With a soft opening last weekend at the Florida State Relays, almost the entirety of the healthy and available student athletes (70 athletes, 123 total entries) will take to the track for the only home meet of the year on the UMBC campus. With a condensed schedule and a quaint number of teams, this is a great opportunity to come out to see almost every event on the docket in a short amount of time. Leading the way for the sprint crew will be Mercedes Jackson and Denny Long who will both be competing in the 100 meter and 200 meter dashes. Both athletes won these respective events at the Outdoor edition of the America East Championships in 2013. Returning Conference Champion Trae Proctor will pull double duty in the 110 and 400 meter hurdles as will All Conference performer Paulette Fogle. The big events in the distance events will be the 5,000 meters, with both the men’s and women’s races jammed packed with athletes who represented the Retrievers at the America East Championships. On the women’s side, Nicole Dawson and Kirsten McGovern will look to work together to move up onto the 5k All Time list as a tune up before the 10,000 meters next weekend, while Eric Schuler will be looking to break the fifteen minute barrier. Last year’s Outdoor Conference champion in the 800 meters, Andrew Keresztes will lead a deep group while 1,000 meter record holder Sarah Daly will run the 1,500 meters for the first time. The throws will be busy with the return of Yao Adantor fresh off a near personal best effort at the FSU Relays and Vincent Rentszch vying for the stadium record after going a shade over 216 feet last weekend with an abbreviated approach. The javelin was an exciting event for the women as well with Alisha Beeman setting the school mark in Florida and will try to reprise her effort this weekend. She may get the biggest challenge from teammate Abigail Slonski, who brings a high school mark within feet of Beeman’s. Shioma Obemeata will look to repeat his Conference Championship in the triple jump from last indoor season and perhaps be the second Retriever to go over the fifty foot barrier. Breakout indoor performers Dosu Teyibo and Justin Glaze will be vying to continue that success outdoors in the long and triple jumps. For the women school record holder Alisha Beeman will be performing in the high jump while Caitlyn Davis will look to move up the record boards in the pole vault.

2013-14 Indoor Schedule:

March 21st and 22nd FSU Relays

Tallahassee, FL

March 29th UMBC Big Dawg Invite

Baltimore, MD

April 4th and 5th Florida Relays Gainesville, FL

April 4th and 5th Colonial Relays

Williamsburg, VA

April 12th Mason Spring Invite

Fairfax, VA

April 18th Larry Ellis Invite

Princeton, NJ

April 19th Morgan State Invite

Baltimore, MD

April 24th to 26th Penn Relays

Philadelphia, PA

May 3rd and 4th America East Championships

Burlington, VT

May 17th-18th IC4A/ECAC Championships

Princeton, NJ

May 29th to 31st NCAA East Preliminary Round

Jacksonville, FL

IC4A & ECAC / Boston Last Chance / NCAA Championships: Andrew Smith ran 1:48.82 to advance to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field

Championships

Cody Mezebish sets the school record in the 800 meters going 2:11.81 at the ECAC Championships

Jake Albino sets the school record in the mile going 4:08.12 at the IC4A Championships

Hassan Omar sets the school record in the 5k going 14:30.02 at the IC4A Championships

Marie Yuille finished seventh in the finals of the 500 with a #6 all-time 1:14.45 at the ECAC Championships

Andrew Smith finished 16th at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships to earn 2nd Team All American Honors

Denny Long

Long had a banner indoor season competing unattached including

running a 6.68 in the 60m dash to advance to the finals of the USATF

Indoor Championships. He then opened the year with a solid 10.57 in the 100 meters and a personal

best 21.09 in the 200 meters at the Florida State Relays.

Last meet recap Featured Athlete

Big dawg invite

Meet Preview

Event Women / Men; (Tentative only, only A Relays listed):

100m Jackson, Phillip, Seale, Johnson, Tillman, Yuille, Adelola / Long, Cooper, Abolurin, Baker

110H/100H Kulp, Entwistle, Fogle / Proctor, Abutaleb

200m Jackson, Phillip, Seale, Johnson, Young, Tillman, Adelola, Yuille / Oxley, McLendon, Ekanayake, Cooper, Abolurin, Baker, Bolinger,

Long

400m / Ekanayake, Oxley, McLendon

400H Fogle, Young, Entwistle / Bolinger, Abutaleb, Proctor, Rybak

800m Kulp, Allen, Cologer, Deckel, Fredericks, Abbey, K. Jones / Keresztes, Phillips, Schulties, Semeon, Anske, Johnson

1,500m Daly, Cologer / Johnson, Anske

5,000m McGovern, Dawson, Gessler, Roche, Zielinski, Vane, Callaghan, Alms, Bucci / Schuler, Luckin, Hutton, Hayslett, Eldridge, McGee,

Hopkins

10,000m n/a

3,000m SC / Semeon

4x100m Tillman, Jackson, Phllip, Young / Abolurin, Long, Proctor, Cooper

4x400m Yuille, Adelola, Tillman, Young /

4x800m n/a

Long Jump Beeman, Slonski / Teyibo, Glaze

Triple Jump Beeman, Slonski, Davis / Obemeata, Teyibo

High Jump Beeman / Drammeh, Obemeata, Glaze

Pole Vault Davis / Stott, Kshmetski, Carman, Rentzsch

Shot Put Edokobi, Mayne, Nelson / Adantor, Serafenas, Rentzsch, Glaze

Discus Mayne, Nelson, Edokobi / Serafenas, Stinsman, Adantor, Rentzsch, Dibattista

Hammer Nelson, Edokobi, Danielsson / Serafenas, Stinsman

Javelin Beeman, Slonski / Rentzsch, Rybak, Kshimetski, Dibattista

Deca/Hept n/a

Schedule / Entries

Field Events: 10:00am Hammer Women then Men Javelin Men then Women High Jump Women then Men Long Jump Men then Women Pole Vault Men then Women 12:00pm Triple Jump Men then Women Discus Men then Women Shot Put Women then Men Track Events: (Men to immediately follow Women) 10:45am 3000m Steeple Chase 11:15am 4x100m Relay 11:35am 1500m 12:05pm 100mHH/110HH Trials (Top 8 to final) 12:25pm 100m Trials (Top 8 to final) 12:45pm 400m 1:00pm 100mHH/110HH Finals 1:10pm 100m Finals 1:25pm 400mIH 1:45pm 800m 2:15pm 200m 2:45pm 5,000m 3:45pm 4x400m Relay

Event IC4A Standards (men) ECAC Standards (women) Qualifiers (Potential NCAA Region)

100m 10.85 12.08 Long / Jackson

110H/100H 14.85 14.34 Proctor /

200m 21.80 24.74 Long / Jackson

400m 48.50 55.94

400H 53.85 62.08

800m 1:51.80 2:10.94 Smith /

1,500m 3:51.0 4:30.94 Albino /

5,000m 14:36.0 17:16.64 Omar /

10,000m 31:08.0 37:40.24

3,000m SC 9:15.0 10:50.24

4x100m 42.50 47.94

4x400m 3:17.60 3:51.84

4x800m 7:43.00 9:16.24

Long Jump 7.10m 5.80m

Triple Jump 14.50m 12.05m

High Jump 2.04m 1.70m / Beeman

Pole Vault 4.80m 3.70m

Shot Put 15.80 13.60m Adantor /

Discus 47.50m 42.50m

Hammer 53.00m 51.00m

Javelin 58.70m 41.40m Rentzsch / Beeman

Deca/Hept Top 16 Top 15

Men Time/Mark Women Time/Mark

100m David Bobb 10.18 Mercedes Jackson 11.46

110H/100H Trae Proctor 14.12 Imani Colbert 14.02

200m David Bobb 20.63 Mercedes Jackson 23.58

400m Kevin Russell 46.97 Kirsten Jones 55.63

400H Phil Marshall 53.00 Paulette Fogle 1:00.83

800m Michael Christmas 1:50.67 Ohita Asein 2:11.34

1,500m Jake Albino 3:48.35 Sara Parkinson 4:28.57

5,000m Anthony Kelhower 14:09.20 Sara Parkinson 16:46.86

10,000m Michael Sterling 30:17.12 Karin Wagner 35:31.64

3,000m SC Brandan McGee 9:01.73 Keri Wilson 11:29.56

4x100m Washington, Guillaume, Russell, Bobb 39.41 E. Jones, Young, Ikpeze, Jackson 46.47

4x400m Hewling, Marshall, Guillaume, Russell 3:11.41 Fogle, Adelola, Abbey, K. Jones 3:44.73

4x800m Baumler, Johnson, Stump, Mehmedovic 7:35.96 Asein, Fields, Wettlaufer, Baker 9:02.31

Long Jump Marc Haskins 7.35 (24-1.5) Kiki Malamo-Paris 5.75 (18-10.75)

Triple Jump Victor Gilreath 15.45 (50-8.25) Tyishua Johnson 12.26 (40-2.75)

High Jump Huguens Jean 2.22 (7-3.25) Chowan Brightful 1.70 (5’ 7”)

Pole Vault Dixon / Ludwig 4.95 (16-2.75) Laura Walker 3.35 (10-11.75)

Shot Put Yao Adantor 16.60 (54-5.5) Cleopatra Borel 16.44 (53-11.25)

Discus Balvin Brown 51.59 (169-3) Ashley Fauntleroy 45.04 (147-9)

Hammer Thor Serafenas 57.26 (187-10) Cleopatra Borel 51.28 (168-3)

Javelin Vincent Rentzsch 70.88 (232-6) Alisha Beeman 41-92 (137-6)

Deca/Hept Keith Onto 7,239 points Chowan Brightful 4,299 points

IC4a ecac / Records

UMBC All time top ten

UMBC All time top ten

UMBC All time top ten