RIVERDALE, N.Y. – The Manhattan College track and field cohort is set to compete in the 115th installment of the prestigious Milrose Games on Thursday at The Armory.
Manhattan will be sending
RJ Decker,
Myron Corpuz, and Joesph Pelio on the men's side. For the women,
Kristin Stickdorn,
Mary Gill and
Alexandra Caraher will represent the Green and White.
Last week, Decker, alongside sprinter
Johnelle Joe, took home MAAC weekly honors last week for their performances at the Metropolitan Championships last week at Ocean Breeze. The team picked up the meet victory to make it back-to-back years that the Met Championship on the men's side has resided in Riverdale.
Decker broke the 20m mark for the second time in two weeks last week, winning the weight throw with a top mark of 20.39. Corpuz and Pelio finished back-to-back in seventh and eighth, with marks of 15.03m and 14.80m respectively.
The trio of women competing at Milrose swept the weight throw at Mets, with Stickdorn taking first while launching the weight 17.43m. Gill and Caraher both finished with distances of 17.13m, with Gil sneaking by Caraher for second.
On the track, Manhattan will also be competing in the 4x400 on the men's side with
Harrison Alonzo,
Noah Jefferson,
Andrew Simard, Brian Odour running in the event for the men.
ABOUT THE MILROSE GAMES
Welcome to the historic Millrose Games, the world's premier indoor track and field event! The meet began back in 1908, when the Millrose Athletic Association was formed by employees of the John Wanamaker Department Store. For nearly 100 years, Millrose took place at the legendary Madison Square Garden, where legends of the sport such as Loren Murchison, Paavo Nurmi, Eamonn Coghlan, Cheryl Toussaint, Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Bernard Lagat, and many others made their names and built their legacies. In 2012, the Millrose Games found a new home at the The Armory
, a state-of-the-art facility that has been nicknamed "The Fastest Track in the World." Millrose features top-quality competition at every level, with youth, high school, collegiate, professional, and masters athletes all coming together to test their limits. The signature event of the Millrose Games is the Rudin Wanamaker Mile, a nod to the incredible history of this meet. Countless records have fallen over the past 114 editions of Millrose, with many more being set each year.
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