Balde, Beard earn SLC Track Athletes of the Week

By: Jonathon Zenk, Assistant Director of Communications NATCHITOCHES—A Southland Conference record and multiple SLC-leading marks help Northwestern State earn two more SLC Track Athlete of the Week awards. Vanessa Balde , one of the members of the record-breaking 4x400 relay team, earned the SLC Women's Track Athlete of the Week, while Zachaeus Beard won the award on the men's side. It is the second straight week that NSU has won both weekly track awards after Sanaria Butler and Keontae Gaines won them last week. The awards are the first one for both this season. Balde ran a leg on that...