Men's Outdoor Track & Field

Vinci Earns Second GNAC Rookie of the Week Honor

Posted: Jan 14, 2020

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly honors have been announced and Saint Joseph's College freshman thrower Simon Vinci (Peabody, Mass.) has been selected as the GNAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Rookie of the Week for the second time this season.

In Friday's Dartmouth Relays, Vinci broke the team's Weight Throw record with a 13.20m effort, good for ninth overall, and placed seventh in the Shot Put (13.99m).

Vinci has broken a team record in each of the Monks' three events this winter. In his first collegiate meet at the Reggie Lewis Center on December 7th, the freshman thrower shattered the team's Shot-Put record with a 13.89m toss. A week later he bested his own Shot-Put mark with a 14.50m heave at University of Southern Maine and claimed his first GNAC weekly accolade for his efforts.

Saint Joseph's will compete at Bates College this Saturday.

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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.