22 010-110 10-11 INDOORINDOORINDOOR TRACKTRACKTRACK &&& FIELDFIELDFIELD NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Campus Drive, First Floor, Somerset, NJ 08873 Track & Field Contact: Ralph Ventre Phone: 732-469-0440/Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected] Bryant • Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • St. Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Women’s Indoor Track & Field NEC Men’s Indoor Track & Field (December 14, 2010) (December 14, 2010) NEC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week NEC Men’s Track Athletes of the Week Jazmin Waller, Long Island Bertony Jean-Louis, Sacred Heart Jr., Sprints, Atco, NJ/Winslow Township Jr., Hurdles, Norwalk, CT/Brien McMahon Waller sprinted to the 200-meter title at the Fordham Christmas Classic. Crossing Jean-Louis topped a field of 51 hurdlers and wrestled the NEC Track Athlete the line in 24.9 (HT), Waller out-raced her teammate, and defending NEC of the Week award away from his Sacred Heart teammate Jeremy Rosado. Indoor 200m champion, Jessie Gaines for the gold medal. In addition to One week after Rosado beat him out for the CTC crown, Jean-Louis returned the favor by setting a program record with his 60-meter hurdles title at the topping a 200m field of 34 entrants, Waller ran the first leg of Long Island’s Harvard University Open. Jean-Louis completed the race in 8.01s, a time that first-place 1600-meter relay performance at Fordham. stands .01 second better than the Northeast Conference record he set with his first-place finish at last season’s NEC Indoor Championships. Only nine NCAA Division I hurdlers have logged a better time than Jean-Louis this season.

NEC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week NEC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week Sheena Taylor, Wagner Vincent Elardo, Monmouth Jr., Throws, Twinsburg, OH/Detriot Mercy Jr., Throws, Forked River, NJ/Lacey Taylor threw her way to the top spot on the NEC leader board this past week- It wasn’t as far as his season-opening NCAA qualifying mark, but Elardo’s end. Winning the weight throw title at the Fordham Christmas Classic, Taylor latest performance is still good enough to lead the Northeast Confer- broke Wagner’s school record by heaving the implement 17.76m (58’ 3.25”). ence with more than a meter to spare. The repeat NEC Field Athlete of the Her first-place mark easily surpasses the qualifying standard for the 2011 ECAC Week put the shot 17.31m (59’ 9.5”) to win the Princeton New year’s Invita- tional. Elardo’s season-opening mark of 18.04m still stands as the second- Championships and stands less than one meter shy of the NCAA provisional best in all of NCAA Division I Track & Field, sitting only .04 meters behind standard. national leader Tim Nedow of DePaul.

NEC Women’s Rookie of the Week NEC Men’s Rookie of the Week Yulia Vasilyeva, Robert Morris Brandon Hutchinson, Sacred Heart Fr., Jumps, Bay Shore, NY/Bay Shore Fr., Jumps, Volgograd, Russia Hutchinson long-jumped his way to his first NEC Rookie of the Week award Vasilyeva made her Robert Morris debut at the Kent State Golden Flash Gala before triple-jumping his way to a second consecutive weekly honor. One and receives the NEC Rookie of the Week award for her performance there. week after winning the CTC long jump crown, Hutchinson earned bronze for The first-year Colonial cleared 1.65m (5’5”) in the to tie for second his performance at the Harvard University Open. His third-place place at the meet. Vasilyeva’s season-opening height ranks her third on the mark of 14.26m (46’ 9.5”) made him the early NEC event leader and ranks Northeast Conference performance list and would have placed fifth at last as the 28th-best through the first two weeks of the NCAA Indoor season. season’s NEC Indoor Championships.

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