Erica Bougard has been at Mississippi State for four years. She’s won a National Title, set school and conference records and beat the best times at venues across the country. She’s everything a proud track parent could want.
This weekend, those parents and around a dozen members of Bougard’s family got to see her compete for the first time since she left Byhalia for Starkville, a two-hour drive along old Mississippi roads. Her response to the first competition in front of family since high school: Bougard won the SEC Championship in the heptathlon, setting four SEC Championship records in only seven events and scoring a personal best 6,250 points.