The Retrievers return to the George Mason Spring Invitational for the first time in three years, a meet which has evolved from a low key affair into one of the most competitive meets in the Mid-Atlantic. At this point the Outdoor Track and Field teams are only three weeks away from the America East Conference Championships in Binghamton and this meet represents one of the last two times to secure seed times. For the men, Denny Long holds the top 100 meters and 200 meters times in the Conference amongst runners allowed to compete at the AEC Meet (Boston Univ. is barred from competition). Last weekend, he set a personal best 10.78 in the 100 meter dash which shows he is beginning to round into form over the last couple weekends of the season. Trae Proctor has struggled thus far through the first couple meets, though last weekend he set a season’s best of 14.57 in the 110 meter hurdles moving up to second in the Conference and within .17 of the school record. In the 800 meters, Andrew Smith and Andrew Keresztes will look to garner IC4A qualifications and take the top two spots in the Conference rankings. At Duke, Keresztes ran 1:52.40 to move up to #2 All Time in UMBC History and take control of the Conference lead. The 5,000 meters will feature Hassan Omar, fresh off a #2 All Time and IC4A performance in the 10,000 meters. He will be looking to move up in the record books and become only the fifth Retriever to go under 15 minutes in the 5,000 meters. In the field events, throws become the marquee events, with UMBC athletes littering the leader boards. Sophomore transfer Thor Serafenas leads Championship eligible athletes in both the hammer and the discus while having the 6

th best shot put

in the Conference. Yao Adantor is third in the Conference in the shot and has moved up to third in the discus and fifth in the hammer rankings. Finally, freshman Vincent Rentzsch leads the Conference in the javelin. All three have taken down school records in their events and can be expected to improve upon those marks as the season reaches its peak. On the women’s side, Mercedes Jackson continues her consistent excellence throughout the year holding commanding leads over her competition in the 100 meters and the 200 meters, an event where she is almost a full second ahead of second. Paulette Fogle will look to continue her success from last weekend where she set personal best times in both the 400 meter hurdles and the 400 meter dash. The 400 meter dash will be a strong event for the Retrievers with indoor record holder Kirsten Jones running after a couple weeks off from the event. Joining her will be fellow All Time Top Ten athletes Kalane Abbey, Briana Young, and freshmen D’Nique Phillips who should join them at any point. Like the men, the 800 meters will be a strong event, with Sarah Daly and Cody Mezebish taking the lead currently sitting 4

th

and 9th

in the Conference rankings. While ECAC qualifiers in the 10,000 meters, Nicole Dawson and Harmony Roche will try to get under eighteen minutes in the 5,000 meters. With Amanda Deller resting up for the Penn Relays, watch for the younger members of the throws crew to step into the spotlight. Junior Emma Mayne will lead the freshmen duo of Nmeoma Edokobi and Jen Nelson through the shot, hammer and discus. In the jumps, Ebonique Jones will be looking to regain the form that led to a second place finish in the long jump while freshman Caitlyn Davis will open up her outdoor season in the pole vault and triple jump.

Throughout the year, Hassan Omar has been making larger and larger impacts as he progresses through each season. He started off the year finishing 20th at the AEC Cross Country championships.

Then followed it up with a 5th place finish at the AEC Indoor Meet in the 5k. Now Omar has opened up the outdoor campaign with an IC4A qualifying, AEC

leading, and #2 All Time 10k, which was essentially a solo run the last 5k.

Hassan Omar

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250

After a rough start to open the outdoor season, sophomore Paulette Fogle quickly rebounded to have a stellar two-days at the Duke Invite this past weekend. She opened up in the Friday session by bettering her school record in the 400 meter hurdles, reducing it to 1:01.64, almost a month before the peak in the season. She then followed it up with a #5 All Time 56.82 400 meter dash the next day and led off the 4x400 meters in a high 55, low 56 second split. Her 400 meter hurdle time qualifies her for the ECAC Championships, and leaves her a little over a second off the fringe of qualifying for the NCAA Preliminary Rounds with most of the season to go.

A solid and quiet contributor throughout the year, freshman Nicole Dawson was usually the second Retriever across the line throughout the cross country season. During indoor she dropped her personal best from high school by nearly two minutes in the 5k finishing up the year with the 10th fastest time in school history in 18:17. Then, after pacing through the first meet of the year, she opened up in her first 10k ever, managing to hit even splits for twenty-three consecutive laps en route to the third fastest 10k in school history in 37:22. With the 10k being her focus at the Conference meet, look for here to work on her speed over the next two weeks in the 5k.

Meet Recap: Duke Invite Paulette Fogle breaks school record in 400m Hurdles in 1:01.64 and runs #5 All

Time 400 meters in 56.82

MK Kulp moves up to #4 All Time in the 400m Hurdles in 1:04.21

Hassan Omar runs an IC4A qualifying and #2 All Time 10k in 30:54.82. Noah Hutton runs #7 All Time in the same event in 31:49.86

Freshmen Nicole Dawson and Harmony Roche both qualified for the ECAC meet in the 10k running 37:22 and 37:36 respectively.

Angelina Oputa runs #8 All Time 1500m in 4:48.94

Jen Nelson threw a personal best 131’ 11” in the hammer throw (#6 All Time)

Andrew Keresztes runs #2 All Time 1:52.40 in the 800 meters

Sarah Daly runs #5 All Time 2:14.90 in the 800 meters

Denny Long runs seasons best 10.78 in the 100 meters and Trae Proctor runs seasons’ s best 14.57 in the 110 meter hurdles

~15:10 Split from the second 5k of

Hassan Omar’s 10k. A time that by itself would almost make it on the All Time Top 10 list in

the 5k after going through the first 5k in 15:44.

Field Events: 12:00 PM Women Hammer Throw Finals 12:00 PM Men Javelin Throw Finals 12:00 PM Men Pole Vault Finals 1:00 PM Women Long Jump Finals 1:30 PM Women Javelin Throw Finals 1:30 PM Men Hammer Throw Finals 2:30 PM Women Pole Vault Finals 2:00 PM Men High Jump Finals 2:30 PM Men Long Jump Finals 3:00 PM Women Discus Throw Finals 3:00 PM Men Shot Put Finals 4:00 PM Women High Jump Finals 4:00 PM Women Triple Jump Finals 4:30 PM Women Shot Put Finals 4:30 PM Men Discus Throw Finals 5:30 PM Men Triple Jump Finals

Afternoon Track Session: 1:00 PM Men 100 Meter Dash Prelims 1:20 PM Women 100 Meter Dash Prelims 1:30 PM Women 4x100 Meter Relay Finals 1:35 PM Men 4x100 Meter Relay Finals 1:40 PM Women 100 Meter Hurdles Prelims 1:50 PM Men 110 Meter Hurdles Prelims 2:10 PM Women 400 Meter Dash Finals 2:25 PM Men 400 Meter Dash Finals 2:45 PM Men 110 Meter Hurdles Finals 2:55 PM Women 100 Meter Hurdles Finals 3:05 PM Women 100 Meter Dash Finals 3:10 PM Men 100 Meter Dash Finals 3:25 PM Women 400 Meter Hurdles Finals 3:40 PM Men 400 Meter Hurdles Finals 3:50 PM Women 200 Meter Dash Finals 4:05 PM Men 200 Meter Dash Finals 4:25 PM Women 4x400 Meter Relay Finals 4:35 PM Men 4x400 Meter Relay Finals

Evening Track Session: 7:00 PM Women 800 Meter Run Finals 7:20 PM Men 800 Meter Run Finals 7:40 PM Women 3000 Meter Steeplechase Finals 7:55 PM Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase Finals 8:10 PM Women 1500 Meter Run Finals 8:35 PM Men 1500 Meter Run Finals 9:15 PM Women 5000 Meter Run Finals 9:40 PM Men 5000 Meter Run Finals

2013 Outdoor Schedule:

Fri-Sat, March 22nd

-23rd

FSU Relays

Florida State University

Saturday, March 30th

Big Dawg Invite

UMBC

Fri-Sat, April 5th

-6th

Duke Invite

Duke University

Saturday, April 13th

GMU Spring Invite

George Mason University

Friday, April 19th

Larry Ellis Invite

Princeton University

Fri-Sat, April 19th

-20th

Morgan State Legacy Meet

Morgan State University

Thurs-Sat, April 25th

-26th

Penn Relays

University of Pennsylvania

Sat-Sun, May 4th

-5th

America East Conference Binghamton University

Fri-Sun, May 10

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IC4A/ECAC Championships Princeton University

Fir-Sat, May 24

th-25

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NCAA East Region North Carolina A&T

Wed-Sat, June 5

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NCAA Championships University of Oregon

Event Women / Men Entries (Tentative only, only A Relays listed):

100m Jackson, E. Jones, Seale / Balderson, Long, Blanfort, Baker

200m Adelola, Jackson, E. Jones, Seale / Proctor, Blanfort, Balderson, Long

400m K. Jones, Abbey, Phillip, Young / McClendon, Myers

800m Daly, Mezebish, Fredericks, Adelola / Smith, Keresztes

1500m Oputa / Albino

5,000m Dawson, Roche / Omar, Hutton, Eldridge, Schuler

10,000m n/a

110m Hurdles / Proctor, Abutaleb

400m Hurdles Fogle, Kulp / Abutaleb

3,000m Steeple / Semeon, DiSalvo, McGee

4x100m

4x400m Phillip, Abbey, K. Jones, Fogle /

4x800m

Long Jump E. Jones / Rentzsch, Teyibo, Glaze

Triple Jump Davis /

High Jump / Carthan, Drammeh

Pole Vault Davis / Stott, Carman

Shot Put Edokobi, Mayne, Nelson, Hayes / Adantor, Serafenas, Mayne

Discus Nelson, Mayne, Edokobi / Adantor, Edokobi, Serafenas, Stinsman

Hammer Nelson, Edokobi, Mayne, Hayes / Serafenas, Adantor, Stinsman, Edokobi

Javelin / Rentzsch, Rybak

Deca./Hept. n/a

Event

IC4A Standards

(men)

NCAA East Region

(estimate, top 48)

ECAC Standards

(women)

NCAA East Region

(estimate, top 48) Qualifiers

100m 10.85 10.49 12.08 11.68 Long, Jackson

200m 21.80 21.21 24.74 23.94 Long, Jackson

400m 48.50 47.34 55.94 54.44

800m 1:51.80 1:50.33 2:10.94 2:09.2

1500m 3:51.00 3:46.82 4:32.04 4:26.8

5,000m 14:36.00 14:13.57 17:16.64 16:44.4

10,000m 31:08.00 30:06.12 37:40.24 35:41.0 Omar, Dawson, Roche

110m Hurdles 14.85 14.27 14.34 13.76 Proctor

400m Hurdles 53.84 52.62 1:02.04 59.98 Fogle

3,000m SC 9:15.00 9:03.97 10:55.04 10:37.5

4x100m 42.50 40.40 47.94 45.37 Women

4x400m 3:17.60 3:09.46 3:51.84 3:39.5 Women

4x800m 7:43.00 n/a 9:16.24 n/a

Long Jump 7.10 7.37 5.80 6.02

Triple Jump 14.50 15.08 12.05 12.46

High Jump 2.04 2.09 1.71 1.74

Pole Vault 4.80 5.02 3.72 3.84

Shot Put 15.60 16.86 13.60 14.63 Adantor, Deller

Discus 47.50 51.43 42.80 47.71 Serafenas

Hammer 53.00 58.09 51.00 54.72 Serfenas, Deller

Javelin 58.70 63.00 41.40 43.23 Rentzsch

Deca./Hept. Top 15 Top 12 National Top 15 Top 12 National

Event Men Time/Mark Women Time/Mark

100m David Bobb 10.18 Mercedes Jackson 11.65

110m/100mH Hamlin/Beadle 14.40 Imani Colbert 14.02

200m David Bobb 20.63 Mercedes Jackson 23.60

400m Kevin Russell 46.97 Angela Adams 56.00

400mH Phil Marshall 53.00 Paulette Fogle 1:01.64

800m Michael Christmas 1:50.67 Ohita Asein 2:11.34

1,500m Anthony Kelhower 3:49.20 Sara Parkinson 4:28.57

5,000m Anthony Kelhower 14:09.20 Sara Parkinson 16:46.86

10.000m Michael Sterling 30:17.2 Karin Wagner 35:31.64

3,000m SC Brandan McGee 9:01.73 Keri Wilson 11:29.56

4x100m Washington, Guillaume,

Russell, Bobb 39.41

E. Jones, Young, Ikpeze, Jackson

46.47

4x400m Hewling, Marshall, Guillaume, Russell

3:11.41 J. Wilson, Nathaniel,

Ward, Barkley 3:46.27

4x800m Baumler, Johnson,

Stump, Mehmedovic 7:35.96

Asein, Fields, Wettlaufer, Baker

9:02.31

High Jump Huguens Jean 2.22m (7-3.25) Chowan Brightful 1.70m (5-7)

Long Jump Marc Haskins 7.35m (24-1.5) Kiki Malamo-Paris 5.75m (18-10.25)

Triple Jump Victor Gilreath 15.45m (50-8.25) Tyishua Johnson 12.26m (40-2.75)

Pole Vault Dixon/Ludwig 4.95m (16-2.75) Laura Walker 3.35m (10-11.75)

Shot Put Yao Adantor 16.55 (54-3.75) Cleopatra Borel 16.44m (53-11.25)

Hammer Thor Serafenas 56.65m (185-10) Cleopatra Borel 51.28m (168-3)

Discus Balvin Brown 51.59m (169-3) Ashley Fauntleroy 45.04 (147-9)

Javelin Vincent Rentzsch 60.38 (198-1) Toni Boyd 41.40m (135-10)

Dec./Hept. Keith Onto 7,239 points Chowan Brightful 4,299 Points