With the calendar flipped to the year 2014, we can actually say we have entered indoor track season. For the next seven weekends leading up to the America East Conference Championships, every weekend will represent an opportunity for members of the indoor track and field team to shine. This weekend, the Retrievers head to blustery Happy Valley to take part in the Penn State Relays. With the entire healthy roster competing, this is your one and only opportunity to see the whole roster in action, at the same venue competing. In the sprints, All American Mercedes Jackson will open up the season in both the 55 meter and 200 meter dashes. At this same meet last year, she rebroke her 60 meter school record with a time of 7.42 seconds. Also opening up the season will be 400 meter school record holder Kirsten Jones, who will be racing above her normal race distance in the 500 meters. Watch for the 60 meter and 200 meter dashes to be the lively events. On the men’s side, recent IC4A qualifier Chris Patrice will look to better his initial performance (#10 All Time) in the 60 meter dash while seeking similar success in the 200 meter dash. He will be joined by former IC4A qualifier in both events in Sean Cooper. Watch for the 500 meter event to be a youth movement with seven freshmen and sophomores competing. The cross country team returns from its hiatus in full force across a limited event schedule. The 1000 meters should be excited with the middle distance duo of Sarah Daly and Cody Mezebish making their inaugural runs in the event, with both making a run at the current school record while MK Kulp will look to continue her march up the mile record list (#8 All Time last meet). For the men, the fireworks should come out in the 3,000 meters, where the school record and IC4A qualifying should come under assault by cross country maestros Hassan Omar, Jake Albino, Austin Hayslett, and Tommy Eldridge. Also watch for Andrew Smtih in the mile who is capable of an All Time Top Ten performance and Charles Bolinger making a mark in his 1000 meter debut. In the jumps, watch for Mo Drammeh to score an IC4A qualifying mark in the high jump and Alisha Beeman to challenge the school mark. Beeman will be joining freshman Abigail Slonski in the long jump who will also be competing in the triple jump. All American Vicent Rentzsch will open the season prepping for his bid to win the Conference title in the heptathlon by competing in the long jump, shot put, and the 60 meter hurdles. In the throws events, the trio of women of Nmeoma Edokobi, Emma Mayne, and Jenn Nelson will be pulling double duty in the shot put and weight throws.

2013-14 Indoor Schedule:

December 7th, 2013 Bison Opener

Bucknell University

January 11th, 2014 Penn State Relays

Penn State University

January 18th, 2014 Terrapin Invite

PGSLC

January 24th, 2014 NYC Team Challenge

NYC Armory

January 25th, 2014 Patriot Games

George Mason Invite

Jan. 31st- Feb. 1st, 2014 Penn State National Invite

Penn State University

February 7th-8th, 2014 Armory Collegiate Invite

NYC Armory

February 14th, 2014 Rider/Lafayette Invite

NYC Armory

February 23rd-24th, 2014 America East Championships

NYC Armory

March 8th-9th, 2014 IC4A/ECAC Championships

Boston University

March 14th-15th, 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships

Albuquerque, NM

Bucknell Bison Opener: The women’s 4x4 (Abbey, Fogle, Yuille, Adelola) won

Chris Patrice sets an IC4A qualifying mark of 6.98 in the 60m dash (#10 All Time)

Alisha Beeman jumped 5’ 5” (#4 All Time) and Mo Drammeh jumped 6’ 7” to both finish second in the high jump.

Cindy Alms won the 3000 meters

MK Kulp ran 5:14.07 in the mile (#8 All Time)

Abigale Slonski jumped 16’ 10.75” in the long jump (#7 All Time)

Paulette Fogle runs 9.30 (#8 All Time) and Madeline Entwistle runs 9.34 (#9 All Time) in the 60 meter hurdles

Caitlyn Davis vaulted 9’ 10” (#4 All Time)

Mercedes Till man ran 7.96 (#9 All Time) In the 60 meter dash

Nneoma Edokobi recorded a personal best 42’ 4.25” in the shot put to finish third

Chris Patrice

Patrice has had a long road to UMBC after initially attending York College only to transfer to Howard Community College as a freshman. Due to NCAA rules he had to sit out all of last year before being allowed

to compete this year. He didn’t waste any time making an impact,

recording the tenth fastest 60 meter time in school history with an IC4A qualifying 6.98 seconds.

Penn state relays

Meet Preview

Originally recruited to be primarily a javelin specialist, Rentzsch began to blossom in a variety of events throughout the season and is a contender for the indoor heptathlon title. During the indoor championships last year, Rentzsch competed in the heptathlon (60m dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 60m Hurdles, pole vault, 1000m run) and finished third. At the same time he competed in the long jump and shot put individually. Outdoors he not only won a Conference title in the javelin, but followed it up with a decathlon victory, which included a shot put performance that would have scored in the open event. This year, Rentzsch will be looking to take the indoor title in the Heptathlon, and score podium finishes in the shot put and long jump.

In the first meet this season at the Bucknell Bison Opener, MK Kulp became the first female athlete to be ranked in the Top Ten All Time in the 800 meters, 1000 meters and mile for indoor track. She set a personal best 5:14 a year after finishing fourth in the America East Conference in the 1,000 meters. In outdoor track, she picked up a new event in the 400 meter hurdles and quickly excelled finishing fifth at the America East Championships and with the third fastest time in school history. After an injury curtailed her fall she is looking to replicate her success in the 1,000 meters and become the first UMBC athletes to advance to the ECAC Championships in that event.

77 Total number of athletes entered in an event this

weekend at the Penn State Relays

Athlete spotlights

Contact Information:

David Bobb Matt Gittermann Peter Koumlelis Head Track & Field Coach Head Cross Country Coach Assistant Track and Field Coach 410-455-6588 410-218-1551 410-455-1282 dbobb1@umbc.edu gmatt@umbc.edu pkoum@umbc.edu

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Event Women / Men Entries (Tentative only, only A Relays listed):

60m Jackson, Philip, Seale, Tillman, Johnson, K. Jones / Patrice, Ford, Abolurin, Baker, Sitterly, Cooper, Long (RS), Proctor (RS)

60m Hurdles Fogle, Entwistle, Young, Beeman / Rybak, Abutaleb, Rentzsch, Proctor (Red Shirt)

200m Jackson, Philip, Johnson, Tillman, Abbey, Seale, Entwistle / Patrice, Ford, Abolurin, Baker, Sitterly, Abutaleb, Glaze, Cooper, Long (RS)

400m n/a

500m K. Jones, Allen, Fredericks / Soetje, Rybak, Coaxum, Oxley, Carthan, Ekanayake, Allnutt, Schulties, McClendon

800m n/a

1,000m Daly, Mezebish, Oputa, Deckel, Cologer / Bolinger, Johnson, Phillips, Perry

Mile Kulp / Keresztes, Smith, Semeon, Anske

3,000m Dawson, Zielinski, McGovern, Roche, Alms, Vane, Callaghan / Omar, Albino, Eldridge, Hayslett, Schuler, DiSalvo, Duboyce, Hutton,

Luckin, Hopkins

5,000m n/a

4x400m K. Jones, Tillman, Adelola, Fogle / Oxley, Rybak, Coaxum, Soetje

4x800m Fogle, Adelola, Yuille, Allen /

DMR

Long Jump Slonski, Beeman / Rentzsch, Glaze

Triple Jump Slonski, Davis / Obemeata (Red Shirt), Drammeh

High Jump Beeman / Drammeh

Pole Vault Davis / Stott, Carman

Shot Put Edokobi, Mayne, Nelson / Rentzsch

Weight Throw Nelson, Edokobi, Mayne/ Stinsman

Hept./Pent n/a

Schedule / Entries

FIELD EVENTS

10:00 AM Women Weight Throw 20 lb Finals 11:00 AM Women Pole Vault Finals ~11:30 PM Men Weight Throw 35 lb Finals ~12:30 PM Men Pole Finals ~1:30 PM Women Shot Put Finals ~3:00 PM Men Shot Put Finals ** NOTE – Will Run Concurrent Runways if Necessary **

11:00 AM Women Long Jump Finals ~12:30 PM Men Long Jump Finals ~2:00 PM Women Triple Jump Finals ~3:30 PM Men Triple Jump Finals ** NOTE – Will Run Concurrent Runways if Necessary **

3:00 PM Women High Jump Finals 3:00 PM Men High Jump Finals

11:00 AM Women 1 Mile Finals 11:10 AM Men 1 Mile Finals 11:20 AM Women 60 Meter Hurdles Prelims 11:30 AM Men 60 Meter Hurdles Prelims 11:40 AM Women 60 Meters Prelims 11:55 AM Men 60 Meters Prelims 12:10 PM Women 500 Meters Finals 12:30 PM Men 500 Meters Finals 12:55 AM Women 4x200 Meter Relay Finals 1:00 AM Men 4x200 Meter Relay Finals 1:10 PM Men 4x1 Mile Relay Finals 1:35 PM Women 60 Meter Hurdles Finals 1:40 PM Men 60 Meter Hurdles Finals 1:45 PM Women 60 Meters Finals 1:50 PM Men 60 Meters Finals 2:00 PM Women 4x800 Meter Relay Finals 2:15 PM Men 4x800 Meter Relay Finals 2:30 PM Women 1000 Meters Finals 2:35 PM Men 1000 Meters Finals 2:40 PM Women 200 Meters Finals 3:05 PM Men 200 Meters Finals 3:25 PM Women 3000 Meters Finals 3:40 PM Women Distance Medley Finals 3:55 PM Men Distance Medley Finals 4:10 PM Men 3000 Meters Finals 4:25 PM Women 4x400 Meter Relay Finals 4:40 PM Men 4x400 Meter Relay Finals

Event IC4A Standards (men) ECAC Standards (women) Qualifiers

60m 6.98 7.68 Chris Patrice /

60m Hurdles 8.25 8.80

200m 22.24 25.04

400m 49.20 57.04

500m 1:05.20 1:16.04

800m 1:54.90 2:14.44

1,000m 2:28.95 2:56.24

Mile 4:14.90 4:59.04

3,000m 8:27.20 9:58.94

5,000m 14:45.40 17:33.64

4x400m 3:19.90 3:52.54

4x800m 7:53.00 9:25.24

DMR 10:19.70 12:08.64

Long Jump 7.02 m 5.70 m

Triple Jump 14.45 m 11.90 m

High Jump 2.04 m 1.70 m

Pole Vault 4.80 m 3.60 m

Shot Put 15.70 m 13.50 m

Weight Throw 16.90 m 16.00 m

Hept./Pent 5000 Points 3450 Points

Men Time/Mark Women Time/Mark

60m David Bobb 6.72 Mercedes Jackson 7.34

60mH Trae Proctor 7.89 Imani Colbert 8.57

200m David Bobb 20.85 Mercedes Jackson 23.98

400m Khris Hutson 48.57 Kirsten Jones 55.80

500m Josh Hewitson 1:03.35 Paulette Fogle 1:13.69

800m Michael Christmas 1:52.78 Sarah Daly 2:12.65

1000m Izudin Mehmedovic 2:25.58 Yasmin Fields 2:58.33

Mile Izudin Mehmedovic 4:08.84 Cara Wettlaufer 4:55.00

3000m Greg Saylor 8:26.00 Sara Parkinson 9:40.12

5000m Michael Sterling 14:39.45 Sara Parkinson 16:47.89

4x400m Powell, Williams, Ransom, Hawkins 3:15.53 Abbey, K. Jones, Phillip, Fogle 3:44.06

4x800m Okoniewski, Hart, Christmas, Snyder 7:36.68 Asein, Fields, Wettlaufer, Baker 9:06.23

DMR Christmas, Smith, Albino, Snyder 9:49.52 Mezebish, Daly, Fredericks, Bucci 12:04.24

HJ Huguens Jean 2.17m (7-1.5) Chowan Brightful 1.7m (5-7)

LJ Marc Haskins 7.11m (23-4) Kiki Malamo-Paris 5.65m (18-6.5)

TJ Victor Gilreath 15.49m (50-10) Tyishua Johnson 11.56m (37-11.25)

PV Dixon/Ludwig 4.85m (15-11) Laura Walker 3.25m (10-8)

SP Yao Adantor 16.60 (54-1.75) Cleopatra Borel 17.50m (57-5)

WT Cam McDearmon 18.83 (61-9.5) Cleopatra Borel 18.03m (59-2)

Hept./Pent. Keith Onto 5,238 pts Chowan Brightful 3,227 pts

IC4a ecac / Records

UMBC All time top ten

UMBC All time top ten