Men’s Track Athlete of the Week:
Sr., Gaithersburg, MD, Damascus
Tamrat Snyder ran two great legs on the distance relays at the Penn Relays. In the DMR he split 1:50 for the team that finished 11th in the college section. It is the #3 time all time at Rider. He came back the next day to run another 1:50 on the 4x800 for the team that finished 8th in 7:31.23. It is the #1 time in the MAAC this year by over 30 seconds and it was just outside of a top 5 mark all time at Rider.
Men’s Field Athlete of the Week:
Fr., Glassboro, NJ, Glassboro
Damere Lassiter finished 8th in the college shot put at the Penn Relays with a mark of 16.10m. It is the #5 mark all-time at Rider and the #2 mark in the MAAC for the freshman. He also finished 4th in the shot put at the TCNJ Lions Invitational with a mark of 15.51m. Both are IC4A qualifying marks.
Women’s Field Athlete of the Week:
Fr., Wakefield, R.I., South Kingston H.S.
Freshman Sierra Thompson had a big day in the jumping events on Friday in the James Barber/Jack Maloney Invitational at Southern Connecticut State University. Three of her five long jumps had already equaled or surpassed the ECAC qualifying standard of 5.50 meters (18’ ½”) when she got on the runway for her final jump of the competition. The freshman heptathlete launched herself to a huge personal best of 5.99 meters (19’ 8”) on that jump to take over the MAAC lead in the event. More importantly, Thompson broke the existing Sacred Heart school record of 5.90 meters (19’ 4’ ¼”) set in 2015 by another SHU heptathlete, Nicole Bartosch. Thompson also competed in the high jump on Friday, clearing a season’s best of 1.60 meters (5’ 3”), which currently ranks her 7th in the MAAC, tied with several other athletes.
Women’s Track Athlete of the Week:
Sr., Chestnut Ridge, NY, Albertus Magnus
Senior Claire Gardner won the women's 400-meter and set the school record with a time of 57.74 at the Capital District Classic at RPI over the weekend.
The 2025 MAAC Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 22-23, 2025, at the Nike Track and Field Center at The Armory in New York, New York. The two-day meet will be hosted by Manhattan College and will be held at The Armory for the 21st consecutive year dating back to 2004. For all information regarding the 2025 MAAC Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships please visit
maacsports.com/indoortrack.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 13 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 44th year of competition during the 2024-25 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius University, Fairfield University, Iona University, Manhattan University, Marist University, Merrimack College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.