Weekly Indoor Track & Field Honors Go to Olsson and Korir
MAAC Sports
Edison, NJ - Indoor Track & Field Performer of the
Week honors were awarded to Malin Olsson of Manhattan College and Leonard Korir
of Iona College.
Olsson shattered her own
school record in the long jump on Wednesday at the Manhattan Invitational. She
broke the record with a leap of 6.13 meters (20 feet, 1½ inches) on her fifth
attempt, making her the first Manhattan woman ever to break the 20-foot barrier
indoors. Then on her final attempt,
Olsson bettered her prior mark, jumping 6.24 m (20'5¾). Olsson's jump, the 11th-best in
the NCAA this season, was just short of the NCAA automatic qualifier of 6.28 m.
Korir
qualified for his second NCAA Championship event this winter with a second
place performance in the 5,000-meter run at the 2011 UW Husky Classic in
Seattle, Washington. Korir's time of 13:40.62 was second to Stanford's Elliott
Heath and ahead of Arizona's Stephen Sambu. Sambu was one of three runners to
finish ahead of Korir at the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championship. The time was also the second fastest in
school history, just .75 seconds behind Richard Kiplagat's school record time set
in 2006.
The 2011 MAAC
Indoor Track & Field Championships will be hosted on February 18 at The New
Balance Track & Field Center in New York, NY.