HEPS Track and Field 2013-14

BRF wrote:

Speaking of rosters, the Cornell rosters (more so on the women's side?) need serious updating. They've got people on there who've graduated, left the team, left the university, left the country(!), etc.

Looks like their women's roster's been updated. It's been "trimmed" to only 95.

And yet they've got one or two glaring event gaps. Without those, they'd maybe be the team to beat? But as it is, I agree with other posts and think that Harvard/Dartmouth are the teams with the best chance, at least from what I've seen so far.

I *don't* agree that Dartmouth's winning would mean putting Abbey into a ton of events. Take another look at their event coverage--so far, they seem to have scoring potential in pretty much everything. Add in the rest of the distance kids...

Interesting development at Dartmouth. I'm thinking there may be some "win one for Mark" sentiment--even though he's not the head coach for t&f. We'll see how that plays out at Heps, especially at the indoor meet in Hanover.

Otherwise:

It seems that most, if not all, Ivy teams will be competing this weekend. (Columbia doesn't open until the next week, I believe.) Any thoughts?

I'd say shocking development at Dartmouth. I didn't see it coming (or if anything, it being more likely that he'd move to another university). But best of luck to him at New Balance.

As for the Dartmouth mentality, I think it could give them the push they need to make the Indoor Heps championship title a bigger reality (I don't see the outdoor one quite so much at this time).

But it looks like there will not be any changes to the Heps event lineup this year, updating previous reports.

http://hepstrack.com/blog/2014/01/09/a-day-of-change-updated/

Cornell hosted its annual January rust-buster on Friday:

http://www.tfrrs.org/results/31213.html

Predictably, not many outstanding marks to report, but there were a few highlights for the Big Red. Akpaete and Airewele ran 25.16 and 25.31, respectively, on Cornell's flat track, making them early-season leaders on the Heps women's 200 list. Three Cornell guys (Attah, Gibson, Ojukwu) were under 50 for the 400, and Zena Kolliesuah ran 57-low for the same distance.

In the field, Hillary Holmes posted a Heps-leading 5.70 LJ, and Dan Scott was over 15m in the TJ. Stephen Mozia was once again close to 19m in the shot, but the real headline came where we expect it this year: the weight. Sophomore Bryan Rhodes had a so-so series until putting it all together on his final throw, a huge 19.77 (64-10 1/2) that raised his PR by more than a meter(!). For comparison, last year's Heps was won at 19.37.

Anything interesting to report from the weekend's action?

Yale continues to be awful .....

Heps Watcher wrote:

http://www.lancertiming.com/results/winter14/dart118/index.htm

I was very interested to see that a Neer-less Columbia women's team--in its first meet, no less--could handle Dartmouth so effectively. And some of the Lions' points were "big meet" wins, too: much better than tri-meet-level performances. This team looms as a *very* serious Heps threat. (So do about four or five others, of course. We'll need a couple more weeks before Columbia might be accorded co-favorite status.)

Meanwhile, I was impressed with the Dartmouth men before this meet and am more impressed now. They have real Heps-scoring potential in a bunch of events. Threaten Cornell and Princeton? No. Beat a *bunch* of other teams? Oh, yeah.

A quick look at the Cornell results from Penn State rated a "meh." Some good, some bad--I'm not sure they have everyone back on campus yet, actually--but their women are showing they may have strength in some events that will offset their "absence" in others. I don't think their male distance runners are racing yet--I realize they may seem irrelevant to some, but I don't see how the Big Red can repeat without some kind of contribution from them.

The last time indoor Heps were at Dartmouth the Big Green showed up in a big way as well. They can certainly give Columbia a run for 3rd, especially with the diversity of their talent.

Harvard dominated over Brown at the Battle in Beantown. The Harvard women continue to show that they will be a sprints/hurdle threat on Cornell and Columbia's recent dominance. Barbian ran a 7.53, which ties her PR, while the hurdling frosh are setting new PRs while running faster than 8.80. The 200m marks are ok, low-25s, but Marvellous has always been stronger in the 200m. No real distance names at the meet, other than James Leakos in the 3k (won in 8:18).

What surprised me of the DYC results was how close it was on the women's side between Dartmouth and Yale - 56 to 52. But it looks like Dartmouth kept the athlete work load somewhat light, as there were not too many people doing more than one individual and relay.

Oh, and Cornell's 4x4 time of 3:41 is the 5th fastest in conference history.

This weekend's Princeton results are up:

http://www.tfrrs.org/results/32153.html

Not a whole lot that immediately struck the eye, except:

1. a bunch of DNCs, especially including the distance folks

2. McLean at 15.80 in the TJ

3. Ratcliffe over 19m again in the WT

4. Six women's squads in the DMR, five of whom qualified for ECACs

13:42 or so 5000 for the tall Harvard dude from Missouri .

In 2013 Cornell's Stephen Mozia put the shot 65-2 and was the world's #54 SPer with that distance. This weekend, he threw a monster

20.52m/67-4

at the Cornell Upstate Challenge. He now leads the Ivy League in the event by more than 3m/10ft! He also threw the weight 19.14m/62-9 1/2, to move to #2 on the Ivy list in that event.

Other Ivy-leading marks from the meet: Bruno Hortelano-Roig ran 21.40 for 200m on Barton Hall's flat track and Grant Sisserson, the Big Red's frosh PVer, again jumped 5.00m.

Some fast mile times by Ivy runners this weekend. James Shrivell 4:01 (Yale), Will Geoghegan 3:58 (Dartmouth) new Heps Record, Abbey D' 4:28 (Dartmouth) now tied for 3rd on the all time Collegiate list... and the mile is not even her event!

This is repeated info, but:

Here's the link to the Ivy League performance list--

http://www.tfrrs.org/lists/1150.html

Also--not that I think anyone was waiting with bated breath--I won't be coming up with any of my patented virtual-scoring tallies until some time in Feb. Here we are at the last weekend in Jan, and there are still too many people out of action.

In particular, many events have one or two outstanding marks at the top of the list, but credible "fill-in" performances (for third through sixth, say) just don't show yet. A virtual score could be not just pointless, but actively misleading. So I'll wait another week. Or two.

Actually, the last 2 days had the following -

4 new Ivy records

8 top-10 performances

In order to make the top-10 in the indoor mile, you now need to run faster than 4:00.37.

http://hepstrack.com/blog/2014/01/26/record-breaking-weekend/

Congrats to all of these athletes!

Based on his 2:22.35 win in the 1k at BU yesterday, I'm Willig to bet that Ned is running this season.

Willig Flanders Hampski wrote:

Based on his 2:22.35 win in the 1k at BU yesterday, I'm Willig to bet that Ned is running this season.

As long as he remains healthy.

C/M Runner wrote:

As long as he remains healthy.

With that same caveat...

Do you think Cornell might enter Bruno H-R in both the 60 and the 400? On Day I, the events are 15min apart, with the dash first; on Day II, the gap again is 15min, but the event order is reversed.

I've been at a high-level conference meet where a guy qualified for the finals of both the 400 and 55--with the 400 first--on Day I. On Day II, he was (predictably) last in the 55, after winning the 400; but only six men went to the final of the 55, so he scored a point and kept another team from doing so.

But they take eight to the final of the Heps dash, and score only six, right? So, if you're Cornell, do you try for both from Bruno--understanding that, if he gets into the final of the 60, the ninth guy (who doesn't make it) might be a teammate?

Anyway, it's a shame the Heps doesn't have the men's 200 (yet). A 21.40 from BHR on that track at Cornell is pretty impressive.