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EAST STROUDSBURG – East Stroudsburg University's top track and field athletes will make their annual trip to Philadelphia as the Warriors compete in the 120th Annual Penn Relays, which will be held Thursday through Saturday at historic Franklin Field.

A total of 22 ESU athletes will compete during the three-day festival, which will include six relays and six individual participants.

Relays scheduled to compete are the women's 4x2, 4x4 and 4x8 and the men's 4x2, 4x4 and shuttle hurdles. The women's 4x8 will run at Penn for the first time since 1993, and the men's shuttle hurdles for the first time since 2005.

Individual performers are junior Christina O'Connor (high jump), senior Chris Schneider (5000m), freshman Ronald D'Eliseo (400m hurdles), sophomores Seth Bailey and William Berry (high jump) and junior Mike Smith (shot put).

Five of ESU's eight provisional qualifiers for next month's NCAA Division II Championships will compete at Penn – O'Connor, D'Eliseo, Berry, junior Danielle Smith (provisionally qualified in women's 400m) and junior Damien Boham (men's 400m).

Smith headlines ESU's entries on the women's 4x2 and 4x4 relays, while Boham will anchor the men's 4x4 relay.

Seniors Keith Parker-Washington and Rachel Pierantozzi will make their fourth straight trips to the Penn Relays. Parker-Washington has competed in seven relays and Penn and will run on the men's 4x2 and 4x4, and Pierantozzi has run on the women's 4x2 in each of the last three years.

ESU women's head coach Chris Merli, in his 17th season at ESU overall and eighth as women's head coach, will make his 50th consecutive trip to the Penn Relays as an athlete or coach.

ESU's competition schedule is below:


THURSDAY

10:00 AM – Women's Eastern High Jump – Christina O'Connor
Result: no height

6:15 PM – Women's 4x400 Relay (Colleen Murphy, Meghan Ragard, Danielle Smith, Erin Brady)
Result: 3:59.66 (4th of 9 in heat, 65th of 80 overall)

10:00 PM – Men's Olympic Development 5000m – Chris Schneider
Result: 14:36.99 (14th of 36) - school record lowers 14:37.23 by Iuri Pinto in 2008, NCAA provisional qualifier


FRIDAY

9:00 AM – Men's 400m Hurdles Championships – Ronald D'Eliseo
Result: 53.79 (3rd of 9 in heat, 25th of 46 overall) - just off his NCAA provisional of 53.26

10:00 AM – Men's Eastern High Jump – Seth Bailey, William Berry
Results:
2nd (of 15). William Berry - 6-8 1/4
t-13th (of 15). Seth Bailey - 6-5

1:15 PM – Men's Eastern Shot Put – Mike Smith
Result: 48-4 3/4 (18th of 27)

1:30 PM – Men's 4x200 Relay (Kyle Rickard, Steven Morgan, Jeff Herring, Keith Parker-Washington)
Result: 1:29.46 (6th of 9 in heat, 24th of 36 overall) - Kyle Rickard 22.6, Steven Morgan 21.8, Jeff Herring 23.1, Keith Parker-Washington 21.8

1:50 PM – Women's 4x200 Relay (Rachel Pierantozzi, Colleen Murphy, Alexis Bell, Danielle Smith)
Result: 1:42.65 (5th of 9 in heat, 30th of 45 overall)

3:05 PM – Men's Shuttle Hurdle Relay Championship  of America (Adam Robertino, Ronald D'Eliseo, Derrick Washington, Steven Morgan)
Result: 59.81 (7th of 10) - school record lowers 60.74 in 1980 - Adam Robertino 15.1, Ronald D'Eliseo, 14.9, Derrick Washington, 15.0, Steven Morgan 14.8

4:15 PM – Men's 4x400 Relay (Ronald D'Eliseo, Derrick Washington, Keith Parker-Washington, Damien Boham)
Result: 3:16.50 (1st in heat - included 6 DI schools, 38th of 89 overall) - Ronald D'Eliseo 49.8, Derrick Washington 49.2, Keith Parker-Washington 49.4, Damien Boham 48.0


SATURDAY

3:15 PM – Men's Collegiate Hammer – Travis Toth (has NCAA provisional and PSAC-best 190-1)
Result: 187-2 (6th of 26)

4:10 PM – Women's 4x800 Championship of America (Lauren Toth, Kim Wernerspach, Meghan Ragard, Erin Brady)
Result: 9:33.61 (8th of 8 in heat, 29th of 29 overall - one of 2 non-DI schools) - #2 time in school history
Kim Wernerspach 2:20.12, Lauren Toth 2:24.21, Erin Brady 2:25.32, Meghan Ragard 2:23.98