Matt Vitagliano

Matt Vitagliano

  • Award
    Field Performer
  • Week Of
    1/30/2017
  • Sport
    Men's Track and Field
  • School
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Year
    Junior
  • Position
    Jumps
  • Hometown
    Clear Brook, Va.
  • High School
    James Wood
RPI junior Matt Vitagliano was victorious in both the long jump and triple jump in the nine-school Middlebury Invitational. Vitagliano defeated 19 others in the long jump with a distance of 6.22 (the runner-up reached 6.14). He then won the 9-person triple jump with a distance of 13.45, which was a meter in front of the second place finisher (12.45). As a team, the Engineers finished in second (159 points), trailing only Middlebury (163.50).