2023-24 Men's Indoor Track and Field News
After a strong winter sports season for Penn State Behrend, the Lions remain in the lead for the AMCC Presidents Cup title.
On Day 3 of D3 Week, we salute our AMCC Team Peak Performers of 2023-24.
The Penn State Behrend men's indoor track & field team had six individual champions and two relay team champions en route to its first ever United East Indoor Men's Track & Field Championship.
The United East Conference Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championship Meet will take place on Monday, February 26 with the AMCC sending three member schools to participate as affiliates.
Hetrick recorded the top finish in the field for the Lions at Ashland, jumping 6-0 ¾ in the high jump for first place.
Christensen notched a win in the 60-meter dash, after running a 6.95. With that time, he set a new school record and became an AARTFC qualifier. He would claim eighth place in the 200-meter run with a time of 23.29 at the Nazareth Conference Tune-Up.
Laslavic was the top-finisher in the field for the Lions at the SPIRE Indoor Games, jumping a 39-9 1/4 in the triple jump for an eighth place finish.
Covington opened his collegiate career at RIT Friday night by winning his 60m heat which advanced him on time (7.29) to the finals. The rookie sprinter sliced his time to 7.24, and finished second in the final race, establishing a new Hilbert indoor record.
Alexander won the triple jump for the second week in a row after jumping 12.79 meters. He followed with a fifth-place finish in the long jump, with a distance of 6.35 meters.
Hetrick tallied a runner-up score of 6-5 ½ in the high jump at the Jim Wuske Invitational.
Egizio crossed the finish line in 22.74 for a second-place finish in the 200 dash. He was also a member of the 4x2 relay team that was victorious with a time of 1:33.71 at Mount Union Saturday.
Festa tallied a third-place finish in the pole vault with a score of 15-1 at SPIRE on Saturday.
Fana ran a personal best 5:36.29 to place fourth in the mile and landed in ninth place with a 2:32.42 finish in the 800. The Celtics recorded nine top-10 finishes on the day at the Muskingum University Muskie Meet #2 Saturday.
Hetrick delivered a runner-up finish in the high jump with a season-best and an AARTFC qualifying clearance of 6-6 ¾ on Saturday.
Klein picked up a second-place finish in the 3000m with a time of 9:16.61 and then would go on to place third in the 500m (1:09.35) at Mount Union.
