RPI Track & Field/Cross Country

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Our XC summer newsletter hit inboxes today, if you did not get it please review the document linked here:

Alumni Newsletter Summer 23.docx

Our RPI Track & Field Team Store is now open!

RENSSELAER POLY INST - RPI Track & Field Shop Hurry, shop closes 07/21/2021!

Congratulations to all of our hardworking athletes! We've overcome so much adversity! Our men placed first at Liberty Leagues with a team total of 319 points! And our women came in first with a total of 266 points! Way to go!

For pole vault it was the meet the freshman at Cortland on sunday. On the Men's side,
James Zeolla placed second with a jump clearing 4.40 meters.

On the Women's side, Dayna Moyer made her collegiate debut placing third with a jump of 2.80 meters.

"As of right now for the group, getting back into a normal full length season with lift sessions will be incredibly helpful. The group consists of mostly freshman and sophomores so it is a really promising sight for the next few years." -Hunter Borwick

1st meet in the books with plenty of highlights! We'll post once a day until leagues this Saturday showing off the team starting with Throws!

Overall, we had a bunch of PRs as well as a podium showings!
Senior Ben Zawislak PRd in disc Freshman Ryan kerr PRd in disc, Senior Justin Park PRd
in hammer. Sophomore Maddie Mast PRd in disc, Senior Lorna Drexler PRd in hammer.

Justin Park, Pat Butler, and Ryan Kerr went 1,2,3 in Javelin respectively. Ben and Justin took 3rd and 4th in hammer respectively.

Lorna Drexler was 2nd in Hammer, and 3rd in Javelin. And Maddie Mast took home the gold for Javelin.

"Everyone did an amazing job cheering for each other-- no other team
there came close to the spirit that we had. People pushed through the
difficulties of COVID and had fun anyway.
They throwers proved that we can bounce back and learn how to dominate
again after a very inconsistent schedule leading up to the meet"- Lorna Drexler

Congratulations to former thrower Camden Blake!!

Camden Blake, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, was recently awarded a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3dKJUYh

IT'S FINALLY TIME!! With a cancelation due to covid related issues we are back and ready to compete in our first meet tomorrow! Check out live results at https://results.leonetiming.com/?mid=2224!

Check out the appreciation post for Krishaun Gilmore, a two sport athlete of RPI!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CM4sOoZpjuQ/?igshid=xqmyf2wr1axy

RPI Athletics Appreciation Post | For Krishaun Gilmore ‘98, who was a 6x @ncaadiii All-America with a National Championship for @rpi_trackandfield and a consensus All-America for @rpifootball in 1998. The @rpilally grad was @ncaad3 champ in 55 meters (indoors) once and AA two other times. He was an outdoor AA in 100 twice and 200 once. He still holds three school records! As a running back, Krishaun was 2nd in the nation in rushing as a grad student when he was chosen to 5 All-America teams and was a finalist for the Gagliardi as the national player of the year. He finished his career with 3,838 rushing yards (2nd in school history) and 40 TDs! A Career Athlete Award recipient who is in the @rpiofficial athletics hall of fame, Krishaun headed to Ohio to work for Toyota with his Master’s in Management and Technology @rpialumni

So thrilled and thankful to say our first practice is in the books! Small group but eventually we will get back to larger squads and hopefully a competition!