February's Track Meets

[Nevada Hoya]

The first weekend of February starts with the Hoyas in two different meets again. The Armory Invitational Meet will be in New York City at the NY Armory on Feb. 4 and 5. The same days some of the Hoyas will be at Notre Dame for the Meyo Invitational Meet.

[Nevada Hoya]

Apparently, the men's mile at the Meyo meet at Notre Dame will be pretty good with our own Chris Lukezic one of the attractions:

So far I've heard Benninger and Somok from Notre Dame, Spiker from Wisconsin, The Jeffersons from IU, Lukezic from Georgetown, this DII guy who ran 4:05, and Watson formerly of Notre Dame. I wouldn't be surprised if some other Wisco guys jumped in, maybe Willis, and then possibly Gras or Greenless. Should be a pretty decent field but we will see how it plays out. Peace

[Nevada Hoya]

The only results that I could find from last night were from the Meyo meet at Notre Dame. The only entry last night was the women's distance medley relay (the men did not have an entry and no entries last night). The Hoyas' DMR team did great as they were second to Michigan in a time of 11:08.6, which is an automatic qualifier for the NCAAs. UM was 11:05.33, and the 3rd place team was 11 seconds behind the Hoyas.

[Nevada Hoya]

More action for Saturday's edition of the Meyo meet in ND.

Women

400m
10. Kandy Ferguson 56.28

Mile
3. Colleen Kelly 4:43.59 (good run for grad student Colleen and gets her a provisonal qualifier for the NCAAs)

800
10. Nana Hanson-Hall 2:09.72
11. Maggie Infeld 2:09.76
15. Sabine Knothe 2:11.24
16. Meghan O'Neill 2:11.46

PV
5. Leilani Green 11'5.75"

Men

400
35. Jared Jenkins 50.09

1 Mile (special Meyo mile in which the Jefferson twins of Indiana went 3:56 and 3:57!)
11. Tommy Manning 4:07.71
(Chris Lukezic did not run)

800m
10. Stanley Lagrenade 1:51.06
17. Nat Glackin 1:52.18
34. Neil Grosscup 1:55.46

[reformation]

glad to see that times have improved, Nevada do you know who ran the women's DMR legs.

[Nevada Hoya]

I don't know who ran the legs on the DMR. I just can conjecture that Colleen Kelly, who was 3rd in the mile behind Lindsey Gallo from Michigan, Maggie Infeld, Nana Hanson-Hall, and Kandance Ferguson. Probably Maggie ran the 1200, Kandy the 400, and Nana the 800. Lindsey Gallo got the fastest mile time of the year in 4:37.97, which was an automatic qualifier, with Colleen at 4:43.59; they were probably both anchoring for their respective teams. Lindsey had a 6 second advantage in the mile, but Michigan won the DMR by three seconds.

[Nevada Hoya]

I made a pretty good guess on the makeup of the women's DMR. The following is from a Spiked Shoe Club email that I received today.

The Hoyas participated in the Meyo Invitational @ Notre Dame this past Friday-Saturday, February 4-5, 2005. This was another outstanding weekend for us, especially for our women's DMR on Friday night. That was followed by a number of "All Time" list performances on Saturday.
Women:
DMR: 11:08.60 #3 All Time at Georgetown
NCAA Automatic Qualfier
1200: Maggie Infeld (3:26.7) #7 All Time
400: Kandance Ferguson(54.4) #15 All Time
800: Nana Hanson-Hall(2:09.0) #16 All Time
1600: Colleen Kelly(4:38.2) #2 All Time


This was a great job by a relatively young group. (Freshman-Sophomore-Sophomore-grad). In 2004 four seniors (Colleen Kelly-Monica Hargrove-Maura McCusker-Treniere Clement) set the school record of 11:07.24 and in 1997 four seniors (Maxine Clark-Ayana Wright-Amy Ross-Miesha Marzell) won the NCAA championship running 11:08.54. As you can see, this #3 all time performance is in some great company.

Other "All Time" list performances by athletes who found their way onto the list for the first time or moved up from a previous performance were:

Colleen Kelly (above plus 4:43.59 in the mile for #5 all time)
Stanley Lagrenade (800 and 4 x 400 carry)
Kandance Ferguson (above plus open 400)
Nana Hanson-Hall (above plus open 800)
Maggie Infeld (above plus open 800)
Kelley Otstott (800)
Sabine Knothe (800)


Remember, our next phonathon night is Wednesday, February 9. Pick up your phone and make a gift to support Georgetown Track & Field.

This coming weekend we will have a hand full of men's distance runners in Boston plus another 13 men and 12 women at Virginia Tech. The Big East is just around the corner on February 19-20 in Syracuse. Come out and cheer on the Hoyas!

[Nevada Hoya]

This weekend offers us a choice of three meets: the Fastrack Invitational at Boston U., the USTCA Challenge at Penn State, and the Virginia Tech Invitational at VT. As the Spiked Shoe newsletter indicated, most will be at VT, plus some distance runners in Boston. For those in Syracuse plan on coming out to the dome to cheer for the Hoyas in the BE meet next week.

[Nevada Hoya]

Some entries in the Boston St. Valentine's meet are as follows:

1000m
Michael Banks

3000m
Fleet Hower
Chris Esselborn
Brian Dalpiaz
Michael Banks

5000m
Rob Koborsi
Steve Meinelt (competing unattached)

[Nevada Hoya]

Alumna Treniere Clement won the women's mile at the Tyson Meet in Arkansas in 4:39.21.

[Nevada Hoya]

At the Boston St. Valentine's Day races:

3000m
6. Fleet Hower 8:13.87
11. Chris Esselborn 8:25.34
13. Brian Dalpiaz 8:28.7
(2. Matt Debole 8:08.97; he is really a talented runner; too bad he was such a jerk.)

5000m
2. Rob Koborsi 13:53.35 (speak about a talented runner; Rod has developed into one of the best distance runners in the US).

[Nevada Hoya]

Results from the Virginia Tech meet last night:

Women

55m
24. Kandy Ferguson 7.41
26. Cinya Burton 7.45

500m
3. Meghan O'Neil 1:16.4

TJ
14. Ashley Mondie 11.47m
17. Alex Baptiste 11.16m

Men

55m
38. Jon Geffrard 6.69
47. Jesse Patterson 6.77

500m
1. Stanley Lagrenade 1:03.91

1000m
7. Alex Guney 2:31.74

TJ
ND Teddy Presley

[Nevada Hoya]

The Saturday session at the Boston meet:

800m
1. Alumnus Jesse O'Connell 1:48.91

1000m
18. Michael Banks (I believe he is from Mass., so this was a homecoming for him) 2:30.22

[Nevada Hoya]

The final session at the Virginia Tech meet:

Women

200m
15. Kandy Ferguson 25.09
29. Nichole Torpey 25.57
67. Cinya Burton 26.91

400m
7. Ashley Hubbard 56.48
24. Jayne Penn 58.75

Mile
DNF Erin Henry

800m
11. Sabine Knothe 2:17.19

3000m
20. Melissa Grelli 10:35.3

4x400
1. Georgetown A 3:45.56
12. Georgetown B 3:56.77

PV
3. Leilani Greene 3.7m

LJ
17. Ashley Mondie 5.42 m
30. Alex Baptiste 5.15m

Men

200m
21. Jon Geffrard 22.41
52. Jesse Patterson 23.24
81. Teddy Presley 25.14

400m
7. Chris Bonner 48.76
23. Jared Jenkins 50.27
62. Nick Jammet 55.8

Mile
7. Charlie Millioen 4:15.52
37. Tim Erickson 4:34.39

800m
27. Alex Guney 1:56.73
59. Win Weatherspoon 2:01.87

3000m
13. Rasheed Thompson 8:35.41
DNF Charlie Millioen

LJ
37. Teddy Presley 5.43m

4x400m
4. Georgetown 3:17.25

[reformation]

looks like debole is kind of shadow running with the team--guess he will be back for next year. Times looked good for the top runners, second level runners don't seem to be improving though

[Nevada Hoya]

I think a lot of those 2nd level runners are freshman, so I am hoping that summer training will get them over the hump. I think Jon Geffrard shows promise, as 22.xx indoors is pretty good for a freshman (although not as good as the East Carolina freshman, who broke 45 s indoors for the 400m this weekend, only the 2nd or 3rd to have done that - Michael Johnson being the only one I am sure of).

[HoyaHoyaHoya]

Actually Geffrard is a sophomore. He tranfered to Georgetown this year. But he does seem to show alot of promise

[Nevada Hoya]

Thanks, H3; I hadn't seen his name on any results previously, so I assumed he was a frosh. Thanks for the correction.

[Nevada Hoya]

Good to see that Leilani Greene's mark at VT is a school record, breaking her own mark.

[Nevada Hoya]

Three freshmen traveled to Portland, Oregon to participate in the National XC Junior meet. Their places and times:
28. Daniel Nunn 27:04.4
36. Shane Young 27:52.6
43. Scott Bastek 28:16.7