The race, the 33rd running of the Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race, is also doubling as the $40,000 Championship in the 2010 USA Running Circuit.

The person responsible for coordinating the elite fields, John Tolbert, warns that a cool day in New Haven could result in American records. The Ivy Leaguers set to compete are Cornell’s Zac Hine (pictured in his LetsRun.com gear) and Brown’s Patrick Tarpy for the men and Columbia’s Loretta Kilmer and Princeton’s Reilly Kiernan for the women.

Hine and Tarpy were 13th and 14th in this event.

To watch the event live on Monday morning, please click here.

In addition to our typical summer duties, we decided that we had enough time and enough staff to do something outlandish. We set out to research and document every Ivy Leaguer who had competed in the Olympic Games. And it would be no small task.

For some schools we had a pretty good list from which to begin, but we had to verify each name, pull out those who didn’t belong and add those who did. So Eddy Lentz, Tyson Hubbard, Jay Bavishi, Ben Samara, Chanel Latimer and myself went to work. First up, defining the Ivy League Olympian.

We quickly decided that coaches, faculty and staff wouldn’t count. Then we began to weed out graduate students, because we felt it would be impossible to track. So the definition was narrowed to this: To be an Ivy Olympian, you had to have gone to the school as an undergraduate. You didn’t have to compete as an intercollegiate athlete. In fact, your Olympic experience could have come as a high schooler or after you had graduated. Just attended an Ivy school as an undergraduate and compete in the Games at some point.

While that cut a number of people from the rolls, we were still able to find more than 800 such athletes, including more than 50 who would compete in the Athens Games that summer.

But one of the names we had to leave off the list was David Berger, a weightlifter who had earned both master’s and law degrees from Columbia University, but had gone to Tulane University as an undergraduate, collecting his psychology degree in 1966.

While he was enrolled at Columbia, the Cleveland native had an impressive showing at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1968. The following year he won the middleweight division at both the U.S. Junior National Championships and the Maccabiah Games. Note that the Junior National Championships was not related to age, but a contest for athletes who had never claimed a national title.

A dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, Berger joined a sports club in Tel Aviv and began preparing to practice law in Israel. He was scheduled to begin Israeli military service after the 1972 Munich Games, where he had on a spot as a weightlifter.

He competed on Sept. 2, 1972, but was eliminated in an early round. He hadn’t expected to win a medal, instead considered participating in the ideals of peace and brotherhood to be his goal.

Thirty-eight years ago today, Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village in Munich and took the Israeli team members — Berger included — hostage. Wrestling Coach Moshe Weinberg was murdered in the Village takeover. Yale grad and Olympic champion Frank Shorter was awakened by the initial gunfire as he slept on a balcony about a football field away. Read his account here.

The remaining hostages were taken to the Furstenfeldbruck airbase outside of Munich, where German officials horribly botched the rescue attempt. ABC’s Jim McKay would later write, “I realized in the end, I am going to be the person who is going to tell David Berger’s family whether he is alive or dead.”

He would do it with three famous words — “They’re all gone.”

But never forgotten.

“I remember Rome 1960 as clear as day. Bo was going into the Olympics injured and he gave it his all in the second round and took the lead (8.03m). I had my winning jump in the third round (8.12m) and it seemed like Bo had all but given up. It was like he was gonna settle for silver because of his injury.

“But Manfred Steinbach and Igor Ter-Ovanesian both had big jumps in the last round and now Bo found himself barely in third. His adrenaline kicked in and he was fired up. He came flying down the runaway and hit a perfect takeoff. When he landed, the measuring judge turned to me and said ’21.’ I turned to Bo and said, ‘You just tied the world record.’ But what it really was was 8.11, a centimeter behind me.”

Then it happened:

“He punched me in the stomach,” said Boston, who would win medals at two more Olympics and break the American long jump record seven times. “It was a good punch, too. It wasn’t malicious or anything. We had become good friends.”

Fifty years ago today.

As harriers navigate the Chinquapin Ridge Country Club route, they will pass five men — Don Lash, Jim Ryun, Billy Mills, Steve Prefontaine and Bob Kennedy — and one woman. Just about a half-mile in, after passing through the Kennedy Loop, they will turn onto the Lynn Jennings straight. After passing the silhouette of the former Princeton great and three-time world cross champion, the runners will confront a tough hairpin turn en route to the section named for Ryun. After that the course finishes with Pre’s trail.

I just think it’s cool when people innovatively incorporate history, especially when it relates to Heps. And remember, Jennings is the only Ivy female to ever win an Olympic medal in track and field, taking bronze in the 10,000-meter run in Barcelona in 1992.

A native of Barrie, Ont., and now running for British Columbia Athletics, Maludzinski had posted a career-best 4:16.45 at the Vancouver Sun Harry Jerome Track Classic in July. While video of the final is not online, please check out the video below for her performance in the semifinal.

Hat tip to Mary Boggs for alerting and then reminding me to post this!

On the men’s side, the Tigers were edged by Cal Poly for the final spot in the top 30 with only two Mid-Atlantic teams — Georgetown and Villanova — in front of them. Additionally among the men, all six teams in the Northeast are ranked among the top 10 in the geographic region. Coming in at fourth, the Columbia Lions are the top-rated Ivy squad in the Northeast, followed by Conell and Dartmouth.

The Harvard women — also ranked fourth in the Northeast — are the top-ranked Heps squad in the region with Columbia and Cornell following behind.

The cross country season gets underway in less than two weeks with Cornell visiting Army, Dartmouth hosting Yale and others at its invitational, Penn at the Fordham Fiasco in Van Cortlandt Park, Princeton at Penn State’s Spiked Shoe Invitational and Columbia visiting Vermont.

So here is the story about how I came to sit with the family of Fritz Pollard, just a few feet away from the stage, at the 2005 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio.

When I joined the League front office in 2000, I was excited that Executive Director Jeff Orleans had initiated an annual black history month celebration and I was determined to expand it and deliver it to a wider audience. With the web, the second part wasn’t terribly difficult, but the research and reporting seemed to never end.

It took me four years to finally focus on Fritz Pollard, the man who might have won a Heisman Trophy when he was at Brown University (if the trophy then existed) and then became the first black player, first black quarterback and first black head coach in the NFL.

I had seen a photo of an aging Pollard receiving his College Football Hall of Fame plaque, so I wanted to dutifully report the year that he had been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The problem? He had never been inducted into the Canton shrine. Being football’s Jackie Robinson hadn’t been enough. Being, with Jim Thorpe, the biggest draw in the game hadn’t been enough. Being a trailblazing coach? Not enough.

That stuck in my crawl. My feature turned from a fluffy piece on Pollard to an indictment of the NFL and its Hall of Fame. I registered “FritzPollard.com” and commissioned my friend Dipen Shah to build, nearly pro-bono, a nice website with the photos and content I had gathered. I then emailed every NFL team, a ton of media and several Hall of Famers. I sent the website to the selection committee.

Then, in the middle of the season, I got a phone call from Indianapolis Colts Coach Tony Dungy. We chatted for a few minutes and he thanked me for putting a spotlight on Pollard and pledged to get involved in the effort. Then came an email from Kellen Winslow, the father, who told me that he was going to work his contacts. Brown Athletic Director Dave Roach shifted his interest to the Pollard cause as well and we discussed tactics a number of times.

Buoyed by that response, I decided to continue my awareness campaign with the selection committee. In fact, I had a friend on the committee whom I convinced to push for Pollard. So as the selection committee met in Miami before the Super Bowl, I got a call from my insider. “I hope you are watching ESPN News,” he told me. Of course, I was.

When the 2005 induction class was announced, Fritz Pollard was finally named. Sitting in an apartment in the middle of New Jersey, I had to fight back tears. For me, a wrong finally became a right.

Calls came in from all over, including one from Fritz Pollard III. Many thanked me and credited my efforts, yet all I had done was written a story, sent some emails, made some phone calls and put up a website.

Fritz Pollard had done all the hard work. As had John Carroll, who had written Pollard’s biography in 1998. I had just jumped on a moving train and helped it speed up a little.

Nonetheless, the folks at Brown invited me to join them at the ceremony, picking up the hotel and the tickets, and I had a memorable (and hot) weekend in Canton with current AD Michael Goldberger and his son Kevin.

Invited to the Canton Marriott for the Pollard post-induction party that evening, I was initially surprised at the turnout. That’s because I’d wandered into Steve Young’s party. The Pollard affair was in the basement.

That’s where I joined a crowd of about 100 folks — including Winslow, Art Shell, Paul Tagliabue, Paul Warfield and Brown’s own Steve Jordan — to share some drinks, some food and some justice.

Young’s retirement caps a career that has been marked by many significant accomplishments. Since returning to his alma mater as a coach in 1980, Young has led Yale to six Heptagonal Championships and four top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships in women’s cross country. The Bulldogs have also won four ECAC titles under Young’s guidance. The director position that now bears his name was endowed in his honor in 2008.

“I am extremely proud of what we have been able to accomplish here at Yale during my tenure, and would like to thank all of the individuals who have been a part of it,” Young said. “We have demonstrated that student-athletes can achieve at the highest levels of their sport while simultaneously striving for academic excellence. Having worked with Dave Shoehalter for 17 years I am thrilled that he will take on the role of director when I retire, because that ensures continuity to that overall philosophy.”

Young was the national Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1987, when he led Yale to a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships — the best finish ever for an Ivy League women’s team. He also earned District I Cross Country Coach of the Year honors for the third straight time that season. In track and field Young was named NCAA District I Outdoor Track Coach of the Year in 1987, when Yale won the outdoor Heptagonal Championship and finished second indoors.

For the full story on Yale’s website, please click here.

His victory in the Taklamakan Desert wasn’t LaHaie’s first such title. Last year he claimed victory in the six-day, 250-kilometer Gobi March, considered to be one of the top endurance competitions on the planet.

His recent win — in 11 hours and 20 minutes — was his toughest one. “It was actually one of the more difficult course I have encountered,” he wrote on his blog. “Tons of soft sand which slowly drained the energy in your legs with every step.”

Yet he literally dusted the field by nearly three hours while only six of the 35 finishers clocked a time of fewer than 20 hours! Here are the results.

He described the finish to Marco Werman on NPR:

“The floodlights that light up the finish line had gone off because the generator ran out of gas. So all of a sudden I just came over this sandy dune and there it was like 20 feet in front of me. And the only person there was our race organizer who I know. So she welcomed me in and it’s like 15 to 20 minutes of exhilaration followed by your body sort of goes into shock a little bit afterwards. Freezing cold and I started cramping up a little bit. So then I go into my recovery process which is just drinks tons of water and eat food.”

How about 15 days of sleep?

Big hat tip to Mary Boggs for these stories as another Cantab — Erin Sprague — set out to become the youngest person to run seven marathons on seven continents. Here she is on the Today Show in 2008.

One story was kinda cute and fluffy, when in 2007 Delilah DiCrescenzo’s life was turned upside-down by the Plain White T’s. The song “Hey There Delilah” caused a stir that summer and I wound up taking numerous calls, including one from Stern Magazine in Germany looking for a photo of the Columbia steeplechaser, who is now an assistant coach at her alma mater.

The other was strange. In 2002, Ashanti broke on to the international stage, scoring eight Billboard awards and two American Music Awards with her self-titled debut album (which featured the hit Foolish). A triple jumper from Glen Cove, N.Y., Ashanti Douglas had drawn mild interest from the Princeton coaching staff. But when her fame hit, I was suddenly fielding calls about her spurning an athletic scholarship offer from the Tigers.

Aside from the obvious lack of athletic scholarships at Princeton, it took Coach Peter Farrell some bit of coaxing to remember Ashanti the athlete. When I would hear Ashanti’s name, I would wonder where the press got the story, if indeed someone had exaggerated her bio.

Well, recently someone sent me a link to an old story on ESPN.com when the movie John Tucker Must Die, which featured Ashanti, was released. Turns out, the singer herself was pushing the story, telling interviewer Miki Turner, “I got two (track) scholarships, one to Princeton and one to Hampton.”

Spurning those “offers,” she instead signed on with Murder, Inc., but that “scholarship” was revoked last year.

Just another strange tale of Heps Track.

And one thing we’d like to do is establish a connection with a content-rich Twitter account from each of the eight schools. If you take a look at our refurbished Twitter page, you will see that we have started a list, where people can get up-to-date data from each school. The only thing is, we need some committed tweeters. Right now it seems that only Princeton has an active Twitter account. Brown and Columbia have accounts, but neither has posted in months.

We’d like to replace those with someone who can create an account and provide tweet updates during meets, etc. If you have started such an account, please let us know! And we’ll be back soon with a new look on HepsTrack.

Confession time. Right before Outdoor Heps, I was running a series on Heps’ most unbreakable records. Things got really busy and I never finished it. Then I just ignored it, like it never happened. I had 10 of the 12 done, but never wrote about high-jumping legends Dora Gyorffy of Harvard and Tora Harris of Princeton. So…. now that I discovered the polling feature on here, I opt to give you the final say.

By the way, that’s Tora in the middle in this photo. I was on hand in 2002 to watch him as a storm was rapidly approaching Outdoor Heps in Annapolis. Word came to me that a timers’ cable was laying inside of Tora’s approach path, so I wandered over to see for myself. It was true, but I didn’t want to disrupt his preparations. I was in discussion with the timer, pointing to the cord, when Tora walked passed and said, “It’s fine.” About 20 seconds later he cleared 7-7. So I vote for that!

September 10

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 Iona Meet of Champions (Van Cortlandt Park: New York, N.Y.)
• Cornell at the Colgate Invitational
• Yale at the Quinnipiac Invitational

September 24
• Harvard at Yale

September 25
• Penn at the Delaware Invitational

October 1
• Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn & Princeton at the Paul Short Invitational (Bethlehem, Pa.)

October 2
• Harvard & Princeton at the Wisconsin Adidas invitational
• Dartmouth at the Keene (N.H.) Invitational

October 8
• Columbia at the Metropolitan Championships (Van Cortlandt Park: New York, N.Y.)

October 9
• Brown, Dartmouth & Yale at the New England Championships (Franklin Park: Boston, Mass.)

October 16
• Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard & Princeton at the NCAA Pre-Nationals (LaVern Gibson Course: Terre Haute, Ind.)
• Cornell, Penn & Yale at the National Invitational (University Park, Pa.)
• Brown & Harvard at the inaugural Rothenberg Race (Goddard State Park: Warwick, R.I.)

October 22
• Cornell hosts the Reif Memorial Run

October 23
• Yale at the Central Connecticut State Mini Meet

October 24
• Dartmouth & Harvard at the Mayor’s Cup (Franklin Park: Boston, Mass.)

October 29
••• Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (Van Cortlandt Park: New York, N.Y.)

November 13
• NCAA Northeast Regional Championships (Madison, Conn.)
• NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships (University Park, Pa.)

November 20
• IC4A/ECAC Championships (Van Cortlandt Park: New York, N.Y.)

November 22
• NCAA Championships (LaVern Gibson Course: Terre Haute, Ind.)

Get this, you are more educated than MENSA’s audience and wealthier than that of Forbes. In fact, this website’s visitors beat every site I looked at in things like percentage of college attendees, grad school attendees, those making $60,000 a year and those making $100k. And you are also younger than the audiences of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and even ESPN.

Here’s what I did. For the education and income measures, I removed the visitors who were below legal age and adjusted the percentages to reflect ‘of-age’ visitors and then compared them with ‘of-age’ visitors to other websites. You will see a table below that shows the comparison.

Here are some facts. More than 60 percent of the visits to this website come from regular visitors (which stacks up very favorably with other similar websites). For those of you who are 18 or older, eight-in-nine have been to college and nearly one-half of you haul in $100,000 annually. Very close to half of you are men (53 percent) and below the age of 35 (52 percent). A whopping 21 percent of you aren’t yet 18.

I look at other websites with similar traffic and weaker demographic data — like the Hockey Journal, the Baja Times and the Laguna Journal — and realize monetizing the site remains a viable option. So if you want to throw money my way, I will listen! Email me.

Key — College (College attendee), Grad (Graduate school attendee), >$60 (Making more than $60,000), >$100 (Making more than $100,000), < 35 (Under 35 years old)

* By the way, if you have no clue about the title of this post, click here.

Seven-time Heps champion and former NCAA All-American Tuan Wreh, who graduated from Penn in 2002, took sixth in the triple jump at the All Africa Games in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 31. His best leap — 53-0 3/4 — came in the face of a strong wind (+3.80 meters per second).

Wreh has been a long-time representative of Liberia, competing for the nation in three African Outdoor Championships since graduation.

I found it on the new website for the Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy, a non-profit organization begun in 2009 to sustain and enhance the park. The 3,000-seat Stadium itself was a development project of the Works Progress Administration following the Great Depression. The 1939 opening ceremonies of the Stadium were overseen by then-NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

As I further explored the Conservancy’s website, I discovered that Yale standout and former world recordholder Wendell Mottley is a member of the board of directors for the organization. Fellow Olympian and Ivy League Meredith Rainey Valmon featured Mottley a few years ago in the League’s 50th anniversary celebration.

So I called Margot Perron, the administrator of Van Cortlandt Park, to talk about the Stadium and the Park’s initiatives. The track was resurfaced about 10 years ago and a new synthetic turf infield was installed just last year. But the 71-year-old grandstand is in desperate need of repair, which has become one of the focuses of the Conservancy’s fundraising.

The track itself could benefit from smoothing its tight turns and would need additional lanes to be put to use for any kind of championship event. Yet it seems that it could host a non-championship event, potentially as a fund and awareness raiser.

The Wendell Mottley Invitational, perhaps?

UPDATE: Shortly after putting this story online, I received an email from Princeton Coach Fred Samara, who wrote that the Stadium (along with McCombs Dam Park, next to Yankee Stadium) hosted most of the AAU development meets of the 1960s and 1970s. Samara, who had his long jump PR of 24-11 at VCP Stadium, recalled:

Most of the New York City track and field athletes competed at both venues at one time in their careers. I competed against John Carlos in a handicap 100 yard race during my frosh year in high school, 1966. Handicap races were very unique in that you registered your best time and were given a lead in yards in front of the starting line, where the top runner had to start from. I think I had a five or six-yard handicap! I led the race for about 90 yards and then Carlos passed me like a bullet. It is a good memory.

She proved us right on Sunday. Running in the Luzern Spitzenleichtathletik in Nottwil, Switzerland, Uceny beat a strong field with a personal best 1:58.67. Right behind her was Beijing Olympic finalist Kenia Sinclair of Jamaica (1:58.78) and European Championships finalist Jemma Simpson (1:59.34).

Both Uceny and former Brown star Anna Pierce have run under 1:59 this summer and are strong contenders to represent the United States at the London Olympics in 2012.

Nate Cartmell (top left) and his 1911 UNC basketball team.

It appears that when Donald Black of Gastonia, N.C., allegedly robbed a woman during a drug deal, his face gave him away. That’s because Black ill-advisely had the easily-identifiable UNC athletics tattoo emblazoned on his cheek. Yup, he did.

If Black is a fan of history, and here at HepsTrack we suspect he is not, he might want to blame a four-time-Olympic-track-and-field-medal-winning Ivy Leaguer for his collar.

That’s because Nate Cartmell, a star runner for the Penn Quakers, started the UNC basketball program and served as its first coach 100 years ago. He really didn’t know much about the sport, but he fit the bill financially because he was already working as the school’s track coach.

His first game and his first season were winners as the Tar Heels beat Virginia Christian College (now Lynchburg) to open the season and won six of the following 10 games.

Less than two years before that, Cartmell won his only gold medal as a member of the U.S. sprint medley team at the 1908 London Olympics, running with a fellow Penn grad — John Baxter Taylor.

Nope, no way does Donald Black know that.

The Bulldogs, one of six Ivy men’s teams to earn accolades, carried a collective 3.42 team GPA, just ahead of Lipscomb at 3.39.

On the women’s side, the Bulldogs were again the top team in the Ivy League with a 3.45 GPA (with Harvard right behind at 3.42), but the women’s team GPAs were generally higher than the men’s. Thus the 3.62 average of Oklahoma was the national high.

Princeton sprint football captain Adrian Colarusso (lime green shirt) prepares an acappella group for a performance at X-Mester.

Back in June, during the NCAA Outdoor Championships, HepsTrack.com was kind of… distracted. We had packed up for a first-of-its-kind, three-week college readiness program at Vincennes University where we’d have oversight of 115 at-risk high school juniors and 13 Fellows ready to advise, mentor and instruct them.

In those dog-tired days upon my return, I posted a note explaining our absence because the entire experience was much more demanding than I’d thought. You see, I thought I might have time in the morning or evening to sip some coffee and digest the news of the day and keep content flowing here.

I was wrong… Really wrong. By the third day, I had blisters on both feet from running around campus. It was all hands on deck, all the time. There was no manual to prepare for the issues we’d confront and resolve. I thought that less than a week into the experience, the Fellows had grown to hate us because it was far more intense than they’d expected.

But just today, the NCAA published a story about X-Mester. And given time to reflect, it is pretty clear that the Fellowship was impactful. Said Princeton wide receiver Trey Peacock, “At times you felt like giving up. You were tired, and things weren’t going perfectly. But it forced you to adapt. It was really rewarding. I’d say it’s probably the best thing I’ve done, program or job-wise, in my life so far.”

Wow! And the good news is, as the overseers of X-Mester, we learned so much that will help the next cohort of Fellows. Yeah, we will be doing it again. So if you are ready for a wild ride with a big payoff, start preparing now!

Search for Beauty — a “pre-Production Code” film made before a crack down on ‘sinful movies’ — had Olympic athletes being tricked into endorsing a faux-fitness magazine which simply featured racy photos. There was much innuendo and a locker-room scene where Buster Crabbe’s bare buttocks was shown.

Anderson, a three-year performer for both the Cornell football and track teams, was also the student council president as a senior in Ithaca. His colorful life came to an end in 1948, at the age of 41, when he suffered a brain hemorrhage on a expedition as a chief navigator of a salmon fishing fleet in Alaska.

Just another crazy story of the Ivy League.

Liz Costello won the third time, followed by sophomore Alex Banfich, who would break the school record in the 5,000-meter run in the spring.

Recently Bill Alden of Town Topics caught up with Banfich, who is preparing for the cross country season by running in and around Paris.

“I’m doing an internship through Princeton teaching English to French children ages 3-10 — its been extremely rewarding and I’ve had a great time so far,” she said. “I’ve found plenty of parks to run in here so training is going just fine.”

A look at track and field events shows that they pretty much bunched them up, except for the pole vault, the top-ranked track event. Somehow they rated all track and field events behind things like softball, tennis, lacrosse and soccer. Kinda pokes a huge hole in the expert thing, huh?

Another red flag? How about the omission of multi-events, hurdles and the steeplechase?

Anyway, the field events in their order: 1. pole vault; 2. high jump (behind auto racing?); 3. horizontal jumps; 4. sprints; 5. distance (beating out bull-riding?); 6. middle distance; 7. weights (behind table tennis?).

The top five sports? 1. boxing; 2. ice hockey; 3. football; 4. basketball; 5. wrestling.

The bottom five? 56. curling; 57. bowling; 58. shooting; 59. billiards; 60. fishing. Hard to disagree too much with the bottom five as most people do three of them better while drinking.

Flame away under comments. Just remember that HepsTrack didn’t rank these, we just reported on them.

Well, today in Mayaguez, P.R., they squared off at the Central American & Caribbean Games, Laine wearing the colors of Haiti and Halim representing the U.S. Virgin Islands. This time Laine got the better of the Cornellian, taking third (55-9 3/4) while Halim was fifth (53-8 1/4).

“There’s more in the tank,” wrote Laine on Facebook last night. “But I’ll take the bronze; for now…”

Saving his winning performance for his final jump, Leevan Sands of the Bahamas beat Grenada’s Randy Lewis by a centimeter (17.21 to 17.20). Sands’ mark translates to 56-5 3/4.

UPDATE: Halim — who was born in St. Croix, USVI — had won silver in the long jump a few days ago and I completely missed it. His 25-6 3/4 was bettered only by Bermuda’s Tyrone Smith (26-11 3/4).

Here’s the group:

Mark Amirault, Princeton
Peter Callahan, Princeton
Bob Belden, Cornell
Matthew Bogdan, Yale
Adrien Dannemiller, Cornell
Eric DePalo, Yale
Mike Eddy, Princeton
Chas Gillespie, Harvard
Duriel Hardy, Brown
William Harris, Yale
Brian Hill, Harvard
Nick Huber, Cornell
David Irving, Dartmouth
Brett Kelly, Cornell
Craig Kinsley, Brown
Chris Labosky, Yale
Ted Lesher, Dartmouth
Michael Levine, Yale
Alex Lippai, Dartmouth
Jordan Maddocks, Brown
Phil Royer, Dartmouth
Duane Teixeira, Cornell
Trevor Van Ackeren, Princeton
Elliot Welder, Princeton
Chris Zablocki, Dartmouth
Richard Zamora, Cornell

To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met either the NCAA Division I Indoor automatic or provisional qualifying standard or participated in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships (including preliminary rounds) in their respective event.

That’s because of the 13-person field, the one with the best career and season jumps is Harvard graduate Samyr Laine, who will be leaping for Haiti.

Laine, who has leapt, stepped and bounded more than 57 feet, represented Haiti at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, back in March and gave HepsTrack his insights back then. Click here for that story.

In a recent post on his great website, Laine mentioned the CAC Championships, writing, “Haiti’s team is stronger than ever before and I’m feeling 110 percent ready to wreck shop when I get on that runway.”

In addition to Laine in the triple and Nicky Grant taking bronze in the hammer throw, Columbia grad Erison Hurtault, representing Dominica, took fifth in the 400-meter dash, running 45.69. The Assault won all eight Heps 400 dash crowns in his stellar career in Morningside Heights.

Mallory Anderson, Columbia
Gabriela Baiter, Brown
Alex Banfich, Princeton
Alexandra Cadicamo, Yale
Sarah Cummings, Princeton
Carlyle Davis, Harvard
Jacqueline Drouin, Columbia
Claudia Duncan, Yale
Jessica Fronk, Harvard
Molly Glantz, Cornell
Kate Grace, Yale
Kelsey Karys, Cornell
Reilly Kiernan, Princeton
Serita Lachesis, Columbia
Emily Lanois, Columbia
Anne Lovelace, Yale
Mel Newbery, Princeton
Queen Okeke, Columbia
Stephanie Pancoast, Cornell
Lauren Pischel, Brown
Julianne Quinn, Columbia
Claire Richardson, Harvard
Erin Roberts, Cornell
Brynn Smith, Brown
Alexandra Tanner, Dartmouth
Tory Worthen, Princeton
Ariel Wright, Brown

To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met either the NCAA Division I Indoor automatic or provisional qualifying standard or participated in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships (including preliminary rounds) in their respective event.

The men’s team will be announced on Thursday.

Back in 2002, Nicky Grant of Harvard simply crushed the Outdoor Heps record in the hammer throw, putting the mark at 195-6, about 17 feet further than the previous record. That record held until this spring when Brown junior Brynn Smith won Heps with a toss of 199-8.

But Grant isn’t looking back because she is too busy looking ahead. In fact, over the weekend the 29-year-old won a bronze medal for Jamaica at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, P.R. Her throw was 196-7, better than her record Heps mark of eight years ago. She repeated as a bronze medalist, as she had done the same at the 2005 CAC Championships in the Bahamas.

And Grant wasn’t the only Ivy Leaguer in action over the weekend (not even counting the IAAF World Juniors) as Dartmouth graduate Ben True ran at the USA Seven-Mile Championships in Davenport, Iowa. He finished seventh, in 33:27, despite running in a thunderstorm at the Quad City Times Bix 7, which is host to the Championships. True was 32 seconds behind champion Ryan Hall.