BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian University men's and women's indoor track & field teams are set to begin the 2021-22 season on Friday and Saturday, December 3-4 at the Lehigh University Fast Times Before Finals at Rauch Fieldhouse.
The Greyhounds, under the direction of Head Coach Jesse Baumann, are ready to compete indoors for the first time since March 7, 2020, and both squads have 13 returning student-athletes from 2019-20 when the Hounds swept the Landmark Conference Championships. Both programs have won 12 of 13 Landmark Indoor titles since the conference began in 2007-08 with the men winning 11 straight and the women capturing the last three.
The men have two returning conference champions from 2020 with graduate student Shane Mastro (Middletown, N.J./Mater Dei Prep HS) back in the shot put and senior Dominic DeRafelo (Boyertown, Pa./Boyertown HS) returning from the 4x400-meter relay squad. Moravian has a total of 31 returners from the 2021 outdoor season and welcomes 12 newcomers to the program for 2021-22.
Junior Crystal Robinson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Prep HS) set to lead the returners for the women after winning the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes and finishing second in the 60-meter dash in 2020. Robinson and senior Alyssa Lambert (Klingerstown, Pa./Line Mountain HS) were part of the Greyhounds' winning 4x400-meter relay in the last championship while junior Rachel Byrne (Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty HS) returns after being part of the distance medley relay championship squad. Lambert was also the runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles in 2020. Moravian has a total of 22 student-athletes that participated in the 2021 outdoor season, where Moravian won its 14th Landmark Conference Outdoor Championship, and 23 newcomers.
Coach Baumann, Mastro, senior jumper/pole vaulter Max Schuman (Hopatcong, N.J./Hopatcong HS), Robinson and junior sprinter Helen Davis (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall HS) discuss the preparation for the 2021-22 indoor season in a video preview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5d7GNs9xo
