Five Schools Compete At Women's Track & Field RIT Invitational

Five Schools Compete At Women's Track & Field RIT Invitational

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ROCHESTER, NY – Junior Sarah Wiatr (Poland, NY/West Canada Valley) of the Utica College women's track & field team took home first place and set a new indoor school-record in the triple jump with a leap of 11.55 meters as the Pioneers placed ninth at the RIT Tiger Invitational Saturday.  Her mark of 11.55 meters is currently ranked No. 1 in all of Division III on the national women's indoor qualifying list.

Junior Katherine Pearce (Weymouth, MA/Weymouth) placed second overall in the women's high jump with a leap of 1.55 meters. Sarah Wiatr (Poland, NY/West Canada Valley) also placed sixth in the women's 200 meter dash with a time of 27.74 to earn three more team points for the Pioneers.

Sophomore Alexis Edwards (Ilion, NY/Ilion) placed fourth in the women's shot put with a toss of 10.93 meters. Utica also placed sixth in the women's 4x400 meter relay to take home three team points.

Utica returns to the track on Saturday when the Pioneers travel to The College at Brockport to participate in the Golden Eagle Invitational at 10 a.m.

The St. John Fisher College women's indoor track and field team placed fourth of 15 teams with 68.5 points at the Rochester Institute of Technology Tiger Invitational on Saturday.
 
Nicolette Lattuca and Paige Willson qualified for the ECAC meet in their respective events. Lattuca leaped 5.29 meters for second place in the long jump for a new school record. Willson also placed second, but in shot put with a distance of 12.59 meters.
 
Danyelle Redmond recorded a NYSCTC-qualifying height in pole vault with 3.05 meters. Morgan Mastinalso qualified for the NYSCTC meet with a time of 8.15 seconds in the 60-meter dash. The senior finished in third place.
 
Taylor Youngkrans earned first place in the weight throw with a toss of 15.77 meters.
 
The Cardinals visit Houghton College on Saturday for the Highlander Invite.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The Nazareth women's and men's track and field teams opened the semester on Saturday at RIT for the Tiger Invitational. It was the Golden Flyers' first meet since December 6th. Each of the Nazareth teams turned in seventh-place performances. Seniors Hannah Brackley and Michaela Gildemeyer won the 400-meter and 500-meter dash events, respectively. In the field events, junior Taylor Pierson placed first in the long jump with a leap of 5.38 meters (17 ft., 7 3/4 in.). In the men's meet, junior Tom Sippie won the 400-meter dash, and junior Luis Rivera broke his school record in the weight throw with a mark of 17.62 meters (57 ft., 9 3/4 in.). His previous school record was 16.24 meters (53 ft., 3 1/2 in.).

Oneonta won the women's meet with 123.5 total points. Geneseo finished second with 115 points, and Roberts Wesleyan was third with 77 points. The Golden Flyers tallied 54.5 points to take seventh of 14 teams.

Brackley finished her 400 with a time of 1:00.52, and Gildemeyer crossed the line with a time of 1:20.93. Following Gildemeyer, freshman Samantha Goble was second with a time of 1:21.72, and freshman Andrea Larnard was 10th with a time of 1:27.00. Gildemeyer added a 10th-place finish in the 1000-meter event after crossing the finish line with a time of 3:18.07.

In addition to Pierson's performance in the long jump, classmate Amanda Entress was third in the triple jump with a mark of 10.53 meters (34 ft., 6 1/2 in.), and senior Kate Durr was seventh in the high jump with a mark of 1.45 meters (4 ft., 9 in.). In the pole vault, senior Sibongile Chisi recored a ninth-place performance (2.0 meters; 9 ft., 6 1/4 in.).

The Golden Flyers 4x400 and 4x200 teams also recorded points. The 4x400 team tallied eight points with its second-place finish (4:15.4) while the 4x200 team recorded one point with its eighth-place finish (1:55.48). The 4x400 team consisted of Goble, Larnard, freshman Sarah Williams, and Brackley.

In the men's meet, Oneonta claimed the men's title by amassing 172 points. Hamilton was second with 81 points, and RIT was third with 70.5 points. The Golden Flyers' 44 points placed them seventh of the 14 teams.

Following Sippie (:49.7) in the 400-meter dash was freshman Nick LaBarbera, who was third with a time of :51.86. In the 500 event, sophomore Matt Battaglia also recorded a third-place finish with a time of 1:07.74. Sophomore Jacob Murray added two additional points in the event with a seventh-place finish (1:09.76).

In the weight throw, Rivera's mark qualified him for the ECAC meet as he surpassed the standard of 15.35 meters. JuniorBrandon Vuolo was eighth in the event with a mark of 13.75 meters (45 ft., 1 1/2 in.), and sophomore Randle Pierre was 13th with a mark of 12.28 meters (40 ft., 3 1/2 in.).

Nazareth's men's relay teams combined for 11 points with the 4x200-meter team finishing first with a time of 1:33.77 and the 4x400 team finishing eighth with a time of 3:40.43. The 4x200 team, composed of Sippie, freshman Sherman Patrick Hardy, Pierre, and LaBarbera broke the school record by .3 seconds.

The Golden Flyers are in action again January 23rd and 24th when they compete at the Brockport Multi and Invitational meet.

BROCKPORT, N.Y. -- Despite having a small squad in action, Houghton indoor track saw several strong early season performances at the Brockport College Invitational on Saturday.

Four athletes qualified for the 2015 NCCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, including Joanna Friesen (Sellersville, PA, Sellersville) in the Mile (5:23.9), Andrea Melhorn(Mount Joy, PA, Donegal) in the Weight Throw (12.84 meters), Marshall Brady (Wellsville, NY, Wellsville) in the 60m Hurdles (9.14), and Jordan Cady (Dundee, NY, Dundee HS) in the Triple Jump (12.61 meters).  

"It's quite incredible at this point in the season when we really are working on base fitness and strength," said Head Coach Patrick Hager. "It was a great opener to dust off the cobwebs. I can't think of one athlete for Houghton that didn't compete to the level we thought they could, at this point in the season. What we're really looking for are some baseline marks for training purposes and working on the mechanics and technique of our athletes."

ROCHESTER, NY – Alfred University's distance runners had a great day at the track Saturday, sweeping the women's and men's 5,000-meter races at the RIT indoor track and field invitational meet.
 
In the women's race, AU sophomore Mary Baughman (Henrietta, NY/Rush-Henrietta) took first with an ECAC-qualifying time of 18:34.09. Freshman Lindsay Piraino(Nunda, NY/Keshequa) took fourth place in the 5,000 meters in 19:08.89. The AU women scored 15 points to take 11th of 14 teams competing.
 
Alfred freshman Alex Hall (Caledonia, NY/Caledonia-Mumford) won the men's 5,000-meter run in 15:53.79. His 10 points placed AU 12th in the team standings, of 14 teams competing.
 
The AU men and women are in action next on Saturday, Jan. 24, at Brockport.