Meet: UAlbany Winter Classic
 
Location: Ocean Breeze Complex in Staten Island, N.Y.
 
Scoring: No team scoring
 
Short Story: UAlbany track & field comes away with two event victories in the inaugural UAlbany Winter Classic.
 
Athletes of the Meet: Asia Jinks, Shelby Bigsby, Myles Banfield, Robert Blue
 
Results

• Asia Jinks placed second in the women's 60m hurdles in 8.60; Naomi Rowe placed sixth in 9.10
• Cameron Duffield placed fourth in the men's 60m hurdles in a personal-best 8.15
• Brenda Santana placed seventh in the women's 60m in a personal-best 7.82
• Charlie Ragone placed seventh in the men's mile in 4:17.41
• Myles Banfield won the men's 500m in 1:02.88, ranking third in the country
• Samantha Rutt placed fifth in the women's 800m in an indoor-best 2:14.28; Kaylah Quarshie placed sixth in 2:16.41
• Joey Somerville placed fourth in the men's 800m in 1:52.59
• Jahari Coleman placed eighth in the women's 200m in 25.28
• Harmodio Cruz III placed second in the men's 200m in 21.73
• The women's 4x400m 'B' team of Emily Brown (1:02.03), Jonel Lacey (58.64), EZyann Archibald, (1:00.34), and Rori Lowe (58.49) placed eighth in 3:59.48
• The men's 4x400m 'A' team of Duffield (50.81), Easton Reagan (50.08), Jake Rosenthal (50.94), and Alex Velasquez (51.03) placed fifth in 3:22.85
• Mecca Muamba tied for eighth in the women's high jump, clearing 5-03.00
• Louis Gordon tied for second in the men's high jump, clearing 6-06.75
• Samantha Martinez placed third in the women's pole vault, clearing 11-05.75, tying her personal-best
• Lynda Brundige placed third in the women's long jump in 18-07.00
• Robert Blue won the men's triple jump in a personal-best 50-11.50
• Shelby Bigsby placed second in the women's shot put in 45-07.75; Adelaide Cooke placed fifth in 44-02.50, and Shania Scott placed seventh 43-07.00
• Lynne Gbadamosi placed second in the women's weight throw in 56-04.00; Shelby Bigsby placed fourth in 55-09.25, Shiana Galette-Rowe placed fifth in 55-05.50, and Ludith Campos placed sixth in 54-08.75

 
Alumni Results

• Grace Claxton won the women's 400m in 53.94 and placed second in the women's 200m in 24.27
• Matthew Campbell tied for fifth in the men's high jump in 6-04.75

 
Next
The Great Danes will take a dozen competitors to the Tyson Invitational at the University of Arkansas next week, while others will visit Boston University for the Valentine Invitational.  America East Indoor Championships take place in two weeks at Boston University.