NCAA Track and Field Meet

[Nevada Hoya]

Five Hoyas are going to the nationals in Sacramento this week for the NCAA Track and Field Championship meet. Elizabeth Maloy qualified at the regionals in the 1500m, and Rod Koborsi qualified on time in the 10000m, while Buky Bamigboye qualified in the heptathlon with her Big East mark. Added additionally were Nana Hanson-Hall in the 800m and Andrew Bumbalough in the 5000m. Apparently, Rod, who finished one place ahead of Bumbi in the 5000m at the Regional opted to run the 10000, thus moving Bumbi up one place.

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Nana was the first Non-qualifier by 0.05 s:

Preliminaries
1 Alysia Johnson SO California 2:05.10Q 2
2 Heather Dorniden FR Minnesota 2:06.17Q 1
3 Rebekah Noble FR Oregon 2:06.37Q 4
4 Fatimoh Muhammed SR Texas-El Paso 2:06.69Q 3
5 Geena Gall FR Michigan 2:05.31Q 2
6 Leslie Treherne JR Tennessee 2:06.29Q 1
7 Althea Chambers SR Texas Tech 2:06.41Q 4
8 Shannon Leinert FR Florida 2:06.78Q 3
9 Briene Simmons SO Penn State 2:05.95Q 2
10 Sara Schaaf SR Oregon 2:06.36Q 1
11 Ty-Nica Davis JR Southern Illinois 2:06.48Q 4
12 Morgan Uceny JR Cornell 2:06.82Q 3
13 Shay Shelton JR South Carolina 2:06.44q 1
14 Ashley Freeman JR Stanford 2:06.45q 2
15 Georgia Kloss JR North Carolina 2:06.49q 4
16 Lavera Morris SO Kentucky 2:06.60q 1
17 Nana Hanson-Hall JR Georgetown 2:06.65 2
18 Ginou Etienne JR Miami 2:06.94 3
19 Michelle Lindsay SO Brigham Young 2:07.06 4
20 Morgan Bonds SO Kansas State 2:07.35 2
21 Meisue Francis JR LSU 2:07.45 4
22 Linda Feldberga SO Wichita State 2:07.54 3
23 Paige Farrell SO Arkansas 2:07.95 1
24 Georganne Way JR Kentucky 2:08.06 3
25 Jenny Holmroos FR Texas-El Paso 2:08.13 1
26 Ashley Patten SR Missouri 2:08.40 2
27 Dominique Sanon SR Rutgers 2:11.68 3
28 Julie Schwengler FR Minnesota 2:12.89 4

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Bumbi had the best finish by a freshman (not time), but did not move on (just behinid soph phenom and American Jr. record holder in this event, Galen Rupp):

Heat 1
1 Richard Kiplagat SR Iona 14:02.21Q
2 Daniel Huling SR Miami-Ohio 14:03.27Q
3 Robert Cheseret SR Arizona 14:03.41Q
4 Josphat Boit SR Arkansas 14:03.46Q
5 Tonny Okello JR South Alabama 14:03.88Q
6 Stephen Chemlany SR Iona 14:03.89Q
7 Kurt Benninger JR Notre Dame 14:08.17
8 Wesley Korir SO Louisville 14:09.10
9 Galen Rupp SO Oregon 14:14.02
10 Andrew Bumbalough FR Georgetown 14:22.77
11 Shawn Forrest SO Arkansas 14:24.19
12 Mark Korir SO Wyoming 14:27.89
13 Christo Landry SO William & Mary 14:32.20
Heat 2
1 Shadrack Songok SO Texas A&M-CC 13:55.32Q
2 Seth Summerside JR Arkansas 13:55.73Q
3 Obed Mutanya JR Arizona 13:56.92Q
4 Chris Solinsky JR Wisconsin 13:56.93Q
5 Kip Kangogo SR TCU 13:57.38Q
6 Josh McDougal SO Liberty 14:00.22Q
7 Scott Overall SR Butler 14:01.01q
8 Brent Vaughn JR Colorado 14:03.12q
9 Giliat Ghebray JR California 14:03.62q
10 Paul Hefferon SO Kansas 14:05.97q
11 Hakon DeVries FR Stanford 14:09.41
12 Andy Biladeau FR Virginia 14:20.64
13 Ryan Vail FR Oklahoma State 14:25.45

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Rod Koborsi finished his running career at GU with a 7th place finish and another sub-29 minute 10000m. GU is presently 16th among the men.

Event 8 Men 10000 Meter Run
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Final Only. Two waterfall, one turn, start (18 - 8)
American: 27:13.98 5/4/2001 Meb Keflezghi, Nike
College Best: 27:22.47 6/11/1978 Henry Rono, Washington State
NCAA Meet: 28:01.30 6/1/1979 Suleiman Nyambui, Texas-El Paso
Hornet Stad: 27:36.49 7/9/2004 Mebrahtom Keflezighi, Nikle
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Josphat Boit SR Arkansas 28:37.64 10
2 Martin Fagan SR Providence 28:41.41 8
3 Simon Bairu SR Wisconsin 28:43.37 6
4 Seth Pilkington SO Weber State 28:48.17 5
5 Marc Rodrigues SR Arkansas 28:49.23 4
6 Tim Nelson JR Wisconsin 28:50.34 3
7 Rod Koborsi SR Georgetown 28:52.18 2
8 Westly Keating SR Texas-Pan Am 28:55.73 1
9 Stuart Eagon FR Wisconsin 29:16.25
10 William Macreery SR Princeton 29:21.70
11 Eric MacTaggart SO Iowa 29:22.78
12 Brett Gotcher JR Stanford 29:24.48
13 Sean Quigley SO La Salle 29:30.02
14 Bret Schoolmeester SR Colorado 29:35.31
15 Tim Moore SR Notre Dame 29:36.59
16 David Jankowski SO Oklahoma State 29:38.25
17 Nef Araia SO Stanford 29:39.68
18 Japheth Ng'ojoy SO Texas-El Paso 29:39.70
19 John Moore SO Portland 29:48.91
20 Stephen Samoei JR Texas-El Paso 29:57.10
21 Jeremy Mineau FR Washington 30:10.82
22 Andrew Heath SR Auburn 30:28.37
23 Jesson Baumgartner JR Southern Utah 30:36.46
24 Hari Mix FR Stanford 31:06.16
-- Abraham Kutingala FR Alabama DNF
-- Stephen Haas SR Indiana DNF
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Men - Team Rankings - 3 Events Scored
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1) Arkansas 14 1) Wisconsin 14
3) Nebraska 10 3) Arizona 10
5) Tennessee 8 5) Texas A&M 8
5) Providence 8 8) Long Beach State 6
8) Baylor 6 10) Weber State 5
10) Texas-El Paso 5 12) Louisville 4
12) Texas 4 14) Arizona State 3
14) Florida State 3 16) Clemson 2
16) Florida 2 16) Georgetown 2
19) South Carolina 1 19) Northern Iowa 1
19) Texas-Pan Am 1

[Nevada Hoya]

Elizabeth Maloy did very well in her qualifying heat of the 1500m, finishing 3rd (in a PR?). Four of the 12 qualifiers in the women's 1500 are from the Big East:


Event 25 Women 1500 Meter Run
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2 Heats. Advance top 4 from each heat plus next best 4 times.
American: 3:57.12 7/26/1983 Mary Slaney, Athletics West
College Best: 4:05.81 8/3/1991 Sonja O'Sullivan, Villanova
NCAA Meet: 4:06.75 6/14/2004 Tiffany McWilliams, Mississ
Hornet Stad: 4:01.01 7/16/2000 Regina Jacobs, Nike
Name Year School Prelims
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Heat 1
1 Marina Muncan SR Villanova 4:16.17Q
2 Nicole Edwards SO Michigan 4:17.08Q
3 Natalie Hughes SR Florida State 4:17.13Q
4 Michaela Courtney JR Marquette 4:17.44Q
5 Dee Olson SO Idaho 4:19.16q
6 Ashley Caldwell JR UCLA 4:20.15q
7 Amy Lia SO Washington 4:20.99q
8 Larra Overton SR Indiana 4:22.03
9 Callie Wells SO Rice 4:22.36
10 Amanda Bales SR Missouri 4:22.59
11 Stacy Kim SO Pennsylvania 4:22.82
12 Kristen Guymon SR Utah State 4:26.58
13 Erin Bedell FR Baylor 4:26.96
14 Rachel Ellison SR Arizona State 4:28.79
Heat 2
1 Amber McGown SR Oregon 4:18.41Q
2 Frances Koons FR Villanova 4:18.67Q
3 Elizabeth Maloy SO Georgetown 4:18.86Q
4 Megan Kaltenbach SO North Carolina 4:18.87Q
5 Diana Chelimo SO Oral Roberts 4:19.48q
6 Dacia Barr SO Arkansas 4:21.36
7 Deirdre Byrne SR Cal Poly-SLO 4:21.65
8 Meghan Armstrong SO Iowa 4:22.19
9 Brionne Yosten SR Wisconsin 4:23.63
10 Jemissa Hess JR NC State 4:23.88
11 Jennifer McPherson JR Mississippi State 4:25.13
12 Jennifer Twitchell JR Utah State 4:27.07
13 Calandra Stewart JR TCU 4:28.02
14 Sarah Bowman FR Tennessee 4:28.45

[Nevada Hoya]

After one event (100H) Buky Bamigboye is 13th, exactly where she was ranked coming in and she is the first freshman.

[Nevada Hoya]

Buky end the first day of the pentathlon in 20th place. Her good events were the 100H and 200m, where she placed 13th and 10th, respectively. The high jump and shotput were not her best events, as she placed 21st and 25th, respectively in those events. She has two fairly good events tomorrow - the long jump and the 800m, with the javelin thrown in.

[Nevada Hoya]

Elizabeth Maloy just missed her PR set in the prelims to finished 7th place and score two points for GU:

Event 25 Women 1500 Meter Run
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2 Heats. Advance top 4 from each heat plus next best 4 times.
American: 3:57.12 7/26/1983 Mary Slaney, Athletics West
College Best: 4:05.81 8/3/1991 Sonja O'Sullivan, Villanova
NCAA Meet: 4:06.75 6/14/2004 Tiffany McWilliams, Mississippi St
Hornet Stad: 4:01.01 7/16/2000 Regina Jacobs, Nike
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Amy Lia SO Washington 4:14.63 10
2 Marina Muncan SR Villanova 4:15.27 8
3 Natalie Hughes SR Florida State 4:15.72 6
4 Nicole Edwards SO Michigan 4:16.06 5
5 Michaela Courtney JR Marquette 4:17.60 4
6 Dee Olson SO Idaho 4:18.84 3
7 Elizabeth Maloy SO Georgetown 4:18.93 2
8 Diana Chelimo SO Oral Roberts 4:19.45 1
9 Ashley Caldwell JR UCLA 4:19.73
10 Frances Koons FR Villanova 4:19.76
11 Amber McGown SR Oregon 4:22.17
12 Megan Kaltenbach SO North Carolina 4:23.92

[Nevada Hoya]

The men finished in a tie for 58th place, while the women were tied for 64th. Both men and women scored 2 points.

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Buky finished 15th in the pentathlon with 5245 points. If she scored about the same as with winning the BE meet, she would have been in the top 10. She finished 4th in the 800m, the last event.