Wolfie Invitational at Stony Brook: A "home" meet

Our busy outdoor track schedule continues on Saturday with the inaugural Wolfie Invitational at Stony Brook. Although the trip takes a few hours by bus, in reality this is a "home" meet for our program, given the great number of athletes in the Marist Running family (past and present) from Long Island. We look forward to seeing everyone down there. Here is order of events for Saturday. Field events begin at 11 a.m. Track events begin at 11:30 a.m. For those keeping score at home, there are throwing events contested here. I did not include them in the events list below because we do not have any athletes in those events.

Jumps:
11.00am: Men's Long Jump followed by men's Triple Jump
11.00am: Women's Long Jump followed by Women's Triple Jump
11.45am: Women's Pole Vault followed by Men's Pole Vault
11.45am: Men's High Jump followed by Women's High Jump
Track Events: 11.30am – Women first in all running events

4x100

1500M

100 M Hurdle

110 M Hurdles

3000M

400 M

100 M

3000 Steeple

800 M

400H

200 M

5000 M           

4x400 M

Boston Marathon 2013: The New Normal

One of the hallmarks of terror is the shear unexpectedness of it.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in our den with my then-2-year-old son Joey. I think we were watching a Clifford The Big Red Dog cartoon on TV. Not sure. This was in the infancy of the Internet (I think we still had a dial-up connection) and certainly well before Social Media. I received a phone call from a friend who said to turn on Channel 4. Something about a plane crash into a NYC skyscraper. You know the rest of the story. That was a normal, cookie-cutter September day: Perfect sunshine, a Tuesday, a normal day, the type of day we've experienced a thousand times before and since.

This afternoon could not have been a more normal Monday in April. I was at the Spackenkill High School track, timing some athletes through an interval workout. An unremarkable workout on an unremarkable day. I couldn't even complain about the weather. It was a nice day for April or any month. This was a normal, cookie-cutter day in our outdoor track season. But then my cell phone started buzzing and ringing with calls and texts. We don't quite know the rest of the story yet, about what unfolded at the Boston Marathon this afternoon. But it's not good. It will never be the same.

It will never be the same. In these days and in these times, this is the New Normal. For our athletes and those younger than them, they have grown up in this Age of Terror; this is their new normal. The list of unspeakable tragedies grows. This one hits home as no other. This one was centered around our world, the marathon and the runners and the celebration of all that is good in our sport.

My phone has been buzzing and ringing all day and all night. Is everyone from our Marist Running Family OK? As far as we can tell ... YES. On the front lines of it all was our very own Pat Deedy, a junior XC runner and athletic training major who was working the medical tent at the Boston Marathon finish line. This was supposed to be a great day for Deedy. He's a runner and an aspiring athletic trainer, and he is from the outer Boston suburbs. I have spoken with Deedy twice tonight. He is OK. Through the grace of God, he and the other Marist AT students avoided harm's way by the narrowest of margins. Collectively, though, we are not OK. We have not been OK for a long, long time. This is the New Normal.

My 2-year-old son from 9/11 is now almost 14. On Friday, he gets Confirmed in the Catholic Church as an adult in God's eyes; he has adult-like traits already now. When I picked him up from track practice today, I told him of the events in Boston. He was surprised but not totally shocked. He asked good questions. He listened intently with me to Mike Francesa on WFAN and later to NPR reports, as I drove his teammates home on the other side of town in our normal, after-practice carpool. He asked more good questions. He remained calm. This is his world, the only one he has known, since that day with Clifford The Big Red Dog up until now. The New Normal: The New Normal that has invaded our running world and has left scars, the likes of which we still cannot even yet fathom.

Bucknell Bison Invitational: 4x800 men by the numbers

OK, let's see if this works ... Coach Chuck has a fancy program on his fancy iPad that he was using to take splits at the meet this weekend. Here are the results from the men's 4x800 relay that he e-mailed to me. Before he starts howling in protest, I must say that Mark Valentino used a similar (perhaps the same?) program last year when helping me with splits during a 10,000-meter race at Vassar College. Not sure how this will translate on the blog. If it does not look good or make sense, we can adjust it. Here goes ...

Split Report by SPLITWATCH

Athlete:		Chris, Dave, Mark, Matty
Event Name:		4x800
Date:		Apr 14, 2013, 3:34:04 PM
Distance:		3200m
Time:		7:45.04

Split	Time	400	800	1200	1600
400m	56.20	56.2
800m	1:55.71	59.5	1:55.7
1200m	2:50.79	55.1
1600m	3:49.41	58.6	1:53.7	3:49.4
2000m	4:44.49	55.1
2400m	5:48.29	1:03.8	1:58.9
2800m	6:43.80	55.5
3200m	7:45.04	1:01.2	1:56.8	3:55.6	7:45.0
Last:	400	800	1200	1600	2000
	1:01.2	1:56.8	3:00.6	3:55.6	4:54.3
Min:	55.08
Max:	1:03.80
Avg:	58.13

Bucknell Bison Invitational: Complete men's results

Here is a complete recap from the weekend. The 4x800 this afternoon was very strong and shows promise. We will get a few more cracks at it in the coming weeks. Thanks to Matt Panebianco for help recording splits, including his noting of the kilometer splits in the 5km races.

Bucknell Bison Invitational

Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14, 2013

Christy Mathewson Memorial Stadium

Lewisburg, Pa.

Men’s results

800-meter dash

62. Bryan Buttigieg 2:00.34

1,500-meter run

99. Pat Rynkowski 4:08.53

63.4, 2:09.6 (66.2), 4:08.53 (69.53 last 400m)

109. Charlie Ropes 4:09.62

63.0, 2:09.3 (66.3), 3:17.1 (67.8), 4:09.62 (70.62 last 400m)

120. Ty Gamble 4:18.33

64.7, 2:12.9 (68.2), 3:24.0 (71.1), 4:18.33 (73.33 last 400m)

5,000-meter run

2. Will Griffin 14:31.97 *ICAAAA qualifier

69, 2:17 (68), 3:26 (69), 4:36 (70)

5:46 (70), 6:57 (71), 8:08 (71), 9:19 (71)

10:32 (73), 11:43 (71), 12:53 (70), 14:01 (68)

14:31.97 (30.97)

Kilometer splits: 2:51, 2:55, 2:57, 3:00, 2:49

10. Ken Walshak (unattached) 14:43.84

70, 2:20 (70), 3:31 (71), 4:41 (70)

5:52 (71), 7:04 (72), 8:15 (71), 9:26 (71)

10:38 (72), 11:50 (72), 13:00 (70), 14:09 (69)

14:43.84

Kilometer splits: 2:55, 2:57, 2:58, 3:00, 2:58

28. Ryan Scrudato 14:58.43

73, 2:24 (71), 3:35 (71), 4:48 (73)

6:00 (72), 7:12 (72), 8:24 (72), 9:36 (72)

10:48 (72), 12:02 (74), 13:14 (72), 14:24 (70)

14:58.43 (34.43)

Kilometer splits: 3:00, 3:00, 3:00, 3:02, 2:56

41. Billy Posch 15:04.50

70, 2:22 (72), 3:31 (71), 4:46 (73)

5:58 (72), 7:11 (73), 8:24 (73), 9:37 (73)

10:52 (75), 12:08 (76), 13:23 (75), 14:33 (70)

15:04.50 (31.50)

Kilometer splits: 2:57, 3:01, 3:03, 3:07, 2:56.50

77. Nick Salek 15:23.04

71, 2:22 (71), 3:33 (71), 4:46 (73)

5:58 (72), 7:11 (73), 8:24 (73), 9:40 (76)

10:57 (77), 12:15 (78), 13:34 (79), --

15:23.04

99. Ian Dorset 15:36.64

75, 2:29 (74), 3:42 (73), 4:56 (76)

6:11 (75), 7:25 (74), 8:41 (76), 9:57 (76)

11:14 (77), 12:30 (76), 13:46 (76), 15:01 (75)

15:36.64 (35.64)

10,000-meter run

9. Johnny Lee 32:18.84 *USATF Junior qualifier

74, 2:32 (78), 3:50 (78), 5:08 (78)

6:27 (79), 7:44 (77), 9:01 (77), 10:18 (77)

11:33 (75), 12:49 (76), 14:06 (77), 15:23 (77)

16:40 (77), 17:58 (78), 19:15 (77), 20:34 (79)

21:53 (79), 23:12 (79), 24:32 (80), 25:52 (80)

27:12 (80), 28:31 (79), 29:51 (80), 31:09 (78)

32:18.84 (69.84)

First 5km: 16:00; second 5km: 16:18.84

10. Ryan Colabella (unattached) 32:21.53 *USATF Junior qualifier

75, 2:33 (78), 3:50 (77), 5:08 (78)

6:27 (79), 7:44 (77), 9:01 (77), 10:18 (77)

11:33 (75), 12:49 (76), 14:05 (76), 15:22 (77)

16:40 (78), 17:57 (77), 19:15 (78), 20:34 (79)

21:53 (79), 23:12 (79), 24:32 (80), 25:52 (80)

27:10 (78), 28:33 (83), 29:54 (81), 31:11 (77)

32:21.53 (70.53)

First 5km: 16:00; second 5km: 16:21.53

3,000-meter steeplechase

1-Arquimedes DelaCruz 9:07.81 *ICAAAA qualifier

68, 2:20 (72), 3:32 (72), 4:46 (74), 6:00 (74), 7:16 (76), 8:31 (75), 9:07.81 (36.81)

Kilometer splits: 2:56, 6:00 (3:04), 9:07.81 (3:07.81)

3,200-meter relay

3-Marist A (Chris Vanzetta 1:55.1, David Marthy 1:53.7, Mark Vuono 1:58.9, Matt Panebianco 1:56.2) 7:45.13 (splits courtesy of Scrudato via text)

Bucknell Bison Invitational: Complete women's results

Here are the complete results and splits (where available) for this weekend's meet. Many thanks to Matt Panebianco for his mega-assistance on Saturday afternoon/evening with the splits. His detail-oriented approach was much appreciated. I was not at the meet today (Sunday), as I returned to campus to work the Admission Open House. Overall, a strong weekend.

Bucknell Bison Invitational

Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14, 2013

Christy Mathewson Memorial Stadium

Lewisburg, Pa.

Women’s results

400-meter dash

24. Colleen Meenan 1:02.60

27. Jackie Gamboli 1:03.06

800-meter run

49. Christine Coughlin 2:23.31

1,500-meter run

20. Kristen Traub 4:38.66

73, 2:29 (76), 3:44 (75), 4:38.66 (74.66 last 400m)

55. Rebecca Denise 4:54.05

77, 2:35 (78), 3:53 (78), 4:54.05 (82.05 last 400m)

3,000-meter run (no splits available, sorry)

2. Rebecca Denise 10:30.81

4. Erin Thompson 10:38.65

6. Nicki Nesi 10:43.93

11. Kelley Gould 11:03.30

5,000-meter run

15. Brittany Burns (Syracuse Chargers) 17:22.03

83, 2:44 (81), 4:07 (83), 5:30 (83)

6:33 (83), 8:17 (84), 9:42 (85), 11:07 (85)

12:34 (87), 13:59 (85), 15:22 (83), 16:44 (82)

17:22.03 (38.03)

78. Kelley Gould 19:17.66

90.0, 2:56.0 (86.0), 4:29.4 (89.4), 5:55.0 (89.6)

7:26.0 (91.0), 8:55.7 (89.7), 10:27.3 (91.6), 12:00.9 (93.6)

13:36.3 (95.6), 15:14.4 (98.1), 16:51.5 (97.1), 18:29.1 (97.6)

19:17.66 (47.56)

10,000-meter run

15. Kathryn Sheehan 36:39.57 *ECAC qualifier

83, 3:02 (89), 4:31 (89), 5:59 (88)

7:27 (88), 8:55 (88), 10:24 (89), 11:54 (90)

13:23 (89), 14:52 (89), 16:21 (89), 17:50 (89)

19:16 (86), 20:44 (88), 22:10 (86), 23:37 (87)

25:03 (86), 26:29 (86), 27:55 (86), 29:23 (88)

30:52 (89), 32:20 (88), 33:50 (90), 35:17 (87)

36:36.57 (82.57)

1600m splits: 5:59, 5:55, 5:56, 5:47, 5:46, 5:54

5km splits: 18:32, 18:07

19. Katie Messina 37:04.33 *ECAC qualifier

94, 3:02 (88), 4:31 (89), 5:59 (88)

7:28 (89), 8:57 (89), 10:28 (91), 11:58 (90)

13:29 (91), 14:59 (90), 16:28 (89), 17:57 (89)

19:28 (91), 20:57 (89), 22:26 (89), 23:55 (89)

25:24 (89), 26:51 (87), 28:19 (88), 29:47 (88)

31:15 (88), 32:44 (89), 34:13 (89), 35:40 (87)

37:04.33 (84.33)

1600m splits: 5:59, 5:59, 5:59, 5:58, 5:52, 5:53

5km splits: 18:42, 18:22

3,200-meter relay

2. Marist (Coughlin, Meenan, Gamboli, Traub) 9:43.78

Introducing the newest member of the sub-15:00 club: Ryan Scrudato

The newest member of the sub-15:00 club for 5,000 meters is junior (soph eligibility) Ryan Scrudato. One of the hardest working members of our distance team, Datos (as he is known) brings a lot of fire and passion to the sport each and every day. He is a very deserving member of the club, and he ran a smart and tough race to get his coveted spot on the list. We are very proud of him. As he likes to say ... LET'S GO! Here is the updated list ... hopefully to be updated again later this spring?

All-time sub-15:00 list, Marist College

Girma Segni, 14:18.42, 2009*

Will Griffin, 14:23.14, 2013**

Arquimedes DelaCruz, 14:29.82, 2013

Adam Vess, 14:33.41, 2008

Peter Pazik, 14:35.84, 1986

Matt Flint, 14:37.45, 2010

Ken Walshak, 14:37.53, 2011

Michael Melfi, 14:42.36, 1998

Justin Harris, 14:42.88, 2007

David Raucci, 14:42.92, 2006

Michael Nehr, 14:45.61, 2001

David Swift, 14:50.24, 1995

Zak Smetana, 14:50.39, 2011

Kirk Dornton, 14:50.89, 2002

Nick Webster, 14:52.54, 2009

Conor Shelley, 14:52.67, 2008

Joel Moss, 14:54.57, 2012

Greg Salamone, 14:55.79, 2000

Tim Keegan, 14:56.45, 2009

Ryan Scrudato, 14:58.43

*indoor school record and fastest overall time in school history for the distance

**outdoor school record

Bold indicates current athlete