Olympic track and field gold medalist Alexis Holmes, a native of Hamden, Conn., returns home with her medal from the Paris 2024 Olympics and sits down for a public conversation at Southern Connecticut State University’s Lyman Center on the evening of October 30, 2024.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 7 p.m.
John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
Southern Connecticut State University
Moderated by Gabrielle Lucivero, Sports Reporter at NBC Connecticut
$50 VIP seating with post-show photo opportunity
$20 regular seating
$10 SCSU students and high school students (ages 14 and up)
$5 children under 14
A hometown hero with SCSU track and field in her history, Holmes got her start running track with the New Haven Age Group Track Club, which was founded by James Barber, longtime head coach of the Southern women’s indoor and outdoor track teams. Barber coached Holmes’ mother, Dawn Stanton, ’90, MS ’97, when she was a NCAA Division II student athlete at Southern. Stanton was a four-time All-American as a member of the women’s indoor and outdoor track and field squads at Southern and is honored in the SCSU Athletic Hall of Fame.
At the Paris games last August, Holmes advanced to the final of the 400-meter dash, finishing sixth in a personal best of 49.77, before being selected to run the anchor leg on Team USA’s women’s 4x400-meter relay. Her team, which included U.S. superstars Sydney McLaughlin-Leverone, Gabby Thomas, and Shamier Little, won the gold medal and broke a 36-year-old American record anchored by the late Florence Griffith-Joyner.
Earlier in 2024, Holmes won the USA Track & Field national indoor title in the 400, with a championship record time of 50.34, and in August 2023, she was selected for the American team for the 2023 World Athletics Championships, where she competed in the mixed 4x400-meter relay and won a gold medal as the USA team set a new world record time of 3:08.80.
At the October 30 event at SCSU, Holmes will talk about her experiences in track and field and the Olympics, her fashion and style, and her boundless future.
Gabrielle Lucivero is a sports reporter at NBC Connecticut. You can see her anchoring sports on Friday and Saturday nights at 6 and 11 p.m. Sundays you can catch her on Sunday Sports Replay at 11:15 p.m. The rest of the week she’s reporting local sports in the community.
Gabrielle has covered memorable sports stories, including both the Syracuse University men’s and women’s basketball teams in the Final Four. However, what stands out most is her time spent working in the Cape Cod Baseball League. That’s where she “realized how much I wanted to be a sports journalist.”
Gabrielle comes to NBC Connecticut from Spectrum News Western New York where she covered sports and news in Rochester and Buffalo. She was also a news multi-media journalist at Time Warner Cable News Central New York and a morning news reporter at Time Warner Cable News in Binghamton, New York.
An alumna of Boston University, Gabby loves spending her spare time being active whether it is at the gym, riding her bike around West Hartford, or at the ice rink.
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