ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The TCNJ men's track and field team's five national qualifiers officially locked up their All-American status on the final day of the NCAA Indoor Championships at Nazareth on Saturday.
 
Ray Schmitt (60-meter dash) and Maxim Rychkov (200-meter dash) each placed seventh in their respective events, and Rychkov joined Jack Attali, Anthony Senatore, and Noah Traverso to finish eighth in the 4x400-meter relay.
 
Schmitt broke his own program record with a 6.77 in Friday's prelims, but the adrenaline seemed to amp up in the finals, and his still-strong time of 6.81 was not quite enough to challenge three sub-6.70 marks.
 
Rychkov, meanwhile, clinched his debut first team All-America nod with a time of 22.08 in the finals of the 200-meter dash.
 
Wisconsin-La Crosse's Sam Blaskowski won both events, running his individual national championship tally to a whopping nine.
 
Traverso, Attali, Senatore, and Rychkov were unable to replicate their prelim time of 3:15.75, which would have placed them fourth in the finals, instead settling for a mark of 3:19.49 and eighth place. Still, the placing made them the first TCNJ relay to earn indoor All-America honors since the distance medley relay in 2009, and the first 4x400 unit to do so since 2003.
 
With his 12^th-place finish in the 60-meter dash prelims, Rychkov earned three All-America awards for the weekend, the only rookie in the country to accomplish that feat.