NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Salisbury University track and field teams saw four more individuals win gold medals at the final day of the 2022 Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) Outdoor Championships, hosted by Christopher Newport University, on Saturday afternoon at TowneBank Stadium.

RESULTS

The Sea Gull men finished second in the team standings, amassing 127 points to edge out third-place Mary Washington (121). CNU won the men's team championship with 208 points, while UC Santa Cruz (116) and St. Mary's (Md.) [39] rounded out the top five.

The Sea Gull women earned a fourth-place finish with 98.5 points. CNU swept the team championships, winning the women's title with 221 points. UC Santa Cruz finished second with 125 points, while Mary Washington (108.5), Salisbury and St. Mary's (24) finished off the top five.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Men

• Cameron Hasko successfully defended his crown in the javelin throw, breaking the conference championship meet record with a distance of 59.59 meters (195-6) on his fourth throw of the day. Hasko becomes the second Sea Gull this weekend to repeat as an event champion after Travis Zimmerman won back-to-back hammer throw titles on Friday.
• After winning gold in the triple jump on Friday, Rashawn Markman added a silver medal to his collection in the long jump, soaring 6.71 meters (22-0.25) and beating third place by half an inch. Zion Wamley took fourth in the long jump at 6.38 meters (20-11.25).
• Sam Bodmer earned a silver medal in the 10,000-meter run, which was originally scheduled for Friday evening but was run on Saturday morning due to inclement weather. Bodmer finished second in a time of 33:38.84, besting his third-place rival by half a second.
• Mike Heinz grabbed second place in the 400-meter run in 50.46 seconds, half a second back of the race winner. Ryan Temple finished sixth in the event in 51.56 seconds.
• Justin Speirs won the silver in the 400-meter hurdles, crossing the line in 57.81 seconds.
• Dylan Haun broke his personal record in the high jump, finishing second at 1.91 meters (6-3.25).
• The Sea Gulls finished in second place in both relay races. In the 4x100-meter relay, Jacob Shelton, Markman, Ryan Kramer and Sherrod Frye posted a time of 43.12 seconds. In the 4x400-meter relay, Justin Tavares, Brian Hufford, Temple and Heinz crossed the line in 3:25.52.
• After posting the third-best qualifying time on Friday, Shelton held serve in the finals of the 100-meter dash, claiming the bronze in a personal-best 10.94 seconds.
• Frye took third in the 200-meter dash at 22.52 seconds to set a personal record.
• Jason Cave (15:31.65) and Matt Grossi (15:36.10) finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 5,000-meter run.
• Ethan Gray finished sixth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:26.24, while Christian Ottey took sixth in the 110-meter hurdles in 17.09 seconds.

Women

• Sydney Ruckel closed out her Sea Gull career in heroic fashion, winning the restarted 10,000-meter run in 40:00.66, over 10 seconds better than her closest competitor. Ruckel was leading the 10,000-meter run on Friday when the race was called due to lightning approximately 8,000 meters in.
• Ruckel's win gives her five conference championships in her illustrious career, including the 2019 Capital Athletic Conference (CAC, now C2C) outdoor 5,000 and 10,000 meters, the 2020 CAC indoor 3,000 meters and the 2022 C2C indoor 5,000 meters. Ruckel also won the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) title in the indoor 3,000 meters in both 2019 and 2020.
• Hours after completing the 10,000 meters, Ruckel earned points for SU in the 5,000-meter run, finishing fourth with a time of 18:14.91 that broke the previous conference championship meet record. Counting Friday's abandoned race, Ruckel ran approximately 23,000 meters competitively – well over 14 miles – in a 24-hour span.
• Heather Delaplaine earned her first career individual conference championship in the 800-meter run, besting her personal record by an even two seconds to break the tape in 2:19.86.
• Alexandra Jakubowski gave the Sea Gulls their sixth and final gold medal for the weekend, winning the javelin throw with a distance of 24.47 meters (80-3). Jakubowski also finished fifth in the discus throw at 24.69 meters (81).
• Colleen Howard won her second straight silver medal in the high jump, scaling 1.57 meters (5-1.75).
• Danielle Jensen earned points in all four of her events for the day. Jensen took home the silver in the triple jump at 10.81 meters (35-5.75) and finished fourth in the long jump at 4.72 meters (15-6). She also finished fourth in the 100-meter hurdles (16.21) and sixth in the 400-meter hurdles (1:13.53).
• Courtney Martin earned the bronze in the 400-meter hurdles for the second straight year, finishing third in 1:10.30.
• Makenzie Hirsch, Sophia Crozier-Carole, Abby Potter and Marley Blundell grabbed a third-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay in 52.23 seconds.
• The 4x400-meter relay team of Destinee Ekanem, Erin Connelly, Blundell and Delaplaine took fourth place in 4:26.66.
• Lian Peach (10.01m, 32-10.25) and Potter (9.99m, 32-9.50) finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the triple jump, while Peach (4.52m, 14-10) tied for fifth in the long jump.
• Alyssa Santoro earned points in the 1,500-meter run, finishing sixth in 5:03.85.

UP NEXT

• Select Sea Gull athletes will head to the SWAT Meet on Monday, May 16, to try and improve on their qualifying marks for the NCAA National Championships at the end of the month.
• The meet in Swarthmore, Pa., is set to begin at 4 p.m.

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football and the Metropolitan Swimming and Diving Conference for men's and women's swimming. With over 500 student-athletes in 21 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, and dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on-and-off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 22 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 187 conference championships and 41 Academic All-Americans.

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