LADY CHARGER RELAY TEAM WIN AT VASSAR COLLEGE INVITATIONAL

The Dominican College women's track 4x100m relay team won at the Vassar Invitational

April 22, 2018

LADY CHARGER RELAY TEAM WIN AT VASSAR COLLEGE INVITATIONAL

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (4/22/18) The Dominican College women's track 4x100m relay team won the event at the Vassar College Invitational which was held yesterday at Weinberg Track. As a team, the Lady Chargers finished in third place overall.

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (4/22/18) The Dominican College women's track 4x100m relay team won the event at the Vassar College Invitational which was held yesterday at Weinberg Track. As a team, the Lady Chargers finished in third place overall.

The team of Adji Ndiaye (Bronx, N.Y.), Djazmina Jean-Pierre (Spring Valley, N.Y.), Ashley-Ann Courts (Riverhead, N.Y.) and Esther Galo (Allendale, N.J.) won the relay event with a time of 52.75 out of six teams.

Jean-Pierre won the 100m dash with a time of 13.43. Da-Naeya Rhodes (Union, N.J.) finished in ninth place with a time of 14.69 and Tayina Solon (West Haverstraw, N.Y.) took 12th place with a time of 15.00.

Sophomore Courts took the top spot in the 200m dash with a time of 27.98. Jean-Pierre finished in second place with a time of 28.12 and Galo took fourth place with a time of 28.36. Solon ran a time of 31.96 to take 17th place and Rhodes finished in 19th place with a time of 33.53.

Freshman Andrea Nardone (Stony Point, N.Y.) and sophomore Kaitlynn Connor (Warwick, N.Y.) took 10th and 11th place in the 1500m run with times of 5:29.58 and 5:37.31.

Jennifer Heller (Butler, N.J.) ran in the 400m dash where she took fifth place with a time of 1:07.44. Kim Koeder (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) finished in sixth place with a time of 1:08.41. Victoria Ostolozaga (Stony Point, N.Y.) ran a time of 1:11.24 to finish in 1:11.24.

Ina Koeder (Schwaebisch Hall, Germany) took part in the 800m run where she finished in 10th place with a time of 2:42.29.

The 4x400m relay team of I. Koeder, K. Koeder, Heller and Jean-Pierre took fourth place with a time of 4:40.17.

Ndiaye and Courts tied for third place in the high jump with a jump of 1.42m (4 feet, 7.90 inches).

Courts finished in second place in the long jump with a jump of 4.91m (16 feet, 1.30 inches).

Junior Abigail Jacquet (Garnerville, N.Y.) finished in sixth place in the discus throw with a throw of 29.00m (95 feet, 1.73 inches) and sophomore Judy Auguste (Westbury, N.Y.) took 10th place with a throw of 18.58m (60 feet, 11.49 inches).

Ndiaye took part in the javelin throw and took seventh place with a throw of 25.07m (82 feet, 3.00 inches).

In the shot put, Auguste took fourth place (9.13m (29 feet, 11.44 inches)) and Jacquet took fifth place with a throw of 8.39m (27 feet, 6.31 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.