BOSTON, MASS. and ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cortland women's indoor track and field team sent middle distance runners and sprinters to the Boston University Hemery Valentine Invitational and primarily field event athletes along with short sprinters to the Cornell Sunday Invitational.

Highlights at Boston University included Melissa Emilio (Oneonta) placing 97th of 166 in the 800 meters in 2:21.29, followed by Shannon Imbornoni (Plainview/Our Lady of Mercy Academy) in 114th place in 2:23.90. Kaylee Uhl (Waverly) was 87th of 154 in the 400 meters (1:00.12), with Jesse Correale (Staten Island/Notre Dame Academy) in 106th place (1:01.48).

Sara Billings (Gansevoort/South Glens Falls) recorded a time of 10:32.97 in the 3,000 meters for a 114th-place finish. The combination of Carolyn Wagner (Delmar/Bethlehem), Emilio, Imbornoni and Uhl finished 39th in the 4x400-meter relay (4:07.84).

Cortland posted three All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) qualifying performances at Cornell. Kelly Gardner (Lake Ronkonkoma/Sachem North) finished third of 22 in the long jump at 5.20 meters (17' 0.75") and sixth of 15 (fourth collegiate finisher) in the triple jump at 10.97 meters (36' 0"). Harley Buczkowski (Holland Patent) was fifth out of 34 competitors in the weight throw at 15.62 meters (51' 3").

Buczkowski was also 11th of 32 in the shot put (10.94 meters/35' 10.75"), followed by Shannon Hanmer (Cicero/Cicero-North Syracuse) in 12th place (10.82 meters/35' 6").

Dana Messina (East Meadow) finished sixth of 44 in the 200-meter dash (26.98) and 14th of 43 in the 60-meter dash (8.22). Gardner finished 18th in the 60-meter dash (8.28), and Riley Wood (Wallkill) placed 27th in the 60-meter dash (8.47) and 11th in the long jump (4.68 meters/15' 4.25").

Two Red Dragons placed in the top half of the field in the 60-meter hurdles. Kim White (Marathon) was 13th of 30 in 9.97 seconds and Maya Campbell (Valley Stream/Valley Stream South) finished 15th in 10.16 seconds.

Cortland will compete in a tri-meet with Ithaca College and Utica College on Friday at Ithaca, and will also send competitors to the Cornell Deneault Invitational on Saturday.

Coach's Corner - Comments from Head Coach Steve Patrick on the men's and women's meets at Boston University and Cornell
 
We had an excellent range of performances at BU on Friday and Saturday highlighted by some strong 800 meter PRs for Melissa Emilio, Shannon Imbornoni, and Richard Samuels, as well as a huge performance from Nolan Vest in the mile. Sara Billings ran a real tough 3k to have a big PR, and the depth of our men in the 400 was outstanding as evidenced by having our first 4x4 relay run 3:19 and our second run 3:22!

We realize how fortunate it is to have our short sprinters and field event folks able to compete at Cornell on Sunday.  Kelly Gardner was a superstar with lifetime bests in both the long jump and triple jump. The men's long jump group clearly excelled as well with Dawan Jones hitting a lifetime best and Dev Williams leaping his furthest of the year. Of course seeing Micheal Outing and Storm Malone sweep the top two spots in the 60HH was quite a treat as well.


Boston University Results
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Cornell Sunday Invite Results
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