Crazy finish out of the mens 60m, coming down to a thousandth of a second tie breaker for the national champion Lamont Victorya of Lynchburg to take the lead over Oshkosh front runner Dylan Doss. 6.702 vs 6.703!
This really breaks my heart for everyone but Seth, though you can kind of see Seth realizing it's allow hollow when he walks the other way from everyone else. More proof that performance enhancing drugs aren't the short cut so many think they are.
No D3 program should invite Rowan to an xc or t&f meet while these coaches are in charge, and while SC runs for this team. Don't attend any meets at Rowan either, make them a pariah within the division.
We've got our next national champion in the Shot Put. Gage Stankiewicz of Eau Claire returns after placing 2nd in the Weight Throw yesterday, with a throw of 18.52, giving the team 10 points to push past Wash U's 19.5 points and join UWL to tie things up in third with 22 points each.
Wash U doesn't appear to have anyone entered for today's events so they'll unfortunately remain out of the top 3 teams.
Both Oshkosh and UWL's athletes missed out on advancing to the finals in the SP so no points for them here.
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Looks like we had some DQs shake up the final standings for the men's Triple Jump. 1st seed Matayo McGraw of Widener with a jump of 14.96 and 11th seed Dennis Bobbitt of Brockport with a jump of 14.74. Wonder if it's another illegal shoe situation?
UWL gets their first national champion of the meet with a jump of 15.01 from Carter Pearson (6th seed), and Rowan's Joshua Justin (5th seed) follows up behind with a jump of 14.93 to give both teams some big points. Unfortunately, UWL's second jumper Gavin Sargeant missed out from scoring some points for the team with a 9th place finish.
Looking at the Hep 60H, 2nd place Kale Hobart from Central College leads the event with a strong 8.13 for 949 points, bringing him 16 points away from current leader Jacob Balcome.
I checked out their PRs for the next two events, Pole Vault & 1000m. Balcome has the stronger PRs with 4.63m and 2:45.1 which could help him build back some ground from Hobart who has PRs of 4.30m and 2:48.5 if they both perform well.
Jacob Balcome closes out the heptathlon as our national champion from River Falls with a stellar 126 point PR for 5487 points while Hobart hangs onto second place with 5373 points.
Oshkosh picks up 4th from Charlie Nolan and 7th from Bryce Smith for 7 points out of the Hep, and UWL just misses out with Nolan Seaberg coming in 9th.
Jace Stolte of Eau Claire picks up 3rd place for 6 points to tie them up with Rowan's 28 while the TJ points seem to be delayed.
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In the women's High Jump it looks like Serena McNeilly of Centre College is our national champion with a new PR of 1.79m after taking second place last year.
Returning champion Allie Wildsmith of Coast Guard appears to have jumped 1.67m, passed at 1.70m, then failed to make it over 1.73m, while 4th through 8th places all finished with jumps of 1.70m.
Thoughts: the performance at the front had the hallmarks of what makes being a fan of this sport frustrating. The guys at the back raced cleanly and within the rules, but they also did not make it easy to lap them when the leader went by. Almost no one cheered the winner. The second place guy was treated as the winner. The race itself was definitely impacted by the winner; the top two guys went with him for two K and faded badly. It was just really sad to watch.
Coach from the school, crazy story. Widener athlete who was one seed was wearing Nike triple jump spikes that unknown to him were banned, “nova jump 2” I believe. Our coach bought them online and were listed as nova 1 which weren’t banned. The coach for the 10th seed called him out and he was dq’d. But turns out, the 10th seed was also wearing the banned shoes, so he got dq’d too! So basically, did we deserve to get banned for wearing illegal shoes, yes. But I do love the irony that the it backfired so spectacularly.
Congratulations to Rowan and NCAA on a successful first edition of the Division III Doping National Championships! May we have many more enabled by institutions doing jack sh!t.
Honorable mention goes to LR for "standing by" their reporting by bravely shutting down conversation about it.
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Coach from the school, crazy story. Widener athlete who was one seed was wearing Nike triple jump spikes that unknown to him were banned, “nova jump 2” I believe. Our coach bought them online and were listed as nova 1 which weren’t banned. The coach for the 10th seed called him out and he was dq’d. But turns out, the 10th seed was also wearing the banned shoes, so he got dq’d too! So basically, did we deserve to get banned for wearing illegal shoes, yes. But I do love the irony that the it backfired so spectacularly.
So basically, Rowan won the team title because someone’s shoes were too chunky 💀