STATEN ISLAND, NY (Dec. 5, 2025) - It was an explosive season opener for Georgian Court Track and Field Friday afternoon. Across all events, on the track and in the field, GCU excelled and showed a glimpse of what's to come in 2026. 

Sprints/Hurdles
• It was an impressive debut for freshman Daizhae' Brown. She was entered in the invitational portion of the 60m dash. She got through to the finals running 7.83 in the prelims. She bettered that to 7.82 and took fifth in the finals. She immediately put herself third all-time at Georgian Court in the event.  
• Also in the 60m invitational was Jewel Pierrecharles. She ran a personal-best 7.99, breaking eight seconds for the first time. That mark puts her fifth all-time at GCU. Prior to this afternoon, only three women had run faster than 8.00 in the 60m dash. Today it was done by both Brown and Pierrecharles. 
• Running for the first time in more than a year, Shalom Adzakro conquered the 60m hurdles, running 9.57 for 15th place. 
• Sigurlaug Sveinsdottir ran the 200m dash, her third event of the day. She finished 26th overall in 27.34. 
• Another freshman with an impressive debut was Brian Kutney. He jumped right to fourth all-time at Georgian Court in the 60m hurdles running 8.49 which was 11th in the event.
• GCU also had two men running in the invitational portion of the 60m dash. Both freshmen, Barone Vankline and Shona Mutokuto. Vankline, like Brown on the women's side is third all-time in Lions history after just one race. He crossed the line in 7.09 for 13th place. Mutokuto was 28th running 7.68.
• In the men's open 60m dash, Nick Jordan ran a personal-best 7.56 to place 27th. He was 44th in the 200m dash runn 24.33.
• Vankline came back later to run the 200m dash and entered the Lions top-10 in that event as well. He finished in 14th place and ran 22.74 which puts him fifth all-time.

Mid-Distance
• The Lions had an event winner on the track. That came in the men's 300m dash as Brandon Rudder ran 35.18. That is believed to be a school record, though the 300m dash is no longer an NCAA or ECC championship event.
• Also finishing in the top-10 in the event was Sean Donnamaria who was ninth in 36.69. Marcos Murillo-Benavides followed shortly after in 36.89 for 13th place.
• Gary Boyd, Jr. was 18th running 37.16 and Abdul Brown 42nd in 40.99. 
• Two Lions cracked the all-time top-10 in the 500m dash. Zachary Spoonire finished 15th running 1:08.99 which puts him eighth all-time. Stephen Lane ran 1:09.54 for 17th place and that sits 10th all-time.
• Ryan Pettrow ran at 500m as well and was 26th in 1:13.70. 
• Leela McConnell represented the Lions in the women's 300m dash. She ran 44.42 for 18th place.
• Nora Sprunger finished 15th in the 500m running 1:28.40 and Samantha Lonseth was 22nd in 1:42.72. 

Distance
• Georgian Court entered five men in the 3,000m. They ran together for their first meet since the cross country season and all five finished within eight spots.
• Nolan Kus led the group running 9:55.85 for 31st place. One spot behind was Joe Jamolawicz running 9:59.12.
• There were two Lions who ran personal-bests in the event. Matthew Schaub was 35th running 10:03.44. Luke McCormick was 37th in 10:27.96.
• One place behind McCormick was Colin Broadbelt who ran 10:30.91 for his first collegiate 3K race. 

Throws
• Four Lion men finished in the top-11 in the shot put and three were in the top-10.
• That group was led by Malicah Etienne who threw 47-8.5. That mark came on his final attempt of the competition.
• Setting a new indoor personal-best was Guius Dabney. He threw 45-9.5 for seventh place. Mark Linton was one spot behind in eighth throwing 45-3.
• Transfer Amir Spruell-Everson was 11th with a mark of 43-10 in his first meet with GCU.
• Linton led the men's throws group with a second place finish in the weight throw. He threw 55-2. That throw came on his first throw of the day which ended up being his only legal mark.
• Dabney went 2-2 setting personal-bests. He had a big one in the weight throw tossing it 48-8, more than six feet better than his best last season and he enters the GCU all-time top-10 moving up to eighth in program history.
• Spruell-Everson had a 13th place finish throwing 45-8 and Anthony Lorenzo was 21st with a mark of 38-7.
• Adrianna Fodera made the finals in the women's shot put. On her very last throw of the day, Fodera moved from ninth to seventh place throwing 36-3.
• Fodera finished her day with another personal-best. She threw 44-3 for third place in the weight throw.
• Chiamaka Wokocha was one place behind in fourth throwing 44-2. 
• Sigurlaug Sveinsdottir and Kaydence Fischer finished in 13th and 14th place. Sveinsdottir threw 35-3 on both her first and third attempts. Fischer was right behind at 35-2 which came on her first throw. 

Jumps
• Not only did Daizhae' Brown move to third all-time at GCU in the 60m dash, she also did so in the long jump. She jumped 17-11.75 which was third in the competition and third in Lions history.
• Brown wasn't finished as her mark of 36-3 in the triple jump put her sixth overall and cracked 10th all-time in Lions history.
• Tishanna Cohen and Jewel Pierrecharles also moved up the Lions top-10 in the triple jump. Cohen placed second with an indoor personal-best 37-1 to move from seventh to sixth all-time. Pierrecharles moved from ninth to eighth with her jump of 36-4.5 to place fifth. 
• Sigurlaug Sveinsdottir finished 12th overall in the long jump, jumping 16-6.75. 
• Over in the vertical jumps, Sydney Hurley competed for the first time at GCU in the pole vault. She cleared her first two bars on her first attempt and finished in a tie for eighth overall with her best clearance of 8-8.25. Eight was a lucky number for Hurley who also moved to eighth all-time in the event indoors at Georgian Court. 
• Juliana Dogostino was just outside the top-10 in the high jump. She cleared 4-7 and tied for 11th in the competition.
• Freshman Chuck Smith leaped into the Lions all-time top-10 in the long jump. He placed 22nd overall with a jump of 20-10 which is good for 10th in Lions history.
• Shona Mutokuto competed for GCU in the triple jump. On his final attempt, he flew 45-4 to finish in eighth place and enter the Lions all-time top-10, sitting fourth in program history.
• The vertical jumps saw a new indoor personal-best for Ivan Ramos-Lopez in the pole vault. He got over the bar at 13-5.5.
• Gary Boyd, Jr. finished 13th in the high jump. He needed a third-attempt clearance at his opening height. He then made another bar and finished at 5-10.75 which is tied for seventh all-time at GCU. 

This meet, while just whetting the appetite for the track and field season, will have to do for a while. GCU won't be back in action until after the break. Their next meet comes Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 at the NYC Gotham Cup, also at OceanBreeze in Staten Island.