Siaba earns NE10 Field Athlete of the Week honors for the first time
Anderson collects first Field Rookie of the Week award
NE10 Men's Track & Field Weekly Report
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EASTON, Mass. (February 11, 2020) – Stonehill College swept the Northeast-10 Conference men's weekly field awards, the league announced today.
Sophomore Michel-Ange Siaba was named the NE10 Field Athlete of the Week for the first time, while freshman Sam Anderson earned NE10 Field Rookie of the Week accolades for the first time for their performances at Saturday's URI Coaches' Tribute Meet, hosted by the University of Rhode Island. The duo add to an impressive list of NE10 weekly honors earned by the Skyhawks jumps team this winter, with Anderson giving the program four NE10 Field Rookie of the Week honors this season after classmate Cameron Bernard received the award three times this winter, including each of the two previous weeks.
Siaba turned in two of Stonehill's five top five performances at Rhode Island on Saturday, capped by a first-place finish in the triple jump as he cleared a personal-best distance of 45-feet, 11.75-inches. He finished nearly a foot and a half in front of Hartford freshman Christopher Fils (44-6.00) in second and matched his own personal-best set at Southern Maine on January 25, with a mark that ranks third on the NE10 performance chart this winter. Siaba opened his meet at URI with a third-place performance in the long jump, clearing a personal-best distance of 22-feet, 1.50-inches, to finish behind only two entries from Brown University in the event. The distance is also good enough for No. 2 on the NE10 performance chart.
Siaba has competed in all six meets in his first season at Stonehill, since transferring from Humboldt State University, competing in the heptathlon, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, 60-meter dash and 60-meter high hurdles. He qualified for the New England Indoor Track & Field Championships in the heptathlon, recording a personal-best 4,412 points and finishing ninth, to go with a sixth-place finish in the event at the Harvard Beantown Invitational on January 10-11 with 4,038 points. In addition to his season-bests in the jumps at URI over the weekend, Siaba has posted season-bests of 7.32-seconds in the 60-meter dash (New England Championships), 2:52.04 in the 1000-meter run (Beantown Invitational), 8.89-seconds in the 60-meter hurdles (New England Championships), 5-feet, 10-inches in the high jump (Beantown Invitational), 10-feet, 2-inches in the pole vault (USM Invite) and 37-feet, 6.75-inches in the shot put (Beantown Invitational).
Anderson was also strong in the long jump and triple jump for Stonehill at URI on Saturday. He was among the Skyhawks top five finishers with his fourth place showing in the triple jump, clearing a personal-best distance of 43-feet, 1-inch, marking the tenth-longest distance in the event in the NE10 this winter. Anderson also notched a personal-best in the long jump, clearing 20-feet, 8-inches to finish eighth overall. The distance ranks 18th on the NE10 performance list this season.
Anderson has competed at five events in his first collegiate season for Stonehill. He marked his PR in the triple jump on Saturday in just the second time he has competed in the event this winter. Anderson was a member of Stonehill's 4x400-meter relay that finished second at the USM Invitational on January 25, running the third leg of the team that finished in 3:30.75. His eighth-place finish in the long jump was also his first collegiate top ten for the event, in addition to the PR.
Stonehill, ranked No. 5 in this week's U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II East Regional rankings, is back in action on Saturday, for its final tune-up for the NE10 Indoor Championships, when it competes at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational, hosted by Boston University, at the BU Track & Tennis Center. The NE10 Indoor Track & Field Championships are scheduled for next Thursday and Friday, February 20 and 21, at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
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