Men’s Track and Field Posts Several Impressive Performances at Suffolk Relays

BOSTON, Mass. – The MIT men's track and field team returned to action on Saturday with several strong performances at the Suffolk Relays at The TRACK at New Balance.

THE BASICS:

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HOW IT HAPPENED – TRACK EVENTS:

60m Dash: Junior Patrick Haertel (Cumming, Ga.) finished fifth with a time of 6.99 as the top four finishers were separated by just .04 seconds.
500m Dash: Fellow junior Jared Steins (Chino Hills, Calif.) led a trio of Engineers in the top 10 as he finished sixth with a personal-best time of 1:06.50.
1,000m Run: Senior Simon Opsahl (Redlands, Calif.) took fourth with a time of 2:29.77 and was the top Division III finisher in the event.
3,000m Run: Sophomore Yichen Sun (Chapel Hill, N.C.) clocked a personal-best time of 8:40.03 en route to a third-place finish and led all Division III runners.
SMR: The quartet of senior Ian Koe (San Mateo, Calif.), sophomore Davis Lee (Mountain Brook, Ala.), sophomore Connor Sterling (New Milford, Conn.) and first-year Wyatt Vick (Chillicothe, Ohio) finished third in a time of 3:38.11.

HOW IT HAPPENED – FIELD EVENTS:

Pole Vault: First-year Jaden McKee (Riverside, Calif.) made an immediate impact in his debut as he was the top collegiate finisher and took second place overall with a mark of 4.75m (15' 7").
Triple Jump: Junior Sean Huckleberry (San Francisco, Calif.) was the top collegiate finisher in the event as he notched a mark of 13.93m (45' 8 1/2").
High Jump: Sophomore Anthony Meng (Scottsdale, Ariz.) added a third-place finish of his own as he posted a mark of 2.05m (6' 8 3/4").

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

MIT's sprint medley relay team now sits as the ninth-best all-time performance in NCAA indoor history.
Sun's time of 8:40.03 in the 3,000 meters surpassed his previous personal-best of 8:46.98 that had been set at the Suffolk Ice Breaker last season and is the third-best in the East Region this winter.
McKee's mark of 4.75m in the pole vault is tied for the top mark in the East Region along with Colby's Peter Martel and ranks among the top 10 nationally.
Huckleberry now holds the top triple jump mark in the East Region thus far during the indoor campaign.
Meng previously held the top mark in the East Region at 2.00m and surpassed that mark with today's performance.

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