Based off the record setting performances from last weekend, one has to believe with stiffer competition and a big meet atmosphere that we could have just seen the tip of the iceberg in regards to what this outdoor season will hold for the UMBC Retrievers. Mercedes Jackson is beginning to make record setting a ho-hum affair after taking down the 100 meter and 200 meter records in what was supposed to be a low key home meet. Both marks put her most likely in the NCAA Preliminary Round, with the rest of the season spent on her honing craft and advancing to the Final Round. After blistering both the 100 meter and 200 meter dashes, watch for Kirsten Jones to add the outdoor 400 meter record to her dossier this weekend. Denny Long put in another solid round of performances in both the 100 meters and 200 meters, making it only a matter of time before he breaks onto the top 10 list in the 100 meters. The hurdles will highlight 110 meter specialist Trae Proctor and 400 meter specialist Paulette Fogle, both who are looking for breakout performances to shift their season into high gear. The long hurdles added a magnitude of depth when Mary Katherine Kulp debuted in the event and moved into the number five spot in the early season Conference rankings. The distance events will open up with the featured players opening up in their specialties. The 800 meters will be stacked with the duo of Sarah Daly and Cody Mezebish on the women’s side; and Andrew Smith and Andrew Keresztes on the men’s. All are capable of bettering or getting a position on the All Time Top Ten lists. The steeplechase will be a big event for the Retrievers when the #1, #5, and #6 All Time Performers in Brandan McGee, Vinny DiSalvo, and Redatu Semeon take the line. The end of the first night should end in a bang with all five runners looking for post season qualifications (IC4A/ECAC) in the 10,000 meter runs. For the women, freshmen Nicole Dawson and Harmony Roche finally get a chance to take on a distance suited to their strengths and should put their names on the All Time lists. Hassan Omar will lead the men, including #2 All Time TJ Cowing and newcomer Noah Hutton. Aboshioma Obemeata and Mo Drammeh will open their outdoor seasons in the triple jump and high jumps respectively while Ebonique Jones will open up in the long jump. The throws look to be the best source of school records after breaking three of the four men’s records. As Vincent Rentzsch continues his progression through his approach, his javelin continues to go further each weekend. With a more complete approach this weekend expect to see him cross over the 200 feet barrier. The hammer record took a beating last weekend at the hands of Thor Serafenas, who looks to be the next Retriever to garner a Preliminary mark, and could threaten the discus record as well. Yao Adantor will look to continue his successful run of meets in the shot put. Amanda Deller continues to build towards her eighth and final shot put title, but could add another dimension by continual improvement in the hammer, an event in which she set a personal best mark in last weekend. The highlights of the relays this weekend will be the women’s 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter, both of which can make a run at school records. Not to be overshadowed, but the men’s 4x100 meter relays could make a mark at the Conference level and the 4x400 meter relay could run a season’s best time

In her first performances of the outdoor season, freshman D’Nique

Phillip made an immediate mark with the 6th fastest 100 meters and

3rd fastest 200 meters in school history. And after beating indoor 400 meter school record holder

Kirsten Jones to line this past weekend, she might give her a race

to the school record in the 400 meters this weekend.

D’Nique Phillip

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250

After solid contributions during the cross country and indoor seasons, walk-on freshman Redatu Semeon made an immediate impact on the outdoor season with a #6 All Time Performance in the steeplechase. Having only had a fleeting experience of two races in the shorter 2,000 meter version during some odd high school meets, Semeon transitioned nicely to the longer version, battling for the lead most of the way. Having only been on the barriers a couple times before the meet, once can expect quick improvements in the event in his second outing this weekend.

After an early college career that saw him average between 48 and 51 feet on occasion, the new confines of UMBC have led to a range of consistency that has been 51 to 54 feet in his last few meets. After taking down the indoor school record in the shot put, he added the outdoor mark to his resume, surpassing the old record by a little under three feet. Adantor also moved onto the All Time lists in the discus and could move his way onto the hammer list by year’s end.

Meet Recap: UMBC Big Dawg Invite Mercedes Jackson breaks the school records in the 100m (11.65) and 200m

(23.60 - stadium record) and appears to have run times good enough for the NCAA Prelims

Thor Serafenas set school record in hammer 196-4

Yao Adantor set school record in the shot put, 54-3.75

Vincent Rentzsch sets school record in the javelin, 196-4

D’Nique Phillip runs #6 All Time mark (12.19) in the 100 meters and #3 All Time mark in the 200 meters (24.51)

Kalane Abbey ran a personal best 57.35 in the 400 meters

Denny Long finished 2nd

in the 100 meter dash and won the 200 meter dash

Redatu Semeon runs a #6 All Time Mark in the steeple (9:26)

10’10” The number of feet short Thor Serafenas was in the discus of making it a clean sweep of the

throwing records.

Friday, April 5th Field Events: Noon Javelin (Women) (Javelin held on Duke’s East Campus) Noon Hammer (Men): Top 30 entries 3:00pm Javelin (Men) (Javelin held on Duke’s East Campus) 3:00pm Hammer (Women) Track Events: 3:30pm 400m Hurdles (Women) – All Heats 3:50pm 400m Hurdles (Men) – All Heats 4:15pm 1,500m – Develop. (Women) 4:30pm 1,500m – Develop. (Men) 4:45pm 5,000m (Men) – “D” 5:05pm 5,000m (Women) – “C” 5:25pm 5,000m (Men) – “C” 5:45pm 1,500m (Women) – 4 Heats 6:05pm 1,500m (Men) – 4 Heats 6:25pm Sally Meyerhoff 3,000m (Women) 6:40pm 3,000m (Men) – 1 Heat 6:55pm 5,000m (Women) "B" 7:15pm 5,000m (Men) "B" 7:35pm 5,000m (Women) "A" 7:55pm 5,000m (Men) "A" 8:15pm 10,000m (Women) – 1 Heat 9:00pm 10,000m (Men) – 1 Heat

2013 Outdoor Schedule:

Fri-Sat, March 22nd

-23rd

FSU Relays

Florida State University

Saturday, March 30th

Big Dawg Invite

UMBC

Fri-Sat, April 5th

-6th

Duke Invite

Duke University

Saturday, April 13th

GMU Spring Invite

George Mason University

Friday, April 19th

Larry Ellis Invite

Princeton University

Fri-Sat, April 19th

-20th

Morgan State Legacy Meet

Morgan State University

Thurs-Sat, April 25th

-26th

Penn Relays

University of Pennsylvania

Sat-Sun, May 4th

-5th

America East Conference Binghamton University

Fri-Sun, May 10

th-12

th

IC4A/ECAC Championships Princeton University

Fir-Sat, May 24

th-25

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NCAA East Region North Carolina A&T

Wed-Sat, June 5

th-8

th

NCAA Championships University of Oregon

Saturday, April 6th Field Events: 9:00am Long Jump (Women) 10:00am Discus (Women) 10:00am High Jump (Women) 10:30am Shot Put (Men) 11:30pm Long Jump (Men) 12:00pm High Jump (Men) 1:00pm Discus (Men) 1:30pm Shot Put (Women) 2:00pm Triple Jump (Women) 2:00pm Pole Vault (Women) 4:30pm Triple Jump (Men) 4:30pm Pole Vault (Men) Track Events: 10:00am 800m – Develop. (Women) 10:15am 800m – Develop. (Men) 10:30am 100m Trials (Women) – All Heats 10:50am 100m Trials (Men) – All Heats 11:20am 100m Hurdle Trials (Women) 11:45am 110m Hurdle Trials (Men) 12:15pm 200m (Women) – All Heats 12:45pm 200m (Men) – All Heats 1:15pm Lunch Break 1:45pm 800m (Women) – 5 Heats 2:05pm Jason Manse 800m (Men) – 5 Heats 2:30pm 4 x 100m Relay (Women) 2:40pm 4 x 100m Relay (Men) 2:50pm 400m (Women) – All Heats 3:15pm 400m (Men) – All Heats 3:45pm 100m Final (Women) 3:50pm 100m Final (Men) 4:05pm 110m Hurdle Final (Men) 4:20pm 100m Hurdle Final (Women) 4:35pm 2,000m Steeplechase (Women) 4:45pm 3,000m Steeplechase (Women) 5:00pm 3,000m Steeplechase (Men) 5:30pm 4 x 400m Relay (Women) 5:45pm 4 x 400m Relay (Men) 6:00pm 4 x 800m Relay (Men) – 1 Heat only

Event Women / Men Entries (Tentative only, only A Relays listed):

100m Jackson, E. Jones / Balderson, Blanfort

200m Abbey, Jackson, E. Jones / Blanfort, Coaxum, Proctor

400m Adelola, Fogle, Phillip, K. Jones / Coaxum, Myers

800m Daly, Mezebish, Kulp, Oputa / Keresztes, Smith

1500m Oputa /

5,000m Gessler / Albino, Schuler

10,000m Dawson, Roche / Hutton, Cowing, Omar

110m Hurdles / Proctor

400m Hurdles Fogle, Kulp /

3,000m Steeple / McGee, DiSalvo, Semeon

4x100m Phillip, E. Jones, Abbey, Fogle / Balderson, Blanfort, Long, Proctor

4x400m Phillip, Jones, Abbey, Fogle/ Coaxum, Myers, Keresztes, Smith

4x800m

Long Jump Jones / Rentzsch, Teyibo

Triple Jump / Obemeata, Teyibo

High Jump / Drammeh

Pole Vault

Shot Put Deller, Edokobi, Mayne, Nelson / Adantor, Rentzsch, Serafenas

Discus Deller, Mayne, Nelson / Adantor, Edokobi, Serafenas, Stinsman

Hammer Deller, Edokobi, Mayne, Nelson / Adantor, Edokobi, Serafenas, Stinsman

Javelin / Rentzsch

Deca./Hept.

Event

IC4A Standards

(men)

NCAA East Region

(estimate, top 48)

ECAC Standards

(women)

NCAA East Region

(estimate, top 48) Qualifiers

100m 10.85 10.49 12.08 11.68 Long, Jackson

200m 21.80 21.21 24.74 23.94 Long, Jackson

400m 48.50 47.34 55.94 54.44

800m 1:51.80 1:50.33 2:10.94 2:09.2

1500m 3:51.00 3:46.82 4:32.04 4:26.8

5,000m 14:36.00 14:13.57 17:16.64 16:44.4

10,000m 31:08.00 30:06.12 37:40.24 35:41.0

110m Hurdles 14.85 14.27 14.34 13.76 Proctor

400m Hurdles 53.84 52.62 1:02.04 59.98

3,000m SC 9:15.00 9:03.97 10:55.04 10:37.5

4x100m 42.50 40.40 47.94 45.37 Women

4x400m 3:17.60 3:09.46 3:51.84 3:39.5 Women

4x800m 7:43.00 n/a 9:16.24 n/a

Long Jump 7.10 7.37 5.80 6.02

Triple Jump 14.50 15.08 12.05 12.46

High Jump 2.04 2.09 1.71 1.74

Pole Vault 4.80 5.02 3.72 3.84

Shot Put 15.60 16.86 13.60 14.63 Adantor, Deller

Discus 47.50 51.43 42.80 47.71 Serafenas

Hammer 53.00 58.09 51.00 54.72 Serfenas, Deller

Javelin 58.70 63.00 41.40 43.23 Rentzsch

Deca./Hept. Top 15 Top 12 National Top 15 Top 12 National

Event Men Time/Mark Women Time/Mark

100m David Bobb 10.18 Mercedes Jackson 11.65

110m/100mH Hamlin/Beadle 14.40 Imani Colbert 14.02

200m David Bobb 20.63 Mercedes Jackson 23.60

400m Kevin Russell 46.97 Angela Adams 56.00

400mH Phil Marshall 53.00 Paulette Fogle 1:01.97

800m Michael Christmas 1:50.67 Ohita Asein 2:11.34

1,500m Anthony Kelhower 3:49.20 Sara Parkinson 4:28.57

5,000m Anthony Kelhower 14:09.20 Sara Parkinson 16:46.86

10.000m Michael Sterling 30:17.2 Karin Wagner 35:31.64

3,000m SC Brandan McGee 9:01.73 Keri Wilson 11:29.56

4x100m Washington, Guillaume,

Russell, Bobb 39.41

E. Jones, Young, Ikpeze, Jackson

46.47

4x400m Hewling, Marshall, Guillaume, Russell

3:11.41 J. Wilson, Nathaniel,

Ward, Barkley 3:46.27

4x800m Baumler, Johnson,

Stump, Mehmedovic 7:35.96

Asein, Fields, Wettlaufer, Baker

9:02.31

High Jump Huguens Jean 2.22m (7-3.25) Chowan Brightful 1.70m (5-7)

Long Jump Marc Haskins 7.35m (24-1.5) Kiki Malamo-Paris 5.75m (18-10.25)

Triple Jump Victor Gilreath 15.45m (50-8.25) Tyishua Johnson 12.26m (40-2.75)

Pole Vault Dixon/Ludwig 4.95m (16-2.75) Laura Walker 3.35m (10-11.75)

Shot Put Yao Adantor 16.55 (54-3.75) Cleopatra Borel 16.44m (53-11.25)

Hammer Thor Serafenas 56.65m (185-10) Cleopatra Borel 51.28m (168-3)

Discus Balvin Brown 51.59m (169-3) Ashley Fauntleroy 45.04 (147-9)

Javelin Vincent Rentzsch 60.38 (198-1) Toni Boyd 41.40m (135-10)

Dec./Hept. Keith Onto 7,239 points Chowan Brightful 4,299 Points