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