Meets: Carlton Crowell Open & Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener
 
Locations: West Point, N.Y. & Boston, Mass.
 
Short Story: Track & field starts the 2023-24 indoor season strong, winning 12 events and setting two program records across two meets.
 
Crowell Open
Scoring: No Team Scoring
Athletes of the Meet: Toni Galloway, Amanda Chambers, Amelia Benjamin, Shavar Staats Jr., Travis Robinson
Results

• Isaac Graber placed second in the men's mile in 4:29.17
• Alondra Cruz-Delgado won the women's mile in 5:15.96; Skyler Smith placed second in 5:21.31.
• John Fermpong placed fourth in the men's 400m in 51.46; Gio Gonzalez placed fifth in 51.55, and Malachi Brown-El placed sixth in 52.16.
• Taylor Rogers placed third in the women's 400m in 1:02.15; Jysían Addison placed seventh in 1:04.05.
• Quincy Chery placed third in the men's 500m in 1:05.75; Jabari Barriffe placed fifth in 1:07.62.
• Brinesha Derrick-Bain placed second in the women's 500m in 1:18.54; Thalia Benoit placed third in 1:24.83.
• UAlbany swept all five finishing places in the women's 60m hurdles.  Toni Galloway won in 8.73, followed by Kate Del Gandio in 8.86, Donnell Hartley in 8.90, Shanise Staats in 9.40, and Melissa Gueye in 9.45.  UAlbany also qualified Benoit and Derrick-Bain to finals, but they did not run.
• Tino Mancabelli placed second in the men's 60m hurdles in 8.50, tying his personal best; Kendall Mariacher placed third in 8.51, and Pete Meehan placed fourth in 8.87.
• Shak Williams won the men's 60m in 6.74; Shavar Staats Jr. placed second in 6.77, and Alden Chambers placed fourth in 6.91.
• Dominique Clarke placed second in the women' 60m in 7.41; Jazmen Newberry placed third in a personal-best 7.59, and Shantate Pryce placed fourth in 7.63.  UAlbany also qualified Stephanie Weiner to finals, but she did not run.
• Raiden Guialdo won the men's 800m in 2:01.19.
• Tyler Howard placed second in the women's 800m in 2:25.70; Bonnieta Supaul placed fifth in a personal-best 2:45.33.
• Graber placed fifth in the men's 1,000m in 2:39.52.
• Smith placed second in the women's 1,000m in 3:03.87; Cruz-Delgado placed fourth in 3:08.41, and Hannah Steiner placed sixth in a personal-best 3:14.44.
• Staats Jr. placed second in the men's 200m in 22.59; Williams placed third in 22.78, and Chambers placed fourth in 23.17.
• Shenequa Vassell won the women's 200m in 25.80; Pryce placed third in 25.81, Del Gandio placed third in 25.93, Olivia Nelson Chevry placed sixth in 27.23, and Abiyah Yahudah-Edwards placed seventh in 27.43.
• Logan Doll placed sixth in the men's 3,000m in 8:58.91; Nikolas Christian placed seventh in 8:59.41.
• Katie Iocca placed fifth in the women's 3,000m in 10:44.28; Lejla Hrelja placed sixth in 11:04.17, and Scarlett Rose placed seventh in 11:12.16.
• The men's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Fermpong (51.57), Chery (49.70), Brown-El (51.78), and Guialdo (51.31) placed second in 3:24.34; the 'B' team of G. Gonzalez (52.93), Barriffe (51.15), Mancabelli (53.57), and Powell (54.56) placed sixth in 3:32.19.
• The women's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Benoit (1:01.44), Derrick-Bain (1:00.41), Howard (1:00.48), and Newberry (57.53) placed first in 3:59.85; the 'B' team of Yahudah-Edwards (1:03.71), Ava Morris (1:04.90), Rogers (1:06.57), and Renee Baker (1:09.79) placed fifth in 4:24.96.
• Gabe Snyder placed fifth in the men's pole vault, clearing 13-01.50.
• Christian Quinn won the men's long jump in an indoor-best 23-00.00, edging teammate Daniel Cephus, who also recorded a mark of 23-00.00, due to a better second jump.  Marcus McFadden placed fifth in 22-05.75, and Mancabelli placed eighth in a personal-best 21-03.50.
• Abbee Rhodes placed second in the women's shot put in a personal-best 45-05.00; Shania Scott placed third in 44-07.00, Skylar Rosenberg placed fifth in a personal-best 40-05.50, and Kiki Nosile placed sixth in 40-02.00.
• Ja'Lil Reynolds placed second in the men's high jump, clearing 6-07.00; Zhi Luncheon-Lowrie placed fifth in 6-05.00, Krishmar Powell placed sixth in 6-03.25, and Amar Brown tied for eighth in 6-01.25.
• Eva Edery placed fourth in the women's pole vault, clearing 10-00.00; Hannah Solomon-Hollander placed sixth in 9-06.25, and Charlotte Moscovici placed seventh, also clearing 9-06.25.
• Travis Robinson won the men's shot put in a personal-best 57-11.00; Frankie Gonzalez placed fourth in 50-08.75, and John Coddington placed seventh in 46-08.00.
• Efe Omokeni won the women's long jump in 18-09.25; Rebeca Valerie Barrientos Alpha placed third in an indoor-best 18-00.50, Jade Foster placed fourth in 18-00.25, Gueye placed seventh in 17-00.75, and Brianna Thier placed eighth in an indoor-best 17-00.50.
• Steph Green placed third in the women's weight throw in 57-09.00; Nosile placed fifth in a personal-best 56-02.00.
• Amelia Benjamin won the women's high jump, clearing 5-08.75; Gueye placed fifth in 5-01.00, and Galloway placed sixth in 4-11.00.
• Jasir Parker won the men's triple jump in 47-11.25; Tyler Charles placed second in 47-09.75.
• Alex Saltsman placed fifth in the men's weight throw in a personal-best 56-02.75; Martin Carey placed sixth in 53-08.25, and Coddington placed eighth in 52-03.25.
• Leann Nicholas won the women's triple jump in 41-06.00; Lindsay Farmer placed third in 34-02.00.

Meet Notes

• Toni Galloway recorded a time of 8.64 in the preliminary round of the women's 60m hurdles; Brinesha Derrick-Baine recorded a time of 8.78, Shanise Staats recorded a time of 9.24, Melissa Gueye recorded a time of 9.28, and Thalia Benoit recorded a time of 9.34.
• Galloway's time in the 60m hurdles broke her own meet record of 8.70, set last season.
• Kate Del Gandio set a personal best of 8.78 in the preliminary round of the women's 60m hurdles.
• Pete Meehan recorded a time of 8.82 in the preliminary round of the men's 60m hurdles.
• Shavar Staats Jr. moves into third in program history in the men's 60m, behind Travis Williams (6.59, 2023) and Shak Williams (6.66, 2022).
• Jazmen Newberry moves into a tie for 10th in program history in the women's 60m.
• Stephanie Weiner recorded a time of 7.96 in the preliminary round of the women's 60m.
• Abbee Rhodes moves into fifth place in program history in the women's indoor shot put.
• Travis Robinson's mark in the shot put breaks his own indoor and overall program record of 55-03.00 set in 2022.
• Frankie Gonzalez moves into fifth in program history in the men's indoor shot put.
• Kiki Nosile moves into ninth place in program history in the women's weight throw.
• Martin Carey moves into ninth in program history in the men's weight throw.
• Efe Omokeni's mark in the women's long jump surpassed the previous meet record of 18-07.25 set in 2020 by Army West Point's Allie Bullen.
• Amelia Benjamin's mark in the women's high jump ties the program's indoor record originally set in 2017 by Anika Hibbard.  It also breaks Hibbard's indoor freshman class record of 5-08.00 set in 2016. Finally, she broke the previous meet record of 5-07.00 set in 2015 by Army West Point's Meagan Hilla.
• Leann Nicholas' mark in the women's triple jump was the best among NCAA Division I competitors on Saturday, and surpassed her own meet record of 40-11.00 set in 2021.

Danville Season Opener
Scoring: No Team Scoring
Results

• Jared Rogalski placed 33rd in the men's mile in a personal-best 4:14.87.
• Hassan Abidi, making his UAlbany debut, placed third in the men's 1,000m in 2:27.05.
• Amanda Chambers placed 87th in the women's 5,000m in a personal-best 16:32.02.

 Meet Notes

• Amanda Chambers moves into third in program history in the women's indoor 5,000m, behind only Hannah Reinhardt (16:16.27, 2019) and Silvia Del Fava (16:27.69, 2014). 

Next: UAlbany competes at Boston University's Battle in Beantown on January 20, 2024.