Newburgh, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Men's and Women's Track and Field teams will close out the 2023 Outdoor season on Friday when it competes in the ECAC Championship hosted by Goucher College.
 
MSMC Men At A Glance: The Men's team will be in action for the first time since placing fourth at the Skyline Conference Championship Meet on April 23.
 
Christopher Christiano (Waterbury, Conn.) had a strong day for the Knights, placing second in the 800-meters in a school record time of 1:57.03. The new record time smashed his previous mark of 2:02.19 set on April 14 at RPI and he earned Second Team All-Skyline Conference recognition with his performance.
 
Michael Gillespie (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) had a strong day for the Mount in the sprints, earning a trio of top-10 finishes. Gillespie ran to a seventh-place finish in the 200-meters in 24.13 seconds, a ninth-place finish in the 400-meters in 53.48 seconds and a 10^th place finish in the 100-meters in 12.49 seconds.
 
Greg Casale (Staten Island, N.Y.) turned in a ninth-place finish for the Mount in the 800-meters with a time of 2:21.04 and added a seventh-place finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, completing the event in 11:49.60.
 
Andrew Maloy (Calabash, N.C.) had a big day for the Mount in the throws, highlighted by a third place showing in the Hammer Throw with a heave of 36.82 meters. Maloy added a ninth-place finish in the Discus with a mark of 25.53 and a 10^th place finish in the Shot Put, posting a mark of 9.02.
 
MSMC Women At A Glance: The Knights finished the 2023 Skyline Conference Championship in third place on April 23, totaling 114 points. Freshman Lily O'Brien was named the league's Outdoor Rookie of the Year while Fred Callo was tabbed the Women's Coach of the Year.
 
O'Brien had a big day for the Knights both on the track and in the field, winning the 400-meter hurdles and the Triple Jump. O'Brien, who earned First Team All-Skyline Conference accolades in each event, topped the field in the hurdles with a time of 1:14.23 and posted a championship mark of 9.90 meters in the Triple Jump. O'Brien closed out a stellar day with third place finishes in the 100-meter hurdles (18.52), High Jump (1.43) and Long Jump (4.72) to go along with an eighth place showing in the 5,000-meters with a time of 25:39.09.
 
Jessica Kerrigan (Howard Beach, N.Y.) also turned in strong performances on both the track and in the field, highlighted by a Second Team All-Skyline Conference performance in the 100-meter dash. Kerrigan took the runner-up position in the event with a time of 13.57 seconds and added a sixth-place finish in the 200-meters in 30.02 and a seventh place showing in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:24.32. In the field events, Kerrigan finished fifth in the Triple Jump (8.67) and was tied for sixth in the High Jump (1.38) and tied for eighth in the Long Jump (4.45).
 
Emily Schneider (Rock Tavern, N.Y.) continued her standout rookie season in the throws for the Knights on Sunday, posting four top-10 finishes. Schneider won the individual crown and was named First Team All-Skyline Conference in the Hammer Throw with a mark of 41.36 meters and added a fifth-place finish in the Discus (24.75), eighth place finish in the Javelin (14.62) and a ninth-place finish in the Shot Put (7.42).
 
Lindsey Medina (Newburgh, N.Y.) earned Second Team All-Skyline Conference honors in the Hammer Throw for the Knights, finishing just behind Schneider with a throw of 33.93 meters. Medina also placed fifth in the Shot Put (9.02) and collected an eight-place finish in the Discus (20.13).
 
Priya Patel (Ozone Park, N.Y.) turned in a fourth-place finish for the Knights in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a time of 15:17.77 and added a seventh-place finish in the 5,000-meters in 23:49.44 and an eighth place run in the 1,500-meters in a time of 6:12.11.
 
Freshman Sarah Kannenberg (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) had a strong day on the track for the Mount, finishing the 1,500-meters in a time of 5:27.17, good for fourth place, the 800-meters in 2:40.41, good for fifth place and the 5,000-meters in 23:20.54, completing the event in the sixth position.
 
Kaitlin Hansen (Port Jervis, N.Y.) led the Knights in the 400-meters with a sixth-place time of 1:08.54 and checked in fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 19.33 seconds. In the field, Hansen produced a ninth-place finish in the Long Jump for the Knights.
 
Kitty Masayda (Watertown, Conn.) ran to a fifth-place finish in both the hurdle races, completing the 100-meter event in 20.25 seconds and the 400-meter race in 1:20.60. In the field, Masayda finished fourth in the High Jump and seventh in both the Long and Triple Jumps.
 
Raina Quinones (West Babylon, N.Y.) turned in a sixth-place finish for the Mount in the Discus as well as an eight-place showing in the Shot Put and completed the 400-meters in 1:11.96, good for eighth place.
 
Other strong performances in the throws were turned in by Rebecca Meade (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) who took fifth in the Hammer Throw and 10^th place in the Javelin, Reyna Baumann (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) who finished sixth in the Shot Put and 10^th in the Discus and Lilly La Rocca (Park Ridge, N.J.) who took eighth in the Hammer Throw.
 
On the track, the 4x100-meter relay team of Kerrigan, Hansen, Quinones and Masayda took third place for the Knights with a time of 55.52 seconds.
 
Coaches' Take: "We are looking forward to competing in our last meet of the season. I am looking for big days for the Men out of Senior Andy Maloy in hammer, Greg Casale in Distance and of course Chris Christiano in middle distance."

"For the women events I am looking for Senior Priya Patel in the distance events to have a great last meet, the women throwers in Discus & Hammer and hopefully our women in the jumps and hurdle races.  The women's team goal is to score more points in this meet then what we have done in the past. We scored 43 points as a team in 2019, our goal is surpassing that amount this year" – Head Coach Fred Callo.