Two former Batavia High track stars are doing very well at the University of Albany, especially senior Jenn Gurrant, who was just named an America East Conference track Player of the Week.
Gurrant has an impressive resume at Albany. The senior has done many big things on the track as a sprinter and jumper. But just as important, she has been named to the All-Academic team the past two years.
Freshman Jen Adams is a sprinter and jumper as well and is learning from the experienced Albany roster.
Here is the press release from the school about Gurrant's Player of the Week honor:
Albany’s Fey Adaramola, Jenn Gurrant and Nasim Siddeeq have been selected as the America East Conference male and
female indoor track and field performers of the week, as announced on Tuesday, Jan. 27 by the conference office. The trio helped the men’s
and women’s programs sweep the team titles for the first time at the seventh annual Great Dane Classic over the weekend.
Adaramola, who was named the conference’s track athlete of the week for the first time, accounted for two school records and met three ECAC qualifying standards in the sprinting events. She finished
fifth in the 200-meter dash in 24.80 seconds, which barely eclipsed the standard of 24.81 set by Ellakisha Williamson in 1998. Adaramola was also fourth in the 55-meter dash, crossing the line in 7.14. The junior transfer from Central Florida accounted for a second school record as a member of the 4x400-meter relay which finished second overall in 3:51.44. Furthermore, all three times are America East highs this winter.
Gurrant, who broke the school record in the long jump at the New York City Gotham Cup on Jan. 16, earned her second consecutive women’s field athlete of the award for her performance in the triple jump at the Great Dane Classic. She recorded a winning leap of 42 feet,
3-1/4 inches to become the first America East student-athlete to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championship in any field event.
Siddeeq, a junior transfer from Robert Morris where he shares the school and Northeast Conference championship meet records in the triple jump, was honored as the men’s field athlete of the week.
He broke UAlbany’s program standard in the triple jump with a winning mark of 51-7.25, surpassing teammate Mike McCadney’s record of 50-11 set in 2007 and 2008. He also became the second student-athlete at an America East school to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championship
in a field event after UAlbany pole vaulter Luke Schoen.
