HEPS Track and Field 2012-13

Princeton was not at full strength as they were missing Sarah lavin in both the hurdles and dash, and likely many others. But a good early meet for them.

Sharay hale of Columbia was supposed to run the 500 last night at the armory but I did not see her name in the results.

Plenty of other action this weekend. Can't wait to read them all.

Cornell--billed as being at full strength, at least on the women's side--at Penn State today:

http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/c-track/stats/2012-2013/2013nittanylionchallenge.html

I haven't looked at the results yet--will make another post if I can be somewhat informative.

Okay, taking a look at the Penn State results--curiously spotty, given that three top-25 teams were billed as going to be competing, but that's the nature of these season's (or semester's) openers.

The women's results appear first, and it seems obvious that for the Big Red this was intended as a "working" meet, with much much doubling. No big news in the short sprints, but Ebolutalese ran the 400 in 55.81 (.18sec faster than last year's Heps-winning time on Cornell's flat track).

The real Cornell story has to be steeplechaser Rachel Sorna, who doubled 4:47 for the mile and 9:18 for the 3,000--the latter, I believe, a school record by several seconds, and faster than last year's winning time at Heps. This woman was already a multiple Heps medalist, but she has stepped up an entire level this year. Extremely impressive.

Otherwise, CU had several good marks/places (including some field marks and 3:47 in an all-doublers 4x400), but nothing extraordinary. Despite the talk of a full squad for this meet, there were several notable absentees.

For the Cornell men, more of the same: good competitive efforts and a fair amount of doubling, with some no-shows and only a few exceptional marks. One of those marks came from Bryan Rhodes, who threw a big 18.62 (61ft and a bit) in the weight and broke the school's venerable freshman record that dated to 1977. And Stephen Mozia, who won the shot at 59ft, threw nearly the same distance (5cm shorter) in the weight.

Steven Bell won the LJ with a big 7.35m/24-1.5 (and also TJed 14.06), and the Big Red had two men (Montez Blair and freshman Stephen Afadapa) over 7-1 in the HJ, with Blair the winner. CU had little presence in the longer races but had two men under 1:20 in the 600.

In the cold gray dawn of the morning after, some followups (mostly via the Cornell website, whose posts are often highly informative):

Afadapa's 7-1 HJ is also a freshman record. Sorna's mile was a ~24sec (!) PB; her 3,000 (the current national leader, btw) was a best by nearly half a minute.

And, of course: one likely reason why Cornell didn't have "everyone" at the meet is that they probably have limitations on travel-squad size. (I know the Ivy League has limits for cross-country.) In any case, with 80+ men and 100+ women on the roster, taking the whole gang on any trip--esp. an overnight--could be an expensive proposition.

And surely, like most of the other Ivies, the Big Red must have people who are sick (how is the flu affecting teams?) or hurt, or simply getting settled back into school at the start of a new semester.

This is the big result of the weekend:

Armory

Men Mile Run

1 Rojeras, Mikael Manhattan 4:12.98 10

2 Shurtleff, Clark PENN 4:13.36 8

3 Foye, John PENN 4:13.54 6

4 Awad, Thomas PENN 4:14.33 5

5 Palmisano, Michael Princeton 4:17.79 4

6 Callahan, Peter Princeton 4:18.19 3

7 Kelly, Brett Princeton 4:18.25 2

8 Monroe, Alex Lock Haven 4:18.86 1

Callahan is a 3:58 miler. What the hell happened there?

I thought Vig was supposed to be the mid-d guru. Bring back Dolan!!

Seriously, has he been hurt again? I would think he could do that with two weeks training.

Since the princeton guys finished all together, I'd guess it's more likely they were just doing a workout, although I don't know what the point would be.

d1 exp wrote:

Since the princeton guys finished all together, I'd guess it's more likely they were just doing a workout, although I don't know what the point would be.

I thought the same thing.

Didn't they do something like this last year as well at the Armory? They did have better competition last year...

callahan ran in flats, he was jogging

Further to the Armory results (

http://www.armorytrack.com/Meet/1442/NYRR-College-Night-at-the-Armory-I-1213

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Penn's men and women both finished an unpressed second in the team scoring, against decent competition from a dozen other schools. The UCONN women and Princeton men were easy winners.

Penn went 1-2 in the men's shot, with both over 15.50m. Not too many notable marks for the Quakers, though their 4x400 won, running 3:17, and (as mentioned above) their milers went 2-4, running 4:13-14, and they had three at 1:05.00 or faster in the 500.

For Penn's women, Charlotte Pope got close to 16 meters in the weight and Nonyerem Onyeador just missed the win in the 60m, with a good 7.69 performance. Both Penn squads showed pretty good event coverage--should be strong in dual meets.

Princeton's men--even with some of them, as mentioned, still under wraps--looked strong pretty much across the board. Tom Hopkins had another huge meet, winning the LJ with a 7.32m jump and running 48.01 to crush the field in the 400. The Tigers were unpressed in taking the first five places in the 3,000m, with times ranging from 8:07 to 8:25.

Abbey D'Agostino ran a 4:34.15 mile on the flat Dartmouth track this weekend, and won by 17 seconds. Damn! She ran a 4:38.44 on this track at the same meet last year.

http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48783&SPID=4701&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205954568&DB_OEM_ID=11600

Dartmouth men and women won the Relays titles again this year, over Northeastern, BC (men), Vermont (women) and Middlebury.

d1 exp wrote:

Since the princeton guys finished all together, I'd guess it's more likely they were just doing a workout, although I don't know what the point would be.

You princeton guys make me sick.

Penn went 2-3-4 and finished together. Were they running a workout as well?

Stop making excuses for everything.

It's even more embarrassing if they are doing workouts at meets. The Tigers lost to Navy last week because they didn't run everyone. It's rude and disrespectful to have scored meets and not try or make excuses.

Oh, and Abbey's mile time is #1 in the nation right now.

So the Ivies currently have #1 women mile, #1 women 3k, and #1 men 3k in the nation.

Is Abbey using the mile for a speed workout, or do you think she will make an attempt at a title in it on the NCAA level? I don't think they can pull off a NCAA-qualifying DMR like they did last year. Based on the times from the meet held at their track on Saturday, this is what I came up with for their respective DMR squad. Krumpoch is likely a stronger 400 runner than Meech but Krumpoch did win the 800 at the Dartmouth Relays this past Saturday.

1200 - Arianna Vailas (2:16.65 800m, indoor PR 800m 2:15.42)

400 - Jennifer Meech (58.34)

800 - Megan Krumpoch (2:16.46)

1600 - D'Agostino (4:34 mile)

Could anyone on the Dartmouth team produce a strong 1200m leg?

I could see Cornell pulling together a very strong DMR this year. Based on this year's times:

1200 - Lauren Lloyd (2:54.20 1000m, indoor 1000m PR 2:52.08)

400 - Ebolutalese Airewele (55.81)

800 - Tess Berghoff (2:16.41, indoor PR of 2:13)

1600 - Rachel Sorna (4:47 mile)

But then again, I could be way off with my thoughts.

It's not rude and disrespectful to be wise and plan your training to peak when it counts at Indoor Nationals, Outdoor Nationals, US Championships. The elite guys on Princeton's team aka Callahan, Dinkins have bigger needs than to get injured just to beat Navy in a dual meet.

Last year Cabral didnt race until 1/28/12 and only ran 8:04 in the 3K

He got 8th in the olympics I think 8th in the olympics > scoring 10 pts at the Navy Dual Meet

Giordano could be useful in the 1200 for D. She definitely wasn't herself on Sunday--possibly sick or injured?

I think at least 3 women were sick and did not race.

Interesting: I tried to check HepsTrack.com, and got a warning from my malware filter...

kibitzer wrote:

Interesting: I tried to check HepsTrack.com, and got a warning from my malware filter...

Huh, odd. I tried it both in Chrome and IE and did not have any issues of it popping open.

Although, I've been having loading problems on my iPad.

ivy league alum wrote:

You princeton guys make me sick.

Penn went 2-3-4 and finished together. Were they running a workout as well?

Stop making excuses for everything.

It's even more embarrassing if they are doing workouts at meets. The Tigers lost to Navy last week because they didn't run everyone. It's rude and disrespectful to have scored meets and not try or make excuses.

Sounds like the words of someone who posted strong marks early in the season and then choked at Heps. When another team manages to beat Princeton at Heps they can criticize how Princeton handles their early-season garbage meets.