Outdoor Track Performs At USMMA Eight-Way Meet
KINGS POINT, N.Y. (Apr. 13, 2015) - Highlighted by a total of eight first-place finishes, the LIU Post men's and women's outdoor track and field teams took part in Sunday's USMMA Eight-Way Meet in Kings Point. The men compiled a total of 62 points to place sixth, while the women's team notched 26 points to garner a seventh-place distinction.
Graduate sprinter
Dale McDonald (Roosevelt, N.Y.) won both the 200-meter (22.67) and the 400-meter (51.14) individual races, while red-shirt juniot
Steven Arnone (Staten Island, N.Y.) captured the 1500-meter event in a time of 4:20.75. The Pioneers held the top-three spots in the 1500, as red-shirt sophomore
Mike Scott (Fultonville, N.Y.) and sophomore
Tyler McGarvey (Babylon, N.Y.) finished directly behind Arnone with times of 4:24.21 and 4:24.54, respectively. The winning ways continued into the 5000-meter distance race, as freshman
Thomas Flynn (Smithtown, N.Y.) crossed the line first in a time of 16:23.07.
McDonald was part of a winning 4-by-100 relay squad, along with red-shirt freshman
Ramel Joseph (Jamaica, N.Y.) and freshmen
Kasim Thomas (Bronx, N.Y.) and
Bjorn Bjornsson (Levittown, N.Y.). The green and gold relay completed the course in a time of 43.70, more than a full second head of the second place squad from Farmingdale State. Finally, Bjornsson earned second-place laurels in the long jump, scoring a distance of 6.24 meters.
The women's team was led by a first-place field finish from triple jump specialist
Danae Glover (North Babylon, N.Y.). The freshman earned top honors in the event, racking up a distance of 10.48 meters. Junior
Elizabeth Stirling (Wantagh, N.Y.) was victorious in the 5000-meter race (18:58.87) while freshman
Brooke Rozea (Syosset, N.Y.) captured third place in a time of 20:15.54. Fellow freshman
Alyssa McDonald (New Rochelle, N.Y.) garnered a second-place result in the 400-meter hurdles (1:16.24, 76.24 meters) and freshman
Talya Williams (Schenectady, N.Y.) notched a second-place finish in the 1500-meter contest with a time of 4:59.51. Junior
Jessica Wiking (Farmingdale, N.Y.) placed fourth in the 1500, crossing the finish line in 5:33.15 and graduate runner
Robin Lynn (Glen Gardner, N.J.) was third in the 800-meter race (2:23.25).
Head Coach
Pat Slevin and the LIU Post men's and women's outdoor track and field teams will now travel up to Roberts Wesleyan on Saturday (Apr. 18) for the East Coast Conference Championships.