FINISH: No Team Score - RESULTS
 
LOCATION: Track and Tennis Center - Boston, Mass.
 
SHORT STORY: Three Great Danes enter the program's top 10 and the DMR relay team made history at BU's annual Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White Invite, Saturday.
 
ATHLETES OF THE MEET: Jed Elmbarki (Track) | Zhi Luncheon-Lowrie (Field) | Nicholos Sealey (Rookie)
 
KEY NOTES

• Tooni Ogunyeye (60m) and Jed Elmbarki (5000m) won their respective events.
• Elmbarki competed in his first 5k as a Great Dane and now ranks third in program history with a 14:15.74 finish.
• New Great Danes, freshman Nicholos Sealey and transfer Jacob Smith entered the program's top 10. Sealey is 10th with a 1:03.71 in the 500m while Smith finished the 1000m in 2:24.67 to tie as the fifth-best performer in history.
• The distance medley relay team made of Steve Hines, Amari Alcindor, Smith, and Isaac Graber completed the race in 9:47.81 - the fastest time for a UAlbany DMR team in over a decade.
• Four Great Danes and one relay team placed second in their respective events - Sealey (500m), Smith (1000m), Zhi Luncheon-Lowrie (HJ), Samir Gardner (LJ), and a 4x400m relay team (Gunnar Williams, Julio Martinez, Kyaire Lawson, Sealey).
• The Great Danes had three finalists in the 60m hurdles with two in the 60m dash finals.
• In total, UAlbany recorded 13 personal records. Nine student-athletes recorded marks in a new event or competed in their first collegiate meet.

 
ALL PERFORMANCES
60m
Finals
1. Tooni Ogunyeye - 6.73
7. Kenan Grant - 6.97
Prelims
1. Tooni Ogunyeye - 6.80Q
9. Kenan Grant - 6.98q
19. Shayne Spiteri - 7.11
23. Samir Gardner - 7.23
30. Austin Deler - 7.25
 
200m
14. Kenan Grant - 22.13
19. Gunnar Williams - 22.32
27. Shayne Spiteri - 22.75
29. Amari Alcindor - 22.86
 
400m
18. Kyaire Lawson - 49.97 (personal record)
21. Anthony Couch - 50.40 (personal record)
 
500m
2. Nicholos Sealey - 1:03.71 (10th in program history)
3. Julio Martinez - 1:04.39 (personal record)
 
1000m
2. Jacob Smith - 2:24.67 (fifth (tied) in program history)
4. Steve Hines - 2:26.66 (personal record)
6. Isaac Graber - 2:27.51
16. Mikolaj Gancarz - 2:30.11 (personal record)
18. Ben Jones - 2:30.26
25. Connor Hashim - 2:32.35
 
5000m
1. Jed Elmbarki - 14:15.74 (personal record) (third in program history)
21. Jerry Lewis - 15:06.32
 
60m Hurdles
Finals
4. Kendall Mariacher - 8.37 (personal record)
5. Matthew DeCicco - 8.37
6. Quillar Baidy - 8.47
Prelims
5. Matthew DeCicco - 8.31q (personal record)
6. Quillar Baidy - 8.41q
7. Kendall Mariacher - 8.42q (personal record)
10. Krishmar Powell - 8.59
17. Arlan Wright - 9.02  (personal record)
 
4x400m 
2. UAlbany A - 3:16.34
          Gunnar Williams, Julio Martinez, Kyaire Lawson, Nicholos Sealey
10. UAlbany B - 3:23.21
          Arlan Wright, Matthew DeCicco, Mikolaj Gancarz, Connor Hashim
 
DMR
3. UAlbany - 9:47.81
          Steve Hines, Amari Alcindor, Jacob Smith, Isaac Graber
 
High Jump
2. Zhi Luncheon-Lowrie - 2.03m (6-8)
T5. Krishmar Powell - 1.93m (6-4)
10. Arlan Wright - 1.83 (6-0)
 
Long Jump
2. Samir Gardner - 6.95m (22-9.75) (personal record)
4. Brooks Robson - 6.90m (22-7.75)
7. Leonard Durau - 6.82m (22-4.5)
13. Matthew DeCicco - 6.23m (20-5.25) (personal record)
14. Taehyeong Kim - 6.21m (20-4.5)
 
Triple Jump
6. Brooks Robson - 14.22m (46-8)
8. Damani Deloatch - 14.04m (46-0.75) (personal record)
9. Alister Njenga - 13.59m (44-7)
10. Taehyeong Kim - 13.41m (44-0) 
 
Shot Put
8. Shane O'Neill - 14.88m (48-10)
10. Showayne Lumsden - 14.71m (48-3.25)
11. Frankie Gonzalez - 14.68m (48-2)
 
NEXT: The Great Danes will compete in two meets next weekend. Invited athletes will participate in the annual Millrose Games held at the NYC Armory while the rest of the team will be headed to Ithaca, New York for the Cornell Invite (Jan. 31).
 
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