The William & Mary track & field team returns home for the first time in two years this weekend, hosting the 55th Annual Colonial Relays on Friday and Saturday, April 2-3.  Throws will take place at the Dan Stimson Throwing Events Area, adjacent to Green & Gold Village, while the running and jumping events will take place inside of Zable Stadium.  Live Results for the meet are available on TribeAthletics.com.

Live Results
Meet Information (including most up-to-date schedule and past champions)

Closed Meet
Due to university and local guidelines, there is no public attendance allowed at this year's Colonial Relays.  A very limited pass list for family of W&M track & field athletes has been identified and will be allowed to attend and sit in a section of the stadium away from all athletes, officials, and staff.

The Meet
The 55th Annual Colonial Relays are much smaller in scale than years past, to help ensure that a quality event will take place within all appropriate medical guidelines.  Only 12 men's and 13 women's teams will be competing this year, including American, Buffalo, Christopher Newport, George Mason, James Madison (women only), Lynchburg, UMass Lowell, Richmond, Stony Brook, VCU, VMI, Washington & Lee, and William & Mary.  The meet also will not feature team scoring for the first time in more than 20 years.  Events will begin at 11 a.m. each day, and on Saturday, April 3, there will be a brief recognition ceremony for W&M's 28 seniors on the men's and women's teams.

Scouting the Tribe Women
W&M has shown itself already to be very strong in the sprints this spring, and will look to capitalize on home track advantage to challenge several records.  Redshirt-freshman Amaya Johnson (Sterling, Va.) is the fastest woman in the Colonial Athletic Association in the 200m dash, and she'll look to add the 100m dash to her tally as well.  Redshirt-junior Felecia Hayes (Chesapeake, Va.), meanwhile, has run lifetime-bests in the 100m each of the last two weeks, and will attempt to keep that streak going while also moving up to the 200m as well.

In the 400m, W&M owns the top four spots in league list, led by freshmen Grace Bir (Falls Church, Va.) and Mary Gregory (Reston, Va.).  Those two will run the quarter again alongside Carly Swierbut (Newtown, Conn.) and grad student Gabby Runge (Midlothian, Va.), while freshman Makenzie Joiner (Mechanicsville, Va.), one of the fastest women in the nation in the 500m dash this winter, will take her first crack at the 400m hurdles looking to challenge the freshman record of 1:03.40 that has stood for 30 years.  She'll run that event alongside senior Josie Landis (Pittsburgh, Pa.), who is currently ranked first in the conference.

In the middle distance events, redshirt juniors Lauren Finikiotis (Gibsonia, Pa.) and Taylor D. Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) will each race the 800m on Saturday, and likely the DMR that day as well.  Finikiotis will also run the 1,500m on Friday, looking to improve on her fourth-place ranking in the CAA.  Jones, meanwhile, is ranked second in the conference in the 800m.  Freshman Kyra Holland (Warrenton, Va.), bronze medalist at the CAA Cross Country Championships last month, will make her first attempt at the 5,000m and will be running to try and beat the current league-leading time of 17:11, while her classmate Emily Morris (Glen Allen, Va.) will attempt the 10,000m at the end of the night on Friday.

In the field events, highlights include the women's javelin which will kick off the meet on Friday morning with redshirt-freshmen Kristen Herr (Willow Street, Pa.) and Zoe Metzger (Wayne, Pa.) competing after setting collegiate-best marks last weekend at Navy.  This week, they'll be joined by heptathlete Claire Bailey (Fairfax, Va.).  Redshirt-junior Taylor E. Jones (Fairfax Station, Va.) set lifetime-bests in both the triple jump and the pole vault last week, and will look to continue that momentum even higher up W&M's all-time lists this weekend.  Last but certainly not least, freshman Chelsea Mitchell (Canton, Conn.) tied the freshman record in the long jump last weekend, and will took to own it outright following this weekend's meet.

Scouting the Tribe Men
On the men's side, the showcase event will likely be the pole vault on Saturday morning, where newly minted school record-holder Michael Fairbanks (Fairfax Station, Va.) will compete looking to capture his first Colonial Relays title.  Last week at Navy, he broke the school record and ranked top-15 nationally in the pole vault after jumping 5.43m (17-9.75).  That height is higher than both the Colonial Relays meet record and the all-time Zable Stadium record.  Also in the field events, redshirt-freshman Jared O'Riley (Woodstock, Ontario, Canada) registered a lifetime-best in the javelin last week, and is undefeated so far this season against anyone not also wearing a W&M uniform.  

On the track, grad student Theo Chambers (McLean, Va.) will race the 200m dash on Saturday afternoon, looking to add the conference lead in the shorter race to the one he already has in the 400m.  The quarter-mile will see grad student Chris Rosales (Harlingen, Texas) put his 48.5 speed to good use.  Both men also look to figure prominently on the Tribe's 4x400m at the end of the meet on Saturday.

In the middle distances, freshman Josh Lewin (West Chester, Pa.) and junior Colin Grip (Action, Mass.) will both run the 800m.  Lewin set the freshman record at 1,000m indoors, and if he can repeat that feat outdoors, he'll need to also put himself in NCAA-qualifier close to 1:49.00 flat.  The 1,500m will see Johnny Rogers (Vienna, Va.) leading the way, shortly before he also races and leads two freshmen, Sam Pritchard (Springfield, Va.) and Harrison Vives (Mendham, N.J.), in the 5,000m.  Redshirt-junior Matt Frame (Alexandria, Va.) will race the 3,000m steeplechase early on Friday evening, and the end of the night will feature redshirt-junior Spencer Tsai (Eugene, Ore.) leading a pack of younger teammates in the 10,000m.


Friday, April 2
11:00 AM - Javelin - Kristen Herr, Zoe Metzger, Claire Bailey
2019 NCAA Invited - 47.52m (155-11); Current East 32nd - 46.15m (151-5); School Record - 153-6 (46.78m)

12:00 PM - High Jump - Claire Bailey, Liliana Klemanski
2019 NCAA Invited - 1.76m (5-9.25); Current East 32nd - 1.70m (5-7); School Record - 1.78m (5-10)

12:00 PM - Long Jump - Daniel Layton
2019 NCAA Invited - 7.56m (24-9.75); Current East 32nd - 7.26m (23-10); School Record - 25-4.25 (7.72m)

1:00 PM - 100m Hurdles - Jadyn Currie, Claire Bailey
2019 NCAA Invited - 13.45; Current East 32nd - 13.76; School Record - 14.01

1:00 PM - Javelin - Jared O'Riley
2019 NCAA Invited - 65.12m (213-7); Current East 32nd - 63.71m (209-0); School Record - 73.55m (241-4)

1:20 PM - 110m Hurdles - Daniel Layton
2019 NCAA Invited - 14.01; Current East 32nd - 14.26; School Record - 13.90 (13.6c 120y)

1:45 PM - 100m Dash - Chelsea Mitchell, Amaya Johnson, Felecia Hayes, Megan Heidebrecht
2019 NCAA Invited - 11.50; Current East 32nd - 11.67; School Record - 12.09; Freshman Record - 12.23

2:00 PM - 100m Dash - Matt Chabala
2019 NCAA Invited - 10.32; Current East 32nd - 10.54; School Record - 10.58

2:20 PM - 400m Hurdles - Josie Landis, Makenzie Joiner, Aly Logue
2019 NCAA Invited - 59.53; Current East 32nd - 1:00.97; School Record - 1:01.03; Freshman Record - 1:03.40

2:30 PM - Long Jump - Chelsea Mitchell, Megan Heidebrecht
2019 NCAA Invited - 6.18m (20-3.5); Current East 32nd - 5.95m (19-5.25); School Record - 5.84m (19-2); Freshman Record - 5.59m (18-4.25)

3:00 PM - 400m Dash - Mary Gregory, Carly Swierbut, Grace Bir, Gabby Runge, Hope Stephens
2019 NCAA Invited - 53.53; Current East 32nd - 55.26; School Record - 55.11; Freshman Record - 55.50

3:15 PM - 400m Dash - Chris Rosales, Jack Bunting
2019 NCAA Invited - 46.46; Current East 32nd - 47.69; School Record - 47.45

5:00 PM - 3,000m Steeplechase - Kaycee Cox-Philyaw
2019 NCAA Invited - 10:24.04; Current East 12th - 10:53.85; School Record - 10:15.99

5:20 PM - 3,000m Steeplechase - Matt Frame
2019 NCAA Invited - 8:56.98; Current East 32nd - 9:33.82; School Record - 8:44.6

5:35 PM - 1,500m Run - Lauren Finikiotis, Lily Schlossberg, Annie Wicker, Megan Dougherty, Julia Lambert, Emily Sell
2019 NCAA Invited - 4:21.16; Current East 32nd - 4:29.58; School Record - 4:14.73; Freshman Record - 4:28.37

5:55 PM - 1,500m Run - Johnny Rogers, Andrew Lagattuta, Joshua Shackelford, Jack Mackey, Alex Sawyer, Zach Skolnekovich
2019 NCAA Invited - 3:45.26; Current East 32nd - 3:47.80; School Record - 3:35.84; Freshman Record - 3:44.2

6:20 PM - 5,000m Run - Kyra Holland, Lauren Kroepfl
2019 NCAA Invited - 16:17.98; Current East 32nd - 16:51.79; School Record - 15:45.31; Freshman Record - 15:45.31

7:05 PM - 5,000m Run - Johnny Rogers, Sam Pritchard, Harrison Vives
2019 NCAA Invited - 14:04.70; Current East 32nd - 14:!2.37; School Record - 13:25.38; Freshman Record - 14:01.62

7:40 PM - 10,000m Run - Emily Morris
2019 NCAA Invited - 34:20.90; Current East 32nd - 40:45.68; School Record - 32:41.55; Freshman Record - 34:15.49

8:20 PM - 10,000m Run - Jack Mackey, Tyler Lipps, Ryan McCracken, Spencer Tsai, Joshua Shackelford
2019 NCAA Invited - 29:28.57; Current East 32nd - 30:55.81; School Record - 28:28.97



Saturday, April 3
11:00 AM - Pole Vault - Michael Fairbanks
2019 NCAA Invited - 5.11m (16-9.25); Current East 32nd - 4.90m (16-0.75); School Record - 5.43m (17-9-75)

11:30 AM - Triple Jump - Taylor E. Jones
2019 NCAA Invited - 12.69m (41-7.75); Current East 32nd - 12.14m (39-10); School Record - 12.12m (39-9.25)

1:00 PM - Women's 4x100m Relay
2019 NCAA Invited - 45.21; Current East 32nd - 45.96; School Record - 46.85

1:20 PM - 800m Run - Taylor D. Jones, Lauren Finikiotis, Megan Dougherty, Molly Coyle, Anna Cestari, Olivia Rovin
2019 NCAA Invited - 2:06.68; Current East 32nd - 2:09.78; School Record - 2:08.30; Freshman Record - 2:13.17

1:30 PM - Pole Vault - Taylor E. Jones, Elizabeth Upright
2019 NCAA Invited - 4.03m (13-2.5); Current East 32nd - 3.86m (12-8); School Record - 4.01m (13-1.75); Freshman Record - 3.80m (12-5.5)

1:35 PM - 800m Run - Josh Lewin, Colin Grip, Bowen Shuttleworth, Alex Loukili
2019 NCAA Invited - 1:49.74; Current East 32nd - 1:51.10; School Record - 1:46.56 (1:45.8c 880y); Freshman Record - 1:49.1

2:20 PM - 200m Dash - Amaya Johnson, Mary Gregory, Carly Swierbut, Grace Bir, Gabby Runge, Felecia Hayes
2019 NCAA Invited - 23.53; Current East 32nd - 23.93; School Record - 24.11; Freshman Record - 24.46

2:45 PM - 200m Dash - Theo Chambers, Jack Bunting, Daniel Layton
2019 NCAA Invited - 20.86; Current East 32nd - 21.18; School Record - 20.8 (20.6c straight 220y)

3:10 PM - Women's DMR
School Record - 11:24.63

3:25 PM - Men's DMR
School Record - 9:34.76

3:40 PM - Women's 4x400m Relay
2019 NCAA Invited - 3:38.43; Current East 32nd - 3:45.73; School Record - 3:46.94

3:45 PM - Men's 4x400m Relay
2019 NCAA Invited - 3:09.92; Current East 24th - 3:15.48; School Record - 3:12.6