Borofski |
Curit |
Esernio |
Gray |
Kent |
McAdams |
Six women and four men set to represent Stonehill at CrossPlex Complex in Birmingham, Alabama
2015 NCAA DII Indoor Track & Field Championships Schedule of Events
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 12, 2015) – Ten members of the Stonehill College men’s and women’s track & field teams are set to compete at the 2015 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, hosted by the University of Alabama Huntsville and held at the CrossPlex Complex in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday and Saturday.
Stonehill’s ten student-athletes, four men and six women, will participate in five events over the two days. The women’s team enters this weekend’s action ranked second in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II East Regional computer rankings after capturing its second consecutive Northeast-10 Conference Championship and placing tenth at the New England Championships in its last two meets. The men’s squad, which finished third at the NE-10 Championships and 20th at the New England Championships, is No. 3 in the East Regional rankings.
Senior All-American Maria Curit (Biddeford, Maine/Biddeford) is slated to compete in three events this weekend, and is one of two Skyhawk entries in individual events. She will get it started for Stonehill on Friday night at 5:35 p.m. with the 800-meter run prelims. Curit is seeded second out of 18 entries in the 800 with her program record time of 2:08.25 set at the New England Championships on February 28th. She will be looking for her second career All-America performance, after placing seventh in the 800 with a time of 2:10.75 last May at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Allendale, Michigan.
Curit will be back in action less than two hours later, as the women’s 4000-meter distance medley relay is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Curit will be joined by junior Jordan Gray (Warwick, Rhode Island/Toll Gate) and sophomores Nicole Borofski (Plymouth, Massachusetts/Plymouth North) and Aisha McAdams (North Kingstown, Rhode Island/North Kingstown) in the DMR, which is seeded 7th out of 13 entries with its time of 11:43.44 from the Boston University John Thomas Terrier Invitational on January 30th.
Cooney |
Grubel |
Kirkpatrick |
Zawalich |
The Stonehill men will then cap day one action with the distance medley relay at 7:50 p.m. Stonehill’s DMR of junior Nick Kirkpatrick (Carmel, Indiana/Brebeuf Jesuit Prep) and seniors Teague Grubel (Phoenix, Arizona/Shadow Mountain), Patrick Cooney (Douglaston, New York/Archbishop Molloy), and Dan Zawalich (Paxton, Massachusetts/St. John’s of Shrewsbury), which is seeded fifth out of 12 entries with a time of 9:50.89 set at the New England Championships, will be looking for its second consecutive All-America performance at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Kirkpatrick, Cooney, and Zawalich earned All-America honors last March with their seventh-place finish in 9:58.33 at the NCAA Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while Cooney and Zawalich also posted All-America efforts with the DMR as freshmen at the 2012 Indoor Championships in Mankato, Minnesota.
Day two action for Stonehill will begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday with the 800-meter run finals. Curit can advance to the finals with a top-2 finish in her preliminary heat on Friday or by posting one of the two fastest remaining times. Borofski, Stonehill’s second entry in an individual event, will make her NCAA Championship debut in the 3000-meter run at 5:40 p.m. Borofski is seeded 20th out of 20 entries in the event with her program record time of 9:44.54, set at the New England Championships.
The women’s 4x400-meter relay, which is seeded 12th out of 13 entries with a program record time of 3:47.72, will cap Stonehill’s participation at the NCAA Championships at 6:15 p.m. Curit, who will be competing in her third event of the weekend, will be joined by Gray and classmates Leanne Kent (North Andover, Massachusetts/Central Catholic) and Jeana Esernio (Stony Brook, New York/Ward Melville). Gray, Kent, and Esernio are all seeking their first career All-America performances.
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