Post by Nevada Hoya on Apr 2, 2018 17:48:21 GMT -5
Something different. UVA is hosting the Virginia Quad meet with four teams - UVA, UMD, Bucknell, and Georgetown. Each will be scored against each other with UVA recording an individual-competition score against Maryland, Bucknell and Georgetown.
I am anxious about how the Hoyas are going to get the marks needed for the NCAA regionals. Usually the top 50 marks from teams in each region make the Regionals. I don't know if there are enough meets with top competition to enable the Hoyas to get these marks. The weather last weekend was not very conducive to good marks. The rest of the schedule looks like this before Big East:
4/20/18 Virginia Challenge Charlottesville, Va. All Day MORE
04/21/18 Virginia Challenge Charlottesville, Va. All Day
04/25/18 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day MORE
04/26/18 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day MORE
04/27/18 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day MORE
05/04/18 Kehoe Twilight Meet College Park, Md. All Day
It looks as if the Virginia Challenge meet will be key to getting some individual marks that will qualify for the Regionals. Penn Relays are exciting because of the team relays. There are some individual events, but the best runners will be competing in the relays. The Kehoe meet seems to be more a local meet. Also, some of our best runners have not run this season, Joe White and Scott Carpenter, our scorers from last year's NCAA national meet. I don't know what shape they are in. We will probably find out in the UVA challenge meet. Also, potential scorers, Jon Green and Amos Bartelsmeyer had a busy indoors. They are both grad students, so I expect them to compete sometime this spring. Jon would be a potential scorer in the 10000m, but there don't seem to be any meets for him to get the time needed according to the present schedule. The BE meet is usually not conducive to good marks in the distances, because it is usually a sit and kick kind of race. Jon was trying to get a qualifier for the indoors NCAA at the BE meet and he had to do it all by himself. He did set the meet record, but he did not improve on a previous time in the 5000m, which left him out of the NCAA meet by 0.01 s (personally I think they should have entered him into NCAA since 0.01 s over 5000m is practically no margin at all).
I am anxious about how the Hoyas are going to get the marks needed for the NCAA regionals. Usually the top 50 marks from teams in each region make the Regionals. I don't know if there are enough meets with top competition to enable the Hoyas to get these marks. The weather last weekend was not very conducive to good marks. The rest of the schedule looks like this before Big East:
4/20/18 Virginia Challenge Charlottesville, Va. All Day MORE
04/21/18 Virginia Challenge Charlottesville, Va. All Day
04/25/18 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day MORE
04/26/18 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day MORE
04/27/18 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day MORE
05/04/18 Kehoe Twilight Meet College Park, Md. All Day
It looks as if the Virginia Challenge meet will be key to getting some individual marks that will qualify for the Regionals. Penn Relays are exciting because of the team relays. There are some individual events, but the best runners will be competing in the relays. The Kehoe meet seems to be more a local meet. Also, some of our best runners have not run this season, Joe White and Scott Carpenter, our scorers from last year's NCAA national meet. I don't know what shape they are in. We will probably find out in the UVA challenge meet. Also, potential scorers, Jon Green and Amos Bartelsmeyer had a busy indoors. They are both grad students, so I expect them to compete sometime this spring. Jon would be a potential scorer in the 10000m, but there don't seem to be any meets for him to get the time needed according to the present schedule. The BE meet is usually not conducive to good marks in the distances, because it is usually a sit and kick kind of race. Jon was trying to get a qualifier for the indoors NCAA at the BE meet and he had to do it all by himself. He did set the meet record, but he did not improve on a previous time in the 5000m, which left him out of the NCAA meet by 0.01 s (personally I think they should have entered him into NCAA since 0.01 s over 5000m is practically no margin at all).
