CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Big South Conference announced today its Women's Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week for competitions during April 23-26. The Buccaneers' 4x400m relay group of Maya Clark, Grenisha Thomas, Maeva Tahou and Caroline Aslerin were selected as the Women's Track Athletes of the Week while Tahou also earned Field Athlete of the Week
  
Clark, Thomas, Tahou and Aslerin broke the school's 4x400m relay record at the Charlotte Invitational with a winning time of 3:34.38 -- the second-fastest 4x400m in Big South history and just 0.29 seconds off the all-time mark.
 
Tahou earned two additional victories at the Charlotte Invitational.  She won the 100m hurdles in a PR time of 13.24 -- another school record and third-fastest in the conference record book.  She also captured the long jump with a school-record leap of 6.20m, becoming the first-ever Buccaneer to eclipse six meters, and moving into fourth-place all-time in the event in league annals.

Charleston Southern will now enjoy a pair of weekends off and time to put in their final preparations for the Big South Championships. This year, the meet will be held on the campus of High Point University from Monday, May 11 through Wednesday, May 13.