Track and Field Ends Metropolitan Outdoors With Seven More Medals

Published: Saturday, April 9, 2022

The NJIT track and field teams traveled back to Icahn Stadium in full force on Saturday for the final day of the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships.The two-day meet ended with the Highlander women taking seventh place overall (40 pts) and the Highlander men placing eighth (45 points).

SCORING BREAKDOWN
Women

  • Sprints: 5
  • Hurdles: 2
  • Distance: 2
  • Throws: 8
  • Jumps: 8
  • Relays: 15
  • Multis: 0

Men

  • Sprints: 12
  • Hurdles: 14
  • Distance: 0
  • Throws: 0
  • Jumps: 11
  • Relays: 8
  • Multis: 0


TOP THREE SCORING EFFORTS

  • Both 4x400 Relays earned gold for NJIT on Saturday. The women's group of Grace Burke, Nadia Zhecheva, Stuti Vyas, and Sydne Nance bested the field with a time of 3:59.56 (10 pts) while the men's foursome of Matt Bacchi, Eugene Graves III, Thomas Van Saders, and Jacob Leigh won with a time of 3:19.72 (10 pts).
  • Leigh also earned NJIT's lone individual win at Mets after taking the high jump crown with a leap of 1.95m / 6-4.75 (9 pts) and took bronze in the 100 meters (10.71, 6 pts), and fourth in the 200 meters (21.76, 5 pts).
  • Van Saders added a silver in the 400 hurdles (54.91, 8 pts) and a bronze in the 110 hurdles (15.35, 6 pts).


FRIDAY'S TOP THREE SCORING EFFORTS

  • Daniella Vito continued her strong outdoor debut season with a silver medal in the Javelin (8 points), logging a toss of 39.50m / 129-7.00 that was less than a meter away from the school record she set in her first meet at Monmouth two weeks ago.


OTHER SCORING PERFORMANCES

  • The 4x100 Relay team of Nia Holloway, Nance, Lillian Williams and Jadyn Otto just missed out on a bronze, placing fourth with a time of 49.59 (5 pts).
  • Nance also came in fourth place in the 200 meters after posting a time of 25.18 (5 pts).
  • Kendall Caballero was fifth in the long jump after registering a mark of 5.24m / 17-2.25 (4 pts).
  • Katherine Castano took seventh place in the 5000 meters with a 19:44.97 finish (2 pts).
  • Otto placed sixth in the high jump with a mark of 1.46m / 4-9.50 (3 pts) and seventh in the 100 Hurdles with a 15.97 time (2 pts).
  • Holloway added an eighth place long jump effort to her day after leaping 5.08m / 16-8.00 (1 pt).
  • Michael Girock ended the 400 meters in eighth place after posting a time of 49.94 (1 pt).
  • Samuel Manu and Waheeb Khan also took eighth in their respective events, the triple jump (12.89m / 42-3.50, 1 pt) and the long jump (6.36m / 20-10.50, 1 pt).


NEXT UP
NJIT will compete back in Jersey next weekend af Princeton's Larry Ellis Invite April 15-16.