Wednesday, May 29, 2019
First place in something: Academic honors!
We are humbled and proud to announce that four of our student-athletes (4!) have earned Academic All District Honors. A total of seven track student-athletes (5 men, 2 women) from the MAAC were honored -- and four of them are Red Foxes. That's pretty neat! The four honorees are: Recent graduates Michael Kennedy and Drew Burns, rising senior Christopher Rivas (the only one of the five men who is not a graduating senior) and rising junior Hayley Collins. The award combines success in the classroom with success on the track. For details on the honorees, click this link at GoredFoxes.com and/or go to maacsports.com to read about all of the MAAC honorees. Nicely done!
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Commencement 2019: Day in the sun
Another commencement is in the books, this year with much better weather than 2018. I seem to say this every year, but this was a really special class. Celebrating them is tinged with sadness as these fine men and women will no longer be part of our day-to-day process, but they will always be part of the heart and soul of what we do, each day, each week and each season. Long May They Run.
Commencement 2019: Friday photos
From the Honors Program medal ceremony on Friday afternoon, with Riley Hughes and Eamonn Beers. From the graduate school graduation, with now two-time alum Brian Edsall with his MPA degree.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Hayley's great half marathon!
Congratulations to Hayley Collins, who extended her spring “season”
by one week in racing the Mystic (Conn.) Half Marathon. Hayley was sixth
overall and second woman in 1:20:27 (6:08 pace). She went through 5km in 18:11
and the half in 38:48, according to the official race results. And she got to
meet running legend Amby Burfoot as well. Very cool!
Into the sunset
As commencement approaches on Saturday, the final in the series of goodbyes, just wanted to share this photo of Kennedy and me in the moments following his final race in red-and-white at the IC4As 10,000-meter run. We will miss him and all the seniors as they run off into the sunset, with many more great sunrises in their future.
Do dragons have arms? My 24-hour story …
It had to be around 4:45 a.m. I had been moving forward, on
my feet, on and off – mostly on – for nearly 20 hours. Save for street lamps
and an awesome nearly full moon, it was dark and quiet outside. I was getting
tired, sleepy even, but I was still walking. My eyes blinked. Once. Twice. Man.
I’m … really … tired. Wait. What was THAT! I flinched. I actually flinched.
What I saw – what I “saw” – made me flinch. It looked like the arm of a dragon
(wait, do dragons have arms?), reaching
out of the moon, in the sky, with
flames shooting all around (kind of like this Santana album cover from the
1970s). Whoa man. Might be time to take a nap.
This past weekend, I was at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in
New Jersey, site of an incredible – if little known – event called “Three Days
at the Fair.” The event name is actually a bit of a misnomer. It’s an
ultramarathon race … or really, races, and one of its many distances is, in
fact, three days; my event of choice was 24 hours, one of the shorter ones on
the docket (the longest is a 10-day ultra; there’s also a 6-day, 3-day, 2-day,
1-day, 12-hour, 50km and marathon races). But there’s so much more going on
here, besides quasi-hallucinogenic images in the night. For nearly two weeks,
the rural fairgrounds turns into a small, tight-knit community, a de facto tent
city, with relentless forward movement (a takeoff on a similarly named
ultramarathon book) being the primary theme.
This was my first 24-hour ultra; my previous long in fixed
time races was 12 hours. I didn’t really have a goal, other than trying to stay
on the course for as much of the 24 hours as possible. Which led me to the flaming
dragon in the sky. Having never done or tried drugs of any kind – unless you
count an extra few cups of coffee on a long day at a track meet – flames in the
sky was a new experience for me. I headed to my car, started it to get the heat
cranking (sorry, environmentalists and “idling law” watchdogs), and was asleep
in seconds. After a quick, 35-minute nap, I stepped out of my car. Or at least,
attempted to. My body had turned into a solid wall of granite discomfort. Pain,
stiffness and fatigue melded as one. I stumbled to the bathroom, looked in the
mirror, and thought to myself: “What the f—k am I DOING? I should just pack up
and drive home!” But alas, it was only 5:45 a.m., and I still had a full three
hours to log more mile loops. But how. But WHY?
Ah, but here’s the deal with this sort of thing: Don’t ask
why. Never ask why! Focus on the how. How am I gonna do this next lap?
Fortunately, I remembered something Butch – veteran ultra guy, friend of Big
Mike, pictured here with me -- told me earlier, in the bright hot sunshine of Saturday
afternoon that seemed like a week ago but was really just about 12 hours before:
After you start up after a break, that first lap will feel funky. Don’t worry;
it’ll get better. Or, in the classic ultra vernacular: It never always gets
worse.
I stumbled through the next few hours, eclipsed 70 miles
(which somewhere in my brain haze had become a “goal”) and then added two more
miles for good measure. Why? Because some guy named Ronald I met in the last
hours of the race had a goal of 120 miles, but he extended it to 126 miles,
which is 200 kilometers, because that would “mean something” to the French
people with whom he does business. Then he said to me, “you know, if you do 72
miles, it’s exactly 3 miles per hour for the entire day,” thus enticing me to
waddle through to 72 laps completed. This is the kind of warped logic that
takes over. I guess you could call it “loopy” …
So yeah. I finished my first 24-hour. Along the way, I learned
a few random lessons:
- Hokas are by far the
preferred shoe of ultra competitors. This makes sense, since they have an
incredible amount of cushioning, which is necessary for the long haul. Given
the toll this sort of repeated pounding takes on the feet and legs, I may
have to give that a try. My trusty Asics Cumulus didn’t seem quite up to
this endless task. I tested out Nick Cruz’s Hoka Bondis for the last two
laps and they felt good. By the way, young Cruz won the 12-hour event in a
predictably crash-and-burn methodology, cruising through the marathon in
2:55 before falling apart in the later stages of his race. A good
introduction for him!
- Defizzed (flat) cola might
be the best “sports drink” in history. Healthy? No. Effective? For me and
many others, yes.
- Like many others in the
world these days, ultrarunners have a lot of tattoos!
- My haphazard “diet” for
the race consisted of, in no particular order: bananas, potato chips, orange
and yellow peppers, hot dogs, protein bars, cheese quesadillas, coffee
(blessed coffee in the middle of the night), and perhaps the best bacon
egg and cheese sandwich I’ve ever had, at around 3 in the morning. The aid
station was fully stocked and manned 24/7, cooking hot food on request. It
was truly outstanding.
- I came to the realization
that I’m not as good at power walking as I thought. I would get routinely
passed by faster walkers for the majority of the race. However, during my catatonic
post-nap death march from mile 66 to mile 72, I was able to ambulate
between 18-20-minute miles. Not exactly power walking, but not exactly a
stumble either, in that state.
Basically, to sum it up, I think I
was consistently mediocre. Staying out on the course for most of the race,
moving at very unspectacular paces most of the time, with a final average of 3
miles per hour, exactly, for 24 hours. While that’s not particularly impressive
or even noteworthy, I’ll end with this very Fun Fact: According to Google maps,
the distance from my home in Hyde Park, NY, to the Sussex County Fairgrounds is
72 miles. Which is exactly what I covered in the race. Pretty neat.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
McCann construction update
As I was walking into the McCann Center this morning, I happened upon this huge crane hoisting real-world, huge Lego pieces that will form the outside portion of the new McCann Center. That STONE will look familiar to those of you accustomed to the Modern Marist Look. By the middle of the afternoon, several more pieces like this were coming on huge flatbed tractor trailer trucks. Soon, the new McCann Center stone facade will be done and the interior construction phases can continue quickly. It is, as one would say, pretty neat.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
IC4A/ECAC Championships: A record-breaking weekend!
One last day in the miserable rain this spring. It has been
a remarkable run of lousy weather, literally every weekend for the past six
weekends – perhaps none worse than Sunday’s spitting, freezing, windy rain.
Incredible for May 12. Didn’t dampen a historic weekend for our team. Here are
the highlights:
--This was the greatest team performance in school history
at an ECAC Championships, as the women placed a program-best 12th
place with a program-best 22 points. Amazing!
--We had three medalists: Gianna Tedeschi, second in 5km,
second fastest time in school history, personal-best time by 14 seconds (see
previous posts); Hayley Collins, second in 10km; Debbie Boerke, fifth in 400
hurdles in final race of her collegiate career, during the peak of the terrible
weather on Sunday afternoon.
--For the men, the meet marked the end to the great careers
of seniors Mike Kennedy, Drew Burns and Brian Henderson, all of whom qualified
for this meet for the past three years. We will miss these men greatly and will remember their contributions on and off the track forever.
Rainy relay pictures are courtesy of Kathy Gaye, who ended
her long career as Marist Track Mom (fittingly on Mother’s Day). She will
always be part of our family and we will miss seeing her at meets. Note one of the pics you can see Chuck holding the Fox Umbrella. Picture of
our ECAC medalists comes from a surprising source: Assistant coach Terry
Horton, who like me is not known for his adroit cell phone skills. As we like
to say, sometimes the blind mouse finds the cheese.
Below are the complete results from the weekend, along with
official meet splits from pctiming.com. And with that, the 2018-2019 journey –
a long, soggy slog of three seasons of what seemed like mostly bad weather, but
with enough highlights to fill a lifetime – comes to an end.
ECAC Championships
Princeton University
Saturday and Sunday,
May 11-12, 2019
1,500-meter run
17. Gianna Mastromatteo 4:32.39
51.67 (51.67), 2:03.69 (1:12.02), 3:16.24 (1:12.56), 4:32.39 (1:16.15)
3,000-meter run
7-Maria Smith 10:17.39
36.36 (36.36) 1:54.90 (1:18.55) 3:13.46 (1:18.57)
4:33.78 (1:20.32) 5:57.61 (1:23.83) 7:24.75 (1:27.15)
8:52.24 (1:27.49) 10:17.39 (1:25.16)
5,000-meter run
2-Gianna Tedeschi 16:45.17
41.74 (41.74) 2:01.74 (1:20.01) 3:22.70 (1:20.97)
4:42.00 (1:19.31) 6:02.03 (1:20.03) 7:23.09 (1:21.07)
8:43.63 (1:20.54) 10:04.62 (1:21.00) 11:24.81 (1:20.19)
12:45.97 (1:21.16) 14:07.50 (1:21.54) 15:29.06 (1:21.56)
16:45.17 (1:16.11)
10,000-meter run
2-Hayley Collins 35:47.99
1:19.03 (1:19.03) 2:43.36 (1:24.33) 4:05.02 (1:21.66)
5:28.72 (1:23.70) 6:51.99 (1:23.27) 8:15.10 (1:23.12)
9:38.53 (1:23.43) 11:03.00 (1:24.47) 12:27.69 (1:24.69)
13:52.61 (1:24.92) 15:18.95 (1:26.35) 16:44.23 (1:25.28)
18:11.37 (1:27.15) 19:38.22 (1:26.85) 21:05.83 (1:27.61)
22:32.97 (1:27.15) 24:01.39 (1:28.43) 25:28.87 (1:27.49)
26:56.89 (1:28.02) 28:24.47 (1:27.59) 29:53.75 (1:29.29)
31:22.75 (1:29.00) 32:51.22 (1:28.48) 34:20.86 (1:29.64)
35:47.99 (1:27.13)
3,000-meter
steeplechase
14. Ali Bartolotta 10:53.98
400-meter hurdles
5-Debbie Boerke 1:02.22
3,000-meter
steeplechase
14. Ali Bartolotta 10:53.98
3,200-meter relay
14. Marist (Kerry Gaye, Denise Grohn, Maria Smith, Gianna
Mastromatteo) 9:32.41
IC4A Championships
Princeton University
Saturday and Sunday,
May 11-12, 2019
800-meter run
26. Drew Burns 1:53.32
54.17, 1:53.32 (59.15)
10,000-meter run
11. Michael Kennedy 30:59.89
1:14.30
(1:14.30) 2:27.30 (1:13.00) 3:40.12 (1:12.82)
4:52.24 (1:12.12) 6:04.71 (1:12.48) 7:17.55 (1:12.84)
8:30.71 (1:13.16) 9:43.62 (1:12.92) 10:56.71 (1:13.10)
12:09.61 (1:12.90) 13:23.28 (1:13.68) 14:36.06 (1:12.79)
15:49.30 (1:13.24) 17:05.27 (1:15.97) 18:19.20 (1:13.93)
19:34.37 (1:15.18) 20:49.80 (1:15.43) 22:05.78 (1:15.98)
23:22.57 (1:16.80) 25:57.41 (2:34.84) 27:14.73 (1:17.33)
28:31.19 (1:16.46) 29:47.48 (1:16.29) 30:59.89 (1:12.42)
3,200-meter relay
12. Marist (Brian Henderson, James Moehringer, Drew Burns,
Christopher Tibbetts) 8:00.70
ECAC 5km recap and photos
It was one of the more thrilling races to watch unfold over the weekend. As the last few laps of the 12.5-lap women's 5,000-meter race happened, it became clear that sophomore Gianna Tedeschi was onto something special. How special? She nearly pulled off a dramatic, come-from-behind victory. Regardless, her 14-second PR was amazing -- Coach Chuck said he predicted it and saw it coming! -- and her near-victory had the finish-area bleachers going nuts. It was pretty exciting. Check out the official race splits below and you can see how her final lap she almost ran down the first-place finisher from rival Iona. Photos above are from the race and the raw emotions of athlete and coach afterwards.
Event 20 Women 5000 Meter Run ======================================================================= Meet Record: M 16:00.72 1992 Lauren Gubicza, Fordham Name Year School Finals Points ======================================================================= Finals 1 Kearley, Julia JR Iona 16:44.63 10 41.85 (41.85) 2:02.06 (1:20.22) 3:22.87 (1:20.82) 4:42.12 (1:19.26) 6:02.27 (1:20.15) 7:23.14 (1:20.87) 8:43.88 (1:20.75) 10:04.86 (1:20.98) 11:24.92 (1:20.07) 12:44.30 (1:19.38) 14:03.48 (1:19.19) 15:25.33 (1:21.85) 16:44.63 (1:19.30) 2 Tedeschi, Gianna SO Marist 16:45.17 8 41.74 (41.74) 2:01.74 (1:20.01) 3:22.70 (1:20.97) 4:42.00 (1:19.31) 6:02.03 (1:20.03) 7:23.09 (1:21.07) 8:43.63 (1:20.54) 10:04.62 (1:21.00) 11:24.81 (1:20.19) 12:45.97 (1:21.16) 14:07.50 (1:21.54) 15:29.06 (1:21.56) 16:45.17 (1:16.11)
Saturday, May 11, 2019
ECAC Championships: Day 1 results
A strong and historic first day for our women as we notched a whopping 18 points and currently are sitting in ninth place in the meet. Gianna Tedeschi posted the race of the night with a major, breakthrough effort in the 5km race, pushing the pace from the front and running a 14-second PR and second-fastest time in school history, trailing only school record holder Michelle Gaye. Hayley Collins also did a lot of up-front running in the 10km race, getting a silver medal there in 35:47.99. Maria Smith scored in the 3km, and Gianna Mastromatteo (1,500) and Ali Bartolotta (3km steeple) posted solid races in their respective events.
ECAC Championships
Princeton University
Saturday, May 11,
2019
1,500-meter run
17. Gianna Mastromatteo 4:32.39
3,000-meter run
7-Maria Smith 10:17.39
5,000-meter run
2-Gianna Tedeschi 16:45.17
10,000-meter run
2-Hayley Collins 35:47.99
3,000-meter
steeplechase
14. Ali Bartolotta 10:53.98
IC4A Championships: Day 1 results
The individual careers of two of the greatest runners and
people we have ever coached came to an end on Saturday at Princeton. Drew Burns
ran his last individual race in the open 800, falling a bit short of his goal.
And Mike Kennedy ran his last 10,000-meter race, blitzing at an aggressive
early pace and hanging gamely for an 11th-place finish in a
competitive field. Love this photo of Kennedy, his high school coach and great
mentor Mr. Bob Andrews, and me. Kennedy touched both our lives greatly and it
was fitting to have Big Bob there for his last race in the red and white.
IC4A Championships
Princeton University
Saturday, May 11,
2019
800-meter run
26. Drew Burns 1:53.32
10,000-meter run
11. Michael Kennedy 30:59.89
IC4A/ECAC: Team dinner on Friday night
Thanks to Paul and Debbie Tedeschi (Gianna's parents) for hosting an awesome team dinner at their house in Skillman (near Princeton) on Friday night. It was a good, relaxing way to start the weekend. Races begin this afternoon for our team. As has been a theme throughout this spring season, the weather today is forecast to be sunny and pleasant, and tomorrow is forecast to be rainy and unpleasant. For those seeking live updates, the official meet timing is Paynes Corner Timing (pctiming.com). Check back here later tonight or early tomorrow for updates.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
IC4A/ECAC schedule
Here's the preliminary schedule and entries for us for this weekend at Princeton. We look forward to one final bus ride with our team before the "summer" begins.
IC4A/ECAC Championships
Saturday and Sunday, May 11-12
Weaver Stadium, Princeton University
Time schedule and Marist entries (in
bold)
Saturday, May 11
2:30
IC4A 4x100 Relay Final
2:45
ECAC 4x100 Relay Final
3:00 IC4A 800 Final: Drew Burns
3:15
ECAC 800 Final
3:35
IC4A 1500 Final
4:00 ECAC 1500 Final: Gianna
Mastromatteo
4:30 ECAC 3000 Final: Maria Smith
5:00
IC4A 3000 Steeplechase Final
5:30 ECAC 3000 Steeplechase Final: Ali
Bartolotta
6:00
IC4A 5000 Final
6:30 ECAC 5000 Final: Gianna Tedeschi
7:00 IC4A 10,000 Final: Mike Kennedy
7:40 ECAC 10,000 Final: Hayley Collins
Sunday May 12
10:30
ECAC 100 Meter Dash Trials
10:45
IC4A 100 Meter Dash Trials
11:00
ECAC 100 Meter Hurdles Trials
11:15
IC4A 110 Meter Hurdles Trials
11:40
ECAC 100 Meter Dash Final
11:45
IC4A 100 Meter Dash Final
11:50
IC4A 110 HH Final
12:05
ECAC 100 HH Final
12:20
ECAC 400 Meter Dash Final
12:35
IC4A 400 Meter Dash Final
12:50 ECAC 400 Meter Hurdles Final:
Debbie Boerke
1:15
IC4A 400 Meter Hurdles Final
1:30
ECAC 200 Meter Final
1:50
IC4A 200 Meter Final
2:05 ECAC 4x800 Meter Relay Final
2:30 IC4A 4x800 Meter Relay Final
2:50
ECAC 4x400 Meter Relay Final
3:15
IC4A 4x400 Meter Relay Final
Last lap
Because
of end-of-semester scheduling conflicts, our ECAC/IC4A qualified athletes have
had to practice at varying times this week. Senior captains Mike Kennedy and
Kerry Gaye did their final track workouts in the late afternoon/early evening
at the desolate Vassar College track. Going there at 6 p.m., with the lacrosse
netting down and no one around, is equal parts an eerie and calming feeling.
And as luck would have it, Kennedy and Kerry reached the conclusion of their
workout, a 400-meter interval, at the same time and the same pace. This was a
truly unusual coincidence; Kennedy is a strength-based runner whose best event
is 10,000 meters. Kerry is a middle distance runner who is proficient at a wide
range of races, all the way down to the 4x400 relay. This weekend, she’ll be on
our 4x800 relay. So they knocked out that last lap in the fading sunlight on a
beautiful spring evening in about 68 seconds, stride by stride, together, one
last time on the track. It was pretty neat, and I was really glad to have been
there. My daughter Natalie took this photo of the three of us. While they
cooled down, I drove Natalie over to the Vassar pool for her club swim
practice. A last lap, and life continues on as a typical Wednesday evening. In a few days, we look forward to one last meet
from them -- and the team -- this weekend.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Senior Awards Banquet 2019
The long series of goodbyes continued last night at the Senior Awards Banquet. We'll always remember the Class of 2019 as a truly cohesive unit, from start to finish, and we'll never forget them.
MAAC Championships: One final image
Here's one more photo from the weekend's MAAC Championships, of sophomore Gianna Tedeschi having the "time" of her life -- literally! -- in the 10,000-meter run on Saturday afternoon. Very neat.
Sunday, May 5, 2019
MAAC Championships, Day 2: Men's results -- 4x800 relay wins in photo finish!
Like the rain that kept pelting down, the suspense built with each leg of the men's 4x800 relay. Brian Henderson put us out front and in position in the leadoff leg, as he has done sooooo many times. James Moehringer ran an MVP caliber second leg, Drew Burns put us in command, and Chris Tibbetts battled every step to the finish -- a photo finish vs. Rider! The finish line photo was flashed on the scoreboard. No one knew who won. The suspense built ... until ... the scoreboard flashed ... a Marist win! By the slimmest of margins. Pretty cool, great way for our seniors to go out. Speaking of seniors ... Mike Kennedy ran a gutsy scoring effort in the 5km, taking control of the chase pack when no one else would, and made us all proud. Elias Platanias and Patrick Kutch got impressive PRs in the terrible conditions as well. Very good stuff.
MAAC Outdoor Championships
Monmouth University
Sunday, May 5
Day 2 results, men
400-meter relay
6.
Marist (Santosh Krishnan, Jeremy Mooney, Jon Green, Josh Hindle) 43.97
800-meter run
4. Drew
Burns 1:55.17
1,500-meter run
7.
James Moehringer 3:59.05
5,000-meter run
5.
Michael Kennedy 15:05.99
14. Elias
Platanias 15:29.88
15. James
Draney 15:35.19
16. Conor
Stack 15:39.13
18. Patrick
Kutch 15:44.07
22. Alex
Hogue 15:52.90
26. Will
Esposito 16:31.40
1,600-meter relay
6-Marist
(Santosh Krishnan 52.148, Tanner Senius 53.490, Brendan Zeng 53.803, Josh
Hindle 54.577) 3:34.02
3,200-meter relay
1-Marist
(Brian Henderson 1:57.754, James Moehringer 1:57.628, Drew Burns 1:55.760,
Christopher Tibbetts 1:56.311) 7:47.45
Final team standings
1-Monmouth
331, 2-Rider 152, 3-Iona 116, 4-Manhattan 103, 5-Siena 45, 6-Marist 28, 7-St.
Peter’s 22, 8-Canisius 11
MAAC Championships, Day 2: Women's results
The weather went from bad to worse to unspeakably, laughably horrendous from the 5k and beyond -- rain, wind, raw cold. Remarkably, across the board for all teams, the performances were still pretty strong in terms of times. It was another memorable and emotional MAAC meet.
MAAC Outdoor Championships
Monmouth University
Sunday, May 5
Day 2 results, women
400-meter relay
7.
Marist (Grace Cepeda, Camille McHenry, Debbie Boerke, Kayla Sexton) 51.49
1,500-meter run
8.
Gianna Mastromatteo 4:35.94
400-meter hurdles
2.
Debbie Boerke 1:01.31
5,000-meter run
5.
Hayley Collins 17:18.23
9.
Jordan Casey 17:44.76
14. Boushra
Belkhir 18:27.82
17.
Talia Cutrone 18:32.14
27.
Hannah Albert 19:46.93
1,600-meter relay
6-Marist
(Grace Cepeda 59.914, Camille McHenry 65.814, Gianna Mastromatteo 61.827,
Debbie Boerke 59.316) 4:06.87
3,200-meter relay
5. Marist
(Kerry Gaye 2:22.494, Denise Grohn 2:24.341, Maria Smith 2:25.322, Rebecca
Walters 2:25.384) 9:37.54
Final team standings
1-Monmouth
221.5, 2-Rider 181.5, 3. Quinnipiac 127.5, 4-Manhattan 105.5, 5. Iona 89,
6-Marist 38, 7-St. Peter’s 20, 8-Siena 16, 9-Niagara 10, 10-Canisius 4
Saturday, May 4, 2019
MAAC Championships, Day 1: Women's results!
MAAC Outdoor Championships
Monmouth University
Saturday, May 4
100-meter dash
13. Camille
McHenry 13.16
200-meter dash
13. Camille
McHenry 26.41
800-meter run
13. Denise
Grohn 2:20.43
14. Maddie
Tooker 2:21.07
18. Kayla
Sexton 2:24.34
22. Jillian
Laliberte 2:25.68
1,500-meter run
5. Gianna
Mastromatteo 4:31.48 *school record, old record 4:33.08 by Denise Grohn, 2018
15. Kerry
Gaye 4:42.67
16. Maria
Smith 4:45.86
17. Rebecca
Walters 4:46.11
21. Boushra
Belkhir 4:52.28
32. Jess
Howe 5:12.57
10,000-meter run
2. Gianna
Tedeschi 35:26.65 *meet record; **ECAC qualifier
400-meter hurdles
1-Debbie
Boerke 1:00.75 *qualified for finals; **school record, old record 1:01.25 by
Debbie Boerke in 2018
3,000-meter steeplechase
4. Ali
Bartolotta 10:50.40 *ECAC qualifier
6. Jordan
Casey 11:01.26
10. Samantha
DeStefani 11:38.70
MAAC Championships, Day 1: Men's results
Highlights: James Moehringer (1,500) and Drew Burns (800) qualifying for finals; sprinters Jeremy Mooney (100, 200) and Santosh Krishnan (400) notching personal-best times; senior Palmer Weimann capping his career with a scoring place in the 10,000-meter run; sophomore Alex Hogue with a personal-best time in the 3,000 steeplechase.
MAAC Outdoor Championships
Monmouth University
Saturday, May 4
Men’s results
100-meter dash
15. Jeremy
Mooney 11.29
200-meter dash
10. Jeremy
Mooney 22.55
400-meter dash
12. Santosh
Krishnan 50.97
17. Josh
Hindle 51.82
18. Pat
Beglane 53.64
20. Andrew
Lafferty 56.10
800-meter run
7. Drew
Burns 1:54.88 *qualified for finals
10. Brian
Henderson 1:55.29
14. Christopher
Tibbetts 1:55.85
20. Aidan
Sweeney 1:58.47
1,500-meter run
7. James Moehringer 3:57.11
*qualified for finals
17. James Draney 4:05.50
22. Dan Hillman 4:12.05
23. Brad Rynkowski 4:12.16
10,000-meter run
8. Palmer Weimann 31:31.76
11. Graham Strzelecki 32:11.49
15. Christopher Rivas 32:25.93
16. Riley Hughes 32:46.00
3,000-meter steeplechase
9. Alex Hogue 9:50.00
11. Patrick Kutch 9:53.13
13. Brendan Zeng 10:10.11
MAAC Championships: Day 2 schedule
Gonna be rainy and windy out there on Sunday ...
MAAC Outdoor Championships
Monmouth University
Sunday time schedule and entries
12:00pm 4x100m (W): Marist A:
Section 1
12:05pm 4x100m (M): Marist A
12:10pm 1500m (W): Gianna
Mastromatteo
12:17pm 1500m (M): James
Moehringer
12:30pm 100m Hurdles (W)
12:40pm 110m Hurdles (M)
12:55pm 400m (W)
1:00pm 400m (M)
1:15pm 100m (W)
1:20pm 100m (M)
1:30pm 800m (W)
1:35pm 800m (M): Drew Burns
1:50pm 400m Int. Hurdles (W): Debbie
Boerke
2:00pm 400m Int. Hurdles
(M)
2:10pm 200m (W)
2:15pm 200m (M)
2:25pm 5000m (W), one section:
Hayley Collins, Boushra Belkhir, Talia Cutrone, Hannah Albert, Jordan
Casey
2:50pm 5000m (M), one section:
Michael Kennedy, Conor Stack, James Draney, Elias Platanias, Patrick Kutch,
Will Esposito, Alex Hogue
3:10pm 4x800m Relay (W): Marist
A
3:25pm 4x800m Relay (M): Marist
A
3:40pm 4x400m (W): Marist A (heat
1 of 2)
3:55pm 4x400m (M): Marist A
MAAC Championships, Day 1: Dinner at the Hendersons
So grateful and appreciative of Brian Henderson's parents for hosting our huge team for dinner on Saturday night at their home in nearby Tinton Falls. Always great to have these team dinners. Our athletes were well-fed and we didn't have to battle overcrowded restaurants in the process. Very cool. Thanks to the Hendersons!
MAAC Championships, Day 1: Getting there ...
Our old friend and Coach Emeritus Cuesta traveled down with me by van to the championships, ahead of the two buses. I had to attend a mandatory coaches' meeting at 11:30 a.m. The trip was derailed by a sudden blowout on I-287 in northern New Jersey when a foreign object came flying toward the van and absolutely obliterated the front right tire of the van. Fortunately, I was able to guide the big vehicle over to the shoulder without damage to the either of us or the van (except for the mangled tire you see here). Amazingly, we were only five minutes late for the meeting. Whoa. What a way to start the day.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
MAAC Outdoor Championships: Time schedule and entries
Here is the time schedule and entries for this weekend's meet at Monmouth University (updated with new draws in the 1,500 and 800).
MAAC Outdoor Championships
MAAC Outdoor Championships
Monmouth University
Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5
Saturday time schedule and entries
2:00pm 1500m (W) Trials (3
heats: top 3 in each heat, plus next 3 fastest times): Boushra Belkhir (heat 1), Maria Smith (heat 2), Rebecca Walters (heat 2), Jess Howe (heat 2), Gianna Mastromatteo (heat 2), Kerry Gaye (heat 3)
2:20pm 1500m (M) Trials (3 heats:
top 3 in each heat, plus next 3 fastest times): Dan Hillman (heat 1), James Draney (heat 2), James Moehringer (heat 2), Brad Rynkowski (heat 3)
2:40pm 100m Hurdles (W) Trials:
No entries
2:50pm 110m Hurdles (M) Trials:
No entries
3:05pm 400m (W) Trials: No
entries
3:15pm 400m (M) Trials (3
heats: heat winner plus next 5 fastest times): Pat Beglane (heat 1), Andrew
Lafferty (heat 1), Santosh Krishnan (heat 2), Josh Hindle (heat 2)
3:30pm 100m (W) Trials (4
heats: heat winner plus next 4 fastest times): Camille McHenry (heat 1)
3:40pm 100m (M) Trials (3
heats: heat winner plus next 5 fastest times): Jeremy Mooney (heat 1)
3:55pm 800m (W) Trials (5
heats: heat winner plus next 3 fastest times): Maddie Tooker (heat 1), Kayla Sexton
(heat 2), Jillian Laliberte (heat 3), Jess Howe (heat 5), Denise Grohn (heat 5)
4:10pm 800m (M) Trials (4
heats: heat winner plus next 4 fastest times): Aidan Sweeney (heat 1), Christopher
Tibbetts (heat 1), Drew Burns (heat 2), Brian Henderson (heat 3), Matthew
Hawker (heat 3)
4:30pm 400m Int. Hurdles (W)
Trials (3 heats: heat winner plus next 5 fastest times): Debbie Boerke (heat 2)
4:45pm 400m Int. Hurdles (M)
Trials: No entries
5:00pm 200m (W) Trials (4
heats: heat winner plus next 4 fastest times): Camille McHenry (heat 2)
5:10pm 200m (M) Trials (4
heats: heat winner plus next 4 fastest times): Jeremy Mooney (heat 2)
5:25pm 3,000 M Steeplechase (W),
one section: Jordan Casey, Ali Bartolotta, Samantha DeStefani
5:40pm 3,000 M Steeplechase (M),
one section: Patrick Kutch, Brendan Zeng, Alex Hogue
5:55pm 10,000 M Run (W), one
section: Gianna Tedeschi
6:35pm 10,000 M Run (M), one
section: Christopher Rivas, Graham Strzelecki, Riley Hughes, Palmer Weimann
Sunday time schedule and entries
12:00pm 4x100m (W): Marist A:
Section 1
12:05pm 4x100m (M): Marist A
12:10pm 1500m (W)
12:17pm 1500m (M)
12:30pm 100m Hurdles (W)
12:40pm 110m Hurdles (M)
12:55pm 400m (W)
1:00pm 400m (M)
1:15pm 100m (W)
1:20pm 100m (M)
1:30pm 800m (W)
1:35pm 800m (M)
1:50pm 400m Int. Hurdles (W)
2:00pm 400m Int. Hurdles (M)
2:10pm 200m (W)
2:15pm 200m (M)
2:25pm 5000m (W), one section: Hayley
Collins, Boushra Belkhir, Talia Cutrone, Hannah Albert, Jordan Casey
2:50pm 5000m (M), one section:
Michael Kennedy, Conor Stack, James Draney, Elias Platanias, Patrick Kutch,
Will Esposito, Alex Hogue
3:10pm 4x800m Relay (W): Marist
A
3:25pm 4x800m Relay (M): Marist
A
3:40pm 4x400m (W): Marist A (heat
1 of 2)
3:55pm 4x400m (M): Marist A