**NO SPECTATORS WILL BE PERMITTED AT THIS YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIPS**

Saturday-Sunday, May 8-9, 2021
MAAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ – Michael P. Brady Track & Field Complex
Start Time: 12:00 p.m. (Saturday); 10:00 a.m. (Sunday)
Live Video (Saturday) – BroncVision
Live Video (Sunday) – ESPN+
Live Scoring – M&D Timing
MAAC Championship Homepage – MAACSports.com

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – The Rider University track and field teams are set for the 2021 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Outdoor Championships. The two-day event takes place this Saturday and Sunday at the Michael P. Brady Track & Field Complex on the Rider University campus. While spectators are not permitted at this year's event, Saturday's events will be carried on BroncVision, while Sunday's events will be broadcast on ESPN+.

The Rider men and women are both looking to improve on their second-place finishes at each of the last three outdoor championships completed in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Last year's championships were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

BROADCAST INFORMATION
- Saturday's BroncVision broadcast will begin at 12:55 p.m.
- Sunday's ESPN broadcast will begin at 1:20 p.m. Complete schedule of events is below:

1:30pm-800m (M)
1:35pm-800m (W)
1:42pm-Long Jump (M) – Pre-recorded
1:44pm-Pole Vault (W) – Pre-recorded
1:46pm-Long Jump (W) – Pre-recorded
1:48pm-Javelin (M) – Pre-recorded
1:50pm-400m Int. Hurdles (M)
1:55pm-Javelin (W) – Pre-recorded
1:57pm-Steeplechase (M) – Pre-recorded
2:00pm-400m Int. Hurdles (W)
2:04pm-Steeplechase (W) – Pre-recorded
2:06pm-Triple Jump (W) – Pre-recorded
2:10pm-200m (M)
2:12pm-Triple Jump (M) – Pre-recorded
2:15pm-200m (W)
2:19pm-High Jump (W) – Pre-recorded
2:21pm-High Jump (M) – Pre-recorded
2:25pm-5000m (M)
2:27pm-4x100 (M) – Pre-recorded
2:30pm-4x100 (W) – Pre-recorded
2:35pm-10,000m (M) – Pre-recorded
2:45pm-10,000m (W) – Pre-recorded
2:50pm-5000m (W)
2:52pm-1500m (M) – Pre-recorded
2:54pm-1500m(W) – Pre-recorded
2:58pm-110m hurdles (M) – Pre-recorded
3:10pm-4x800 relay (M)
3:12pm-400m (M) – Pre-recorded
3:19pm-400m (W) – Pre-recorded
3:25pm-4x800m relay (W)
3:27pm-100m (M) – Pre-recorded
3:29pm-100m (W) – Pre-recorded
3:40pm-4x400m (M)
3:55pm-4x400m (W)

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (WOMEN)
- Kristin Siegle leads the women's team, with the top finish in the MAAC this season in the 800 (2:10.83). The mark, set April 10 in a dual meet with Monmouth in Lawrenceville, broke the Rider program record. Siegle also has the third-best time in the 1500 (4:25.33), also a Rider record, and is part of the No. 3 4x400 relay team in the MAAC, along with Alenys Morales, Oliva de la Torre Coca and Mackenzie Greenfield (3:58.84).
- Morales has also posted the MAAC's top time in the 400 hurdles this season at 1:04.26.
- Allie Riches has the MAAC's top mark in the pole vault this season, clearing 3.65m.
- Lindsay Bauer has posted the No. 3 times in the MAAC this season in the high jump (1.60m) and triple jump (11.32m).
- Karissa Watson enters MAAC Championships No. 3 in the long jump at 5.56m.
- Grace Ramsey has the third-best javelin throw in the MAAC this season at 41.84m.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (MEN)
- Freshman Artie Burgess, a three-time MAAC Track Performer of the Week this Spring, enters the meet with the top mark in the 200 (21.49), second-best in the 100 (10.82) and is part of the top 4x100 relay team in the league this year (41.24), along with Michael Cephas, Marcquis Smallwood and Jerome Boyer.
- Kevin Heredia has posted the MAAC's top time in the 800 this year (1:51.53). Tamrat Snyder also has the third-best time (1:51.71).
- Snyder, Gobi Thurairajah, Michael Mazzei and Heredia comprise the MAAC's top 4x800 team entering the meet (7:32.52).
- Marques Merriweather has the MAAC's best high jump of the year, clearing 2.01m. He's also second in the 110 hurdles (14.72).
- Alix Oge (14.87) and Kevin Moran (14.98) also give the Broncs the No. 3 and 4 marks in the 110 hurdles this season.
- James Green has the second-best 400 time in the MAAC this season (49.05).
- Moran has the second-best 400 hurdles time in the league this year (53.32).
- Green, Moran, Derian Stianche and Boyer comprise the Broncs' 4x400 relay team, which has the second-best time in the MAAC this season (3:16.96).
- Scott Ruskan (9:32.94) and Will Spector (9:37.72) have the second and fourth-best times in the steeplechase this year.  
- Kyle Poetsch has the second-best hammer throw in the MAAC at 56.40m.
- Justin Gladden's triple jump of 14.26m is the third-best in the league this season.
- Zach Manorowitz's long jump mark of 7.16m is fourth-best in the MAAC, but only .04m off the second-best mark.