PITTSBURGH - Duquesne will send 57 student-athletes to compete in the Atlantic 10 Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by UMass, this weekend in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Dukes competed in eight regular-season meets, six of which in the Keystone State. The trip to Massachusetts will be the longest road-trip of the season, traveling 520 miles.

MEET INFORMATION
2023 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships | May 6-7, 2023 | Amherst, Mass. (UMass Track & Field Complex)
Live Results | Watch on ESPN+ (Day One | Day Two)
Meet Notes / Dukes Performance List | Championship Central

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
- The Dukes have 27 competitors in the top-10 of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
- Two-time medalist and reigning gold-medal winner Emily Brozeski will be in action in the heptathlon, an event she also holds the DU record in. Brozeski has competed once this season in the heptathlon, however she did win the pentathlon at the A-10 Indoor Championships in February. Teammate Jamelah Carswell's season-high 4261 points at Bucknell earlier this year puts her fourth in the A-10 and fifth all-time at DU, and right in contention for a medal.
- School-record holder Alyssa Willis enters the meet with the fourth-fastest time in the A-10 this season, she will look to qualify for the finals and potentially medal in the 100m dash for the first time in her career. Willis also ranks 10th in the 200m dash, a race she finished in eighth place in a year ago.
- Freshman Madelyn Moretti will look to continue an impressive freshman season, featuring a pair of A-10 weekly awards and a school record in the shot put. She enters the meet second in the A-10 with the opportunity to be the first shot-put medalist from Duquesne since Ashley Adams won bronze in 2014. DU has never won gold in women's shot put at the A-10 Outdoor Championships.
- Junior Sadie Wetzel will vie for her first medal at high jump, entering third in the A-10.
- Men's triple jump champion Logan Williamson will be back to defend his gold medal (15.01m). He also took silver in 2021, clearing the second-highest bar in DU history (15.28m). Williamson went over 14.61m in his only meet of 2023, putting him 5th in the A-10 this season. 
- David Williams is the lone returner in the men's 4x100m relay, but the group has already found its way on the all-time leaderboard at DU and will look to make it three straight medals for the Dukes in the event after a gold medal run in 2022 and bronze in 2021.
- The women's 4x400m relay has the 2nd-fastest time in the A-10 this season, while the  4x800m relay teams come into the meet ranked third (men) and fourth (women).

PROGRAM RECORDS SET THIS SEASON
- 100m: Alyssa Willis (11.91 at Bison Outdoor Classic on April 16)
- 4x1500m: Liv Wilson, Ryley Schwalm, Kathryn Saum, and Laura Ehrenberger (19:27.87 at Colonial Relays on April 1)
- Shot Put: Madelyn Moretti (14.48m at CMU Last Chance Meet on April 13)

A-10 HONORS
- A-10 Performer of the Week: Jalin Cooper (5/3)
- A-10 Rookie of the Week: Madelyn Moretti (3/21 (co) & 4/1)

- Freshman Madelyn Moretti earned her second A-10 Rookie of the Week honor of the season on April 18 after her record-setting shot put, which led to a meet victory, and a second-place finish in the discus at the CMU Last Chance Meet last Thursday. She was also named the A-10 Co-Rookie of the Week after a stellar opening weekend on March 21, where she posted a 13.98m (45-10 ½) shot put finishing runner-up at the Charlotte 49er Classic, the second-best mark in DU history (at the time) in her first outdoor meet, then a 37.41m (121-10) mark in discus placing eighth.

- Jalin Cooper closed out the regular season with the first A-10 weekly honor for the Duquesne men. Cooper, a senior from Medina, N.Y., ran a personal-best 10.70 in the 100m dash, which was good for the fifth fastest time in program history, at last weekend's Red Flash Open, hosted by Saint Francis (PA), finishing runner-up in the meet. The 10.70 was just one hundredth of a second behind fourth place in the all-time record book, held by Paul Blinn (10.69 ran in 2011).

RETURNING MEDALISTS
- Emily Brozeski (Heptathlon - Gold in 2022, Silver in 2021)
- Haley Hamilton (3000m Steeplechase - Bronze in 2022)
- Logan Williamson (Triple Jump - Gold in 2022, Silver in 2021)
- Cam Mbalo (Triple Jump - Bronze in 2021)
- Men's 4x100m Relay (Gold in 2022 - returning only David Williams)
- Men's 4x400m Relay (Bronze in 2022 - returning only David Williams & Ryan Ellison)

LAST SEASON
- Last season, the men finished in fifth with 69 points and the women placed 9th with 42.5 points.
- The men's team set a new program record with five gold medals in 2022 and added a bronze, while the women had two medals (one gold and one bronze).

UP NEXT
- Qualifying Dukes will compete in the ECAC/IC4A Championships in Fairfax, Va. on May 12-14.

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