From Brandeis University Athletics
Junior Mo Sidique (Harlem, N.Y. / St. Raymond H.S. for Boys) earned his first career UAA title at the 2014 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships in the Gosman Athletic Center. The meet was won by the Washington University men and the University of Chicago women.
Brandeis had six individual scoring performances in three different events.
Sidique had the meet's top three jumps, including a mark of 14.18 meters (46 feet, 6 ¼ inches) on his final attempt that was nearly two feet longer than his nearest opponent. The distance is ranked 20th in Division III this season. Brandeis also got an All-Association performance from rookie Brian Louis (Elmont, N.Y. / Bishop Ford Central Catholic) who finished third with a lifetime best distance of 13.29 meters (43-7 ¼). Sophomore Adam Berger (Concord, N.H./Concord) added two points with a fifth-place finish, 13.01 meters (42-8 ¼).
Brandeis added two more points in the men's 55-meter dash. Senior Vincent Asante (Bronx, N.Y./H.S. for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry) was unable to pick up his third career title in the event. Asante, who qualified for the finals with the second-fastest time of the prelims, 6.58 seconds, was slow out of the blocks in the finals and ran 6.68 seconds to finish fifth, although his time was just six-hundredths of a second out of second place.
There were two meet records set on the second day of action. In the men's 3,000-meter run, Washington University junior Andrew Padgett erased a five-year-old mark set by NYU's Hany Abdallah with a time of 8:21.99, knocking more than five seconds off Abdallah's mark. Padgett led the only sweep of the top three places in any event in the meet.