Apr. 26, 2009
Maroons Finish Fourth at UAA Championship

PITTSBURGH -- Paced by 15 all-conference performers, the University of Chicago men's outdoor track & field team captured fourth place at the 2009 University Athletic Association Championship. Chicago's lone first-place finish came in the 3,200-meter relay, as sophomore Harry Backlund (St. Paul, Minn./ Highland Park) (pictured), sophomore Toby Blattler (Brookline, Mass./ Brookline), junior Alex Garbier (Watertown, Mass./ Watertown), and sophomore Andrew Wells-Qu (Bethlehem, Conn./ Holy Cross) clocked a time of 7:47.19.

Results

Mar. 13, 2009
Three Maroons Compete at Division III Championship

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- University of Chicago juniors Bill Cheng (Island Lake, Ill./ Wauconda) (pictured) and Blake Obuchowski (Geneva, Ill./ Geneva) and sophomore Andrew Wells-Qu (Bethlehem, Conn./ Holy Cross) participated on the first day of the 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Indoor Track & Field Championship Friday at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Mar. 7, 2009
Maroons Fall Three Points Shy of UAA Championship

NEW YORK -- Three Maroons won conference titles and 10 others earned all-conference honors as the University of Chicago men's indoor track & field team captured third place at the 2009 University Athletic Association Championship. The top three teams finished within only three points of each other. Emory University captured the league crown with 106 points, just one point ahead of runner-up Carnegie Mellon University and three points ahead of Chicago. Junior Blake Obuchowski (Geneva, Ill./ Geneva) (pictured) and sophomores Keith Newhouse (Palos Park, Ill./ Stagg) and Drew Jackson (Sugar Hill, Ga./ North Gwinnett) took home UAA individual championships.