Meet: Carlton Crowell Open
 
Location: Gillis Field House in West Point, N.Y.
 
Results
 
Short Story: The University at Albany track & field program wrapped its first indoor meet since March 2020 at Army West Point, claiming nine event victories, and setting three program and four meet records.
 
Athletes of the Meet: Imani Gray, Shiana Galette-Rowe, Leann Nicholas, Yourry Tapande-Ngombe, Travis Robinson
 
Track Events

• Keveroy Venson won the men's mile in 4:21.74.  Jared Rogalski, 4:26.27, and Dean Athanailos, 4:30.98, placed fourth and fifth respectively.  Athanailos set a personal best.
• Sam Rutt won the women's mile in a personal best 5:09.17, followed by Chloe Hanson in fifth in 5:29.33, Lejla Hrelja in sixth in 5:31.84, and Samantha Zitomer in eighth in 6:09.18.
• Yourry Tapande-Ngombe won the men's 400m in 48.49.  Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina placed third in 48.76.
• Rori Lowe placed fifth in the women's 400m in 59.53.
• Raiden Guialdo won the men's 500m in 1:05.73.  Travis Colon placed fourth in 1:11.67.
• Emily Brown placed second in the women's 500m in 1:19.66.  Tyler Howard placed third in 1:22.24 and Alicia Grady placed fourth in 1:24.27.
• Stephanie Hyde placed fifth in the women's 60m hurdles in 9.25.  Kiarra Hollis placed seventh in 9.60.
• Robertino Mancabelli placed seventh in the men's 60m hurdles in 8.99.
• Lucas Casab placed third in the men's 60m in 6.94.  Travis Williams placed fourth in 7.00, and Garry Munro placed fifth in 7.01.
• Imani Gray won the women's 60m in 7.60.  Brynley McDermott placed second in 7.64.  Donnell Hartley placed fourth in 7.80, and Marika Garner placed sixth in 7.91.
• Venson placed third in the men's 1,000m in 2:34.93, followed by Rogalski in fourth in 2:36.01 and Athanailos in fifth in 2:40.17.  Lenny Diaz placed seventh in 2:49.00.
• Rutt earned her second victory of the day in the women's 1,000m in 3:03.30.  Hanson placed fifth in 3:10.84, Kaitlyn Butterfield placed sixth in 3:10.93, and Erin Hayes placed seventh in 3:12.16.
• Hollis placed eighth in the women's 200m in 26.99.
• Tess Fitzmaurice placed second in the women's 3,000m in 10:28.72.  Noreen Guilfoyle placed third in 10:46.01, Mercedes Planavsky placed fourth in a personal best 10:57.68, and Amanda Chambers placed sixth in 11:27.62.
• The men's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Naurein Samia (51.55), Guialdo (49.46), Antwone Messado (52.80), and Munro (52.09) placed second in 3:25.89.  The 'C' team of Charlie Hatzmann (54.30), Mancabelli (56.29), Peter Meehan (56.68), and Tyler Price (53.47) placed sixth in 3:40.72.
• The women's 4x400m relay 'A' team of McDermott (59.05), Brown (1:00.34), Hartley (59.20), and Gray (1:02.24) placed second in 4:00.82.  The 'C' team of Howard (1:03.48), Ava Morris (1:05.42), Celine Kaoma (1:09.38), and Dreanne Joseph (1:06.05) placed fifth in 4:24.31.

Field Events

• Hatzmann placed fifth in the men's pole vault, clearing 14-03.25.  Jason McDonough placed sixth in 13-09.15, and Ember Dengler placed seventh in 13-03.50.
• Shiana Galette-Row placed fourth in the women's weight throw in a personal best 59-11.25.  Shelby Bigsby placed sixth in 57-09.00.
• Robert Blue led a sweep of the men's long jump, winning in 22-11.25.  Louie Gordon placed second in 22-08.00 and Christian Quinn placed third in 22-07.75.  Marcus McFadden placed fifth in 21-04.75.
• Elijah Harris placed second in the men's high jump, clearing 6-04.75.  Meehan placed fourth in 6-02.75, and Stephan Farquharson placed fifth in 6-02.75.
• Hannah Solomon-Hollander placed fifth in the women's pole vault, clearing 9-07.00.
• Bryan Nicholson placed fifth in the men's weight throw in 50-11.50.
• Jade Foster won the women's long jump in 18-06.50.  Efe Omokeni placed second in 18-05.25, Shannon Bailey placed seventh in 16-10.00, and Kerrice Harrison placed eighth, also in 16-10.00.
• Tasha Bazile placed fifth in the women's high jump, clearing 5-03.00.  Hyde placed seventh in 5-01.00, equaling her persona best.
• Galette-Rowe placed fifth in the women's shot put in 36-08.50.
• Travis Robinson placed second in the men's shot put in a personal best 54-11.25.  Terrance Blatche placed seventh in 40-06.75.
• Tyler Charles won the men's triple jump in 48-00.00.  Isaiah Allen placed second in 46-11.00, and Farquharson placed fifth in 43-10.00.
• Leann Nicholas led a sweep of the women's triple jump, winning with a mark of 40-11.00.  Rebeca Valerie Barrientos Alpha placed second in 38-10.25, and Lauren Addario placed third in 37-01.75.

U23 Pan American Games

• Ludith Campos, a UAlbany senior representing the Dominican Republic, placed ninth overall in the 2021 U23 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia in her signature event, the hammer throw.  She recorded a mark of 188-05.00.  The mark is her second-best ever, just under her personal best and program record of 189-03.00 set in April at the Virginia Challenge.  The event winner was Yaritza de la Caridad Martinez Valera from Cuba with a mark of 221-04.00.

Meet Notes

• Travis Robinson's mark of 54-11.25 in the men's shot put breaks Eric DelVescovo's indoor school record of 54-05.50 set in 2017, and also surpasses the program's indoor freshman record of 48-01.25 set in 2005 by Michael Lynch.  He how ranks only behind DelVescovo's outdoor and overall program record of 55-00.00.
• Brynley McDermott broke the program's freshman record in the women's 60m of 7.68 set in 2013 by Annie Johnson.  She has tied Jahari Coleman for eighth-best in program history.
• Leann Nicholas broke the program's freshman record in the women's triple jump of 39-08.00, originally set in 2008 by Tiffany Sprenkels and matched in 2010 by Ashley Mahlmeister.  It also surpasses the program's outdoor freshman record of 40-01.50 set during the 2021 season by teammate Rebeca Valerie Barrientos Alpha, who placed second in the event behind Nicholas on Saturday.  Her mark ranks sixth all-time indoors in program history.  Nicholas also broke the meet record in the women's triple jump, formerly 39-01.75 set in 2018 by Army West Point's Army Fosam.
• Imani Gray tied the meet record in the women's 60m, originally set in 2019 by Army West Point's Calli McMullen.
• Yourry Tapande-Ngombe broke the meet record in the men's 400m, formerly 48.70 set in 2014 by Army West Point's Jose Santana.
• Tyler Charles broke the meet record in the men's triple jump, formerly 47-03.75 set in 2016 by Samuel Okantey, competing unattached. 
• Antwone Messado did not compete in the finals of the men's 60m hurdles, but qualified second overall in the trials in 8.24, the seventh-fastest time in program history.

Next: UAlbany breaks for the winter intersession and returns to competition at Boston University on January 22.