HEPS Track and Field 2013-14

Thanks, C/M! Well, I just took a look at the Cornell men's entries and they are obviously serious, with some doubling (esp. hurdles/flat races) and tripling that I did not expect. They have four or five men in every jumping event, and the hurdles as well. Notable Big Red absences: Bain from the 60, Stancil LJ, Winkler WT. If I counted correctly, Cornell has 29 men in individual events, leaving space for four fresh legs on the relays.

I haven't taken a similar count of the Princeton entries, but it's hard to feature that they have many unfilled slots: they've covered all the individual events (except weight) beautifully, including one or two sandbaggers (no previous mark this season). Based on the Tigers' entries and Cornell's absences, I would not bet against Princeton at this point; those fresh Big Red relayists might be the difference in the meet. I'm predicting another down-to-the-wire affair, not far from last year's nailbiter.

Dunno whether fun. can make an analysis based on the actual entries, but it would be really, really interesting. BTW that 400 is going to be crazy: five heats, advancing eight men strictly on time!?!

HERE WE GO HEADING INTO DAY 1: Men's Projections

(NOT COUNTING 4x4; 4x8; DMR)

147.25 Cornell (7 athletes ranked 7-9)

123.25 Princeton (6 athletes ranked 7-9)

081.00 Harvard (6 athletes ranked 7-9)

033.00 Brown (6 athletes ranked 7-9)

033.00 Columbia (5 athletes ranked 7-9)

031.50 Dartmouth (8 athletes ranked 7-9)

024.00 Yale (2 athletes ranked 7-9)

023.00 Penn (3 athletes ranked 7-9)

The addition of Harvard's TJ/LJ Malclom Rodriguez didn't change much

60 | 1 | 10 | COR | 6.76 | SR | Hortelano-Roig, Bruno

60 | 2 | 08 | HAR | 6.79 | SR | Wilson, Damani

60 | 3 | 06 | COR | 6.80 | SR | Ojukwu, Kinsley

60 | 4 | 04 | HAR | 6.81 | SR | Ezekoye, Andrew

60 | 5 | 02 | COR | 6.82 | SR | McCollin, Justin

60 | 6 | 01 | PRI | 6.84 | SO | Nelson, Lavondre

60 | 7 | 00 | PRI | 6.88 | SO | Hill, John

60 | 8 | 00 | COR | 6.92 | SO | Hynes, Ryan

60 | 8 | 00 | HAR | 6.92 | FR | Uwaifo, Efe

400 | 1 | 10 | COR | 46.60 | SR | Hortelano-Roig, Bruno

400 | 2 | 08 | YAL | 47.45 | FR | Alexandre, Marc-Andre

400 | 3 | 06 | COR | 48.26 | SO | Gibson, Larry

400 | 4 | 04 | HAR | 48.53 | FR | Heckendorn, James

400 | 5 | 02 | PRI | 48.61 | JR | McCord, Daniel

400 | 6 | 01 | BRO | 48.73 | SR | Brown, Ajani

400 | 7 | 00 | BRO | 48.76 | SO | Kelly, Ryan

400 | 8 | 00 | HAR | 48.85 | SR | Kadich, Jared

400 | 9 | 00 | DAR | 48.90 | SR | Bishop, Jalil

500 | 1 | 10 | PRI | 1:02.57 | SR | Hopkins, Tom

500 | 2 | 08 | COR | 1:03.81 | JR | Olloqui, Cisco

500 | 3 | 06 | COR | 1:04.11 | SO | Hairston, Max

500 | 4 | 04 | PEN | 1:04.17 | SO | Hamlett, Tim

500 | 5 | 02 | COL | 1:04.34 | JR | Boyd, Kevin

500 | 6 | 01 | PRI | 1:04.59 | FR | Mennin, Ray

500 | 7 | 00 | COL | 1:04.69 | SR | Woode, Denzel

500 | 8 | 00 | DAR | 1:04.80 | FR | Gomez, Phil

500 | 9 | 00 | YAL | 1:04.83 | JR | Rowe, William

800 | 1 | 10 | COL | 1:48.14 | SR | McFann, Harry

800 | 2 | 08 | COR | 1:48.43 | SR | Weinlandt, Will

800 | 3 | 06 | PRI | 1:49.20 | JR | Paternostro, Bradley

800 | 4 | 04 | PEN | 1:49.62 | JR | Bekelja, Mato

800 | 5 | 02 | BRO | 1:50.29 | JR | Tufnell, Henry

800 | 6 | 01 | DAR | 1:50.40 | SR | Zirngibl, Lukas

800 | 7 | 00 | BRO | 1:50.41 | SR | Bevil, Matt

800 | 8 | 00 | COR | 1:51.37 | JR | Cho, Hong

800 | 9 | 00 | HAR | 1:51.95 | JR | Looney, Billy

1000 | 1 | 10 | BRO | 2:22.35 | SO | Willig, Ned

1000 | 2 | 08 | PRI | 2:23.78 | SO | Brahm, Luke

1000 | 3 | 06 | COL | 2:24.10 | JR | Fish, Brendon

1000 | 4 | 04 | COL | 2:24.99 | SR | Jones, Byron

1000 | 5 | 02 | BRO | 2:25.18 | SR | Savage, Colin

1000 | 6 | 01 | COL | 2:25.84 | FR | Napolitano, Rob

1000 | 7 | 00 | PRI | 2:26.11 | FR | Paulson, William

1000 | 8 | 00 | HAR | 2:26.45 | JR | Reck, Connor

1000 | 9 | 00 | COR | 2:26.50 | FR | Tedder, Mark

1609 | 1 | 10 | DAR | 3:58.04 | SR | Geoghegan, Will

1609 | 2 | 08 | YAL | 3:58.56 | SR | Shirvell, James

1609 | 3 | 06 | PRI | 3:59.63 | SR | Williams, Michael

1609 | 4 | 04 | COL | 4:00.31 | SR | Gregorek, John

1609 | 5 | 02 | DAR | 4:00.52 | SR | Mangan, Steve

1609 | 6 | 01 | DAR | 4:01.64 | SO | Gorman, Tim

1609 | 7 | 00 | COL | 4:06.87 | SR | Nestor, Daniel

1609 | 8 | 00 | COL | 4:08.14 | SR | Kotran, Joe

1609 | 9 | 00 | COL | 4:12.94 | SO | Myjer, Aubry

3K | 1 | 10 | DAR | 7:51.57 | SR | Geoghegan, Will

3K | 2 | 08 | PRI | 7:57.44 | SR | Bendtsen, Chris

3K | 3 | 06 | DAR | 7:59.33 | SR | Bleday, John

3K | 4 | 04 | COL | 8:01.01 | JR | Everett, Daniel

3K | 5 | 02 | PEN | 8:04.34 | SO | Awad, Thomas

3K | 6 | 01 | HAR | 8:05.58 | SO | Purnell, Tom

3K | 7 | 00 | PRI | 8:06.50 | JR | Pons, Sam

3K | 8 | 00 | COL | 8:10.16 | JR | Ross, Paul

3K | 9 | 00 | DAR | 8:10.74 | SO | Chapin, Joey

5K | 1 | 10 | HAR | 13:42.56 | SR | Korolev, Maksim

5K | 2 | 08 | HAR | 13:51.22 | SR | Leakos, James

5K | 3 | 06 | PRI | 13:57.46 | SR | Bendtsen, Chris

5K | 4 | 04 | PRI | 14:01.93 | SR | Udland, Tyler

5K | 5 | 02 | HAR | 14:17.75 | JR | Geiken, Will

5K | 6 | 01 | COL | 14:20.14 | SR | Sienko, Jake

5K | 7 | 00 | BRO | 14:20.95 | SR | Bush, Jeff

5K | 8 | 00 | PEN | 14:21.04 | SR | Paez, Conner

5K | 9 | 00 | DAR | 14:21.12 | JR | O'Sullivan, Dylan

60H | 1 | 10 | PRI | 7.91 | JR | Mohr, Robert

60H | 2 | 08 | COR | 7.92 | SO | Hairston, Max

60H | 3 | 06 | HAR | 8.00 | JR | Harris, Jarvis

60H | 4 | 04 | PRI | 8.10 | SO | Caldwell, Gregory

60H | 5 | 02 | PEN | 8.12 | SO | Bowers, Ben

60H | 6 | 01 | DAR | 8.33 | FR | Frye, Alex

60H | 7 | 00 | COR | 8.35 | FR | Curtis, Wynndham

60H | 8 | 00 | DAR | 8.36 | SO | Katz, Daniel

60H | 9 | 00 | COR | 8.38 | FR | Jamerson, Austin

60H | 9 | 00 | YAL | 8.38 | JR | Kemp, Daniel

HEP | 1 | 10 | BRO | 5296 | SR | Weinstock, Evan

HEP | 2 | 08 | BRO | 5199 | JR | Rhodes, Peter

HEP | 3 | 06 | PRI | 5176 | JR | Soerens, Stephen

HEP | 4 | 04 | COR | 5153 | SR | Rabbitt, Mike

HEP | 5 | 02 | COR | 5087 | FR | Jamerson, Austin

HEP | 6 | 01 | PRI | 5030 | SO | Oslin, Brian

HEP | 7 | 00 | DAR | 0 | FR | Robinson, Nico

HJ | 1 | 10 | PEN | 2.28m | SR | Reynolds, Maalik

HJ | 2 | 08 | COR | 2.27m | SR | Blair, Montez

HJ | 3 | 05 | COR | 2.16m | SO | Afadapa, Stephen

HJ | 3 | 05 | COR | 2.16m | SR | Butler, Tommy

HJ | 5 | 02 | PRI | 2.08m | SR | Jarrett, Omar

HJ | 6 | 0.25 | COR | 2.04m | FR | Mankovecky, Jozef

HJ | 6 | 0.25 | DAR | 2.04m | JR | Birck, Jeremy

HJ | 6 | 0.25 | DAR | 2.04m | FR | Frye, Alex

HJ | 6 | 0.25 | PRI | 2.04m | FR | Bledsoe, Xavier

LJ | 1 | 10 | PRI | 7.66m | SR | Hopkins, Tom

LJ | 2 | 08 | PRI | 7.55m | SR | McLean, Damon

LJ | 3 | 06 | COR | 7.54m | SR | Bell, Steven

LJ | 4 | 04 | YAL | 7.40m | SR | Lindberg, Dana

LJ | 5 | 02 | COR | 7.25m | SR | Blair, Montez

LJ | 6 | 01 | PRI | 7.23m | SO | Scinto, Jake

LJ | 7 | 00 | HAR | 7.20m | JR | Rodriguez, Malcolm

LJ | 8 | 00 | COR | 7.19m | FR | Jamerson, Austin

LJ | 9 | 00 | COR | 7.07m | SR | Rabbitt, Mike

PV | 1 | 10 | PRI | 5.25m | JR | Bragg, Adam

PV | 2 | 08 | COR | 5.17m | SR | Roach, Peter

PV | 3 | 06 | COR | 5.05m | FR | Sisserson, Grant

PV | 4 | 04 | YAL | 5.00m | SO | Sullivan, Brendan

PV | 5 | 01 | COR | 4.95m | SR | Pawlak, Steven

PV | 5 | 01 | COR | 4.95m | JR | Rayburn, Keith

PV | 5 | 01 | PRI | 4.95m | FR | Gaylord, Ben

PV | 8 | 00 | BRO | 4.90m | SR | Igelman, Sean

PV | 8 | 00 | DAR | 4.90m | SR | Cyphers, Josh

SP | 1 | 10 | COR | 20.52m | JR | Mozia, Stephen

SP | 2 | 08 | HAR | 18.51m | SR | Brode, Dustin

SP | 3 | 06 | HAR | 18.07m | JR | Glauser, Ben

SP | 4 | 04 | PRI | 17.69m | JR | Rushton, Scott

SP | 5 | 02 | HAR | 17.56m | JR | Liokumovich, Igor

SP | 6 | 01 | PEN | 17.25m | SR | Brenza, Jacob

SP | 7 | 00 | PRI | 17.04m | FR | Bell, Jared

SP | 8 | 00 | PRI | 16.80m | FR | Cook, Chris

SP | 9 | 00 | PEN | 16.71m | SO | Mattis, Sam

TJ | 1 | 10 | PRI | 15.93m | SR | McLean, Damon

TJ | 2 | 08 | HAR | 15.71m | JR | Rodriguez, Malcolm

TJ | 3 | 06 | COR | 15.58m | SR | Scott, Dan

TJ | 4 | 04 | PRI | 15.50m | JR | Owusu-Nyanteky, Nana

TJ | 5 | 02 | COR | 15.16m | SR | Bell, Steven

TJ | 6 | 01 | COR | 15.00m | FR | Plummer, Robert

TJ | 7 | 00 | HAR | 14.81m | FR | Uwaifo, Efe

TJ | 8 | 00 | PRI | 14.77m | SO | Scinto, Jake

TJ | 9 | 00 | BRO | 14.76m | SR | Padmore, Jonathan

WT | 1 | 10 | COR | 19.77m | SO | Rhodes, Bryan

WT | 2 | 08 | HAR | 19.62m | JR | Glauser, Ben

WT | 3 | 06 | COR | 19.14m | JR | Mozia, Stephen

WT | 4 | 04 | HAR | 18.62m | SR | Brode, Dustin

WT | 5 | 02 | HAR | 18.60m | FR | Whitener, Josh

WT | 6 | 01 | COL | 18.15m | SR | Dickerson, Duncan

WT | 7 | 00 | DAR | 18.10m | JR | Servino, Thomas

WT | 8 | 00 | BRO | 17.52m | SO | O'Hara, Matthew

WT | 9 | 00 | PEN | 17.01m | SO | Mattis, Sam

I know its a strong field but I would bet at least $2014 that Steve Mangan will finish higher than 5th in the mile run. The kid is an animal in the last 150 and the only thing keeping him from a 1500m championship last spring was Peter (MF?) Callahan. Now that he is taking a break from ski-poling around, he is developing into a national class miler. Look for him and Geoghegan to close hard and bring home 18 points between the two of them. And keep in mind this is all coming from a non-biased observer ;)

big green monster wrote:

I know its a strong field but I would bet at least $2014 that Steve Mangan will finish higher than 5th in the mile run. The kid is an animal in the last 150 and the only thing keeping him from a 1500m championship last spring was Peter (MF?) Callahan. Now that he is taking a break from ski-poling around, he is developing into a national class miler. Look for him and Geoghegan to close hard and bring home 18 points between the two of them. And keep in mind this is all coming from a non-biased observer ;)

From your mouth to the meet gods' ears...

Best bet for following the meet is to go to HTC, but I have to mention Mozia's shot putting. He was leading after the first three rounds, but hadn't done anything special. His first throw in the finals was 20.30, though, and he just improved from there. A 68-foot throw is serious business. It was just a genuine pleasure to see something difficult done really right.

I believe he'll be at indoor Worlds next week, throwing for Nigeria.

Did the guys on the broadcast really just confuse the Heptathlon 1000 for the DMR???

Doh... wrote:

Did the guys on the broadcast really just confuse the Heptathlon 1000 for the DMR???

It's understandable, often a 230 lb guy will be leading out the first leg of the DMR.

Congrats to Cornell men and Harvard women on defending their Heps titles. Bonus congrats to Dartmouth women on challenging Harvard for the title.

But can anyone explain yo me what happened to the Cornell women? They had the most qualifiers for Sunday and only managed 5th? I know Dartmouth really stepped up their game today, but wow.

Also, can anyone explain to me what happened in the men's 4x4? Cornell ran into Yale?

C/M Runner wrote:

Also, can anyone explain to me what happened in the men's 4x4? Cornell ran into Yale?

After he handed off, the Cornell guy ran into the leaving Yale guy and the Yale guy fell.

keeper wrote:

C/M Runner wrote:

Also, can anyone explain to me what happened in the men's 4x4? Cornell ran into Yale?

After he handed off, the Cornell guy ran into the leaving Yale guy and the Yale guy fell.

Wow - I thought that only happened in high school. Thanks for clarifying.

C/M Runner wrote:

But can anyone explain [to] me what happened to the Cornell women? They had the most qualifiers for Sunday and only managed 5th? I know Dartmouth really stepped up their game today, but wow.

I imagine the Cornell coaches would also like to know wth happened. Apparently their long sprinters did well--three of the top four in the open 400, and 3sec-plus winners in the 4x400--but very nearly everyone else underperformed.

But maybe there's no unifying factor. Sometimes things just fall apart in a perfect storm. It happens. We'll see how outdoor goes--or maybe ECAC next week, though Cornell often takes partial teams there.

Heps Diistance points:

Columbia 54

Dartmouth 37

Brown 34

Princeton 21

Harvard 21

Cornell 20

Penn 16

Yale 12

What's up with the Princeton distance squad? They had a great fall season but seemed to come up short yesterday, particularly relative to their performances at Indoor Heps in past years.

asdfj wrote:

What's up with the Princeton distance squad? They had a great fall season but seemed to come up short yesterday, particularly relative to their performances at Indoor Heps in past years.

Well, the bad pacing in the 3k really threw them off a bit. But the distance races were pretty loaded between Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Columbia. Someone was bound to come up short.

Their student newspaper did not really state any blame:

Speaking of student newspapers, I was checking out Columbia's Heps recap and I did not realize that so many of their women athletes were competing injured or ill.

Sadly, I cannot find anything in Cornell's Daily Sun.

Y'know, I really think more should have been made of the Harvard men's performance at Heps. They finished closer to Princeton than Princeton did to Cornell--and the Cornell/Princeton competition was considered a close one!

Harvard's throwers had some physical problems; otherwise, I could envision their having given Princeton a decent run--or at least having finished with a triple-digit score. (Top three final scores were 145, 117, and 95.)

Jason Saretsky has caught a lot of flak over the last few years, but it seems like he's continuing to build a pretty competitive program (for both sexes). Credit where it's due.

The Harvard's men performance at Indoor Heps was a more well-rounded one than it has been at recent Heps.

Scored in (# of scorers):

shot put (2)

pole vault (1)

hurdles (1)

60 (2)

800 (1)

5k (2)

4x4

DMR

triple jump (2)

weight throw (3)

Got 7th in the 3k, 4x800

They also had more overall Sunday final qualifiers (5 in 2014) than they did last year (4 in 2013).

Granted, Harvard got a boost in the 4x400 due to the Cornell DQ and Yale DNF.

Harvard is not just a straight up throwing school anymore :-)

They will be graduating a number of scoring seniors though this year (Korolev, Leakos, Brode, Wilson that I can list right now).

Looking ahead to ECAC/IC4A, I see--if my counting is correct--that Cornell has had 46 men and 28 women qualify for the meet in individual events. Each squad has also qualified in all three relays, so it wouldn't be a complete surprise if they added a few more for relay duty.

[But that seems more likely on the women's side--the men might again hold out some of their individual-event qualifiers and have them go fresh in relays. That seemed to work fairly well at Heps. They're seeded 13th (4x8) and 8th (DM) in the longer relays, so maybe they would hold out potential relayists whom they deemed unlikely to advance to individual-event finals.]

The men will likely have several guys hors de combat, considering injuries/illness and conflicts with other meets. Still, ~40 competing at the meet is a pretty hefty crew!

GO BIG RED!

Indoor Photo Gallery Up:

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2014/heps-indoors/index.php

Thanks to Sami Aziz for the photos

Below is a list of Ivy League athletes who qualified to compete at NCAA's. I hope I didn't leave anyone out. Good representation in the Men's Mile and High Jump.

I mainly follow the Dartmouth runners. They have Steve Mangan and Geoghegan wrongly listed as FR and JR...they are both SR's. Megan Krumpoch is seeded 5th in the 800M...her 2:04 is about a 4 second improvement over last year! She's a star in her own right; as a Sophomore she ran the 400M leg of the 3rd Place DMR @ NCAA's, last year won the Ivy 400M hurdles title and qualified for NCAA's, this year she won the 800M title @ Heps and was part of the 800M relay team that also won @ Heps. I feel I have to point her out because Abbey D' gets most of the press (rightly so).

Men 200 Meter Dash

4 Bruno Hortelano-Roig SR Cornell 20.84

Men 1 Mile Run

7 Will Geoghegan JR Dartmouth 3:58.04

11 Steve Mangan FR Dartmouth 3:58.65

13 John Gregorek SR Columbia 3:58.95

15 Michael Williams SR Princeton 3:59.21

Men 3000 Meter Run

8 Maksim Korolev SR Harvard 7:51.52

Men 5000 Meter Run

7 Maksim Korolev SR Harvard 13:42.56

Men Distance Medley

10 Columbia 9:30.72

1) John Gregorek SR 2) Harry McFann SR

3) Brendon Fish JR 4) Daniel Everett JR

5) Noah Lartigue FR 6) Kevin Boyd JR

Men High Jump

4 Montez Blair SR Cornell 2.24m

5 Maalik Reynolds SR Penn 2.24m

Men Shot Put

2 Stephen Mozia JR Cornell 20.79m

Women 800 Meter Run

5 Megan Krumpoch SR Dartmouth 2:04.13

9 Erika Veidis JR Harvard 2:05.00

Women 3000 Meter Run

1 Abbey D'Agostino SR Dartmouth 8:51.91

Women 5000 Meter Run

1 Abbey D'Agostino SR Dartmouth 15:40.55

Women Distance Medley

9 Dartmouth 11:02.21

1) Dana Giordano SO 2) Jennifer Meech SO

3) Megan Krumpoch SR 4) Abbey 'AgostinoSR

5) Elizabeth Markowitz SO 6) Margaret Donovan JR