Meet: Great Dane Classic
 
Location: Ocean Breeze in Staten Island, N.Y.
 
Scoring: No team scoring
 
Short Story: Current and former Great Danes claim victory in four events, kicking off the indoor season at the 17th Great Dane Classic
 
Athletes of the Meet: Asia Jinks, Chidinma Matthew, Lynne Gbadamosi, Jan Michel Gutierrez Almedina, Marcus McFadden
 
Results (top-8 performances)
 

• Lynn Gbadamosi placed third in the women's weight throw in a four-foot personal-best 55-09.25; Shiana Galette-Rowe placed seventh in 53-05.00, and Shelby Bigsby placed eighth in 52-09.50
• Bryan Nicholson placed seventh in the men's weight throw in 50-01.25
• Isaac Heatley tied for seventh in the men's pole vault, clearing 13-09.25
• Marcus McFadden placed third in the men's long jump in 22-10.75, Jamel Edwards placed eighth in 21-06.25
• Cameron Duffield placed sixth in the men's 60m hurdles in 8.28
• Asia Jinks won the women's 60m hurdles in a personal-best 8.51
• Chidinma Matthew won the women's 60m in 7.50, tying her personal-best
• Garfield Napier placed third in the men's 60m in 6.89 (6.85 in prelims); Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina placed fourth in a personal-best 6.89
• Kelly Iocca placed fourth in the women's 5,000m in 17:46.15; competing unattached, graduate student Cara Sherman won in 16:57.22
• Charlie Ragone placed second in the men's 5,000m in 15:11.34; Christopher Perillo placed third in 15:14.97
• Hannah Reinhardt placed second in the women's mile in 4:51.89
• Jonel Lacey placed fifth in the women's 400m in 58.94
• Kiyah Owens placed fifth in the women's 500m in 1:15.95
• Myles Banfield placed third in the men's 500m in 1:03.27
• Mecca Muamba placed fourth in the women's high jump, clearing 5-03.00; Shannon Bailey tied for sixth in 5-01.00
• Lynda Brundige placed fourth in the women's triple jump in 38-11.00
• Robert Blue placed fourth in the men's triple jump in 47-10.50
• Bigsby placed third in the women's shot put in 44-02.00; Shania Scott placed fourth in 44-00.50, and Adelaide Cooke placed fifth in 43-08.25
• Jahari Coleman placed fifth in the women's 200m in 24.91; competing for Puerto Rico, alumna Grace Claxton placed third in 24.49
• Harmodio Cruz III placed fourth in the men's 200m in 21.93
• The UAlbany women's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Owens (58.27), Matthew (55.34), Kayleigh Robinson (59.64), and Jinks (55.27) placed third in 3:48.51; the 'B' team of Brenda Santana (59.50), Rori Lowe (58.69), Zyann Archibald (1:01.50), and DiDi Wiles (59.38) placed seventh in 3:59.06
• The men's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Gutierrez Almedina (48.25), Cruz III (48.60), Matthew JeanPierre (49.82), and Banfield (47.29) placed first in 3:13.94
• One meet record was set, Kiara Grant from Norfolk State in the women's 200m (23.25)

 
Next: The Great Danes visit the Armory in New York for the Columbia Challenge starting January 23.