Meet: Great Dane Classic

Location: Ocean Breeze Athletic Center in Staten Island, N.Y.

Team Scoring: None

Athletes of the Meet: Chidinma Matthew, Lynda Brundige, Sidney Gibbons, Devon Willis

Short Story: UAlbany track and field takes home four event victories at the 16th Annual Great Danes Classic in the first meet of the new year.

How It Happened:

• Sidney Gibbons placed second in the men’s 60 meter hurdles in 7.92
• Namara Carr placed second in the women’s 60 meter hurdles in 8.81; Asia Jinks placed third in 8.83; Chibugo Ike placed fifth in 8.86
• Chidinma Matthew placed third in the women’s 60 meter dash in 7.59; Jahari Coleman placed fifth in 7.80
• Garfield Napier placed sixth in the men’s 60 meter dash in 6.96
• Kelly Iocca placed fourth in the women’s 5000 meter run in 17:57.55; Noreen Guilfoyle placed seventh in 18:18.20
• Keith Machabee placed sixth in the men’s 5000 meter run in 15:30.68; Christopher Perillo placed seventh in 15:32.59
• Cara Sherman won the women’s mile in 4:57.77
• Kiyah Owens won the women’s 400 meter dash in 56.61
• Matthew LeLiever placed seventh in the men’s 500 meter dash in 1:05.55
• Anika Hibbard placed second in the women’s high jump, clearing 5-07.00; Victoria Stoffel placed third, clearing 5-05.00
• EJ Onah placed fourth in the women’s long jump in 18-07.00
• Victor Cotto placed fourth in the men’s long jump in 22-06.50
• Lynda Brundige placed third on the women’s triple jump in 39-10.50
• Devon Willis won the men’s triple jump in 51-01.50; Robert Blue placed second in 49-01.75; Omahri Sturdivant placed sixth in 46-04.00
• Shelby Bigsby placed third in the women's shot put in 43-08.00
• Ludith Campos placed fifth in the women’s weight throw in 51-01.50; Lynn Gbadamosi placed sixth in 50-09.25; Shiana Galette-Rowe placed eighth in 48-06.25
• David Carlson placed second in the men’s weight throw in 61-05.75
• Evan DeGraw placed fourth in the men’s 800 meter run in 1:56.98
• Kaylah Quarshie placed fifth in the women’s1000 meter run in 2:57.46
• Jake Johnson placed eighth in the men’s 1000 meter run in 2:32.46
• Alumna Grace Claxon (Puerto Rico) placed second in the women’s 200 meter dash in 24.52; Matthew placed fourth in 24.94
• Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina placed eighth in the men’s 200 meter dash in 21.91
• Hannah Reinhardt placed third in the women’s 3000 meter run in 9:51.02
• The women’s 4x400 meter relay ‘B’ team of Sofia Myers, Alicia Grady, Onah and Alexandria Payne placed eighth in 4:02.55
• The men's 4x400m relay of Gutierrez Almedina (48.8), Garfield (50.6), LeLiever (48.9), and Cruz (48.8) placed first in 3:17.39

Next: The Great Danes are back in action on Saturday, January 19, competing at Middlebury Winterfell in Middlebury, Vt.