Women's Indoor Track and Field

Men Place Fourth, Women Sixth at USM

Posted: Jan 07, 2023

GORHAM, Maine – The Saint Joseph's College indoor track & field teams kicked off the New Year with an event at the University of Southern Maine on Saturday. The SJC men placed fourth with 49 points while the Monks' women finished sixth with 30 points.

A pair of longstanding team records fell in the 2023 opener, as junior Brooklyn Goff (Biddeford, Maine) broke the Monks' High Jump mark with a 1.51m effort – topping Norma Waggett's 1.45m record set in 2015 – and the team's winning 4x200 Medley, featuring Ryan Farr (Gorham, Maine), Tyler Ricker (Montpelier, Vt.), Ethan Tardif (Auburn, Maine), and Abdirizak Abukar (Lewiston, Maine), posted a 1:36.24 time to break a record set in 2013 by Faisal Abdillahi, Connor Dufour, Billy Brooks, and Jack LaFreniere (1:37.30).

THE RUNDOWN – WOMEN:

Junior Aaliyah WilsonFalcone (Winthrop, Maine) won the Triple Jump (10.44m)
Goff finished second in the 55-Meter Hurdles (9.35) and seventh in the High Jump
Freshman Paige Sawyer (Ellsworth, Maine) was third in the 55-Meter Hurdles (9.35)

THE RUNDOWN – MEN:

Abukar won the 400-Meter Dash (52.76) and was the runner-up in the 55-Meter Dash (6.66)
Grad Troy Hendricks (Hiram, Maine) finished third in the 1000-Meter Run (2:57.34)
Farr was third in the 200-Meter Dash (23.41)
Colin Monsen placed fourth in the Triple Jump (11.48m)
Sophomore Ryan Graham (Hopkinton, N.H.) finished fourth in the 800-Meter Run (2:15.56)

NEXT!

Saint Joseph's is back in action next Saturday with an appearance in the Suffolk University Invitational at the New Balance Center in Boston.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.