Heps Nation — Best Fans In The U.S.?
About a week ago I received an email from Jesse Squire, who runs The Track & Field Superblog, asking for the attendance figures from the Outdoor Heps Championships in Princeton. I wasn’t there, but I looked at photos from several angles and made some reasonable deductions. If you look at the above Joe Guty photo [...]
At the Top (Eight) of the Class
I suspect that this will generate a lot of comments, because I am admitting that the following list is likely incomplete. Much of the problem arises in the fact that, while there are some compilations online, complete historical data on the NCAA Championships does not exist in any place that I can find. This is [...]
Ivy League 101
The Ivy League will send 101 student-athletes — 51 men and 50 women — to Greensboro, N.C., next weekend to compete in the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds for a shot at the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Eugene, Ore., in early June. Double outdoor champion Cornell led the way with 21 qualifiers (not [...]
Keeping To The Schedule
Later today the fields for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds Track and Field Championship will be announced and below is a schedule of events for May 27-29 at Irwin Belk Stadium on the campus of North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. The schedule is a bit strange, given that it is published with the [...]
Belated Bragging
When I worked at the Ivy League office it used to drive me crazy that the League wouldn’t be listed in the graduation rates in USA Today’s annual report. Since that report only referenced scholarship student-athletes, the Ivy League’s graduation rate was zero. What used to drive me even crazier was that the conference which [...]
Picking The Pics
Heps Track had gotten some great images from Nathan Crumpton during Heps and now he has posted more than 7,000 images on his website, which is available by clicking here. To see the posts highlighting Nathan’s work during Heps, feel free to click here, here and here. And he was at the IC4A and ECAC [...]
How Track Was, 1983
Let me open with this: If you wind up wasting time and want to lay blame on someone, email me and I will let you know the former co-worker who sent me the link to every Nintendo 8 game ever released. So yes, here is the game Track & Field (This is the real Sport!) [...]
Awaiting Word
On Friday the NCAA will release a list of competitors who have been accepted to compete at the NCAA East and West Regionals. The East Regional will take place at the Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. From the 2010 NCAA Track & Field Manual: “For each [...]
Drouin Leads Lions To Second-Place Showing
On the final day of the ECAC Championships in Princeton, N.J., five different Columbia women posted top-three individual performances as the Lions took second as a team behind only Connecticut. The star performer for the Light Blue was junior Jackie Drouin, who won the 1,500-meter run in 4:22.59. Freshman Queen Okeke was second in the [...]
Another Week, Another National Record
Conor McCullough’s American junior record in the hammer throw, which he set last week at Outdoor Heps, didn’t last long. Seven days to be precise. That’s because he broke it yet again at the IC4A Championships in Princeton, when the Tiger freshman twice hurled the implement 232-3 to win the Eastern championship by a wide [...]
Higginson Breaks 10 Minutes
It was a matter of time before Princeton junior Ashley Higginson dipped below 10 minutes in the steeplechase, given that she had run a League-record 10:04 while running completely alone back in April. Tonight she did it at the ECAC Championships on her home track at Weaver Stadium, running a meet record 9:57.50 to win [...]
Pierce Claims Minneapolis Mile
Brown graduate Anna Pierce won the women’s USA Mile Road Championship in Minneapolis, Minn., last night, finishing in 4:33.9, one second ahead of former Tennessee star Sarah Bowman. This was the fourth stop in the 2010 USA Running Circuit, a USA Track & Field road series intended to showcase, support and promote U.S. runners. For [...]
Hammer of the Week
Because it was the first finals event of Heps, it might have gone a tad overlooked by some, but not the folks at CollegeHammer.com. For they have named Princeton freshman Conor McCullough as the national hammer thrower of the week. McCullough won the Outdoor Heps hammer throw in his Heps debut, but he did so [...]
Images By Grossman, Part III
Okay, one final photo post, this time of images snapped by Dan Grossman on Championship Sunday. You can check out all of Dan’s photos at Maple Leaf Photos online. Many images after the jump.
The Smoking Gun
One last tidbit on Ariel Wright’s missing shoe, which we detailed yesterday. Her mother found the photo which shows Ariel’s shoe coming off. Thanks to the timestamp on Dan Grossman’s camera, we know that she ran a little more than five minutes without the shoe, covering about 1,500 meters with a bare right foot. Impressive. [...]
Drive Time Traffic Report
Not only has HepsTrack.com already had — by May 11 — more visits than it did in all of 2009, it has received a whopping 100,000 vists in the first 11 days of May. It is with extremely gratitude that we thank all those who have visited as well as those who have pointed them [...]
Making A Long Race Longer
Take a look at this photo and see if you spot anything unusual. Photographer Dan Grossman took note and you can see what he saw after the jump.
Images By Grossman, Part II
Dan Grossman makes it a point to shoot every athlete. And nearly everyone in the stands at Heps. He has been doing this with his wife Dana for several years now and I am putting up two pages of his photos tonight. By mid-week the Grossmans will have thousands of images online at Maple Leaf [...]
Images By Grossman
Dan Grossman makes it a point to shoot every athlete. And nearly everyone in the stands at Heps. He has been doing this with his wife Dana for several years now and I am putting up two pages of his photos tonight. By mid-week the Grossmans will have thousands of images online at Maple Leaf [...]
Images By Guty
Well. The pics just keep coming. These are from Joe Guty of the Dillsburg Banner, whose daughter Erin is a freshman sprinter at Princeton. And she was a member of the Tigers’ 4×100-meter squad. We are so fortunate to have such a terrific following that helps us like this. Enjoy!
Images By Crumpton, Part III
HepsTrack.com was both lucky and pleased to find out that former Princeton long jumper Nathan Crumpton taking great photos at Outdoor Heps. We were even luckier and more pleased to find him willing to share a selection of his photos here at HepsTrack. Click here for his first installment and click here for Part II. [...]
Images By Crumpton, Part II
Yesterday HepsTrack was very happy to load some images snapped by former Princeton long jumper Nathan Crumpton and today we have even more. Nathan wrote, “In total, I took nearly 8,000 photos of the meet. I’ll be spending some time sorting through them and will hopefully have them posted online at a location to be [...]
2010 Women's Outdoor Track All-Ivy
Wesley Harris of the Ivy League has done the legwork here and we are taking it directly from home office. The Ivy League determines its All-Ivy teams based solely upon performance at the Heptagonals Championships in Princeton, N.J., on May 8-9. The event winners also earn first-team All-Ivy status with the runners up taking a [...]
2010 Men's Outdoor Track All-Ivy
Wesley Harris of the Ivy League has done the legwork here and we are taking it directly from home office. The Ivy League determines its All-Ivy teams based solely upon performance at the Heptagonals Championships in Princeton, N.J., on May 8-9. The event winners also earn first-team All-Ivy status with the runners up taking a [...]
