2018 NCAA Eastern Regional Track and Field Meet

[Nevada Hoya]

The meet will be held next week in Tampa. The men will send 10 men (declarations) and the women two runners.

Women

1500m
Piper Donaghu

3000mSC
Margie Cullen
Meredith Rizzo

(Shannon Meisberger just missed the 400H by 0.6 s. Slim chance that she will go via any pullouts).

Men

800m
Rey Rivera
Ruach Padhal

1500m
Amos Bartelsmeyer
Spencer Brown
Nick Wareham
Jack Salisbury
Joshua Bell

10000m
Jon Green
Mike Crozier
Nick Golebiowski

Last year three of the runners were almost shoo ins for the finals - Joe White, Scott Carpenter, and Darren Fahey. These three were enough to give the Hoyas a 12th place finish. I would think Rey, Amos, and Jon pose the best chance to move to Eugene for the finals.

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Sabrina Southerland, running for Oregon, will run the 800m in the Western Regionals, and Sam Nadel will run the 5000m representing Oregon too.

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Brian Bjerk will also compete in the Eastern Regionals in the discus throw.

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Jody-Ann Knight won the Stephanie Waterman medal at graduation: www.guhoyas.com/genrel/052018aaa.html

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Women lineups at the regionals:

Event 25 Women 1500 m (48)
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4 Heats. Advance top 5 from each ht. plus next 4 times to qtr.
Advance top 5 from each qtr. plus next 2 best times to Eugene
Name Year School Seed
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Heat 1 Prelims
1 1075 Anna Vess FR NC State 4:21.88
2 556 Amy Ruiz JR Georgia Tech 4:24.00
3 578 Kathryn Gillespie JR Harvard 4:22.68
4 1542 Janelle Noe JR Toledo 4:17.01
5 1074 Megan Rempel JR NC State 4:22.38
6 350 Elizabeth McGroarty SR Delaware 4:19.92
7 270 Aynslee Van Graan SR Coastal Carolina 4:21.64
8 1543 Petronela Simiuc JR Toledo 4:18.73
9 1250 Danae Rivers SO Penn State 4:10.82
10 319 Jackie Katzman SR Cornell 4:23.50
11 1130 Jessica Harris JR Notre Dame 4:14.27
12 508 Piper Donaghu SR Georgetown 4:20.44

Event 26 Women 3000 m SC (48)
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One round. 3 heats. Single waterfall, random draw
Advance top 3 from each ht. plus next best 3 times to Eugene
Name Year School Seed
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Heat 1 Prelims
1 1188 Shelby Brown JR Ole Miss 9:58.98
2 1217 Julianna Catania SO Penn 10:28.23
3 701 Katy Kunc SR Kentucky 10:06.37
4 316 Briar Brumley JR Cornell 10:09.96
5 385 Ciara Scott SR East Kentucky 10:22.25
6 723 Grace Mancini SO La Salle 10:18.08
7 642 Dani Martino JR Iona 10:28.73
8 488 Emma Grace Hurley SO Furman 10:06.35
9 898 Claire Borchers SR Michigan 9:58.36
10 489 Gabrielle Jennings SO Furman 10:10.41
11 507 Margie Cullen SO Georgetown 10:23.10
12 933 Karrigan Smith SO Mich State 10:14.05
13 332 Julia Stevenson SO Dartmouth 10:18.36
14 1607 Alex Harris FR Villanova 10:25.69
15 1100 Brooke Wojeski SR Northeastern 10:26.37
16 347 Emily Borchers SO Dayton 10:13.89
Heat 2 Prelims
1 554 Hailey Gollnick SR Georgia Tech 10:24.99
2 487 Kristlin Gear FR Furman 10:12.72
3 1246 Greta Lindsley SR Penn State 10:11.29
4 509 Meredith Rizzo SR Georgetown 10:24.17
5 581 Anna Juul FR Harvard 10:29.51
6 390 Alsu Bogdanova SR East Michigan 10:04.88
7 1655 Sarah Edwards SO Virginia Tech 10:08.14
8 275 Nell Crosby SR Columbia 10:03.28
9 1481 Sydney Leiher SR Syracuse 10:27.20
10 922 Bridget Blake SR Mich State 10:19.10
11 894 Alesha Vovk SR Miami (Ohio) 10:15.06
12 1735 Hannah Steelman FR Wofford 10:09.39
13 1328 Gabrielle Broschard JR Purdue 10:26.97
14 1484 Paige Stoner JR Syracuse 9:50.42
15 1725 Molly Applegate SR William & Mary 10:20.07
16 331 Lauren Sapone SO Dartmouth 10:16.50

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Men's lineups:

Event 4 Men 800 m (48)
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6 Heats. Advance top 3 from each heat plus next 6 times to qtr.
Advance top 3 from each qtr. plus next best 3 times to Eugene
Name Year School Seed
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Heat 3 Prelims
1 623 Jordan Huntoon SR Indiana 1:49.60
2 100 Ryan Hastings SR Appalachian St 1:49.22
3 518 Rey Rivera FR Georgetown 1:48.04
4 369 Matt Wisner SO Duke 1:48.04
5 1406 Evans Kibet SO Siena 1:49.21
6 1668 Owen Buck SO Virginia Tech 1:50.06
7 517 Ruach Padhal FR Georgetown 1:49.52
8 1258 Isaiah Harris JR Penn State 1:45.31
Not sure if it is good having both Hoyas in the same heat, given only three are guaranteed to go to the next round. They are in the heat with one of the favorites, Harris from Penn State.

Event 5 Men 1500 m (48)
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4 Heats. Advance top 5 from each ht. plus next 4 times to qtr.
Advance top 5 from each qtr. plus next best 2 times to Eugene
Name Year School Seed
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Heat 1 Prelims
1 638 Akis Medrano JR Indiana State 3:45.24
2 1324 Nick Carleo JR Providence 3:45.20
3 1060 Alex Milligan FR North Carolina 3:44.69
4 1142 Yared Nuguse FR Notre Dame 3:42.44
5 431 Sam Ahrenholz JR Florida 3:45.52
6 520 Nicholas Wareham SO Georgetown 3:44.68
7 1637 Mike Marsella SR Virginia 3:42.10
8 896 Christopher Torpy SO Miami (Ohio) 3:44.26
9 112 Keagan Smith SO Army West Point 3:45.51
10 1681 Diego Zarate JR Virginia Tech 3:43.38
11 941 Justine Kiprotich JR Mich State 3:44.17
12 1314 Garrett O'Toole SR Princeton 3:43.37
Heat 2 Prelims
1 1615 Ben Malone SR Villanova 3:44.64
2 139 Wesley Curles SR Auburn 3:45.15
3 513 Spencer Brown SO Georgetown 3:44.51
4 438 Jack Guyton JR Florida 3:43.57
5 628 Joseph Murphy JR Indiana 3:42.68
6 1205 Trevor Gilley SR Ole Miss 3:44.81
7 97 Matthew Rainey JR American 3:45.70
8 1092 Nick Morken JR North Florida 3:43.94
9 1741 Trevor Reinhart JR Yale 3:43.17
10 1210 Everett Smulders FR Ole Miss 3:45.45
11 511 Joshua Bell SO Georgetown 3:45.27
12 1211 Waleed Suliman FR Ole Miss 3:39.76
Heat 3 Prelims
1 200 Johnny Leverenz JR Butler 3:42.77
2 1315 William Paulson SR Princeton 3:43.87
3 722 Benjamin Young SO Kentucky 3:42.75
4 897 Sean Torpy SO Miami (Ohio) 3:45.42
5 619 Teddy Browning FR Indiana 3:44.84
6 752 Colin Schultz SR Liberty 3:43.58
7 519 Jack Salisbury FR Georgetown 3:44.97
8 493 Jake Ogden SO Furman 3:45.82
9 715 Kendall Muhammad JR Kentucky 3:45.38
10 1203 Robert Domanic SR Ole Miss 3:36.33
11 537 Henry Dwyer SR Georgia 3:44.62
12 1202 Cade Bethmann FR Ole Miss 3:44.56
Heat 4 Prelims
1 510 Amos Bartelsmeyer SR Georgetown 3:43.56
2 1670 Vincent Ciattei SR Virginia Tech 3:42.59
3 341 Henry Raymond SO Dartmouth 3:45.26
4 1729 Ryan McGorty JR William & Mary 3:44.67
5 645 Liam Dee JR Iona 3:45.49
6 306 Michael O'Donnell SR Connecticut 3:44.10
7 177 Paul Luevano SO Boston U. 3:44.34
8 1093 Tyler Stahl SR North Florida 3:43.33
9 1140 Jacob Dumford SR Notre Dame 3:42.04
10 1082 Philip Hall SO NC State 3:45.17
11 1727 Dawson Connell SR William & Mary 3:45.56
12 288 Sam Ritz JR Columbia 3:44.72

The five Hoyas are spread over the four heats.

Event 8 Men 10000 m (48)
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One round. 1 heat. Advance top 12 to Eugene
Double waterfall start.Top 16 in front row on main
Next 8 in front on staggered. Next 16 in 2nd row of main
Remainder on second stagger
Name Year School Seed
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Heat 1 Prelims
1 58 Vincent Kiprop JR Alabama 28:19.07
2 57 Gilbert Kigen JR Alabama 28:27.31
3 51 Alfred Chelanga JR Alabama 28:32.66
4 516 Jonathan Green SR Georgetown 28:36.44
5 1488 Colin Bennie SR Syracuse 28:37.04
6 203 Lawrence Kipkoech JR Campbell 28:48.26
7 1393 Arsène Guillorel SR Samford 29:00.69
8 565 Nahom Solomon SR Georgia Tech 29:07.98
9 720 Jacob Thomson SR Kentucky 29:10.55
10 514 Michael Crozier SR Georgetown 29:14.68
11 1632 Lachlan Cook SO Virginia 29:16.32
12 647 Gilbert Kirui JR Iona 29:17.80
13 1487 Iliass Aouani SO Syracuse 29:19.43
14 1085 Elijah Moskowitz JR NC State 29:23.09
15 1582 Paul Hogan JR UMass Lowell 29:23.86
16 351 Ben Kendell SR Detroit Mercy 29:24.87
17 403 Nicholas Raymond SR East Michigan 29:25.66
18 1616 Andrew Marston SO Villanova 29:26.05
19 748 Azaria Kirwa JR Liberty 29:27.40
20 1644 Chase Weaverling SR Virginia 29:28.92
21 89 Kyle Gronostaj JR Albany 29:32.41
22 915 Ben Flanagan SR Michigan 29:33.07
23 492 Frank Lara JR Furman 29:35.12
24 1318 Robert Stone SR Princeton 29:36.24
25 1494 Dominic Hockenbury FR Syracuse 29:36.64
26 888 Sean Grossman SR Miami 29:38.64
27 945 Clark Ruiz SR Mich State 29:39.30
28 490 Josh Brickell SR Furman 29:39.82
29 389 Addison Monroe SR East Kentucky 29:40.11
30 1677 Peter Seufer JR Virginia Tech 29:40.44
31 1387 Bryce England SR Saint Francis 29:42.27
32 484 Ryan Kutch SO Fordham 29:43.54
33 850 Enrique Soto SR McNeese State 29:44.27
34 1479 Cameron Avery SO Stony Brook 29:44.84
35 548 Austin Sprague JR Georgia 29:45.31
36 1321 Gannon Willcutts SO Princeton 29:46.29
37 545 Jon Moses SR Georgia 29:48.70
38 1495 Kevin James SO Syracuse 29:48.88
39 1633 Alex Corbett SO Virginia 29:50.12
40 1731 JP Trojan SO William & Mary 29:50.13
41 62 Conner Thompson SR Alabama 29:50.57
42 940 Jesse Hersha SO Mich State 29:52.76
43 467 Steven Cross FR Florida State 29:53.78
44 649 Jeremy Breedlove SR IUPUI 29:54.33
45 1489 Joe Dragon FR Syracuse 29:55.25
46 479 Stanley Linton SR Florida State 29:56.34
47 204 Alex Norstrom JR Cen Connecticut 29:57.96
48 515 Nicholas Golebiowski JR Georgetown 29:59.37

Looks as if it is Jon Green vs the three Kenyans from Alabama.

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And our field eventer. It has been a while since we had somebody in the regionals in the field events.

Event 18 Men DT (48)
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Three seeded flights. Worst to best. Random throw order
Single round. 3 attempts
30 minute flight specific warm-up
Advance top 12 placers from final to Eugene. No ties
Name Year School Seed Mark
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Flight 2 Prelims
1 1641 Nace Plesko JR Virginia 55.19m
2 725 David McGriff SR Lafayette 54.56m
3 713 Charles Lenford SO Kentucky 54.44m
4 241 Sam Meece FR Cincinnati 53.45m
5 1176 Chance Ehrnsberger FR Ohio State 55.71m
6 680 Trevor Detillion SO Kent State 55.20m
7 465 Noah Agwu JR Florida State 53.72m
8 1379 John Mooers JR Rutgers 53.70m
9 1207 Cullen Prena SR Ole Miss 56.28m
10 1128 Kyrin Tucker SR Northwestern St. 53.72m
11 23 Maurice Harris SR Akron 54.76m
12 111 Michael Renard SO Army West Point 54.53m
13 512 Bryan Bjerk SR Georgetown 54.57m
14 1059 Daniel McArthur SO North Carolina 56.10m
15 1305 Mitchel Charles SR Princeton 55.19m
16 825 Irenej Bozovicar SR Manhattan 54.83m

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It looks as if the Hoyas are not getting a break from the weather again. The Big East meet was plagued with wet weather. Now the eastern regionals in Tampa are in store for wet and hot and humid weather.

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Since I will be attending the western regionals (where we should have better weather than the eastern regionals), there will be no timely results posted (lag time of 12 hours perhaps).

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They changed part of the schedule (apparently due to the weather) for the eastern regionals.

The men's 1500m results (pending a protest).

Overall placing and place in the heat (top 5 move on automatically plus top four other times)

6. Nick Wareham (also 6th in the first heat; unusually, because it is the later heats that seeing what time they need will speed up) 3:45.81 q (time qualifier, just missed by 0.03 s being a auto qualifier).
11. Amos Bartelsmeyer (3rd in heat four) Q (auto qualifer) 3:47.49
32. Jack Salisbury (9th in heat three) 3:51.99
42. Spencer Brown (8th in heat two) 3:53.63
44. Josh Bell (10th in heat two) 3:55.14

So the Hoyas qualify two for the next round.

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Piper Donaghu ran in the first heat of the women's 1500m.

10 12 Piper DONAGHU SR Georgetown 4:31.41 50.61 [50.61] 2:00.21 [1:09.61] 3:14.65 [1:14.44] 4:31.41 [1:16.77]

Unfortunately, Piper will not move on in her last race as a Hoya.

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Our two freshmen 800m runners have made the next round by finishing 1,3 in heat 3. Harris of Penn State, who is the favorite in the east finished 2nd in this heat.

8. Ruach Padhal (heat 3, 1st) 1:48.74 PR
16. Rey Rivera (heat 3, 3rd) 1:49.26 both qualified automatically

[birdman]

Thanks for posting the results, Nevada! Great to see so many Hoyas advance. Looks like the 10Ks were delayed for weather.

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I guess the weather delay was good for us. Two out of our three entries are going to Eugene.

10. Jon Green 29:29.59
12. Mike Crozier 29:37.81
37. Nick Golebiowski 30:56.79

The name of the game was survive consider the weather and make the top 12. Mike was the last qualifier and I can imagine Jon running faster, but to what avail. You don't want to beat yourself up with finals not too far away.

Tomorrow is the next round of the 800m, so we have two in the field of 24. Again, both Hoyas will be in the same heat, heat #1, along with the favorite Harris from PSU.

Heat Lane Athlete Affiliation SB Rank PB
1 1 Christopher JACKSON SR Bethune-Cookman 1:49.23 118 1:49.23
1 2 Rey RIVERA FR Georgetown 1:48.04 25 1:48.04
1 3 Dylan CAPWELL SR Monmouth 1:48.74 93 1:47.20
1 4 Alek SAUER JR Columbia 1:48.66 95 1:48.66
1 5 Marco AROP FR Miss State 1:47.45 13 1:47.45
1 6 Ruach PADHAL FR Georgetown 1:48.74 78 1:48.74
1 7 Isaiah HARRIS JR Penn State 1:45.31 2 1:45.12
1 8 Sean MUNNELLY JR UMass Lowell 1:48.68 42 1:48.68

Well, it worked today; hope it works tomorrow.

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On the western front

Sabrina Southerland won her heat in 2:07.80. Not the best time of the day, but again she did not have to run faster. She is going to stay at Oregon to complete her masters and will probably join one of the professional running clubs in Oregon.

Sam Nadel ran the 10000m and finished in the worst position, #13, with the top 12 going to Eugene. Her time was 33:06.61. She is also scheduled to run the 5000m on Saturday. The conditions for the 10000m were cool and windy.

[birdman]

Heck yeah, Jon and Mike! Good luck to Rey and Ruach today!

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Unfortunately, Ruach and Rey did not make it. But since they are freshmen, they should be able to build on their fine seasons and be able to contest at the eastern and national levels in succeeding years.

20. Rey Rivera (6th in heat one, which was the toughest heat; three of the top six overall came from heat one) 1:49.51
Ruach Padhal DNF I am wondering if he fell or had an injury. Stay tuned.

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Well, the women struck out at the regionals. The two women in the steeplechase did not fare well.

45. Margie Cullen 10:52.55 (15th in heat one)
46. Meredith Rizzo 10:58.22 (15th in heat two; 16 to a heat)

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However, the Georgetown women got some reflected glory on Sabrina Southerland's performance tonight. She only ran the fastest race by a collegian this year. Of course that was a PR.

The first two by time:

1 Sabrina SOUTHERLAND SR Oregon 2:00.72 Q 3 (1) PB
2 Avi' Tal WILSON-PERTEETE FR UNLV 2:01.14 Q 3 (2) PB

The freshman from UNLV was leading heat three until Sabrina passed her in the final straighaway.

Now Sabrina will perform before her Oregon fans.

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Brian threw higher than his seed mark, but misses by six places of moving on.

18 Bryan BJERK SR Georgetown 52.87m (173-5 ) 2 (7)