Men's Track and Field | 5/4/2024 11:58:00 PM

New York, New York - The BMCC Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Team continued to impress on Saturday at Icahn Stadium during their inaugural 2024 season, staking their claim with a program-defining performance at the CUNYAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships racking up six total medals with four from their men's team and two from their women. 

Freshman Lea Reimer (Paderborn, Germany) was the lead story from the Panthers women's program on the day, grabbing her fourth individual CUNYAC Championship with a first-place finish and medaling in the women's 10,000 meters with a time of 45:04.48. Reimer became the first Panther runner in school history to take home the Individual Community College Cross Country Crown in the fall, then followed that performance up in the winter during the outdoor season, earning two medals for first-place finishes in the women's mile and 3000 meters with times of 5:55.59 and 12:26.51 at the 2024 CUNYAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Classmate Isiah Duffy (Brooklyn, New York) became the program's first two-time individual national qualifier in program history, punching his ticket in the high jump and 400 meter hurdles, where he also medaled in both events with a second and third-place finish. Duffy's 1.78m mark in the High Jump was right on the button with the NJCAA qualifying standard (1.78m), and his time of 1:02.18 in the 400 meter hurdles beat the National qualifying standard of 1:03.51 by one second. Panthers women's team captain Kylah Hetmeyer (Brooklyn, New York) won the women's squad's second medal of the meet, finishing third in the women's 800 meters with a time of 2:46.09. 

Freshman Tatenda Chikanyairo (Fort Lee, New Jersey) joined the medal party with his second top-10 finish of the season and crossed the finish line in third place with a time of 39:48.31 in the men's 10,000 meters. The men's 4x100 relay team of Christian Davis (Queens, New York), Kwame Brempong (Brooklyn, New York), Dontate Creedland (Brooklyn, New York), and Joshua Germain (Brooklyn, New York) added to their accolades with a medal tying for third with Hunter College with a time of 45.81. 

Germain finished second in his section in the Mens 400 meter dash and sixth place overall, while Ysaia Marte (Bronx, New York) posted his second top 10 finish of the season, crossing the tape in 10th with a time of 55.14. Emmanuel Agyei (Brooklyn, New York) posted a time of 55.70 in the event, finishing in 11th place. Davis finished in the top five in the men's 100 meter dash with a time of 11.88, while Trent Santoro (Queens, New York) posted times of 4:45.12 and 2:19.04, finishing sixth and ninth in the men's 1500 meter and 800 meter runs.

Germain crossed the tape with a time of 24.53 in the men's 200 meter dash, while Michael Sing (Levittown, New York) clocked in with a time of 1:10.72 in the men's 400 meter hurdles. The Panther men's 4x400 relay team of Agyei, Duffy, Davis, and Germain competed and posted a time of 3:48.79. Damon Walters (New York, New York) finished in the top 10 in the shot put, posting a personal best of 8.31m.

Shadae King (Queens, New York) laced up in the women's 100 meter and 200 meter dash, finishing ninth overall in both with times of 15.67 and 31.30. Maria Godoy Forno De Stein (Guatemala City, Guatemala) and Hetmeyer also crossed the finish line in the women's 200 meters with times of 31.80 and 31.82.

An Ling Zhu (Brooklyn, New York) also competed in the women's 1500 meters, registering a time of 6:44.72. 

The Panthers will be competing at Nationals for the first time in program history next Thursday, May 9th, until May 11th, in the 2024 NJCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Thomas R. Proctor Stadium in Utica, New York. For more information, visit the BMCC men's and women's Outdoor Track and Field Schedule.

 

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