Utica, NY - The SUNY Delhi Track and Field team was on the road again today for their final meet of the fall semester, this time traveling to Utica. The team continued its fast start to the season, wrapping up 2022 with three more school records and many other very strong performances.
The women's sprint crew has rebounded very well after losing school record holder Jaylynn Sheppard to graduation, as they added some young blood and took down the Delhi record in the 4x200 meter relay. The team of Sabrina Richards, Zoe Rodi, Miranda Cole and Kadie-Ann Whyte won the meet with a time of 1:49.47. The previous record had been 1:50.31 set back in 2005 by Precious Moore, Cassie Williams, Perry Brown and Nicole Cubero. Whyte also placed second overall in the 60-meter dash with a season-best time of 8.06 seconds while Cole ran 8.29 to make the finals where she placed eighth. Richards ran the open 400 meters in 1:02.68 to move into the school's all-time top ten for the event at ninth.
Other notable performances came from freshman Alexa Wolcott in the 5,000 meters where her time of 20:30.41 places her at number four in program history. Sophomore Kitty Messina scored in two events as she had a strong start to her season placing second in the shot put with a mark of 11.29 meters and ninth in the weight throw with a mark of 12.02 meters. Her performances scored points for the Broncos in both events as the top collegiate athlete in the shot put and sixth in the weight throw.
On the men's side, sophomore Joshua Jeffes continues to make his mark on the Delhi record books one week after running the second-fastest 300-meter race in NCAA Division III history. Jeffes started the meet by winning the 400 meters with the fastest flat track time in program history, posting a 48.92 to take the win. That mark is currently good for number two in the nation for the NCAA Division III and breaks his own school record for a flat track 400-meter performance. He then won the 200 meters, again breaking his own flat track 200-meter record (22.20), but also eclipsing the fastest time in program history set last year by Naquille Harris (22.09) on a banked track when he ran 22.01. That time is also faster than Jeffes has ever run outdoors.
Joining in on the fast times in the sprints was freshman Deron Davis. Davis ran a new lifetime best for the 60-meter dash with a 7.16 in the prelims and then came back with a 7.14 in the final, moving himself up two spots on the Delhi all-time list to sixth. He also ran an impressive 22.85-second race in the 200 meters to place sixth overall and move to the number eight spot on the all-time list for that event. Fellow freshman Chritsian Cuevas also scored in the event, running 23.02 to place eighth. Morgan Condon had another good week after dropping a huge lifetime best a week ago. This week he improved a little more, running 8.74 in the 60-meter hurdles to place third overall. Rounding out the sprint scoring was Lorenzo Castro, who ran 51.45 in the 400 meters to place fourth overall.
The Broncos also found some big points from their distance crew in the 5000-meter race. Leading the way was Seth Bywater and John Amenta. Bywater won the event running a great early season time of 15:24.86 with Amenta close behind in second running 15:25.95. Rounding out the team effort was Aiden Cutting who placed seventh overall in a new lifetime best at 16:18.30.
The final points for Delhi came from a pair of relay teams. Condon, Castro, Davis and Jeffes teamed up to win the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:28.34 while Cuevas, Valenick Exantus, Zander Mercado and Mickenson Simon placed third in the 4x200 meter relay with a time of 1:36.30.
The team will now be on an extended break and will return in January to return to Utica on January 14th.
