ALBANY, N.Y. – The University at Albany track & field program hosts its second and final home meet of the indoor season this Friday at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island with the inaugural UAlbany Winter Classic.
 
Meet Info
UAlbany Winter Classic (February 7)
Live Results
 
Ticket Prices
Adults: $10.00
Children 3-15: $5.00
Children 2 and under: Free
 
Entries (W/M)
60m: Ayandeji, Brundige, Foster, Magassouba, Osei-Boateng, Santana, Wiles / Casab, Dixon, Edwards, Jack, McFadden
200m: Coleman, Goddard, Hyde, Lacey, Lowe, Osei-Boateng, Reid, Santana, Wiles / Cruz III, Dixon, Hermance, Sturdivant, D. Williams, G. Williams
400m: Archibald, Brown / Rosenthal
500m: Grady, Owens, Robinson / Banfield, Reagan, Velasquez
800m: Butterfield, Quarshie, Rutt / Athanailos, F. Beltran, JeanPierre, Somerville
1,000m: Coddington, Keown, Nolan / A. Beltran
Mile: Chambers, Coddington, Guilfoyle, Iocca, Leonard, Zitomer / Garcia, Menis, Perillo, Ragone, Ramdani
3,000m: Brogan, Planavsky
60m HH: Goddard, Hyde, Jinks, Mercado, Reid, Robinson, Rowe / Duffield, D. Williams
4x400m: Archibald, Brown, Butterfield, Grady, Lacey, Lowe, Quarshie, Rutt, Santana / Athanailos, A. Beltran, F. Beltran, Duffield, Hermance, JeanPierre, Reagan, Rosenthal, Somerville, Velasquez
HJ: Bailey, Hyde, Mercado, Muamba / D. Gordon, L. Gordon, Jack
PV: Martinez / Heatley
LJ: Brundige, Foster, Rowe, Trott / Edwards, Jack, McFadden, Sturdivant
TJ: Brundige, Mercado / Blue
SP: Bigsby, Cooke, Harris, Reid, Scott / Blatche, Reid
WT: Bigness, Bigsby, Campos, Cooper, Galette-Rowe, Gbadamosi, Membreno / Nicholson
 
Leading the Pack

• The women lead the America East in nine events
• The men lead the America East in eight events
• Hannah Reinhardt ranks 17th in the 5,000m
• EJ Onah ranks 17th in the long jump
• Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina ranks 20th nationally in the 200m

 
Last Time Out
The Great Danes visited two meets in Boston last weekend, Harvard's Crimson Elite Invitational and Boston University's Scarlet & White Invitational.  Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina highlighted the weekend, breaking his own school record in the 200m with a time of 21.06, surpassing both his indoor record of 21.20 and his outdoor record of 21.13.  He set the record one day after running a personal-best of 6.81 in the 60m.  Elsewhere, Ludith Campos threw two personal-bests in the weight throw, first 55-11.25 at Harvard and then 58-09.50 at Boston University the following day.  Asia Jinks continued her hot streak in the 60m hurdles, recording times of 8.50 and 8.52 at Harvard, before once again falling just one-hundredth of a second short of her personal-best in the 400m with a 55.32.  Jinks now has each of the fastest seven performances in the 60m hurdles in the America East this season.
 
America East Leaders (W/M)
60m: Chidinma Matthew, 7.50 / Garfield Napier, 6.80
200m: Chidinma Matthew, 24.34 / Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina, 21.06
400m: X / Myles Banfield, 47.72
500m: X / Myles Banfield, 1:03.27
5,000m: Hannah Reinhardt, 16:21.44 / X
60m HH: Asia Jinks 8.45 / Dawshawn Williams, 8.07
4x400m: 3:48.51 / 3:13.94
DMR: 11:56.01 / 10:08.90
LJ: EJ Onah, 20-03.75 / X
TJ: X / Omahri Sturdivant, 50-00.50
SP: Shania Scott, 46-06.75 / X
WT: Ludith Campos, 58-09.50 / X
 
School Records
12/7/19: Myles Banfield (600m, 1:18.81)
2/1/20: Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina (200m, 21.06)
 
ECAC Qualifiers (15)
Bigsby, Campos, Coleman, Galette-Rowe, Gbadamosi, Jinks, Lacey, Matthew, Onah, Owens, Reinhardt, Rowe, Scott, 4x400m, DMR
 
IC4A Qualifiers (16)
Banfield, F. Beltran, Blue, Casab, Cruz III, Duffield, Gutierrez Almedina, Hermance, JeanPierre, Napier, Ragone, Somerville, Sturdivant, G. Williams, 4x400m, DMR
 
Reverse Jinks
In her first two meets of 2020, junior hurdler Asia Jinks  improved her time in the 60m hurdles to 8.45 through the early part of the season, now ranking third in program history.  Jinks has raced in the hurdles four times in January, in trials and finals at each meet, and has set a new personal-best in three of the four races.  At the Great Dane Classic, with an existing personal-best of 8.60, Jinks hit 8.52 in the trials and 8.51 in the finals.  At the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge, Jinks ran 8.53 in the trials before unleashing her current best, 8.45, in the finals.
 
XC Recap
Senior Hannah Reinhardt dominated the headlines during the 2019 UAlbany cross country season, setting program records in both the 5K and the 6K, as well as establishing a new UAlbany current at overall 5K course record with her second-straight America East individual title.  Reinhardt became the second Great Dane in the Division I era to qualify for NCAA XC Championships, following her victory at the NCAA Northeast Regional XC Championships, a program-first.  Reinhardt led the women to a fourth-place team finish.  Charlie Ragone and Christopher Perillo paced the men's team in 2019, following a 1-2 sweep of the UAlbany XC Invitational with a 21st-and 24th-place finish, respectively, at the America East XC Championships.  The men as a team placed seventh overall
 
Team Captains
After six individuals served as interim captains through the cross country season, the track & field program elected its eight full-time captains on December 5, coming away with a captain class of eight, including one returning captain, Hannah Reinhardt, and one elevated interim captain, Adrian Mitchell.  The other captains elected were Shelby Bigsby, Lynn Gbadamosi, Asia Jinks, Myles Banfield, Bryan Nicholson, and Charlie Ragone.
 
Triple Crown
After winning the 2019 America East XC team title, the UAlbany women went on to claim team victories in the America East Indoor and Outdoor Championship meets, becoming the first women's program in conference history to win all three titles in the same academic year.  Previously, the 2011-12 UAlbany men and 1988-89 Northeastern men had claimed the Triple Crown.
 
Next
UAlbany will bring a dozen athletes to the Tyson Invitational at the University of Arkansas next week starting Friday, February 14.  Others will return to Boston University for the Valentine Invitational.  America East Indoor Championships take place in two weeks at Boston University.