Sub-15 list, updated

Thanks to Ramsey Little’s school record and Gabe Rodriguez’ personal-best performances, it’s time for an update to the all-time 5km list for men. Here it is …

Marist College, sub-15:00 for 5km list

1-Ramsey Little 14:08.72, 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. Gabe Rodriguez 14:51.99, 2022

20. Nick Webster, 14:52.54, 2009

21. Conor Shelley, 14:52.67, 2008

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

BU Season Opener: Men's results

Really strong day for the men, with Ramsey Little’s school record in the 5km the biggest highlight. It’s a sign of how far he has come that he was not completely satisfied with this effort, as his goal entering the race was a sub-14:00 clocking. There were many other highlights in the distance races, but also in the sprints – we are glad to welcome Amari Mathis to the racing team. That name is new to blog followers, but we have had the pleasure to work with him in practice every day for the past three months. He’s a true freshman, and a truly fast one at that! Thrilled to have him join our already strong sprint team. Highly neat!

Highlights

--Junior Ramsey Little, school record and IC4A qualifier in the 5km, fastest time in school history (indoors and outdoors)

--Freshman Amari Mathis, two personal-best times (60 dash and 200 dash) in first collegiate meet. His 60 dash time is second fastest in school history (trailing only Glenmour Leonard-Osbourne)

--All three runners in 3km ran personal-best times – Brendan Dearie, Kieran Donnelly, Tyler Perry. Collegiate debut for Kieran

--Sophomore Jack Parsons with huge personal-best time in mile run

--Sophomore Gabriel Rodriguez, personal-best time in 5,000, now 19th fastest in school history

--Junior Daniel Czop, personal-best time in the 5,000

--Freshman Jacob Anderson, personal-best time in 800-meter run in collegiate debut

--Sophomore Easton Eberwein, personal-best split in the 4x400 relay (49.32)

BU Season Opener

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Track and Tennis Center

Boston University

60-meter dash

7-Amari Mathis 7.02 (preliminary), 7.09 (final)

200-meter dash

4-Amari Mathis 22.61

9-Jared Tomasetti 22.73

Seth Oppong-Dwamena 24.76

400-meter dash

10-Easton Eberwein 50.97

12-Ryan Bahnsen 51.36

600-meter dash

18-Thomas Dinsmore 1:27.41

19-Roshan Kalikasingh 1:28.63

800-meter run

7-Jacob Anderson 1:58.57

10-Marcel Stewart 2:03.19

Mile run

16-Jack Parsons 4:23.96

33, 67 (34), 1:43 (36), 2:17 (34), 2:50 (33), 3:24 (34), 3:55 (31), 4:23.96 (28.96)

20-Dominic Mastromatteo 4:32.74

34, 68 (34), 1:43 (35), 2:17 (34), 2:50 (33), 3:25 (35), 3:58 (33), 4:32.74 (34.74)

3,000-meter run

38-Brendan Dearie 8:33.05

33, 66 (33), 1:40 (34), 2:14 (34), 2:48 (34)

3:21 (33), 3:55 (34), 4:30 (35), 5:04 (34), 5:38 (34)

6:13 (35), 6:47 (34), 7:23 (36), 7:59 (36), 8:33.05 (34.05)

Kilometer splits: 2:48, 2:50, 2:55.05

42-Kieran Donnelly 8:34.94

34, 72 (38), 1:47 (35), 2:22 (35), 2:57 (35)

3:32 (35), 4:06 (34), 4:41 (35), 5:14 (33), 5:48 (34)

6:21 (33), 6:54 (33), 7:28 (34), 8:02 (34), 8:34.94 (32.94)

Kilometer splits: 2:57, 2:51, 2:46.94

49-Tyler Perry 8:39.94

35, 73 (38), 1:49 (34), 2:24 (35), 2:59 (35)

3:34 (35), 4:07 (33), 4:42 (35), 5:15 (33), 5:50 (35)

6:24 (34), 6:59 (35), 7:33 (34), 8:07 (34), 8:39.94 (32.94)

Kilometer splits: 2:59, 2:51, 2:49.94

5,000-meter run

96-Ramsey Little 14:08.72 *school record, IC4A qualifier

33, 67 (34), 1:41 (34), 2:14 (34), 2:48 (34)

3:32 (34), 3:56 (34), 4:29 (33), 5:02 (33), 5:36 (34)

6:08 (32), 6:41 (33), 7:15 (34), 7:48 (33), 8:22 (34)

8:56 (34), 9:30 (34), 10:05 (35), 10:40 (35), 11:15 (35)

11:50 (35), 12:25 (35), 13:00 (35), 13:35 (35), 14:08.72 (33.72)

Kilometer splits: 2:48, 2:48, 2:46, 2:53, 2:53

154-Gabriel Rodriguez 14:51.99

36, 72 (36), 1:47 (35), 2:23 (36), 2:59 (36)

3:32 (33), 4:08 (36), 4:42 (36), 5:17 (35), 5:53 (36)

6:28 (35), 7:04 (36), 7:40 (36), 8:15 (35), 8:51 (36)

9:27 (36), 10:03 (36), 10:40 (37), 11:16 (36), 11:53 (36)

12:30 (37), 13:07 (37), 13:43 (36), 14:19 (34), 14:51.99 (32.99)

Kilometer splits: 2:59, 2:54, 2:28, 3:02, 2:58.99

171-Daniel Czop 15:06.44

Kilometer splits: 2:59, 6:03 (3:04), 9:04 (3:01, 12:09 (3:05), 15:06.44 (2:57.44)

191-Steven Viera 15:37.84

195-Christopher Walsh 15:43.42

196-Jack Dovaras 15:52.76

197-John Ignacz 15:55.07

198-Jeremy Mbogo 15:56.86

60-meter hurdles

7-Seth Oppong-Dwamena 9.20 (final), 9.45 (prelim)

1,600-meter relay

4-Marist A (Jared Tomasetti 51.53, Ryan Bahnsen 50.33, Roshan Kalikasingh 50.64, Easton Eberwein 49.32) 3:21.81

8-Marist B (Thomas Dinsmore 54.69, Jacob Anderson 54.35, Marcel Stewart 53.87, Neel Viswanathan 54.33) 3:37.22

BU Season Opener: Women's results

A good start for the women’s team, with freshman Nora White running the fastest freshman time in school history, going sub-17:00 and getting an ECAC qualifying mark out of the way – all in her first-ever indoor track race! Junior Gianna Ferrara with two personal-best times (60 dash and 200 dash) in her best-ever collegiate meet. Here’s a quote from Coach Chuck that he submitted to GoredFoxes.com: “It was great to be back at the BU track and tennis center to get our season started. We had many solid performances today, but two ladies really stood out today. Junior Gianna Ferrara ran personal best times in both the 60m and 200m dash. And in her first ever indoor track race Freshman Nora White became the fastest freshman in school history with her time of 16:59.05 in the 5000m run. Really proud of both ladies today and look forward to many great performances to come for our Women’s team this season.” 

BU Season Opener

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Track and Tennis Center

Boston University

Women’s results

60-meter dash

20. Gianna Ferrara 8.33

29. Isabella Cipolla 8.57

30. Sydney Villani 8.60

31. Alyssa Ridgway 8.65

34. Nina Florio 9.10

200-meter dash

17. Gianna Ferrara 28.41

22. Nina Florio 29.23

300-meter dash

39. Natalie Tidler 44.94

40. Kiana Pathirana 46.54

400-meter dash

5. Julia Kropo 1:04.26

7. Breelyn McNamara 1:05.80

10. Alexa Mocko 1:07.10

800-meter run

10. Grace Reynolds 2:33.04

11. Mackenzie Schubert 2:38.28

12. Gina Ruotolo 2:39.99

Mile run

28. Karlie Genevive 5:45.82

3,000-meter run

83. Christina Diorio 11:21.87

Kilometer splits: 3:38, 3:46, 3:57.87

84. Emily Litke 11:27.66

3:40, 3:48, 3:59.66

5,000-meter run

86. Nora White 16:59.05 *ECAC qualifier

38, 79 (41), 1:59 (40), 2:40 (41), 3:20 (40)

4:00 (40), 4:40 (40), 5:20 (40), 6:01 (41), 6:41 (41)

7:22 (41), 8:02 (40), 8:43 (41), 9:24 (41), 10:06 (42)

10:47 (41), 11:28 (41), 12:09 (41), 12:51 (42), 13:33 (42)

14:14 (41), 14:55 (41), 15:38 (43), 16:20 (42), 16:59.05 (39.05)

Kilometer splits: 3:20, 3:21, 3:25, 3:27, 3:26

116. Hannah Belleville 18:21.61

40, 83 (43), 2:07 (44), 2:49 (42), 3:32.5 (43.5)

4:15, 4:58 (43), 5:40 (42), 6:23 (43), 7:06.6 (3:34.1)

7:49, 8:33 (44), 9:16 (43), 9:59 (43), 10:42.6 (3:36.0)

11:25, 12:10 (45), 12:56 (46), 13:42 (46), 14:28.7 (3:46.1)

15:16, 16:04 (48), 16:51 (47), 17:37 (46), 18:21.61 (3:52.51)

60-meter hurdles

13. Madison LaCreta 9.78

15. Sydney Villani 10.01

1,600-meter relay

8. Marist (Breelyn McNamara 1:04.07, Julie Kropo 1:03.34, Natalie Tidler 1:05.71, Alexa Mocko 1:05.56) 4:18.67

High jump

13. Madison LaCreta 1.45m

16. Grace O’Neill 1.45m

Long jump

20. Isabella Cipolla 4.44m

22. Alyssa Ridgway 4.31m

25. Ciena Lentz 4.06m

GOATwear

Back in the day – waaaaay back in the day – we had a distance runner on the team who called himself the GOAT (aka, Greatest Of All Time). His name was Arquimedes Jesus DelaCruz (Quimes, to us), and you know what? He was pretty damn good, one of the best we’ve ever had. Greatest of all-time? That’s speculative. Put it this way: Until Ramsey Little’s 14^th place finish at the NCAA Northeast Regional, the best finish we’ve had in the past two decades was Quimes, 26^th, in that race. His PRs in all of his events rank up there with the best ever. So, maybe not the GOAT, but pretty darn good. Quimes also had FLAIR. He had charisma. Actually, those who knew him best would just call him downright bizarre – in a great way. A true original. Stylish. He used to wear the same pair of Asics training sneakers but with different color shoes on each of his feet. He did this by design. Now. The photo you see here? Those are Ramsey’s lower legs and feet and – yes, that’s right – mismatched sneakers. By design? For stylish effect? Uh, no. It’s what he can find on a rush to get to practice today (along with, oddly enough, a glove for his right hand but not his left hand). Ramsey has been known to forget his running shoes – when going to meets! He has lost his keys – way more times than he’d care to admit. Matching socks? Practically never! Yeah. So today, when he pointed out his choice footwear, while quickly noting that they both had similar mileage totals on them, I immediately snapped this picture and sent it to Quimes. Side note: The pair not on his feet are for shorter doubles, not his main runs. Anyway … I also let Quimes know that, style points or not, while not the “original GOAT,” a compelling case can be made for Ramsey to be identified with those initials right now.