St. John's University Athletics
Thursday, January 30
Staten Island, N.Y. (Ocean Breeze)
St. John's University
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Metropolitan Championships
St. John’s Gears Up for Metropolitan Indoor Championships
1/29/2020 5:17:00 PM | Women's Track and Field
The Johnnies captured a second-place finish at the meet in 2019
QUEENS, N.Y. (Jan. 29, 2020) – The St. John's track & field team heads to the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island for the Metropolitan Indoor Championships this Thursday and Friday.
The Red Storm will compete in 22 events across the two-day meet against some of the top teams in the greater New York area. Last season, St. John's placed second overall with 123 points.
Leah Anderson will participate in her first 4x400-meter relay of 2020 along with Avon Samuels, Brianna Burkley and Skyy Diop. The team will look to repeat last year's first-place finish in the event after posting a time of 3:46.95.
The Johnnies' foursome will compete in five individual events combined.
Anderson will also return to the 60-meter dash since recording a time of 7.56 at the Penn 8-Team Select on Jan. 18. The junior sprinter's mark ranks second on the BIG EAST leaderboard this season.
Samuels will participate in the 400 meters after registering an ECAC-qualifying time of 56.21 last weekend at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge.
Juniors Antonia Frazier and Esmeralda Reyes will also take part in the pentathlon for St. John's. The duo earned second and sixth-place finishes, respectively, in the overall pentathlon during last year's Metropolitan Championships.
Throwers Amarys Berry, Bernadette McGowan, Samantha Morillo and Najeaya Singleton will each participate in the shot put. Berry will look to capture the top spot in the event this season after grabbing a second-place finish in last year's meet.
Junior Gabriella Kelly and freshman Morgan Fritscher will both return to the pole vault on Thursday at Fordham.
The Red Storm will kick off the meet with the women's pole vault on Thursday at 12 p.m. All of the action can be followed by clicking here.
The Red Storm will compete in 22 events across the two-day meet against some of the top teams in the greater New York area. Last season, St. John's placed second overall with 123 points.
Leah Anderson will participate in her first 4x400-meter relay of 2020 along with Avon Samuels, Brianna Burkley and Skyy Diop. The team will look to repeat last year's first-place finish in the event after posting a time of 3:46.95.
The Johnnies' foursome will compete in five individual events combined.
Anderson will also return to the 60-meter dash since recording a time of 7.56 at the Penn 8-Team Select on Jan. 18. The junior sprinter's mark ranks second on the BIG EAST leaderboard this season.
Samuels will participate in the 400 meters after registering an ECAC-qualifying time of 56.21 last weekend at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge.
Juniors Antonia Frazier and Esmeralda Reyes will also take part in the pentathlon for St. John's. The duo earned second and sixth-place finishes, respectively, in the overall pentathlon during last year's Metropolitan Championships.
Throwers Amarys Berry, Bernadette McGowan, Samantha Morillo and Najeaya Singleton will each participate in the shot put. Berry will look to capture the top spot in the event this season after grabbing a second-place finish in last year's meet.
Junior Gabriella Kelly and freshman Morgan Fritscher will both return to the pole vault on Thursday at Fordham.
The Red Storm will kick off the meet with the women's pole vault on Thursday at 12 p.m. All of the action can be followed by clicking here.
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