University of Albany Women's Indoor Track & Field Sweeps A-East Weekly Awards For Second Time This Winter - UAlbany Sports 2010

Cambridge, Mass. - University at Albany's Fey Adaramola and Tiffany Sprenkels were named America East Conference women's indoor track and field performers of the week, as announced by the league office on Tuesday, Jan. 26. The Great Danes have now swept the conference's weekly honors twice this season, as three student-athletes have combined to win five awards to date.

Adaramola is being honored for the third time in as many weeks as the league's top female track performer. The senior captain won the 55-meter dash in 6.96 seconds to qualify for the ECAC Championship and beat out one of the longest-standing school records at the Great Dane Classic. The mark broke Ellakisha Williamson's program standard of 7.01, which was recorded in 1998. It was also just .04 seconds short of meeting the NCAA provisional qualifying standard and also tied for third-best in the nation, trailing only the 6.94 time posted by Penn State's Shavon Greaves and Bowling Green's Jeanette Pettigrew. Her first-place performance among 63 competitors, which was tops in America East this season, also matched the meet record and helped the Great Danes place fourth as a team. Adaramola also registered a time of 25.13 in the 200, which was .01 short of qualifying the sprinter for ECACs.

Sprenkels was named the women's field performer of the week after eclipsing the ECAC standard in the triple jump for the third straight season. She placed second among 28 competitors in the event with a personal-best mark of 39-feet, 11.25-inches, bettering her previous mark by 3.5 inches. The jump placed the junior second on the America East performance list and ranks among the top 50 nationally this season.

The UAlbany women will send a full squad to the New York Road Runners Saturday Night at the Armory II meet on Saturday, Jan. 30. The scoring meet is slated to include Virginia and Villanova of the Atlantic Coast and Big East conferences.


Courtesy: UAlbany Sports Information