Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Honors Awarded to Griffin and Nyback
MAAC Sports
Edison, NJ - Outdoor Track
& Field Performer of the Week honors were awarded to William Griffin of
Marist College and Andrea Nyback of Manhattan College.
Griffin
turned in a record-breaking performance running against a tough field of
competitors from across the nation at the 53rd annual Mt. San
Antonio College (Mt. SAC) Relays in Walnut, California,. He became the first Marist College track athlete in school
history to break the 30-minute barrier for the 10,000-meter run with his time
of 29:45.81. With his eighth place finish he easily qualifies for the IC4A
Championships, and has a strong chance of earning a berth at the NCAA East
Regional next month.
Nyback set a school record in
the heptathlon at the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships despite miserable
conditions on Saturday. She finished
with 4856 points, breaking the 13-year-old mark by almost 400 points, to easily
win the competition and qualify for the ECAC Championships. Nyback finished first in five of the seven
events and second in another.
The 2011 MAAC
Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be hosted May 7-8 at Rider
University in Lawrenceville, NJ.