Weekly Indoor Track & Field Honors go to Perrine and DelaCruz
MAAC Sports
Edison, NJ - Indoor Track & Field Performer of the
Week honors were awarded to Kristen Perrine of Rider University and Arquimedes
Delacruz of Marist College.
Perrine won the 1000m (3:00.82) and ran the
third leg of the 4x800 relay that won with a time of 9:33.67 in Rider's dual
meet with TCNJ on Super Bowl
Sunday. Perrine also ran Friday evening
at the Armory in New York (New Balance Invitational) on the second leg of the
4x800 with an ECAC qualifying time of 9:15.50, setting a new Rider record by
almost four seconds.
DelaCruz turned in an excellent performance for the
Red Foxes at the New Balance Invitational in New York City on February 5.
Running in the 5,000-meter race, he finished in fourth place in the college
open division with a time of 14:43.79, a personal-best time by 20 seconds and
his first time under 15:00. This is the second consecutive weekend that
DelaCruz has run a IC4A qualifying time. DelaCruz becomes only the third
distance runner in school history to qualify for the two longest indoor IC4A
events in the same season.
The 2011 MAAC
Indoor Track & Field Championships will be hosted on February 18 at The New
Balance Track & Field Center in New York, NY.