Track & Field Set To Open Indoor Season On Saturday At Navy Invitational

Saturday, December 7

Annapolis, MD

9 AM

Maryland

Navy Invitational

Track & Field Set To Open Indoor Season On Saturday At Navy Invitational

12/6/2024 9:00:00 AM | Track & Field

Maryland at Navy Invitational

December 7, 2024

Annapolis, MD

9 AM

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COLLEGE PARK, MD - The Maryland track and field team will kick off the 2024-25 indoor season at the Navy Invitational in Annapolis this Saturday, December 7. The meet will start at 9 AM in the Wesley A. Brown Fieldhouse. The Terps will compete against James Madison, Johns Hopkins, Mount St. Mary's, UMES, Navy, and William & Mary.

Notes for Traveling Fans:
• Vehicular access to the Naval Academy is limited to those drivers with a Department of Defense identification card.
• All other visitors must either park outside of the Naval Academy grounds and walk through the security gates at Gate 1 or take the complimentary shuttles from Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (550 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, Md., 21401).
• The shuttles will run from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• Enter the blue/west parking lot through gate 5 off of Taylor Avenue.
• The cost of parking is $10.
• Visitors 18 years and older must present a government-issued identification card (driver's license / passport) to gain access to the Academy grounds, while visitors 17 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

A peek at the scheduLe

This will be the first meet of a three-month Indoor season leading up to Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis, IN on February 28 and the NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach, VA on March 14-15.
The Terps will compete in some of the toughest meets on the collegiate indoor track and field schedule, including the Penn State National Open, the Clemson Tiger Paw Invite, and the Valentine Invitational in Boston, MA.
This will be the only meet for Maryland in December, before the team returns to the track on January 18 for the Nittany Lion Challenge.

The Terps are set to compete in eight meets this year to prep for the Big Ten and NCAA Championships.

Cross Country Recap

Led by Rose Coats, Eva Rogers, Katie Turk, and Katie Altieri, the distance corps turned in a strong cross country season in the fall. Coats led the Terps in every race of the year earning All-Regional honors and turning in one of the top performances in program history in the NCAA Championship.
At the NCAA Cross Country National Championship race, Coats turned in one of the best performances in program history as she finished 61^st overall with a time of 20 minutes, 18.5. Coats' individual finish was the third best overall in program history and the best since Rosalind Taylor placed ninth in the 1988 National Championship (then a 5,000 meter race). Her performance was also the best time for any Terp on a 6K National Championship course. Coats, who earned NCAA All-Region honors last week, became the sixth Terp in program history to qualify for the NCAA Championship and the first since Emily Bracher in 2018.

Rose Coats

Last time at the navy invitational

Maryland also opened the 2023-24 indoor season at the Navy Invitational where four Terps won their events.
Chioma Njoku, who won the women's weight throw. Njoku, a transfer from Delaware, won the event with a huge throw of 19.65m, which also put her at 6th all-time in Maryland track and field history before she moved up to second later in the season.
Armanie Coleman and Victoria Teasley went 1-2 in the women's 60m dash in their Maryland debuts, running blistering times of 7.58 and 7.62. Coleman's time places her in the Maryland record books in her first meet in a Maryland uniform, putting her in 8th place all-time in the event. Coleman also came in 2nd place in the women's 200m.
Aaron Abedin from Ellicott City, MD won in his first collegiate event in the men's 400m, running a rapid time of 49.29.
The final victorious Terp was Kami Joi Hickson, who won the women's 1,000m with a personal best of 2:56.13.

Armanie ColemanMaryland Track & Field at Navy Invitational at Wesley A. Brown Field House in Annapolis, MD on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. Chris Lyons/ Maryland Athletics

The Terps had four event winners last year at the Navy Invitational.

Current terps in the Indoor record books

13 Terps are among the program's all-time top 10 on the women's indoor team.
Victoria Teasley holds the program record for the 60-meter dash (7.45 seconds), while Armanie Coleman holds the ninth-fastest time (7.58 seconds).
Lydia Robling and Madison Depry are sixth (39.77 sec) and eighth (39.96 sec) in the 300 meters, respectively.
Robling also ranks ninth all-time in the 400 meters (55.45 sec).
Kami Joi Hickson holds the sixth-fastest time in the 600 meters (1:33.68), the fourth-fastest mark in the 800 meters (2:09.51), and the eighth-best time in the 1,000 meters (2:52.56).
Katie Turk is just behind Hickson on the 1,000-meter chart at ninth (2:52.60).
Katie Altieri ranks fifth all-time in the 3,000 meters (9:38.42) and third in the 5,000 meters (16:45.03).
The quartet of Turk, Maya Mosley, Emma Pegg, and Emmi Simon are tied for 10th all-time in the distance medley relay (11:45.76).
Jennessa Wolfe ranks 10th in the high jump (5' 8.75").
Tolu Akinduro ranks fourth in the triple jump (41' 11.75").
Chioma Njoku ranks second in the weight throw (69' 9.00").

Chioma Njoku

Olympians In Paris

A trio of Terps competed this past summer in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Maryland celebrated as Thea LaFond won Gold in the triple jump becoming the first Track Terp to medal in the Olympic games. LaFond posted a mark of 15.02 meters (49-feet, 3.5 inches) - a new Dominica national record in the event. She was the 10th Gold medalist in Maryland history and the first Terp student-athlete to win Gold since Vicky Bullett in 1988.
With a throw of 77.92 meters, Maryland track and field assistant throws coach Rudy Winkler placed sixth in the hammer throw finals. The mark was his best effort at the Olympic games after he posted marks of 71.89 meters in 2016 (Rio) and 77.08 meters in 2021 (Tokyo). The sixth-place finish was also his best showing at the Olympics improving upon his previous high of seventh in Tokyo.
Chioma Onyekwere represented Nigeria in the discus after making her second Olympic games.
Additionally, assistant coach Danielle Siebert served as Women's Head Manager for Team USA – her second straight Olympic Games on the staff.