Results
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Senior Melissa Cutcliffe turned in a dominating performance in the long jump Sunday at the Empire 8 Indoor Track and Field Championships at RIT's Gordon Field House.

Cutcliffe broke the her own school record as well as the meet record with a first-place leap of 5.44 meters, which equals 17 meet, 10 and 1/4 inches -- five inches farther than her closest competitor. She was named women's Field Athlete of the Meet and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III meet at DePauw, Ind. in March.

Cutcliffe's finish was good for 10 team points and helped Nazareth to a fourth-place finish in the team standings. Ithaca won the meet with 222 points, followed by RIT (97), Stevens (44), Nazareth (25), Alfred (22) and Utica (21).

Junior Kristi Custer also broke her own school record with a second-place finish in the triple jump. She jumped 10.72 meters or 35 feet, 2 inches.

Other top finishers for Nazareth included freshman Mindy Niebuhr with a third-place finish in the high jump with a leap of 1.53 meters (or 5 feet, 1/4 inches) and senior Caitlyn Parmelee with a seventh-place finish in the mile with a time of 2:35.96.

Nazareth's distance medley relay team of Michelle Gillette, Evelyn DeSantis, Michelle Rombach and Lauren Jamieson finished third with a time of 13:35.63.

In the men's meet, graduate student Robby Castor paced the Golden Flyers by winning the mile run with a time of 4:28.12. Nazareth finished sixth in the team standings with 23 points. Ithaca was first with 181, followed by RIT (138), Alfred (51), Stevens (38), Utica (32) and Nazareth.

Castor also finished third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:00.89. Sophomore Dan Polino finished sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 12.89 meters (42 feet, 3 1/2 inches) and junior Matt Morales was ninth in the 5,000-meter run (16:22.25).

Nazareth's distance medley relay team also finished third in 11:14.93 with the group of Tim Rutan, Philip Schierer, Dave Patalano and Morales.

Empire 8 Women's Indoor Track and Field
All-Conference Teams 2010
Track Athlete of the Meet: Marcia McCord, Ithaca
Field Athlete of the Meet: Melissa Cutcliffe, Nazareth
#denotes meet record

55-Meter Dash
1st Team - Marcia McCord, Ithaca :07.34#
2nd Team - Samantha Mitchell, RIT :07.43

55-Meter Hurdles
1st Team - Lauren Koppel, Ithaca :08.85
2nd Team - Emma Dewart, Ithaca :08.99

200-Meter Dash
1st Team - Marcia McCord, Ithaca :25.94#
2nd Team - Samantha Mitchell, RIT :27.22

400-Meter Dash
1st Team - Salme Cook, Stevens 1:00.01
2nd Team - Abby Arday, RIT 1:01.84

800-Meter Run
1st Team - Sarah Moskey, Ithaca 2:25.04
2nd Team - Katie Ahart, Ithaca 2:26.51

Mile Run
1st Team - Jenn Randall, Ithaca 5:16.30
2nd Team - Katie Leugers, Ithaca 5:17.45

5,000-Meter Run
1st Team - Amanda Boccio, Ithaca 18:42.45
2nd Team - Melanie mcCormich, Ithaca 18:48.50

1,600-Meter Relay
1st Team - Ithaca (Emma Dewart, Ebonie Howard, Marcia McCord, Rebecca Coffman) 4:11.94
2nd Team - RIT (Abby Arday, Alexandra Bush, Jennie Springer, Jillian Putney) 4:16.04

Distance Medley Relay
1st Team - Ithaca (Jenn Randall, Lindsay Harris, Rachel Spirito, Cathy Ortiz) 13:10.85
2nd Team - Alfred (Rachel Gaylord, Amy Morrisey, Melissa Haahr, Megan Crimmins) 13:34.98

High Jump
1st Team - Emma Dewart, Ithaca 1.63m
2nd Team - Amanda Rissmeyer, Ithaca 1.58m

Pole Vault
1st Team - Kristen DeStefano, Ithaca 3.50m#
2nd Team - Julie Orlando, Ithaca 3.35m

Long Jump
1st Team - Melissa Cutcliffe, Nazareth 5.44m#
2nd Team - Emma Dewart, Ithaca 5.31m

Triple Jump
1st Team - Marcia McCord, Ithaca 11.29m#
2nd Team - Kristi Custer, Nazareth 10.72m

Shot Put
1st Team - Colleen Garman, Ithaca 11.41m
2nd Team - Samantha Ramos, RIT 11.06m

20-Pound Weight Throw
1st Team - Grace Python, Stevens 14.39m
2nd Team - Jamie Morey, RIT 14.14m