ALLENTOWN, Pa.  The 4×800-meter relay team registered the silver and senior Nick Grissinger (Palmyra, Pa./Milton Hershey) claimed the bronze to lead Gettysburg College at the Centennial Conference Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Sunday, hosted by Muhlenberg College.

Gettysburg’s Top Performers

4×800-Meter Relay Team
- 2nd (8:08.11)
Nick Grissinger ’21
- 400-Meter Hurdles 3rd (55.58 Personal-Record)

Meet Highlights

Grissinger captured a bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles with a PR time of 55.58. It was his fifth career medal between the indoor and outdoor track and field seasons. He just missed the top three in the pole vault as he finished fourth with an 11-11.75 mark.
The 4×800-meter relay team of senior Dylan McKeever (Furlong, Pa./Central Bucks East), senior Owen Crosby (Wilmington, Del./Newark Charter), senior Jack Kenyon (Centerport, N.Y./Harborfields), and junior Will Hopkins (Raleigh, N.C./Needham B. Broughton) blazed through the track with an 8:08.11 time to register the silver medal.
In the high jump, junior Corey Palazzolo (Colts Neck, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) placed fifth with a mark of 6-00.75. He also collected fourth in the triple jump (41-11.50).
Freshman Arthur Keegan (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield Memorial), sophomore Caden Giordano (Bethlehem, Pa./Bethlehem Catholic), Palazzolo, and senior Colin Motill (Ridgefield, Conn./Ridgefield) gathered a time of 44.55 to finish fourth in the 4×100-meter relay.
Giordano leaped a PR 20-09.75 in the long jump to take sixth out of 16 competitors. He also set a PR in the triple jump (39-07.25) to take seventh place.
Hopkins clocked a 1:58.36 in the 800-meter run to finish sixth out of 18 competitors.
Senior Matt Simmers (Franklin Lakes, N.J./Indian Hills) placed seventh in the 110-meter hurdles, clocking 16.67.
Competing in the 400-meter dash, junior Angus Brouillard (Watertown, Mass./Watertown) finished eighth with a 52.90 time.
Keegan posted an 11.31 time in the 100-meter dash to take eighth place.
Gettysburg placed sixth out of seven teams with 47 points. Johns Hopkins University compiled 217 team points to capture its seventh straight title. Dickinson College placed second with 187 points, followed Ursinus College in third (147), Muhlenberg College in fourth (112), McDaniel College in fifth (64), and Franklin & Marshall College in seventh (31).

Coming Up

A handful of athletes will compete at a last chance meet next weekend.

This story was originally posted on the Gettysburg College Website.

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