Yale Springtime Invitational

Below are results and splits from Yale on Sunday. As stated in last night’s post, the weather was not as bad as predicted.

The weather definitely favored the longer events (mid distance and long distance) while not being ideal for sprinting. I think the results bear this out, although the sprinters had a pretty decent day overall – notwithstanding the botched 4x100 handoff on the men’s side, which we will work to perfect this week. For the Penn Relays entrants, it was a long weekend of travel and racing and they got through it well.

The season now rounds the corner and heads for the finishing stretch …

Men’s results and splits

100-meter dash

Mike McCloskey 11.90
Darrey Bushey 11.95
Miquel Requena 12.10
Neal Viets 12.43

200-meter dash

Phil Krupka 23.75
Colin Frederickson 23.85
John Kristie 24.67
Darren Bushey 24.70
Josh Lopez 24.86
Miquel Requena 25.20

400-meter dash

Chris Vanzetta 53.03 (season best)

800-meter run

Kyle Havard 1:58.57 (season best)
Coach Pete says: Best race in a while, great bounce-back effort.

Dan Conklin 2:02.08 (season best)
Coach Pete says: Great job stepping up in distance.

1,500-meter run

Tom Lipari 4:03.69 (season best)
65, 2:11 (66), 3:16 (35), 4:03.69 (last 400m in 63.69)
Coach Pete says: Strong race but kick can get better.

Sam McMullen 4:04.01 (HUGE personal best)
65, 2:12 (67), 3:15 (33), 4:04.01 (last 400m in 64.01)
Coach Pete says: Wow! Wow! Wow!

Billy Posch 4:07.63 (personal best)
65, 2:11 (66), 3:17 (66), 4:07.63
Coach Pete says: Strong race but kick can get better.

Matt Panebianco 4:08.21 (personal best)
63.6, 2:09.5 (65.9), 3:17.1 (67.6), 4:08.21 (running in fastest section)
Coach Pete says: Went out too aggressively in fast heat.

Pat Duggan 4:10.79 (HUGE personal best)
65.3, 2:12.9 (67.6), 3:20.6 (67.7), 4:10.79
Coach Pete says: Wow! Wow! Wow!

Zak Smetana 4:15.36
66, 2:12 (66), 3:19 (67), 4:15.36)

Ryan Brown 4:19.35 (personal best)
66, 2:18 (72), 3:29 (71), 4:19.35
Coach Pete says: Excellent kick and race!

Ryan Fitzsimons 4:19.73 (HUGE personal best)
66, 2:16 (70), 3:28 (72), 4:19.73
Coach Pete says: A little too slow in the middle but overall an excellent effort start to finish.

Colin Johnson 4:19.84
64, 2:14 (70), 3:25 (71), 4:19.84

3,000-meter steeplechase

Greg Masto 10:54.61
82, 2:51 (89), 4:24 (93), 5:59 (95), 7:35 (96), 9:10 (95), 10:54.61 (94.61)

5,000-meter run

(Note: Thanks to M-Diddy Panebianco and Billy Posch for helping with the splits. M-Diddy guessed his predicted order of finish and predicted finishing times. They are listed below the splits. I said before the race that I would be thrilled with his predictions, and three of the BRO freshmen actually ran FASTER than the M-Diddy prognostication)

Sean Nestor 15:25.07 (personal best)
72, 2:25 (73), 3:37 (72), 4:51 (74)
6:05 (74), 7:20 (75), 8:34 (74), 9:50 (76)
11:05 (75), 12:21 (76), 13:36 (75), 14:49 (73)
15:25.07 (36.07)
Panebianco’s prerace prediction: 15:29.4

Joel Moss 15:33.56 (personal best)
73, 2:26 (73), 3:39 (73), 4:52 (73)
6:07 (75), 7:22 (75), 8:37 (75), 9:52 (75)
11:09 (77), 12:27 (78), 13:43 (76), 14:58 (75)
15:33.56 (35.56)
Panebianco’s prerace prediction: 15:36.7
Coach Pete says: Joel’s high school 3200 PR was well over 10:00. To see him split 9:52 for 3200 and 14:58 for 4800 is truly awe-inspiring. The pride of B’ville has had himself quite a nice freshman year of collegiate running.

Mike Keegan 15:40.88 (HUGE personal best)
74, 2:27 (73), 3:41 (74), 4:56 (75)
6:10 (74), 7:27 (77), 8:43 (76), 9:59 (76)
11:14 (75), 12:31 (77), 13:47 (76), 15:04 (77)
15:40.88 (36.88)
Panebianco’s prerace prediction: 15:53.8
Coach Pete says: Meegan was a little quicker than Joel in high school, but not much. Like Joel, he was thoroughly unrecruited. To see him split 9:59 and 15:04 was equally awe-inspiring. And in one of the more unique moments in Marist racing history, Meegan actually did the Sign of the Cross as he split 15:04 with 200 meters to go -- much to the great pleasure of his teammates, who erupted in cheers as he ran toward the finish line and his massive PR, his first sub-16:00. Good stuff!

David Raucci 15:52.23
72, 2:24 (72), 3:37 (73), 4:51 (74)
6:07 (76), 7:22 (75), 8:37 (75), 9:56 (79)
11:16 (80), 12:36 (80), 13:56 (80), 15:13 (77)
15:52.23 (39.23)
Panebianco’s prerace prediction: 15:10.2
Coach Pete says: Clearly from 3000 meters to the finish, David was in dire need of a nap. Our favorite Barefoot Boy has been studying feverishly in the hopes of making the grade to get to graduation, and that is obviously his primary focus these days. Still, he was able to help the boys by being a human pacer and then target. Hopefully, David has one good race left in him before graduation.

Will Schanz 16:18.24 (personal best)
74, 2:28 (74), 3:44 (74), 5:01 (77), 6:17 (76), 7:35 (78), 8:55 (80), 10:14 (79), 11:34 (80), 12:54 (80), 14:17 (83), 15:40 (83), 16:18.24 (38.24)
Panebianco’s prerace prediction: 15:59.9
Coach Pete says: Will went out way too hard. I knew it, but apparently he did not. Too bad, as I do believe he is ready to break 16:00. Still, a PR is a PR, and we’ll take it.

400-meter intermediate hurdles
Mike Clifford 1:00.16

1,600-meter relay
Marist 3:31.61 (Josh Lopez 53.22, Colin Frederickson 51.57, Chris Vanzetta 53.12, Mike Clifford 53.24)

Women’s results and splits

100-meter dash
Kim Ladouceur 14.46

200-meter dash
Holly Burns 26.99

400-meter dash
Holly Burns 59.40

800-meter run
Brittany Burns 2:25.29
Kim Bartlett 2:26.81
Jillian Corley 2:32.21
Kelley Gould 2:40.52

1500-meter run

Brittany Burns 4:48.69
76.0, 2:33.2 (77.2), 3:50.6 (77.4), 4:48.69 (77.69 last 400m)
Coach Pete says: Excellent race as Brit continues her slow march back from mono. Strong kick!

Jillian Corley 4:57.10
78, 2:39 (81), 3:58 (79), 4:57.10 (78.10 last 400m)

Julie Hudak 5:02.69
78, 2:38 (80), 4:00 (82), 5:02.69 (81.69 last 400m)

Allyson O’Brien 5:17.39
79, 2:43 (84), 4:12 (89), 5:17.39 (88.39 last 400m)

3000-meter run

Katie Messina 10:39.10
81, 2:45 (84), 4:10 (85), 5:37 (87)
7:03 (86), 8:32 (89), 9:59 (87), 10:39.10 (40.10 last 200m)

Rachel Lichtenwalner 11:42.71
86, 2:56 (90), 4:28 (92), 6:02 (94), 7:39 (97), 9:18 (99), -- (missed split), 11:42.71

Pole vault

Justine Colabraro 2.95 meters (9 feet, 8 inches)
Coach Pete says: The pole vault was moved inside and Justine had a good day. Coach Horton would have liked it to be an even better day so he could have stayed in there longer and avoid the cold/damp weather, but in all good stuff.

Long jump
Brooke Kristensen 4.28 meters (14 feet, 0.5 inches)