Warren Staver of Centreville, Md., Earns USTFCCCA All-Region Accolades

2017 May 24

Warren Staver has earned All-Region accolades from the USTFCCCA for the outdoor track & field season.

Juniors David Frederick and Warren Staver earned multiple U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Region honors as a total of nine WPI student-athletes were recognized for placing in the top five as an individual or top three as a relay among their peers in New England.

Frederick was third in the decathlon (5,882) and fifth in the pole vault (15-3) while Staver was third in the 400-meter run (48.32) and a part of the second-ranked 4x400-meter relay (3:14.60) which is preparing to compete at the NCAA Championships. Junior Andrew Kelly, freshman Alex Rus and sophomore Ryan Wittenberg complete the relay quartet while junior Paul-Henry Schoenhagen will serve as the alternate. Junior Brandon Hoghaug, meanwhile, took home the honor in the high jump with a fifth-ranked clearance of 6-7.

The 800-meter relay duo of freshman Sydney Packard and junior Lea Strangio will be making the trek to Ohio for the NCAAs courtesy of their second and fourth place times of 2:10.82 and 2:11.57. Senior Kimberlee Kocienski, who narrowly missed the field, was third in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.65.

Nationally, the 4x400 is the 12th seed while Packard is the eighth seed and Strangio is 15th heading into this week's NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Mount Union at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, OH. Both the 4x400 and Packard are the current record holders in their respective events.

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