NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Men's and Women's track teams traveled to Massachusetts to compete in the Wheaton Pre-Post season meet at Wheaton College. In their final meet ahead of the Conference Championships, the blue and gold looked to get their final marks and qualify any last members before traveling to Boston next week.
The sand pit continued to be a home for the Chargers as Nile Colson (Rochester, N.Y./Aquinas Institute) finished second overall in the long jump. After being seeded in the meet with a jump of 6.31m, Colson would go on to beat his seeded distance in just his third jump when he landed a jump of 6.51m. Colson opened up the event with a jump of 5.98m and progressively increased jumping 6.05m on his second and finally jumping 6.51m on his third. That jump would move him into the finals where that distance would hold against the competition and move him into second place for the blue and gold.
Out of the pit the blue and gold continued to fly as Nathaniel Peters (/) took home third in the high jump. After clearing the opening height set at 1.75m on his first attempt, Peters would take it to the wire clearing both 1.80m and 1.85m on his third jumps at both heights. After clearing 1.85m Peters would just narrowly miss clearing 1.90m which would have given him sole possession of first in the event. Peters finished third overall after clearing 1.85m in the event followed by teammate Kenneth Holland (Circleville, N.Y./Pine Bush) who finished in fifth clearing 1.75m.
On the women's side Alexandra Kenealy would finish in fourth in the 800m for the blue and gold crossing in a time of (2:30). After being seeded with a time of (2:35), Kenealy would shave off five seconds and set a new personal record for herself in just the second time running the event. The difference between the top and Kenealy was just four seconds, finishing Kenealy in fourth place for the event.
Brendan Moretti (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) took to the track in the 400m and would finish fourth overall at the end of the event. After winning the second heat in the event crossing with a time of (54.32), he had to wait to see how his time would hold up against the remaining competitors. After four heats, Moretti found himself sitting in fourth place in the event beating out teammate Jason Smith (Milford, Conn./Johnathan Law), who finished in 10th with a time of (56.92).
Wrapping up the meet Isabella Bostic (/) competed in the high jump for the first time in her collegiate career and finished setting a new personal record in the event clearing (1.46m). After clearing the opening height of 1.41m on her first attempt, it took her three attempts to clear 1.46m and finish her in a tie in the top ten in the event.
Hannah Swain (Nashua, N.H./Nashua South) would go on to round out the top ten in the women's 400m dash. Swain would cross in a time of (1:06.45) finishing her in eighth place in the event for the Chargers.
The Chargers return back home now to make their final preparation before they head up to the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston Massachusetts to compete against all their conference opponents in the Northeast 10 Championships track meet with events beginning on Thursday and champions being crowned on Friday.
