Meet: America East Indoor Championships
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Location: Boston University Track & Tennis Center in Boston, Mass.
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Team Scoring: 1. UAlbany (175), 2. UMass Lowell (122.5), 3. Stony Brook (103), 4. New Hampshire (100.5), 5. UMBC (79), 6. Vermont (61), 7. Binghamton (58), 8. Maine (39), 9. Hartford (38)
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Short Story: The UAlbany women's track & field team won their eighth-straight America East Indoor title behind seven event victories and one championship meet record.
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Recap
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- Shelby Bigsby won the shot put in an indoor-best 50-04.75, becoming the second woman in program history to record a mark exceeding 50' indoors; Shania Scott placed third in 45-08.00, Adelaide Cooke placed fourth in 44-08.00, and Venique Harris placed sixth in 41-05.00
- Asia Jinks won the 60m hurdles in 8.54; Naomi Rowe placed fourth in 9.15, and Stephanie Hyde placed eighth in 9.59
- Jinks won the 400m in a personal-best 53.86
- Chidinma Matthew won the 60m in 7.60; Jahari Coleman placed second in a personal-best 7.64
- The 4x400m relay team of Jonel Lacey (57.62), Matthew (55.38), Lowe (57.64), and Jinks (55.14) placed first in a championship-meet record 3:45.75
- Lynda Brundige placed third in the triple jump in 39-02.50
- Kaylah Quarshie placed fourth in the 800m in a personal-best 2:13.63
- Samantha Rutt placed seventh in the 1,000m in 2:57.66
- Matthew placed second in the 200m in 24.27; Coleman placed third in an indoor-best 24.62, and Lowe placed eighth in 25.51
- Kelly Iocca placed fifth in the 3,000m in a personal-best 9:54.81
- The 4x800m relay team of Sydney Coddington (2:22.80), Kaitlyn Butterfield (2:24.21), Quarshie (2:27.55), and Laura Nolan (2:27.55) placed fifth 9:33.79
- Jinks was named Most Outstanding Female Track Performer, and won the Coaches' Award for scoring the most points in the meet
- Cooke won the Elite 18 Award with her 3.98 GPA in Human Biology
- The women's coaches were named Coaching Staff of the Year
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Next: UAlbany will visit Ocean Breeze one final time this season for the Fastrack Last Chance Meet before returning to Boston University's Track and Tennis Center next weekend for ECAC Indoor Championships.
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