When Columbia’s Sharay Hale missed qualifying for the final of the NCAA Championships 400-meter dash by .08 seconds on Friday night, it brought an end to the 2010 Heps indoor season and now we are looking toward the outdoor season (along with a serious-looking Peter Farrell of Princeton), which begins next weekend. Here’s a look at the schedule for the spring:
Weekend No. 1 (March 19-21)
Disney Invitational: Orlando, Fla. (Princeton)
Irvine Spring Break Invitational: Irvine, Calif. (Cornell)
Northeastern Invitational: Boston, Mass. (Brown)
Texas Southern Relays: Houston, Texas (Harvard)
Wake Forest Open: Winston-Salem, N.C. (Penn)
William & Mary Spring Break Invitational: Williamsburg, Va. (Yale)
Weekend No. 2 (March 26-28)
Stanford Invitational: Palo Alto, Calif. (Harvard, Princeton)
Titan Twilight Classic: Fullerton, Calif. (Cornell)
Raleigh Relays: Raleigh, N.C. (Dartmouth)
Central Florida Invitational: Orlando, Fla. (Harvard)
Widener Invitational: West Chester, Pa. (Penn)
Weekend No. 3 (April 2-4)
Sam Howell Invitational: Princeton, N.J. (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Yale)
Quaker Invitational: Philadelphia, Pa. (Columbia, Cornell, Penn)
UConn Invitational: Storrs, Conn. (Brown)
UNH Invitational: Durham, N.H. (Dartmouth)
Weekend No. 4 (April 9-11)
Brown Invitational: Providence, R.I. (Brown, Harvard, Yale)
Penn at Princeton with Villanova & Rutgers
Bison Outdoor Classic: Lewisburg, Pa. (Cornell, Harvard)
Dartmouth Invitational: Hanover, N.H. (Dartmouth)
Miami Elite Meet: Miami, Fla. (Columbia)
Weekend No. 5 (April 16-18)
Larry Ellis Invitational: Princeton, N.J. (Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton)
Harvard at Yale
Tom Jones Memorial Classic: Gainesville, Fla. (Brown)
Cortland Invitational: Cortland, N.Y. (Cornell)
Moravian Invitational: Bethlehem, Pa. (Cornell)
Mt. Sac Relays: Walnut, Calif. (Princeton)
Weekend No. 6 (April 22-25)
Penn Relays: Philadelphia, Pa. (all eight teams)
Brown Springtime Invitational: Providence, R.I. (Brown, Harvard)
UNH Invitational: Durham, N.H. (Dartmouth)
Big Red Invitational: Ithaca, N.Y. (Cornell)
Yale Springtime invitational: New Haven, Conn. (Harvard, Yale)
Weekend No. 7 (May 1-2)
Princeton Elite Meet: Princeton, N.J. (Brown, Columbia, Princeton)
Cornell Invitational: Ithaca, N.Y. (Cornell)
HEPS WEEKEND (May 8-9)
Weaver Stadium: Princeton, N.J.
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Easterns Weekend (May 16-17)
Weaver Stadium: Princeton, N.J.
NCAA Regionals (May 29-30)
Irwin Belk Track: Greensboro, N.C.
NCAA Championships (June 10-13)
Hayward Field: Eugene, Ore.




While you slept (well most of you anyway), Brown graduate Anna Pierce
Earlier this week, Heps Track
Princeton head men’s track and field coach Fred Samara has been named the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, his fifth such honor. Additionally, Columbia assistant coach Gavin O’Neal was named the Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year for the Northeast Region.
Once it got out that Laine’s parents, Jacques and Evelyne, were both born in Haiti, the Parkers put him in touch with Haitian officials and soon, after earning a graduate degree from UT, he was named to the national team.
“As an international representative for Haiti, I’ve been received with nothing but support and blessings. Since I’ve been in Doha actually, every new person I have met has asked about how things are in Haiti and apologized for the fact that the country has to deal with such devastation on top of the fact that things were difficult there even before the disaster. It is all pretty encouraging and heartwarming to see that people seem to care so much and have no problem expressing that empathy.”
Three Ivy Leaguers — all sophomores from Columbia University — have gotten the nod to compete at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend.
Kyle Merber, the news-making sophomore from Columbia, is at the center of an emerging mile revolution in the United States. In fact, already this year a record 18 Americans have recorded their first sub-4 mile and, at least here in Indianapolis, we have remnants of snow still on the ground.
Four of the first five runners mentioned in the USATF’s post-race coverage of the NACAC Cross Country Championships from Tobago were former Ivy League performers. Here’s the opening graphs of story (with schools replacing the city of the participant):