NEW YORK, NY - The University at Buffalo's top men's and women's indoor track and field athletes participated at the highly competitive Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City. The large-scale meet that included top college programs from throughout the country as well as Olympic-caliber athletes gave the Bulls some of their best performances of the season. For collegiate programs, the meet was divided into two sections, the University Division, in which UB competed, and the Championship Division that included top-notch programs such as LSU, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Biaunca McFarland

The Bulls posted two new school records in the competition. Senior Biaunca McFarland (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton) broke her own record and established a new meet record with her victory in the triple jump. McFarland cleared a distance of 41-10 (12.75m) to break her old mark of 41-7.75 (12.69m) set two weeks ago. Her winning jump was nearly two feet better than the previous meet record and bettered the second-place finisher by more than 10 inches.

Jerimie Slick

For the men, UB's Jerimie Slick (Rochester, NY/Greece-Olympia) broke his own mark in the 5,000-meters. Slick finished fifth overall and third among runners from the University Division with his 14:29.76 clocking. The time shaved eight seconds off his previous school record set in 2001.

Other highlights for the Bulls included Laura Olson (Lyons, NY/Lyons) placing second in the women's pole vault at 12-5.50 (3.80m). Florida International's Michelle Lennox won the event clearing the same height. Olson, Lennox and Brown's Lauren Contursi each shared the meet record with their vaults. Byron McKinney (Amherst, NY/Sweet Home) placed second in the men's shot put with a throw of 55-7 (16.94m). Faith Thompson (Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Falls) turned in a second-place finish in the women's weight throw (57-6.25, 17.53m) and a fifth-place finish in the women's shot put (44-4.75, 13.53m).