Meets: Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge & Blue and Orange Invitational
 
Locations: New York, N.Y. & Utica, N.Y.
 
Short Story: UAlbany track & field completes its first two-day meets of the season, earning three event victories between the Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge in New York City and the Blue and Orange Invitational in Utica.
 
Athletes of the Meets: Amanda Chambers, Dominique Clarke, Efe Omokeni, Travis Williams, Ja'Lil Reynolds, Tino Mancabelli
 
Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge
Team Scoring: Women (6th, 31 pts.) | Men (8th, 21 pts.)
Results
 
Track Events

• Jazmen Newberry won the White Division of the women's 60m in 7.80, matching her personal best.
• The women's distance medley relay of Amanda Chambers (3:37.70), Alesia Douglas (57.04), Skyler Smith (2:21.16), and Alondra Cruz-Delgado (5:19.74) placed seventh in 12:15.62.
• The men's distance medley relay of KJ Dawkins (3:07.24), Giovouni Henry (50.60), Gianni Henry (1:54.78), and Antonio Beltram (4:19.47) placed fourth in 10:12.07.
• Tess Fitzmaurice placed fourth in the women's 5,000m in 17:28.77; Noreen Guilfoyle placed seventh in 18:01.80, and Katie Iocca placed eighth in a personal-best 18:09.14.
• Dominique Clarke placed third in the women's 60m in 7.52.
• Travis Williams won the men's 60m in 6.70; Shak Williams placed eighth in 8.15.
• Brandon Garcia placed eighth in the men's 3,000m in a personal-best 8:21.67.
• Clarke Placed third in the women's 200m in an indoor-best 23.94.
• Rori Lowe placed fourth in the women's invitational 300m in 39.54.
• Amanda Chambers placed 12th in the women's 3,000m in 9:50.09, a personal best of five seconds.

Field Events

• Louis Gordon placed fifth in the men's long jump in 23-10.75, matching his indoor best.
• Shelby Bigsby placed fourth in the women's weight throw in 60-05.75.
• Gordon tied for eighth in the men's invitational high jump, clearing 6-04.75.
• Leann Nicholas placed seventh in the women's triple jump in 39-09.25.
• Efe Omokeni placed ninth in the women's long jump in an indoor-best 19-00.50.

Notes

• Shak Williams qualified second in the Blue Division of the men's 60m in 6.82.
• Stephan Farquharson tied Louis Gordon's mark in the men's invitational high jump to place 10th.

 Blue and Orange Invitational
Team Scoring: Women (11th, 17 pts.) | Men (8th, 30 pts.)
Results
 
Track Events

• Lia Soares placed seventh in the women's 400m in 1:03.94.
• Julio Martinez placed second in the men's 400m in 51.32.

Field Events

• Tino Mancabelli placed second in the men's heptathlon, scoring a personal-best 4,475 points; Pete Meehan placed fifth with 3,972 points.
• Grace Adeyeye placed sixth in the women's pentathlon, scoring 2,363 points: Giovana Calamunci placed seventh with 2,306 points.
• Ja'Lil Reynolds won the men's high jump, clearing a personal0best `6-09.00.
• Hannah Solomon-Hollander placed second in the women's pole vault, clearing 9-06.25. 

Notes

• Tino Mancabelli set personal bests in the 60m, long jump, shot put, and pole vault during his heptathlon.
• Grace Adeyeye set a personal best in the long jump during her pentathlon.
• Giovana Calamunci set personal bests in the high jump, shot put, long jump, and 800m during her pentathlon.

Next: UAlbany returns to Boston University for the Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White Invitational on February 4.