Women's Track Set To Defend Metropolitan Indoor Title

Friday, February 1

Staten Island, N.Y.

All day

Rutgers University

Metropolitan Championships

Photo by: Mike Lawrence/Rutgers Athletics

Women's Track Set To Defend Metropolitan Indoor Title

Jan 31 | Women's Track & Field

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Scarlet Knights Compete Friday At Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers women's track & field team will compete at the 2019 Metropolitan Championship that will take place on Friday February 1^st at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, New York.

LAST TIME AT THE METROPOLITAN CHAMPIONSHIPS:
The Rutgers women's track and field team was crowned the Metropolitan Indoor Champion thanks to its four events victories and 171 points.

SCARLET KNIGHTS TO WATCH:
Oniesha Clarke:
Senior Oniesha Clarke earned two titles at this event last year, winning the 60m (7.52) and long jump, setting a new PR at 5.90m (19' 4.25"). This season, Clarke won 60m title at UPenn 8- Team Select (7.64). Last week, at Terrier Classic, she landed third in the finals of 60m (7.64).

Courteney Campbell:
Sophomore Courteney Campbell won the high jump title last year at the Metropolitan Championships. She cleared the bar at 1.65m (5'5"). She finished fourth last week at Terrier Classic at a ECAC qualifying height of 1.70 (5'7").

Olympia Martin:
Sophomore Olympia Martin obtained a new PR in the 3000m last week at the Terrier Classic with an ECAC qualifying time of 9:44.23. It was the fifth fastest time in Rutgers record books. Last year at the Metropolitan Indoor Championship, she was the runner-up in the 5000m with a time of 17.24.82.

Phyllis Gordon:
Senior Phyllis Gordon took fourth in the 500m last year at the Metropolitan Championships (1:15.41). This year, she won the event at the TCNJ Lions Invite with an ECAC qualifying time of 1:15.77.

Rhonda Rogombe:
Redshirt junior Rhonda Rogombe cleared an ECAC qualifying height of 1.70m (5'7") last week placing third in High Jump. Earlier this year, she won the TCNJ Lions Invite event with a height of 1.65 (5'5").

UP NEXT:
The Rutgers women's track and field team heads to Massachusetts next week to the Valentine's Invitational

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