MAAC meet schedule and entries

Here is the meet schedule -- along with our team entries -- for this weekend's MAAC meet at Monmouth University. Note that the relay team members and order are always subject to change. Hope to see many family, friends and alumni there.

Saturday running events

4:00 p.m.: Women’s 100 hurdles trials

4:15 p.m.: Men’s 110 hurdles trials: Hakim Cunningham

4:30 p.m.: Women’s 100 dash trials: Danisha Craig, Danielle Asaro, Ashley Haynes, Alexia Santiago

4:40 p.m.: Men’s 100 dash trials: Tyler Schwarz, Brandon Heard

4:50 p.m.: Women’s 4x800 relay (Jenn Horner, Kristen Traub, Jenna Robinson, Janelle Solviletti)

5:05 p.m.: Men’s 4x800 relay (Nestor Taylor, Steven Morrison, Kyle Heubner, Nate Lungarini)

5:20 p.m.: Women’s 3,000 steeplechase: Nicki Nesi

5:35 p.m.: Men’s 3,000 steeplechase: Mark Valentino, Ken Walshak, Jake Hensler

5:50 p.m.: Women’s 10,000 run: Bianca Luparello, Brianna Freestone

6:30 p.m.: Men’s 10,000 run: Spencer Johnson, Dietrich Mosel, Steven Rizzo, Omar Perez

Sunday field event

11 a.m.: Women’s high jump: Fallon Quigley, Siobhan Pokorney

Sunday’s running events

12 noon: Women’s 4x100 relay (Ashley Haynes, Danielle Asaro, Molly Weeks, Danisha Craig)

12:05 p.m.: Men’s 4x100 relay (Tim Johnson, Tyler Schwarz, Matt Edwards, Hakim Cunningham)

12:10 p.m.: Women’s 1,500 run: Kristen Traub, Janelle Solviletti, Mariah Christian, Bryn Gorberg, Roxy Novo, Jackie Bunce, Lizzy Peper

12:25 p.m.: Men’s 1,500 run: Kyle Hannafin, Pat Ginty, Pat Rynkowski, Mark Valentino

12:40 p.m.: Women’s 100 hurdles finals

12:50 p.m.: Men’s 110 hurdles finals: To Be Determined

1:00 p.m.: Women’s 400 dash: Olivia Jaquith, Jenn Horner, Cassandra Iacono

1:15 p.m.: Men’s 400 dash: Tim Johnson

1:30 p.m.: Women’s 100 dash finals: To Be Determined

1:35 p.m.: Men’s 100 dash finals: To Be Determined

1:40 p.m.: Women’s 800 run: Jenna Robinson, Nicki Nesi, Marissa Porter, Bryn Gorberg, Emily Franko, Lizzy Peper, Allison Dellicarri

1:50 p.m.: Men’s 800 run: Steven Morrison, Nate Lungarini, Nestor Taylor, Kyle Heubner, Mark Vuono, Josh Siegel, Bryan Buttigieg

2:05 p.m.: Women’s 400 hurdles: Alexandra Hernandez, Meaghan Gillespie

2:15 p.m.: Men’s 400 hurdles: Hakim Cunningham, Joe Cafaro

2:30 p.m.: Women’s 200 dash: Danielle Asaro, Alexia Santiago

2:40 p.m.: Men’s 200 dash: Tyler Schwarz

2:50 p.m.: Women’s 5,000 run: Michelle Gaye, Mara Schiffhauer, Annie Gould, Elizabeth Wasserman, Bianca Luparello, Brianne Vess

3:10 p.m.: Men’s 5,000 run: Ken Walshak, Spencer Johnson, Stefan Morton, Steven Rizzo, Dietrich Mosel, Johnny Lee, Joe Miller

3:35 p.m.: Women’s 4x400 relay (Courtney Cartwright, Molly Weeks, Danisha Craig, Jenn Horner)

3:40 p.m.: Men’s 4x400 relay (Tim Johnson, Steven Morrison, Nate Lungarini, Matt Edwards)

Vassar meet schedule

Matthew Vassar Twilight Track Meet
Friday, May 1
Field event
4:30 p.m.: Women's high jump
Track events (heats fast to slow)
5:00 p.m.: 4x100 relay (women then men)
5:10 p.m.: 3,000 steeplechase (women then men)
5:45 p.m.: 100 dash (women then men)
5:55 p.m.: 110 hurdles (men) and 100 hurdles (women)
6:05 p.m.: 400 dash (women and men)
6:20 p.m.: 400 hurdles (men and women)
6:30 p.m.: 800 run (women and men)
6:55 p.m.: 200 dash (women and men)
7:15 p.m.: 1,500 run (women and men)
7:40 p.m.: 5,000 run (women and men)
8:20 p.m.: 4x400 relay (women and men)
8:35 p.m.: 10,000 run (combined)

Colorful practice: Purple steeple eaters

It was a festive practice this morning/afternoon at the Vassar Track, as many of our athletes put in their final hard paces before the upcoming MAAC Championships this weekend at Monmouth. Of course, "festive" is easy when the sun is bright and warm and the temperatures soar to the 70s. Nothing feels better than great spring weather, especially after the chilly days last week. Here is a photo of "steeple siblings" Nicki Nesi and Jake Hensler, who inadvertently dressed similarly on this day in purple and black (what's with Jake's goofy grin anyway?) and did similar workouts in which they did some intervals over hurdles on the track. Both runners are steeplechase specialists and both will be racing the event on Saturday at MAAC. Here's hoping the sun shines on us all this weekend as it did on Wednesday at practice.

Luke Shane: 7th place at New Jersey Marathon

Congrats to Marist Running Alum Luke Shane for his seventh place finish at the New Jersey Marathon on Sunday. Luke ran a strong time of 2:50:30, an average of 6:31 per mile. While he wasn't thrilled with the time, we are proud of his mostly solo effort after a difficult winter of training. Nicely done, Luke!

Who invited HIM?

It was a great weekend of alumni visits, starting with that troublemaker Deedy (who invited HIM? ... pictured here, trying to look like Kevin Youkilis) and Doug (Hild was in town but we didn't seem him). And then at the Yale meet, it was great to see Addie DiFrancesco and our old friend Bob Sweeney, in town from Colorado. And, of course, Conklin showed up with coffee for the coaches. Nicely done!

Plenty of assistance

The last few weeks of the outdoor track season, which happens to be right now, are among the busiest of the entire year in our calendar. In the span of a few weeks, there are several meets crammed in there, with several hundreds of miles that need to be traveled via bus and van. Usually, I am the primary van shuttler between Penn Relays, Yale, Vassar and daily practice. But these things cannot be accomplished on crutches, so Coach Horton and Coach Chuck have had an extremely busy few days.

On Thursday and Friday, Terry did the Penn shuffle, which involves driving our athletes down to the hotel outside of Philly, driving into Philly to get the Penn Relays packet, driving back to the hotel to get the athletes, and back to Philly for the meet. And then again on Friday, before returning to campus in the evening. A day “off” on Saturday to attend to family things, and then back at it at Yale on Sunday.

Chuck? Yikes! He had quite the whirlwind weekend. He checked in at the ladies’ practice on Thursday afternoon, then drove down to Penn for the Thursday night distance races. He left Penn on Thursday night and drove to Mahwah, NJ, crashing there for a few hours before going to his teaching job on Friday morning. He worked a full day, came to practice in the afternoon, and then drove the women who were competing on Saturday at Penn down to Philly again on Friday afternoon/evening. Up early for Kristi Licursi’s awesome racewalk on Saturday morning; back to Franklin Field for the women’s 4x800 relay on Saturday afternoon; back to Poughkeepsie late Saturday night; up early Sunday for the Yale meet all day. And then at night, it was trying to figure out the entries for this week’s meets. And then, back at work on Monday morning. Phew. Got all that?

And now this week, we have the Vassar Twilight meet on Friday night, followed by MAAC on Saturday/Sunday down at Monmouth. It’s a lot of traveling, planning and logistics in a short amount of time. It’s a lot of assistance from our assistant coaches, and we insist that they are the best guys for the job. We are grateful for them each and every day, but especially in these busy late April days. Nicely done.

Yale Springtime Invitational: Men's results and splits

Another hurdle school record for Hakim Cunningham, two in two weeks! This week, it was the 400-meter hurdles and he ran a great race from start to finish. Also, many other fine performances as we head into championships. Thanks to Spencer Johnson for his excellent splits and excellent penmanship too!

Yale Springtime Invitational

Sunday, April 26, 2015

New Haven, CT

Men’s results and splits

100-meter dash

12. Tyler Schwarz 11.38

400-meter dash

12. Tim Johnson 51.49

800-meter run

5. Steven Morrison 1:55.01 (55, 60)

13. Nate Lungarini 1:57.92 (58, 59)

17. Nestor Taylor 1:59.45 (58, 61)

18. Josh Siegel 1:59.87 (60, 59)

21. Mark Vuono 2:00.91 (57, 63)

29. Patrick Ginty 2:03.05 (59, 64)

30. Bryan Buttigieg 2:03.15 (59, 64)

31. Kyle Heubner 2:03.72 (59, 64)

1,500-meter run

11. Stefan Morton 4:04.89

63, 2:07 (64), 3:14 (67), 4:04.89 (50.89)

15. Kyle Hannafin 4:07.80

63, 2:09 (66), 3:17 (68), 4:07.80 (50.08)

20. Pat Ryknowski 4:10.63

64, 2:10 (66), 3:18 (68), 4:10.63 (52.63)

21. Steven Rizzo 4:13.48

64, 2:09 (65), 3:18 (69), 4:13.48 (55.48)

25. Charlie Ropes 4:17.95

64, 2:15 (71), 3:26 (71), 4:17.95 (51.95)

26. Nick Vandermolen (unattached)

65, 2:15 (70), 3:27 (72), 4:18.44 (51.44)

28. Sami Ellougani 4:19.01

68, 2:16 (68), 3:27 (71), 4:19.01 (52.01)

31. Ricky Willi 4:25.58

65, 2:16 (71), 3:32 (76), 4:25.58 (53.58)

32. Will Duggan 4:30.26

67, 2:19 (72), 3:34 (75), 4:30.26 (56.26)

34. Eddie White 4:35.66

66, 2:23 (77), 3:42 (79), 4:35.66 (53.66)

36. James Ball 4:36.67

66, 2:21 (75), 3:40 (79), 4:36.67 (56.67)

5,000-meter run

12. Dietrich Mosel 15:28.13

74, 2:29 (75), 3:44 (75), 4:58 (74)

6:13 (75), 7:28 (75), 8:43 (75), 9:58 (75)

11:14 (76), 12:31 (77), 13:45 (74), 14:56 (71)

15:28.13 (32.13)

13. Johnny Lee 15:29.32

74, 2:29 (75), 3:43 (74), 4:57 (74)

6:13 (76), 7:28 (75), 8:43 (75), 9:58 (75)

11:14 (76), 12:30 (76), 13:44 (74), 14:56 (72)

15:29.32 (33.32)

19. Omar Perez 15:47.02

74, 2:29 (75), 3:44 (75), 4:58 (74)

6:13 (75), 7:28 (75), 8:43 (75), 9:58 (75)

11:15 (77), 12:33 (78), 13:52 (79), 15:09 (77)

15:47.02 (38.02)

400-meter hurdles

3. Hakim Cunningham 55.60 *school record, old record 56.20, Zach Berzal, 2014

3,000-meter steeplechase

5. Zach Toner 10:43.01

83, 2:50 (86), 4:19 (88), 5:51 (92), 7:26 (95), 9:00 (94), 10:32 (92), 10:43.01 (9.01)

400-meter relay

4. Marist (Tim Johnson, Tyler Schwarz, Matt Edwards, Hakim Cunningham) 43.76

1,600-meter relay

1-Marist (Hakim Cunningham 53.0, Steven Morrison 51.6, Tim Johnson 51.7, Matt Edwards 52.3) 3:28.97

3,200-meter relay

2. Marist A (Stefan Morton 2:01.6, Steven Rizzo 2:07.2, Charlie Ropes 2:06.4, Pat Ginty 2:04.9) 8:19.98

4. Marist B (Nestor Taylor 2:02.5, Josh Siegel 2:11.5, Nate Lungarini 2:05.7, Mark Vuono 2:06.4) 8:26.29

Yale Springtime Invitational: Women's results and splits

The day was a bit cooler and breezier than initially expected. Some excellent performances across the board as we head toward the championship portion of the season. Thanks to Spencer Johnson for taking excellent and meticulous splits.

Yale Springtime Invitational

Sunday, April 26, 2015

New Haven, CT

Women’s results and splits

100-meter dash

5. Danisha Craig 12.50

8. Danielle Asaro 12.66

13. Ashley Haynes 12.93

22. Alexia Santiago 14.14

200-meter dash

8. Danielle Asaro 25.92

36. Alexia Santiago 31.30

800-meter run

9. Nicki Nesi 2:21.81 (69, 72)

19. Bryn Gorberg 2:27.63 (70, 77)

26. Marissa Porter 2:32.43 (71, 81)

27. Kim Schwartz 2:32.83 (73, 79)

28. Olivia Lappas 2:34.25 (74, 79)

30. Catherine Ferreri 2:35.42 (76, 78)

31. Shannon Gildea 2:35.72 (76, 79)

34. Christine Gambell 2:37.91 (76, 81)

35. Emily Franko 2:37.92 (76, 81)

36. Lizzy Peper 2:39.24 (77, 81)

37. Bianca Luparello 2:39.29 (75, 84)

41. Lauren Traina 2:42.44 (75, 87)

1,500-meter run

3. Nicki Nesi 4:48.70

78, 2:35 (77) , 3:52 (78), 4:48.70 (56.70)

14. Roxy Novo 5:06.08

78, 2:37 (79), 4:03 (86), 5:06.08 (63.08)

20. Jackie Bunce 5:12.77

79, 2:43 (84), 4:10 (87), 5:12.77 (62.77)

21. Lizzy Peper 5:13.90

80, 2:44 (84), 4:09 (85), 5:13.90 (64.90)

22. Bianca Luparello 5:19.66

78, 2:47 (89), 4:15 (91), 5:19.66 (64.66)

24. Jaime Durso 5:21.13

80, 2:47 (87), 4:17 (90), 5:21.13 (64.13)

26. Taylor Mueller 5:24.30

82, 2:49 (87), 4:19 (90), 5:24.30 (65.30)

30. Emily Franko 5:31.84

78, 2:47 (89), 4:19 (95), 5:31.84 (72.84)

3,000-meter run

2. Mariah Christian 10:47.80

84, 2:50 (86), 4:16 (86), 5:43 (87)

7:10 (87), 8:39 (89), 10:06 (87), 10:47.80 (41.80)

3. Brianne Vess 10:51.78

84, 2:50 (86), 4:16 (86), 5:43 (87)

7:10 (87), 8:40 (90), 10:08 (88), 10:51.78 (43.78)

9. Kerri-Anne Flynn 11:54.20

87, 3:01 (95), 4:41 (100), 6:19 (97)

7:55 (96), 9:32 (97), 11:10 (98), 11:54.20 (44.20)

10. Allison Dellicarri 12:00.58

86, 3:00 (94), 4:35 (95), 6:13 (98)

7:53 (90), 9:32 (102), 11:16 (101), 12:00.58 (44.58)

400-meter hurdles

6. Courtney Cartwright 1:07.23

9. Alexandra Hernandez 1:08.53

400-meter relay

4. Marist (Ashley Haynes, Danielle Asaro, Molly Weeks, Danisha Craig) 49.40

1,600-meter relay

2. Marist (Courtney Cartwright, Danisha Craig, Alexandra Hernandez, Molly Weeks) 4:13.74

High jump

2. Fallon Quigley 1.55 meters (5 feet, 1 inch)

Penn Relays: Women's 4x800 relay results

Our final event of the long weekend at Penn Relays was the women’s 4x800 relay. Coach Chuck reported that the ladies had to sit/stand in the paddock area for about 20 minutes, waiting for their heat to hit the track. This is typical of the crowded Penn Relays, and it makes it difficult for athletes to be properly warmed up for their events. Not an excuse at all; any athlete who has run a relay at Penn will tell you that’s the deal. It does make it tough for them. We were hoping for a bit better, but the same four ladies will give it a go next weekend at MAACs and we’ll be hoping for bigger and better things. Here are the the results, with the official splits courtesy of the Penn Relays Web site.

Penn Relays

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Women’s 3,200-meter relay

22. Marist (Jenn Horner 2:22.14, Kristen Traub 2:16.83, Jenna Robinson 2:21.70, Janelle Solviletti 2:18.86). 9:19.52.

Next up: Yale Invitational on Sunday.

Penn Relays: 5,000-meter racewalk results

Call it “Breakfast at Penn.” Kristi Licursi opened up the day at 8 a.m., in the women’s junior racewalk, placing 14th overall among the juniors in 26:46.14. This was a 31-second PR for Kristi. We are so proud of her efforts in the racewalk, which is her singular pursuit on the team. And, we are thrilled she was able to do it on the big stage at Penn Relays this morning. You can see her with a proud Coach Chuck after the race, and splits courtesy of Chuck are below. 

Penn Relays

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Women’s junior 5,000-meter racewalk

14. Kristi Licursi 26:46.14

2:00.28, 4:02.80 (2:02.52), 6:09.49 (2:06.69), 8:14.81 (2:05.32)

10:20.74 (2:05.93), 12:28.35 (2:07.61), 14:37.17 (2:08.82), 16:48.62 (2:11.45)

19:01.94 (2:13.32), 21:16.36 (2:14.42), 23:31.38 (2:15.02), 25:43.22 (2:11.84)

26:46.14 (1:02.92)

1600m splits: 8:14.81, 8:33.81, 8:54.60