The University of New Orleans track and field team concluded its 2026 season with notable performances on the final day of the men’s NCAA East Regional in Lexington, according to a May 29 report.
Keldrick Turner finished seventh in the third heat of the 400-meter quarterfinals, clocking a time of 45.45 seconds. This result marked the second-fastest time in school history and represented an improvement of nearly half a second from his qualifying run earlier in the week. Turner now holds all three sub-46-second times in program history and owns five of the fastest times ever recorded by a Privateer athlete. He also posted three out of six Southland Conference marks under 46 seconds this season.
Turner placed 17th overall, finishing ahead of competitors from schools including South Carolina, Kentucky, Columbia, South Florida, Charleston Southern, Navy, and East Carolina.
The Privateers’ 4×100-meter relay team—composed of Daryl Bachmann, Yoran Kabengele-Kabala, Olamipo Ladipo, and Turner—secured fifth place in their heat and ranked 18th overall with a time of 38.46 seconds. Their performance was just fractions behind teams from Northwestern State and Louisiana but ahead of squads representing Kent State, Princeton, Rutgers, Miami (Florida), Army West Point, and Florida. The relay team’s mark stands as the fourth-fastest in school history and is only surpassed once by previous UNO teams at an NCAA regional meet.
Bachmann, Kabengele-Kabala, Ladipo, and Turner conclude their season having set two of the five fastest relay times for New Orleans—including setting a new school record at the Southland Outdoor Championships two weeks prior.
