Women's Indoor Track and Field

Pair of SJC Indoor Track & Field Athletes Earn GNAC Honors

Posted: Dec 13, 2022

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly honors have been released and a pair of Saint Joseph's College indoor track & field athletes have earned accolades.

Junior Aaliyah WilsonFalcone (Winthrop, Maine) has been named as the GNAC Women's Indoor Track & Field Rookie of the Week and freshman Abdirizak Abukar (Lewiston, Maine) is the GNAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Rookie of the Week.

WilsonFalcone won the Triple Jump - and shattered the Monks' record - with a 10.68m effort, was fourth in the 55-Meter hurdles (9.66) and placed sixth in the Shot Put (9.79m) in her collegiate track & field debut at the University of Southern Maine on Saturday. She qualified for New England's in the Triple Jump.

Abukar won the 200-Meter dash with a program-record 22.89 time, placed third in the 55-Meter dash (6.75), and ran a leg for the Monks' winning Sprint Medley relay (3:52.59) at USM on Saturday. The freshman qualified for New England's with his 200 time.

Saint Joseph's will compete at the University of Southern Maine on Saturday, January 7th.

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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.