Columbia Challenge in NYC 2018

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The Columbia Challenge starts tomorrow in New York City. I believe it is at the armory. Jon Green will run in the invitational 3000m with a elite field.
The men's DMR will go for a qualifying time for the indoor NCAA. They finished 3rd last year with perhaps the same lineup. I am thinking it will be Spencer Brown running the first leg (1200m), with Quincy Wilson running the 400m, Joe White the 800m and Scott Carpenter running the mile (1600m) on the anchor. They probably need something like 9:30 or better to qualify. They were one of the last in by time, but with Scott's great anchor finished 3rd.

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First results from the meet are in the men's 1000m

2. Jack Salisbury 2:24.93 (best result from Jack since he has been a Hoya)
3. Josh Bell 2:26.06 (led the race at 800m)
4. Eion Nohilly 2:26.64
5. Nick Wareham 2:27.84
DNF Seth Eliason (Seth was the rabbit with splits of 28.4, 56.76, 1:25.91)

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In the college 800m Dylan Fine ran 2:01.07. The meet is divided into college and Columbia Challenge events.

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In the Columbia Challenge 60m hurdles

12. Malika Houston 8.76
27. Vickie Milledge 9.05

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The Hoyas came in 3rd both in the women's and men's DMR. Oregon won both.

The women
3. 11:16.28 - 3:24.77, 54.92, 2:10.69, 4:45.9 (good 400m split)

Men
3. 9:38.31 - 2:56.96, 48.20, 1:51.06, 4:02.09 I have not seen any lineups for the men or the women. The 800m split seems to say that Joe White did not run. Scott probably ran the mile leg and it was the 2nd fastest split. Oregon anchor ran 3:58.

1. Oregon 9:31.87
2. BYU 9:36.13

The men were six seconds ahead of the 4th place team.

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Decent 1000 and 400 splits for the women. Women's 800/1600 were pretty mediocre. Mens splits ok except for the 800. Times will not be close to NCAA qualifying, if that was the goal. Women don't really have an anchor leg to be competitive as they have been in the past so DMR may not be a focus for them. Men have a much better shot at a DMR medal at the NCAA.

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The men's 400m times were underwhelming.

20. Lawrence Leake 50.50
26. Ruach Padhal 50.65
28. Quincy Wilson 50.89
32. Kino Cheltenham 56.67

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Some more results

Men's 3000m

The positions are heat placement
10. Mike Crozier 8:10.97
9. Nick Golebiowski 8:16.33
13. Reilly Bloomer 8:31.77

Men's mile
6. Spencer Brown 4:05.73
9. Amos Bartelsmeyer 4:08.06
5. Adam Barnard 4:15.81
11. John Chavez 4:19.71

EDIT: overall places: 17, 21,43,52.

Oregon had three runners under four minutes in the same heat and one in another heat.

800m

Seth Eliason 1:57.17

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Some women's results

800m
3. Olivia Arizin 2:13.57
5. Lexi Del Gizzo 2:13.83

Mile
4. Piper Donaghu 4:46.28
1. Meredith Rizzo 4:48.83
1. Margie Cullen 4:52.42 (won her heat by 5 sec)
3. Josette Norris 4:52.74

3000m
4. Paige Hofstat 9:40.38
9. Madeline Perez 9:44.94
11. Martha McDonald 9:46.57 (Martha is redshirting this indoor season)
12. Autumn Eastman 9:46.96

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In the 3000m, Jon Green in the big boys heat was in 3rd place halfway through the race. Unfortunately, he faded in the last half and finished 26th.

Jonathan Green Georgetown 8:09.89
# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Lap 31.665 31.923 31.939 31.341 31.716 31.813 31.761 31.623 33.324 32.605 33.839 34.137 33.490 34.562 34.152
Split 31.665 1:03.588 1:35.527 2:06.868 2:38.583 3:10.396 3:42.156 4:13.778 4:47.102 5:19.706 5:53.545 6:27.682 7:01.171 7:35.732 8:09.884

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More results from GUHoyas.com

On the men’s side, the quartet of All-American Spencer Brown (Wilton, Conn./Wilton), Nate Alleyne (Downingtown, Pa./Bishop Shanahan), Kenny Rowe (Cockeysville, Md./Loyola-Blakefield) and All-American Amos Bartelsmeyer (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis Country Day) ran 9:38.31 in the DMR, good enough for third place at the meet and currently ranks fourth in the country.

The men’s 4x400-meter relay saw All-American Quincey Wilson (Lithonia, Ga./Arabia Mountain), Rowe, Rey Rivera (Old Bridge, N.J./Old Bridge) and Alleyne combine for a time of 3:16.18, good enough for fourth place at the meet and the second-best mark in the BIG EAST.

Both squads will be back in action as the team splits sites, competing at the BU Scarlet & White Invite in Boston on Feb. 2-3 as well as the Villanova Invitational in Staten Island, New York, on Feb. 3.

Georgetown Among the Top 10
Men’s 200-Meter Dash (Columbia Challenge)
9. Nate Alleyne, 22.04

Men’s 500-Meter Dash Finals (College)
6. Ruach Padhal, 1:04.54
8. Rey Rivera, 1:05.18

The men's DMR was not the composition that I had thought. Only Spencer was the leftover. It was good to see Amos approaching (4:02) his sub-4 form of a couple of years ago.

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On the women’s side, the foursome of All-American Piper Donaghu (Portland, Ore./Grant), Jody-Ann Knight (Bentonville, Ark./Bentonville), Olivia Arizin (Media, Pa./Cardinal O’Hara) and Meredith Rizzo (Bronxville, N.Y./Bronxville/Yale) clocked 11:16.28 in the women’s distance medley relay (DMR). The squad’s time ranks seventh nationally at this point in the season.