WOMEN'S TRACK COMPETE AT RIDER INVITATIONAL

April 14, 2019

WOMEN'S TRACK COMPETE AT RIDER INVITATIONAL

Lawrenceville, N.J. (4/14/19) The Dominican College women's track and field team traveled to the Rider Invitational yesterday.

Lawrenceville, N.J. (4/14/19) The Dominican College women's track and field team traveled to the Rider Invitational yesterday.

The 4x400m relay team of Desiree Joseph-Jarvis (Livingston, N.J.), Djazmina Jean-Pierre (Spring Valley, N.Y.), Ann McCormack (Pearl River, N.Y.) and Marissa Murphy (Bethpage, N.Y.) had the high finish of eighth place with a time of 4:36.13.

In the 4x100m relay, the team of Adji Ndiaye (Bronx, N.Y.), Cheneda Jemedy (Brockton, Mass.), Joseph-Jarvis and Jean-Pierre finished in ninth place with a time of 51.80.

Sophomore Zaria Hankins (Ossining, N.Y.) took 11th place in the shot put with a throw of 9.72m (31 feet, 10.75 inches) and Judy Auguste (Westbury, N.Y.) finished in 12th place with a throw of 9.38m (30 feet, 9.25 inches).

In the discus throw, Hankins finished in 16th place with a throw of 15.95m (52 feet, four inches).

Jemedy ran the 200m dash in a time of 26.32 to finish in 14th place. Jean-Pierre took 34th place with a time of 27.69 and Joseph-Jarvis finished in 44th place with a time of 28.72. Ndiaye took 47th place with a time of 29.23, while Jada Hammond (Nyack, N.Y.) finished in 52nd place with a time of 31.07.

The 100m dash saw Jemedy take 16th place with a time of 13.00. Jean-Pierre ran a time of 13.10 to finish in 18th place and Ndiaye took 31st place with a time of 14.21. Hammond finished in 34th place with a time of 14.40 and Auguste took 38th place with a time of 14.97.

Hammond competed in the 100 hurdles where she took 20th place with a time of 18.56.

In the 800m run McCormack took 31st place with a time of 2:35.85 and Murphy finished in 35th place with a time of 2:44.05. Megan Childs (Huntingdon, Pa.) took 39th place with a time of 2:56.38.

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.