RELAY TEAM TAKES FIRST PLACE AT MARK T. YOUNG INVITATIONAL

April 9, 2016

RELAY TEAM TAKES FIRST PLACE AT MARK T. YOUNG INVITATIONAL

West Haven, Conn. (4/9/16) The Dominican College men's track 4x100m relay team won the Mark T. Young Invitational held today and hosted by Yale University.

West Haven, Conn. (4/9/16) The Dominican College men's track 4x100m relay team won the Mark T. Young Invitational held today and hosted by Yale University.

The 4x100m relay team of DeCarlo Richards (New City, N.Y.), Andrew Pierre (Spring Valley, N.Y.), Dylan Roadarmel (New City, N.Y.) and Seth Wilson (Monroe, N.Y.) won the event with a time of 43.31.

Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Men's Track Athlete of the Week, Wilson, took second place in the 100m dash with a time of 11.21. Pierre took 6th place with a time of 11.44, while Elijah Castro (Bergenfield, N.J.) finished in 13th place with a time of 12.32. Shaheim Hill (Newburgh, N.Y.) had a time of 13.22 to take 15th place.

Wilson also took second place in the 200m dash with a time of 22.21. Freshman Michael Merced (Pearl River, N.Y.) finished in seventh place with a time of 22.90. Richards had a time of 23.38 to finish in 13th place and Pierre took 15th place with a time of 23.56. Castro finished in 22nd place wiht a time of 24.59, while Hill took 31st place with a time of 26.92.

Merced competed in the 400m dash and took 4th place with a time of 49.77. Roadarmel took 18th place with a time of 55.17.

In the 800m run event, Adam Klein (Nanuet, N.Y.) had a time of 2:05.23 to take 19th place, while James Feeney (Stony Point, N.Y.) finished in 26th place with a time of 2:24.44.

Feeney also competed in the 1500m run where he took 24th place with a time of 4:50.08.

Freshman Adrian Spaulding (New Castle, Del.) finished 6th in the 110m hurdles with a time of 16.99 and took seventh place in the 400m hurdles with a time of 59.26.

In the 4x400m relay event, Roadarmel, Richards, Spaulding and Castro took third place with a time of 3:39.14.

Richards competed in the long jump and finished in eighth place with a jump of 5.77m (18 feet, 11.25 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.