Lets break down the 2009-2010 athletic season: one championship (Swimming and Diving), four second place finished (Women’s Lacrosse, Men’s Soccer, Men’s Tennis, and Women’s Swimming and Diving), and a bevy of all-conference players. It is really easy to say it was a down season for UMBC, but that is just because the marquee sports struggled. Men’s Lacrosse took a step back after being one of the most dominating teams in the conference for several years; men’s Basketball went from back-to-back finals appearances to just a 4-26 record; women’s Basketball took nationally ranked Virginia to the brink in the season opener but failed to move up from where they were last year despite so much returning talent; baseball had their second-straight nine win season; women’s soccer finished in last place again, and softball wasted a hot start to the season and missed the conference tournament. But there are plenty of other sports that had a lot of success. Men’s Soccer was picked to finished dead last this season, but proved to have one of the most dominating offenses in the nation, led by the N.C.A.A.’s two top scorers and finished in the America East Conference finals. Women’s lacrosse finally got into the AEC tournament, but upset the goliath University at Albany in the semi-finals and lost by just one to Boston University in the finals. Swimming and Diving? Well they just proved to be absolutely dominating once again. The men’ won their 13th straight league championship while the women finished right near the top again. Men’s tennis proved to be one of the most consistent teams at UMBC and made a trip back to the AEC finals, coming up just short of a championship, but showed significant improvement. Track and Field also had some absolutely dominating athletes across the board. Victor Gilreath and Keith Onto were untouchable in their events, while Sara Parkinson was an all-conference player in all three season. A lot of good things happened for UMBC this year, and they set the school up for a phenomenal year in 2010-2011. So without further adieu, here are the yearly UMBC Sports Blog Awards for the 2009-2010 athletic year:

Top Coach

Pete Caringi, Men’s Soccer

While Chad Cradock brought home UMBC’s only championship, it’s hard not to give the award to Caringi. His team was picked to finish in eighth place in an eight team conference with 14 freshmen and sophomores, an unproven goalie, and only one player returning with more than three goals in 2008. But right away, the Caringi-lead team showed that it really was a new season. The team started 9-0, were nationally ranked during the season, and got to the finals for the first time in nine years, and finished with 14 wins, the most since the 2000 season.

Male Freshman of the Year

Phil Saunders, Men’s Soccer

This ear the soccer team was about a very high scoring offense, but Phil Saunders was still phenomenal in goal. First, goalie very well may the toughest position on a soccer field. He not only has to stop a ball being hit at him at 70 m.p.h., but he also has to set up everybody’s position on the field. He’s the leader of the team, the quarterback. But Saunders excelled at the position. He shut out six teams and allowed an average of just one goal per game.

Female Freshman of the Year

Jamie Fahey, Women’s Lacrosse

The list of accomplishments and awards for Jamie Fahey this year is just remarkable. After her freshman season Fahey was honored with and All-Rookie selection, Rookie of the Year, Second team All-AEC, Mid-Atlantic Second Team honors by the Women’s Lacrosse Coaches’ Association, and All-Rookie team honors by womenslacrosse.com. While Fahey was a defender, her speed and ball handling ability made her a threat to score every time she touched the ball. She is certainly one of the cornerstones of the team that will contend for a championship next year.

Best Male Performance

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Keith Onto, Men’s Track and Field, 7,239 points in Decathlon at AEC Championships

Winning one event is a big feat, but winning six events in order to do that is just amazing. Keith Onto broke an AEC Championship record with 7,239 points in the heptathlon as he won the 400-meter dash, 110-meter hurdles, long jump, high jump, javelin, and Discus, while coming in second in the 100-meter dash and shot put, and third in the 1,500-meter run and pole vault. Onto finished with 577 points more than the second place finisher.

Best Female Performance

Carlee Cassidy, Women’s Basketball, Leads the team to a 23-points comeback over Boston University on her senior day

In her final game at RAC arena Carlee Cassidy scored 25 points with nine rebounds and three assists. But 16 of those points came in the second half during a 23-point comeback. UMBC fell into a big hole early to Boston University and trailed by 23 points early in the second half. But Carlee Cassidy got hot after that and led her team to a miraculous comeback, sending her out on top.

Best Moment

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Men’s Swimming and Diving wins 13th straight league title

After a 12-year period of dominance the men’s swimming and diving team was supposed to finally be overthrown as AEC Champions by a heavily favored Boston U team. Boston U returned every key contributor from the year before while UMBC lost some key swimmers. But as always, people stepped up and the reign of dominance was not ended after a dozen victories. The team came together, guys stepped up, others overachieved, and the team won their 13th straight league title and 7th straight AEC title.

Most Improved Male Athlete

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Camal Pugh, Men’s Track and Field

Good but never great- that was Camal Pugh’s reputation as an athlete on the track and field team for three years. But in his senior year he changed that. Pugh went from a guy who would contribute to his teams total every once in a while to one of the best runners on the team. During the indoor season he won two golds, three silvers, and a spot in the I.C.4.A. Championships. During the outdoor season, he remained the teams top hurdler every time out, and won a gold at the AEC Championship meet, and once again, qualified for the I.C.4.A. Championships.

Most Improved Female Athlete

Erika Braerman, Women’s Lacrosse

Last season Erika Braerman just had to pass the ball inside to the teams big guns. But this year, she was one of them. As a freshman Braerman scored just nine goals and had 11 assists but this year she led the team with 54 points off a team high 22 assists, and 32 goals, which ranked second on the team. Braerman learned her new role fast, and really excelled at it, making her another cornerstone of the women’s lacrosse team’s future success.

Unsung Male Hero

Mike Camardo, Men’s Lacrosse

It is really stunning to see that with everything Mike Camardo has done in his career, he has only been named to the AEC Second-team just two times in his career. He’s never been a first-team player or All-American. But when watching Mike Camardo you can tell he was always the best player on the field for both sides. His job was not to score, or set up the offense. It was to shut down the opposing offense and he did just that. In 13 games Camardo caused 36 turnovers (2.76 per game) and scooped up 54 ground balls (4.15 per game). As a long stick midfielder he was never the spotlight of the team, but he was usually up against the teams top offensive player, and usually won the battle.

Unsung Female Athlete

Kira Giles, Volleyball

When you’re a setter in Volleyball it is only natural for you to get overlooked. The credit always went to Ashley Oscars, Alyssa Lang, and Naomi Bush for smacking the ball down for kills, and for good reason. But Kira Giles was iatrical in all of that happening. As the setter she not only had to lob the ball up for them to hit, but she had to do it in the right place, which she did 633 times during the season. But she also contributed everywhere else on the floor, tying for second with 16 service aces, finished fourth with 171 digs, and fifth with 28 blocks.

Fan’s Choice Male Athlete of the Year

Andrew Bulls, Men’s soccer

Andrew Bulls ran away with the fan vote, more than doubling the second place finisher. With 15 goals and 11 assists, Bulls finished the regular season as the nations leading scorer and earned the AEC Striker of the Year award. It didn’t take long to see that Bulls was headed for a spectacular season. He scored four goals and had five assists after the first week of games and was named Player of the Week by collegesoccernews.com. He started the season with a score in 11 straight games, tying Giuliano Celenza’s streak set in 2000. He became the faster Retriever to score eight goals (six games) in their D-I history and finished second in the nation with 26 points, only behind his teammate Levi Houapeu.

Fan’s Choice Female Athlete of the Year

Fan’s just could not pick between the two seniors as they both finished with the same number of votes.

Carlee Cassidy, Women’s Basketball

Carlee Cassidy is certainly one of UMBC’s greatest scorers and continued to prove it as a senior with 13.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 2.3 three-pointers, and a 36.1 FG% and 32.0 3-pt%.

Amanda Fefel, Softball

Fefel is also arguably one of the best players in the softball team’s history. This year she not only dominated at the plate, totaling 53 hits, 13 home runs, 35 RBIs, 101 total bases, a .631 slugging percentage, and 40% on-base percentage. She also dominated on the mound with a team-best 2.64 ERA and four saves. She eventually moved back into the starting rotation as the season wore on. This year she also became UMBC’s all-time leader in home runs as she hit her 41st career home run. She finished the season with her fourth-straight first-team All-AEC selection, and also earned an ECAC all-star selection.

Male Athlete of the Year

Levi Houapeu, Men’s Soccer

When you’re the nation’s leading scorer and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year it’s hard not to be the UMBC Sports Blog Player of the Year. The fact is, Levi Houapeu was just absolutely dominate this year and was a huge reason the team was really successful. His speed and scoring ability opened up the other offensive players, but was also just too good for his opponents to stop. He finished the season with 28 points off 15 goals and 13 assists. He recorded two hat tricks this season, becoming the first to do so since Derek McElligott in 2001. After being injured as a sophomore, he came back and helped lead the team to their first AEC finals since 2000, and put them back on the map for next year.

Female Athlete of the Year

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Sara Parkinson, Women’s Cross Country and Track and Field

While she did not win the award for any particular season, it is hard to break her success down into just on because, well, she competed in three seasons. Parkinson was always her team’s top performer and that showed with her awards at the end of those seasons. She received all-conference three times in the 2009-2010 athletic year, which to say the least, is impressive. Being named All-AEC for one sport is a big accomplishment, but to carry that level of success into three seasons is very tough to do.

First I would like to say I apologize for being late on this update and late on the athlete of the week and schedule updates. It is the end of the semester and I had five papers and a few exams to study for and just fell behind on my site. But for now school is finished, but that does not mean the site will take a break. Check back all summer for updates, features, analysis, and previews.

But as for the track and field IC4A/ECAC Championships, UMBC had a little bit of success this time around, led by Victor Gilreath, who just capped of an astounding season with yet another impressive outing. He won a bronze in the triple jump with a leap of 15.23 meters. Brian Pendleton finished 16th in that event with a mark of 14.55 meters and then 30th in the long jump with a mark of 6.68 meters.

Elsewhere on the men’s side of things Justin Acker finished 21st in the 100-meter dash in 10.85, while Antonio Thomas finished 17th in the 200-meter dash in 21.69.

Michael Christmas finished 24th in the 800-meter run in 1:52.38. Senior Camal Pugh finished 24th in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.88.

The 4×100-meter relay team of Acker, Adrian Arthur, Jason Powell, and Thomas finished 11th in 41.06 while the 4×800-meter relay team of Christmas, Roy Jones, Joshua Hewitson, and Chris Snyder finished 20th in 7:42.39.

On the women’s side sophomore Imani Colbert finished 12th in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.57.

Britney Foreman crossed the finish line 23rd in the 100-meter dash in 12.35 and 33rd in the 200-meter dash in 25.24.

Sara Parkinson finished the 5,000-meter run in 14th place with a time of 17.07.95, less than one second above a school record. Suzanne Gabriel finished in 14th in the event.

Amanda Deller placed 16th in the shot put with a throw of 12.99 meters while the 4×100-meter relay team of Fallon Rovel-Jones, Ashley Ajayi, Colbert, and Foreman finished 16th in 47.84.

In the America East Conference Championship meet Gilreath was named Most Outstanding Male Field Performer after breaking a school and 19-year old AEC Championship record with a mark of 15.45 meters in the triple jump. His first place finish was just one of many in his two year career at UMBC and it helped to lead UMBC to 120.5 points for a fourth place finish in the meet.

Also, Keith Onto broke a UMBC and AEC Championship record with 7,239 points in the decathlon. His success not only earned him gold but it also bumped him into the Top-25 in the country in the event.

Elsewhere on the men’s side Camal Pugh earned gold in an I.C.4.A. mark of 14.70 in the 110-meter hurdles.

Michale Christmas broke a school record in the 800-meter run with an I.C.4.A.-qualifying time of 1:51.34.

The 4×100 meter relay team of Justin Acker, Adrian Arthur, Jason Powell, and Antonio Thomas also earned a spot at the I.C.4.A. championship meet with a second place finish in 41.657.

Thomas also won silver in both the 100-meter dash in 11.01 and 200-meter dash in 21.81. Arther and Acker finished third and sixth in the 100, respectively.

Sophomore Aaron Brooks finished third in the discus with a throw of 45.47 meters and fifth in the shot put with a mark of 15.08 meters. Brian Pendleton finished in third in the triple jump with a mark of 14.82 meters.

Sara Parkinson finished second overall in the 1,500-meter run in 4:31.85, besting the previous time of 4:33.40 from Cara Wettlauger from 2005.

Meanwhile, Michael Christmas broke Izudin Mehmedovic’s 2003 time of 1:53.05 in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:52.97 in his eighth place finish.

Elsewhere on the men’s side senior Victor Gilreath continued his dominance in the field as she won the Triple Jump for a third straight week with a mark of 14.84 meters. He also came in second in the High Jump with a leap of 1.95 meters.

Aaron Brooks also won gold in the Shot Put with a throw of 15.56 meters.

The team’s final gold came from the men’s 4×100 meter relay team of Justin Acker, Brian Pendleton, Jason Powell, and Antonio Thomas with a time of 42.00.

Evan Palmer and Cameron McDearmon each won silver as they won the Discuss with a throw of 44.10 meters and Hammer Throw with a mark of 46.54 meters, respectively.

Brian Pendelton came up with a silver for the team with a third place finish in the Triple Jump with a mark of 13.59 meters. he also finished fourth in the Long Jump with a mark of 6.49 meters.

Camal Pugh finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.73.

On the women’s side Britney Foreman came in third in the 100-meter dash in 12.30 while Amanda Deller also finished third in the shot put with a toss of 13.78 meters.

You may consider it to have been a down winter but there was plenty of action going on. This season’s sports were men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s track and field, women’s track and field, men’s swimming and diving, and women’s swimming and diving. The men’s swimming and diving team certainly had a lot of success getting their 123th straight league title. But to the awards:

Top Coach:

Chad Cradock, Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving

Most coaches have their hands full coaching 20 players on one team, but Chad Cradock coaches both the men’s and women’s winning and diving teams which total 63 student athletes. But the success he has with the team puts him up top. It doesn’t matter what the men’s swimming and diving team loses, he always finds a guy to step up and that has gotten the team their 13th straight league title and seventh straight conference title. The women’s team finished just short of the conference title for the second straight year, but were still incredibly impressive.

Male Freshman of the Winter

Adrian Satchell, Men’s Basketball

Power forward may be the most demanding position on the basketball court because you not only have to force your way inside to score, but you usually go up against your opponents top interior scorer. Adrian Satchell is a natural small forward but because of the lack of height on the team he was forced to play inside and started every game. Even though the team struggled he showed signs of being a very good player. He averaged 6.3 ppg and 5.1 rpg. He had had 10 points and 10 rebounds in an upset against Maine and 14 points and 12 rebounds in the opening round game of the America East Conference Tournament.

Female Freshman of the Winter

Tara Morrissette, Women’s Swimming and Diving

Tara Morrissette looks like she’ll be one of the next great swimmers on the team. She walked away from the America East Conference Championship meet with two bronze medals and school record, and most outstanding female rookie honors.

Best Male Performance:

Dominic Devaud, Men’s Track and Field

Senior Dominc Devaud claimed the top spot in the Heptathlon at the America East Conference Championship by totaling 5,216 points. In the seven events he won the 55-meter hurdle in 7.70 and finished second in the 55-meter dash in 6.78 and Pole Vault with a 4.65-meter vault.

Best Female Performance

Carlee Cassidy scored 26 in 23-point comeback on her senior day

Senior Carlee Cassidy did not want her last game in the RAC to be a loss, a blow out loss much less. Early in the second half the women’s basketball team was down 23 points to Boston U and was looking to be on the wrong end of a route, but Cassidy made sure she wouldn’t end on a sour note. She hit three three’s and had 16 second half points in her 25 point effort to get the team the 58-57 victory.

Best Moment

Men’s swimming and diving make it 13 straight

This season the men’s swimming and diving run of championships was supposed to end at the hands of a heavily favored Boston University team with the majority of their contributors from last year’s second place team back. But the men’s team did not let that stand in the way of history as they claimed their 12th straight league title and seventh straight America East Conference title.

Most Improved Male Athlete

Camal Pugh, Men’s Track and Field

Camal Pugh has always been a solid member of the track and field team but for the first three years he was overshadowed my some talented teammates, this year however Pugh was the top hurdler for the team and really stepped up to fit the job as he won two gold, three silvers, and earned a spot in the IC4A championships.

Most Improved Female Athlete

Topé Obajolu, Women’s Basketball

Last season Topé Obajolu was used on a very limited basis as she learned the game during her freshman season as she averaged just 3.5 points and 3.1 rebounds. But this season she started every game at center and developed into one of the top post players in the conference as she averaged 7.5 points and 3.7 rebounds. But she really signed in conference play, averaging 9.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per contest.

Unsung Male Athlete

Matt Spadafora, Men’s Basketball

It is hard to say that an unsung hero can come from a four win team, but in the winter it is hard to pick a winner from swimming and diving and track and field as they are team sports but also individual sports at the same time. But that does not mean that Matt Spadafora is not very deserving of this award. For being the lone senior on the youngest team in the conference he was great. Some say he should have scored more points, he only averaged 6.3 per game, but that wasn’t his game. He did all the dirty work and did it well. He averaged 4.3 rebounds per game, dished out assists, and got steals while also going up against the opposing team’s top scorer on the defensive end every game.

Unsung Female Athlete

Michele Brokans, Women’s Basketball

You don’t get more unsung that Michele Brokans who averaged 1.2 points per game, 2.3 assists, and 2.3 rebounds. But her presence on the court was big enough to get her the hero tag attached. She started the season on the bench after being the team’s starting point guard for two seasons, but was soon put back in the lineup and started 21 of the team’s 30 games this year. She was not much of a scorer but she was very good at everything you need a point guard to do, passing, defense, and leadership.

Fan’s Choice Male Athlete of the Winter

Chris De La Rosa, Men’s Basketball

In a surprising upset Chris De La Rosa overtook teammate Chauncey Gilliam for the fan’s choice player of the winter award by one vote. Jay Greene left big shoes to fill at point guard for De La Rosa but he quickly proved to be a perfect replacement for the UMBC legend. De La Rosa brought a similar yet different game. He was a pass first player, leading the America East Conference with 5.1 assists per game, but was also a very “streetballesk” type scorer that would crash the lane and make impressive shots as he finished second on the team averaging 11.7 points.

Fan’s Choice Female Athlete of the Winter

Carlee Cassidy, Women’s Basketball

Is it any surprise that one of the greatest scorers in UMBC women’s basketball history is the fan’s choice athlete of the winter? Cassidy started her senior year off a bit slow but quickly got things going and managed to average 13.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 2.3 three-pointers, and shot 36.1% from the field and 32.0% from three point range.

Male Athlete of the Winter

Eric Jones, Men’s Swimming and Diving

Eric Jones really slid under the radar this year because he did not set any records, but the best player’s don’t always set records, they are just dominate and consistent, which is what Jones was. He was a major reason the team was able to walk away with a 13th straight league title after winning two gold medals at the Championship meet. He totaled a team high 19 gold medals this season to go along with four silver medals and one bronze.

Female Athlete of the Winter

Sam Maccherola, Women’s Swimming and Diving

It is clear that the swimming and diving teams were very good this year once again and they are being rewarded for such. Sam Maccherola really shined in her senior season as she totaled 19 medals this year: 11 golds, seven silvers, and one bronze. She was an all-conference selection after earning a gold and silver in the AEC championship meet.

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Senior Dominic Devaud claimed gold in the heptathlon with 5,216 total points. Of the seven events he was first in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 7.70. He also finished second in the 55-meter dash in 6.78 and the Pole Vault with the mark of 4.65-meters.

Keith Onto, finished just behind Devaud in the heptathlon with 5,192 total points. The junior won both the long jump’s heptathlon with a mark of 6.55-meters, and the high jump with a mark of 2.01-meters. He finished seconds in the 55-meter hurdles in 7.93 and third in the shot put, 12.02-meters, and 1,000-meter run, 2:44.62.

Senior Michael Buccheri completed the sweep for UMBC as he claimed bronze in the heptathlon, totaling 4,892 total points. He won the high jump with a mark of 2.01-meters, beating Onto on attempts.

All three recorded IC4A-qualifying scores.

But the dominance of the heptathlon did not end there. Junior Marin Nevarez finished sixth in the event, totaling 4,599 points. The usual pole vault competitor won that event with a height of 4.75-meters.

Senior Camal Pugh continued his stellar senior season with gold in the 55-meter hurdles after crossing the finish line in 7.59. Devaud finished just behind him for the silver in 7.65. Trae Proctor added points to the UMBC total with a sixth place finish in 7.89.

The distance medley team of Michael Christmas, Aristole Johnson, Roy Jones, and Chris Snyder finished second overall with a school record time of 9:58.22.

Joshua Hewitson won bronze in the 500-meter dash in 1:03.77 while Christmas finished in fourth in the 800-meter run in 1:54.06.

Helping the Retriever cause was Justin Acker, who finished fourth in the 55-meter dash in 6:56. Just two seconds behind him was Mohamed Koroma, who finished eighth in the event.

Heptathlon medalists’ Buccheri and Onto tied for fifth place in the high jump with marks of 1.88-meters. Onto also finished eighth in the long jump with a mark of 6.75-meters.

Cameron McDearmon and Aaron Brooks finished fifth and sixth in the shot put with marks of 15.14-meters and 14.93-meters, respectively. McDearmon and Brooks also finished seventh and eighth in the weight throw with marks of 15.42-meters and 15.00-meters, respectively. Though he did not add points to the teams total, Evan Palmer was just behind them in the event, finishing ninth with a throw of 14.87-meters

Mid-distance runner Antonio Thomas finished sixth in the 200-meter dash in 22.17.

Devaud and Nevarez tied for seventh place in the pole vault with heights of 4.50-meters.

The men’s 4×400 relay team finished seventh in 3:21.53 while Andrew Madison rounded out all scoring with an eighth place finish in the 5,000-meter run in 14:54.55.

Meanwhile, Kiki Malomo-Paris set a school record in the women’s long jump with a leap of 5.56-meters while also earning a bronze.

Elsewhere on the men’s side of things Camal Pugh won silver in the 60-meter hurdles with an IC4A-qualifying time of 8.24. Fellow senior Keith Brown finished two spots behind Pugh with a time of 8.33.

On the women’s side Britney Foreman won gold in the 60-meter dash in an ECAC-qualfying time of 7.67, and also took sliver in the 200-meter dash in 25.37.

Sophomore Imani Colber won the 60-meter hurdles in and ECAC-qualfying time of 8.76 and freshman Amanda Deller won the shot put with a throw of 13.98-meters.

Three other women’s placed in the event. Ashly McClure finished second in the 500-meter dash in 1:17.97, senior Sara Parkinson finished second in the 800-meter dash in 2:15.50 and freshman Ashly Ajayi won a bronze in the 400-meter dash in 58.93.

Sophomore Joshua Hewitson was the top Retriever in the meet as he walked away with a silver in the 500-meter dash in an IC4A qualfying time of 1:04.53.

Meanwhile, junior Chris Bowie claimed bronze in the 5,000-meter run in a time of 14:51.48. Senior Andrew Madison finished the race just behind him with a fourth place finish in 14:55.97.

Chris Snyder, Dominic Devaud, Aristole Johnson, and Michael Christmas teamed up to finish sixth in an IC4A-qualifying time of 10:09.48.

The 4×400-meter relay team of Keith Onto, Camal Pugh, Arjun Pradeep, and Hewitson finished in ninth place in the 16 team event in 3:20.74.

On the women’s side Suzanne Gabriel finished the 5,000-meter run in sixth place with a time of 17:37.16 while Sara Parkinson finished ninth in the 1-mile run in 5:00.17.

The 4×200-meter relay team of Nicole Smalls, Tawana Wilson, Ashley Ajayi, and Britney Foreman finished 13th overall in 1:43.97.

At Penn State UMBC walked away with four top 20 finishes.

On the women’s side Sara Parkinson finished the 1-mile run with a second place finish in 4:58.97.

On the men’s side Michael Christmas finished tenth in the 1-mile run in 4:17.48. Victor Gilreath competed in the triple jump, which he finished 10th with a leap of 14.45 meters, and the high jump, which he finished 16th in with a mark of 1.94 meters.

At George Mason the teams combined for six medals.

On the men’s side freshman Cameron McDearmon took gold in the men’s shot put with a throw of 14.68 meters, and took silver in the weight throw with a toss of 14.41 meters.

Senior Camal Pugh finished the meet with a silver in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.28 while sophomore Joshua Hewitson also earned silver in the 400-meter dash in 50.30.

On the women’s side Chrissy Robinson competed in her first meet of the season, and claimed gold in the shot put with a mark of 12.57 meters. Robinson is also a reserve center on the women’s basketball team.

Sophomore Imani Colbert finished in second place in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.80 while senior Britney Foreman earned bronze in the 60-meter dash in 7.78.

The teams return to action next weekend with the take part in the Armory Invitational in New York.