NEW YORK — A small contingent of the New Jersey City University men's and women's track & field squads were in action on Friday, Feb. 11, as the Gothic Knights competed at the Rutgers University Open at The Armory. There was no team scoring on the day.

A handful of Jersey City student-athletes competed on the afternoon, highlighted by a couple key performances. Senior Fahim Chowdhury (Bayonne, N.J./County Prep) competed as one of just two Division III runners in the men's mile and notched a personal record time of 5:03.54 to place 39th.

The men also competed in the 4x200 meter relay for the first time this indoor season and the squad — made up of senior captain Dave Etienne (Jersey City, N.J./Dickinson) and juniors Jason Garcia (Jersey City, N.J./Dickinson), Roger Campbell (Jersey City, N.J./Dickinson) and Tyneil Jackson (Jersey City, N.J./Ferris) — posted a respectable time of 1:32.02 to place third in the event, just four seconds off first and only 1.1 seconds out of second.

On the women's side of things, NJCU competed in a trio of individual events, while the women's 4x200 meter relay squad of freshman Nyla Boyd (Thomson, Ga./Thomson), junior Tiffany Ortiz (Jersey City, N.J./University Academy Charter), freshman Ashley Adames and junior Arame Diouf (Weehawken, N.J./Memorial) took home fourth place in 1:59.03.

Up Next:
NJCU will next compete tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Monmouth University Winter Collegiate Invitational beginning at 10:30 a.m. down in West Long Branch, N.J.