RSC-NJ:  The NJAC was the most balanced ever---the PROFS walked away with a large number of awards--Steve Mennitt-fr=Rookie of the Year 2009 + 1st Team All-NJAC;  Eric DuBois-2 = 1st Team All-NJAC; Jake McCormack-2 = 2nd team All-NJAC.....#4,5 were Brian Quilty-3 & Kunal Sharmar-2  then came #6,7 = Michael Carotenuto-1 & Matt Angelow-2..........9-11 were Ryan Montaperto-1, Jeff Terebey-3, & Patrick Rindt-2.

2 weeks ago those appearing on the All-CTC Team was: Jake McCormack-2,Steve Mennitt-1, Eric DuBois-2,  & Brian Quilty-3.

Getting back to 10/31/2009----our top 3 ran very well----#4,5,6,7, + were a little off their game and finished too far back....where we were able to edge Ramapo last meet---Rama was able to come back with 'a little pay back.'  I guess we'll just have to return the favor at NCAA Atlantic Regional in SUNY-Geneseo.  I sure hope that SUNY means 'sunny.'

Rowan University:  Both of these gentlemen were All-Americans each year of their eligibility--that is frosh, soph, jr  & sr if you are keeping score.  Dixon won a NCAA 3 title each year of his participation & 2 one year.  He was the 1st NCAA Indoor Athlete of the year & the 1st NCAA Outdoor Athlete of the year & the 1st NCAA Championship Meet Athlete of the Year.  At one time he held the NCAA Championship Meet 400 record & anchored he 4 x 4 team to the 2nd fastest time ever in the NCAA Championship Meet.  His list goes on and on.  He is presently a police officer in Burlington County, NJ.

Ed Colleton was on the same team 3 years with Richie Dixon---WOW- one team 2 future Hall of Famers.  Ed was a Javelin specialist and made All-American all 4 years--Frosh =4th, soph = 3rd, jr = NCAA Champ [in St. Paul, MN] & sr = 2nd.  He had his best result [66.88m] when he won the Penn Relays---Ed was NJAC champ 4 times of course. He won so many meets up and down the East Coast it was hard to keep track of his wins & records.  Ed is presently with an Elite Swat Team, NJ State Police, Homeland Security Group.

We had some  fun and interesting times when these guys were competing! 

Bethlehem, PA: At the Paul Short 8000m Race the Profs racked up all kinds of PRs/SBs in their 2 races.  When the dust had cleared we wound up with the following results.

Steve Mennitt-1= 26:08;  Jake McCormack-2 = 26:10; J. Terebey-3 = 27:17; M. Carotenuto-1 = 27:21; Matt Angelo-2 = 27:38; The Hoff-2 = 27:58; RC Montaperto-1 = 27:59; John Fezzler-3 = 28:30; Holzer-2 = 28:39; Huddy-3 = 28:49;  PJ Rindt-2 = 29:10; King Juicy-1 = 29:21; Tommie Austin -1 = 30:50; Mingin-4 = 31:42.... & duBois-2 got a SB = 27:26 & B. Quilty-3 = 27:09 [SB]

Very nice job  for all concerned!!!! 

White Clay Creek State Park:  Jake-so, takes a big NJAC headbone + Jeff Terebey-jr moves to 3rd on the Rowan All-Time  WCCSP list....R C Montaperto-1 moves into the Top 7 for the first time [6th place]

The PROFS started with started off with a 'Bang' at the '09 5K Time Trial.   197 finishers

2. McCormick-soph = 15:53 [17:15 in '08]

3. Mennitt-frosh = 15:59

5.Quilty-jr = 16:21 [16:45 in '08]

6. Chapman- soph = 16:22 [16:52 in '08]

7. Terebey-jr = 16:23 [17:27 in '08]

8. Hoffman - soph = 16:29

11. DuBois- soph = 16:36 [about the same as '08]

19. Carotenuto-frosh = 16:53

23. Holzer-soph = 17:04 [physically unable to  perform in '08]

25. Brown-frosh = 17:08

28. Rindt - soph = 17:27 [17:51 in '08]

29. Fezz - jr = 17:29 [17:42 in '08 & 22:30 in '07]

30. Angelow - soph = 17:33 [19:32 in '08]

33. Huddy -jr = 17:43

35. Montaperto-frosh = 18:00

37. Gulya -frosh = 18:04

40. Austin-frosh = 18:07

42. Stone -frosh = 18:09

Nice start to 2009 season---nowhere to go but up.

Bronx, NY:  ICAHN Stadium:  The 2 day USTFA Club Nationals ended with Shore AC [NJ] being crowned Men's 2009 National Champion.  Our current 2 time All American [2008 + 2009] Kyle Hayes, soph, finished 5th in the LJ with a great series.  His best jump was 7.18m(w = +1.2mps) Series =  [ 7.15m, 7.08m, 6.94m, 7.03m, 7.18m & a real, long, contested foot foul].  2 time  All American, Aaron Braxton [SP + DT] scored a 4th in the DT for big points in this event.  So it was a great day to be a PROF as well as a Shore AC team member while on Randle's Island competing in the 2009 USTFA Club Team Nationals.

New Orleans, LA:  The USTFCCCA announces Rowan University's Men Outdoor Team wins All-Academic Honors for 2009 season.  This is a first for the guys....we had a bunch of 'heavy lifters' in the upper classmen ranks---thanks to the engineers, accountants, business, music and others that earned a lot of "Quality Points" with their Credits Earned.  This enabled us to  get over the 3.10 team cum GPA, which was the qualifying standard.  There were 39 guys calculated in this GPA determination.  We also needed the championship meet points provided by Hayes-LJ and Biehn-JT [both All-Americans] at the NCAAs.  The women earned this in 2000 & 2001 [when KD scored big at the NCAAs] and the rest of the women piled up the good grades.

With Sean Biehn's 2009 Academic All-American [3rd ever] & Greg Kuczynski's NCAA Fellowship Grant [2nd ever] we had some high level awards to end the season.  Put your mind to it and you'll be the next student-athlete ranking in these awards!!

The air is really getting thin at this level...the only other winner the whole Rowan University has had was Spring-2003.  When Johanna Kline, Chemical Engineer, with almost a 4.00 cumGPA took one home. She is now a MD, Dr. Johanna Kline-Kim.  She also was a XC, indoor, outdoor athlete who competed all 4 years.

We have had 43 National Champs[m/w] + 18 NCAA records at the championship meet---but only 2 NCAA Postgraduate Fellowship Grant winners.  This is an indication of how hard the competition is for this achievement.  Amazing !!!  Who will step up and be next?

2009 NJAC Championships Events where we scored 10 or more points [= to 1st place]:  1500m = Rivera -8 & Chapman-fr-3 for 11 pts---5000m Rivera-8pts + K'ski-4pts + McCormack-fr-1 for 13 pts---10,000m= Quilty-so-5pts, Ratty-sr-4pts, Terebey-so-2 for 11 pts.. 110H-Nehemiah=3rd for 6 & Bradley-so = 4 pts = 10 total;  3000SC-Vasta-sr=8 pts &  Fessler-so-4pts for 12pts;  LJ = Lisa-fr 10, Hayes-so-8pts for 18 big ones & finally the really big one with 29 points coming from the Jav--10 from Corey-jr, 8 from Tholis-fr, Tronco-sr = 6pts with a seasons PB by 4 meters & finally Ruggeri-fr = 5 pts....Thus the grand total for these 7 events is 104 points.  + KG and Biehn were unable to compete & they would have been big points. Mark Lisa-L J, Sean Corey -JT & Matt Tholis -  + Kevin Gauntt-jr--110mH all had NCAA Provos.  Probably the most amazing performance of the day was Antonio Tronco with a 4m improvement in the Jav...we all knew that Rowan would take 3rd place in the Jav---we just thought it would be someone other than TRONC.  This gives TRONC an ALL-NJAC award for his final home meet.  We had some other worthy performances by a lot of guys during the day.

Was Mike Rivera Rowan's high point man at 16 points [2nd in both 1500m + 5000m]???  Mike took a lot of interesting 'headbones' in those two races. Just shows what alot of hard work & a passion for racing will achieve!  Let me know of others that scored 11 or more points.  I'll have to put my computer buddy on this case.

Winston Salem, NC:  Fireworks at the Wake Forest Open on the JAV runway---Corey + 1st and frosh Matt Tholis 6th [with a big PR 180-6 to 192-2]---also Biehn-jr at 10th after some big throws in warm-up.  Rivera leads Quilty and Tereby to nice PRs in the 5000m.  Ratty does well in the 10,000.....more to come tomorrow on Saturday. 

Hayes,All-American LJer, gets his 3rd NJAC POTW award for 2009 Indoor Track & Field season.

Rowan University:  All- NJAC X-C= Greg Kuczynski (4 times); Mike Rivera (2 Times); Kunal Sharma-fr; Brian Quilty-so;---2008 Runner-Up Team!

All-CTC  X-C: Eric DuBois-fr; Greg Kuczynski-sr; Kunal Sharma-fr; Eric Thomas-sr; Mike Rivera-sr; Greg Vasta-sr; Brian Quilty-so---2008 Championship Team

VCPk, Bronx, NY:  Mike Rivera, Greg Kuczynski & frosh Eric DuBois all turned great races at this competitive meet.  Dan Ratty -sr, was just a step behing DuBois as the battle at the chute was starting to intensify.  Brian Quilty-so, had a very nice season opener thanks to a loss of baby fat!  # 6 & 7 were Andrew Vasta & Kunal Sharma-frosh.  Jeff Terebey-so and Frosh Jeff McCormack and Ben Chapman were next in line followed by soph John Fessler.

 Next up is the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on 9/13/2008,

Philadelphia, PA: At 7:15 am on a cool, drizzley morning at the PHL Art Museum the Profs took one last shot at their 8K PR's. The results should set the tone for Fall-2008 as well as the longer stuff on the track this Spring. When the smoke had cleared we had the 2007 season 8000m Rankings:

Rivera = 25:53 [Rothman]

Kuczynski = 26:14 [NCAA Atlantic Regional]

Thomas = 26:28 [Rothman]

Vasta = 26:37 [NJAC Championships]

Ratty = 27:00 [Rothman]

Dunn SR = 27:42 [VCPk]

Terebey = 28:09 [VCPk]

McCarthy = 28:29 [ Salisbury]

Sanchez SR = 28:35 [NCAA Atlantic Reg]

Quilty = 28:42 [Rothman]

Pomona, NJ: The CTC's ran a 6K course and the Profs were up to alittle 'speed-work' and walked away with a total of 26 points [2-4-5-6-9-] [12-24 ].  Mike Rivera was #2, Greg Kuczynski = #4; Eric Thomas = #5; Andrew Vasta = #6; Dan Ratty = # 9 for the 26 total.  Phil Dann #12 & Brian Quilty #24 rounded out the scoring.  The 1-5 time spread was 58+ seconds.  Even more amazing was the 1-4 time spread of 16.9 seconds...that is impressive!! Jaun Sanchez #26 & Scott McCarthy #27 were 2 seconds back of #7, Q-man.  Nick Huddy#51 & John Fessler #62 also ran.  The top  25 finishers are 2007 All-CTC--so that is our top 7 finishers including Quilty.  This was the Profs 3rd XC Crown in 4 years.   The NJACs are next week at the same site.  We had a nice corp of family & alumni [Johnny G, Nicodeamus, Dude, Keith Urban, the Boz] on hand to cheer for the guys.  (an aside--Ringo remeasured the 6K course and found it to be 260 meters long--therefore our times look more realistic.  Ringo remeasured 3 times)

More major accolades for the 'man from old tappan.'

Van Cordtland Park, Bronx, NY:  The following are the 2 results from 9/8/07 + 9/15/07.

Rivera- 28:33 = Ford  26:44 = NYU

Vasta-  29:35 = F        27:27 = NYU

Ratty- 29:46 = F         28:06 = NYU

Dunn-   29:51 = F         27:41 = NYU

Thomas-30:24 = F        27:28 = NYU

Kuczynski-30:36=F      28:11 = NYU

Terebey- inj =    F       28:15 = NYU

McCarthy- 31:06 =F     28:50 = NYU

Quilty-    31:31 =F        28:59 = NYU

Sanchez- 31:56 =F        29:26 = NYU

The Profs are coming along nicely.....next week is an off week & then on down to Salisbury, MD for the Salisbury INV on a flat & fast course.  The Profs are readly to tear it up on 9/29/2007 in Winter Place Park.