MEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK COMPETES AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
Rochester Hills, MI. – The Rochester University track and field teams sent a two of their national championship hopefuls to Oakland University this past Saturday for the Grizzly PR Classic. The Warriors would take on numerous Division 1 schools in the invite, including Oakland, Eastern Michigan, and Detroit Mercy (among others) in a strong meet. The Warriors came away with a 3 personal bests and 3 school records from two athletes as they finished in the team standings in 7th out of 8 and were one point shy of tying for 6th.
Getting the Warriors started in the field events was Andre Daniels with a 2nd place finish in the High Jump and new outdoor school record with a jump of 1.95M. "Andre breaking the school record was just one of many accomplishments we knew he could do this outdoor season, and with a few meets left, we're excited for what comes next!" said Head Coach Sean Foulkes.
In the throwing events we find the other Warrior athlete that was competing for the men on Saturday in Andrew Shankster, who came away with 2 school records in the Hammer throw and Discus events. Andrew finished 5th in the hammer and 3rd in the discus events for the Warriors.
Head Coach Sean Foulkes commented: "We were happy to see a few of our athletes come even closer to qualifying for the national championships, but we will be even more excited when our fellas today join the rest of the squad next week down in Ann Arbor."
The Warriors will start to wrap up their outdoor season with one final meet at Concordia University in Ann Arbor on April 24th, before making their way to Indiana Tech on the 29th and 30th for the WHAC Championships!
Grizzly PR Classic – Men's and Women's Results
https://goldengrizzlies.com/documents/2021/4/17/resultspdf.pdf
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