HEPS track and field, 2014-2015

C/M Runner wrote:

Also, I was curious on people's opinions of the webstream. Was it better than previous installments? The same? I know they used the same announcers as this past indoor stream (Dave Johnson was the actual meet announcer).

Just wondering.

Not really.

Couldn't see or hear the crowd so it seemed like it was in an empty stadium with no one too interested in it. The announcer was like the lowest-key announcer ever and didn't make it interesting. The camera shots were maybe better, but still not major network quality.

Highlight:

Ivyness wrote:

Not really.

Couldn't see or hear the crowd so it seemed like it was in an empty stadium with no one too interested in it. The announcer was like the lowest-key announcer ever and didn't make it interesting. The camera shots were maybe better, but still not major network quality.

Highlight:

http://www.ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com/princeton/video/princeton-highlights-mtrack-wins-outdoor-heps

Anyone know why the network doesn't release race videos post facto? It would seem a relatively simple straightforward request and the fans/athletes would really appreciate it.

Great link, Mary--thanks!

chaserofsteeples wrote:

Anyone know why the network doesn't release race videos post facto? It would seem a relatively simple straightforward request and the fans/athletes would really appreciate it.

You gotta pay for the live feed or the replay. They'd be giving away something they want money for.

Regional start tomorrow.Here is l list of NCAA entries by conference and school.

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/05/2015-ncaa-entries-by-conference-sec-leads-men-and-women-and-by-team-oregon-men-and-women-lead/

Conference wise, the Ivies are doing pretty good. On the men's side, they have the 9th most entries in the country. On the women's side, they have the 11th most entries .

Here's how it broke down by school.

Men

Princeton 17

Cornell 12

Penn 9

Columbia 7

Dartmouth 5

Brown 4

Harvard 4

Yale 4

Women

Harvard 14

Cornell 9

Princeton 8

Brown 6

Penn 6

Columbia 5

Dartmouth 4

Yale 4

Along similar lines:

From HTC:

"Once again, Heps averages more entries per school heading to NCAA prelims than any of the nation’s non-BCS conferences. With 14.6 qualifiers per schools, Heps is behind only the SEC (34.3), the PAC-12 (32.8), the Big XII (28.2), the Big 10 (26.6) and the ACC (21.6). Following Heps are the Mountain West (14.0), the American (13.2), the Missouri Valley (13.1) and the Mid-American (11.1)."

Also, I took a look at the qualifying tally since they went into this Preliminary Round format in 2009, the total number of Ivy qualifiers has increased.

On HTC:

2009 - 23 qualifiers (final year of Regional format)

2010 - 23 individual qualifiers (1 double); (1st year of Preliminary format)

2011 - 18 individuals (2 doubles), 1 relay qualifiers;

2012 - 21 individual undergraduates and 1 graduate qualifiers;

2013 - 27 individual undergraduates (1 double), 2 relays, and 2 graduate qualifiers (for a total of 32 entries);

2014 - 31 undergraduates (1 double) and 3 graduates qualifiers (for a total of 35 entries).

Congrats to Cornell's Rudy Winkler on gaining all-American status in the hammer throw.

To answer questions that people have had regarding Winkler's "freshman" status, given that there's no redshirting in the Ivy League--and all of the following is fourth-hand or worse, so take it with several grains of salt:

As I understand it, the Ivy League only allows four years of undergraduate education in which to complete Ivy eligibility, UNLESS a student's academic program lasts five years. What people are saying is that Winkler has a double major (in engineering, I think?) that will almost certainly take five full years to complete. (Even though engineering students routinely take 20+ credits per semester anyway.) I believe he threw in a couple of indoor meets in his first year of college, then sustained a season-ending injury. With a successful petition to the Ivy League/NCAA, that would not count as a year of competition.

Whether Cornell has *actually* petitioned for a fifth year of eligibility for him, I can't say. But I'm guessing that at least the *possibility* of a fifth year is why the media continue to speak of him as a freshman. If anyone is closer to the situation and has better info, I'm open to correction!

kibitzer wrote:

As I understand it, the Ivy League only allows four years of undergraduate education in which to complete Ivy eligibility, UNLESS a student's academic program lasts five years.

This here is the key. The Ivy League does not allow graduated students to participate, but if Winkler is in a 5-year undergraduate program it is my understanding that he can compete in that 5th year. Dartmouth has had a number of athletes do this. Student-athletes that go on to compete outside the Ivy League have already graduated from their undergraduate programs, and thus cannot use their remaining eligibility at an Ivy League institution.

Not a good meet for the Ivy league distance runners. Giordano got lapped and Awad DNFd.

What the hell happened to those two? Awad went from 2nd place to last in about a span of a lap and then dropped out and was seen slamming his fists into the ground.

I don't like seeing two Ivy stars have melt downs on the biggest stage but thats pretty much what happened.

At least the Penn dude won the discus.

ex ivy leaguer wrote:

Not a good meet for the Ivy league distance runners. Giordano got lapped and Awad DNFd.

What the hell happened to those two? Awad went from 2nd place to last in about a span of a lap and then dropped out and was seen slamming his fists into the ground.

I don't like seeing two Ivy stars have melt downs on the biggest stage but thats pretty much what happened.

At least the Penn dude won the discus.

Pons did well in the 10k. I believe 9th. Great race for him considering he didn't even score in the. 10k at heps.

Whoa-whoa-whoa! Apparently Rudy Winkler is extending his season past the NCAA meet:

http://amitytrackclub.webs.com/results-stats

At a USATF-sanctioned throwers' meet in Oregon Winkler threw 230-10. I'm not so good at imperial distances anymore, but I know that's over 70m--which I believe earns him a trip to USATF Nationals at the end of the month!

Go Big Red!