Meet: Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge
 
Location: The Armory in New York, N.Y.
 
Results
 
Short Story: In the first scoring meet of the season, the Great Danes break two freshman records and see the men place 10th and the women place 14th.
 
Scores: Women – 16 points (14th) | Men – 28 points (10th)
 
Athletes of the Meet: Dominique Clarke, Jade Foster, Shakur Williams, Stephan Farquharson
 
Day One

• Dominique Clarke placed second in the women's 60m in 7.55.  Brynley McDermott placed fourth in 7.59.  Both times were personal-bests.
• Shakur Williams placed second in the men's 60m in a personal-best 6.78.
• Stephan Farquharson placed seventh in the men's triple jump in 46-09.00. 

Day Two

• Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina placed second in the men's 200m in 21.58.
• Yourry Tapande-Ngombe placed seventh in the men's 400m in 48.50.
• UAlbany's women's 4x400m relay team of Dee Denis (57.30), McDermott (56.97), Rori Lowe (56.62), and Emily Brown (58.35) placed sixth in 3:49.22
• UAlbany's men's 4x400m relay team of Gutierrez Almedina (47.96), Nicardo Blake (49.44), Easton Reagan (49.04), and Tapande-Ngombe (48.43) placed second in 3:14.86

Meet Notes

• Dominique Clark's time in the women's 60m breaks her own freshman class program record, set last week at the Great Dane Classic, of 7.59.  She tied the mark in the preliminary round, qualifying fifth.
• Brynley McDermott, who formerly set the freshman class program record, 7.64, earlier this season before it was broken by Clarke, matched that time in the preliminary round and matched Clarke's record from last week of 7.59 in the finals.
• Shakur Williams broke the previous freshman class record of 6.87 set in 2016 by both Osiris Nicholson (2015-16 season) and Mohamed Gueye (2016-17 season).  His time of 6.80 in the preliminary round also broke that record.  Williams now holds the second-fastest 60m time in program history.
• Marika Garner placed second in the unseeded section of the women's 60m in 7.88.
• Yourry Tapande-Ngombe finished three one-thousandths of a second behind Binghamton's Joe Cardascia in the men's 400m.
• Jade Foster placed 13th in the women's long jump, recording an indoor-season personal best of 18-07.25.

Next: UAlbany attends two meets next weekend, the Fastrack National Invite at Ocean Breeze and the Valentine Invitational at Boston University, as the final tune-up before the 2022 America East Indoor Championships.