2010 BIG EAST Indoor Track and Field Championship Central
BIG EAST Championship Schedule of Events

NEW YORK, N.Y. - As the 2009-2010 indoor season draws to a close, several members of the Syracuse University track and field teams will travel to New York, N.Y. to compete in the BIG EAST Indoor Championships on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21. The weekend's events will take place at the New Balance Track and Field Center at the Armory, beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday. The Orange will be represented by 18 women and 26 men competing for a combined 23 crowns. 

Sprints
On the women's side, juniors Flings Owusu-Agyapong and Lareea Chisholm will be running in the 60-meter dash for the Orange. Owusu-Agyapong qualified for the championship at the New Balance Invite, while Chisholm attained qualifying standards at that meet, as well as the Cornell Relays and the Upstate Challenge. Chisholm will also be running the 200-meter dash. Graduate students Beth Long, Nana Snag-Bender, and freshman Christine Ziviac will all be running for the Orange in the 800-meter event.

On the men's side, the Orange will have three sprinters in the 60-meter dash. Graduate students Antoine Clark, Michael LeBlanc, and junior Sham Lewis each attained a qualifying time at the New Balance Invite. The two Syracuse runners in the 400-meter competition also met the BIG EAST standards during the New Balance meet. Da'Mon Merkerson finished 10th with a time of 49.26, while teammate Tyler McCully took 27th.

Distance
Sang-Bender will also be competing in the 1,000-meter, along with senior Maegan Krifchin, who attained her qualifying time of 2:56.37 at the Upstate Challenge. Krifchin will also qualified for the mile event with teammate Stefanie Slekis. Seven Orange women earned BIG EAST qualifying times in the 3,000-meter run, including Heather Stephens, Rebekah MacKay and junior Katie Hursey, who had a standout cross country season. Sophomore Natalie Busby and junior Catherine DeSarle will be representing Syracuse in the weekend's longest event, the 5,000-meter.

The Orange men will have seven entrants in the mile run, including graduate students Trevor Wiseman, who qualified at the Terrier Invite, and Jeff Scull, who qualified at the Syracuse Invite. Corey Robinson and Brad Miller took third and fourth, respectively, in the 3,000-meter run at the Terrier Invite, propelling the duo into the post-season. Eight men qualified for the 5,000-meter run throughout the season, including cross country All-American Tito Medrano.

Hurdles
Jarret Eaton, who boasts the fastest 60-meter hurdles time in the nation, will lead the men's squad. He qualified for the BIG EAST Championships with his record-setting performance (7.68) at the New Balance Invite. Eaton will be joined in the 60-meter hurdles by teammates Amadou Gueye and Matthew Callanan.

Jumps
Veteran Uhunoma Osazuwa earned long jump qualifying marks of 6.05m and 5.83m in the Binghamton Triangular and Syracuse Invite, respectively. She will also take part in the high jump, where she will be joined by teammates Annabelle Pellerin and Melissa Romero. Sophomore Ieva Staponkute will be the lone competitor for the Orange in the triple jump, after qualifying at the Syracuse Invite. Junior Leah Testa qualified for the pole vault in three different competitions this season, taking two crowns and a second place finish at those meets.

Graduate student Bernard Bush qualified for both the long jump and triple jump. His mark of
7.18m earned him the BIG EAST qualification as well as the long jump crown at the Binghamton Triangular. He will be joined by teammate Will Watson in the triple jump, who had a qualifying leap of 13.46m at the SU Welcome Back. Junior Evan Stivala earned BIG East standards in the high jump at the Upstate Challenge.

Throws
Junior Kelsey Rubeor will be the only woman thrower for SU at the BIG EAST Championships. Rubeor qualified for the shot put with a hurl of 13.00m at the SU Welcome Back meet.

Fellow junior Kuaku Boah will be the lone thrower for the men in the weekend's competition, where he will be participating in the shot put and the weight throw. Boah earned two first place titles in the shot put this season, as well as a second and third place finish in the weight throw.