Track & Field Wraps Up Competition at Metropolitan Championship

Final Results

Piscataway, N.J. – The Fordham track and field team wrapped up competition at the 2017 Metropolitan Championships on Saturday at Rutgers' Bauer Track & Field Complex where the Fordham men placed third out of 12 teams and the women finished fourth of 12 teams.

Rutgers won the men's title with 209 points, followed by Manhattan (199), Fordham (99), Stony Brook (78) and Wagner (72) to round out the top five. Rutgers also won the women's team title with 190 points followed by St. John's (162), Manhattan (120), Fordham (101.50) and Stony Brook (88), to round out the top five.

The Fordham men had two event winners along with a winning relay on day two, while the women had one relay winner.

Thomas Slattery won the 5,000 meter run in a time of 14:58.68, just beating teammate Ryan Kutch who finished second in 14:59.06.

Louis Santelli was the other individual event winner for the Rams, winning the 800 meter run in a time of 1:53.24.

The winning Fordham relays were the men's 4x800 relay (9:47.73) and the women's 4x400 relay (3:51.65).

Other top performers on the men's side were Fritz Heinrich (3^rd – 3:59.69), Devin Rocks (7^th – 4:03.51) and Nik O'Brien (10^th – 4"05.74) in the 1,500 meter run, Jared Benn (5^th – 49.06) and Michael Petersen (10^th – 50.71) in the 400 meter run, Richard Webber (9^th – 11.29) and Eddie Dehais (12^th – 11.43) in the 100 meter dash and Sean Sullivan (11^th – 1:58.37) in the 800 meter run.

In the field events, Ryan Riviere finished second in the pole vault, clearing 13'11 ¼", Nick Regan and Vaughan Taylor finished third and eighth in the javelin in distances of 188'2" and 149'10", respectively, Taylor and Andrew Byrne placed 11^th and 14^th in the long jump in 20'9" and 20' 4 ½", respectively, and Byrne finished fourth in the high jump, clearing 6' 3 ½".Riviere finished second in the decathlon with 5,149 points, with teammate Jeremy Milite finished right behind him in third place with 4.321 points.

 

On the women's side, top performers included Merissa Wright (2^nd – 2:12.37), Aidan Moroz (4^th – 2:16.28), Kaia Corthell (6^th – 2:16.43) and Shanna Heaney (8^th – 2:17.09) in the 800 meter run, Kate McCormack (4^th – 4:47.55), Sydney Snow (6^th – 4:49.35), Blake Elwood (12^th – 4:57.46) and Brianne Roche (13^th – 4:57.58) in the 1,500 meter run, Abigail Taylor (6^th – 18:13.67) and Josephine Jacob-Dolan (8^th – 18:26.53) in the 5,000 meter run, Nkeka Pinheiro (8^th – 25.59) and Mary Kate Kenny (13^th – 25.83) in the 200 meter dash, Pinheiro (9^th – 12.53) and Kenny (13^th – 12.63) in the 100 meter dash and Leah Hickey (12^th – 1:00.62) and Jennifer Boerke (13^th – 1:00.64) in the 400 meter dash.

In the field events, Gabriella Gavalas and Alina Kwiatkowski finished fifth and ninth in the triple jump with distances of 38'0" and 35'1", respectively, Gavalas placed 11^th in the long jump in 17'3 ¾", Neve Devine placed seventh in the high jump, clearing 4'9" and Adrianna Batista finished tenth in the hammer throw with a distance of 95'6". Kylie Farrell finished third in the pentathlon with 3,873 points and Alina Kwiatkowski placed 13th with 2,050 points.

The Rams return to action April 21-22 as they compete in the Larry Ellis and Wolfie Invitationals.