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

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