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Bucknell Bison Opener

Meet Preview:

The UMBC men’s and women’s indoor track & field teams open their season at the

Bucknell Bison Opener this Saturday. This meet has traditionally been an opportunity to seewhat the student-athletes have in preparations for the more intensive part of the season oncethey return from spring break. With a young team, there is much to be sorted out, and with thefull team traveling, there is going to be plenty of action for UMBC track fans to take in.

Keep an eye on the long sprinting events on the women’s side, as there should be a lot

of fireworks and potential ECAC qualifying times the first time out. Four-time America EastConference champion Amanda Deller will enter the circle with hopes of putting the Conferencetitle out of reach the first meet out. Transfer Denny Long will look to return the UMBC sprintteam back to dominance in the 60 meter dash. And a full slate of distance action will be on tapas the whole cross country and middle distance crew will toe the line.

Amanda Deller:

Junior All-Conference performer AmandaDeller returns, having never lost a shot putcompetition at an America East ConferenceChampionships. Despite the success, new throwsCoach, Pete Koumelis

has higher expectations, “my

hope is that we get closer to the fifty foot mark inthe shot, and have her win the weight throw

indoors.” Deller finished second behind new

volunteer assistant coach Kadine Johnson.

Meet Recap:

The last event for the UMBC Cross Country/Track and Field teams was the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Cross Country Regionals at the University of Maryland

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Eastern Shore. Leading themen was Brandan McGee who crossed the line in 64

place with a 32:11.2. Todd Cowing set anAll-Time Top 10 Performance, completing the 10k course in 32:42.7. Nic Escobar also competedsetting a personal best 32:59.8 for the distance.The women has five personal best 6k times out of the seven runners entered, though itshould be noted the times are converted as the runners were led astray, actually running 4.05miles versus the normal 6km. Times for the top 5 women were: Keri Wilson

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22:15, CodyMezebish

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23:15, Alyse Gibson

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23:27, MK Kulp

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23:33, Kirsten McGovern 23:49.

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Inside the Numbers:

Fourteen different Retrievers qualified to the IndoorIC4A/ECAC championships last year. Of those fourteenathletes, ten of them return this year including AmandaDeller, Mo Drammeh, Cameron McDearmon, Kirsten Jones,Roy Jones, Jake Albino, Andrew Smith, Imani Colbert,Josh Hewitson, Trae Proctor.

Field Events:

9:30 AM Long Jump (men, women to follow)Triple Jump (men, women to follow)9:30 AM Weight Throw (women, men to follow)Shot Put (women, men to follow)10:00 AM High Jump (men, women to follow)10:00 AM Pole Vault (women, men to follow)

Track Events:

*all events women, followed by men, except hurdles10:15 AM 5,000 Meter Run11:00 AM 60 Meter High Hurdle Trials11:30 AM 60 Meter Dash Trials12:05 PM Mile Run12:25 PM 60 Meter High Hurdle Finals12:40 PM 60 Meter Dash Finals12:55 PM 400 Meter Dash**Officials Break**2:00 PM 8000 Meter Run2:20 PM 500 Meter Dash2:40 PM 1000 Meter Run2:50 PM 300 Meter Dash3:15 PM 200 Meter Dash4:00 PM 3,000 Meter Run4:25 PM 4x400 Meter Relay

Schedule of Events