April 2, 2002
The 2001-02 Red Fox men's indoor track and field team capped off the season having broken school records in 12 events, scoring the team's highest ever point total at the 2002 Indoor Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships, and for the first time, competed at the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Championships.
School records were set by seven Red Foxes during the season: Eli Bisnett-Cobb, Adam Pakiela, Christopher McCloskey, Michael Nehr, Adam Waterbury, Patrick Driscoll, and Brian Parrella. Bisnett-Cobb set new standards in the 55-meter hurdles, 7.84 and high jump, 2.01 meters (6 ft. 7 inches), while competing at the Farleigh Dickinson University Invitational. Pakiela set a new mark in the 55-meter dash, 6.90 at the Terrier Classic, and then set a new record in the 400-meter dash, 51.50 at the Seton Hall University Invitational. McCloskey set the school 500-meter dash record at the Terrier Classic, finishing in a time of 1:07.82, and then set the 800-meter school record at the St. Valentine's Invitational, crossing in 1:55.28. Nehr re-wrote the school's distance records, setting marks in the 1,000-meters (2:29.53), 3,000-meters (8:24.42), and the mile run (4:15.23).
In the field Waterbury led the Red Foxes record setting efforts, breaking the school mark in the 35-pound weight throw, (12.66 meters, 41 ft., 6.5 inches) and shot put (14.52 meters).
The relay team of Driscoll, Parrella, Nehr and McCloskey, set a new record in the 3,200-meter relay at the Metropolitan Championships, finishing in a time 7:55.43.
At the 2002 Indoor MAAC Championships the Red Foxes finished in fifth place, tallying their highest ever point total, 53, since joining the conference. McCloskey led the Red Foxes with his victory in the 800-meters, with a time of 1:56.93. McCloskey became the first Red Fox to win an individual title at the Indoor Championship. Other top finishers were Waterbury, who placed third in the shot put with a school record setting performance (14.52 meters), and Bisnett-Cobb, who was runner-up in the high jump (1.96 meters).
The Red Foxes excelled in both athletics and academics during the indoor season, as ten members of the Marist track team qualified for the 2002 MAAC All-Academic Team. Bisnett-Cobb, Nehr, Richard Ambrosio, Patrick Brodfuehrer, Kirk Dornton, Teddy Ebberts, Jason Grady, Gilby Hawkins, Robert McGuinness, and Charles Williams.
Marist wrapped up their season at the 2002 Indoor IC4A Championships, held at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, Mass. Representing the Red Foxes were Nehr, who competed in the 3,000-meters, and Christopher Camp, Pakiela, Driscoll, and McCloskey who competed in the distance medley relay. Nehr finished sixth in his section of the 3,000-meter run in 8:32.41, while the DMR team placed ninth in their section, finishing in a time of 10:23.50.
