WOMEN'S TRACK COMPETE AT QUEENSBOROUGH RELAYS

Bayside, N.Y. (4/15/18) The Dominican College women's track and field team traveled to the Queensborough Relays which was held this past Saturday.

WOMEN'S TRACK COMPETE AT QUEENSBOROUGH RELAYS
April 15, 2018

Bayside, N.Y. (4/15/18) The Dominican College women's track and field team traveled to the Queensborough Relays which was held this past Saturday.

Sophomore Ashley-Ann Courts (Riverhead, N.Y.) took fifth place in the 100m dash with a time of 13.22.  Djazmina Jean-Pierre (Spring Valley, N.Y.) finished in eightth place with a time of 13.48 and Esther Galo (Allendale, N.J.) ran a time of 13.66 to take 14th place.

In the 400m dash sisters Ina Koeder (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) and Kim Koeder (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) took 10th and 11th place with times of 1:07.43 and 1:08.05.  Sophomore Victoria Ostolozaga (Stony Point, N.Y.) finished in 26th place with a time of 1:15.90. 

Freshman Andrea Nardone (Stony Point, N.Y.) ran in the 1500m run where she finished in seventh place with a time of 5:35.73 and Kaitlynn Connor (Warwick, N.Y.) took 11th place with a time of 5:46.99.

In the 4x100m relay the team of Jean-Pierre, Galo, Adji Ndiaye (Bronx, N.Y.) and Courts ran a time of 52.63 to finish in fourth place.  That same team also finished in third place in the 4x200m relay with a time of 1:52.10.

The 4x400m relay team of I. Koeder, Jean-Pierre, K. Koeder and Nardone finished in fourth place with a time of 4:40.79.

The team of Judy Auguste (Westbury, N.Y.), Ostolozaga, Chelsea Crawford (Montgomery, N.Y.) and Jennifer Heller (Butler, N.J.) took part in the sprint medley relay and finished third with a time of 5:12.87.

Ndiaye and Courts competed in the high jump where they took second and third place respectively with a jump of 1.45m (4 feet, 9 inches). 

In the shot put, junior Abigail Jacquet (Garnerville, N.Y.) finished in eighth place with a throw of 8.95m (29 feet, 4.5 inches).  Auguste also took part in the event where she took 10th place with a throw of 8.63m (28 feet, 3.75 inches).

 

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 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.