IC4A Championships: Complete results

The track season ended quietly on a windy and warm day at IC4As. Our 4x800 relay team was never really in the race from the start and hung on to place ninth out of 10 teams in the race. Graduate student Brandon Rizzo continued to struggle in his specialty event (400 hurdles), still not 100 percent from hip surgery, lack of actual hurdle practice and a nagging hamstring injury. We remain grateful for the opportunity to participate in a few meets. We hope to transform that gratitude into hunger for a renewed sense of competitiveness, as we enter the summer and prepare for the 2021-2022 school year. We leave you with a bittersweet photo of an old coach (me) and a stubbornly loyal athlete (Hawker), who went down swinging as only Hawker can. We had our ups and downs through the years, but I remained loyal to him because he remained fiercely loyal to us. We will miss “hangin’ with Hawk” …

IC4A Championships

Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16

AIC, Springfield, MA

Day 1, results and splits

100-meter dash trials

13. Jeremy Mooney 10.98 *school record, old record 11.02 by Mooney, last week

800-meter run

27. Roshan Kalikasingh 1:57.34 (57.05, 1:00.30)

10,000-meter run

24. Matthew Hartman 31:39.14

1:11.79, 1:11.01, 1:10.81, 1:11.35 = 4:44.94

1:12.00, 1:15.05, 1:13.51, 1:13.28 = 9:38.76

1:15.88, 1:17.73, 1:17.08, 1:17.66 = 14:47.10

1:17.28, 1:16.32, 1:17.30, 1:19.19 = 19:57.17

1:17.19, 1:19.90, 1:19.18, 1:19.25 = 25:12.67

1:17.28, 1:16.91, 1:18.70, 1:17.96 = 30:23.51

1:15.64 = 31:39.14

400-meter hurdles

17. Brandon Rizzo 58.94

3,200-meter relay

9. Marist (Aidan Sweeney 2:02.45, Roshan Kalikasingh 1:59.84, Thomas Dinsmore 2:03.70, Matthew Hawker 2:02.98) 8:08.85