Addlesberger, Motschmann, Jules, & Lee earn Indoor Track and Field Performers of the Week
MAAC Sports
Men’s Field Performer of the Week
Ryan Addlesberger
So., Cinnaminson, NJ
Addlesberger won the shot put at the Penn 8-Team Select from the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Saturday night. His best effort of 17.07 meters (56 feet) was nearly a meter better than the second-place finisher. Addlesberger’s second-best mark of the night (16.49 m) also would’ve given him first place in the competition.
Men’s Track Performer of the Week
Johannes Motschmann
Jr., Magdeburg, Germany
Junior Johannes Motschmann picked up the lone victory for the Iona indoor track and field program at the Penn 8 Team Select meet on Saturday at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex with a new personal best of 8:12.80 in the 3,000 meter to lead three Gaels in the top-10. It is the second straight weekend Motschmann posted a first place victory.
Women’s Field Performer of the Week
Fidele Jules
Fr., Tinton Falls, NJ
Freshman thrower Fidele Jules had a career-day for Rider at the Gotham Cup last week. In the one-day event contested at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Friday, she won the weight throw with a school-record toss of 18.31M. The ECAC-qualifying throw was the best of her career. She currently leads the MAAC in the event by over five feet in the shot put and ranks seventh in the ECAC. At the Gotham Cup, Jules also finished fourth amongst collegiate performers in the shot put at 42-6.
Women’s Track Performer of the Week
Jessica Lee
Jr., Montgomery, NJ
Jessica Lee is making it all look too easy in what is still a very young 2016-17 season. Competing in her signature 60m hurdle event, the reigning New England and MAAC champion scored her third straight program record time as she crossed the line in a stunning 8.36 seconds to claim first place and the Sorlein Invitational 60m hurdles title. Perhaps of larger significant, Lee's new program record time of 8.36 seconds moves her all the way up from 67th in the nation into a tie for the 25th-fastest 60m hurdles time out of all hurdlers in the country. Standing with the seventh-fastest time from a mid-major program, Lee joins runners competing for powerhouse high-major programs such as Oregon, Kentucky, Minnesota, Miami, LSU, Clemson, Syracuse, South Carolina, Florida, Florida State and Penn State with representation in the Top 25. Coming into the season with seven career individual event victories, Lee has gone a perfect three-for-three in the new season with victories and new program record times in the 60m hurdles in all three meets the Bobcats have taken part in during 2016-17 (Yale Season Opener – Dec. 10, Great Dane Invitational – Jan. 14). Besting the program record with a time of 8.51 seconds in the preliminary round, Lee needed to work hard for her victory but she sure came through with a time of 8.36 seconds that stands as a Mackal Fieldhouse facility record (URI home venue).