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Outdoor Track and Field Saved For the Next 2 Years!!!!!

December 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Featured Story, Track and Field

 Men’s Outdoor Track & Field will continue at the University of Maryland, director of athletics Kevin Anderson announced Tuesday. Private donations provided to the `Save Our Sports’ fundraising effort will allow men’s outdoor track to continue for the next two years prior to the transition to the Big Ten Conference in 2014. “Our decision to [...]

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Men’s outdoor Track Survives Program Cuts—For The Time Being

July 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Track and Field

Funding has been raised for men’s outdoor track and field to reach its first benchmark goal, but seven other sports have been discontinued at the University of Maryland, athletics director Kevin Anderson announced Monday. According to a plan detailed early in the spring, men’s track and field will compete with 14 student-athletes during the 2012-13 outdoor [...]

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Kiani Profit Competes Friday in Olympic Trials for the Heptathalon

June 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Track and Field

Three-time All-American Kiani Profit, who finished her eligibility at the University of Maryland with a trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships earlier this month, will compete in the heptathlon at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Friday and Saturday. Profit, who hails from Pasadena, Calif., is part of a strong field that will battle for a berth [...]

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Senior Kiani Profit Finishes 9th in the Heptathalon

June 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Track and Field

Maryland senior Kiani Profit was second in the heptathlon 800-meter run Friday in 2:10.71 and finished ninth overall in the two-day competition at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Drake University. Profit scored 5,625 points in the event to finish ninth overall in an outstanding field. Her total is expected to earn [...]

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3 Terps Head To NCAA Track and Field Finals in Iowa

June 6th, 2012 · No Comments · Track and Field

This is the weekend every NCAA Division I track and field coach and student-athlete have been pointing toward all year. According to Maryland head coach Andrew Valmon, the final rounds of the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships are the product of successful careers for seniors Kiani Profit and Zack Ray, and junior Jon Hill. “This group of athletes has [...]

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Barbiasz Finishes 5th in NCAA High Jump

June 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Track and Field

Maryland junior Dwight Barbiasz finished fifth in the high jump at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Drake Stadium. Barbiasz cleared 7-2 ½ (2.20m) to garner four points for Maryland in the championships. The Milford, N.H., native cruised through his first four jumps. He needed only one extra attempt to clear 7-2 [...]

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Dwight Barbiasz Preps For NCAA High Jump Championship on Friday

June 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Track and Field

When Dwight Barbiasz lines up for his first jump this Friday at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, he will have someone in his corner who has been there before.  Barbiasz will be joined by assistant coach Frank Costello, a former two-time All-American in the high jump as a Terp in 1965 and 1966. The duo will [...]

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Kristen Batts Wins ACC DIscus Event

April 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Track and Field

Kristen Batts made the most of her final throw of the women’s discus competition Thursday, capturing the individual championship to become the first winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships being hosted by Duke University. Batts, a Terrapin senior, had a mark of 160 feet, 11 inches to win the competition. It [...]

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Kiani Profit Lands in 2nd Place in NCAA Pentathlon

March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Track and Field

Kiani Profit crushed her own school record in the pentathlon and set a NCAA event record on the way to a tie for second place in the multi-event Friday at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships being hosted by Texas A&M. Profit scored 4,396 points over the five events to erase her previous school record [...]

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Profit and Barbiasz To represent Terps at NCAA Nationals

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Track and Field

Kiani Profit and Dwight Barbiasz will represent the University of Maryland this weekend at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Texas A&M University  Profit and Barbiasz won their respective events two weeks ago at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Championships. Profit set a school record with a score of 4,250 points [...]

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