Official Heps 2016-2017 XC/TF Discussion Thread

Princeton men have a very deep freshman class

In fact, flotrack ranked Princeton men's incoming class as the number 2 distance class in the country which is pretty impressive. Will be interesting to see what Vig does with them and to see who can make an early impact at Heps

I just noticed on Harvard's XC roster that they only have one senior man and one senior woman. Though the T&F results have been strong over the past few years, admittedly with a sprints/hurdles backbone, isn't it odd to have so few Seniors within the distance team.

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runwild7 wrote:

Princeton men have a very deep freshman class

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crimsonride wrote:

I just noticed on Harvard's XC roster that they only have one senior man and one senior woman. Though the T&F results have been strong over the past few years, admittedly with a sprints/hurdles backbone, isn't it odd to have so few Seniors within the distance team.

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Just curious, what institutional restraints does Yale have?

Anyone have any early predictions for men's team results? Assuming it comes down to Penn Cornell Princeton Columbia?

Actually, now looking at last years Heps results, Yale has some very good runners left from last year's team. Wonder if they can wind up being the favorites.

Pretty quiet opening weekend.

Actually, things have been quiet on all fronts, not just cross-country. I'll admit that I haven't done a thorough search, but has *any* Ivy listed its newcomers (for t&f as well as xc) yet? I'm just not hearing the kind of (genteel) noise that I'm used to, at the beginning of a new school year...

Could this be in response to some new NCAA/Ivy rule? By now I really would have expected the Heps schools to have started crowing about their rookies.

Most of the schools did their typical incoming class announcements, which spanned from the late spring and throughout the summer.

Brown - no announcement
Columbia - http://m.gocolumbialions.com/mobile/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=211066310
Cornell - no announcement
Dartmouth - men http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48808&SPID=4706&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211019090&DB_OEM_ID=11600
Women http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48783&SPID=4701&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211019724&DB_OEM_ID=11600
Harvard - men http://gocrimson.com/sports/track/2016-17/releases/20160719ngqkww
Women http://gocrimson.com/sports/track/2016-17/releases/20160719k7xkpz
Penn - men http://www.pennathletics.com/news/mens_track_announces_class_of_2020_2016_06_27
Women http://www.pennathletics.com/news/womens_track_announces_class_of_2020_2016_06_27
Princeton - no announcement
Yale - men http://yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-track/2016-17/releases/20160803229nvv
Women http://yalebulldogs.com/sports/w-xc/2016-17/releases/20160714poa2fm

Let me know if I missed a link or two. I did all of this by cellphone.

As for rookie talk, I saw on social media that Harvard rookie Lisa Tertsch is off to the World Junior Triathlon Champs. Her bio here: http://gocrimson.com/sports/track/2016-17/bios/Womens/Tertsch_Lisa?view=bio

Pasting from Brown roster. Two state champs, one North American triathalon champ from Canada, and an Aussie who's run 1.49 and 3.53.

**Gabriel Altopp Freshman Ridgefield, Conn. / Ridgefield
Before Brown: Placed 19 at the Footlocker Cross Country Nationals ... runner-up at the New England Cross Country Championships ... Connecticut State Champion in the 3,200 meters ... New England Champion in the 3,200 meters ... New Balance Nationals Champion in the distance medley relay.
High School Bests
Mile - 4:10.04
3,000 Meter - 8:21.74
3,200 Meter - 9:02.35

**Oliver Blecher Freshman Port Hope, Ontario / Trinity College School
Before Brown: Graduated from Trinity College School in Ontario ... CAMTRI Junior North American Triathlete Champion.

**Cameron Daly Freshman Meredith, N.H. / Inter-Lakes
Before Brown: Ran cross country and track & field at Inter-Lakes High School ... New Hampshire State Cross Country Champion ... runner-up in the 1,600 meters at New Hampshire State Track & Field Championships.
High School Bests
1,600 Meter - 4:13.95

**Jack DiCintio Freshman Wyomissing, Pa. / Wyomissing
High School Bests
3,200 Meter - 9:29.18

**Roman Drabchuk Freshman Willowbrook, Ill. / Hinsdale South
Before Brown: Ran cross country and track & field at Hinsdale South High School ... placed sixth in the 1,600 meters at the 2015 Illinois State Championship ... finished third at the 2015 2A State Cross Country Championship.
High School Bests
1,600 Meter - 4:15.26
3,200 Meter - 9:18.00

**Zachary Lanigan Freshman Sydney, Australia / Sydney Grammar School
Before Brown: Graduated from the Sydney Grammar School ... third-ranked Australian Under-20 runner in the 800 meters.
High School Bests
800 - 1:49.54
1500 - 3:53.24

**Jeremy Leary Freshman San Anselmo, Calif. / Sir Francis Drake
Before Brown: Ran cross country and track & field at Sir Francis Drake High School ... placed fifth at the Division IV California State Cross Country Championships.
High School Bests
3,200 Meter - 9:25.33

**Jacob Stanton Freshman East Lansing, Mich. / East Lansing
High School Bests
3,200 Meter - 9:28.50

Link to Princeton's incoming freshmen class on the men's side. Very deep class:

http://www.goprincetontigers.com/news/2016/2/17/210688788.aspx

This link doesn't include any outdoor PRs as the incoming class was announced in February.

Cornell FINALLY announced their freshmen class... well, the men's anyways:

Men - http://cornellbigred.com/news/2016/9/14/mens-track-field-mens-track-and-field-announces-class-of-2020.aspx

The Cornell women rookies are listed on their roster:
http://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?path=wcross&

Speaking of the rookies, at least four of them are competing at the World Junior Triathlon Championships today (men at 3:30pm, women at 5:30pm, I'm guessing local time):
- Taylor Knibb (Cornell/USA) - defending world silver medallist
- Kyleigh Spearing (Cornell/USA)
- Lisa Tertsch (Harvard/Germany)
- Oliver Blecher (Brown/Canada)
There may be others but I don't know all of the rookies yet and not all of the schools will announce their entries until the meet is done (I only learned about Harvard's and Browns' through social media, while Cornell had a formal story on their athletics website).

I think the results will be posted here - http://wts.triathlon.org/results/result/undefined
You will need to select the Junior men and Junior women in the dropdown menu once those results are final.

I see that Cornell brought in an 8:59 kid. No hoopla, no hype that I could see/hear.

And that's probably a *good* thing.

yeah let a freshman be a freshman.

Yale women and Princeton men dominate at the HYP meet today. Randon from Yale win's the individual title for the men, and Harvard's Courtney Smith takes the win for the women.

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wejo wrote:


2016 is the year for the Bulldogs..

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The big surprise of the weekend had to be the Dartmouth men beating nationally ranked Providence and Arkansas in Boston.

We have a recap of that meet here:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/09/battle-beantown-no-3-providence-women-roll-unranked-dartmouth-men-upset-no-20-providence-shorthanded-no-6-arkansas/