BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College has qualified 30 student-athletes to compete at the 2016 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III Track & Field Championships with 17 females and 13 males set to travel to Westfield State University in Massachusetts for events starting on Wednesday, May 18 and continuing on Thursday, May 19.
The Greyhounds continued to dominate the Landmark Conference Championships with the women winning their ninth consecutive title while the men won their eighth title at Juniata College on May 8.
Leading the Greyhounds on the women's side is senior Corinne Glass, who will be competing in the 100 and 200-meter dashes over the two day meet. Glass is currently ranked 5th in the 200-meter dash at the meet while being 15th in the 200-meter dash on the national level. Also competing in track events for the Blue and Grey are juniors Meg Brockett and Sarah Hughes. Hughes will be competing in the 1,500-meter run while Brockett will be running the 10,000-meter run. Sophomore Melissa Cheong will take on the 100-meter hurdles while freshman Anna Osman will be racing in the 400-meter hurdles as well as the 4x400 meter relay with teammate's sophomore Monica Richardson and freshman Maike Krischer and Tamara Suchan. The Greyhounds will also have the squad of senior Meghan Newman, junior Lauren White and freshmen Amari Schooler and Abigail Strouse competing in the 4x100-meter relay.
In the field events, the Hounds will be led by sophomore Mary Kate Duncan, who is currently ranked first in javelin while sophomore Nicole Capuano hopes to improve on her throws from the season. Also competing in the field events will be sophomores Casie Cronk and Cheong in the high jump. In the pole, vault sophomore Beth Ann Davies looks to improve upon her height that she cleared earlier this season while junior Jackie Finnegan looks to place better than her eighth place rank in the hammer throw.
On the men's side, the Blue and Grey will be lead on the track by junior Austin Gardener, who will be competing in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes while sophomore Eric Morton will race beside Gardener in the 100-meter dash as well as the 4x100 meter relay with juniors Jamil Poole and Matt Barnett and freshman Chris Antoine. Freshman John Spirk looks to hurdle his way into a top spot in the 110-meter hurdles.
In field events, the men have three competitors in the javelin, including junior Michael Guarino and sophomores Robert Condo and Kyle Allison. Junior Kahron Walker looks to clear a high height in the high jump while senior Gavin Bailey looks to leap to new lengths in the long jump. Graduate student Parker Munson will compete in both the discus and shot put while freshman Denzel Pettway will join Munson in the shot put.
The ECAC meet is the final chance to qualify for the 2016 NCAA Division III National Championships next weekend. The top 20 men and top 22 women in each event and the top 18 relay teams on the Track & Field Results Reporting System list will be headed to the national meet. Moravian currently has two athletes who qualify, Duncan is 6th in the javelin along with Glass, who is 15th in the 200-meter dash. The Greyhounds have several other athletes that are sitting on the outside looking for a way to edge their way in.
