The official HEPS track and field thread, 2015-2016

hortelano cornell

For what it's worth, after millrose Awad confirmed he's training for the olympic trials this summer, likely for 5k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKUGyy4AJCk

rojoo wrote:

One thing I'd like to talk about is potential Heps Olympians this summer. So if you know of anyone likely to go, please mention them.

I've already got Mozia cornell, pappas dartmouth, Furey dartmouth, (True/D'Agostino as potentials dartmouth). who else?

Ratcliffe for New Zealand (hammer)

Eke for Ghana (triple jump)

Kinsley for USA (javelin) - potential

Cabral for USA (steeplechase) - potential

McCullough for USA (hammer) - former Ivy student even though never graduated from Princeton

Mattis for USA (discus) - potential

Okwelogu for Nigeria (shot put and discus) - potential

Ihuekwumere for Nigeria (sprints) - potential

I don't think Uceny will make the cut as the USA women 1500 is loaded right now.

The affiliation of Bruno Hortelano-Roig (mentioned above) is Spain. He's their national recordholder for 200m.

Also, Dinkins (Princeton) and Daniel Thomas (Cornell) both traveled to Kenya last year for 800m training at Iten. Dinkins hopes to make the USA cut while Thomas is aiming for Mexico, both of them in the 800m.

And then there is Samyr Laine (Harvard) for Haiti in the triple jump.

Of course, you got the other American semi-pros/pros on the T&F circuit: Merber, Callahan, Stilin, Gregorek, Geoghegan, Krumpoch, Costello are the ones that immediately come to mind. I've seen Sharay Hale's name in some semipro results at the Armory as a part of club relays, while Emmaline Berg is in the local results for the shot put. I bet they will all compete at USATF in June but who knows on if they can make the Olympic cut.

I'm curious how many other 2016 grads will try for the Olympic cut, besides Awad and Mattis I mean.

That men's mile amazing

Exciting meet all around.

Congrats to Princeton and Harvard on their title defenses. Harvard rookie Thomas was almost perfect on the weekend - she did 4 individual events and the 4x4, winning three individual titles and the 4x4 relay title while finishing 7th in the triple jump. She'll have a few more years before she'll hit Maduka status. But I thought there was an event entry limit per athlete of 4... I guess I was wrong on that assumption.

Princeton men really had a near perfect Day 2 to come from behind to beat Cornell. Interesting how Cornell outearned points over Princeton in the long distance events - it shows how Princeton has become more well rounded as a team since they swept the sprinting titles and did well in the field events.

Waiting on the MVP announcements...

Princeton was also tremendous in the middle distance events. 800-1k was a surprise. Mile was good, though not on level with 8-1k.

I went back and looked at the history on the men's side. It's been since 1997 since anyone other than Princeton or Cornell won an indoor championship. WHY can't anyone compete with these two programs? Maybe it's time to bring back Army and Navy!

Congrats to all the winners, and a big shout-out to Dartmouth, finishing in the top three on both sides--shows that a "little" school can field a really competitive team (over 100 points on the women's side!).

Using cross-country style scoring, we see that Dartmouth, with its pair of thirds, scores six points, as does Harvard with a first and fifth; Princeton, with a first and fourth, scores five; and Cornell, with its pair of deuces, scores four and is the leading program in the Ivy League.

But then I think we all knew that...

Seriously, great job by the Princeton men and a real step-up for the Cornell women--I don't think many projected them for second.

I believe all of the weekend results are in TFRRS for national ranking purposes. This past weekend was the final weekend for NCAA qualification and I believe they make the qualifier announcement tomorrow. Top 16 individuals and then top 12 relays make the cut (again, I'm recalling this but feel free to correct me).

Here are the Ivies that are in the top 25 nationally in their respective events and the likelihood of them making the cut:

In the top 16 of their event/made the cut:

Cecilia Barowski (Princeton) - 800m, 3rd 2:03.24 (converted)

Thomas Awad (Penn) - mile, 6th, 3:57.03

Courtney Smith (Harvard) - 5km, 10th, 15:46.44

Kaitlin Whitehorn (Dartmouth) - HJ, 10th, 6-00 1/2 - iHeps performance

Nikki Okwelogu (Harvard) - SP, 11th, 55-09 3/4 - iHeps performance

Rudy Winkler (Harvard) - WT, 3rd, 74-10 1/2

In top 20 of event/need some people to drop to make the cut

James Gowans (Cornell) - mile, 17th, 3:58.24

Dana Giordano (Dartmouth) - 3km, 19th, 9:11.64 (converted) - iHeps performance

Natalie Schudrowitz (Brown) - 3km, 20th, 9:12.01 (converted) - iHeps performance

Austin Jamerson (Cornell) - heptathlon, 18th, 5654

In top 25 of event/unlikely to make the cut unless A LOT of people drop

Gabrielle Thomas (Harvard) - 200m, 21st, 23.37

Courtney Smith (Harvard) - 3km, 21st, 9:12.37 (converted) - iHeps performance

Efe Uwaifo (Harvard) - TJ, 25th, 52-02 3/4 - iHeps performance

O'Sha Williams (Brown) - TJ, 25th, 42-06 - iHeps performance

Adam Kelly (Princeton) - WT, 22nd, 69-00 3/4 - iHeps performance

Taylor Morgan (Princeton) - pentathlon, 25th, 4050

Mary, Harvard has a lot of good throwers, but Rudy Winkler isn't one of them...

;-)

sorry, coffee hadn't kicked in yet.

Does anyone know how to find the pictures taken at the meet? My daughter was made the podium and Id like to purchase/find a photo.

wonderingaboutphotos wrote:

Does anyone know how to find the pictures taken at the meet? My daughter was made the podium and Id like to purchase/find a photo.

Photos are slowly coming out from the meet.

It looks like Bill Shearn (Penn) has two albums up on his website:

Day 1 -

Day 2 -

I know Harvard has a volunteer - Brian Panoff - who takes photos of them but he takes his time in putting them up on facebook. I'm friends with him and I could ask if he has any podium images for a particular event if you're comfortable sharing which event on this forum.

The Ivy League usually has a photo album or two (one for each day of the competition) but they too also take their time in getting things posted.

But sometimes each school has their own mini-album if you look on their athletic website.

I've noticed a lot of photos on Twitter over the course of the weekend of podiums. Here's a shortcut link to the schools' twitter accounts.

That's what I know at this time. Hope this helps.

wonderingaboutphotos wrote:

Does anyone know how to find the pictures taken at the meet? My daughter was made the podium and Id like to purchase/find a photo.

Found another option - Sideline photos.

This was very helpful, thank you!

Flotrack has released the preliminary entries for NCAAs - final/declared won't be published until 10pm tonight as it allows coaches to confirm who will be running.

http://www.flotrack.org/event/252433-2016-ncaa-d1-indoor-championships/entries

Ivies who made the cut:

Thomas Awad (Penn) - mile, #2

James Gowans (Cornell) - mile, #9

Rob Napolitano (Columbia) - mile #16

Rudy Winkler (Cornell) - weight throw, #3

Cecilia Barowski (Princeton) - 800, #3

Frances Schmiede (Yale) - mile, #15

Courtney Smith (Harvard) - 5k, #10

Kaitlin Whitehorn (Dartmouth) - HJ, #12

Nikki Okwelogu (Harvard) - SP, #11

I didn't have Schmiede or Napolitano in my original estimation, but congrats to them!

Sam Mattis of UPenn qualified for the U.S. Trials in the discus and like Abby now just needs to hit the A standard and be top 3.