New HEPS thread for 2009

Bump for this weekend's results?

From the Cornell website:

"ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell track teams had their first competition of 2009 Friday night at Barton Hall, hosting four other teams in the low-key Southern Tier Collegiate Open.

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"The men saw very solid efforts in the field events, led by senior Aaron Gadson, who won the triple jump in an IC4A-qualifying 47-1 1/2. Senior co-captain Erik Roneker added two more IC4A qualifiers in winning the weight throw at 57-11 while placing second in the shot put at 51-7. The Big Red also had a pair of event wins in the vertical jumps, as junior Jay Pierce won the high jump at 6-6 1/4 and classmate Jason Inzana took first in the pole vault at 14-9. A pair of freshmen took first place on the track, as Kenny McClain won the 400, leading wire-to-wire, in running 50.25 and Nick Huber took first in the 60 hurdles at 8.73. Senor Andrew Levy ran well to win the 1000 in 2:30.57 and sophomore Brian Freitas won the 800 in 1:58.83.

"The women were led by junior Natalie Gengel, who cleared 12-3 1/3 to win the pole vault and again qualify for the ECACs. The Big Red was strong in the other jumping events as well: freshman Melissa Hewitt won the long jump with a leap of 18-6 (missing ECACs by one centimeter), sophomore Kim Lienhoop won the triple jump at 37-10 and freshman Karen Schillinger took the high jump with a clearance of 4-11. Junior Kristen Rhinehardt continued to do well, winning the weight throw with a mark of 46-10 1/4 and freshman Erin Rossi won the shot put with 35-1 3/4. The Big Red also showed good strength and depth on the track, taking at least the top two places in six running events. Junior Megan Williams won the 500 with a time of 1:17.92, classmate Jess Weyman moved up to the 800 and came away with a win in 2:19.01 and another junior, Caroline Heidt, won the mile with a run of 5:23.33. A pair of seniors also placed first as Tammy Wynne narrowly missed the ECAC standard with a personal best 2:56.40 in the 1000 and Fiona Cundy won the 3000 in 10:20.86. And in the 60 hurdles, freshman Danielle Silas impressed with a first place time of 9.07."

'Twould appear that a number of the Big Red's competitors were missing:

http://cornellbigred.com/documents/2009/1/10/Southern%20Tier%20Collegiate%20Open%20Results.pdf?id=1603

Here's the results of the Navy Invite, won by Princeton.

http://www.directathletics.com/results/track/10223.html

Thanks! Princeton (men-only meet, looks like) was very competitive on the track and killer in the field events--great event coverage.

Scores: Princeton 222, Penn 100 (Fulton 800 and Carelli TJ were easy winners), VCU 86, Navy 83, American 31.

Despite its dominating win, Princeton seemed to be missing some big names...

Princeton's women competed at the Metro Invite at the NY Armory on Friday night, results below:

http://www.goprincetontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46924&SPID=4279&DB_OEM_ID=10600&ATCLID=3643564

Anybody else in action besides Cornell, Penn, and Princeton?

Ben True won the Dartmouth relays 3k in sub 8:10.

Meet summary from Dartmouth:

http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48808&SPID=4706&DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=3643789

Nice to see a meet that includes team scoring.

And Yale hosted its Classic:

http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/sports/m-track/stats/2008-2009/yalecollegiateclassic.html

What's on tap for this weekend? I know Cornell is at Penn State's relay meet tomorrow...not sure whether their distance folks will participate or not.

BRF wrote:

What's on tap for this weekend? I know Cornell is at Penn State's relay meet tomorrow...not sure whether their distance folks will participate or not.

Princeton's on exam break so no competition until last weekend.

Columbia, Dartmouth, and Yale at Yale

Brown at URI - women yesterday / men today

Penn and Cornell at Penn State

Looks like a real mixed bag for Cornell at PSU. (Same seems to be true for Penn, but I haven't paid as much attention to what they've been doing.) Some outstanding performances, including some by rookies; but also some big names absent, either literally or metaphorically. Don't know whether people might be injured, not on the team, or what.

Still early in the season. I'm looking forward to the Red's competition at the Armory on Valentine's Day...

Sorry, here's the link:

http://gopsusports.cstv.com/livestats/c-track/psuopen/index.htm

Meet summary from Cornell website:

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The Big Red was led by senior Andrew Levy's school record in the 1000, as he came from behind to win the event in 2:24.31. Levy's time was a six second PR (a mark he set last week) and is a remarkable eleven seconds better than his personal best entering the season! The 1000 was one of the best events on the day for the Big Red as all three Cornellians bettered the IC4A standard.

In addition to Levy, senior co-captain Andy Miller was fourth in 2:26.56 and junior Charlie Hatch was 8th in 2:28.54. Another strong IC4A-qualifying performance on the day came from junior Gary Jones, who made his long-awaited debut for Cornell with a second place effort of 49-5 in the triple jump. Senior Aaron Gadson also qualified for the IC4As with seventh place mark of 47-2 1/2.

A freshman broke into the all-time top 10 for Cornell: Kenny McClain was an impressive fourth in the 400, running a PR 48.70 (#9 all-time). Classmate Dan Hagberg was fifth in the 60 hurdles in 8.44, competing well in advancing to a competitive final. Senior Nate Crabtree performed well to qualify for the IC4As in the 200, running 22.19 for 6th. Crabtree later led off the 4X400 (49.6) and teamed up with junior Mike Kippins (50.8), sophomore Cody Boyd (48.8) and McClain (48.3) to run an IC4A-qualifying 3:17.61 in the 4X400, good enough for fifth place.

Cornell's other IC4A qualifiers came in the high jump as senior co-captain Garrett Huyler was fifth in 6-10 1/4 and sophomore Enbani Moore placed sixth in 6-8 1/4.

The Big Red had a number of competitive top-10 performances across the events: Boyd in the 200 (10th, 22.33 - also #8 all-time at Cornell) and 400 (9th, 49.54), Kippins in the 600 (10th, 1:23.05), junior Jason Inzana in the pole vault (3rd, 15-3), junior Damian Silverstrim in the weight throw (5th, 53-7 1/2), freshman Bob Belden in the shot put (8th, 48-8 1/2) and senior Jim Smith in the high jump (7th, 6-6 1/4).

Anybody else have info/results?

Yale Results:

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/yale/sports/m-track/auto_pdf/YDCMensResults.pdf

Thanks for the link!

Wow--really dominating performance by Yale, winning a majority of events in their triangular with Columbia and Dartmouth:

1)Yale 86 2) Dartmouth 52 3) Columbia 43

Some top individual marks from the Elis, as well. Impressive.

Did the women compete as well?

Cornell women's summary from PSU meet:

Senior Jeomi Maduka starred again, winning the triple jump in an NCAA provisional qualifying 43-6, breaking her own school record set in December. And in her first career indoor 200, Maduka ran the #3 time in school history, 24.72, to place sixth overall. In addition to Maduka's continued exploits, Cornell freshman Melissa Hewitt had a particularly impressive day, setting a meet record to win the 60 dash in a remarkable 7.46, not only a school and freshman record but an Ivy League record. Hewitt came back later in the day to set another school freshman record, placing 11th in the 200 in 24.90, also an ECAC qualifier and #5 all-time at Cornell.

The Big Red's other event winner was junior Natalie Gengel, who continued her fine season with a clearance of 12-5 1/2 in the pole vault, her third straight meet eclipsing the ECAC standard. Top performances were abundant in the long sprints with senior Erin Payne achieving a big breakthrough with a third place 1:15.20 in the 500, #9 all-time at Cornell. And in the 400, junior Jess Weyman was also third, running 56.23 which, like Payne's 500, was an ECAC qualifier. Freshman Kelsey Reimnitz, junior Megan Williams, Payne and Weyman ran an ECAC-qualifying 3:52.84 in the 4X400.

Cornell had three very good personal best performances in the 1000 as senior Megan Rae met the ECAC standard with a third place 2:56.15, sophomore Anna-Christine Scull was fourth in 2:56.42 and junior Caroline Heidt was 7th in 2:57.76. In the 800, senior Tammy Wynne was second in 2:15.71 with senior co-captain Amanda Wheat placing 7th in 2:17.40. In the 3000, senior Fiona Cundy had a big PR to place second in an ECAC qualifying 9:56.55, followed closely by junior Stephanie Pancoast, who was fifth in 10:07.82. Another nice effort came from Molly Glantz, who set a school freshman record in the 600 with a fifth-place finish of 1:34.62.