Leung, Cabral Lead Tigers Into Nationals
The Princeton men have won the Mid-Atlantic Regional in University Park, Pa., scoring 53 points, followed by Villanova (61), Georgetown (78) and Penn State (99) as Brian Leung and Donn Cabral took fourth and fifth respectively, each with the same time of 30:11. With that performance, the Tigers will compete in the NCAA Championships in [...]
2010 Heps Cross Country
September 10 • Cornell at Army September 11 • Dartmouth & Yale at the Dartmouth Invitational • Penn at the Fordham Fiasco (Van Cortlandt Park: New York, N.Y.) • Princeton at the Spiked Shoe Invitational (University Park, Pa.) September 12 Columbia at Vermont with Lipscomb September 18 • Brown, Columbia, Harvard & Penn at the [...]
Romaniw Advances on Home Soil
Anthony Romaniw, running for and in his native Canada, has qualified to the next round of the 800-meter run at the IAAF World Juniors in Moncton, finishing fourth in his heat in 1:51.00. The rising Dartmouth sophomore was within four-tenths of a second of heat winner Pierre-Ambroise Bosse of France. American and University of Virginia [...]
A Female Bannister?
Did Cornell senior Erin Roberts achieve the unthinkable — a women’s four-minute mile?
Images of Des Moines
Pictured above is Anna Pierce, the Brown University graduate who earned the USATF national crown in the 1,500-meter run over the weekend. Click below for other photos snapped by Randy Miyazaki of Track & Field Photo Magazine.
Closing With A Furey
What an afternoon for the Ivy League at the U.S. Outdoor Nationals at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa. In a short span, Heps had four athletes earn medals in field events and two other runners finish among the top seven in a national final. One former Leaguer — Dartmouth javelin thrower Sean Furey — [...]
What Have You Done With Your Summer?
Back around Outdoor Heps time, this website had a little button on the menu that said something like, “Do you want to join an education movement?” I don’t remember the exact wording. But we were trying to enlist college students and graduates to join us for a college residential experience for more than 100 at-risk [...]
Another National Junior Champion!
You might think that sending one athlete to the World Junior Championships in Moncton, N.B., as the U.S. national champion would be enough for one Heps team. But Princeton men’s coach Fred Samara will be sending two. That’s because freshman Peter Callahan will join hammer thrower Conor McCullough after he claimed victory in the men’s [...]
Late Dash Makes Pierce A Winner
With a strong finish, Brown graduate Anna Pierce won the 1,500-meter run at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa. One of the event favorites, Shalane Flanagan of the Oregon Track Club, fell in the back straightaway on the second lap, which may have led to a slow [...]
Hammering Conor Followup
There was some level of disappointment here at HepsTrack when Princeton freshman Conor McCullough opted to sit out the NCAA Championships in May. But now, well, McCullough has vindication after smashing the American Junior record in the men’s hammer throw yesterday at the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium in Des [...]
Labosky Honored Academically
During my recent hiatus, which I shall soon explain, I missed the naming of Yale senior Chris Labosky to the 2010 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country First Team. Labosky, a third-team selection in 2009, was the lone honoree from the Ivy League and is the first Bulldog to earn first-team [...]
Halim Takes Fourth at Nats
A former Heps star, Muhammad Halim of Cornell, took fourth in the triple jump at the U.S. Track & Field Nationals in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday with a best leap of 54-2 3/4. The event was won by Kenta Bell, whose best jump measured 55-10 1/4. A pair of Ivy Leaguers qualified on to [...]
One Young Tiger Wins, Another Leads
Two Princeton freshmen won Heps champions during the academic year and now they are after national crowns. In fact, hammer thrower extraordinaire Conor McCullough [photographed by Nathan Crumpton] has already taken the title at the USATF Junior Nationals, which are being conducted simultaneously with Nationals at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. McCullough easily won the [...]
Three Hepsters Advance
The U.S. Track & Field Nationals got underway at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, late yesterday afternoon and three Ivy women qualified into the next round of their events. Former Brown Bear Anna Pierce, running for Nike, easily sailed through in the 1,500-meter run with her time of 4:11.82 serving as the second-fastest on [...]
Higginson Stars In Oregon
Princeton junior Ashley Higginson broke her own Ivy League record in the steeplechase for the second time this season, taking third at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., in a time of 9:52.73. While the race was dominated by Bridget Franek of Penn State, Higginson was in a nip-and-tuck battle with Emma [...]
Double Donn, All-American
Princeton sophomore Donn Cabral has had a speedy climb among the nation’s elite in the steeplechase and drove the point home at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., by finishing second in the event. His time of 8:38.90 was bettered only by Louisville junior Matt Hughes, who won in 8:34.18. Yet Cabral isn’t finished. Today [...]
Kinsley Takes National Title
It took 58 years for Gilbert Borjeson to relinquish the title as the last Brown Bear to win an outdoor national title in track and field as Bear junior javelin thrower Craig Kinsley unleashed a best of 250-3 at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Thursday. The throw was not just the best toss [...]
Complete NCAA Men's Championship Fields
In fewer than 24 hours, yours truly will be moving into a college dorm for the first time in 25 years. One of the odd things is that there will be four Ivy League athletes moving into the same dorm at the same time. More on that to come. In the meantime, enjoy the championship [...]
Complete NCAA Women's Championship Field
The Ivy League will be represented by 13 women at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. To take a look at the championship fields, please check out the information below:
Prelims Over; 23 Head To Eugene
After the runners in the second heat of the 1,500-meter run jogged through the first half of the race, Columbia soophomore Kyle Merber helped push the pace into the final lap and then sprinted home in a sub-55 final 400 meters to win the heat in 3:50.99. With Merber’s victory and Princeton sophomore Trevor Van [...]
Donn Doubles Down Again
UPDATED: Adds women’s steeplechase news along with discus and triple jump for the men. After the steeplechase events at the NCAA East Preliminaries were washed away last night in Greensboro, N.C., Princeton sophomore Donn Cabral woke up ready to run on Saturday. Now one of 16 Ivy Leaguers who have advanced to the NCAA Championships [...]
Kinsley: King of the Jav
Note: The men’s and women’s steeplechases, the last two events of the day, are being postponed because of weather (presumably bad weather!). UPDATE: These events will now be contested on Saturday morning. Heps athletes continued to post strong showings at the NCAA East Preliminaries at Belk Stadium in Greensboro, N.C., earning spots at the NCAA [...]
Twenty Leaguers Take Steps Toward Eugene
It was a great Day 1 at the NCAA East Preliminaries for the Ivy League as four athletes have already advanced to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., in two weeks and 16 others moved on to the national quarterfinals. That’s just one step away from heading to Oregon. Advancing out of Greensboro, N.C., tonight [...]
Nothing Like A Little Competition
In exploring the NCAA qualifying method in today’s Austin American Statesman, Randy Riggs quotes Texas A&M Coach Pat Henry as saying: “Our sport is so pure, and we’ve made it so hard. This whole thing for the last few years has been so convoluted, it makes it very difficult for people to follow and understand [...]
