Warren Staver of Centreville, Md., Earns Indoor Track & Field All-New England Status

2017 Feb 22

Warren Staver earned All-New England Status for placing in the top eight at the Division III New England Championships this past weekend. The women competed at MIT and the men competed at Tufts.

Freshman Alex Rus, junior Paul-Henry Schoenhagen, sophomore Ryan Wittenberg and junior Warren Staver won the New England championship in the 4x400-meter relay. Junior David Frederick emerged with a school record in the heptathlon as the team finished eighth overall.

The quartet combined to claim the 4x400-meter relay title with the ninth best time in Division III this season (3:20.95). Frederick, meanwhile, went toe-to-toe with senior Nick Dalton in the two-day heptathlon. Frederick ended up third with 4,482 points which were highlighted by a first place 5-11.25 in the high jump and a runner up effort in the pole vault (13-7.25). Dalton amassed 4,264 points behind a third-place 60-meter dash (7.36) and fourth-place marks of 2:53.53 in the 1,000-meter run and 5-10 in the high jump to place sixth.

Senior Austin Scott crossed the finish line third with a time of 4:16.80 in the mile as Staver was fourth in the 600-meter run (1:22.74). Junior Brandon Hoghaug tied for fifth in the high jump (6-4). The 4x800-meter relay also had an All-New England race as freshman Tom Hanlon, freshman Avery Ingegneri, freshman Kevin O'Driscoll and Scott handed in an 8:01.31 to finish sixth.

Over at MIT, junior Abby McAdams and freshman Sydney Packard each broke a program record as the WPI women's track & field team placed 16th.

Exactly half of the Engineers' 16 points were credited on Friday night when McAdams shattered her own pentathlon record with a second-place sum of 3,204. She won the shot put with a distance of 34-11.75 and was the runner up in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:27.56 while placing fifth in the high jump (5-1), seventh in the 60-meter hurdles (9.94) and 10th in the long jump (15-9). McAdams sits seventh on the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Performance List. Packard added four points with a fifth-place, and new school record, time of 1:37.11 in the 600-meter run. In the slightly longer 800-meter run, junior Lea Strangio handed in a sixth-place time of 2:19.37. The 4x800-meter relay team of junior Maggie LaRoche, Strangio, junior Emily Newman and Packard picked up a point with a season-best 9:49.11, which was good for eighth.

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