Meets: Virginia Challenge | Blue Devil Invite
 
Locations: Charlottesville, Va. | New Britain, Conn.
 
Virginia Challenge Team Scoring: None
 
Blue Devil Team Scoring: Women – 1st, 73 points | Men – 2nd, 62 points
 
Short Story: UAlbany track & field sets five new records during their two-meet weekend with just two weeks remaining before conference championships.
 
Virginia Challenge Athletes of the Meet: Cara Sherman, Ludith Campos, Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina, Robert Blue
 
Blue Devil Athletes of the Meet: Noreen Guilfoyle, Shannon Bailey, Jakob Greenwood, Bryan Nicholson
 
Most Improved: Dominique Clarke, Easton Reagan
 
Virginia Challenge

• Dominique Clark placed third in the women's 100m in a freshman school-record 11.74
• Xandre Blake placed seventh in the men's 100m in a personal-best 10.69; Garfield Napier placed eighth in 10.69
• Clarke placed fourth in the women's 200m in a freshman school-record 24.30
• Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina placed sixth in the men's 400m in a personal-best 47.13
• Cara Sherman placed sixth in the women's 10,000m in a school-record 34:01.72
• Dawshawn Williams placed fifth in the men's 110m hurdles in 14.73
• Asia Jinks placed seventh in the women's 400m hurdles in 1:01.37
• Easton Reagan placed eighth in the men's 400m hurdles in 53.57
• The women's 4x100m relay team of Imani Gray, Clarke, Chidinma Matthew, and Rori Lowe placed second in 45.92
• The men's 4x100m relay team of Lucas Casab, Blake, Gutierrez Almedina, and Williams placed fourth in 41.23
• The women's 4x400m relay team of Matthew, Jinks, Gray (58.95), and Lowe (1:00.04) placed sixth in 3:54.58
• Robert Blue placed third in the men's long jump in a school-record 24-10.00; Louie Gordon placed seventh in 23-06.50
• Blue placed third in the men's triple jump in 51-03.75; Omahri Sturdivant placed seventh in 49-00.25
• Ludith Campos placed ninth in the women's hammer in a school-record 189-03.00
• Adrian Mitchell placed fifth in the men's javelin in 204-05.00

Meet Notes

• Dominique Clarke's 100m time breaks the previous freshman record of 11.86 set in 2015 by Chanel Smith
• Clarke's 200m time breaks the previous freshman record of 24.70 set in 2015 by Smith.  It also surpasses the all-conditions 200m freshman record of 24.65, set with no wind information in 1997 by Ellakisha Williamson, and the indoor freshman record of 24.87 set in 2010 by Allison Rogers
• Cara Sherman's 10,000m time breaks the previous school record of 34:13.82 set in 2014 by Silvia Del Fava, and is a personal-best by nearly 30 seconds
• Robert Blue, who tied the school record in the triple jump earlier this season, set a new school record in the long jump, surpassing the previous record of 24-09.25 set in 2009 by Valete Graham.  It also surpasses the indoor record of 24-06.50 set in 2010 by Graham
• Ludith Campos' hammer throw mark breaks the previous school record of 188-09.00 set in 2011 by Kadine Johnson

Blue Devil Invite

• Marion Osei-Boateng won the women's 100m in 12.88; Ashlyn Chartier placed second in 12.96, and Mariam Magassouba placed third in 13.03
• Jamel Edwards placed second in the men's 100m in a wind-aided 11.04
• Magassouba won the women's 200m in 26.82; Osei-Boateng placed second in 27.06, and Chariter placed third in 27.48
• Michael Hermance placed second in the men's 200m in 22.82; Jowell Dixon placed third in 22.88, Jake Rosenthal placed fourth in 23.56, and Robertino Mancabelli placed sixth in 23.83
• Jakob Greenwood placed second in the men's 400m in 50.11; Blaise Umuhuza placed fifth in 54.42
• Kaitlyn Butterfield placed second in the women's 800m in 2:22.86
• Sydney Coddington placed third in the women's 1,500m in 4:52.63; Amanda Chambers placed fourth in a personal-best 5:03.85
• Dean Athanailos placed fourth in the men's 1,500m in 4:07.42; Jared Rogalski placed sixth in 4:11.02, and Evans Kiptum placed seventh in 4:21.76
• Noreen Guilfoyle won the women's 5,000m in 17:56.05; Mercedes Planavsky placed third in 19:57.53
• Adam Bush placed third in the men's 16.12; Mancabelli placed fourth in 16.16
• The women's 4x400m relay team of Coddington, Butterfield, Chambers, and Chartier placed first in 4:13.28
• The men's 4x400m relay team of Rosenthal, Rogalski, Greenwood, and Athanailos placed first in 3:27.45
• Shannon Bailey won the women's high jump in 5-05.00
• Peter Meehan won the men's high jump in 6-02.75; Bush placed second in 6-00.75
• Samantha Martinez won the women's pole vault in 10-11.75
• Isaac Heatley won the men's pole vault in 13-05.25; Jason McDonough placed second in 12-11.50, and Michael Baker placed third in 12-11.50
• Alexandria Payne placed second in the women's long jump in 16-04.50; Brianna Thier placed third in 16-01.75
• Marcus McFadden won the men's long jump in 21-09.00; Edwards placed second in 20-07.00
• Shiana Galette-Rowe won the women's shot put in 36-09.50; Lynne Gbadamosi placed third in 33-04.00
• Dominic Reid placed second in the men's shot put in 43-05.00; Terrance Blatche placed fourth in 38-08.25
• Bryan Nicholson placed second in the men's discus in 147-08.00; Reid placed fifth in a personal-best 129-03.00, and Dominic Jack placed 103-10.00
• Gbadamosi won the women's hammer in a personal-best 150-05.00
• Thier won the women's javelin in 101-06.00; Payne placed second in a personal-best 91-04.00
• Cole Heintzelman won the men's javelin in 170-03.00; Blatche placed third in 137-08.00, Mancabelli placed fourth in 119-01.00, and Jack placed fifth in 81-07.00

Meet Notes 

• UAlbany assistant coach Diamond Thomas, competing unattached, won the women's discus in 158-09.00 

Next: The Great Danes' final tune-up before America East Outdoor Championships is the Army Twilight Meet on Friday, April 23.