NEW YORK | A trio of Farmingdale State College indoor track and field student-athletes registered qualifying marks Friday night for the Atlantic Regional Indoor Track and Field Championships (March 3-4), as the Rams took part in the NYU DIII Invitational at the New Balance Track & Field Center at the Armory.
On the women's side, junior sprinter Alexxis McNeil (Valley Stream, NY) qualified for the regional meet with her personal-record 8.10 time in the 60-meter dash.
Two men's sprinters also qualified for the championships, including senior Morris Johnson (Binghamton, N.Y.), whose PR of 7.03 in the 60-meter dash final placed third, and moved to No. 3 on the FSC all-time leaderboard. Classmate Joseph Stocken VI (Miller Place, N.Y.) placed fourth in the 60-meter hurdles final, crossing the finish line in an 8.70 time that both set a personal record and places him fourth on the program's all-time record ledger.
Stocken VI was joined in the 60-meter hurdles final by senior Rodney Jerome (Westbury, N.Y.), whose 8.79 time placed seventh and is the sixth-best mark all-time in Rams history.
A pair of field event competitors placed third in their respective events, including sophomore Robert Kalinowski (Farmingdale, N.Y.) in the pole vault (4.26m; 13-11.75) and freshman Marcin Wasiuta (Farmingdale, N.Y.) in the finals of the shot put (12.89m; 42-3.5). Kalinowski's leap places him seventh on the FSC all-time list.
Sophomore Jovany Philippe (Huntington, N.Y.) qualified for the finals in the long jump, and registered a fifth-place showing with his leap of 6.39m (20-11.75).
Head coach Daniela Georgieva's Farmingdale State teams are back in action Friday (Feb. 10), when they travel to the Ocean Breeze Park Track & Field Complex in Staten Island for the Fastrack National Invite.