Feb. 10, 2008

Final Stats

Landover, MD - The Wagner Track & Field team completed the second day at the Northeast Conference (NEC) Championships as the women finished the indoor season in eighth place while the men finished ninth.

Junior Alaina Alfano (East Hanover, NJ/Hanover Park) established a new Wagner school record in the triple jump with an 11.44m fifth place performance. Alfano also bettered her 60m hurdles qualifying time of 9.14 with a 9.07 second finals running, finishing in second place while putting together a second place leap in the high jump at 1.64m. With these outstanding performances, Alfano recorded 20 of the Seahawks 43 total team points and earned NEC Track Athlete of the Meet accolades.

Freshman Mishelle McNamara finished third in the pole vault with a 3.30m leap while senior Jessica Ford (Neptune, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) and freshman Jessica Balling (Seaford, NY/MacArthur) took their qualifying times in the 500m into the finals with Ford finishing seventh with a time of 1:20.52 while Balling crossed the line in 1:22.75, good for ninth place. Junior Brecken Drager (Loomis, CA/Del Oro) put together two eighth place finishes, the first coming in the 1 mile, with a time of 5:21.85, and the 3000m, finishing in 10:43.35. Rounding things out for the women is senior thrower Crystal Smith (Zenda, WI/Big Foot) who was able to take eighth place in the weight throw with a 13.99m hurl.

On the men's side of the action, freshman sprinter Coleman Edmond (Kingston, NY/Harmony Prep MI) broke the 60m dash record for the third time this year in his qualifying time of 6.96 seconds and taking sixth in the event with his 7.01 finals time. Senior jump specialist Bryan Pagliuca (Ronkomkoma, NY/Connetquot) went from his second place 2.01m high jump performance yesterday to a fourth place finish in the triple jump with a 13.35 leap. The men's distance medley team pulled out a fifth place 10:40.15 performance while sophomore James Johnston (Middle Island, NY/Longwood) bested his 1 mile qualifying time with a 4:23.59 finals run, good for sixth place. Rounding out the men is junior distance runner Brian Halling (Amherst, NH/Souhegan) who put together top notch runs in both the 3000m (8:56.55, eighth) and the 5000m (15:30.95, sixth).

The women's eighth place finish was just as predicted in the NEC Preseason Coaches Poll with as the men exceeded their 10th place prediction by coming in ninth.

The Seahawks will have a few weeks off until they hit the NYU Fast Track Invitational on February 29th in New York, NY.