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Atlantic 10 Championships
Women's Track & Field Takes Second; Men Finish Seventh At Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships
02/18/2007 | Women's Track & Field
Feb. 17, 2007
Women's Results
KINGSTON, R.I. - Senior Beth Crocus, junior Tara Markey and sophomore Jessica Young won events as the Richmond women's track & field team finished second at the 2007 Atlantic 10 Championships on Saturday at the University of Rhode Island.Freshman Amy Van Alstine was named the Atlantic 10 Women's Championships' Most Outstanding Rookie after finishing second in the mile run and third in the 3,000. Van Alstine was also the conference's cross country Rookie of the Year.
The Richmond men's team finished seventh as the distance medley relay team of sophomore Sean Welsh, sophomore Jeff Strojny, sophomore Greg Hoffman and junior Jonathan Molz won the Atlantic 10 title.
The Spider women's team scored 110 points to finish second behind Charlotte, which had 167 points. Rhode Island took third with 86 points.
"That was a tremendous team effort, the girls really put it together from top to bottom," Richmond head women's coach Lori Taylor said. "It was a great meet, one of the most competitive team efforts that I've ever been involved with. It was a great day and we pulled closer to Charlotte there. "
Crocus won the weight throw, breaking her school record with a heave of 58-feet-3 1/2. Crocus also took fifth in the shot put with a toss of 39-10.
Young won the 55-meter dash in Mackal Field House record time of 6.81 seconds, breaking her own school record and provisionally qualifying her for the NCAA Championships.
"That is a very, very solid time," Taylor said. "That's a very fast provisional NCAA time, it might be fast enough to get her into the nationals."
Young also finished second in the 200 in 24.80 seconds and third in the 400 in 56.80 seconds to score 24 points for the Spiders.
Markey was the Atlantic 10 Champion in the 500 dash in 1:16.54.
"Tara Markey was in the slower section of the 500, but she won that and beat everybody in the fast section," Lori Taylor said. "That's huge for her."
Van Alstine garnered Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year honors for indoor track & field just as she did for the cross country in the fall. She finished second in the mile in 4:54 and took third in the 3,000 in 10:04.35.
Freshman Kristen Crawford was the runner-up in the shot put, earning her all-conference honors with a heave of 42-8. Freshman Alyssa Mankin finished fourth in the 1,000 in 3:00.92 and took 10th in the mile in 5:17.75.
Sophomore Jasmine Major finished third in the 55 hurdles (8.22), took fourth in the triple jump (37-3 3/4), 10th in the prelims of the 55 dash (7.32), 13th in the 200 (26.16) and 18th in the long jump (15-11 1/2).
Junior Kylee Schuler finished fourth in the 3,000 in 10:12.04 and was eighth in the 5,000 in 18:03.96. Sophomore Mary Bertram took fifth in the 5,000 in 18:00.38, while freshman Megan Ney was sixth in the long jump (17-5 1/2), 13th in the triple jump (34-0 1/2) and 14th in the high jump (5-1).
Sophomore Karen Guthrie placed sixth in the 3,000 in 10:16.75 and freshman Jasmine Cottle took seventh in the 59.38 seconds.
Freshman Heather Roush finished eighth in the shot put (37-9 1/4) and took 10th in the weight throw (42-10 3/4).
Sophomore Emily Nagle finished 10th in the 800 in 2:22.88 and junior Shelby Faircloth took 10th in the 5,000 (18:11.61). Sophomore Stephanie Lapp took 12th in the weight with a throw of 36-0. Freshman Monique Hawkins was 13th in the preliminaries of the 55 dash in 7.36 and freshman Kerry Kelly took 16th in the prelims of the 55 hurdles at 9.04.
Richmond 4x400 relay team of Markey, Hawkins, Kelly and Ney finished sixth in 4:04.89. The Spiders' 4x800 relay team of Mankin, Schuler, Van Alstine and Guthrie was seventh in 9:47.37. Richmond's distance medley relay team of Bertram, freshman JoAnna Ubiwa, Nagle and Faircloth was 11th in 13:09.07.
Richmond Men Finish Seventh
The Richmond men's distance medley relay team won an Atlantic 10 title and the Spiders finished seventh as a team at the 2007 Atlantic 10 Men's Indoor Track & Field Championships today at the University of Rhode Island's Mackal Field House.
Junior Jonathan Molz ran the anchor leg on the Spiders' Atlantic 10 Championship distance medley relay team.  |
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The Richmond men's team took seventh with 38 points, nine points behind sixth-place Saint Joseph's and 13 points behind fifth-place Fordham. Massachusetts took fourth with 60 points.
"As a team, based on where we're at on the depth chart, we had a good day," Richmond men's coach Steve Taylor said. "We traveled 13 guys, going up against teams that have 32. We need to add more people, but the people we had here competed, and competed well. We just need some hurdlers, sprinters and jumpers. If we could have made up 20 points we are in fourth place."
The distance medley relay team of sophomore Sean Welsh, sophomore Jeff Strojny, sophomore Greg Hoffman and junior Jonathan Molz won the race in 10:23.12. It was the Spiders' first men's Atlantic 10 distance medley title.
"That's a great run for them," Richmond men's coach Steve Taylor said. "Sean gave us the lead running 3:08 for the first 1,200 meters, a good time for him. He ran 61 seconds over his last 400 which blew everyone away."
Strojny ran 51.7 on the 400 leg and Hoffman ran 1:58.2 on the 800. Molz took the baton for the final 1,600 behind La Salle, but he caught up and then pulled away for the victory. La Salle took second at 10:27.25.
"Jon had just run the 1,000 and he was running shoulder to shoulder with the La Salle runner, but he realized the pace was too slow," Steve Taylor said. "He realized that and began pulling away from the field. He gave it all he needed to and ran very comfortably."
Richmond had three freshmen post good showings in the 3,000, led by Andrew Benford who earned the bronze medal with a personal best time of 8:35.59. Fellow freshman Matt Llano took fifth in a personal best 8:43.51 and Jon Wilson was 12th in a personal best 8:56.09.
"We're very excited about that group of freshmen," Steve Taylor said. "To go third and fifth in an event which is very competitive in our conference is very impressive. They were going up against two guys from La Salle who are ranked in the top 12 in the nation. Benford ran a very intelligent race. That's his second indoor race ever."
Junior Hunter Willis ran a personal best time of 14:56.80 - 10 seconds faster than his previous personal best - to take fifth in the 5,000.
"That's a good personal best for Hunter," Steve Taylor said. "He ran 4:40 for the first lap, had a couple of rough laps, but closed it hard. Glad to see him get in under 15 minutes, that was big for him."
Molz finished fourth in the 1,000 in 2:31.04, sophomore Garrett Graham took fifth in a personal best time of 2:32.33 and sophomore Derek Jensen placed seventh in a PR of 2:33.14. Sophomore Chris Kondorossy placed eighth in the shot put with a toss of 42-2 1/2 and placed 10th in the weight throw with a personal best heave of 41-7 1/4.
Sophomore Sean McKinney finished 14th in the 5,000 in 15:56.34 and freshman Alex Nourse took 16th in the preliminaries of 200 dash in 24.10.
The Spiders 4x800 relay team of Jensen, Graham, Llano and Benford finished seventh in 8:13.11. Richmond's 4x400 relay team of Nourse, Strojny, sophomore Dan Petty and Welsh took 10th in 3:46.02.
