HEPS Track and Field 2012-13

I believe McCullough is gone for good now, so the weight title is really up for grabs... But then again, it could just be Glauser and Mozia in both the weight and shot unless someone else comes into the equation.

As for the results from last year, could be because Brett hasn't had the time to list them yet?

Hmm... I think links to the indoor rosters should be pulled together... I could try to work on that tomorrow unless someone else has the time to do it tonight.

Part 1 as the forum does not like too many links in one post (some comments but I don't have time to analyze everything so other analysis is more than welcome!):

Brown roster (men):

http://brownbears.com/sports/m-track/2012-13/roster

Brown roster (women):

http://brownbears.com/sports/w-track/2012-13/roster

Columbia release (men):

http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48365&SPID=4657&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205626986&DB_OEM_ID=9600

Columbia release (women):

http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48365&SPID=4657&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205612725&DB_OEM_ID=9600

FYI: Sharay Hale is listed as returning, hope she is healthy! Now with Cornell's Hewitt and Princeton's Moran gone due to graduation, who will her competition be? Her teammate Marvellous? I'm very curious to see the December meet results.

Cornell roster (men):

http://www.cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?path=mtrack&

Cornell roster (women):

http://www.cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?path=wtrack&

FYI: Cornell recruited a lot of women multis who have fast hurdle times, but I was surprised to not see that many declared "sprinters" in the new class. But Cornell got the #2 and #3 HS indoor pentathlon athletes from last year on their squad now.

Part 2 as the forum does not like too many links in one post (some comments but I don't have time to analyze everything so other analysis is more than welcome!):

Dartmouth roster (men) - no details on frosh yet:

http://www.dartmouthsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&SPID=4706&SPSID=48807&KEY=

Dartmouth roster (women) - some frosh details:

http://www.dartmouthsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&SPID=4701&SPSID=48782&KEY=

Harvard release (men and women):

http://gocrimson.com/sports/track/2012-13/releases/TFMW121023FreshmanClass

FYI: women got a speed frosh who has the 10th fastest HS indoor 200m time (24.37) and a faster PR

Penn roster (men) - some details on frosh:

http://www.pennathletics.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1700&SPID=542&SPSID=8699

Penn roster (women) - little details on frosh:

http://www.pennathletics.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=1700&SPID=558&SPSID=10758

FYI: Got Sam Mattis (2-time HS discus national champion) who should make the outdoor discus very interesting

Princeton release (men):

http://www.goprincetontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46878&SPID=4268&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=10600&ATCLID=205564204

Princeton release (women):

http://www.goprincetontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46923&SPID=4279&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205568959&DB_OEM_ID=10600

FYI: Men got a frosh high jumper (Jake Scinto) who is teasing the 7-0 barrier and is very talented in the both the long/triple jumps and 100m. Women have a speedy Irish hurdler (Sarah Lavin) whose bests (8.42/13.73) are among the top 3 in Ivy history. The entire sprinting new class looks very impressive on paper.

Yale release (men) - could not see times listed:

http://yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-track/2012-13/releases/20120911v2oxn3

Yale release (women):

http://yalebulldogs.com/sports/w-track/2012-13/releases/201209193zilb1

BRF wrote:

*Strangely, the women's indoor results from last year don't seem to be listed in the HTC archives--not sure why.

They are available now:

Ok, enough spamming on my end.

Much to ponder. Thanks, C/M.

Princeton's National Caliber Events: 4x4, DMR, 400, 800, Mile, 5K

4x4

46.23 JR Hopkins

46.47 SR Hollimon

46.95 SR Dinkins

49.28 FR Johnson (would have to have a great freshman year)

DMR

1:49.53/3:44.97 JR Williams

0:46.23 JR Hopkins

1:48.26 SR Dinkins

3:58.76 SR Callahan

5K

13:57.51 JR Bendtsen

Triple Jump

16.03m JR McLean

I don't see how you could bet against Princeton men to repeat: following another dominating Heps win in xc, they enter the tf season with strong--often the top--talents in most of the events. They lose something in the throws, maybe, but those events' points will be split by multiple teams.

Cornell women might be a slight preseason favorite for the Heps titles, but the increasing parity of recent years should continue: Columbia and Princeton will be serious threats, and Harvard should be on everyone's radar. In fact I think that H will be top-three at worst.

Some other others after I looked through the listings some more (sorry if there are some repeats):

- Return of Sharay Hale! With the graduations of former sprinting champions Melissa Hewitt and Eileen Moran, Hale is expected to dominate this season in the 200/400. Question is, who can keep up with her? The most likely names are her teammates Marvellous Iheukwumere and Miata Morlu, who are the defending champions in the 200m and 400m respectively. Other names to keep in mind are Cornell’s Ebolutalese Airewele (200m – 24.29), Penn’s Princess Lydia Ali, and Harvard frosh Christi Scott (200 PR – 24.22)

- Top multi-eventers from USA, Sweden are coming into the Ivies. Cornell’s roster lists the #2 and #3 HS pentathletes from 2011, Stephanie Izard and Hillary Holmes; meanwhile, Harvard boasts of the Swedish Junior National Indoor Pentathlon Champion (Martina Salander). It should be noted that these ladies are also very fast in the hurdles and sprints, so it is quite possible they will cross over in order to score more team points come Heps.

- Austin Hollimon is not on the Princeton roster (but people say that he will be eligible once the new semester begins and will likely do the 400/400H double). Neither is Conor McCullough but he is not expected back.

- Princeton frosh chasing Olympian’s record? Sarah Lavin is coming to the Ivies with a 60m hurdle best of 8.42 (which is an Irish National Junior Record), which would place her #2 all-time if she replicates that time this season. The current conference record is former-Crimson Olympian Brenda Taylor (8.33). Looks like Penn’s Gabrielle Piper has a new racing partner!

- Penn frosh Sam Mattis is a two-time high school national champion in the discus throw, but will he contend the shot put indoors? He has thrown it in the past, but it will be a challenge to score against the strong throwing corps from Cornell (Mozia, frosh Praduman Singh and Bryan Rhodes) and Harvard (Glauser, Brode, Liokumovich).

- Bruno is back! As long as everyone is healthy, expect an intense sprint final between Cornell's Bruno and Brown's John Spooney.

- Frosh could fill in the spot vacant by McCullough? Cornell got high school All-American Bryan Rhodes who has thrown 70-3 in the 25-lb weight (no evidence of him ever throwing the 35-lb implement though, so who knows on this adjustment will go). Cornell will also be training Praduman Singh the weight.

- Yale got a 16-ft Pole Vaulting frosh – Brendan Sullivan. He could definitely make a scoring impact for Yale since Princeton's Slovenski and Hynes (both jumped over 16 ft) have graduated. Harvard's Weiler still has one more year while Cornell's Roach has two.

Feel free to add on or let me know if I am making a big thing over nothing.

Thanks, Shazzuy and C/M--good input from you both!

Interesting that Harvard brought in yet another top Euro athlete (Salander). Of course, the Cantabs have had internationals for many years: H has great name recognition overseas. I certainly think the other Ivies will follow suit increasingly. Cornell has had many Canadian athletes in the past; will be interesting to see how their Welsh runner, J. Williams--who was second at 800 indoors, but missed the final outdoors--will do after taking it easy (or injured?) during cross country.

[I love how the Cornell roster simply lists her hometown as "Wales"--roughly equivalent to saying that an athlete is from Massachusetts, with no town listed.]

The multis were about the only hole in the Cornell women's roster, though they did graduate some hurdle points this year--looks like they shored up those event areas with their recruiting. But so much talent has come into the League that I really can't see the Big Red as a lock for the track titles.

And Shazzuy, you gave great input last year--happy to see it again! The Heps schools continue a fine tradition in the middle distances, but the throws really seem to be the League's current growth area--lotta points being contested out in the fields (and there are lotsa smart high school kids in those events--Ivy recruiters seem to be catching on).

I see that half the Ivies are opening the indoor season this weekend. HYP, it seems, will open the following weekend; Columbia's schedule doesn't list anything before January, though I believe they have had a serious December intrasquad meet at the Armory in years past.

Personally, I'd think it'd be hard to motivate t&f folks for the whole fall semester if there wasn't some kind of "real" competition at the end of it. As a coach I actually tried to get them *two* fall-semester competitions, even if one had to be an intrasquad; having just one meet meant--for anyone whose meet didn't go well--several weeks of "stewing" before competition resumed in later Jan--not a great motivational situation.

I think it would be hard to motivate the distance crew as they had the whole XC season, but the sprinters/hurdlers/jumpers/throwers are probably chomping at the bit to do some kind of racing. I know I was at this time when I was back in school. But with the final exams/papers now, perhaps the competition shouldn't be focus for December.

Oh well. Let's just see if anyone decides to break a conference record, like Slovenski did in the pole vault last year.

C/M Runner wrote:

Oh well. Let's just see if anyone decides to break a conference record, like Slovenski did in the pole vault last year.

Oof. A tall order--I'm having trouble thinking of a record that's particularly vulnerable (though I would have had the same trouble last year).

We can pretty well count out any longer race--the Ivies mostly (all?) seem to adhere to the "if you compete in November, you won't in December" rule--so we're talking the explosive events. One of the throws, *maybe*? I'm fairly sure the men's weight record is safe...

Entries for Cornell's meet are up:

http://cornellbigred.com/documents/2012/11/29/2012_Cornell_Relays_Entries.pdf?id=5067

I've only looked at their entries for the first few events, but I see that they have a couple entrants who don't appear on their posted rosters, including Phelan McCormack, who--if it's the same guy--was a strong 800m runner at Don Bosco Prep. (I think he was at Providence last year.) Well, I suppose Cornell needed more 800m talent ;-) (though if they truly have two 4x8 squads, minus Nick Wade, run in the mid-7:40s for their season opener on the Barton Hall track, I'll be deeply impressed).

Compiled indoor schedule for the whole league:

http://hepstrack.com/blog/2012/11/28/going-indoors/

Huh, so the Cornell roster is already out of date? Interesting...

Aha:

The Cornell T&F roster does not include some their cross country folks, as Phelan McCormack is listed on the XC roster but not on the TF roster.

http://www.cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?path=&rp_id=33395

Okay, I took a look at the rest of Cornell's entries in its meet this weekend. No sign of J. Williams, and their women's representation in the throws will be very sparse--hope all is well there.

For the men, Bruno H-R is entered in the 4x400. I did not expect that--should be interesting for all! I also notice that the Big Red will have a few people in the distances. This makes sense to me: if you've only run a couple xc races in Sept/Oct, it's not like a "short" race or two in December is likely to hurt you for the spring-semester track championships...

Cornell Relays results are up:

http://www.tfrrs.org/results/26704.html

The usual: some good, some bad, and some end-of-semester nonparticipants. For the Cornell men, most of the top marks were in the field: Mozia throwing 57+ in the WT (with teammates at 56+ and 54+) and 59 in the SP; Bell and Stancil close to 24ft in the LJ; Blair over 2.19 in HJ, with freshman Afadapa also over 7ft (2.14). BH-R broke 34 for 300m on Cornell's flat track.

For the women, frosh Hillary Holmes was credited with a 3605 pentathlon, while sister pentathlete was close to 19ft in the LJ; Dishong jumped 3.90 in the PV; etc.

The results of Brown's Alden Inv are up:

http://www.brownbears.com/sports/w-track/2012-13/files/Brown_Alden_Dec01_2012_Results.htm

Most striking were, on the women's side, solid performances in the throwing events and four sprinters under eight seconds in the 60m.

And Dartmouth opened at Northeastern's Carisella meet:

http://gonu.com/documents/2012/12/1/Jay_Carisella_Results_12-1-12.htm?id=1154

Notable for the Big Green: once again, strong marks in the women's throws. What's going on in those events this year?

Quick response after looking at Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell throws this weekend.

Men's: Mozia shows strong start in both weight and shot. Early in the season, so marks lower then last year are not surprising. Rhodes of Cornell had an excellent start as well. Moving from the 25lb to the 35lb weight is VERY daunting, and that distance is quite respectable for an early meet from a Freshman. Also nice to see Fiedler from Cornell back in action. In all honesty, not much coming from the Men's side on Dartmouth and Brown yet.

Women's: Brown again looks VERY strong. Biggest surprise for me is frosh Josephine Darpolor. I think mainly because I did not recognize her name since it is Kebbah Darpolor, but also because she threw a 2 foot PR her first meet in college. VERY impressive. Craker at 16.71, similar to Mozia of Cornell, is a good start for this early in the season. Dartmouth women show promise as well with a strong start for Liebowitz in the weight and Berg in the shot. Cornell ladies were, well, once again, I will chalk it up to being early in the year. As a side note, Deford who is unattached at the meet is a Cornell thrower, but not sure why no Imbessi.

Good start, looking for to next weekend for more openers. With all the coaching movement, it will be interesting to see who adapts quickly and who does not.