The Texas Southern males’s observe and discipline crew has begun reloading.
Louisiana Excessive College state champion Josh Brown will be part of the squad for the 2025-26 season.
A local of New Orleans, Brown will graduate from Holy Cross Excessive College after a profitable highschool profession. Brown presently ranks fourth nationally within the 200 and holds the highest time within the 100 and 200-meter dashes within the state of Louisiana. His 4×100-meter relay crew additionally posted the highest time within the state this previous season.
“I’m very honored and happy that we have been capable of signal this younger man,” mentioned head coach Clyde Duncan, Sr “No doubt, he’ll have a big effect for us instantly.”
A state champion in each indoor and out of doors observe, Brown just lately gained the 100 and 200-meter championships whereas additionally anchoring the 4×100-meter relay gold medal-winning squad on the LHSAA Class 5A state meet. Brown was additionally the 2024 LHSAA State Champion within the 100 and 200. In the course of the previous indoor season, Brown additionally claimed a gold medal within the 60-meter sprint.
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Brown rewrote the Holy Cross document e-book in a number of races and can also be an completed soccer participant who earned all-state and all-district honors. Whereas his accolades on the sector excite Duncan, Sr., Brown’s work within the classroom and his need to enhance have been the icing on the cake, with a powerful GPA.
“He’s a straight-A scholar and a really mature younger man,” he mentioned. “I don’t anticipate him having a lot of an adjustment right here by way of on the point of work and produce. What’s superb is that he hasn’t run observe for very lengthy, so the sky’s the restrict for him.”
With a powerful resume in two sports activities, it wasn’t a shock that Brown would generate appreciable curiosity from colleges throughout the nation. Duncan utilized the string bond of the Texas Southern observe and discipline household in the course of the recruitment course of, as former Flying T standout Eric Smith, a profitable highschool coach in Louisiana, performed a hand in Brown’s recruitment.
Duncan, who turned the primary males’s observe & discipline head coach within the SWAC in 20-plus years to win the trifecta (indoor/out of doors/cross nation) in back-to-back seasons, will try to seize extra historical past as soon as the cross nation season kicks off in August.
