Cambridge, Mass. ? UAlbany's Tyler Fogarty (Shenendehowa) was named the America East Conference Track Athlete of the Week, as announced by the league office on Tuesday, Feb. 17. This marks the first time this season that the sophomore is being honored with the weekly award.
One week after running the 800-meter leg on the distance medley relay team that broke the school record by seven seconds, Fogarty provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championship in the 800-meter run at the Tyson Invitational hosted by the University of Arkansas on Friday, Feb. 13. In a meet that featured 14 of the 25 nationally-ranked men's teams, including the top-ranked Razorbacks, he clocked in a fourth-place time of 1:49.60 in the Olympic Development division. It was also the best mark in America East this season by over two seconds. He became the first Great Dane to provisionally qualify for NCAAs in a track event this season and the third overall after Luke Schoen in the pole vault and Nasim Siddeeq in the triple jump.
Fogarty and the men's and women's indoor track and field programs will look to sweep the team titles for the first time ever at the America East Conference Championships hosted by Boston University on Feb. 20-21. The men's team will also aim to win the program's fourth straight championship and sixth in seven years.
