WILLIAMS, FILEEN TAKE TOP SPOTS AT RAMAPO INVITATIONAL

WILLIAMS, FILEEN TAKE TOP SPOTS AT RAMAPO INVITATIONAL
March 29, 2025

Mahwah, N.J. (3/30/35)  The Dominican University New York men's track and field team competed at the Ramapo College Track and Field Invitational held Friday and Saturday on the campus of RCNJ.

Aaron Williams won the 100m and 200m dash.

Junior Samuel Fileen took the top spot in the 400m dash.

The 4x800m relay team of Deshawn Douglas, Aidan Nelson, Samuel Fileen and Prince Copeland took second place in the event.

Jeffrey Li Rivera was the other top five finisher as he took fourth in the 110m hurdles.

SATURDAY'S RESULTS

  • Aaron Williams won the 100m dash with a time of 10.79.
  • In the 100m dash prelims, Williams finished fifth with a time of 10.91, while Maurice Douglas took 11th place with a time of 11.23.  The unseeded race saw Aidan Mallon take 24th place with a time of 12.03.
  • Williams also took the top spot in the 200m dash with a time of 21.81.  Thiea Shea finished in 14th place with a time of 22.99, while Douglas took 21st place with a time of 23.20.  Jameel Richardson finished in 31st place with a time of 23.91 and Mallon ran a time of 24.66 to finish in 46th place.
  • The 4x800m relay team of Deshawn Douglas, Aidan Nelson, Samuel Fileen and Prince Copeland ran a time of 8:15.29 to take second place in the event.
  • Junior Fileen won the 400m dash with a time of 49.86.  Shea took 14th place with a time of 52.80, while Sam Samala finished in 28th place with a time of 55.68.  Richardson took 35th place with a time of 57.86.
  • Jeffrey Li Rivera finished fourth in the 110m hurdles event with a time of 15.71.  Jean Franco Del Valle took seventh place with a time of 15.95.  In the prelims of the event, Rivera ran a time of 15.54 to take third place and Del Valle had a time of 16.38 to finish in seventh place.
  • The 4x100m relay team of Mallon, Williams, Rivera and Douglas took seventh place with a time of 44.04.
  • Del Valle also competed in the high jump where he finished in seventh place with a jump of 1.79m (5'10.5").
  • The triple jump event saw Rivera take 11th place with a jump of 12.18m (39'11.5").
  • In the 1500m run, Douglas finished in 10th place with a time of 4:18.44.  Nelson took 26th place with a time of 4:33.37, while Copeland finished in 27th place with a time of 4:34.04.  Zachary Dertinger took 47th place with a time of 4:57.62, while Eslian Henriquez Flores finished in 55th place with a time of 5:25.12.
  • Rivera also took part in the long jump event where he took 17th place with a jump of 5.95m (19' 6.25").

FRIDAY'S RESULTS

  • Nelson competed in the 3000m steeplechase where he took eighth place with a time of 11:02.83.
  • Dertinger took 23rd place in the 5000m run with a time of 18:26.12.  Flores finished in 28th place with a time of 20:12.33.

UP NEXT

The Chargers travel to the Pratt Invitational next weekend.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.