Results
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Freshman
Ira Griffin and junior
Katie Wyant each broke school records Thursday as Nazareth's men's and women's track and field teams competed at the RIT Early Season Invitational at the Tigers' Gordon Field House.
No team scoring was kept, the but the Golden Flyers, under the direction of first-year coach
James Goss, had several noteworthy performances, including Griffin's first-place finish in the 60-meter dash in a school-recording time of 7.03 seconds. He eclipsed the old mark of 7.50 that has stood since 2007. In the women's competition, Wyant won the 400-meter dash with a time of :61.94 seconds, slightly faster than Lauren Glaser's school record mark of :62.07 set in 2007.
Griffin also finished second in the 200-meter dash, narrowly missing another school record with a time of :23.18. He also ran on Nazareth's winning 4 x 400-meter relay (3:31.51) that also featured sophomore
Jake Lafaver, junior
Phil Schierer and senior
Dan Polino.
Lafaver also placed sixth in the 400-meter dash (:52.58), while Schierer and Polino finished fifth and sixth respectively in the 500-meter dash with times of :69.71 and :69.86. Sophomore
Matt Fedrizzi ran 10th in the mile (4:41.19).
In the women's competition, junior
Lauren Jamieson finished sixth in the mile (5:44.49) and senior
Heather Irish finished 11th in the weight throw with a toss of 9.85 meters (32 feet, 3 3/4 inches). Nazareth ran second in the 4 x 800-meter relay (10:45.41) with the group of
Michaela Gildemeyer, Wyant,
Meleana Spera and Kirsten Schoenborn#.