Meets: Bobbi Palma UAlbany Spring Classic | Virginia Challenge
 
Locations: Albany, N.Y. | Charlottesville, Va.
 
Short Story: UAlbany hosted its only home meet of the 2023-24 season, winning 27 of 40 events while setting five meet, one facility, and one freshman class record.
 
Athletes of the Meets: Dominique Clarke, Ludith Campos, Antwone Messado, Jared Rogalski, Jasir Parker

Spring Classic
Results
 
Track Events

• The women's 4x100m relay 'A' team of Kate Del Gandio, Toni Galloway, Olivia Nelson Chevry, and Donnell Hartley placed first in 46.43
• Scarlett Rose placed fifth in the women's 1,500m in 4:53.64; Katie Iocca placed eighth in 5:03.54.
• Isaac Graber won the men's 1,500m in a personal-best 3:58.56; Chris Bertola placed third in a personal-best 4:03.03, and Christian Nikolas placed eighth in 4:09.40.
• Brinesha Derrick-Bain won the women's 400m in 57.96; Thalia Benoit placed second in 58.69, and Taylor Rogers placed third in a personal-best 1:00.97.
• Tino Mancabelli placed second in the men's 400m in a personal-best 50.83; Mikolaj Gancarz placed third in a personal-best 51.80.
• Galloway won the women's 100m hurdles in a personal-best 13.65; Del Gandio placed third in a personal-best 13.72, Nelson Chevry placed fourth in a personal-best 13.93, Hartley placed fifth in a personal-best 13.94, and Shanise Staats placed seventh in 15.04.
• Antwone Messado won the men's 110m hurdles in a personal-best 13.97; Kendall Mariacher placed sixth in a personal-best 15.29.
• Dominique Clarke won the women's 100m in 11.47; Shenequa Vassel placed second in a personal-best 11.87, Shantae Pryce placed third in a personal-best 11.93, Jazmen Newberry placed fourth in 12.08, Stephanie Weiner placed sixth in 12.32, and Ava Morris placed eighth in 12.60.
• Shak Williams won the men's 100m in 10.26; Shavar Staats Jr. placed third in a personal-best 10.47, Lucas Casab placed fourth in 10.77, and Isaac Dacres placed fifth in 10.87.
• Alicia Grady won the women's 800m in a personal-best 2:14.57; Skyler Smith placed second in a personal-best 2:15.04, Tyler Howard placed third in 2:20.95, Erin Hayes placed fourth in 2:24.24, Rose placed fifth in a personal-best 2:25.35, and Chloe Hanson placed seventh in 2:28.21.
• Graber placed fourth in the men's 800m in 1:55.42; Bertola placed fifth in 1:59.27.
• Benoit won the 400m hurdles in 1:05.16.
• Jack Gallagher won the men's 400m hurdles in 55.81.
• Clarke won the women's 200m in 23.66; Newberry placed second in 24.16, Pryce placed third in 24.63, Vassell placed fourth in 24.86, Morris placed sixth in 25.76, and Jay Blanchard placed seventh in 26.08.
• Gio Gonzalez won the men's 200m in a wind-aided 22.23; Malachi Brown-El placed second in 22.27, Jabari Barriffe placed third in a personal-best 22.43, and MarcSean Montero placed fifth in 22.61.
• The men's 4x400m relay team of Gallagher, Raiden Guialdo, Bertola, and Gancarz placed first in 3:30.12. 

Field Events

• Martin Carey won the men's hammer in a personal-best 167-01.00; John Coddington placed second in a personal-best 166-11.00, and Alex Saltsman placed third in 160-09.00
• Jewel Collins won the women's javelin in 138-04.00; Thier placed second in 110-04.00.
• Rebeca Valerie Barrientos Alpha won the women's long jump in a personal-best 18-09.75; Efe Omokeni placed second in 18-07.25, Stephanie Weiner placed third in a wind-aided 17-11.75, Brianna Thier placed fourth, also in a wind-aided 17-11.75, Jade Foster placed fifth in 17-09.50, Elizabeth Saintil placed sixth in 16-02.50, and Lindsay Farmer placed seventh in 16-01.75.
• Ludith Campos won the women's hammer in 197-11.00; Steph Green placed second in a personal-best 188-11.00; Kiki Nosile placed third in 162-07.00, and Keegan Collins placed fourth in 154-09.00.
• Cole Heintzelman placed third in the men's javelin in 169-05.00.
• Marcus McFadden placed second in the men's long jump with a wind-aided 23-04.75; Christian Quinn placed third with a wind-aided 23-01.25, Jasir Parker placed fourth in a personal-best 22-11.00, Stephan Farquharson placed fifth in 22-05.00, and Daniel Cephus placed sixth in 21-11.50.
• Shania Scott placed second in the women's shot put in 45-02.25; Skylar Rosenberg placed third in a personal-best 41-07.00, Abbee Rhodes placed fourth in 41-04.50, Nosile placed fifth in 41-00.25, and Grace Adeyeye placed seventh in a personal-best 32-05.75.
• Travis Robinson won the men's discus in 171-05.00; Saltsman placed second in 156-03.00, Pete Meehan placed fifth in 104.00, Mancabelli placed sixth in a personal-best 102-05, and Powell placed eighth in 81-06.00.
• Amelia Benjamin won the women's high jump, clearing 5-05.00; Adeyeye placed second, clearing an outdoor-best 4-09.00.
• Charlotte Moscovici won the women's pole vault, clearing an outdoor-best 10-08.00; Eva Edery placed second, also clearing an outdoor-best 10-08.00, and Hannah Solomon-Hollander placed third, clearing 9-08.00.
• Leann Nicholas won the women's triple jump in 40-01.25; Barrientos Alpha placed second in 39-01.25, Farmer placed third in a personal-best 34-07.75, and Saintil placed fourth in a wind-aided 33-07.50.
• Saltsman placed third in the men's shot put 43-11.25, and Coddington placed fifth in 39-08.50.
• Shania Scott won the women's discus in 160-06.00; Collins placed third in a personal-best 127-03.00, Rhodes placed fourth in 125-06.00, and Nosile placed sixth in a personal-best 119-05.00.
• Jasir Parker won the men's triple jump in a wind-aided 48-00.00.
• Ja'Lil Reynolds won the men's high jump, clearing 6-06.75; Amar Brown placed second, and Powell and Alex Ordóñez tied for third, all three clearing 6-02.75
• Gabe Snyder won the men's pole vault, clearing 14-01.25; Mancabelli tied for second, clearing 10-11.75. 

Meet Notes

• Toni Galloway moves into fourth place in program history in the women's 100m hurdles.  She also breaks her own wind-legal meet record of 13.89 set in 2023, and the all-conditions meet record of 13.74w set in 2019 by UAlbany's Sophia Myers.
• Kate Del Gandio moves into sixth place in program history in the women's 100m hurdles.
• Olivia Nelson Chevry moves into 10th place in program history in the women's 100m hurdles.
• Antwone Messado moves into fourth place in program history in the men's 110m hurdles.
• Dominique Clarke breaks her own meet record of 11.56 set in 2022.
• Shak Williams sets a new meet record in the men's 100m, surpassing the previous mark of 10.41 set in 2023 by Lionel Metuba, competing unattached.
• Shavar Staats Jr. moves into third place in program history in the men's 100m.
• Clarke set a new meet record in the women's 200m, surpassing the previous mark of 24.06 set in 2016 by Kadecia Baird, competing unattached.
• Charlotte Moscovici sets a new freshman class program record in the women's pole vault, surpassing the previous mark of 10-07.00 set in 2019 by Sam Martinez.
• Moscovici and Eva Edery move into a tie for seventh in program history in the women's outdoor pole vault.
• Stephanie Weiner's best wind-legal mark in the women's long jump was a personal-best 17-10.25.
• Brianna Thier's best wind-legal mark in the women's long jump was a personal-best 17-08.75.
• Ludith Campos sets a new facility record in the women's hammer, surpassing the previous mark of 197-02.00 set in 2023 by Maine's Mackenzie Wilson, and also breaks her own meet record of 178-08.00 set in 2022.
• Steph Green moves into second place in program history in the women's hammer.
• Martin Carey moves into seventh place in program history in the men's hammer.
• John Coddington moves into eight place in program history in the men's hammer.
• UAlbany alumna and volunteer assistant coach Noreen Guilfoyle placed second in the women's 5,000m in 19:32.76.
• UAlbany alumnus Charlie Ragone placed second as a member of the Run Club 4x400m relay.
• A timing malfunction in the first heat of the men's 400m prevented any times from being recorded. 

Virginia Challenge
Results

• Jared Rogalski placed fifth in the men's 1,500m in a personal-best 3:45.11.
• Hassan Abidi placed 25th in the men's invitational 800m in 1:51.38.
• Amanda Chambers placed 26th in the women's invitational 5,000m in 16:49.61.
• Steve Hines placed 16th in the men's 800m in a personal-best 1:51.57

Meet Notes

• Jared Rogalski moves into second place in program history in the men's 1,500m, improving his personal-best by more than three seconds. 

Next: The Great Danes visit the Penn Relays starting April 25 and RPI's Capital District Classic on April 26.