Track & Field

Lotte Black wins A-10 cross country individual title. Photo courtesy of GoRhody. This weekend the University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled down the East Coast to Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg, Virginia for the Atlantic 10 Championships.  A wonderful crisp, fall day in Leesburg brought in a record crowd to watch…

Men’s and women’s cross country have strong showing in Boston The University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s cross country teams were both in action this past weekend competing at the 107th New England Cross Country Championship at Franklin Park in Boston. The 2019 New England Cross Country Championships featured 25 men and 22 women’s…

Track coach John Copeland has been training athletes in the A-10 division since 1949. Photo by Grace DeSanti. 37 Years Later, Rhody Track Titan continues to Succeed In the high-pressure, individuality-driven sports culture of today, John Copeland, head coach of cross country and track and field at the University of Rhode Island, has had an…

Junior Sprinter Anthony Delasanta competes at the A-10 championships. |Photo courtesy of Michaela Benford. The University of Rhode Island’s men’s and women’s track and field teams were in action this past weekend competing in the 2019 Holy Cross invitational and the 2019 Princeton Larry Ellis Invitational. Both teams competed in Worcester, Massachusetts as part of…

Rhode Island Men’s Track and Field finished third out of ten teams at the Northeast Challenge hosted by the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut this past weekend. The Rams were able to pull in 85 team points in total over the weekend. UConn won the event with a team total of 164 points. Southern…

This past Saturday the University of Rhode Island’s Women’s Track and Field team finished in third out of 72 teams at the University of Connecticut Northeast Challenge in Storrs, Connecticut. The Rams recorded 19 personal or season bests on the day as well as two URI top ten marks and one class record. Although the…

Lotte Black and the women’s track and field team traveled to UMass this past weekend to compete in the Minutemen Invitational. |Photo courtesy of Michaela Benford. This past weekend, Rhode Island women’s track and field finished third out of 10 teams at the Minuteman Invitational, hosted by the University of Massachusetts. Three Rams came away…

Senior Ryan Wilkes competes in the pole vault last week at the Colonial Relays. | Photo courtesy of Michaela Benford. This past weekend the University of Rhode Island’s Men’s Track and Field Team competed in the 54th Annual Colonial Relays, hosted by the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia from April 4 to…

The University of Rhode Island men’s track and field team placed first at their inaugural outdoor meet of the season at the Bryant Black and Gold Invitational this past Saturday. Thirteen schools met at the Bryant Track, located in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. There, the Rams absolutely crushed their opponents on the first day of…