Men's Outdoor Track and Field | 5/11/2022 10:02:00 PM

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg University men's and women's track & field teams will send 37 student-athletes to compete in 22 events at the 2022 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Outdoor Track & Field Championships, beginning Thursday.
 
SPRINTS
In the sprint events, the Huskies have six athletes between the men's and women's teams.
 
Sarah Castronova (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley) for the women will take on the 200-meter dash and the 400-meter dash while Phoebe Patterson (Pompton Plains, NJ/Pequannock Township High School), Delaney Porter (Pen Argyl, Pa./Penn Argyl Area), and Melissa Sicinski (Fountainville, Pa./Pennridge) join her for the 400.
 
Castronova is set to run in the third prelim race of the 200-meter dash with a seed time of 26.25. Patterson is in the first prelim of the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:00.18. In the second prelim, Castronova comes in with a time of 58.84, 10^th best time in the PSAC this year, and Porter has a seed time of 59.37, 11^th best time. Sicinski rounds out the second prelim race with a time of 1:01.23.
 
On the men's side, Tyreem Welton (Philadelphia, Pa./Penn Wood) is in heat three of the prelims for the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.66 and Robert Wilson (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) is 20^th in the PSAC and will race in the third heat of the 400-meter dash with a seed time of 50.45.
 
MID-DISTANCE/DISTANCE
The mid-distance races are full of Huskies on both sides.
 
For the women, Megan Gambogi (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) and Kathryn Blair (Elma, N.Y./Iroquois) are set to compete in the 800-meter run while Brianna Dumond (Tamaqua, Pa./Tamaqua Area), Jaime Diedel (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), and Kelley Selheimer (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) are in the 1,500-meter run. Nicole Keeley (Northumberland, Pa./Shikellamy) and Selheimer are also scheduled to run in the 5,000-meter race.
 
Blair comes into the day seeded sixth in the 800 with a time of 2:18.43 while Gambogi is seeded seventh with a time of 2:19.68. Selheimer has the 14^th-best time in the PSAC in the 1,500-meter race as she comes in with a seed time of 4:54.03. Dumond has a seed-time of 4:56.55, the 21^st best time in the conference, and Diedel carries a seed time of 4:56.92, the 24^th best time in the PSAC this season.
 
Selheimer will race in the 5,000-meter run as well as she has a seed time of 18:45.97, 17^th in the PSAC, and Keeley is seeded 11^th with a time of 18:34.47.
 
On the men's side, Parker Jarratt (West Grove, Pa./Avon Grove) and Tyler Bailey (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg) will represent the Huskies in the 800-meter run. Bailey comes in with the third-fastest time in the PSAC at 1:53.07 while Jarratt has the 14^th best time at 1:56.76.
 
Brayden Graham (Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg) will run in the first heat of the 1,500-meter finals as he is ranked 22^nd with a time of 4:03.21 and Christopher McCormick has a seed time of 4:03.86.
 
Kevin Konyar (Winchester, Va./James Wood) and Michael Gavio (Marlton, N.J./Cherokee) are scheduled to take on the two longest races of the weekend as they are seeded in both the 5,000-meter run and the 10,000-meter run. Konyar has the 11^th fastest time in the PSAC in the 5K at 15:09.48 while Gavio is 28^th with a time of 15:38.82. In the 10K, Konyar is sixth with a time of 31:46.59. Ryan Duff (Plymouth Meeting, Pa./Plymouth-Whitemarsh) comes in as the 14^th seed with a time of 33:05.61 while Gavio is 26^th at 33:57.52.
 
HURDLES
Julia Magee (Chalfont, Pennsylvania/Central Bucks South) will represent the Huskies in the 100-meter hurdles as she comes in with a seed time of 15.47.
 
Hank Anderson (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) looks to claim a medal it the 110-meter hurdles as he is ranked third entering the championships with a time of 15.09.
 
In the 400-meter hurdles, Robert Wilson (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) will run in the first prelims as he enters the race with a seed time of 58.08. Brady Dowell (Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Township) will be next to his teammate in the prelim heat as he enters with a time of 58.79.
 
Graham looks to grab a spot on the podium in the steeplechase as he is ranked eighth in the conference with a time of 9:59.20.
 
RELAYS
The women's 4x100-meter team of Sydney Beaverson (York, Pa./Red Lion), Castronova, Porter, and Sicinski enter the championships with a time of 49.83 while Blair, Castronova, Gambogi, and Patterson enter the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:02.34.
 
The men's 4x100-meter relay team  of Anderson, Andrew Basile (Easton, Pa./Easton Area), Dowell, and Marco Olmedo (Norristown, Pa./Norristown Area) (Welton, Wilson) enter the championships with a seed time of 43.43 while the 4x400-meter relay team of Bailey, Basile, Dowell, Wilson (Jarratt, Welton) have a seed time of 3:20.67.
 
FIELD EVENTS
Sydney Sheaffer (Port Royal, Pa./Juniata High School) and Ashley Blannard (Larksville, Pa./Wyoming Valley West) both will compete for a gold medal this weekend as well as improve their ranking on the NCAA performance list.
 
Sheaffer comes into the high jump ranked third in the conference and 38^th in the NCAA with a height oof 1.68 meters. Isabella Horvath (Cresco, PA/Pocono Mountain East High School) is 15^th in the high jump with a height oof 1.52 meters.
 
In the long jump, Blannard ranks at the top of the conference with a distance of 5.79 meters while Erin Rottloff (Bensalem, Pa./Conwell-Egan Catholic) is 13th with a jump of 5.41 meters which she set the Maroon & Gold Invite two weeks ago. Dahlia Hosey (Wellsboro, Pa./Wellsboro Area) is 15^th with a distance of 5.36 meters. In the triple, Blannard has a PSAC-best and NCAA 28^th-ranked jump of 12.14 meters while Hosey is ranked ninth in the conference at 11.25 meters. Beaverson is 16^th in the conference with a jump of 10.75 meters and Lauren O'Malley (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville Area) also enters the weekend with a jump of 10.75 meters.
 
Sydney Derr (Fogelsville, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh) enters the meet with 13^th-place height of 3.25 meters.
 
Madison Baudille (Babylon, N.Y./Babylon) comes into the weekend ranked 19^th in the shot put in her first season with the Huskies. She has a season-long toss of 11.74 meters in a very competitive event. Makayla Force (Berwick, Pa./Berwick), also in her first season, is ranked 15^th in the discus with a toss of 37.73 meters and Kelly Gilmore (Colmar, Pa./North Penn) looks to make a splash in the hammer as she comes in 12^th with a distance of 45.87 meters.
 
O'Malley will compete in the heptathlon for BU as she enters the weekend with a career-best score of 3,383.
 
For the men, Anderson looks to nab a spot on the podium for the long jump as he comes in with the eighth-best jump in the conference so far at 6.95 meters.
 
Doug Walsh (Old Forge, Pa./Holy Cross High School) will take on the decathlon for the Huskies as he comes into the event with a season-best score of 5,225.
 
The 2022 PSAC Outdoor Championships get underway on Thursday at Millersville University. Links for the link broadcast and live results can be found at buhuskies.com.