MAAC Announces 40th Anniversary Indoor Track and Field Team
Edison, N.J. (July 23, 2020) – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40th Anniversary throughout the 2020-21 academic year, continuing its mission to provide student-athletes the opportunity to succeed in both academics and athletics.
The 40th Anniversary Track and Field Team highlights some of the best student-athletes in MAAC history. MAAC Indoor Track and Field traces back to 1989, when Army swept the first MAAC Championship for both the men and women. Manhattan College leads the conference with 18 men’s championships and 14 women’s championships. On the men’s side, Monmouth University has six titles while former MAAC member Army West Point holds 2 of their own. For the women, Monmouth comes in with six championships, followed by Saint Peter’s University with three championships.
The MAAC Indoor Track and Field Championships are set to return Feb. 20-21 in 2021 at the New Balance Armory Track and Field Center in New York City.
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| Canisius College |
| Men |
| Jeff Antolos |
2013-17 |
| Tom Appenheimer |
1990-94 |
| Chad Maloy |
2011-14 |
| Cooper Roach |
2014-17 |
James Bialasik – 2000-02
The school's record holder in the 55-meter and 200-meter indoor events, James Bialasik was a member of the indoor track program from 2000-02. He holds six of the top-25 times in the 200-meter event, and he also graduated from Canisius as the school's career leader in kickoff return yards as a member of the football team. |
| Women |
| Heather (Whalen) Appenheimer |
1989-91 |
| Allison Carr |
1997-01 |
| Mary Beth Riley |
1987-91 |
| Kelly Thompson |
1998-01 |
Siobhan Quinn – 2015-19
One of the best female runners in school history, Siobhan Quinn holds the Canisius indoor track records for the 3K, 5K, and mile events. The only female All-Regional honoree in cross country, Quinn's success moved to the indoor track setting as well, highlighted by a fourth-place finish and an ECAC Championship qualifying time in the 5K in 2019. |
| Iona College |
| Men |
| Liam Dee |
2014-18 ’19 MA |
| Mitch Goose |
2011-13 |
| Richard Kiplagat |
2002-06 |
| Packie Mulvany |
1989-94 ’02 MBA |
Leonard Korir – 2009-12
During the winter season, Leonard Korir racked up accolades and records while at Iona. He won the 5,000-meter race at the 2011 NCAA Championship. Korir claimed gold when he ran a then Iona record time. He also earned All-American honors that year in the 3,000-meter with a sixth-place finish. Korir earned two All-American honors again in the 3k and 5k events as a senior in 2012. He placed sixth in the 5k and eighth in the 3k.
Korir was Iona's first ever NCAA Champion, accomplishing the feat twice in 2011 in the indoor 5,000-meter and outdoor 10,000-meter events and was an eight-time NCAA All-American. At the conference level, his winning resulted in being named the 2011 MAAC Most Outstanding Track Performer.
Korir has continued to run after graduating from Iona College. He has carried is Maroon & Gold work ethic to the international stage. Korir participated in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in the 10,000-meter event. He placed 14th in the global event. He was the first American Olympian for the Maroon & Gold, and he was the second USA runner to finish the 10K race. |
| Women |
| Kate Avery |
2014-15 |
| Emmily Chelanga |
2003-06 |
| Rosie Clarke |
2014-15 |
| Salome Kosgei |
2006-07 |
Heidi Gregson – 2009-12
Heidi Gregson is a two-time MAAC Championship Most Outstanding Female Track Performer and two-time participant in the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Gregson won her first MAAC Individual award in 2009 when she won the 800-meter race and was part of the winning DMR quartet. She had the same exact finishes in 2010. Gregson then captured the MOP award again in 2011 with a first-place finish in the mile race and second place finish in the 800-meter.
At the NCAA level, Gregson partook in the mile race in both 2010 and 2012. In her first go, Gregson placed 10th in the final race and then as a senior in 2012, she took home 15th despite running a fast time. |
| Manhattan College |
| Men |
| David Frazier |
1990-94 |
| Pontus Lundkvist |
1995-99 |
| Bruce Philip |
1985-89 |
| Gerry Ryan |
1986-90 |
Patrick McGrath – 1991-95
Patrick McGrath represented his native Ireland in the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and was a six-time Irish National Champion in the hammer throw, earning a top 50 IAAF world ranking (2004) and a USATF second place finish (2003) in the event. He also participated in the 1999 World Track and Field Championships and the 1998 European Championships. A three-time Division I All-American, McGrath was a threat in both the hammer and 35-pound weight events, earning All-East recognition eight times, four in each category. He was inducted into the Manhattan College Hall of Fame in 2008. |
| Women |
| Karen Chevolleu |
1988-92 |
| Lisa Daley |
1989-93 |
| Dine Potter |
1993-97 |
| Sophie Tasker Sterling |
1993-97 |
Aliann Pompey - 1995-99
Originally from Guyana, Aliann Pompey was Manhattan's first female NCAA Champion, winning the Division I 400-meter dash in 2000. She also holds seven Manhattan records and won eight individual Metropolitan titles in the 200- and 400-meter races. Pompey was named All-East in those events six times, and was selected as one of the top 25 MAAC all-time performers in 2006. Pompey has competed in four Olympic Games, in addition to participating in the World Championships in athletics five times and the IAAF World Indoor Championships on four occasions. She was a gold medalist in the 400-meters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and a Commonwealth Games silver medalist in the event in 2010. She was inducted in the Manhattan Hall of Fame in 2009, and was elected president of the Panam Sports Athlete Commission in 2019. |
Coach Dan Mecca
During his career, Mecca led the Jaspers to 61 MAAC Championships, 39 Metropolitan Championships and two IC4A Championships. He was named the MAAC Men's Coach of the Year for both the 2012 indoor and outdoor seasons, and was selected for that honor a total of 33 times since 2002. He was also the 2005 NCAA Regional Coach of the Year for men's indoor track & field. Mecca coached several athletes to the NCAA Championships, mentoring five NCAA National Champions. |
| Marist College |
| Men |
| Arquimedes Delacruz |
2009-12 |
| Drew Burns |
2016-19 |
| Girma Segni |
2005-08 |
| Adam Vess |
2008-11 |
Will Griffin – 2008-11
Will Griffin is the school record holder in 5,000m and 10,000m runs. He qualified for the NCAA East Regionals in 2011, and placed 33rd overall. Griffin earned seven medals throughout his career at the MAAC Championships. |
| Women |
| Debby Boerke |
2016-19 |
| Danisha Craig |
2015-18 |
| Susan Golden |
2000-03 |
| Liza Grudzinski |
2001-04 |
Michelle Gaye – 2012-15
Gaye enjoyed success in both indoor and outdoor track & field. In addition to being a multiple-time school record holder, she became the first female athlete in school history to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Regional Championships (5,000 meters). Won the 5,000 meters at MAAC championships in 2015, and medaled on three other occasions. |
| Monmouth University |
| Men |
| Dylan Capwell |
2013-18 |
| Kyle Mueller |
2015-20 |
| Khalid Slocum |
2017-20 |
| Bryan Sosoo |
2014-18 |
Corey Murphy – 2014-19
Corey Murphy set the MAAC Indoor Track and Field shot put record in 2019 (19.66m) and went on to be named a Second Team All-American after placing 12th at the 2019 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Murphy was a three-time MAAC Champion in the shot put in his career and a three-time All-East selection. |
| Women |
| Patrice Baston |
2015-19 |
| Lomdsey Belleran |
2015-16 |
| Casey Sturts |
2013-18 |
Mariah Toussaint – 2013-14
Mariah Toussaint set the MAAC Indoor Track and Field long jump record in 2014 (6.18m) to help lead Monmouth to the 2014 MAAC Indoor Track and Field Championship in its first season in the league. She became Monmouth’s first student-athlete to qualify for the NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships and was also a 2014 All-East selection. |
Coach Joe Compagni
Since entering the conference prior to the 2013-14 campaign, Monmouth’s men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams have each won six team championships, with head coach Joe Compagni overseeing six women’s titles and five on the men’s side. He led the Monmouth program for 24 seasons prior to retirement in the summer of 2019 and mentored all nine of Monmouth’s representatives on the MAAC 40th Anniversary Team. |
| Quinnipiac University |
| Kalli'ana Botelho |
2018-Present |
| Shameal Samuels |
2012-16 |
| Carly Timpson |
2016-19 |
| Tara Zeni |
2019-Present |
Jessica Lee – 2015-18
Lee was the third Bobcat in program history to compete in an NCAA Regional and was the only hurdler in program history to advance to a regional. She advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2018 in the 100m hurdles. Lee was a two-time ECAC Champion in the 100m hurdles and won four events throughout her career at the MAAC Championships. |
| Rider University |
| Men |
| Steve Brown |
2009-13 |
| Johnathan Jackson |
2013-17 |
| David Payne |
2003-07 |
| George Solujich |
2011-15 |
James Burroughs – 2009-13
The 2011-12 Rider University Clair Bee Co-Male Athlete of the Year, Burroughs won gold in the 60m hurdles at the 2013 MAAC Championships, finishing in 7.96 seconds. He also took silver in 2012 and won bronze with the 4x400 meter relay team. Burroughs was also highly successful in the outdoor season, finishing 22nd in the 400m hurdles at the NCAA East Outdoor Track & Field Championships. He earned All-East honors with a sixth-place finish in the 110m hurdles at the IC4A Outdoor Track & Field Championships and won the 110m hurdles with an IC4A qualifying time of 14.74. He won the 400m hurdles, tying a championship record with a time of 52.39 at the MAAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. |
| Women |
| Tabatha Haskins |
2005-09 |
| Mia Riley |
2009-13 |
| Karoline Sandvig |
2014-18 |
| Lauren Strebeck |
2010-14 |
Jazmine Fenlator – 2003-07
A two-time Rider Female Athlete of the Year, Fenlator was Rider’s first NCAA Track & Field Regional automatic qualifier. She earned All-East honors eight times in the shot put, weight throw and the discus, setting Rider records in all three events, along with the hammer. Fenlator was named one of the top 25 athletes in the first 25-year history of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Following her illustrious Rider career, Fenlator took part in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi as a member of the United States bobsled team, before competing for her father’s native Jamaica in the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang. |
Coach Bob Hamer
In his 12 years as Head Coach at Rider, Hamer has led the Broncs to two MAAC Outdoor Championships (2011, 2013) and one MAAC Indoor Championship (2017). In 2017, he was named the MAAC Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year after the men's team captured their first-ever MAAC Indoor Championship. Later that season, he was also tabbed as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year. He was named 2013 MAAC Outdoor Coach of the Year after leading both the Rider men and women's teams to Championships, while also earning MAAC Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2011 and Indoor Coach of the Year in 2010. All told, he's coached five indoor major award winners and three outdoor major award winners. |
| Saint Peter’s University |
| Men |
| Jermaine Lascelles |
2014-18 |
| Sean Myers |
2006 |
| Aron Prather |
1994 |
| Jamel Presley |
2015 |
Isaiah Harris – 2010-14
Isaiah Harris '14 finished his four-year career as one of the most decorated Saint Peter's men's track student-athletes of all-time. He is the only Peacock in program history to earn All-American status, achieving the honors at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships after finishing 14th in the high jump and at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships after finishing 19th in the high jump. In addition to becoming the program's only All-American, Harris was also the first ever Peacock to compete in both the NCAA Indoor Championships and NCAA Outdoor Championships, qualifying for three total NCAA Championships and three NCAA Outdoor Regionals during his career. The 2014 graduate holds Saint Peter's record for the most MAAC Individual Championships medals (18) and he was named as the MAAC Most Outstanding Performer four-times --- twice at the MAAC Indoor Championships and twice at the Outdoor Championships. Moreover, Harris was a seven-time qualifier for the IC4A Championships and only Saint Peter's IC4A Champion, winning the triple jump in 2013. She is a 2007 SPU Athletics HOF inductee. |
| Women |
| Jennifer Cajou |
2011-15 |
| Ronnah Parham |
2011 |
| Shona Potrzuski |
2013 |
| Cristina Vilsaint |
2012 |
Katie Kopacz – 1999-01
Katie Kopacz was the Most Outstanding Female Runner at the 1999-2000 indoor championship. She won two MAAC indoor titles in the 5,000m and set the conference record at the time at the 1999-2000 indoor championship. She also won the 3,000m race in 2001-02, qualifying for the NCAA Championships that year while becoming the first athlete in school history to do so. She is still the school record holder in the 3000m, 5000m and 10Km races and is a 2007 SPU Athletics HOF inductee. |
Coach Mike Massone
Massone helped bring Saint Peter's to the top of the MAAC on the women's side, where the team swept the indoor and outdoor championships in 2011-12, to become just the second MAAC team to ever repeat as both indoor and outdoor champions after capturing the two titles in 2010-11 as well. The men finished in third place and had six individual champions in both the Indoor and outdoor seasons for 2011-12. Massone was named the MAAC Women’s Coach of the Year award for each season, and won five such awards: four on the women’s side and one on the men’s side. During the 2012 outdoor season, Saint Peter’s had their first ever NCAA finalist, as Isaiah Harris qualified for the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. The Peacocks also had three qualifiers for the NCAA Preliminaries in Jacksonville. |
| Siena College |
| Men |
| Stosh Davis |
2016-20 |
| Travis Fairlee |
2014-18 |
| Luciano Fiore |
2015-Present |
| Jack O’Hara |
2015-19 |
Evans Kibet – 2016-20
Kibet holds an array of the program's indoor track records, including in the 800m, mile, 3000m and in two relays. The 2017 MAAC Indoor Track Champion in the 800m, he recorded three top-3 individual MAAC finishes, and was a 2019 individual ECAC/IC4A qualifier in the mile, as well as twice as part of the distance medley relay. |
| Women |
| Holly Bednarek |
2017-Present |
| Olivia Lomascolo |
2018-Present |
| Kelly Pasko |
2013-17 |
| Carolyn Pellegrini |
2016-20 |
Sarah Forman – 2015-19
Forman still holds the program's indoor marks in the 1000m, mile and the 3000m. She was Siena's first ever indoor track MAAC Champion, doing so in the 3000m during the 2016-17 season. She also won the event during the 2018-19 season, placed third in 2017-18, was a three-time IC4A/ECAC inidividual qualifier in the mile and also did so once for the 3000m |
| Former MAAC Members |
| Maury Bonner (Holy Cross) |
1989 |
| Jim Orrange (Army) |
1990 |
| Dianna Willis (Army) |
1986-94 |
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40th year of competition during the 2020-21 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.