Results

San Juan, Puerto Rico – The Long Island University men's and women's track and field teams opened up their 2011 outdoor slate at the 6^th Annual Spring Break Classic, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The event featured a number of Caribbean schools and well as teams from Albany, Kansas, Bethune-Cookman, Houston and Army.

 

For the women, junior Jessie Gaines continued her trend of strong performances from the indoor season, taking third place in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.38. The mark is already better than her previous best from last season, a 24.86. Gaines also took fourth in the long jump, leaping to a mark of 5.78 meters.

 

Juniors Jazmin Waller and Kadisha Wickham also contributed points for Long Island, with Waller earning sixth in the long jump with a mark of 5.71 meters and Wickham taking eighth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.16. Waller and Wickham combined with sophomore Amber Mitchell and junior Torrie Saunders for the 4x100-meter relay, where the team raced to third and a time of 46.48.

 

Saunders took eighth in the triple jump, leaping to a mark of 11.43 meters, while senior Danay Spencer  was fourth with a jump of 11.43 meters. Freshman Camille Thomas earned a ninth place finish in the 100-meter hurdles, clocking in at 14.84, while sophomore Tricia Beckles was eighth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:05.42. In the 3000-meter run, senior Robin Renahan was sixth, clocking in at 10:50, lowering her 2010 best mark by over a minute.

 

On the men's side, senior  Samuel Egadu  raced to a 21.86 in the 200-meter dash, coming in seventh, while sophomore Robert Barnes was just out of the top ten with a time of 22.45.

 

Sophomore Rogers Kipruto  was sixth in the 3000-meter dash with a time of 8:50.54, while junior Paul Morton  took fourth in the triple jump, leaping to a mark of 13.54 meters.

 

LIU competes next at the Texas Relays April 6-9, and heads to the Bennie Benson Memorial Invitational in Moon Township, Pa. on April 10.