The 400-meter relay team of Mike McCloskey, Connor Dodge, Darren Bushey and Jesse Aprile competed at Penn Relays on Friday afternoon. Racing in Heat 10, the guys got fifth and were the 76th team out of 88 teams entered with a time of 44.07 seconds. The time was 1.07 seconds slower than the school record of 43.00 set at the Vassar meet two weeks ago.
Here is the play-by-play of today’s relay:
- McCloskey led off without blocks, as per Penn policy with most of the heats. This was a slight disadvantage, but an even bigger disadvantage happened when Mike took off at the gun, as he was buffeted by a stiff headwind that pretty much stood him up. This slowed him down dramatically, but he did his best and handed off to …
- Connor Dodge, a late replacement for Tyler Schwarz, who has been nursing a hamstring injury. Connor ran very well in his first sprint relay of the year. He received the baton well from Mike, accelerated down the backstretch and handed off successfully to …
- Darren Bushey, who continued to run the team back into the race on the curve. After Darren’s strong leg, he executed a near flawless handoff (he said the best of the season so far) to …
- Anchor leg Jesse Aprile, who brought it home strongly into that same headwind that Mike fought into at the start. Jesse’s form looked great as he sprinted the team through the line at 44.07.
All things considered, there were more positives than
negatives to take out of this. And overall, our small squad of athletes that
competed at Penn on Thursday and Friday did the program proud.
Next stop: Yale
on Sunday.
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