The College of Staten Island Track & Field program participates in their first meet of the 2024-25 Indoor season on Saturday as they open the season in the Youree Spence Garcia Invitational for the second straight year. The meet will be the first of six ahead of the East Coast Conference Championship and NCAA Regionals. The Dolphins enter the season with a roster that has once again grown in size in the second season under Head Coach Akil St. Louis. The program sees the introduction of new student-athletes including both transfers and a large freshman class. The upcoming season will also see the return of numerous record-holders hoping to lead the Dolphins closer to the top of the East Coast Conference. Of the seven meets scheduled ahead of NCAA Regionals this season, six of them will be hosted at the Ocean Breeze Track & Field Facility on Staten Island. This puts the Dolphins in a unique position where they will have to travel a very short way for the majority of their meets, and the team will also benefit from the recently constructed Track & Field on campus. Boasting greater numbers and more record-breaking potential than an any other time in the recent history of the program, the Dolphins certainly will have plenty to look forward to as the Indoor season gets underway this weekend. Check out profiles of some program record holders, a look at this year's schedule, and our conversations with the team as part of our season preview below.
Ava Thompson - Sr. | Staten Island, NY
Thompson received ECC Second Team All-Conference honors in the Weight Throw during the 2022 season and First Team recognition in the same event last season. She was also named the Women's Field Athlete of the year at the 2024 Finnies shortly after another standout performance in the ECC Outdoor Championship earlier this year. Her distance of 14.57 m in the Weight Throw at last year's ECC Championship was a new program record and earned her second place in the meet.
Skylar Pointer - Sr. | Lockport, NY
On the heels of a standout performance in the 2023 East Coast Conference Championship, Pointer earned ECC All-Conference First Team honors in the Weight Throw and ECC All-Conference Second Team honors in the Shot Put. She currently holds the program record in the Shot Put with a distance of 10.91 m, a personal-best mark set in December of 2022.
Angelina Guerriero - Sr. | Staten Island, NY
A standout for both CSI Cross-Country and CSI Track & Field, Guerriero is a record holder in two separate events. First, she holds the program record in the 500-Meter with a time of 1:28.61. One week after setting that record in December of last year, she added another program record in the 600-Meter with a time of 1:52.18. At the 2024 Finnies, Guerriero concluded her junior season by being named MVP of Women's Track & Field.
Alexandrea Jackson - Sr. | Bronx, NY
A contributor to multiple relay records and holder of one individual record, Jackson is another student-athlete who is a major contributor for both CSI Cross-Country and CSI Track & Field. Individually, she holds the 300-Meter record with a time of 48.78. As part of relay squads, she has contributed to records in both the Sprint Medley Relay and 4x400 Relay. In addition to her accolades on the track, she was named the Women's Cross-Country MVP at the Finnies earlier this year.
Vincent "V.I." Ohenhen - Sr. | Staten Island, NY
Ohenhen has set a pair of individual program records, has contributed to one relay record, and has received an ECC All-Conference honor during his CSI career. Last year, V.I. achieved the best time in program history in the 60-Meter and 200-Meter while also competing for the top time in the ECC across several sprints. He received ECC All-Conference recognition at last year's Indoor Championship and was named the MVP of Men's Track and Field at the 2024 Finnies.
Steven Elcock - Jr. | Baldwin, NY
Elcock holds the program record in the 300-Meter and earned a pair of ECC All-Conference honors at last year's Indoor Championship. His time of 50.31 s in the 400-Meter at that meet was good for second overall and earned him a First Team All-ECC in the event. At the same meet, he earned All-Conference Second Team honors in the 200-Meter, and he was named Men's Runner of the Year at the 2024 Finnies.
Wayne Stephenson - Sr. | Trelawny, Jamaica W.I.
Stephenson is one of the most decorated runners in the Division II history of the CSI Cross-Country Track & Field program and is a record holder in events for both sports. This year, he has already set new program records in the 8K and 10K for Cross-Country. For CSI Track & Field, he is a record-holder in the Mile, and he was named the Men's Cross-Country team's MVP at the Finnies earlier this year.
Dominik Hric - So. | Staten Island, NY
Last year's Men's Field Athlete of the Year holds the record in the Shot Put with a distance of 11.67 m. The sophomore set the record to conclude his first Indoor season with the program at the ECC Championship meet earlier this year. He then went on to set three more Outdoor records in Throws for the Dolphins, and he now holds the program record in the Shot Put, Discus, and Hammer.