Meyo (Notre Dame) Invitational

[Nevada Hoya]

I want to thank DFW for giving me my own Georgetown track and field board, at least until the lacrosse season starts. There were some great performances at the Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame on the first night.

Women's 500m: Jayne Penn (freshman) came in 4th in the fast heat in 1:15.92 (she was 5th overall in all heats). Women's 300m: Kandance Ferguson (another freshman) came in 3rd in the fast heat (3rd overall).
Women's 5000m: Marni Krupper (grad student) came in 3rd in 17:34.02.
Men's 5000m: Fleet Hower finished 8th in 14:30.18. Now we come to the first really good result, as Rod Koborsi won the race in an NCAA provisional mark of 14:11.01; he won the race by over 2 seconds.

In the premier event of the evening, the Notre Dame women's distance medley relay team was going for a school record, and they decimated it by 17s and by so doing, ran an automatic NCAA qualifier in 11:07.94 (auto qualifier time was 11:15). That was nice, but they came in 2nd to the meet record setter in this event and also auto NCAA qualifier, Georgetown, in 11:07.27. Colleen Kelly, Monica Hargrove, Maura McCusker, and Treniere Clement ran the legs for Georgetown. Congratulations to the women's DMR team for a great job.

Stay tuned for more results tomorrow. GU is also supposed to have some athletes in the George Mason meet tomorrow.

[reformation]

What's the recruiting outlook for track-just wondering if the facilities situation is impacting recruiting in a big way

[Nevada Hoya]

I think Georgetown only signed one female during the early signing people, but they have recruited well the past two years even with our lack of facilities.

[Nevada Hoya]

I think Georgetown only signed one female during the early signing period, but they have recruited well the past two years even with our lack of facilities.

[Nevada Hoya]

Second day results at the Meyo meet:

60m hurdles: James Graham, 4th in heat in 8.53

3000m (women's fast section): 8. Elizabeth Malloy, 9:48.78.

Mile (women's moderate section): 8. Kelly Otstott, 5:01.1

400m (men): Chris Bonner, 4th in heat in 48.39.

800m (women's fast heat): 7.Maura McCusker, 2:09.84; 9. Meghan O'Neil, 2:11.12

800m (men): Ezra Richards, 3rd in heat in 1:51.05 (less than a second from provisional qualifying for the NCAA).

4x400m (w) - 6. Georgetown, 3:36.25 (Jayne Penn, Kandy Ferguson, Monica Hargrove, Meghan O'Neil).

[Nevada Hoya]

The Hoyas were also represented at the George Mason Collegiate Open meet today.

Teddy Presley was busy as he finished 5th in the high jump (1.92m), 6th in the long jump (6.57m), and 3rd in the triple jump (13.13m). Ashley Mondie was equally busy as she came in first in her flight in the long jump (5.11m), 6th in the TJ (10.64m), and ran a leg (along with Jill Laurendeau, Nichole Torpey, and Erin Henry) on the 4 x 400m relay in which GU finished 3rd in 4:13.17. Nichole Torpey also finished 2nd in her flight in the LJ (4.93m) and 4th in her section of the 500m (1:20.61). Leilani Green won the pole vault (3.58m) and finished 6th in her heat in the 200m (29.35).

Andrew Haskell also won (actually tied for 1st) in the PV (4.54m). Jesse Patterson finished 6th in his heat in the 60m hurdles (8.78). Cinya Burton finished 2nd in her heat in the 55m (7.49) and 4th in the 200m (27.31). In the mile Rasheed finished 5th in his heat in 4:22.58, while Neil Grosscup finished 7th in 4:29.63. Kevin Ward finished 3rd in his heat of the 400m (51.9), while Andrew Nolen finished 2nd in his heat with 51.44. Erin Henry finished 4th in her heat of the 1000m (3:01.17). Felix Chrobog finished 5th in the 3000m in 8:44.14.