Men's Track & Field Posts Multitude of Personal Bests at Bison Classic

Freshmen throwers Iosif Papa and Gabriel Koletsi continue to excel in their first semester of competition

LEWISBURG, Pa. – The UMBC men's track and field program logged a gold and silver medal as eight personal-records fell at Bucknell.

UMBC Overview:

Freshman Iosif Papa has now made it through four regular season meets without finishing even so low as second place. He set a personal record once again in the discus on his way to a fourth gold medal in as many weeks (54.07m).
Classmate Gabriel Koletski was just as dominant, tossing the javelin 68.64 meters to snag the silver.
Will Sakowicz was the highest non-medalist at fourth place during the mile with a speed of 4:23.22.
Two Retrievers logged top-eight allotments as Shavar Staats went for a personal-low time of 10.65 in the 100m (sixth) plus Ibrahim Khairat placed seventh with a 14.25-meter effort.
Both relay teams, the 4x100 and 4x400m "A" group, scored by securing eighth (41.60) and fifth (3:16.27), respectively.
Top-20 was a fairly common occurrence for the Black and Gold as Liam Meginniss (1,500m – 3:59.33, PR), Aiden Walker (discus – 43.59m), Baraka Sila (3,000m – 8:51.64), Seun Olajide (200m – 21.91, PR), and Nicolas Alphonse (110 hurdles – 15.20), who also finished among the top-25 out of 103 runners for the 400m (49.34 – PR).
UMBC student-athletes who were in the top 50% for their events including Thomas Foulkes (1,500m – 4:02.13), Cameron Hindle (5,000m – 14:36.11), Daron Taylor (800m – 1:55.71, PR), Jayo Adegboyo (400m – 50.40), Roger Wright (100m – 11.08 / 200m – 22.27, PR), Marquis Miller (200m – 22.37), and Michael Arnold (200m – 22.38).
New benchmarks broken were Brendan Cave's 1,500m (4:04.13), Pelumi Olujumo's 400m (51.80 – PR), plus Sharwin Vyapuri's 110 hurdles (16.24 – PR).

Next:

The Dawgs return to Baltimore as they participate in the Johns Hopkins / Loyola dual-hosted Invitational on both Friday and Saturday.

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Players Mentioned

Jayo Adegboyo: Junior

Nicolas Alphonse: Graduate Student

Michael Arnold: Graduate Student

Brendan Cave: 5' 11"; Junior

Cameron Hindle: Sophomore

Marquis Miller: Sophomore

Will Sakowicz: Sophomore

Shavar Staats: Sophomore

Daron Taylor: 6' 2"; Junior

Sharwin Vyapuri: 5' 11"; Senior

Players Mentioned

Jayo Adegboyo
: Junior

Nicolas Alphonse
: Graduate Student

Michael Arnold
: Graduate Student

Brendan Cave
: 5' 11"; Junior

Cameron Hindle
: Sophomore

Marquis Miller
: Sophomore

Will Sakowicz
: Sophomore

Shavar Staats
: Sophomore

Daron Taylor
: 6' 2"; Junior

Sharwin Vyapuri
: 5' 11"; Senior