Mount st. mary’s duals

The men’s and women’s cross country teams open up their season this Friday taking part in the Mount St. Mary’s duals whose field will include Mount St. Mary’s, Maryland, Navy, American, Towson, Delaware, and Morgan State. The Duals have in the past been the traditional opening meet for the Retrievers, but UMBC has not attended the meet for the past two years. A flat course in what appears to be ideal conditions should make for some fast marks right off the line. With some major losses from the Conference team, the Retrievers return two of their top three from the Conference meet. Hassan Omar finished third last year and will look to become the first UMBC athlete to win an individual conference title in cross country. Top 15 performer Austin Hayslett will look to improve upon his break out season as a sophomore and should challenge for a Top 10 finish. Adding to the team will be former Top 15 performer in senior Eric Schuler and duo of sophomores in Pat Duboyce and Jon Luckin. After only losing two athletes from last year, the women looked poise to improve upon their fifth place finish from a year ago. Top runner honors might be a committee with Nicole Dawson, Sarah Daly, and Katie Govatos leading the way. Dawson and Daly were top three runners from a year ago while Govatos was red shirting and will be running cross country for the first time ever. School record holder in the steeple Sophia Cologer along with veterans Julie Gessler, MK Kulp and Angelina Oputa will had depth after successful years in spring.

Meet Preview

Cross Country Record Book:

Men’s 5,000m 1. Brandan McGee 15:17 2. Jake Albino 15:31 3. TJ Cowing 15:32 4. Redatu Semeon 15:34 5. Eric Schuler 15:36 6. Sam Boimov 15:37 7. Hassan Omar 15:39 8. Izzy Mehmedovic 15:40 9. Austin Hayslett 15:41 10. Chris Snyder 15:44

Men’s 8,000m 1. Hassan Omar 24:21 2. Brandan McGee 24:45 3. Andrew Smith 24:46 4. Izzy Mehmedovic 24:51 Austin Hayslett 24:51 6. Jake Albino 24:52 7. Anthony Kelhower 24:54 8. Paul Zwama 24:55 9. Tom Eldridge 24:59 10. Vinny DiSalvo 25:00

Women’s 5,000m 1. Sara Parkinson 17:47 2. Jen Ecker 17:52 3. Alex Hyland 17:55 4. Stefanie Thomas 18:10 5. Cara Wettlaufer 18:14 6. Cody Mezebish 18:21 7. Kirsten McGovern 18:38 8. Suzanne Gabriel 18:39 9. Keri Wilson 18:40 10. Julie Gessler 18:41

Women’s 6,000m 1. Jen Ecker 20:25 2. Alex Hyland 20:38 3. Stefanie Thomas 21:08 4. Sara Parkinson 21:20 5. Cody Mezebish 21:34 6. Suzanne Gabriel 21:53 7. Nicole Dawson 21:58 8. Sarah Zielinski 22:11 9. Keri Wilson 22:17 Cara Wettlaufer 22:17 10. Sarah Daly 22:20

Bolded names active runners

Men’s team won the Conference meet held at Binghamton for the second time since joining the America East Conference

The women’s fifth place finish was their highest since joining the Conference

The men’s team set four of the top six 8k times and five of the top eight 10k times in school history

The men’s team finished ninth in the Mid-Atlantic Region which is the highest placement in school history

Hassan Omar set school records in both the 8k and 10k, while finishing as an All Region Selection

Sarah Daly

At top three runner for the Retrievers last season, Daly made huge strides

through the indoor and outdoor track season. She set the school mark in the 1,000m during the winter session and moved up to #3 All Time in the 1500m

during the outdoor season despite never running the event prior to this

year.

Schedule: 1:00 PM Men’s Race 1:35 PM Women’s Race

Entries: Men’s Race Entries: Eric Schuler, Charles Bolinger, Matt Rever, Noah Hutton, Hassan Omar, Austin Hayslett, Nick Johnson, Jordan Psaltakis, Pat Duboyce, Jon Luckin, Ethan Allnutt, Rami Phillips, Rhys Burgett, Luke Kessler, Brandon Bejarano, Stephen Alexander, Darin Berry, Ty Thronson Women’s Race Entries: MK Kulp, Angel Bucci, Nicole Dawson, Julie Gessler, Katie Govatos, Harmony Roche, Cindy Alms, Katelyn Callaghan, Sophia Cologer, Chelsea Vane, Lynne Deckel, Angelina Oputa, Sarah Daly, Elise Allen, Essence Fredericks, Hannah Aris, Courtney Mattson, Olivia Richter