Coach Dave Billing's Spartan Striders Participate At East Stroudsburg University's DeSchriver Invitational.
9th Annual Dick DeSchriver Invitational
The Spartan Striders of Saint Thomas Aquinas College traveled out to East Stroudsburg University to compete in the 9th Annual Dick DeSchriver Invitational on February 2nd. All in all, 32 teams from, NY, NJ, and PA showed up to strut their stuff.
On the Men's side 3 school records fell. In the 4 x 200, Keith Francis, John Cirolia, Mike Valentine and anchor Chris Muniz cruised thru in 1:33.08 for a new school record.
In the next event, Keith Francis broke the 55 meter dash record with a time of 6.84. At the end of the meet Francis and Muniz teamed up with Vinny Modafferi and Kwame Opoku and lowered the school record in the 4 x 400 to 3:28.36.
Besides those records, Muniz took 2nd in the open 400, Modafferi took 4th in the hotly contested 500, and newbie Opoku took 6th in the fast paced 800 meter race.
Along the way Aidan Hearn qualified for the CTC Indoor Championship in the 5000 meter run. He joins Elmer Eckert, Kwame Opoku, Vinny Modafferi, and Chris Muniz as team members who have all qualified for the CTC championship.
In the women's events, Jeanette Gibson picked up where she left off by throwing the shot put 33' 9''. Jeanette had previously qualified for the CTC championship. Teammate Lisa Urnaitis ran the 1000 meter run in 3:41 and Sade Mosher ran the 800 meter run in 3:00.
Next up for the men and women is the CTC Championship hosted by Yale University on Saturday, February 9th, and Sunday, February 10th. Every member on the team will be competing on the fast track at Yale and numerous school records will be seriously challenged.
DESCHRIVER INVITATIONAL TEAM RESULTS
(New school record)
SHOT - Women: Jeanette Gibson - 33' 9"
5K - Men: Elmer Eckert - 16:24, Aidan Hearn - 16:28
4 X 200 - Men; Keith Francis, John Cirolia, Mike Valentine, Chris Muniz
1:33.08
55 - Men: Keith Francis - 6.84, John Cirolia - 7.21, Anderson Munro - 7.29
400 - Men: Chris Muniz - 51.45
500 - Vinny Modafferi - 1:08.98
800 - Men: Kwame Opoku - 1:59, Drew Gangemi - 2:13, Dan Nilsen - 2:26.41
Women: Sade Mosher - 3:00.72
1000 - Men: Davide Pulsoni - 2:57, Matt Tucker - 2:59
Women: Lisa Urnaitis - 3:41.29
200 - Men: Mike Valentine - 24.74, Anderson Munro - 25.87
1600 Relay - Men
3.28.36 - Keith Francis, Vinny Modafferi, Kwame Opoku Chris Muniz
3:43.95 - John Cirolia, Mike Valentine, Davide Pulsoni, Anderson Munro,
3:49.31 - Christian Mendez, Elmer Eckert, Matt Tucker, Drew Gangemi
