Monmouth Season Opener: Men's results and splits

If you live in the Northeast and you are a follower of our program, and you weren’t at Monmouth on Saturday, you were probably thinking: Hmmm. Nice day here. Must be beautiful down there at Monmouth for the track team. Well. You’d be wrong. Now, don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t terrible here in West Long Branch. It just wasn’t all that pleasant – low to mid 50s and strong, persistent winds. Hoodies, winter hats and gloves were the norm. Probably not where you were on Saturday (a quick check at the mid-Hudson Valley weather throughout the day revealed that it was about 15 degrees warmer!), but at Monmouth all day? Yes. Again. It could have been worse. We’re not complaining at all. Well. Maybe a little. Our men had a decent season-opening meet, with the big highlights coming from big PR efforts from James Moehringer (1,500) and Patrick Kutch (5,000). Moe broke 4:00 for the first time and Kutchy dipped under 16:00 (convincingly). Good stuff.

Monmouth University Season Opener

West Long Branch, NJ

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Men’s results and splits

100-meter dash

20. Jeremy Mooney 11.66

31. Jon Green 12.10

400-meter dash

31. Santosh Krishnan 53.21

36. Patrick Beglane 54.24

800-meter run

11. Cole Ziskind 2:00.73

35. Trevor Garrity 2:12.87

40. Anthony Colasanto 2:19.86

1,500-meter run

3. James Moehringer 3:59.78

62, 2:07 (65), 3:11 (64), 3:59.78 (48.78)

8. Mike Kennedy 4:06.69

66, 2:11 (65), 3:16 (65), 4:06.69 (50.69)

16. Palmer Weimann 4:11.22

67, 2:14 (67), 3:20 (66), 4:11.22 (51.22)

22. Matthew Hawker 4:14.13

67, 2:13 (66), 3:19 (66), 4:14.13 (55.13)

27. Conor Stack 4:16.22

64, 2:12 (68), 3:24 (72), 4:16.22 (52.22)

29. Sam Goldzweig 4:18.74

65, 2:14 (69), 3:25 (71), 4:18.74 (53.74)

3,000-meter run

8. Brendan Zeng 9:07.67

71, 2:23 (72), 3:35 (72), 4:48 (73)

6:02 (74), 7:18 (76), 8:32 (75), 9:07.67 (35.67)

5,000-meter run

11. Elias Platanias 15:44.75

75, 2:28 (73), 3:42 (74), 4:57 (75)

6:11 (74), 7:26 (75), 8:43 (77), 9:59 (76)

11:16 (77), 12:35 (79), 13:51 (76), 15:08 (77)

15:44.75 (36.75)

14. Patrick Kutch 15:54.13

76, 2:30 (74), 3:45 (75), 5:00 (75)

6:16 (76), 7:33 (77), 8:50 (77), 10:06 (76)

11:24 (78), 12:42 (78), 14:01 (79), 15:17 (76)

15:54.13 (37.13)

22. Alex Hogue 16:38.39

76, 2:29 (73), 3:45 (76), 5:01 (76)

6:22 (81), 7:43 (81), 9:04 (81), 10:28 (84)

11:52 (84), 13:16 (84), 14:40 (84), 16:02 (82)

16:38.39 (36.39)

1,600-meter relay

10. Marist (Pat Beglane 54.6, Santosh Krishnan 52.3, Josh Hindle 51.8, Matthew Hawker 52.8) 3:32.05

3,200-meter relay

4. Marist (Conor Stack 2:11.4, James Moehringer 2:00.8, Aidan Sweeney 2:08.1, Sam Goldzweig 2:06.2) 8:26.85

Monmouth Season Opener: Women's results and splits

A good start for a small squad of women at windy and chilly Monmouth. Senior captain Debbie Boerke won the 400-meter hurdles and got the ECAC qualifying mark out of the way in a hurry. Senior captain Kerry Gaye and junior Ali Bartolotta had strong races in the 1,500, getting fourth and fifth place. We look forward to reuniting most of the team next weekend at Colonial Relays.

Monmouth University Season Opener

West Long Branch, NJ

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Women’s results and splits

200-meter dash

15. Camille McHenry 27.05

57. Ericka Stewart 29.73

400-meter dash

32. Grace Cepeda 1:03.57

800-meter run

15. Maddie Tooker 2:25.68

17. Rebecca Walters 2:26.56

22. Jillian Laliberte 2:28.78

1,500-meter run

4. Kerry Gaye 4:49.51

76, 2:34 (78), 3:53 (79), 4:49.51 (56.51)

5. Alexandra Bartolotta 4:50.90

78, 2:36 (78), 3:53 (77), 4:50.90 (57.90)

12. Boushra Belkhir 4:56.83

77, 2:36 (79), 3:56 (80), 4:56.83 (1:00.83)

13. Kayla Sexton 5:00.40

77, 2:39 (82), 4:01 (82), 5:00.40 (59.40)

24. Samantha DeStefani 5:15.95

78, 2:43 (85), 4:11 (84), 5:15.95 (1:04.95)

400-hurdles

1-Debbie Boerke 1:02.94 *ECAC qualifier

Monmouth Season Opener: Time schedule

Our first meet of the outdoor track season is Saturday at Monmouth. Weather forecast right now is calling for relatively mild (mid-60s) and breezy conditions (not surprising, since the campus is very close to the Jersey Shore). For this meet at this time of year, we’ll take it. Here is the time schedule and order of events for the meet.

Monmouth University Season Opener

West Long Branch, NJ

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Order of events

9 a.m.: Women’s 10km (1 heat)

9:45 a.m.: Men’s 10km (1 heat)

10:20 a.m.: Women’s 400 hurdles (3-4 heats)

10:35 a.m.: Men’s 400 hurdles (4 heats)

10:55 a.m.: Women’s 1,500 (5 heats)

11:30 a.m.: Men’s 1,500 (4 heats)

11:55 a.m.: Women’s 4x100 relay (3 heats)

12:05 p.m.: Men’s 4x100 relay (3 heats)

12:25 p.m.: Women’s 100 hurdles (3 heats)

12:40 p.m.: Men’s 110 hurdles (3 heats)

12:55 p.m.: Women’s elite/college 3,000 (1 heat)

1:15 p.m.: Men’s elite/college 3,000 (1 heat)

1:35 p.m.: Women’s 400 (9 heats)

1:55 p.m.: Men’s 400 (9 heats)

2:10 p.m.: Women’s 100 (7 heats)

2:25 p.m.: Men’s 100 (7 heats)

2:40 p.m.: Women’s 800 (5 heats)

3:00 p.m.: Men’s 800 (5 heats)

3:15 p.m.: Women’s 200 (11 heats)

3:35 p.m.: Men’s 200 (11 heats)

3:50 p.m.: Women’s 3,000 steeplechase (1 heat)

4:05 p.m.: Men’s 3,000 steeplechase (1 heat)

4:20 p.m.: Women’s 5,000 (1 heat)

4:45 p.m.: Men’s 5,000 (1 heat)

5:05 p.m.: Women’s 4x800 relay (1 heat)

5:15 p.m.: Men’s 4x800 relay (1 heat)

5:25 p.m.: Women’s 4x400 relay (4 heats)

5:35 p.m.: Men’s 4x400 relay (4 heats)

Happy Opening Day

As I have gotten older, my sports interests have narrowed greatly. Now, the only sport that I follow on a semi-regular basis is Major League Baseball. Today is Opening Day. So, this is a special day in our world. MLB finally got it right. The games in Japan last week notwithstanding, today is a true Opening Day. All teams play today. All teams play day games, the way God intended it. It’s still chilly outside, but with baseball season getting in full swing, the weather should warm up nicely in the coming weeks. I love baseball because it is a constant, daily companion. There’s always a game every day, and with our dual rooting interests in the Yankees and Mets, rarely are they off on the same day. In my personal quest for digital minimalism (see previous post), I have disabled all notifications from my phone … with two exceptions, one of them being the MLB At-Bat app (the other, of course, is Accuweather). So … here we go. Baseball every day. Scores and stats to check. Things to discuss. Having just read several preview articles while my youngest son was getting a root canal (yeah … I know …), here are my takes on 2019:

--My beloved Yankees will be good. Really good. But not as good as the hated Red Sox (yeah, Tosh, they’ll be better).

--My equally beloved Mets will disappoint us once again. Strong pitching, yes; still-too-weak lineup, also yes. Bad news? Not really ... it means cheap seats aplenty at Citi Field starting in July!

--Smart-aleck manager Joe Maddon of the Cubs will get his comeuppance this year (he's really smart, but I've never been a fan ... because he's the first to tell you how smart he is!). The NL Central is the most intriguing division, with no bad teams and all decent to good teams.

--The Rays will not be as good as everyone thinks. Their “opener” strategy will backfire from overuse.

--The Orioles and Marlins will be bad. Really bad.

--The Astros are probably the most complete team in the majors, slightly better than the Red Sox and the Dodgers. The Phillies will be really, really good, and will make it to the World Series … where they will lose to the Astros. In 6 games.

Please feel free to refer to this post often throughout the spring and summer to see how stupid I really am. Play ball!

Let’s talk

We all spend a lot of time with our faces glued to screens. All of us. This is a fact. Whether it be our smartphones (definitely our phones!), Apple watches, iPads, laptops, etc., all of us spend hours a day on screens. Again: These are facts. It is changing the way our brains our wired. It is changing the way we live our lives. I think about this stuff all the time -- because it pertains to me, to my family, to my extended family (all of you on the Marist track/cross country teams, as well as all of our loyal alums, especially younger ones). I think about it also because I just read a new book by Cal Newport entitled “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World.” Last summer, I read another book by this author called “Deep Work” (an excellent read) and it stoked my thoughts about how distracting, intrusive and disruptive our screens can be in our lives. This is not a book review, per se, but let me say this: We all would do well to read this book. (The author probably would not like to know that I ordered the copy you see here out of the library!) Newport makes some compelling, thought-provoking comments, suggestions and suggested practices (hacks?) about how we live and how we can live, in regard to our screen time and screen usage. At the very least, reading this book will allow you to take stock in how you live your screen lives. Perhaps you may alter one behavior as a result of reading it. Maybe more. Maybe not. 

Reading this book was well-timed for me, as it came during Spring Break. During breaks from the team – the three-week interval between semesters, this Spring Break and of course the extended, nearly three-month hiatus from daily team activities during the summer – I become acutely aware of my old-school, semi-disconnected style. In short: I miss my team. I miss my athletes. Unlike most coaches these days who are especially more well-connected coaches (mostly younger than me, but all ages really), I only stay in touch with a sliver of the team – mostly the athletes who text me with questions and updates. Basically, it’s an “as needed” relationship during these breaks. And with this generation of athletes and young adults, I’m not certain this is the most effective way to be their coach. But alas, it is my way. I believe that many student-athletes in this generation expect and crave that constant buzz of connectivity (usually via texting) on their phones. I’m not there. One of Newport’s theses in the book is something he calls the philosophy of “conversation-centric communication” – you know, talking to people. Talking. Not texting. Not connecting on social media outlets like Instagram or Snapchat or Facebook. Talking. Obviously, during these breaks from practice, talking and face-to-face communication are far less possible. And given the penchant for many of us (all ages!) not to actually make and take phone calls these days, talking has been relegated to a quaint relic of past generations.

Of course, I’m exaggerating. But not by much! Again, it’s why I miss my team and our athletes during the breaks. I look forward to face-to-face conversation. Lately, we have been going out of our way to make it happen – athletes “checking in” with me on Mondays, which are typically off days from practice for our XC/distance crew, is a small example of this. When athletes are student teaching or working (like Hillman) and I don’t see them on a regular basis, something is lost in the coach-athlete relationship, despite the steady stream of lengthy texts back and forth (yeah, Dan, that’s a reference to you!). During this past week, I spent several days reconnecting with my closest friends, men from my past and present who I do not see regularly and to whom I feel less connected despite sometimes frequent texts and less-frequent Facebook messages. I sat down for lunch and for extended coffee conversations with them. I just got back from a brief visit to Fort Myers with my youngest son, and I was able to reconnect in person with my brother-in-law, another one of my best friends on this planet, and his family. We went on walks. We talked. It was good.

Newport would definitely approve of this. He would also approve of the fact that I do not have social media on my smartphone. He would not approve of my constantly checking my phone for texts and emails; some of the hacks (he would hate that classification) that he recommends in this area I may try to implement. Newport’s perspective is backed by research (he’s a computer scientist) but also somewhat flawed (in my humble opinion) in that he criticizes something (social media) that he has never used. That’s right. He’s never been on social media! My somewhat immature view on this: How can you criticize something you’ve never experienced first-hand? He dismisses this logic, probably rightly so. But still … it makes you wonder. He offers several strategies in his book, like a “digital declutter” and old-fashioned ideas like going for long walks (definitely approve of this), keeping a written journal and not “liking” things on social media. Ooops. Sorry. I said I wasn’t doing a book review. I’ll stop there with that. Anyway, what’s the point of this post? I’m not sure. I guess it would be this: Be cognizant of your screen time. I’m not suggesting we all become Luddites and shun it all, go back to a flip phone and go analog (a favorite Newport concept) all day every day. Just have an awareness of it all, note how it makes you feel, how in a subtle way it is changing our human interactions, our lives really! For better or for worse? I’m not smart enough to say. Just think about it. And maybe, just maybe, let's have a good old-fashioned conversation about this topic. Or anything else.

USATF 20km racewalk: Official results and splits

Below are the official results and splits (courtesy of Coach Chuck) from yesterday’s amazing racewalk performances by Lauren Harris and Kayla Shapiro. Two Olympic Trials qualifiers! That’s incredible and the enormity of the accomplishment is still sinking in for all of us. Their splits were aggressive and consistent … and well, just plain NEAT! Very proud of them. Nicely done, Lauren and Kayla!

USATF 20km racewalk championships

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Orange County Sheriff Training Academy

Tustin, CA

1.25km IAAF AIMS certified course

4. Lauren Harris 1:45:17.64 *2020 Olympic Trials qualifier

6:38.09, 6:38.61, 6:32.39, 6:22.50 (5km = 26:11.60)

6:35.39, 6:31.68, 6:25.22, 6:25.75 (10km = 52:09.63)

6:27.40, 6:31.60, 6:28.07, 6:34.93 (15km = 1:18:11.63)

6:44.71, 6:55.44, 6:47.50, 6:38.63 (20km = 1:45:17.64)

5. Kayla Shapiro 1:45:32.97 *2020 Olympic Trials qualifier

6:38.06, 6:38.64, 6:31.96, 6:22.90 (5km = 26:11.60)

6:35.39, 6:31.28, 6:25.25, 6:27.65 (10km = 52:11.10)

6:38.93, 6:23.39, 6:41.14, 6:53.25 (15km = 1:18:47.84)

6:40.75, 6:56.04, 6:42.65, 6:25.67 (20km = 1:45:32.97)

Postcards from California

Coach Chuck Williams sent a bunch of amazing photos from California that he took while exploring around Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach and Tustin after the USATF 20km racewalk championships on Sunday. A much-needed respite for the hardest working coach at Marist!

Racewalkers qualify for Olympic Trials!

We're extremely excited to report that Lauren Harris (fourth place, 1:45:17.64) and Kayla Shapiro (fifth place, 1:45:32.97) have both easily exceeded the 2020 US Olympic Trials standard in the 20km racewalk (1:48:00), based on their amazing performances on Sunday at the USATF 20km Championships out in Tustin, CA. Chuck was sending me splits all morning and the ladies crushed it, averaging between 26 and 27 minutes per 5km. Both easily exceeded the standard. This is so exciting! Congrats to Lauren and Kayla (and Coach Chuck, for guiding them and giving them splits every 1.25km of the 16-lap course)!

Coaching tree

Been meaning to post this photo for a while. My wife Heidi enlisted our Hyde Park neighbor and friend Wendy Gross (a highly skilled art teacher and artist) to make this “coaching tree” drawing/painting for me as a Christmas present. It was a humbling present that brought me to tears. This tree is just a start. We would like to ask Wendy to add several of our awesome women’s alums who are now coaches, as well as a few other men who have joined the coaching ranks (Heidi started this thing surreptitiously!). We are proud of all of our alums, including especially those who follow our path into coaching track and cross country. God willing, we’ll add a few more branches during the next few years.

Middle school daze

It was a long time ago. Stretching into the deep recesses of my mind, I’m trying to remember seventh grade. That would be the school year of 1976-1977. That’s a long time ago. What was I like in seventh grade? What were my middle school years like? Like most of us who have moved past those three years, my quick, reflexive recollection of middle school was this: It mostly sucked. There was a lot of confusion, a lot of unexpected changes. On a lot of levels. I think. Again, that was a long time ago. Fast forward to the school year of 2018-2019. Our youngest son is in seventh grade. He was in sixth grade last year, the first year of middle school, and it was pretty uneventful as far as I can recall. The word “uneventful” definitely does not fit now, as it applies to him, in seventh grade. The last few months, in particular, have been challenging for us. There have been changes in behavior, mood, attitude. Several people have assured me that this sort of thing is “normal” and “not to be concerned” about it. Yet, I walk around with a pit in my stomach. My sleep is affected. Where did my son go? Who IS this kid? Why does he act as if a simple conversation with me is a huge chore? Why is he on his damn phone so much? Why are we ALL on our damn phones so much? (That’s an entirely different topic). This and so many other questions.

But then? But then … I stretch into the deep recesses of my ever-aging brain. I think back to my adolescence. The only phones had cords and were attached to the walls. Prehistoric, I know. Anyway. Think. Think. Think. My early teen years. My relationship with my father. And you know what I remember? I remember being perpetually annoyed in his presence. Not anything he would say or do … just, I don’t know. I would bristle at anything he would say or do or ask me to do – good, bad, in between. Maybe this is what our youngest son feels around me. But why? Why? Terry Horton likes to refer to middle school years as “hormones with heads” … and that about sums it up. Throw in an iPhone, some Fortnite, and the usual viciousness of middle school relationships (exacerbated by social media, etc.) and you have what you have. Middle school days. Middle school daze. When should I just chalk it up to “this stage” or when should I be legitimately concerned? That’s my dilemma as a parent, our dilemma as parents, right now. The middle school days were not this angst-ridden and challenging with our other two children. Why? Who knows? It just wasn’t like “this” … so what do I say, what do I do, how do we handle the blank stares, the defiant attitude, the one-word answers. Do we just ride it like a bad wave or a thunderstorm? Questions without answers. Middle school days. Middle school daze.

Support Denise and Boushra's service trip to Mexico!

Denise Grohn, one of our outstanding women's track team captains, asked me to post this note and link to a gofundme page for a service trip that she and teammate Boushra Belkhir are taking through Campus Ministry next week to Mexico. In the Marist Brothers spirit of "do good quietly" we are proud of our athletes -- past, present and future -- who have embarked on service trips such as this. You'll notice a photo from a previous trip above, with XC/track captain Mike Kennedy in the front row! Consider helping out the ladies and the group. The link is below. Thank you.

Here's the note from Denise: Boushra and I are traveling to Mérida, Mexico over spring break with a group of eight other students. Our mission work will be done in a small community center on the outskirts of the city. Typically, the past mission trips have worked primarily with physical projects such as building gardens, desks, and greenhouses so the community can grow crops and increase education to their children.This year, in addition to some physical projects that need to be completed around the center, they also asked us to help them expand their outreach to the surrounding community. We will be donating a screen printing machine to make brochures and t-shirts so that they can spread the word to about the center, its services, and their mission.

All good stuff. Here's the link to contribute a donation:
https://www.gofundme.com/marist-college-global-outreach-2019

Wrapping up indoors, looking ahead to outdoors

A few final thoughts on our longest season as we head into our shortest season:

--Our school record board will have a few updates, all of which were accomplished in the last week of the season (photos above of Drew Burns getting congratulations and Gianna Mastromatteo in Saturday's 1km trials). My view on this: The school records are now very strong, and breaking the existing records will become more and more difficult moving forward. This is a great thing for our program, and it makes our athletes’ task of “getting on the board” that much more difficult. Being difficult is a good thing!

--Ending the season on a strong note at ECAC/IC4As is always a great way to propel us into the outdoor track season, and we look forward that in the coming weeks.

--We are already planning for outdoor track, which again jumps on us quickly. The “reset” period between season is measured in days and not weeks. We have to get back on the horse, and quickly. Several of our athletes, whose indoor track season ended at MAACs or prior, have been on that for a few weeks already.

--The outdoor track season begins on Saturday, March 30 at the Monmouth University Season Opener, an event that was canceled due to an early spring snowstorm. Here’s hoping this year’s meet does not face the same fate.

ECAC/IC4A, Day 2: Both 1,000 records fall!

Two of the oldest and greatest middle distance school records fell within minutes on Sunday afternoon -- Susan Golden's (2:52.58, 2003) and David Marthy's (2:26.50, 2014) 1,000-meter run marks! Drew Burns (2:24.79) got third and Gianna Mastromatteo (2:51.70) got sixth and set new standards for future teammates and generations to chase. Both ran phenomenal, gutsy races -- major breakthroughs at exactly the right moment. So big. We are still fueled on adrenaline and pride for both of them. HUGE!

ECAC Championships

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Boston University

Day 2 results and splits

1,000-meter run

6. Gianna Mastromatteo 2:51.70 *school record, old record, Susan Golden, 2:52.58 in 2003

32.80, 66.59 (33.79), 1:40.48 (33.89), 2:15.68 (35.21), 2:51.70 (36.03)

9. Denise Grohn 33.54, 67.82 (34.28), 1:43.46 (35.64), 2:21.37 (37.92), 3:01.08 (39.72)

Distance medley relay

9. Marist (Shea Bohan 3:36.37, Debbie Boerke 57.45, Kerry Gaye 2:18.42, Maria Smith 4:59.14) 11:51.36

Shea Bohan: 34, 71 (37), 1:50 (39), 2:27 (37), 3:02 (35), 3:36.1 (34.1)

Debbie Boerke: 27, 57.45 (30.45)

Kerry Gaye: 32, 66 (34), 1:40 (34), 2:18.42 (38.42)

Maria Smith: 34, 71 (37), 1:48 (37), 2:27 (39), 3:05 (38), 3:44 (39), 4:22 (38), 4:59.14 (37.14)

IC4A Championships

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Boston University

Day 2 result and splits

1,000-meter run

3. Drew Burns 2:24.79 *school record, old record 2:26.50 by David Marthy in 2014

27.70, 55.99 (28.29), 1:25.44 (29.46), 1:55.44 (30.00), 2:24.79 (29.35)

ECAC Championships, Day 1: Women's results and splits

Outstanding afternoon/evening for our women!

--Debbie Boerke broke her six-day-old school record in the 500-meter dash (1:15.06)

--Denise Grohn and Gianna Mastromatteo grabbed the final two qualifying spots in the 1,000-meter run (2:53.14 and 2:53.17)

--Shea Bohan (4:54.63) ran a personal-best time in the mile (4:54.63) in her final individual indoor race, and Maria Smith broke 5:00 once again in the same race.

--Gianna Tedeschi (17:00.64) ran a big PR and Hayley Collins notched a strong season best (17:11.33) in the 5km. Both times qualify them for the outdoor ECAC Championships.

On Sunday, we have our women’s DMR racing at 11 a.m., and our 1,000-meter athletes racing in the afternoon – Denise and Gianna M. at 1:10 p.m. and Drew Burns at 1:15 p.m. And then we’ll get outta town hopefully before the snowstorm!

ECAC Championships

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Boston University

Day 1 results and splits

500-meter dash

15. Debbie Boerke 1:15.06 *school record, old record 1:15.58 by Boerke last week!

43.45, 1:15.06 (31.61)

1,000-meter run

8. Denise Grohn 2:53.14 *qualified for final

34.00, 68.39 (34.39), 1:43.32 (34.94), 2:18.18 (34.86), 2:53.14 (34.96)

9. Gianna Mastromatteo 2:53.17 *qualified for final

33.36, 67.71 (34.36), 1:42.71 (35.00), 2:18.27 (35.56), 2:53.17 (34.91)

Mile run

17. Shea Bohan 4:54.63

36.73, 73.09 (36.37), 1:50.24 (37.15), 2:27.22 (36.99), 3:04.63 (37.41), 3:40.79 (36.17), 4:17.33 (36.54), 4:54.63 (37.31)

25. Maria Smith 4:59.43

37.39, 73.96 (36.57), 1:51.13 (37.18), 2:28.08 (36.95), 3:05.92 (37.84), 3:43.99 (38.08), 4:22.18 (38.20), 4:59.43 (37.25)

5,000-meter run

12. Gianna Tedeschi 17:00.64

39, 81 (42), 2:01 (40), 2:42 (41), 3:22.5 (40.5)

4:01.9 (39.5), 4:42.7 (40.8), 5:23.2 (40.5), 6:03.3 (40.1), 6:44.0 (40.7)

7:24.8 (40.8), 8:05.5 (40.7), 8:45.8 (40.3), 9:26.7 (40.9), 10:08.1 (41.4)

10:50.1 (42.0), 11:32.0 (41.9), 12:14.0 (42.0), 12:56.0 (42.0), 13:37.6 (41.6)

14:19.4 (41.8), 15:01.5 (42.1), 15:42.2 (40.8), 16:23.4 (41.2), 17:00.64 (37.24)

Kilometer splits: 3:22.5, 3:21.5, 3:24.1, 3:29.5, 3:23.04

19. Hayley Collins 17:11.33

37.2, 78.7 (41.5), 1:59.5 (40.8), 2:39.3 (39.8), 3:19.6 (40.3)

3:59.9 (40.3), 4:40.1 (40.2), 5:20.8 (40.7), 6:01.6 (40.8), 6:42.4 (40.8)

7:23.2 (40.8), 8:05.1 (41.9), 8:46.6 (41.5), 9:27.6 (41.0), 10:08.8 (41.2)

10:50.7 (41.9), 11:33.2 (42.5), 12:15.2 (42.0), 12:57.9 (42.7), 13:41.0 (43.1)

14:23.7 (42.7), 15:05.9 (42.2), 15:48.2 (42.3), 16:30.4 (42.2), 17:11.33 (40.93)

Kilometer splits: 3:19.6, 3:22.8, 3:26.4, 3:32.2, 3:30.33

3,200-meter relay

18. Marist (Kerry Gaye 2:17.67, Kayla Sexton 2:23.89, Rebecca Walters 2:20.98, Debbie Boerke 2:24.35) 9:26.88

Kerry Gaye: 32, 66 (34), 1:42 (36), 2:17.67 (35.67)

Kayla Sexton: 32, 68 (36), 1:46 (38), 2:23.89 (37.89)

Rebecca Walters: 33, 68 (35), 1:44 (36), 2:20.98 (36.98)

Debbie Boerke: 33, 69 (36), 1:46 (37), 2:24.35 (38.35)

IC4A Championships, Day 1: Men's results and splits

Senior Drew Burns ran a personal-best time and squeaked into Sunday’s finals of the 1,000-meter run, posting the seventh-fastest time in the two-heat preliminary round to advance (nine runners advance to Sunday; eight score). Drew ran a smart, tough and gutsy race. He now has about 24 hours to recover and recoup and get ready for one more great indoor race in what has been a stellar indoor career. We look forward to that.

Our DMR ran a solid, season-best time, getting fourth in their section and 16^th overall. Our 4x800 relay DNFed, as leadoff leg Brendan Zeng got tripped up and crashed hard on the infield. It’s been that kind of year for us here at BU, lots of mishaps and crashes, especially in the middle distance races. Here’s hoping that Drew has a clean and strong race on Sunday. We’re in a little break now before the women’s meet begins. Check back later tonight for updtes.  

ICAAAA Championships

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Boston University

Day 1 results and splits

1,000-meter run

7. Drew Burns 2:27.12 *qualified for finals

28.3, 58.1 (29.8), 1:28.4 (30.3), 1:57.9 (29.5) 2:27.12 (29.22)

Distance medley relay

16. Marist (Christopher Tibbetts 3:05.87, Josh Hindle 50.69, Brian Henderson 1:55.66, James Moehringer 4:18.06) 10:10.26

Tibbetts: 30, 61 (31), 1:32 (31), 2:04 (32), 2:35 (31), 3:05.87 (30.87)

Hindle: 24, 50.69

Henderson: 27, 55 (28), 1:24 (29), 1:55.66 (31.66)

Moehringer: 31, 63 (32), 1:36 (33), 2:07 (31), 2:39 (32), 3:12 (33), 3:45 (33), 4:18.06 (33.06)

IC4A/ECAC, Day 1 schedule

Greetings from snowy Quincy, MA (hotel) and the greater Boston area as we are here for the weekend for the ECAC and IC4A Championships, today and tomorrow, at Boston University. Here is the schedule of events that we are in today. Check back here later for updates or in real time at pctiming.com.

IC4A/ECAC Championships

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Schedule of events

11:50 a.m.: IC4A 1000-meter trials (Drew Burns)

12:55 p.m. (approximate): IC4A DMR trials

1:10 p.m. (approximate): IC4A 4x800 relay trials

3:35 p.m.: ECAC 1-mile run trials (Shea Bohan, Maria Smith)

4:35 p.m.: ECAC 500-meter dash trials (Debbie Boerke)

5:05 p.m.: ECAC 1,000-meter run trials (Denise Grohn, Gianna Mastromatteo)

5:40 p.m.: ECAC 5,000-meter run final (Gianna Tedeschi, Hayley Collins)

6:05 p.m. (approximate): ECAC 4x800 relay trials