NEW YORK, NY – The Siena Women's Indoor Track distance medley relay team of freshman
Claire Gardner, freshman
Keira Flaherty, sophomore
Jennifer McClintock, and senior
Olivia Lomascolo re-wrote the program record books to begin the Saints' weekend at the 2022 MAAC Men's & Women's Indoor Track Championships at the New Balance Armory Track & Field Center in New York City Saturday evening.
Through one day of competition, the women sit in sixth place, while the men are in seventh, with each team scoring seven points to open the weekend.
Siena's women's DMR team placed third with a time of 12:00.04 to surpass the previous mark of 12:03.98 run by
Morgan Serkes,
Holly Bednarek,
Julia Bryant, and Lomascolo in March 2020. The performance included a split of 3:38.92 in the 1200-meter leg of the race from Gardner, good for the fastest 1200 split in school history. The Siena men's team of freshman
Jackson Cayward, junior
Ryan Famiglietti, sophomore
Griffin Cooke, and junior
Matthew Laframboise also placed third with a time of 10:08.82, with both marks qualifying the teams for the ECAC/IC4A Championships.
The Saint participated in one other final during the opening night of competition, with both teams scoring the running of the 5,000. Graduate student
Aidan Canavan placed eighth in the men's 5k with a time of 14:45.12 for the fifth-best time in program history, while junior
Elaine Atanasova also finished eighth with a mark of 17:37.17 for a personal best and the eighth-best mark in indoor track history. Sophomore
Ryan Shanahan finished 10
th for the men with a time of 14:46.58 for sixth-best all-time, while freshman
Julia Caputo placed 11
th for the women at 18:27.82.
Four members of the Green and Gold qualified for the final heat in the mile, including three on the men's side and one female competitor. Sophomore
Killian McNamee (4:15.23), freshman
Luke Tkaczyk (4:17.34), and junior
Tommy Anderson (4:17.53) each qualified to return for the finals, with McNamee's time good for the fourth-best in school history. Junior
Delia McDade Clay ran a time of 5:06.80 to qualify to return on the women's side.
Siena will finish weekend action at the 2022 MAAC Indoor Track Championships on Sunday, February 20 beginning at 5 PM on MAAC.TV.
