CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Binghamton University junior Erik van Ingen (Marathon, N.Y./Marathon), University of Maine sophomore Riley Masters (Bangor, Maine/Bangor) and Stony Brook University junior Holly Van Dalen (Wanganui, New Zealand/Wanganui Collegiate) will represent America East at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship hosted by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville on March 12-13.
Van Ingen recorded a time of 3:59.58 in the mile run at the Penn State National Open in January, making him the first Bearcat to break the four-minute mile mark. His time was good enough to rank him 13th in the nation heading into the NCAA meet. Van Ingen is only the third Binghamton athlete to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship.
Masters will challenge van Ingen in the mile run at the championship after posting two sub four minute mile marks this past season. Masters is ranked ninth entering the NCAA championship meet after racing to a third-place finish at the Columbia Last Chance Meet this past weekend in a time of 3:59.07. His time is a new school-record.
Van Dalen will make her second trip to the NCAA Championship after qualifying for the outdoor meet last year. At the NYU Fast Track Last Chance meet on February 26, Van Dalen finished the 5,000m in 15:55.64, shattering the Stony Brook school record. Her time is well under the NCAA automatic qualifying mark and is the fourth-fastest time in the nation.
Also in postseason indoor track and field action, the University at Albany’s men’s squad claimed their second-straight IC4A Championship title. The team claimed three first-place finishes at the meet, including junior Tyler Fogarty’s (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) mile victory, senior Nasim Siddeeq’s (New Hampton, N.Y./Goshen Central/Robert Morris) triple jump title and a win in the 4x800m relay.
The Great Dane women, after capturing their first indoor conference crown, earned their highest finish in program history at the ECAC meet, tying for 12th. Senior Fey Adaramola (Bronx, N.Y./Trevor/Central Florida) led the squad with a first-place finish in the 60m dash in 7.55.
The University of New Hampshire’s women’s squad, however, took home the top finish by an America East team at the ECAC meet, finishing in a tie for eighth place. Junior Camille Quarles (Derry, N.H./Pinkerton Academy) and senior Ashlee Lathrop (Sherburne, N.Y./Sherburne-Earlville) led the Wildcats to their highest finish in program history, and their first top 10 finish, after placing fifth in their respective events. Quarles placed fifth in the triple jump, setting a new school record of 12.16m while Lathrop, the 2010 America East weight throw champion, garnered fifth in the weight throw with a school-record toss of 17.54m. Both Wildcats also received All-ECAC honors.