Colonial Relays: Time schedule + entries

Colonial Relays

College of William and Mary

Zable Stadium

Time schedule, order of events, Marist entries

Friday, April 1

9:20a: National Anthem

9:30a: Women’s 5km (unseeded): Sara Leavens, Talia Cutrone, Kate Murtagh

10:15a: Men’s 5km (unseeded): No entries

10:55a: Women’s 800: Greta Stuckey, Raven Stanet, Caitlin McCann

11a: Women’s high jump: Grace O’Neill, Anne Bekasi

11:15a: Men’s 800: Aidan Sweeney, Tyler Perry, Tom Dinsmore

11:40a: Women’s 100 hurdles: No entries

12p: Men’s 110 hurdles: No entries

12:20p: Women’s 100 dash: No entries

12:40p: Men’s 100 dash: Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne, Jeremy Mooney, Dwayne Menders

1:10p: Women’s 400 hurdles: No entries

1:40p: Men’s 400 hurdles: No entries

2:10p: Women’s 400 dash: Natalie Tidler

2:40p: Men’s 400 dash: Easton Eberwein, Reed Dexter

3:10p: Women’s 200 dash: Camille McHenry

3:40p: Men’s 200 dash: Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne, Jeremy Mooney, Jared Tomasetti

OFFICIALS BREAK

5p: Women’s 3,000 steeple: Kathryn Tenney

5:30p: Men’s 3,000 steeple: Patrick Kutch

5:55p: Women’s 1,500 (unseeded): Hannah Belleville, Kayla Sexton, Adele Alexander, Raven Stanet

6:35p: Men’s 1,500 (unseeded): James Moehringer

7:05p: Women’s 1,500 (invitational): No entries

7:15p: Men’s 1,500 (invitational): No entries

7:25p: Women’s 5km (invitational): Tori Mariano

8:10p: Men’s 5km (invitational): Ramsey Little

8:45p: Women’s 10km (invitational): Hayley Collins, Ellie Davis

9:30p: Men’s 10km (invitational): Gabriel Rodriguez

Saturday, April 2

10:15a: Men’s 10km (unseeded): No entries

11:20a: National Anthem

11:30a: Women’s 100 hurdles (invitational): No entries

11:45a: Men’s 110 hurdles (invitational): No entries

12p: Women’s 4x100 relay: Marist team

12:15p: Men’s 4x100 relay: No entry

12:30p: Women’s SMR: Marist team

12:45p: Men’s SMR: Marist team

1:05p: Women’s 4x200 relay: Marist team

1:20p: Men’s 4x200 relay: Marist team

1:30p: Women’s 800 (invitational): No entries

1:40p: Men’s 800 (invitational): No entries

1:50p: William and Mary Seniors Recognition

2:05p: Women’s DMR: Marist team

2:35p: Men’s DMR: Marist team

3p: Women’s 4x1500 relay: Marist team

3:25p: Men’s 4x1500 relay: Marist team

3:45p: Women’s 4x400 relay: Marist team

4:10p: Men’s 4x400 relay: Marist team

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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation

What motivates runners? What gets you out the door when the last thing you want to do is head out the door? What drives you? Running goals are all about delayed gratification – a lot of work in the background for a long time, with a sometimes-faraway goal as the prize. It takes a lot of discipline. Running – training at a high level for D1 athletics – is inherently a difficult thing. It’s hard. It’s work. It’s a grind. All of that, and more.

When it comes to different types of motivation, they are often split up into two buckets: Intrinsic (motivated from within, that inner fire that drives you) and extrinsic (chasing rewards, prizes, incentives). Dive deeper into this thinking and you have two styles of goal-setting and goal-chasing: Process-oriented (intrinsic) and outcome-oriented (extrinsic). As with most things in life, this is not a binary equation. It’s not either/or; it’s often “and” instead. It’s a continuum. More on that in a bit …

Collegiate athletes have built-in extrinsic motivations. Most sports have wins and losses, which lead to playoffs and championships. In track and cross country, we have first place, second place, etc., qualifying times, school records, team standings at championship meets, on and on. Our athletes are driven by things like getting on the school-record board in the McCann Center hallway (graciously donated many years ago by the Valentino Family = NEAT). They are driven by seemingly random goals – sub-15:00 for 5km for men is one of them. They are driven to qualify for championship meets, hitting standards that gain an athlete entry into a regional or national competition. They are driven to score points at MAAC Championships, IC4A/ECAC Championships, etc. At the MAAC track championships, the top three finishers in all events get medals – gold, silver, bronze. The bronze medals (for third place) were back-ordered and just arrived in my mailbox today, much to the pleasant surprise of our men’s 4x800 relay (see photo) and record-setting distance runner Ramsey Little – all of whom got third place at indoor MAACs.

It was an extrinsic goal that they achieved. But a key for them to get it was to be driven intrinsically as well. The idea of those MAAC medals alone, or getting on the school record board, or qualifying for a championship meet … they are not the only things that get them out the door on those nasty Sunday mornings that call for 11- or 15-mile runs. They have to be driven from inside; the daily grind in large parts has to be intrinsic. And make no mistake: The grind can be a GRIND sometimes. That elusive “runner’s high” doesn’t magically occur every time you go out for a run, or finish a lung-busting workout at the track, or squeeze out that extra rep in the weight room, or go through another 10-minute core routine. Training is hard. The reward is distant. Sometimes, the reward is elusive. Sometimes, even if the intrinsic motivation is primed and fired up, the extrinsic reward escapes our grasp. It’s life.  

Intrinsic vs. extrinsic. As stated earlier, it is not a binary equation. Every athlete finds the balance between the two forces. Both are in play, each and every day. When that balance is skewed, when just the intrinsic or just the extrinsic drives the athlete, that’s when problems occur. That leads to burnout, or uneven training, or errors in training (under-training or over-training), or erratic behavior, or some combination of all of that. How do we balance this balancing act? It’s what keeps us coming back every day, trying to tinker with that formula. There is no right way or wrong way, just a constant tuning of the dial to get it just right.

My analysis: If there is a baseline of intrinsic motivation (a constant hum of process-oriented goals), then it makes the extrinsic motivation (that ever-dangling carrot of outcome-oriented goals) more plausible and more possible. We have more autonomy over our intrinsic motivation; we control it, we can fine-tune it, we can perfect it. The extrinsic motivation, and the outcome-based goals that come with it, involve things out of our control – myriad factors such as the weather, the support and training and ultimately the performances of the competition. By controlling the controllable factors, it gives the athlete ample opportunity to succeed. Is there randomness and luck involved? Of course, there is! That’s life. But, as one of my favorite quotes (by legendary baseball executive Branch Rickey) goes: “Luck is the residue of design.” It’s all about finding the balance between intrinsic and extrinsic, and it can undulate depending on the day, the week and the month. Having an awareness of the need to strike that balance is an important step to more satisfaction with the process, and ultimately more positive outcomes.

Monmouth Season Opener: Men's results

Monmouth Season Opener

Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2022

West Long Branch, NJ

Men’s results

100-meter dash

1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 10.60 *IC4A qualifier, school record, old record, 10.98 by Jeremy Mooney, 2021

7-Jeremy Mooney 11.16

200-meter dash

1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 20.97 *IC4A qualifier, school record, old record, 22.34 by Jesse Aprile, 2012

7-Jeremy Mooney 22.16

12-Jared Tomasetti 22.45

400-meter dash

29-Reed Dexter 53.15

800-meter run

8-Easton Eberwein 1:59.28

1,500-meter run

2-Aidan Pech 3:59.02

10-Tyler Perry 4:00.78

17-Brendan Dearie 4:02.51

26-James Moehringer 4:03.98

43-Aidan Sweeney 4:10.80

45-Patrick Kutch 4:11.23

47-Gabe Rodriguez 4:13.19

55-Steven Viera 4:21.87

5,000-meter run

27-Jack Parsons 15:45.59

75, 2:31, 3:47, 5:02

6:18, 7:33, 8:49, 10:05

11:22, 12:41, 13:58, 15:13

15:45.59

29-Jon Kittredge 15:46.60

73, 2:27, 3:40, 4:53

6:06, 7:19, 8:34, 9:50

11:09, 12:30, 13:50, 15:08

15:46.60

10,000-meter run

5-John Ignacz 32:30.49

1600m splits: 4:59, 9:59, 15:05 (5km = 15:43), 20:23, 25:45, 31:14

17-Jeremy Mbogo 34:27.45

1600m splits: 5:13, 10:27, 15:53 (5km = 16:32), 21:30, 27:18, 33:06

3,000-meter steeplechase

5-Daniel Czop 9:37.21

72, 2:28 (76), 3:43 (75), 4:58 (75), 6:16 (78), 7:36 (80), 8:55 (79), 9:37.21 (42.21)

400-meter relay

1-Marist (Reed Dexter, Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne, Jared Tomasetti, Jeremy Mooney) 41.92 *IC4A qualifier, school record, old record 42.75 in 2016

1,600-meter relay

5-Marist (Reed Dexter 53.32, Easton Eberwein 50.64, Aidan Sweeney 52.53, Tyler Perry 52.30) 3:29.40

Pole vault

3-Noah Brown 4.30 meters (14 feet, 1.25 inches) *school record, old record 4.27 meters (14 feet) by Max Carow, 2009

Javelin

13-Liam Haggerty 41.18 Meters (135 feet, 1 inch)

 

Monmouth Season Opener: Women's results

Monmouth Season Opener
Saturday, March 25-26, 2022
West Long Branch, NJ
Women’s results
100-meter dash
28-Sydney Villani 13.65
31-Gianna Ferrara 13.76
32-Kiana Pathirana 13.92
200-meter dash
27-Camille McHenry 27.42
52-Nina Florio 29.42
400-meter dash
27-Natalie Tidler 1:04.11
34-Juliana Fame 1:06.00
800-meter run
9-Greta Stuckey 2:25.27
10-Hannah Belleville 2:25.52
13-Caitlin McCann 2:27.75
18-Adele Alexander 2:29.90
23-Kathryn Tenney 2:33.20
27-Gina Ruotolo 2:34.65
1,500-meter run
4-Tori Mariano 4:45.28
12-Hannah Belleville 4:52.19
27-Adele Alexander 5:01.65
34-Kathryn Tenney 5:08.04
42-Kaitlyn Hastings 5:13.02
50-Mary Dougherty 5:17.64
5,000-meter run
8-Ellie Davis 18:34.53
400-meter relay
3-Marist (Kiana Pathirana, Gianna Ferrara, Gabrielle Brosnan, Camille McHenry) 52.66
1,600-meter relay
5-Marist (Greta Stuckey 66.37, Caitlin McCann 67.02, Anaiya Bobo 65.78, Natalie Tidler 62.85) 4:22.97
Pole vault
9-Jessica Ippolito 3.05 meters (10 feet, 0 inches) *school record, old record 2.93 meters (9 feet, 7.5 inches) by Justine Colabraro, 2007
Triple jump
12-Kiana Pathirana 9.98 meters (32 feet, 9 inches)

Monmouth Season Opener: School records = wow!

Nice way to start the 2022 outdoor season – with five (5!) school records on a typically challenging early spring day weather-wise at the Monmouth Season Opener. The sprinters dominated the record-setting day, starting with the awesome 4x100-meter relay team of Reed Dexter, Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne, Jared Tomasetti and Jeremy Mooney, who sprinted to victory with an IC4A qualifying mark of 41.92 seconds. This lowered the previous school record of 42.75 seconds, which was set in 2016. Glen then tore through the 100- and 200-meter dash records, winning the 100 into a headwind in 10.60 seconds and winning the 200 into a headwind and then with a tailwind in a remarkable 20.97 seconds – both of which are IC4A qualifiers! In the pole vault, freshman Noah Brown and graduate student Jessica Ippolito picked up where they left off indoors, breaking the school records in the event. Noah got third and cleared 4.30 meters and Jess got ninth, clearing 3.05 meters. Overall, a very exciting start to what we hope will be a very exciting season. Neat!

Monmouth Season Opener: Time schedule

We will have two athletes in the men's 10,000-meter run on Friday evening, and then the remainder of the meet will be held on Saturday morning and afternoon. Field events begin at 10:30 a.m. Track events begin at 11 a.m., with the following schedule: 

9:45am-            Senior Recognition Ceremony.

11:00am-          Women’s 1500m

11:30am-          Men’s 1500m

12:05pm-          Women’s 4x100m

12:10pm-          Men’s 4x100m

12:15pm-          Women’s Steeplechase

12:35pm-          Men’s Steeplechase

12:50pm-          Women’s 100m Hurdles

1:05pm-            Men’s 110m Hurdles

1:20pm-            Women’s 100m

1:35pm-            Men’s 100m

1:50pm-            Women’s 400m

2:10pm-            Men’s 400m

2:30pm-            Women’s 800m

2:45pm-            Men’s 800m

3:05pm-            Women’s 400m Hurdles

3:15pm-            Men’s 400m Hurdles

3:25pm-            Women’s 200m

3:45pm-            Men’s 200m

4:10pm-            Women’s 5000m

4:50pm-            Men’s 5000m

5:30pm-            Women’s 4x400m

5:45pm-            Men’s 4x400m

Here is a link to the entry lists ... 

Outdoor track 2022

The outdoor track season beckons -- this week and beyond. We’ve had some topsy-turvy weather during Spring Break. It started with a late-winter snowstorm that dumped about five inches of snow around here. All of which is gone now, thanks to a few 70-degree days! And then, last night, we had severe thunderstorms rolling through, ushering in the standard-issue March weather in these parts: Cloudy, gloomy, damp and chilly. Away we go!

Our first meet of the outdoor season – our first real outdoor season in three years! – is at Monmouth University on Saturday (10km races are on Friday afternoon). Then, we have a quick turnaround for our longest trip of the year – to Colonial Relays at William and Mary. We travel down on Thursday, March 31, with the meet on April 1-2. After that! We return home (literally) for a Friday evening meet (April 8) at Vassar College, followed by some athletes traveling to Icahn Stadium for the Mets Championships (April 9). After that, it’s an Easter weekend trip to our favorite outdoor track venue – Christy Mathewson Memorial Stadium at Bucknell University – for the Bison Outdoor Classic on Friday/Saturday, April 15-16. Then, the second half of the season heads into the homestretch: Rider on Saturday, April 23 (a MAAC Championships preview, since that is where MAACs will be two weeks later); Penn Relays (April 28-29) and Yale (May 1) the next week; MAACs (May 7-8 at Rider); IC4A/ECAC (May 14-15) back at William and Mary; and any other qualifiers for any other championship meets after that!

Spring Break 2022

For the first time in three years, we had an actual Spring Break. You may recall that in 2020, “Spring Break” was extended for a week in advance of the pandemic that ensued after that. So it really wasn’t a Spring Break but rather the beginning of that long, strange Covid trip. You may recall that in 2021, there was no Spring Break, because the semester started later and we just plowed through till the end of May; you know, that Covid thing. Here in 2022, at least schedule-wise, we have been back to normal so far. I use the “so far” qualifier because, in case you haven’t noticed, the pandemic is kinda not over yet. Oh sure, we don’t have to wear masks anymore – although, I still sport my flannel neck gaiters and still pull them up in most public places, much to the ridicule of some people in my circle who think it’s a “waste of time” to do such things. But again, in case you’re done checking? More than 1,000 Americans a day are still dying from this disease. And oh yeah, there’s a new variant emerging. But hey. If you are still reading, you’re probably like, “give it up already, old man, will ya?” Yeah well.
 
So anyway. Back to Spring Break 2022, which concludes today. The inevitable, “what did you do for Spring Break” questions will emerge this coming week, with the resumption of practice and the relative sprint to the finish that is our outdoor track season. At the risk of boring you with play-by-play details of this brief time off, I’ll give you some highlights:
 

--Warren Haynes solo, show at Ridgefield Playhouse in nearby Ridgefield, CT. Great show, as always, from the greatest musician on the planet (obviously, my personal bias). I’m at a point where this is about all I can tolerate with regard to live music. A quiet, mellow evening watching my favorite musician. How quiet? At one point, I closed my eyes to groove to the music and probably fell asleep for about 30 seconds. Complete relaxation. Had a nice dinner in Ridgefield prior to the show with my old college roommate, the legendary Sacred Heart University track coach Christian Morrison. Great way to start the week.
--On a snowy Saturday, the day after the show, I was able to see some dear old friends and Forever Foxes at the home of Kelley and Billy Posch, to celebrate the christening of their beautiful baby girl, Charlotte. Great food and even better company. So grateful to have been able to get out there and see them, despite the miserable weather.
--A lot of driving up and down the Thruway. North, to see my daughter at Siena (who is now on her own Spring Break!). South, to see my mother (assisted living) and brother (nursing home) in New Jersey, where Covid restrictions at both places have eased to the point where I can actually visit, after two years of almost no visitation for both. So! That was very, very good to be able to do that.
--Getting together with some old friends locally, most notably my dear old pal and former coaching partner Phil Kelly. Phil and I don’t see each other as much as we should, so that was good.
 
Again, with the full-on sprint of the upcoming season, it was good to be able to make time for all of these things, with the hopes of continuing such habits in the coming months, in this sort-of-but-not-really post-Covid reality.

Introducing Fox Tracks podcast

Most of you who are reading this post are probably aware of a new venture we have -- a Marist podcast called Fox Tracks, dedicated to the history of the cross country and track program at Marist. Our first episode "dropped" last week. It's a joint venture between Marist's athletics department and the college's advancement office. Our goal is to have episodes on a monthly basis. We have a few more already in the works. When each episode drops, we'll post a link to it here. For now, here's a link to the inaugural (first) episode of Fox Tracks! Hope you find it to be reasonably OK. 

Updated sub-15:00 5km list

After entire seasons and years in which this list has remained dormant and stagnant, it was neat to have movement on it this winter, courtesy of Ramsey and Gabe. Here is the final update (until, hopefully, there are some additions or updates outdoors!) for the all-time sub-15:00 5km list after the indoor track season.

Marist College, sub-15:00 for 5km list
1-Ramsey Little 14:14.25, 2022*
2-Girma Segni, 14:18.42, 2009
3. Dietrich Mosel 14:19.14, 2018
4. Will Griffin, 14:23.43, 2013 **
5. Arquimedes DelaCruz, 14:29.82, 2013
6. Adam Vess, 14:33.41, 2008
7. Graham Strzelecki 14:34.13, 2020
8. Peter Pazik, 14:35.84, 1986
9. Matt Flint, 14:37.45, 2010
10. Ken Walshak, 14:37.53, 2011
11. Michael Melfi, 14:42.36, 1998
12. Justin Harris, 14:42.88, 2007
13. David Raucci, 14:42.92, 2006
14. Michael Nehr, 14:45.61, 2001
15. Christopher Rivas 14:46.97, 2020
16. David Swift, 14:50.24, 1995
17. Zak Smetana, 14:50.39, 2011
18. Kirk Dornton, 14:50.89, 2002
19. Nick Webster, 14:52.54, 2009
20. Conor Shelley, 14:52.67, 2008
21. Gabe Rodriguez, 14:53.04, 2022
22. Palmer Weimann, 14:53.61, 2017
23. Joel Moss, 14:54.57, 2012
24. Greg Salamone, 14:55.79, 2000
25. Tim Keegan, 14:56.45, 2009
26. Mark Valentino, 14:56.77, 2016
27. Steven Rizzo 14:56.99, 2017
28. Stefan Morton, 14:58.19, 2016
29. Ryan Scrudato, 14:58.43, 2013
30. Spencer Johnson, 14:58.46, 2015
31. Elias Platanias 14:59.28, 2020
Bold = current student-athlete
* indoor school record
** outdoor school record holder (14:31.91)

Sing us a song ...

Track coaches. We mark our time by the seasons, and the meets within those seasons. The calendar is the same for everyone, but the way we look at it differs. Because of our three seasons, and the competitions within those seasons. And so the first two weeks of March are transitional. The indoor season (quite frankly, my personal favorite) concludes at the ECAC/IC4A meet up in Boston on the first weekend of March. My general recollection of this meet – again, general, not every year, but most – is one of celebrating milestones within the program while wistfully reflecting on the end of another long and successful indoor track season (with most highlights usually centered around the Magic Carpet at BU). Two years ago, the meet was a resounding success and our athletes were flying high, looking forward to the outdoor track season of 2020 in a few short weeks. We know now, of course, that the season – and the world, for that matter – came to a screeching halt just days after that JTR bus rumbled back onto campus on that particular Sunday night. In fact, this day – the Thursday after IC4A/ECAC, right before the start of our Spring Break – is when the MAAC officially pulled the plug on all practice and competition for the remainder of the winter sports and all of the spring sports in 2020. No need to rehash this all here now. Just go back and review those moribund blog posts from that time!
 
On Sunday’s bus ride home from the 2022 ECAC/IC4A meet, the mood was light and there was plenty of talk about our athletes’ goals for the outdoor track season. Which, again, begins soon enough, right after next week’s Spring Break. While in hindsight, we should have seen what was coming two years ago, the jarring reality of our norms being upended still resonates today. In reflecting on that time – and, really, most of the past two years, especially with these blog posts – I probably could have been a bit less self-pitying for what we were going through. Oh sure, the Class of 2020 lost a lot. We’ll never forget that, or them, or all that they lost. The Class of 2021 didn’t exactly have a magical ending to their college careers, either. But sometimes, we need to zoom out and look at the big picture and realize that what we do is relatively small and insignificant in the scheme of things. It’s all small stuff. For our student-athletes, though, it’s not small stuff, this is almost everything; the center of their little universes. We know this. We live it with them every day, every month, and every season of our constantly whirring sport.
 
Back to that bus ride on Sunday. At some point, most of the athletes gathered around the center seats, enjoying each other’s company. Smiling, laughing, playing music and singing. I wandered back and forth, stretching my legs, using the bathroom and generally unable to sit still. At one moment, I was sitting in the back of the bus, minding my own business, surveying the scene. Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” came on whatever music player they were using. Suddenly, the middle of the bus was swaying with the song, as several of them were singing every word to a great tune that’s etched into my memory from long ago. And then it dawned on me, why this seemed so familiar. In the fall of 1991, 22 of us – 10 men, 10 women, two coaches (me and Phil Kelly) were crammed on an old mini-bus, riding home from Pittsburgh, where we had just competed in the Northeast Conference cross country championships. It was my first full season of coaching, and the first conference championship at which I was a coach. I was young, 27 years old, still trying to figure this stuff out. Phil was a great mentor and remains a dear old friend. We talked for hours on the way out there about coaching strategies, reading reams of Running Research News, an old running publication, and sharing ideas. It formed the seeds for who I am today as a coach, and I’m forever grateful and have fond memories of those early years. But on the way home, there was no nerdy coaching talk, just a celebration of a fun and successful weekend with a nascent team and a rejuvenated running program. Someone, somehow (cassette player? CD player? I don’t recall … remember, it was 1991!) decided it would be fun to listen to music and have an old-fashioned singalong. “Piano Man” comes on. Phil and I are at the front of the bus, singing loudly, swaying to the words, while 20 young men and women – most of whom are in their 50s now, which is mind-boggling – joined along. More than 30 years later. A bigger bus. A much older coach, with much younger athletes, watching a group of Marist runners smile and laugh and sing “Piano Man” on the way back from a meet.
 
It’s been a long ride, man. Going on 32 years, close to 100 actual seasons, one shitty pandemic, hopefully a few more fun and successful chapters to this storybook, as we’re looking ahead to what hopefully will be a neat outdoor track season for this edition of the Running Red Foxes. I know for certain that 30 years from now, I won’t be singing “Piano Man” on a bus with some young athletes, so we’d do well – all of us -- to savor each and every season and however many more years we’ve got remaining here. We’re all in the mood for a melody. And you’ve got us feelin’ all right.

IC4A Championships: Complete results

Limited wifi on the bus, here's what I wrote for goredfoxes.com -- WHAT A SEASON!

BOSTON – The Marist men’s track capped a record-setting indoor track season in historic fashion, with an individual IC4A champion, two school records and the most points scored in the 100-year-old championship in school history.
 
Junior Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne sped to first place in the 60-meter dash on Sunday morning, with a winning time of 6.75 seconds. He becomes only the second IC4A Champion in school history (the other being Adam Vess in the 3,000-meter run in 2009) and he ran the second-fastest 60-meter dash in the meet’s 100-year history (with his 6.69-second time in the preliminary round). Leonard-Osbourne finished the season undefeated in the event.
 
On Saturday afternoon, two school records were broken in back-to-back events. In the 5,000-meter run, sophomore Ramsey Little placed third in the 5,000-meter run, surging to a time of 14:14.25. The time wipes out the 13-year-old school record of 14:18.42, set by Marist legend Girma Segni, also at the IC4A Championships.
 
In the distance medley relay, the team of Brendan Dearie, Easton Eberwein, Roshan Kalikasingh and Chris Paxis broke the 10-minute barrier for the first time in school history, running 9:59.98 in the trials on Saturday and qualifying for Sunday’s final. The time beat out the previous mark of 10:01.03, which was set at the 2016 IC4A Championships. In the final, the same time placed seventh overall in 10:12.86.
 
Also on Sunday, Little completed one of the more remarkable distance doubles by running the second-fastest time in school history at 3,000 meters, placing 10^th in 8:10.99. He trails only Adam Vess’ time of 8:05.82, which won the IC4A Championships 13 years ago. Little improved on his week-old best time in that event by more than four seconds.
 
The Red Foxes finished in 14^th place out of 42 teams in the championship with 18 points. The meet concludes an indoor track season that saw school records shattered in five different events. The outdoor track season begins in three weeks.
 
“Start to finish, this was a great season for the men and we can’t wait to get going outdoors,’’ head coach Pete Colaizzo said.
 
IC4A Championships
Boston University
Saturday and Sunday, March 5-6
60-meter dash, finals (Sunday)
1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 6.75 **IC4A Champion!
60-meter dash, prelims (Saturday)
1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 6.75
28-Jeremy Mooney 7.18
60-meter dash, semifinals (Saturday)
1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 6.69
200-meter dash, trials
28-Jeremy Mooney 22.08
3,000-meter run
10-Ramsey Little 8:10.99
Kilometer splits = 2:44.10, 2:45.65, 2:41.25
5,000-meter run
3-Ramsey Little 14:14.25 *school record, old record, 14:18.42, by Girma Segni, 2009
Kilometer splits = 2:55.14, 2:50.93, 2:53.18, 2:51.60, 2:43.40
30-Gabe Rodriguez 14:53.04
Kilometer splits = 2:55.71, 2:53.14, 2:59.52, 3:02.30, 3:02.38
Distance medley relay, trials (Saturday)
4-Marist (Brendan Dearie 3:06.09, Easton Eberwein 49.84, Roshan Kalikasingh 1:55.03, Christopher Paxis 4:09.04) 9:59.98 *school record, qualified for finals; old record, 10:01.03, 2016, by Brian Henderson, Tim Johnson, Drew Burns, Stefan Morton
Distance medley relay, final (Sunday)
7-Marist (Brendan Dearie 3:08.75, Easton Eberwein 50.14, Roshan Kalikasingh 1:54.19, Christopher Paxis 4:19.79) 10:12.86
4x800 relay, trials
10-Marist (Tyler Perry 1:55.41, Aidan Sweeney 1:55.63, James Moehringer 1:56.56, Thomas Dinsmore 1:57.19) 7:44.79
Team standings
14 of 42 teams with 18 points

ECAC Championships: Complete results

 Limited wifi on the ride home, here is what I wrote for Goredfoxes.com ... 

BOSTON – Graduate student Hayley Collins concluded her indoor track career in brilliant fashion at the ECAC Championships over the weekend, with two personal-best times and an All-ECAC scoring place in the 5,000-meter run, as the Marist women’s track team concluded it indoor track season at the ECAC Championships.
 
On Saturday, Collins placed seventh in the 5,000-meter run with a personal-best time of 16:55.59. It is the fourth time this winter that she has cracked the 17-minute barrier. On Sunday, she ran a personal-best time in the 3,000-meter run, placing 19^th in 9:53.65.
 
“Hayley completed probably the greatest season of indoor racing for a long-distance runner in school history this year,’’ women’s head coach Chuck Williams said. “Before the season, only once was sub-17:00 achieved in the 5km. After Hayley’s season that number now stands at five! In addition, she ran the very hard 5k/3k double in the last two championship meets and ran three straight personal-best races starting with the MAAC 3k. No better way to cap an indoor career and I couldn’t be prouder.”
 
ECAC Championships
Boston University
Saturday and Sunday, March 5-6
3,000-meter run (Sunday)
19-Hayley Collins 9:53.65
Kilometer splits = 3:15.525, 3:18.330, 3:19.789
5,000-meter run (Saturday)
7. Hayley Collins 16:55.59
Kilometer splits = 3:23.03, 3:23.19, 3:18.99, 3:25.84, 3:24.56
Team standings
37 of 39 with 2 points

IC4A Championships, Day 1: 5km and DMR school records!

School records are always precious. When they come in back-to-back events, on the same day, well now … that’s something you remember for a while. That’s what happened on Saturday afternoon in Day 1 of the IC4A Championships. Ramsey Little vaulted to the top of the all-time 5km list with a third-place performance and a time of 14:14.25, eclipsing Girma Segni’s long-time 14:18.42 mark, set way back in 2009. And man, did he do it the hard way! Much like Hayley’s race before the men’s 5km races, Ramsey’s race was physical, jostling and not all that fast, relatively speaking. He was well off school record pace for most of the race; he led for parts of the race, because no one else would take the pace. And when it started rolling, it appeared the chase pack would overtake him. Until he fought back. Hard. With an eye-popping last kilometer of 2:43.40! His last three lap splits, on my watch, were: 32.8, 31.7, 29.8. Wow. Third place. School record. Rollercoaster ride of a race, with a thrilling finish. Highly neat!
 
Right after that was the DMR. Our stated goals going into the meet were: 1-Break the school record and break the elusive 10-minute barrier; 2-Qualify for Sunday’s finals. Mission accomplished on both ends. Every member of the DMR team did its job to varying degrees of success. Anchor leg Chris Paxis closed in 4:09.04 for 1,600 meters, including a final 400 meters in sub-60, with the thrilling finish time of 9:59.98. Yes. By two one-hundreths of a second, the team did it! We are one of eight teams coming back for Sunday’s final. Yes, they’re tired and yes, they’re excited to give it one more go.
 
Not to be lost in the hullabaloo of the school records were two other great performances on Saturday. In the first section of the 5km, freshman Gabe Rodriguez ran a personal-best time of 14:53.04, inching up to 21^st on the all-time list. And the 4x800 relay team came close to making Sunday’s finals, falling just two places short of advancing but with a season-best time of 7:44.79 – which included the killer leadoff leg from Tyler Perry (1:55.41), a massive best time for TP. In all, another day of magic on the magic carpet, with the hopes of more highlights for Sunday – Glenmour in the 60-meter dash final, Ramsey in the 3,000-meter run final and the DMR in the final – before we put a wrap on the indoor season. OK!
 
IC4A Championships
Boston University
Saturday, March 5
60-meter dash, prelims
1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 6.75
28-Jeremy Mooney 7.18
60-meter dash, semifinals
1-Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 6.69
200-meter dash, trials
28-Jeremy Mooney 22.08
5,000-meter run
3-Ramsey Little 14:14.25 *school record, old record, 14:18.42 by Girma Segni, 2009
Kilometer splits = 2:55.14, 2:50.93, 2:53.18, 2:51.60, 2:43.40
30-Gabe Rodriguez 14:53.04
Kilometer splits = 2:55.71, 2:53.14, 2:59.52, 3:02.30, 3:02.38
Distance medley relay, trials
4-Marist (Brendan Dearie 3:06.09, Easton Eberwein 49.84, Roshan Kalikasingh 1:55.03, Christopher Paxis 4:09.04) 9:59.98 *school record, qualified for finals, old record, 10:01.03, 2016, by Brian Henderson, Tim Johnson, Drew Burns, Stefan Morton

4x800 relay, trials
10-Marist (Tyler Perry 1:55.41, Aidan Sweeney 1:55.63, James Moehringer 1:56.56, Thomas Dinsmore 1:57.19) 7:44.79
Sunday, March 6, schedule
11:30a: IC4A 60-meter final – Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne 
12:55p: ECAC 3,000-meter final – Hayley Collins 
1:15p: IC4A 3,000-meter final – Ramsey Little 
IC4A DMR – Marist team TBA 

ECAC Championships, Day 1: Hayley PRs and scores!

Although she’s got one more race on Sunday in the ECAC 3,000-meter run, it was great to see graduate student Hayley Collins run her final indoor 5km race with a personal-best time and a seventh-place scoring spot on Saturday afternoon. It was a very physical race with a lot of jostling in the pack. Hayley showed great restraint in the early stages of the race – usually she likes to take it out hard and lead the race! – and hung tough through the latter stages of the race. After chasing the sub-17 barrier for so long, now it’s old hat for Hayley, as she broke 17 once again and went out with an ECAC scoring place. Neat.
 
ECAC Championships
Boston University
Saturday, March 5
7. Hayley Collins 16:55.59
Kilometer splits = 3:23.03, 3:23.19, 3:18.99, 3:25.84, 3:24.56

IC4A Championships: Glenmour makes final

Early results from this afternoon’s competition: Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne had the fastest time in the preliminary round of the 60-meter dash (6.75 seconds) and then had the fastest time in the semifinal round (6.69 seconds) and enters Sunday’s final as the top seed. While this is exciting, the difference in these top sprinters is a razor’s edge margin. We’re glad to have Glen back from his minor injury setback that cost him glory at the MAAC Championships two weeks ago. Hopefully, he’ll find full redemption on Sunday morning in the 60-dash final. More results and updates later tonight.

IC4A/ECAC Championships: Order of events

IC4A/ECAC Championships
Boston University
Saturday, March 5 
11:15a: IC4A 60-meter trials – Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne, Jeremy Mooney 
12:45p: IC4A 60-meter semis -- TBA 
3:20p: IC4A 200-meter trials – Jeremy Mooney 
3:40p: ECAC 5,000-meter final – Hayley Collins 
4:20p: IC4A 5,000-meter final – Ramsey Little, Gabe Rodriguez 
4:55p: IC4A DMR trials – Marist team (Brendan Dearie, Easton Eberwein, Roshan Kalikasingh, Christopher Paxis)  
6:00p: IC4A 4x800 relay trials – Marist team (Tyler Perry, Aidan Sweeney, James Moehringer, Thomas Dinsmore, Aidan Pech) 
Sunday, March 6 
11:30a: IC4A 60-meter final – TBA, if qualifiers 
12:45p: IC4A 200-meter final – TBA, if qualifier 
12:55p: ECAC 3,000-meter final – Hayley Collins 
1:15p: IC4A 3,000-meter final – Ramsey Little 
Relays to follow – TBA, if qualifiers

Live results at pctiming.com 

Big ideas

Oh, the trials and tribulations of trying to run a track program as the perpetual “visiting team” … OK. Let’s go back a bit. The past few weeks, we have been lucky enough to train at the Vassar track, where all the snow had melted. It was great to get back on our home away from home. But then last Friday, we got snow and sleet and ice, and that winter reverie of outdoor track practices appeared to be doomed to waiting till after spring break. But then on Sunday, we learned from various sources that our friend James McCowan (one of the Vassar track coaches) and his team were out on their track, shoveling snow and ice off the first two lanes. Yay! We can, indeed, get back on the track. And none too soon, with the IC4A Championships coming up, we wanted our men to get some final, tune-up speed work. The plan was in place to go there on Tuesday morning for practice, despite the chilly and cloudy weather. Then, Coach Terry Horton called. He was checking on the condition of the track on his way into Marist. It was icy and slick. The snow on the outside lanes of the track had melted and refreezed, leaving the track a slippery mess. Time for Plan B! That would be … New Paltz, Big Blue Doughnut, one more time on that indoor track across the river.
 
Upon arrival at SUNY New Paltz and exiting the vans, the men instead made a beeline for the Bigger Blue Oval – the New Paltz outdoor track. They would much rather have been outside. A quick inspection of the Bigger Blue Oval revealed that it was indeed runnable, but there was snow and ice on each endzone curve in the first 2-3 lanes. Hmmm. This proved to be a dilemma. How do you do intervals this way, zigzagging in and out like a Formula One driver? It was determined that the annoyance of slightly longer interval lengths was worth avoiding the Big Blue Doughnut inside. For most guys. Four guys opted for the indoor option, which I gladly obliged them (I had the key to the indoor track, plus it’s warmer and there’s a bathroom). But first! One of the guys going inside asked (for no apparent reason, since he was, in fact, GOING INSIDE for his workout) what effect the snow and ice on the turns of the outdoor track would have on the measurement of that day’s prescribed intervals. Already agitated from the day’s events, I exploded in mild annoyance that bordered on mock anger and blurted out: “How the (bleep) would I know, what do I look like, friggin’ Copernicus?!” For a team very much used to my usual “banter,” this was a particularly unique rant. Or, as Sween said, “Wow, Pete, that’s one of your better ones!” Neat! Side note: I have no idea why the name of a 16th-century polymath popped into my feeble brain.
 
As I quickly calmed down during the walk inside, this same Fine Young Man who asked the Copernican question posed another (well-worn) gem for me: “Coach, if you had the choice, which would you prefer (at Marist), an indoor or an outdoor track?” I’ve heard this question only, oh, about 156 times. While I gave the merits of either option, stating clearly that I would take whatever we would get, he came up with a truly original, absurd thought – ranking right up there in the annals of past “good ideas” from well-meaning if warped past team members … like “commuting” to New Paltz via helicopter, or that truly original thought of a “floating track” on the Hudson River! Anyway, this Fine Young Man suggested a combo indoor-outdoor, 400-meter track. With a retractable roof! Yes. A retractable roof. You know, he said, so on a nice day, we could open the roof and let the sunshine in. Oh. Yes. Wonderful idea! Like SoFi Stadium (which hosted the SUPER BOWL) or whatever, right? At Marist! For track! This is brilliant! Oh. Wait. What’s the precedent? How many of these hybrid indoor/outdoor facilities exist? As far as we know! NONE! Ah yes. All in a day’s work …