{"id":28166,"date":"2016-05-19T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=28166"},"modified":"2016-05-20T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:21:55","slug":"royals-compete-at-swarthmore-last-chance-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/royals-compete-at-swarthmore-last-chance-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals compete at Swarthmore last chance qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track teams traveled to Swarthmore College for their second of three final qualifying meets.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/faint_connor_xn9i\"><strong>Connor Faint<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Winchester, Va.\/Millbrook) opened the Royal&#8217;s evening with a third place finish in the 400 hurdles, finishing with a time of 54.22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/heizer_jeremy_rybk\"><strong>Jeremy Heizer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Staunton, Va.\/Riverheads) continued his stellar outdoor season with a fifth place finish in the shot put. His throw of 15.81 meters was the best DIII throw of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/denlinger_tyler_8igf\"><strong>Tyler Denlinger<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Perkasie, Pa.\/Christopher Dock) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/thibodeaux_alec_8dam\"><strong>Alec Thibodeaux<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Mount Sidney, Va.\/Fort Defiance) competed in the 1500 which featured a deep field of professional athletes. Denlinger finished with a 3:55.63, his second best time of the season. Thibodeaux ran a personal best of 3:57.22. Later in the evening Thibodeaux came back to run another personal best in the 5,000 meters to finish with a time of 15:03.13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/robinson_richard_qu8y\"><strong>Richard Robinson<\/strong><\/a> (Broadway, Va.\/Broadway) finished his EMU career with a time of 15.98 in the 110 hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/wtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/chappell-dick_hannah_rw9t\"><strong>Hannah Chappell-Dick<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Bluffton, Oh., Bluffton) finished as the top collegiate in the 800 meters with a time of 2:10.55.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/wtrack\/2015-16\/bios\/kittrell_oksana_yicu\"><strong>Oksana Kittrell<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0(Bedford, Va.\/Liberty) wrapped up her sophomore season with a ninth place finish in the triple jump and a season best jump of 5.06 meters, good for a sixth place finish.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will finish out the post-conference season on Thursday at Salisbury University Elite Final Qualifying Meet in Salisbury, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track teams traveled to Swarthmore College for their second of three final qualifying meets.\u00a0Connor Faint\u00a0(Winchester, Va.\/Millbrook) opened the Royal&#8217;s evening with a third place finish in <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/royals-compete-at-swarthmore-last-chance-qualifier\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Royals compete at Swarthmore last chance qualifier<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5733],"tags":[],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-28166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoor-track"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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