Merrimack College announces Men's Track and Field Competes at BU and URI Invites This Weekend

From Feb 12,2023 post.

Boston, MA/Kingston R.I.-- The Merrimack Men's Track and Field team competed at both the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational and the URI Coaches' Invitational this past weekend.
 
Notes and Numbers:
Cory Couture finished sixth in the Men's 400 meter dash with a time of 47.51 and 15th in the Men's 200 meter dash with a mark of 21.63 (BU)

Zachary Fisher finished 12th in the Men's 60 meter Dash with a time of 7.09 (BU)

Carson Mighty finished second in the men's 200 meter dash with a time of 23.04

Finnian Russell finished fifth in the 3000 meter run with a time of 9:10.07 and Cole Gamache finished ninth with a time of 9:31.71, Nicholas Long finished tenth with a time of 9:36.83.

Neil Letellier finished eighth in the one mile run with a time of 4:30.12. (URI)

Billy Coakley Moved into second on the school record list running a mark of 4:13.96 in the mile. 

Drew Gardner finished second in the Men's Pole Vault event with a mark of 4.65m, Max Bothwell finished fifth in the same event with a mark of 4.20m, and Tucker Carroll finished seventh with 4.05m. (URI)

Brady Trask finished 4th in the Men's Triple Jump event with a distance of 11.30m. (URI)

Claudel Chevalier finished fourth in the Men's Weight Throw with a mark of 16.58m. (URI)

Carson Mighty finished seventh in Men's High Jump event with a distance of 1.81m, Colin Murphy finished with the same mark. ( URI)

Coach Mark Connolly on the performance/weekend: "This weekend we took some of our top runners to Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invitational to give those athletes a chance to compete against the very best runners in Division 1. To give a sense of the level of talent at this meet, the Invitational set a record for the most athletes breaking 4:00 in the mile when 52 men broke this one time "impossible barrier". The previous meet with the record had about 30 athletes under 4 minutes. Our Warriors ran against athletes from the Ivy League, Georgetown, Oregon, Texas, LSU, Texas A&M and most of the top Track programs in the NCAA."
 
UP NEXT:
The Warriors next meet takes place next Sunday and Monday at the Northeast Conference Indoor Championship.

Original source can be found here.