Women's Track & Field | 2/13/2017 3:57:00 PM

ROCHESTER, NY - Senior Jess Calzolari (Longmont, CO/Mead) of the RIT women's track and field team, was named the Liberty League Field Athlete of the Week on Monday, for the week ending Feb. 12, 2017. It is Calzolari's second weekly honor of the 2016-17 season.

Calzolari was named the 2017 Liberty League Indoor Track and Field Championship Female Field Athlete of the Meet on Saturday after winning two events, while placing second and fourth in other events in helping lead RIT to its first league title since joining in 2011-12.

Calzolari won the long jump with a leap of 5.25 meters, and took home first place in the triple jump with a school record jump of 11.38 meters. She was second in the 60-meter hurdles (9.46 seconds) and placed fourth in the high jump (1.53 meters). She now has the 14th best triple jump in all of Division III this season.

The Tigers will compete at the Utica Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 18, beginning at 10 a.m. in Utica, N.Y.