BOSTON, Mass. - The Southern Connecticut State University men's track and field team won their fifth consecutive Northeast 10 Indoor Championship and 16th championship overall on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at the The Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. Southern scored 225 points, the fourth most in NE10 Indoor Championship history, and placed first in five events.

Individual Champions

• Nigel Green (Shirley, N.Y.) won the 200-Meter Dash with a time of 21.52, the eighth best time in program history.
• The team Terrell Patterson (Waterbury, Conn.), Shea Kenney (Groton, Conn.), Jonathan Volpe (Naugatuck, Conn.), and Marquis Whyte (New London, Conn.) won the 4x800-Meter Relay with a time of 7:48.85, the fastest 4x800-meter relay time by Southern since running a 7:42.01 on May 11, 2019. 
• Cameron Belton (Baltic, Conn.) won the Shot Put with a new NE10 Championship Meet throw of 17.68 meters, the sixth best mark in program history. His throw was also a new personal-best. 
• Nate Llanos (Danbury, Conn.) won the Pole Vault with a personal-best mark of 4.83 meters.
• Shane Smith (Pawcatuck, Conn.) won the Heptathlon with 4529 points, the eighth most points in program history. 

Track Medalists

• Green finished in second place in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.94. 
• Along with Green in the 200-meter dash, Christ N'Dabian (Bridgeport, Conn.) finished in third place with a time of 22.10. N'Dabian recorded a personal-best time during the preliminaries at 22.03. 
• N'Dabian also finished in third place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.88.
• Patterson finished in second place in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:55.96. 
• Jonathan Volpe (Naugatuck, Conn.) finished in second place in the mile run with a personal-best time of 4:11.82. the 13th best in program history. 
• Jake Mattei (Bethany, Conn.) finished in second place in the 5000-meter run with a time of 14:49.72, while Chris LeBeau (Bristol, Conn.) finished in third place with a time of 14:51.31.  
• The 4x400-meter relay team of Ramsley Exantus (Stratford, Conn.), Hunter Dale (Storrs, Conn.), Tariq Phillips (Waterbury, Conn.), and Milan Spisek (Easton, Conn.) finished in third place with a time of 3:20.06
• The distance medley relay team of Volpe, Dale, Kenney, and Owen Gagne (Wethersfield, Conn.) finished in second place with a time of 10:09.53. 

Field Medalists

• Bernardo Mbaya (Waterbury, Conn.) finished in second place in the shot put with a personal-best throw of 16.31 meters, while Jacob Meadows (New Milford, Conn.) finished in third place with a personal-best throw of 15.75 meters. 
• Mbaya finished in second place in the weight throw with a mark of 15.85 meters, while Robinson, Jr. finished in third place with a throw of 15.84 meters. 
• During the first day of competition, Spisek finished in second place with a mark of 4.58 meters, while Oliver Hayes (Ridgefield, Conn.) finished in third place with a time of 4.43 meters. 
• During the first day of competition, Jaylynn Cundiff (Brockton, Mass.) momentarily set a new conference championship record in long jump with a personal-best leap of 7.51 meters and finished in second place. Cundiff's leap was also the second best in program history. Joshua Lanzieri (Seymour, Conn.) finished in third place with a personal-best leap of 7.04 meters. 

Heptathlon Final Results
Overall:

• Smith: 4529 points (first), 
• Dylan Torok (Monroe, Conn.): 4372 points (third)

60-Meter Dash:

• Torok: 7.36 (second)
• Smith: 7.58 (sixth)

Long Jump

• Torok: 6.38 meters (second)
• Smith: 6.17 meters (fourth)

Shot Put

• Smith: 11.69 meters (first)
• Torok: 11.23 meters (third)

High Jump: 

• Torok: 1.88 meters (first)
• Smith: 1.64 meters (ninth)

60-meter hurdles:

• Smith: 9.11 (third)
• Torok: 9.82 (seventh)

Pole Vault:

• Smith: 3.98 meters (first)
• Torok: 3.28 meters (second)

1000-Meter Run

• Smith: 2:46.77 (third)
• Torok: 2:57.87 (fourth)

Championship Notes

• Green's time in the 200-meter dash was the fourth fastest at the NE10 Indoor Championships. He became the first Southern men's athlete to win the 200-meter dash conference championship since Tikuan Johnson (Windsor, Conn.) in 2017 and third overall (Fillipee Francis, 2003).
• This was Green's first gold medal in an NE10 Indoor Championship. He is, however, a six-time NE10 Outdoor Champion individually. 
• Patterson, Volpe, Kenney, and Whyte became the first Southern men's Indoor NE10 Champions since 2012 and eighth overall. Their time of 7:48.85 is the fourth fastest time during an NE10 Indoor Championship meet. 
• In his first NE10 Indoor Championship Meet, Belton set the new NE10 Indoor Championship Meet shot put record with a throw of 17.68 meters. He broke former Southern athlete Michael Cameron's mark of 17.38 meters, set in 2015. 
• Southern has won the last 10 NE10 Indoor shot put championships. The last time they did not win was in 2011. They have won 16 of the 20 indoor shot put championships. 
• Southern has now won four consecutive indoor pole vault titles, and 17 of 20 all-time, after Llanos' title. 
• Southern has won all four heptathlon championships after Smith finished in first place. 
• Southern has won five-consecutive NE10 Indoor titles and 16 overall. Southern is the only school who has won the NE10 Indoor Championship in three consecutive years, and they have done so twice. (2003-2012, 10 straight years, and 2017-2022, five straight).
• Southern is the only school to have won more than three total NE10 Indoor Championships. 

Final Scores
1. So. Conn. St.: 225
2. American Int'l: 194
3. New Haven: 87
4. Franklin Pierce: 72
5. Stonehill: 52
6. Saint Rose: 19
7.Adelphi: 16
8. Assumption: 15
8. Le Moyne: 15
10. Bentley: 5

Up Next
Southern will compete in the Boston University Last Chance Meet on Sunday, Feb. 27.