during outdoors.
- Placed first in the 400m dash with a season-best time of 56.96 at the Texas A&M Aggie Invitational (1/13) to open the indoor campaign.
- Ran a season-best time of 2:14.12 in the 800m run to finish 15th at the Vanderbilt Invitational (1/20).
- During the outdoor campaign, ran a season-best time of 2:10.39 in the 800m preliminaries at the C-USA Outdoor Championships (5/11) to advance to the finals where she finished fourth overall to earn five team points for the Lady Techsters.
- Placed first in the 800m run at the SFA Invitational (4/7) with a final time of 2:11.37 in the race.
- Also took home first place in the 800m run at LA Tech’s Jim Mize Invitational (3/15) with a time of 2:14.54 to open the outdoor campaign.
- Finished in fourth place in the 1,500m run at the Southern Miss Invitational (3/31) with a time of 4:47.36.
- Raced in the 400m dash at the Victor Lopez Classic (3/24) where she finished fifth in the event with a season-best time of 56.14.
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2015-2016
- Named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll.
- Ran the third leg of the distance medley relay that placed fifth at the Purple Tiger Invitational (1/8) with a time of 13:19.53.
- Ran 2:25.94 to finish 14th in the 800m at the Aggie Team Invitational (1/15) while also anchoring the 4x400m that finished sixth with a time of 3:56.60.
- Placed 26th in the 800m with a time of 2:21.55 at the Vanderbilt Invitational (1/29-30) and ran the third leg of the distance medley relay that ran 13:01.70 to place fourth.
- Finished 20th in the 800m at the Samford Invitational (2/12), running 2:24.15.
- Opened the outdoor season by finishing as the runner-up in the 400m at the LA Tech-hosted Jim Mize Invitational (3/18-19), running 58.87.
- Anchored the 4x400m relay that claimed bronze at the UTA Bobby Lane Invitational (3/25-26) with a time of 3:50.51 and ran 2:18.28 in the 800m to place 10th.
- Anchored the 4x400m relay that finished 10th at the Leon Johnson NSU Invitational (4/8-9) with a time of 4:17.44 to finish sixth.
- Finished fourth in the 800m at the Southeastern Lion Invitational (4/15-16) with a time of 2:20.79.
- Clocked 2:20.41 in the 800m to finish eighth at the LSU Alumni Gold (4/23).
- Ran 2:16.90 to finish ninth in the 800m at the Jace LaCoste Invitational (4/30).
- Ran a time of 2:20.44 in the 800-meter preliminaries at the 2016 Conference USA Outdoor Championships (5/12-15), finished 17th overall.
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HIGH SCHOOL
Graduated from Toco Secondary School in 2014 ... Participated in track and field and cross country in high school … Coached by Anna Lee Walcott.
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PERSONAL
Full name is Elia Ariel Nero ... Born on Oct. 27, 1995 in Trinidad and Tobago ... Daughter of Dawn and Vincent Nero, formerly one of Trinidad and Tobago’s national distance runners ... Has one sibling, Jair.
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