UB Tracksters Successful at Raleigh Meet

Jessica Lister wins pole vault; Vanessa Roelofsen breaks javelin record

Jessica Lister

RALEIGH, NC – The University at Buffalo track and field teams completed a successful weekend at the Raleigh Relays, one of the largest meets in the East with a first-place finish, a school record and several season-best marks. There was no team scoring at the meet hosted by North Carolina State.

UB junior Jessica Lister (Rodman, NY/South Jefferson) won the women's pole vault competition with a height of 11-9.75 (3.60m). Sophomore teammate Carrie Hinners (Maple Grove, MN/Maple Grove) placed 10th in the event with a season-best vault of 11-3.75 (3.45m).

Vanessa Roelofsen

Sophomore Vanessa Roelofsen (Alma, Ontario/Norwell District SS) broke her own school record to place second in the women's javelin competition. Roelofsen set the new mark with a toss of 162-2 (49.43m) to break her old mark, set in her first collegiate competition as a freshman last season, by five inches. The toss also improved Roelofsen's qualifying distance for the NCAA East Regionals at the end of the season. Akron's Ashley Kaufman won the event with a throw of 170-0 (51.83m).

Senior Jenny Koeppel (Amherst, NY/Amherst) also scored a second-place finish with her 36:09.89 clocking in the 10,000-meter run. Senior Jen Jezorski (Elmira, NY/Elmira Southside) took third in the 1,500-meters in 4:31.90. Sophomore Caitlin Godin (Rochester, NY/Greece Arcadia) finished fifth in the high jump with a season-best height of 5-5 (1.65m).

Roy Richards

In the men's meet, Roy Richards (Rochester, NY/Edison Tech) finished third in the long jump at 23-11.75 (7.31m). Richards also finished 11th in the 100-meters in 11.07 after turning in a season-best 10.98 clocking in the prelimaries.

Andy Leonard

Andy Leonard (Spencerport, NY/Churchville-Chili) placed fourth in the unseeded portion of the men's 5,000-meter run in a season-best 15:01.48. The time by Leonard was an improvement of 47 seconds from last week's mark at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational.

UB's 4x200-meter relay squad turned in a sixth-place finish in 1:29.80. The 4x100-meter relay team finished 13th, posting a season-best time of 42.62.

The Bulls are next in action at the Miami (Ohio) Invitational on April 8.

03/26/2006