Meet: UConn Dogfight
 
Location: Storrs, Conn.
 
Women's Scores: 1. UConn (223); 2. Yale (168); 3. UAlbany (157); 4. Northeastern (54); 5. Boston University (47); 6. Southern Connecticut State (28)
 
Men's Scores: 1. UConn (203); 2. UAlbany (122); 3. Southern Connecticut State (115); 4. Yale (91); 5. Boston University (69.5); 6. Northeastern (27.5)
 
Results
 
Short Story: In the first scoring meet of the season, the UAlbany men place second and the women place third, while Great Danes come away with seven event victories.
 
Athletes of the Meet: Dee Denis, Leann Nicholas, Keveroy Venson, Travis Robinson
 
Track Events

• The women's 4x100m relay team of Imani Gray, Brynley McDermott, Rori Lowe, and Adaliz Hunt placed first in 46.66
• Sam Rutt placed fifth in the women's 1,500m in a personal-best 4:37.23.
• Keveroy Venson placed second in the men's 1,500m in 3:55.46
• Dee Denis won the women's 100m hurdles in 14.30.  Stephanie Hyde placed fifth in a wind-aided 14.90.
• Antwone Messado placed third in the men's 110m hurdles in a wind-aided 14.70.  Easton Reagan placed fourth in a wind-aided 14.87, and Peter Meehan placed eighth in 15.58.
• Alicia Grady placed third in the women's 400m in a personal-best 58.89.  Tyler Howard placed fifth in 59.89.
• Nicardo Blake placed fourth in the men's 400m in 48.03.
• Lowe placed third in the women's 100m in a personal-best 12.00.  McDermott placed fourth in a wind-aided 12.04.
• Shak Williams won the men's 100m in 10.53.  Rashad Hames placed sixth in 10.87.
• Kait Butterfield placed eighth in the women's 800m in 2:22.63.
• Denis placed second in the women's 400m hurdles in a personal-best 1:00.74.
• Reagan placed second in the men's 400m hurdles in 53.28.  Raiden Guialdo placed fourth in 59.15.
• Gray placed second in the women's 200m in 24.60
• Tess Fitzmaurice placed fifth in the women's 5,000m in 17:47.05.  Noreen Guilfoyle placed sixth in 17:59.44, Katie Iocca placed seventh in 18:27.45, and Mercedes Planavsky placed eighth in a personal-best 18:55.06.
• Brandon Garcia placed fourth in the men's 5,000m in a personal-best 14:40.52.  Charlie Ragone, making his season debut, placed fifth in a personal-best 14:44.34.
• The women's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Grady (1:01.2), Rutt (59.2), Howard (1:02.43), and Gray (1:00.06) placed third in 4:03.04.  The 'B' team of Erin Hayes (1:01.6), Sydney Coddington (1:04.1), Amanda Chambers (1:06.75), and Butterfield (1:02.49) placed sixth in 4:15.09.
• The men's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Blake (48.9), Guialdo (49.9), Venson (48.78), and Reagan (49.57) placed second in 3:17.37.

Field Events

• Cole Heintzelman placed seventh in the men's javelin in 167-01.00.
• Jewel Collins won the women's javelin in 141-06.00.  Brianna Thier placed sixth in a personal-best 112-01.00, and Alex Payne placed seventh in a personal-best 101-02.00.
• Sam Martinez placed fourth in the women's pole vault, clearing 10-11.00.
• Shania Scott won the women's discus with a mark of 150-07.00.  Shelby Bigsby placed fifth in a personal-best 145-04.00.
• Travis Robinson placed seventh in the men's shot put in 51-05.75.
• Robert Blue placed second in the men's long jump in a wind-aided 24-05.00.  Daniel Cephus placed sixth in 22-02.25, Jamel Edwards placed seventh in a wind-aided 22-01.75, and Marcus McFadden placed eighth in a wind-aided 22-00.75.
• Efe Omekeni placed fourth in the women's long jump in a wind-aided 18.02.50.  Rebeca Valerie Barrientos Alpha placed eighth in 17-06.75.
• Elijah Harris placed sixth in the men's high jump, clearing 6-04.00.  Meehan placed seventh, clearing 6-02.00.
• Charles Hatzmann placed sixth in the men's pole vault, clearing 14-07.25.
• Robinson won the men's discus in a personal-best 178-06.00.  Bryan Nicholson placed second in a personal-best 170-10.00.
• Bigsby placed second in the women's shot put in 45-06.50.  Scott placed fourth in 43-02.25.
• Tyler Charles won the men's triple jump in a wind-aided 46-08.00.
• Leann Nicholas won the women's triple jump in a wind-aided 41-00.50.  Barrientos Alpha placed fifth in 37-05.25.
• Shannon Bailey placed second in the women's high jump, clearing 5-05.00, equaling her outdoor best.

Meet Notes

• Shak Williams' time in the men's 100m was just one one-hundredth of a second off his school record of 10.52. 

Great Danes Around the World

• UAlbany alumna Grace Claxton won her heat and placed third overall in the women's 400m hurdles at the Florida Relays in 56.04.  It is her best season-opening time in the 400m hurdles in her career.

Next: UAlbany returns to UConn in two weeks for the Northeast Challenge.