Scarlet and White, Nova Open Ocean Breeze, and USATF Jr XC

[Nevada Hoya]

All meets will be held this weekend. Adam Barnard, Reilly Bloomer, and Nick Wareham, our baby-faced freshman will be in Bend, Oregon for the National USATF Cross Country meet. Reilly is from Eugene, so he will be right at home.

The Scarlet and White meet at Boston Univ will be interesting mainly for the seeded section of the mile:

4:30
Seeded section of the mile run
(Bartelsmeyer, Green, Williams, Carpenter, Murray, Bile, Lederhouse, Caste,
Thomas, Seal, Flynn

Hoyas represent 60% of the field, and I assume sub-4 minutes is the goal. I would expect Amos, Cole, Ahmed, and Michael to be at least close or under four minutes. Jon Green, usually a distance guy, established a PR, shaving off 11 seconds, so he might PR again. Scott has been running well too. John Murray also has a chance to go under 4. I imagine this race will have at least one rabbit. I don't know if any of the Hoyas will serve pacing duties.

[Nevada Hoya]

Other results from the world of track. In the Portland House of Track meet alumna Treniere Clement Moser won the 800m:

FINAL

PL Athlete Team Time
1 Moser, Treniere Nike Oregon Project 2:02.75
2 Velvere, Liga Unattached 2:03.08
3 Fricker, McKayla HPW/Brooks 2:04.60
4 Murphy, Samantha Unattached 2:04.73
5 Malasarte, Megan Brooks Beast 2:06.19
6 Leinert, Shannon Brooks/Speed Factory Athletics 2:07.81
7 Whipple, Sarah Team Run Eugene 2:11.91

[Nevada Hoya]

Just as I expected: Bile 3:57.8, Williams 3:57.8, Bartelsmeyer 3:58.2, Lederhouse 3:58.4. 4 Hoyas under 3:59.

Two years in a row that four Hoyas ran a sub-4 minute mile in the same heat; this time Cole Williams replaces Ryan Manahan as the four guy. The other three suspects remain. This time all went under 3:59. Congratulations to all.

[Nevada Hoya]

The Hoya freshmen went 4th, 6th, and 8th at the National Junior XC meet in Bend, OR.


Reilly Bloomer finishes 4th! Qualifies to represent Team USA at the NACAC XC Championships in Venezuela. Wareham finishes 6th. Barnard 8th.

[Nevada Hoya]

From letsrun.com: Move over Syracuse gtown just had four guys break 359

[Nevada Hoya]

From the Villanova 1meet:
1 mile
1 Piccirillo, Angel Villanova 4:36.00 1
2 Cox, Chelsea Unattached 4:42.61 1
3 Sadler, Olivia Columbia 4:43.58 1
4 Kokes, Libby Columbia 4:43.98 1
5 Nadel, Samantha Georgetown 4:44.01 1
6 Weisner, Kennedy Georgetown 4:44.36 1
7 Eastman, Autumn Georgetown 4:47.12 1
8 Martin, Heather Georgetown 4:49.49 1
9 Grim, Grace Columbia 4:53.72 1
10 Hughes, Kaleigh Villanova 4:55.11 2
11 Looker, Aleta Georgetown 4:55.73 2
12 Cochrane, Kylene Penn 4:56.94 2
13 Russo, Alex Villanova 4:57.48 2
14 Gensib, Elyssa Penn 4:57.55 2

In the 60m Jody-Ann Knight qualified for the finals with a 7.87 time.

[Nevada Hoya]

Up in Boston freshman Spencer Brown runs a PR of 1:50.24 in the 800! Cooper and Ogle 1:51.

[Nevada Hoya]

More results here. Several PRs by the Hoyas at the different venues, headlined by Sabrina Southerland's school record in the 800m in 2:03.1 - that almost qualifies her for the Olympic trials.

www.guhoyas.com/sports/m-xctrack/recaps/020716aaa.html

[RusskyHoya]

I know that many programs have to make their home at facilities far from campus, but Villanova 'hosting' an event in Staten Island really takes the cake.

In any case, sounds like yesterday was a very successful day for the Hoyas. Here's hoping that the facilities upgrade brought by the TAC provides the nudge that takes this program to perennial national championship contender status.

[Nevada Hoya]

Apparently, that Ocean Breeze track is a very nice facility. But that is strange that Nova was hosting the meet. Georgetown doesn't seem to have their "home meet" at GU Prep this year.

[Nevada Hoya]

The mile race at BU is here:

Scott Carpenter and Jon Green were perfect rabbits in the race.

[Nevada Hoya]

After this weekend the women are ranked 8th in the country, up from 11th, and the men are 28th from 32nd. The women moved up mainly from Sabrina's nation leading mark in the 800m.

[com]

Great to see the program doing so well. They have 4 of the top 10 mile times too. Hats off to the coaches.