New HEPS thread for 2009

BillCarr wrote:

In terms of Harvard, I think everyone knew that with just an ounce of serious recruiting the team was going to improve. Coaches Wood, Lake (and Taylor ?) wouldn't have applied for the job unless they knew they would be able to awaken the sleeping bear. Nice work nonetheless - its nice to get out of the cellar.

The Harvard coaches are Jason Saresky, Jeremy Gee, Catherine Erickson, Amy Gosztyla, Matt Chisam, and Will Thomas, unless you were refering to something else entirely?

BillCarr wrote:

The website appears to be back . . . . Brett said he was making some minor changes.

Thanks for listing the Jury of Appeals. Assuming Cornell protested, then these three did not overrule the meet referee, I presume. I wonder how that conversation between the Cornell coaches and the Jury turned out. I can't imagine it not occuring without some priceless words from Harry Groves.

My information is that coach Taylor did not protest the DQ. He did however appear to be having a very heated conversation with Rojo afterwards.

Tigerfan wrote:

My information is that coach Taylor did not protest the DQ. He did however appear to be having a very heated conversation with Rojo afterwards.

Interesting how a protest was not made... A lesson to teach Wyner about sportsmanship? The DQ did not force a large swing in the points and Cornell still won the meet by more than 20 points.

Tigerfan, were you there this past weekend?

The heps is a joke - thus the non-protest.

Cornell dominates this meet easily regardless of DQs, what need is there to protest to run up the score?

Now if it were Samara...

The old guard in the Ivy league still feels that they are inherently superior and that our athletes should be held to a higher standard than those in other conferences. I have never agreed with this sentiment. There's still a lot of elitist ideals left in the ivy league. The idea of effortless amateurism is still alive and well at the heps. I guarantee that some people reading this are thinking, "damn right, thats the way it should be."

Personally, I think we should apply the same rules to the heps as any other conference meet. WOuld he of been DQd in any other D1 conference? Nope...

People do stupid stuff like this all the time. Remember Wilson at Big east? He was celebrating for the home crowd and got caught at the line. That could have just as easily of happened to Jimmy, and I've told him as much. It was a dumb thing to do. The DQ is still an absolutely disgraceful ruling.

As far as I know, Coach Taylor filed a challenge to the ruling.

Anyone have video of Willis celebrating with 150 to go in the NCAA DMR?

Even though the sprints are hardly ever talked about on this thread...did anyone see what happened to Howland from Brown during before the 100 finals? Just saw him carried off in a medical cart.

Looks like he could have scored substantial points in the 100 and 200.

sprintingivy wrote:

Even though the sprints are hardly ever talked about on this thread...did anyone see what happened to Howland from Brown during before the 100 finals? Just saw him carried off in a medical cart.

Looks like he could have scored substantial points in the 100 and 200.

Yeah I saw it up close. I was standing right there on the infield when I just happened to look up and see it about half a second before it happened. Someone was wheeling hurdles on a cart through the lanes and I think Howland was practicing a start or just doing a sprint. He likely wasn't looking up and then all of a sudden ran right into the metal cart. He banged his head on it, too. He fell to the ground and seemed very upset (obviously) and in an incredible amount of pain (obviously). He really wanted to run but the medical staff wouldn't let him. I heard from a trainer that you could see the bone in his forehead and he needed to get stitches. It was really unfortunate.

looked like it hurt wrote:

Yeah I saw it up close. I was standing right there on the infield when I just happened to look up and see it about half a second before it happened. Someone was wheeling hurdles on a cart through the lanes and I think Howland was practicing a start or just doing a sprint. He likely wasn't looking up and then all of a sudden ran right into the metal cart. He banged his head on it, too. He fell to the ground and seemed very upset (obviously) and in an incredible amount of pain (obviously). He really wanted to run but the medical staff wouldn't let him. I heard from a trainer that you could see the bone in his forehead and he needed to get stitches. It was really unfortunate.

A bad cut in his leg below the knee apparently, l was told that he needed 12 stitches.

What is the background on Brown's throws coach? It looks like 9 Brown throwers competed on the mens and womens side and seven of the nine scored. Out of the scoring they had three first place finishes and three second place.

Were these kids really good in hs or have they been developed?

She was a Division III All-American and coached at Purdue and Colgate. Been at Brown for 9 years. Recruits outside of the Northeast and develops talent very well. In general, if you track Brown's throwers, they consistently improve in college & some have dramatic improvements since high school.

Crimson/Maroon Runner wrote:

The Harvard coaches are Jason Saresky, Jeremy Gee, Catherine Erickson, Amy Gosztyla, Matt Chisam, and Will Thomas, unless you were refering to something else entirely?

He was referring to the fact that some folks who were already Ivy head coaches reportedly expressed interest in the Harvard job -- everyone knew it was a sleeping giant that would improve greatly with some targeted recruiting, as Saretsky's staff has done. This shouldn't detract from the current staff, as anyone who has been paying attention knows that Saretsky showed his recruiting chops at Columbia and Iona.

My bad for the misunderstanding. I did not know particular names of other coaches who had applied, other than the existing Harvard assistant coaches and generic things like "Brown women's head coach".

KevinM wrote:

He was referring to the fact that some folks who were already Ivy head coaches reportedly expressed interest in the Harvard job -- everyone knew it was a sleeping giant that would improve greatly with some targeted recruiting, as Saretsky's staff has done. This shouldn't detract from the current staff, as anyone who has been paying attention knows that Saretsky showed his recruiting chops at Columbia and Iona.

Along the throwing lines, the long-time field and multi-event coach, Carl Wallin, at Dartmouth is retiring at the end of this season. Details on his replacement will come sometime later this week.

http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=3736932

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So, 23 students qualified for Nationals. Seventeen automatically by placing in the top 5 at regionals, and the remaining 6 through at large selections.

HEADING TO FAYETTEVILLE

Becky Christensen, Harvard — High Jump

Sarah Cummings, Princeton — 10,000m Run

Emily Daly, Dartmouth — Hammer Throw

Adrien Dannemiller, Cornell — Steeplechase

Kate Grace, Yale — 800m Run

Sharay Hale, Columbia — 400m Dash

Ashley Higginson, Princeton — Steeplechase

Garrett Huyler, Cornell — High Jump

Craig Kinsley, Brown — Javelin Throw

Jeff Lachman, Yale — Discus Throw

Michael Maag, Princeton — 5,000m Run

Jeomi Maduka, Cornell — Long Jump & Triple Jump

Maria Matos, Cornell — Discus Throw

Jeff Moriarty, Columbia — 800m Run

Stephanie Pancoast, Cornell — Steeplechase

Alex Pessala, Princeton — Hammer Throw

Bryan Powlen, Brown — Discus Throw

Jeff Randall, Columbia — Steeplechase

Monique Roberts, Columbia — High Jump

Brynn Smith, Brown — Hammer Throw

Duane Teixeira, Cornell — Long Jump

Nico Weiler, Harvard — Pole Vault

Jimmy Wyner, Cornell — 1,500m Run

Also, for all Heps Alums, Brett Hoover of the Hepstrack.com website is gathering Heps memories for the diamond anniversary for the Heptagonal Games next spring. If you'd like to share a memory or two, his email is listed within this post:

http://hepstrack.com/2009/06/04/once-when-we-were-at-heps/

C/M Runner wrote:

Brett Hoover of the Hepstrack.com website is gathering Heps memories for the diamond anniversary for the Heptagonal Games next spring. If you'd like to share a memory or two, his email is listed within this post:

http://hepstrack.com/2009/06/04/once-when-we-were-at-heps/

Thanks for the link! I suppose that technically they aren't *Heps* memories, but I still remember a little about the earliest women's Ivy championships, which started in the 1976-7 school year. I'll try to collect my thoughts and send them along to Brett.

Meantime, if anyone has a copy of the first meet summary, could you please scan it and email it to me? It was printed in the Cornell Daily Sun--sometime in April 1977, that would have been--but unfortunately the Sun's digitization project hasn't coded that school year yet.

Fortunately, Brett was able to get me some results from the first Ivy track championship. With my memory refreshed, I sent him some reminiscences about the meet. (I'm sure he'll do a good job of punching them into shape.) It was a nice chance to remember good people like Peter Fox Smith, whose Dartmouth women took that first title.