For the week ending April 6, 2008

Division I

Track Athlete of the Week

Sean Quigley - La Salle University
Senior, Braintree, Mass.

Quigley qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championship, finishing with the best time out of the 72 participants in the 10,000-meter event at the Stanford Invitational.  The senior's time of 28:03.72 also qualifies him for the Olympic Trials and broke his own school record by over 50 seconds. 

Field Athlete of the Week

Clendon Henderson - Liberty University
Senior, Meadow, Texas

Henderson took home two first place finishes at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.  The senior won and met NCAA Regional qualifying marks in both the discus and shot put with distances of 62.26 meters and 18.67 meters, respectively.  Both throws were also school and Big South Conference records.  Henderson also reached his personal best in the hammer throw with a NCAA Regional qualifying distance of 58.53 meters.  

Division II

Track Athlete of the Week

Stephan Ramirez - Bentley College
Senior, San Antonio, Texas

Ramirez broke the school mile record and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:08.07 in the Jack Thompson Invitational Mile at the Texas Relays.  

Field Athlete of the Week

Maurice Calenda - American International College
Freshman, Bloomfield, Conn.

Calenda had four top ten finishes including two victories at Fitchburg State's Jim Sheehan Memorial Meet.  Individually, he won the long jump (6.85m) and the triple jump (13.76m) while finishing tenth overall in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.27 seconds.  The freshman was also a member of the 400-meter relay team (44.61 seconds) that finished third.

Division III

Co-Track Athletes of the Week

Hany Abdallah - New York University     
Senior, Madison, N.J.

Abdallah, at the Sam Howell Invitational, clinched an opportunity to go for another All-America honor by automatically qualifying for next month's NCAA Championships.  The senior won the 10,000-meter race in a time of 29:50.29 which also set a new school record by more than 15 seconds.

Amaan Siddeeq - SUNY Cortland
Senior, Goshen, N.Y.

Siddeeq finished first out of 30 competitors in the 100-meter and fourth out of 45 runners in the 200-meter at the Colonial Relays hosted by William & Mary.  His 100-meter time of 10.56 seconds is an NCAA Division III Championship provisional qualifier and just 0.01 second above the automatic qualifying standard.  The senior's 200-meter time of 21.61 seconds is also an NCAA provisional time.  In addition to his individual success, Siddeeq was the anchor of Cortland's winning 4x100-meter relay team that posted an NCAA provisional time of 41.50 seconds.

Co-Field Athletes of the Week

Drew Soltysiak - Westfield State College
Senior, Westfield, Mass.

Soltysiak won the javelin event (58.8m) and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships at the Coast Guard Invitational this past weekend.  

Eugene Asimou - Montclair State University
Junior, Livingston, N.J.

Asimou won the shot put over 21 other competitors with a distance of 15.74 meters at the Penn Invitational.  The junior's throw provisionally qualified him for the NCAA Championships.  He also placed ninth in a field of 21 competitors in the hammer throw with a mark of 45.30 meters.