EMMITSBURG, Md. (April 19, 2026) – Earning a respectable finish in a group of dozens of teams, Mount St. Mary's track & field placed ninth on the men's side and 10
th on the women's side at the IC4A/ECAC Championships in Piscataway, New Jersey.
A quartet of third place finishes between the teams led the way.
Alena Murray and
Joshua Dean cracked the Mount's top 10 list for the 100m dashes. Murray finished third in the finals at 11.95 seconds, ranking fifth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) and seventh on the Mount's all-time list. Dean's preliminary time of 10.56 seconds in the 100m ties for seventh in program history, before he went on and earned his third place finish for a 21.86 second 200m dash.
Abdulazeez Iyiola took third in the 110 meter hurdles at 14.72 seconds, and
Madelyn Valpy placed third in the triple jump with 11.96 meters.
In addition to the top 10 times in the 100m dash,
Marta Gonzalez Alvarez earned the sixth best time in program history for the 100 hurdles, running in 14.44 seconds. The time is good for fourth best in the MAAC.
Murray, Gonzalez Alvarez, and Dean led a group of 15 performances that earned top five status in the MAAC. Iyiola now leads the MAAC for the 110 hurdles, using his preliminary time of 14.58 seconds. Teammate
Joseph Poleate stands third in the same event at 14.92 meters.
Tyler Cash improved on his pole vault distance, earning 4.90 meters to stand second behind fellow Mountaineer
Ethan Demeter.
Nando Meggs and
Donovan Harrington hold a respective second and fourth in the long jump, with Meggs earning 7.19 meters and Harrington 7.05 meters.
More top five MAAC marks include
Maeve Parrish (800m, 2:14.72),
Jacey Hentz (LJ, 5.86m),
Bruno Rivera Borrallo (TJ, 13.82m), and the men's 4x100 relay team of Dean,
Lucas Koon-Perez,
Kalani Pu'uloa, and
Garrett Wilkerson (42.10 seconds).
Day one featured a record-breaking effort from Camryn Jones-Howard in the long jump, and top five finishes from Garrett Wilkerson, Brad Lee Jones, Ethan Demeter, Sunahi Heugen, Rebecca Weir, and Dougher.
UP NEXT
Athletes head to either the Jim Freeman/Clark Wood Invitational in Louisville or the Saint Francis U Red Flash Invitational next weekend.
