HEPS Track and Field 2012-13

C/M Runner wrote:

According to Cornell's website, Bruno's 300m mark is a Spanish national record.

But man, Cornell got a LOT of IC4A qualifiers yesterday. 19? Geez!

A national record seems hard to believe at an early season meet, but the story checks out if you believe Wikipedia:

Perhaps it was a weak record. I wonder if he had a 300m PR before this and if so, what it was. He doesn't have anything listed at DirectAthletics.

shazzuy wrote:

Men's: Mozia shows strong start in both weight and shot. Early in the season, so marks lower then last year are not surprising. Rhodes of Cornell had an excellent start as well. Moving from the 25lb to the 35lb weight is VERY daunting, and that distance is quite respectable for an early meet from a Freshman. Also nice to see Fiedler from Cornell back in action.

Women's: Cornell ladies were, well, once again, I will chalk it up to being early in the year. As a side note, Deford who is unattached at the meet is a Cornell thrower, but not sure why no Imbessi.

Fiedler's injury last spring was pretty serious--his recovery prospects were not clear. He's done a great job to be able to come back and throw again--the weight is tough on the back!

Imbesi is fine--just one of dozens (literally) of Cornell squad members who didn't compete, with exams and such coming up. CU had a pretty good meet anyway, but ended up keeping lot of firepower under wraps. Of course the distance folks mostly skipped the meet--so did a lot of the middle-distance crews--but competitive people from every event area missed the meet, for one reason or another. I'd imagine the same is true for the other Ivy League teams during these December meets.

I wouldn't say Cornell's women are a lock for the Heps titles--the League's too tough--but they really managed to fill about the only glaring hole from last year, the pentathlon. Holmes's 3600-point effort would have taken second at last year's Heps.

Also, Bruno's national-record run--even if the previous record was "weak"--was really impressive. A 33-point on Cornell's track is amazing to watch.

I'm surprised that Claire Dishong's pole vault hasn't gotten a little more recognition. That 3.90 was a school record and would have taken second at Heps last year.

Ithacan wrote:

I'm surprised that Claire Dishong's pole vault hasn't gotten a little more recognition. That 3.90 was a school record and would have taken second at Heps last year.

She's the female AOTW to Hepstrack.

Hmmmhmmhmhmhmhmmmmm... So we meet again.

McCullough definitely, 100% out (may not even continue to compete in the NCAA), and Princeton had 0 incoming throwers, so that sucks for them. Cornell lost Belden, but he had a very disappointing senior year with the exception of weight. I will do a more in-depth preview of the throws sometime soon.

VERY excited at some of the incoming frosh for the throws, should be a great year!!

C/M Runner wrote:

Perhaps it was a weak record. I wonder if he had a 300m PR before this and if so, what it was. He doesn't have anything listed at DirectAthletics.

The 300 is one of those events pretty much only run at early-season meets by 200 guys looking to build strength or 400 guys looking to build speed. I don't think anyone has ever trained specifically for the 300 or run an indoor one while in great shape. I'd imagine if you look at the all-time league marks they all come from mid-January or earlier.

Anyone know the league record? I know Hollimon popped off a 33.5 two years back.

TK1451 wrote:

The 300 is one of those events pretty much only run at early-season meets by 200 guys looking to build strength or 400 guys looking to build speed. I don't think anyone has ever trained specifically for the 300 or run an indoor one while in great shape. I'd imagine if you look at the all-time league marks they all come from mid-January or earlier.

Cornell's Deneault Invitational--held the week before indoor Heps--also includes a 300. Several of Cornell's top women ran it last year--makes sense to me, for people who are going to run a 400 the following week--but I don't think they had any men run it. Maybe they will this year, or in coming years when the Heps include a 200 for men.

Out of all eight schools, only Cornell and Princeton have an official "300m indoor record" listed. Out of those two schools, Austin Hollimon (33.53) and Hannah Garrity (39.73) have the top 300m times for either gender.

I'm sure if someone wants to dig back in old results or pester the schools to see if they have anything on the 300m then we could have a formal conference 300m time. But from what I can tell, Bruno is the 2nd man to have broken the 34 second barrier for the 300m. For the women, you need to have broken 40 seconds to be in the top tier of the sprint.

After trying to search for 300m results for any Ivy Leaguer in their database (which appears to only go back to 2010) and on school record websites, I could only find results for Cornell, Princeton, and Brown. And I was wrong in my previous post: Tom Hopkins has also broken 34 seconds and Katie Woodford has the fastest 300m time I could find for a woman in the conference.

Top 10 300m that I could find:

Austin Hollimon 33.53 2011 Princeton

Tom Hopkins 33.82 2010 Princeton

Bruno Hortelano-Roig 33.94 2012 Cornell

Adam Seabrook 34.27 2008 Cornell

Shafiq Kashmiri 34.41 2007 Princeton

Tom Hopkins 34.53 2012 Princeton

Royce Reed 34.74 1995 Princeton

Mike Eddy 34.74 2010 Princeton

Chris Bain 35.01 2012 Cornell

Nathan Crabtree 35.28 2008 Cornell

Katie Woodford 39.11 2011 Cornell

Hannah Garrity 39.73 2002 Cornell

Jessica Weyman 39.75 2009 Cornell

Katy Jay 39.87 2001 Cornell

Kate Backel 39.90 2010 Cornell

Zena Kolliesuah 39.90 2011 Cornell

Melissa Hewitt 39.95 2011 Cornell

Cameron Washington 39.96 2007 Cornell

Ebolutalese Airewele 40.08 2012 Cornell

Kari Steed 40.24 2003 Cornell

Penn opened on Pearl Harbor day at Lehigh:

http://www.lehighsports.com/assets/1/workflow_staging/AssetManager/50670.HTM

Excellent performances, particularly for the women, in the straightaway races; and both Penn squads set a number of facility records on Lehigh's ungenerous oval. (One of those was a 2:32 1,000m by Magaha, winning easily.)

Solid marks in the shot and (women's) weight. Maalik Reynolds opened his season at 2.10; Penn's women won most of the field events.

At Lehigh, placings (competing) are typically more important than marks, and Penn came away with a lot of wins against medium competition. They also demonstrated considerable depth in a number of events.

At the URI pentathlon on Friday, Janae Dunchack--defender in the Heps pent--posted a 3,654, moving her to the Ivy lead in the event. Not much backup from the rest of the squad, which was slightly surprising.

Dartmouth is at Harvard's meet on Saturday--no results (apparently) from that one yet.

Yale opened at its own facility on Saturday:

http://www.tfrrs.org/results/26786.html

Top marks by Elis include a 2:26 1,000m by James Shirvell and a 17.58m (near 58ft) weight throw by M. Levine, on the men's side; the women had Sydney Cureton under 8.00 in the dash, a 1:16 by Allison Rue in the 500, a sweep of the races from 1,000m up, and solid wins in (where else?) the throws.

Okay, Harvard (and Dartmouth) results are up: http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/track/2012-13/files/Harvard_Open_2012_Results.htm

Harvard had women run 7.17 and 7.19 for 55m--I think that's fast, but can't convert it to the "real" distance. (Will the Heps be run at 55m?) Martina Salander ran sub-8.00 for the hurdles, which must be a very fast time, and two other Cantabs were pretty close. Participation by the Harvard men (their roster has 50+) was very light.

OTOH participation by Dartmouth (who had *their* finals, we recall, back in November) was quite substantial: lots of depth in many events. Jennifer Meech ran 25.46; Megan Krumpoch won with a 58.67; Emmaline Berg threw 13.43 (44ft) in the SP, and she (14.96, 49ft) and Cathy Liebowitz (15.74, 51+ft) took the top two places in the weight. The men were less heavily represented, it seems--they produced a number of high placings, but no particularly striking marks.

Thanks for info! Okay, you call it: whom will HTC pick for its athletes of the week? That's a pretty good pentathlon score, but some of those throws...

kibitzer wrote:

Okay, you call it: whom will HTC pick for its athletes of the week? That's a pretty good pentathlon score, but some of those throws...

Spoke too soon. Princeton weighed in today:

Yikes, yikes, yikes. Talking about throws, by the way...HTC had no trouble determining its female AOW.

In all seriousness, is there a *prettier* event in t&f than a well-performed hammer/weight throw? Maybe a good triple jump, I suppose:

or perhaps a straddle HJ à la Brumel:

but otherwise, it's tough not to go with the hammer or weight.

Further to Princeton's meet:

Sarah Lavin 8.55 for the 60HH and 7.59 in the 60; Cecilia Barowski 1:30 in the 600; Ratcliffe's 19.58 (dayumn); Tom Hopkins, 34/300 and 7.16LJ; and Morgan Taylor, 1.75, with many, many Tigers skipping the meet.

I know Harvard has lots of talent, too, but just based on these early PU results, I'd say the rest of the Heps need to be eating their Wheaties for the next few months.

And, speaking of breakfast cereals, by a natural and easy transition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7joApY9dnw

I don't know why Harvard ran the 55m distances on Saturday, considering how they do have the 60m setup.

Wow, a new Heps record already...

The hurdles and sprints are going to be quite a showdown if all of the top contenders are in the race. I bet Piper will still in both, but who knows about Lavin. As for the hurdles, according to TFRRS:

60m hurdles:

1. Lavin - 8.55

2. Salander - 8.56 (55 convert from 7.96, but she ran 7.70 in the prelims)

3. Piper and Abbate - 8.84

Damn, I'm glad I've graduated or else I would be behind them all by at least a hurdle.

And Princeton is showing quite some marks for this early in the season. Looks like they should not have a tough transition to the new events for 2014.