2011-12 SUNY Geneseo Women's Track & Field
2011-12 SUNY Geneseo Men's Track & FieldThe SUNY Geneseo men's track team has been an intercollegiate sport since 1970. Head coach Dave Prevosti is a 1996 graduate of Roberts Wesleyan and is in his seventh season. The program was started by Paul Evans and in 1980, Rich Ceronie added the women's program as well as participating for the first time in indoor competition.
In 2011, the women's indoor track and field team highlighted their season with a second place finish at the SUNYAC championships for Prevosti. The Knights scored 106 points to finish behind champion Buffalo State's 124. Sophomore Marissa Liberati and junior Alyssa Smith earned first team All-SUNYAC recognition. Liberati won the 3,000 and 5,000-meter races, while Smith won the mile run for the third straight year. Geneseo placed two student-athletes on the All-SUNYAC Second team as sophomore Cailin Kowalewski finished second in the 800 meters and junior Danae Polsin ran second in the 5,000 meters. Geneseo posted a pair of school records during the season as sophomore Rachel Serpe hit 3.25 meters in the pole vault and the DMR of Smith, Kelly Brunscheen, Mary Aldridge and Liberati ran a time of 11:55.41.
In 2011, Prevosti capped his seventh season with the men's indoor track and field team with a 42nd place finish at the NCAA Division III national meet and a second place finish at the SUNYAC meet with 135 points to champion Buffalo State's 136. Geneseo produced two All-Americans at the NCAAs as senior Mike McManus, who earlier claimed first team All-SUNYAC, finished sixth in the high jump and junior Lee Berube, who was first team All-SUNYAC and set a school record in the mile run (4:09.15), finished seventh in the 5,000 meters at the national meet. Geneseo's DMR team of Chris Carter, who set a school record in the 800 (1:54.89), Niko Brown, Kevin Bronson and Mark Streb finished ninth at the NCAAs. Juniors Nwana Okafor and Eddie Novara earned All-SUNYAC, as Okafor was first team after winning the long jump and Novara was second team after placing second in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters. Geneseo posted two school relay records during the regular season as Berube teamed with Brown, Bronson and Streb in the DMR (9:53.21), while the 4X200 team of Jesse Cleary-Krell, Colin Keenan, who set a new school mark in the pentathalon (3,025), Brown and Matt Hart ran a time of 1:32.48.
In 2011, sophomore Marissa Liberati and junior Alyssa Smith highlighted the women's outdoor track and field season by earning All-America recognition in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Division III championships for seventh year coach Dave Prevosti. Liberati, who was 13th in the 5,000 meters with a time of 17:56.11 at the nationals, finished fourth in the steeplechase in a SUNYAC and school record time of 10:33.03 to earn her second All-America award, while Smith placed fifth in 10:34.60 to claim her first national award. The two women completed double wins in leading the Blue Knights to a third place score of 127 at the SUNYAC Championships and claim first team All-SUNYAC. Liberati won the steeplechase in 11:02.54 and the 5,000 meters in a time of 17:14.42 and Smith won the 800 meters in 2:13.73 and the 1,500 meters in 4:37.58. Senior Maria Barbaglia garnered second team All-SUNYAC after placing second in the hammer throw with a toss of 44.83 meters.
In 2011, Prevosti highlighted his seventh season by sending two individuals to the NCAA Division III outdoor championships after winning the SUNYAC team title. At the national championships, junior Lee Berube finished seventh in the 5,000 meters to claim his fifth career All-America certificate with a time of 14:47.09 and junior Nwana Okafor earned his first national honor with an eighth place finish in the long jump with a distance of 6.97 meters. At the SUNYAC championships, Geneseo scored 187 points to second place Cortland's 159. Berube claimed first team All-SUNYAC by winning the 5,000 meters in 14:50.59 and senior Mike McManus garnered first team after winning the high jump with a height of 1.98 meters. Geneseo placed four on the All-SUNYAC second team. Junior Eddie Novara ran second in the 10,000 meters in a time of 30:55.10, junior Greg Izzo placed second in the 400 hurdles with a time of 55.06, junior Colin Keenan placed second in the high jump with a leap of 1.93 meters and sophomore Tom Clark placed second in the 5,000 meters in 14:58.77. | Team Links |
