Results: Raleigh Relays | Florida Relays | UMass Lowell Invite

BOSTON -- The Northeastern men's and women's track and field teams had a busy few days this weekend, sending athletes to three different events on Friday and Saturday and coming away with a combined nine all-time outdoor program top-10 marks, including a new program record.
 
The Huskies sent eight men and five women to the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, North Carolina, where they faced stiff competition.
 
Connor Donovan placed 14th in the 800m (1:52.50), while Alexander Korczynski earned 16th in the 3000m steeplechase (9:05.72) and Cameron Dickson finished 23rdin the 10,000m (30:29.52). Korczynski's 3000m steeplechase time places him seventh on the all-time outdoor program top-10 list.
 
Louiza Wise represented Northeastern's only top-ten finish at the meet, coming in at ninth in the 10,000m with a time of 35:53.75. Aparna Alavilli finished behind Wise in 25th (36:41.32), while Kerri Ruffo competed in the invitational set of the 10,000m (34:32.79), placing 19th. Ruffo's time broke her own school record of 35:09.70, which was set at the Virginia Challenge in 2018. It's the fourth time she's broken the program record in the 10000m.
 
David Adams, Phillips Magre, Quinn Litherland, and Austin Lin traveled to Gainesville, Florida to compete in the 4x400m relay at the 2019 Pepsi Florida Relays, where they recorded the 16th fastest preliminary round time at 3:12.26, the third best time in Northeastern outdoor history. Adams also ran the 400m hurdles, where he finished 10th with a time (52.02) that is good for fourth on the all-time outdoor program performance list.
 
The final event the Huskies took part in was the UMass Lowell Invitational in Lowell, Massachusetts, where they put in an extremely strong showing that included 13 top-five finishes.
 
Travis Kartz finished third in the pole vault (4.30m), while Mark Puglia earned seventh in the javelin throw (51.62m). Spencer McKeough championed the shot put (15.66m), with Cole Stewart trailing behind him at 11th (12.80m). Stewart also came away with fourth in the hammer throw at 41.60m.
 
The trio of Leeyan Redwood, Zoe Taitel, and Priscilla Senoo once again dominated the shot put and discus throw, earning two medals in each. Redwood won gold in both events, recording a 15.10m shot put, a personal best and the third best distance in outdoor program history, and a 41.92m discus throw. Taitel earned silver in the discus throw (40.47m) and bronze in the shot put (13.77m), while Senoo placed fourth and seventh, respectively, in the shot put (13.36m) and discus throw (38.52m).
 
Abigail Cousens (45.57m) and Lauren Swanson (44.36m) threw for gold and bronze, respectively, in the hammer throw, and Kaitlyn Cavallaro finished fifth in the javelin throw (31.55). The trio of Leah Saifi, Eliana Sirkin, and Bridgette Muller placed first, fifth, and 11th in the pole vault with heights of 3.70m, 3.40m, and 3.10m, respectively. Saifi and Sirkin's heights place them in ties for fifth and tenth on the all-time program outdoor performance list. 
 
Up next for the Howlin' Huskies will be a pair of meets next weekend, the Auburn Tiger Classic in Auburn, Alabama and the Minuteman Invitational in Amherst, Massachusetts.