Track & Field Competes at the Two-Day Terrier Classic

Full Results

BOSTON – Taking place over a two-day period, with most of the women's track & field events taking place on Friday and the men's events on Saturday, the Rams competed in the annual Boston University John Thomas Terriers Classic. There is no team scoring but there were several standout performances including junior Shanna Heaney's ECAC-qualifying time in the 800 meter run.
 
Fordham went up against a very deep field made up of just under 3,000 athletes representing 80 different universities.  
 
Heaney and three others competed in the 800 meter run to kick off Fordham's involvement in the two-day event. The junior finished 23^rd with a personal-best 2:13.03 time and her first ECAC qualifying time in a solo event. Heaney was followed by Merissa Wright (54^th – 2:18.15), Brynna Harum (71^st – 2:21.32), and Laurel Fisher (78^th – 2:22.46). Wright's time was a personal record while Harum and Fisher were making their indoor debuts in the event.
 
Christina Perrier was the lone Ram in the 400 meter dash and finished 99^th with a time of 1:00.39. Aiden Moroz and Danielle Rowe, the former setting a personal mark, finished in the 500 meter with 1:17.33 (27^th) and 1:17.94 (37^th) times, respectively.
 
Likewise, freshmen Mary Kate Kenny and Morgan Menzzasalma set new career-best times in the 200 meter dash. Kenny placed 68^th with a time of 25.95 and Menzzasalma crossed 101^st with a 26.34 time.
 
Freshman Kate McCormack continued the impressive string of results with a personal-best 5:08.07 time in the mile good for 45^th overall. She was followed by classmate Angelina Grebe (67^th – 5:16.72) and sophomore Stephanie Leo (99^th – 5:27.54).
 
Brianna Tevnan rounded out the solo events on the women's side with a 45^th-place finish in the 3,000 meter run in 10:19.13.
 
The foursome of Wright, Menzzasalma, Rowe, and Moroz came within one second of the ECAC time with a 3:53.10 4x400 meter relay finish. The group placed 18^th overall. In the distance medley relay, the quartet of Harum, Perrier, Fisher, and Tevnan placed 13^th in 12:26.76.
 
On the men's slate on Saturday, the 800 meter run was the first event involving a Ram – Fritz Heinrich debuted in the indoor event and placed 57^th with a 1:56.34 time. Likewise, Jared Benn was the lone Fordham runner in the 400 meter dash and finished just .17 seconds off an IC4A time, finishing 44^th overall with a 49.37 time.
 
Louis Santelli nearly set a personal mark with his 1:05.51 time in the 500 meter, good for 11^th overall, and was under a second away from an IC4A qualifying time. Freshman Eddie Dehais made his debut in the event and finished 17^th in 1:06.04. Classmate Michael Aman, like Santelli, nearly had himself a IC4A qualifying time with a 22.66 time and a 91^st-place finish.
 
Three Rams took part in the 1,000 meter and 3,000 meter runs, sandwiched around the 4x400 meter relay. Sean Phillips, making his debut, Michael Campbell, and Patrick Dineen, each setting new personal records in the event, placed 18^th, 34^th, and 38^th, respectively. Phillips finished in 2:29.61, Campbell in 2:32.54, and Dineen in 2:33.49. The quartet of Dehais, Santelli, Benn and Aman finished their 4x400 meter relay in 3:21.16, good for a 25th-place finish.
 
In the 3,000 meter race, Thomas Slattery set a personal-best time of 8:25.45 and 44^th-place finish. Nik O'Brien placed 74^th in 8:35.43 and Mike Turi 80^th in 8:38.62.
 
The Rams return to the Ocean Breeze Track & Field Complex on Staten Island for the two-day Metropolitan Championships this Thursday and Friday, February 4^th and 5^th.