ALBANY, N.Y. – Championship season continues for the University at Albany track & field program with IC4A & ECAC Indoor Championships at Boston University this weekend.
 
Meet Info
IC4A & ECAC Indoor Championships (Mar. 6-8)
Live Results
 
Entries (W/M)
60m: Coleman, Lacey, Matthew / Casab, Napier
200m: Coleman, Lowe, Matthew / Dixon, Gutierrez Almedina, Hermance, Napier
400m: Jinks / Banfield, Cruz III
800m: Quarshie, Rutt / JeanPierre, Somerville
1,000m: Butterfield / Athanailos, F. Beltran
3,000m: Iocca / Ragone
5,000m: X / Perillo
60m HH: Jinks, Rowe / Duffield, D. Williams
4x400m: X / Gutierrez Almedina, Cruz III, Hermance, Banfield, Duffield, JeanPierre
4x800m: X / Athanailos, JeanPierre, F. Beltran, Somerville, Ragone
DMR: Quarshie, Lacey, Rutt, Coddington, Iocca, Butterfield, Lowe / X
HJ: X / L. Gordon
LJ: Brundige, Onah / X
TJ: Brundige / Blue, Sturdivant
SP: Bigsby, Scott / X
WT: Campos, Galette-Rowe, Gbadamosi / X
 
Leading the Pack

• UAlbany holds 14 IC4A & ECAC top-10 performances this season
• Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina (200m) and Louis Gordon (HJ) each rank second in their events, the highest of any Great Danes in the field
• The men have won three IC4A Indoor titles
• The women have won one ECAC Indoor title

 
Last Time Out
A dozen student-athletes competed at the Boston University Last Chance Meet, seeking one finally opportunity to hit a qualifying standard to continue their season and possibly advance to NCAA Indoor Championships.  Christopher Perillo hit the mark in the 5,000m to qualify for IC4A Indoor Championships, running a personal-best of 14:40.96 to place 13th overall.  Elsewhere, Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina took second in the men's 200m by six-thousandths of a second, Myles Banfield placed third in the men's 400m, and Jamel Edwards and Marcus McFadden went two-three in the men's long jump.  For the women, EJ Onah won the long jump, just ahead of third-place Jade Foster, while Mecca Muamba placed fifth in the high jump and Samantha Martinez placed sixth in the pole vault.
 
Last Time at IC4A & ECAC Indoor Championships
The Great Danes took a step back from their usual presence at IC4A & ECAC Indoor Championships last year, taking just a handful competitors to the meet while the remainder of the team spent an extra week gearing up for the start of the outdoor season.  Hannah Reinhardt placed second, followed by Cara Sherman in seventh, in the women's 3,000m and Anika Hibbard placed fourth in the women's high jump as the women's only three scorers in the meet.  Reinhardt's time of 9:21.05 was a school record.  Kyle Gronostaj placed fourth in the men's 3,000m and Matthew JeanPierre placed eighth in the men's 800m as the men's only scorers.
 
America East Leaders
60m: Chidinma Matthew, 7.50 / Garfield Napier, 6.79
200m: X / Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina, 20.98
400m: Asia Jinks, 53.86 / Myles Banfield, 47.15
500m: X / Myles Banfield, 1:02.64
5,000m: Hannah Reinhardt, 16:21.44 / X
60m HH: Asia Jinks 8.45 / Cameron Duffield, 8.03
4x400m: X / 3:12.19
HJ: X / Louis Gordon (7-02.25)
LJ: EJ Onah, 20-03.75 / X
TJ: X / Robert Blue (50-11.50)
SP: Shelby Bigsby, 50-04.75 / X
WT: Ludith Campos, 60-07.25 / X
 
America East Indoor Champions
60m: Chidinma Matthew, 7.60 / Garfield Napier, 6.82
200m: X / Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina, 20.98
400m: Asia Jinks, 53.86 / Harmodio Cruz III, 47.86
500m: X / Myles Banfield, 1:02.64
60m HH: Asia Jinks, 8.54 / Cameron Duffield, 8.03
4x400m: 3:45.75 / 3:12.19
HJ: X / Louis Gordon, 7-02.25
LJ: EJ Onah, 19-11.00 / X
TJ: X / Omahri Sturdivant, 50-04.00
SP: Shelby Bigsby, 50-04.75 / X
WT: Ludith Campos, 60-07.25 / X
 
School Records
12/7/19: Myles Banfield (600m, 1:18.81)
2/1/20: Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina (200m, 21.06)
2/22/20: Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina (200m, 20.98)
2/22/20: Shelby Bigsby (SP, 50-04.00)
2/22/20: Cameron Duffield (60m HH, 8.03, Frosh.)
2/22/20: Louis Gordon (HJ, 7-02.25, Frosh.)
 
ECAC Qualifiers (20)
Bigsby, Brundige, Campos, Coleman, Galette-Rowe, Gbadamosi, Iocca, Jinks, Lacey, Lowe, Matthew, Onah, Owens, Quarshie, Reinhardt, Rowe, Rutt, Scott, 4x400m, DMR
 
IC4A Qualifiers (21)
Banfield, F. Beltran, Blue, Casab, Cruz III, Dixon, Duffield, L. Gordon, Gutierrez Almedina, Hermance, JeanPierre, Napier, Perillo, Ragone, Somerville, Sturdivant, D. Williams, G. Williams, 4x400m, 4x800m, DMR
 
America East Indoor History
Sweeping the latest indoor championship meet, the UAlbany women have won eight-straight America East Indoor titles, and 10 in the last 11 years.  The men have won 16 total, and 14 of the last 15, since their first title in 2003.  Combined, since joining the America East, the program has won 208 event titles.  The men have won 120, 70 track and 50 field, and the women have won 88, 58 track and 30 field.  For both teams, the triple jump has provided the most success, with the men claiming 11 individual titles and the women winning eight.  In the 2019 championship meet, the women won a program-record nine events, while the men's record of 10 event victories came during the 2017 championship meet.  The women currently hold six America East championship meet records, and the men own eight.
 
Championship Pedigree
The UAlbany track & field and cross country program won its first America East title in 2003 when the men broke through to claim the indoor track team championship.  Since then, each of the six programs has won at least one America East crown, with women's cross country winning its first in 2018 as the final team to join the group of title-winners.  Overall, the program's six teams have collectively won 57 of UAlbany 118 conference titles in the Division I era, approaching the end of the winter 2019-20 season.  The men have won 16 indoor and outdoor titles each, the most in the program, followed by women's outdoor with 14, women's indoor with 10, and men's and women's cross country with one each.
 
High Standing
In Week 2 of the 2020 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association indoor regional poll, the UAlbany women jumped two spots to attain their highest-ever regional ranking of second.  The Danes finished behind Northeast regional leader Harvard.  The women's previous high was third, hit on Week 5 of the 2015 indoor season and eight times during the outdoor season, including on seven occasions during outdoor 2019.  After falling off a bit, by Week 5 the women had returned to their high-water mark of second following their eighth-straight America East Indoor title, while the men jumped to fourth behind three individual regional-leading performances.
 
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 raced in the hurdles four times in January, in trials and finals at each meet, and 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.  By the start of the America East Indoor Championships, Jinks owned each of the fastest 11 hurdles times in the conference this season.
 
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
Outdoor track begins March 20 at the Spring Break Classic in Puerto Rico.