congrats columbia lions and coach willy wood

Tsemblis was a top guy in the state coming out of HS.

From this past weekend:

4 174 Merber, Kyle Columbia 1:48.50 1:49.74

5 169 Fish, Brendon Columbia 1:48.90 1:49.80

6 173 McFann, Harry Columbia 1:48.50 1:49.98

17 175 Tansey, Liam Columbia 1:49.90 1:51.46

21 166 Claflin, Connor Columbia 1:49.24 1:52.00

5 167 Everett, Daniel Columbia 3:42.90 3:43.80

7 170 Gregorek, John Columbia 3:45.50 3:44.26

8 164 Behnke, Adam Columbia 3:42.90 3:44.74

10 168 Feigen, Mark Columbia 3:42.80 3:45.01

Pretty impressive results yet again. Between them and Princeton the ivy league may have the deepest mid distance teams in the NCAA.

Pretty sure Everrett was like a 4:07 miler in high school.

Go Lions!

Where does Merber currently rank on the all time Ivy lists?

What is the Ivy 4x1500 and 4xmile record.

4x800?

DMR?

Wood had Merber steeple as a frosh(?) could that be his niche at Texas.

His name is Willy Wood? Really?

Yep. Willy Wood is a badass.

Great job Willy and Columbia. You are doing great. Keep it up!

According to the newest rankings on TRRS,Columbia has 5 1500m guys in the top 20 and five under 3:45.01. I don't think any other team in the country can match this to date. I am sure other team could just saying I dont think they have yet.

Fish (and Nestor, who's not listed in these results) are both CU frosh and two old Daniel Hand teammates of mine outta Madison, CT. Nestor was 4:1x (4:12?) senior year, and Fish went 1:5x (1:53?) and both I think placed pretty high at New Englands. I remember Gregorek getting some coverage from some site (LR? that new "Dyestat"?) at some point for his indoor 2mi, too. So definitely not a team built from nothing, but they've definitely been cultivated right...huge ups to the coach there.

oldtiger...

I'm an even older tiger (1996) and also went and ran at Columbia and ran for Willy. Tim has done a great job with you guys. When I was there, running 4:35/2:02 was a big deal, and breaking 4:30 and 2:00 was huge.

I hadn't really paid attention to results, and then 2 years ago noticed Fish and Nestor running crazy times, our 4x800 record was finally dropped and our 4x400 record looks like has fallen 16 years later.

Brent Roberts and myself, Mike Contopoulos, would run 15-20 miles a week during cross and track, didn't really run indoors, and a few of us would meet from time to time over the summer, but never organized. What does Tim have you guys doing now? Its good to see he likely has adapted with the times. I assume you did more mileage then we ever did... as should be the case. I wish I had run 50s and 60s in high school... can't turn back the clock, though.

rich and entitled elbowpatch wrote:

Where does Merber currently rank on the all time Ivy lists?

What is the Ivy 4x1500 and 4xmile record.

4x800?

DMR?

Wood had Merber steeple as a frosh(?) could that be his niche at Texas.

1500m time - just outside of the top 10 for all meets (#10 is 3:42.44

800m time - way outside top 10 (#10 time is 1:47.74)

Hepstrack does not have 4xmile, 4x1500, or full DMR results as a) schools don't always keep track of them, b) events aren't contested at Heps and/or c) some schools combine all DMR times into one listing and do not separate out indoors from outdoors.

4x800 top 10 from Hepstrack:

7:20.82 Dartmouth 1992 Gose, Webster, Hughes, Fidelak

7:21.27 Columbia 2009 Mark, C. Hays, Merber, Moriarty

7:21.7 Cornell 1974 Keeh, Patterson, Roach, Anatasio

7:22.16 Army 1985 Stewart, WIlliams, Taylor, Szoka

7:22.27 Dartmouth 1993 Kennedy, Brown, Webster, Gilloly

7:22.46 Princeton 1968 Gislason, Todd, Andreini, Endrikate

7:22.61 Yale 1989 Garrett, Palladino, Lesko, Johnson

7:22.64 Columbia 2007 Mark, Rathbun, Hurtault, Boylan-Pett

7:22.80 Princeton 1976 Norelli, Rice, Hedrick, Masback

7:23.09 Princeton 1991 Hastings, Burke, Jacobs, Simmons

They only started competing the 4x800 for guys at Heps in 2010.

CU Mid-d keepin' it rolling.

800m

McFann 1:49.67

Merber 1:49.74

Fish 1:49.80

Tansey 1:50.45

Claflin 1:50.52

1500m

Merber 3:42.49

Evertett 3:43.80

Gregorek 3:44.26

Behnke 3:44.67

Feigen 3:45.01

Jones 3:46.95

Any word on who the new women's distance coach will be next year? Where is Ricahrds going?

There is still the ad up on USTFCCCA, so probably no word yet.

CU Mid-d keepin' it rollin'

800m

McFann 1:48.14

Claflin 1:49.44 (FR)

Merber 1:49.74

Fish 1:49.80 (FR)

Tansey 1:50.45

1500m

Merber 3:35.59

Evertett 3:42.61 (FR)

Feigen 3:43.11

Behnke 3:43.81

Gregorek 3:44.26 / 8:53

Jones 3:45.94

rich and entitled elbowpatch wrote:

Where does Merber currently rank on the all time Ivy lists?

FIRST

What is the Ivy 4x1500 and 4xmile record.

4x800?

DMR?

Wood had Merber steeple as a frosh(?) could that be his niche at Texas.

I think this 1500/mile thing is starting to work out for Merber.

The only way we see Merber running pro next year is if he makes the 2012 OG Team. While 2012 OGs are possible Rio will be his first OGs.

Texas woll be packed with mid distance guys next year- I hope we will see a serious attack on the NCAA relay recordbook.