HEPS Track and Field 2012-13

Wade posted a link to the 4x880y video on Facebook if anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lja2bLCS47Q&list=UURSlYx2O8b8E14relNxAmRA&index=3

oops. I forgot about the javelin girl and I didn't know anything about the freshman javelin thrower.

Indoor Heps photos are available for viewing:

http://doug-austin-photography.smugmug.com/Sports

C/M Runner wrote:

Indoor Heps photos are available for viewing:

http://doug-austin-photography.smugmug.com/Sports

Thanks--some great shots there!

Princeton now ranks 4th ALL TIME ON THE NCAA Indoor DMR list

1) 9:25.97 Texas (2008)

2) 9:26.60 Penn State (2013)

3) 9:26.78 Oregon (2011)

4) 9:27.74 Princeton (2013)

5) 9:27.77 Michigan (2004)

Cornell guy wins the IC4A high jump, just as last year--but this time it's Tommy Butler who jumps 2.16/7-1! (Montez Blair, coming off last week's injury, cleared 6-9 today.)

That gives the Big Red three men at 7-1 or higher this season. All three return next year, IIRC...

Cornell women fifth at ECAC; Salander-less Harvard and D'Ag-less Dartmouth eleventh and twelfth, respectively.

Cornell men second at IC4A, Dartmouth fifteeenth, Harvard eighteenth. Dartmouth's Connor and Cornell's JA-Y 1-2 in the 60 at 6.75; the Big Green's Will Geoghegan wins the mile (4:05.71); Nico Weiler takes the PV for Harvard at 5.30 (17-4 1/2).

UConn won the women's meet big, and the men's meet huge.

According to TFRRS, the IC4A/ECAC marks have been included in their database. Assuming no one drops out of the top 16 individuals or top-12 relays, the following are going to nationals:

Kept in some other marks within top 20 in case a lot of people drop... unlikely for the relays, but who knows. Also included any alumni qualifiers and any known Ivy records that make the cut.

800m - tied-16th, Erika Veidis (H) - 2:05.70

mile - 2nd, Abbey D'Agostino (D) - 4:30.03 - Ivy record

3000m - 1st - D'Agostino - 8:55.41 - Ivy record

3000m - 12th - Alexi Pappas (Oregon-Dartmouth) - 9:07.97

5000m - 13th - Dan Lowry (Michigan-Brown) - 13:42.48

5000m - 6th - D'Agostino - 15:47.02

5000m - 11th - Rachel Sorna (Cor) - 15:53.76

5000m - 13th - Pappas - 15:54.64

DMR - 2nd - Princeton (Williams, Hollimon, Dinkins, Callahan) - 9:27.74 - Ivy record

HJ - tied-4th, Montez Blair (Cor) - 7-5.25

TJ - tied-14th - Damon McLean (Pr) - 52-3.25

SP - 5th - Stephen Mozia (Cor) - 65-3.25

WT - 15th - Adabelle Ekechukwu (H) - 68-4.25 - Ivy record

pentathlon - 8th - Martina Salander (H) - 4094 - Ivy record

I will check this again tomorrow to make sure nothing has changed. But I am surprised by the potential number of Harvard qualifiers (Veidis' time really surprised me).

C/M Runner wrote:

...I am surprised by the potential number of Harvard qualifiers (Veidis' time really surprised me).

I can understand about Veidis--it was a bit surprising to me, too--but in general Harvard (and Princeton) "should" be likely to have NCAA qualifiers. These schools--particularly Harvard, with its international rep--tend to attract what Brooks Johnson called "prime beef" athletes.

kibitzer wrote:

C/M Runner wrote:

...I am surprised by the potential number of Harvard qualifiers (Veidis' time really surprised me).

I can understand about Veidis--it was a bit surprising to me, too--but in general Harvard (and Princeton) "should" be likely to have NCAA qualifiers. These schools--particularly Harvard, with its international rep--tend to attract what Brooks Johnson called "prime beef" athletes.

True about the international factor, but after tracking the rankings across the indoor season, I was expecting one or two more Cornellians or Princetonians to make it. Man it is depressing to realize I keep underestimating my Crimson.

Breakdown by school

Brown - none

Columbia - none

Cornell - Blair, Mozia, Sorna

Dartmouth - D'Agostino

Harvard - Ekechukwu, Salander, Veidis

Penn - none

Princeton - DMR, McLean

Yale - none

Alumni - Pappas, Lowry

Funny how none of the Texas Ivy men made it to nationals in anything.

Depending on which version of the mile listing you view, Joe Stilin (Texas-Princeton) is either 15th or 16th (originally, there was some database error that didn't include him in the top 16 yesterday, but it seems to have been fixed now).

800m - tied-16th, Erika Veidis (H) - 2:05.70

mile - 2nd - Abbey D'Agostino (D) - 4:30.03 - Ivy record

mile - 15th/16th - Joe Stilin (Texas-Princeton) - 3:58.66

3000m - 1st - D'Agostino - 8:55.41 - Ivy record

3000m - 12th - Alexi Pappas (Oregon-Dartmouth) - 9:07.97

5000m - 13th - Dan Lowry (Michigan-Brown) - 13:42.48

5000m - 6th - D'Agostino - 15:47.02

5000m - 11th - Rachel Sorna (Cor) - 15:53.76

5000m - 13th - Pappas - 15:54.64

DMR - 2nd - Princeton (Williams, Hollimon, Dinkins, Callahan) - 9:27.74 - Ivy record

HJ - tied-4th, Montez Blair (Cor) - 7-5.25

TJ - tied-14th - Damon McLean (Pr) - 52-3.25

SP - 5th - Stephen Mozia (Cor) - 65-3.25

WT - 15th - Adabelle Ekechukwu (H) - 68-4.25 - Ivy record

pentathlon - 8th - Martina Salander (H) - 4094 - Ivy record

Nothing posted here in a while, so I'd imagine everyone is following the Ivy NCAA action over at HTC.

Anyway: GREAT JOB, ABBEY AND TIGERS! Way to represent the League!

Meanwhile, Cornell's three NCAA entrants all finished 11th.

And they open their outdoor season a week from today, in San Diego. Obviously individuals get downtime, but between the first weekend in January and outdoor Heps (the first weekend in May), there's only one week without a meet:

http://cornellbigred.com/schedule.aspx?path=mtrack&

This is one of the consequences of the early start/early finish academic calendar that so many colleges adopted (mostly) in the 1970s, with many sports' calendars following suit: the elimination of a month (or so) without competition between indoor and outdoor seasons. Nowadays, once you start/resume competition in January, you're going to be training *and* competing for four straight months.

My hat is off to the coaches (and athletes) who manage to find the right balance between development and sharpening. Periodization must be a lot tougher now than it was back in my day.

Someone may know: any prospect of seeing Adam Cotton compete for the Crimson outdoors? If healthy and fit, he could liven things up tremendously...

Cotton is coming back from some kind of achilles surgery that he had done over the summer. Based on his blog, he has been doing some workouts since January, but I believe it was a medical redshirt for the indoor season.

http://www.athleticos.org/blog/45680-Another-year-another-injury-nearly-healed

Thanks for info about Adam! I wish him good luck with his comeback.

What's the status of Sharay Hale? And is Miata Morlu still competing for Columbia?

From what I had heard, Sharay Hale opted out of Heps because she was afraid that she was still hurt (even though she had raced a few times and her coach was confident in her running) and she would lose.

As for Morlu, I have no idea. I have not heard her name at all during indoors.

Ivies did great...3 National Championships. Too difficult to run 3 events... but I would have liked to see Abbey D' in the Mile race. I think she would have taken Emma Coburn. I watched the Millrose Mile and Abbey wasted too much energy running in and out of the 2 & 3rd lanes and she still almost nipped Emma at the end. It would have been fun to see a rematch.