Meet: Northeast Challenge
 
Location: Storrs, Conn.
 
Scoring: Women – 2nd, 135 points | Men – 3rd, 88 points
 
Results
 
Athletes of the Meet: Imani Gray, Shelby Bigsby, Shak Williams, Robert Blue
 
Short Story: Shak Williams highlights track & field's second-straight visit to UConn with a new school record in the 100m dash.
 
Friday

• Through four events of the women's heptathlon on Friday, Steph Hyde ranked seventh with 2,637 points, Alex Payne ranked eighth with 2,572 points, and Brianna Thier ranked 10th with 2,133 points.
• Through Friday's first five events of the men's decathlon, Tino Mancabelli ranked 12th with 3,188 points and Peter Meehan ranked 15th with 2,970 points.
• Katie Iocca placed fourth in the women's 3,000m steeplechase in a personal-best 11:17.20; Mercedes Planavsky placed seventh in a personal-best 12:07.85.
• Jared Rogalski placed third in the men's 3,000m steeplechase in 9:47.92.
• Tess Fitzmaurice placed third in the women's 10,000m in 37:09.83; Noreen Guilfoyle placed fourth in a personal-best 37:12.74.
• Travis Robinson placed second in the men's discus in 175-06.00; Bryan Nicholson placed third in 170-02.00.
• Shelby Bigsby won the women's discus in a personal-best 166-08.00; Shania Scott placed second in 157-11.00.
• Adrian Mitchell placed second in the men's javelin in 220-08.00.
• Leann Nicholas placed third in the women's triple jump in a wind-aided 40-01.25.

Saturday

• Payne finished the women's heptathlon in seventh with 4,100 points; Hyde finished ninth with a personal-best 3,932 points, and Thier finished 10th with a personal-best 3,655 points.
• Mancabelli finished the men's decathlon in 11th place with a personal-best 5,785 points; Meehan finished 14th with 5,012 points.
• The women's 4x100m relay team of Imani Gray, Brynley McDermott, Rori Lowe, and Dominique Clarke placed first in a season-best 45.89.
• The men's 4x100m relay team of Blaise Umuhuza, Shak Williams, Garry Munro, and Rashad Hames placed second in 41.83.
• Antwone Messado placed sixth in the men's 110m hurdles in a wind-aided 14.94.
• Lowe won the women's 400m in a personal-best 55.50; Gray placed third in a personal-best 56.17, and Emily Brown placed eighth in a personal-best 57.15.
• Nicardo Blake placed fourth in the men's 400m in 48.20.
• Clarke won the women's 100m in a wind-aided 11.62; McDermott placed fifth in a wind-aided 12.04
• Shak Williams set a new school record in the men's 100m, placing first in 10.37; Garry Munro placed sixth in 10.71.
• Keveroy Venson placed seventh in the men's 800m in 1:52.72.
• Dee Denis won the women's 400m hurdles in a personal-best 1:00.16.
• Easton Reagan placed second in the men's 400m hurdles in a personal-best 52.14.
• Gray placed second in the women's 200m in a wind-aided 23.89; McDermott placed fifth in a wind-aided 24.39.
• Brandon Garcia placed fifth in the men's 5,000m in 15:05.86.
• The women's 4x400m relay team of Brown (57.4), Alicia Grady (59.7), Tyler Howard (58.43), and Erin Hayes (1:01.28) placed fifth in 3:57.23.
• The men's 4x400m relay team of Yourry Tapande-Ngombe (49.6), Reagan (47.9), Raidan Guilado (48.62), and Blake (47.22) placed third in 3:13.40.
• Bigsby placed second in the women's shot put in 47-05.25; Scott placed fourth in 44-02.75.
• Robert Blue won the men's long jump in a wind-aided 24-10.50; Louie Gordon placed eighth in 23-00.50.
• Efe Omekeni placed fourth in the women's long jump in a wind-aided 18-10.75.
• Shannon Bailey placed third in the women's high jump, clearing a personal-best 5-07.00.

Meet Notes

• Shelby Bigsby surpassed her previous personal best in the women's discus by more than 21'.
• Shak Williams breaks his own school record in the 100m, previously 10.52 set in 2021.  His mark of 10.37 also surpasses the program's fastest all-conditions 100m of 10.39, set in 2017 by Robert Harris III, wind-aided.
• UAlbany volunteer assistant coach Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina placed eighth in the men's 400m in 48.30.
• In the women's 100m, Brynley McDermott displaced American International's Haja Donzo for fourth place by five one-hundredths of a second. 

Next: UAlbany hosts the Bobbi Palma Spring Classic on April 23, and visits the University of Virginia for the Virginia Challenge April 22-23.