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BIG EAST Indoor Championships (Day Two)
Adriana Wright Wins Three Individual Titles En Route to St. John's Third-Place Finish at BIG EAST Championships
2/25/2017 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. ââ'¬" In one of the most impressive individual performances in recent St. John's memory, Adriana Wright led the way for the Red Storm at the 2017 BIG EAST Indoor Track & Field Championships as she took home three individual titles and won a silver medal in the 4x400-meter relay. Overall, the Red Storm finished third in the team standings with 129 team points.
Wright scored the most points of any individual athlete at this year's conference championship meet, with 32, as she was named the High Point Performer for the women's side. The senior captured individual gold medals in the 60-meter hurdles, the 60-meter dash and the 200-meter dash.
In addition to her three individual victories, Wright ran the third-leg of the Red Storm's 4x400-meter relay team, which finished second-overall.
"We had an awesome BIG EAST Championships meet and we could not be more proud of how our whole team competed," said Head Coach Jim Hurt. "We were able to score points across the entire event spectrum. Adriana Wright was spectacular winning the 60-meter hurdles, the 60-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and running the third leg running on our 4x400-meter relay that finished second. Maya Stephens also had another fantastic meet winning the 400-meter dash, taking second in the 200-meter dash, and running the anchor leg on our 4x400."
Overall, St. John's championed five of the 18 events held at the two-day meet at Ocean Breeze Track & Field Facility in Staten Island, N.Y.
The Red Storm sat in third-place at the end of day one of the competition thanks to Nyla Woods' victory in the weight throw and a pair of second-place finishes by Julia Schwan and Anointing Onuoha in the pentathlon and long jump, respectively.
On day two of the competition, the St. John's sprinters got to work as the group scored 13 times in five different events. Led by Wright and Maya Stephens, the Johnnies won titles in the 60-meter dash, the 60-meter hurdles, the 200-meter dash and the 400-meter dash.
After Wright crossed the finish first in the 60-meter hurdles, with a time of 8.50 seconds, Chenoa Sebastian scored as well, finishing seventh in a time of 9.18 seconds.
St. John's scored four times in the 200-meter dash. Wright led the way for the Red Storm in this event with a time of 23.84 seconds for first-place. This time nearly broke the Red Storm's school-record of 23.81 seconds. Stephens made it a one-two punch with her second-place time of 24.18 seconds. Denesha Ransome crossed in fourth-place in a time of 24.69 seconds while Christine Oguledo finished eighth in a time of 25.21 seconds.
The Johnnies also scored three times in both the 400-meter dash and 60-meter dash finals.
Wright won her third gold medal in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.50 seconds. Ransome took third in the event in a time of 7.66 seconds and Oguledo came in seventh in a time of 7.93 seconds.
Stephens would not be denied of her own individual gold medal as she won the 400-meter dash in a time of 54.61 seconds. Graduate student Raquel Ricketts placed fourth in the event in a time of 55.98 seconds while Jasmine Burkett crossed in eighth-place at 56.89 seconds.
St. John's also performed well in the field events on the final day of this meet. Both Woods and Bernadette McGowan scored in the shot put, finishing fifth and seventh, respectively, with marks of 12.86 meters and 11.94 meters.
Onuoha scored again in the triple jump with her fourth-place finish of 11.57 meters and Shequell Higgs followed close behind with a fifth-place finish of 11.28 meters.
Schwan added to her scoring efforts with an eighth-place finish in the high jump after clearing 1.55 meters.
"Field events were led by Nyla Woods taking first place in weight throw and fifth shot put, and Julia Schwan's second place win in the pentathlon. Anointing Onuoha also had a great meet as she placed second in long jump and fourth for the triple jump, followed by Shequell Higgs' fifth in triple," added Hurt. "They were huge contributors to our third-place team finish. We competed event after event all the way down to the great run in the 4x400. We're very proud of the team's two-day effort and we look forward to great things from our team at the ECAC Championships next week up in Boston."
St. John's scored in the final event of the day with its second-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay. Burkett, Ricketts, Wright and Stephens teamed up to cross the finish line in a time of 3:43.35.
In all, the Red Storm scored 24 times across 13 different events and landed 10 student-athletes or relay teams on the podium.
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