HEPS track and field--OUTDOOR 2012

high schooler drew magaha of PA dropped a solo 1:48 last night. he will be attending upenn in the fall. the time is even more impressive because he had mono this past indoor season and had to forfeit his acceptances to some big mile invitationals.

oh yeah, and he's actually been more of a miler til that time. it's a long shot because he's probably lost a lot of base due to his illness, but it'll be interesting to see if he can challenge the 4:00 barrier.

I'm not doing a scoring, but I saw from the weekend's results that, on the men's side, it looks like Cornell's slim edge over Princeton in the track events has been erased, particularly if taking into account CU's wind-aided times in the short races. Some super jumps by the Cornell crew, but again, mostly (and substantially) wind-aided. Princeton seems to be going all-out, with their decathlon debuters and McCullough in the discus, where he might have a chance of scoring at Heps.

Princeton's women are showing progress too, though this weekend's headlines went to Dartmouth (15:23 and 9:58 are no jokes). Nice to see that

http://www.tfrrs.org/lists/911.html

now has a list for the women's 3,000m!

Ivyguy wrote:

Cornell's home meet results are up:

http://cornellbigred.com/documents/2012/4/20/Cornell_v._Birmingham_v._Binghamton_Results_2012.pdf

AND

they're already up on tfrrs! Great work!

Some *huge* horizontal jumps, but with a lot of wind;

Wind aside, Cornell jumpers (and anyone who jumps at their track) tend to have big season bests at home nearly every year, which they then struggle to replicate elsewhere. I recently spoke to a Cornell alum who explained that there is usually a fair dip in height from take-off to the sand, enough to give a slight boost in the Horizontal jumps.

Watchdog wrote:

Ivyguy wrote:

Cornell's home meet results are up:

http://cornellbigred.com/documents/2012/4/20/Cornell_v._Birmingham_v._Binghamton_Results_2012.pdf

AND

they're already up on tfrrs! Great work!

Some *huge* horizontal jumps, but with a lot of wind;

Wind aside, Cornell jumpers (and anyone who jumps at their track) tend to have big season bests at home nearly every year, which they then struggle to replicate elsewhere. I recently spoke to a Cornell alum who explained that there is usually a fair dip in height from take-off to the sand, enough to give a slight boost in the Horizontal jumps.

Guess they need more sand in the pit to make up the difference.

Anywho, some weekend. And it looks like there will be a number of Ivy relays at the Penn Relays. No Dartmouth DMR, but they are attempting the 4x1500m (preview here:

) with Princeton.

Princeton men doing DMR (http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/results.aspx?en=365)

Princeton and Cornell women in 4x800 (http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/results.aspx?en=487)

Princeton and Cornell men in 4x800 (http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/results.aspx?en=489)

Full Penn Relay event listings for Ivy Leaguers are up at Hepstrack:

http://hepstrack.com/blog/2012/04/24/its-relays-week/

Princeton 4xMile and Maalik Reynolds are looking to defend their Relay titles. Do we think they can do it?

C/M Runner wrote:

Full Penn Relay event listings for Ivy Leaguers are up at Hepstrack:

http://hepstrack.com/blog/2012/04/24/its-relays-week/

Princeton 4xMile and Maalik Reynolds are looking to defend their Relay titles. Do we think they can do it?

Thanks for the link. I notice that Princeton and particularly Cornell have many more entries than most of the other Ivies. (The home team is well represented, natch.) I believe that all (or nearly all) of the Heps schools also have a "backup" meet scheduled for this weekend--are some of them making that their *major* effort, with Penn Relays just a sideline? (In any case, with Heps just another week away--some years, there's an extra weekend between--I do wonder how hard the Ivy teams are going to want to work their individual athletes.)

Anyway, to answer your question: I've seen Reynolds compete, and would not be surprised by anything he jumped. As for the 4 x mile, I consider that a crap shoot: too many teams, too much that can happen. I certainly think that an Ivy team has a chance to win...but wouldn't necessarily pick Princeton over Columbia.

Reynolds will be leaping against Blair and some top-notch HJers from Indiana, all of whom have cleared a higher height than Reynolds so far this season.

But yes, the majority of the other teams have backup meets, or pre-conference meets as some of them are called.

Princeton men win Penn DMR!

The time is surprisingly slow--I'm assuming conditions are Penn are poor--but a win's a win! Some big scalps on their belts:

http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/results.aspx?en=365

Conditions are good, just a painfully slow first 1200 of the anchor leg.

Actually, when the anchors (Cabral and Merber) got the batons, they were the leaders in the race and slowed the race WAY DOWN to essentially let all of the other teams catch up and let it be a kicker's race. Cabral had a good kick as he kept off Oklahoma and Indiana in the last 250m.

WOW on the 4 x mile!

Anyway, once this weekend's competitions are all over and uploaded to tfrrs (could be a couple days--I know that Cornell, at least, has a meet tomorrow, and some others may as well), I'll do another virtual scoring.

I've thought about it seriously, and I think I'll do the scoring with all the same caveats as previously. I realize that some splits are available from teams' Penn Relays performances, but I just won't get into that. Similarly, I still won't be concerned with undoable doubles/triples. But I'd be interested to see a "realistic entries" scoring, if someone wanted to do that!

I anticipate some major changes in the virtual scoring. Stay tuned for big re-orderings of team standings (both sexes, but esp. watch out for the women!).

Long-range forecasts suggest pleasant weather in Phil. next weekend. Wouldn't that be a nice change...

Interessting development: at 7:48am EDT Sunday 4/29, my safety program (Comodo) blocked hepstrack.com from coming up, citing links to potentially harmful viruses or something like that--anyone else getting this?

Ran both Norton and Google diagnostics on the site after seeing this and both cleared without incident. The site seems to be working fine both on the laptop and the mobile device. Feel free to email me a screen shot if it happens again.

Brett, thanks very much! It may in fact have been a momentary thing, and I'll give it a try--will get back to you if I get the same response.

Also, apologies for my misspelling "interesting" earlier.

Yep, all set. Thanks again, Brett.

Well, I see that Cornell has once again gotten its results to TFRRS right away--once the Penn results (and those of any other "fallback" meets) are uploaded, I'll get going on the virtual scoring. It's been a busy few day. 'Night, all.

Grrr. PR results still not on TFRRS (Monday morning). I'll check again at midday.

Looks like all the weekend's action is on TFRRS, including all the backup meets, except for the Penn results themselves (not trying to give those folks a hard time--Penn creates a lot of marks to wade through!).

The only Ivy at Stanford, as near as I can tell, was Adam Cotton, who ran another 3:47. That can't be what everyone was hoping for, at this point; but he's still a mighty athlete and I could easily see him making the 1,500 final at Heps and scoring.

Been told that he will be running Heps. But considering how his goal is to make the British Olympic team, he still has quite an uphill battle to get the standard... but he should be able to score at Heps.

Yeah, I'm surprised the Penn Results aren't up yet.