All-Americas, National Champions and

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Editor: Kristy McNeil
AUGUST 2012
All-Americas, National Champions and Olympians! Oh My!
Junior Greta Feldman accepts her All-America trophy for her fifth-place
finish at the NCAA Championships.
Senior Donn Cabral waits to here his named called as the steeplechase
national champion at the awards ceremony at the NCAA Championships.
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Season in Review
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Season in Review
The outdoor season got underway less than three weeks after the
conclusion of the indoor season, as the team headed to Florida for its
annual spring break trip. Junior Abby Levene won the first event of the
season, the 10k at the Central Florida Invitational. Highlighting the trip
was a freshman Nonny Okwelogu setting the school record in the discus,
throwing to 48.59 (159-5) taking down a 26-year old record held by Debbie
St. Phard ‘87 of 155-2.
The 12th annual Sam Howell Invitational was held April 6-7 at Weaver
Stadium, with over 900 athletes entered. The 4x100 started the meet off
with a bang as junior Abidemi Adenikinju, junior Erin Guty, sophomore
Lily Miller and senior Eileen Moran ran a meet record of 46.83. Freshman
Jackie Nicholas followed up with a second victory for the Tigers with a
first-place finish in the 1500. Nicholas ran a 4:42.33 to beat out 16 other
runners. Freshman Cecilia Barowski ran 56.19 in the 400 to place fourth.
She was the top collegiate runner in the event, with the three runners in
front of her from professional running clubs. Coming off of her win in the
4x100, Moran was the runner-up in the 100. Her time of 11.98 was the best
collegiate time in the event, as the top time of 11.76 belonged to unattached
sprinter. Okwelogu was the runner-up in the shot put, throwing to 12.89
(42-3.50) on her fourth attempt. Sophomore Imani Oliver was the runnerup in the triple jump and was eighth in the long jump. Oliver reached 12.18
(39-11.50) on her third attempt of the triple jump and reached a PR of
5.30 (17-4.75) on her third try of the long jump. Because of strong wind
gusts, the pole vault was moved indoors, but that didn’t stop junior Lauren
Tauscher from taking second clearing 3.85 (12-7.50). The 4x400 relay of
sophomore Carrie Vuong, Moran, Barowski and Hand capped off the day
with a second-place finish. The Tigers bested the meet record at 3:48.03
with only the NJ-NY track club running faster. (continued on page 14)
It was an unforgettable outdoor season for the men’s program. Senior
Donn Cabral provided the ultimate highlight, winning the national
championship in the steeplechase. He was named a semifinalist for The
Bowerman Award, earned his eighth All-America honor and completed an
undefeated season in the event. Along the way he posted a personal best
time of 8:19.41, an American collegiate record as well as the Olympic A
qualifying standard.
It was a season filled with unbelievable performances by the team in
general, as the program was named one of the top programs in the nation.
The Tigers finished the year No. 13 in the final standings of the McDonnell
Program of the Year Awards list, which takes into account team finishes at
national meets. Princeton was No. 19 in the nation in cross country, 45th in
indoor and 27th in outdoor. Princeton won its second straight triple crown,
winning every Heps title the last two years. Seventeen qualified for the
regionals and five advanced to the NCAA championships, where each one
of them earned All-America honors.
Sophomore Conor McCullough set his first of two Ivy League records
while Cabral set a Monmouth facility record as Princeton opened the 2012
outdoor season on March 23.
At the Central Florida Invitational, McCullough thew the hammer
to 71.47 (234-06) to erase the league and program best. Later in the
invitational, sophomore Damon McLean won the triple jump as he leaped
to 15.75 (51-8.25).
Cabral ran 4:00.96 at Monmouth’s Twilight Mile. Senior Trevor
Van Ackeren ran 4:04.47, sophomore Chris Bendtsen ran 4:06.38 and
sophomore Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ran 4:07.74 to join Cabral on the
facilities all-time performance list with PRs. (continued on page 16)
In This Issue...
Financial Report......................................................2
Chairman’s Statement.............................................3
US Olympic Trials.....................................................4
Olympian Donn Cabral.............................................5
Women’s Cross Country Season in Review......... 6-7
Men’s Cross Country Season in Review.............. 8-9
Women’s Indoor Season in Review.................. 10-11
Men’s Indoor Season in Review....................... 12-13
Women’s Outdoor Season in Review............... 14-15
Men’s Outdoor Season in Review.................... 16-17
Heps Highlights............................................... 18-19
Awards/Honors................................................ 20-21
Senior Sendoffs......................................................22
Incoming Class......................................................23
Cross Country Coaches Statement.......................24
Indoor Coaches Statement....................................25
Outdoor Coaches Statement.................................26
Ellis Awards/Fun Run............................................27
Where Are They Now?...................................... 28-31
2012-13 Schedules & Team Captains....................32
photos courtesy of Beverly Schaefer, Tom Connolly,
Dan Grossman, Kristy McNeil, Nilan Schnure, Patrick
Shanahan and The Ivy League
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
Financial Report for 2011-12
We cannot express enough our deep gratitude for another year of generous contributions in 2011-12. Your overwhelming support for
our student-athletes, coaches and support staff is appreciated by all. Please continue your essential support of the men’s and women’s
programs as we again look forward to another successful year of Princeton track. We were thrilled to sustain our already high level of
giving at a strong $139,742 in contributions in more than 350 gifts. The continuing contributions across the decades and our wonderful
parents make trips such as last year’s trip to Greece possible.
Under the Contributions Report is a summary of Revenues and Expenses for the year. Your donations helped to underwrite expenses
that the University does not or cannot cover, but expenses that we believe contribute importantly to the remarkable achievements and
experiences of individual Princeton athletes and their teams. Specifics of the 2011-12 year are provided beneath the Contributions
Report. If you have a question about any line or need further explanation, please email me at dbiederman@urbanmgt.com.
Revenues and Expenses
July 2011-July 2012
Balance from planned surplus
Surplus from 2012: $78,120
REVENUES
Description
Gifts
$ 139,742
Awards (Coach Samara/Farrell)
$
1,000
Endowment Income
$ 168,159
Student-Athlete Contributions
$
2,880
Transfers from University
$
50,815
TOTAL REVENUE
$ 362, 596
EXPENSES
Description
Team Travel
Equipment/Facilities
Recruit Hosting
Publications and Marketing (Newsletters and Events)
Coaching Support
Medical and Nutrition Programs
JV/Team Support
Miscellaneous
TOTAL EXPENSES
2012 Total Revenue
2012 Total Expenses
2012 Surplus
$ 127,830
$ 21,636
$ 25,930
$ 60,556
$ 19,969
$ 24,478
$
1,099
$
2,978
$ 284,476
$ 362,596
$ 284,476
$ 78,120
We Need Your Support
The activities listed under expenses would not be possible without your support. The University underwrites fully only those expenses
associated with Ivy League, Heptagonal, IC4A/ECAC and NCAA competition. The Penn Relays and meets with local colleges. It will not
underwrite fully the following expenses:
• Team participation in international meets such as the trip to Greece in 2011.
• Team participation in special meets, such as the cross country Pre-Nationals.
• Individual participation in special high caliber competition meets at a distance such as Mt. Sac Relays.
• Spring training expense in warmer locals. Again, an endowment fund, the Peter Morgan Spring Trip Fund, established in 2000 by Buzz and Barbara Taylor, provides substantial support for the spring training trips for the men and women.
• Most recruiting expenses.
• Expense for awards and dinners/picnics at season end and recognition for championship teams. Again we now have several endowments which fund several awards (Bonthron, Kramer, Morgan, McGraw, Myers, Rosengarten) but some awards and related expense are not covered.
• Newsletters and other alumni communications.
• Receptions for and recognition of officials, receptions for alumni and parents.
• Special events such as those in recent years to honor Larry Ellis and Sam Howell.
• Salaries and benefits for part-time coaches (partially funded by the University).
Funding these activities annually has contributed significantly to Princeton’s many team championships in the past 35 years. Your
continued support is essential to maintaining and improving the level of success achieved by 150 men and women annually.
Building on a promising 2011-12, we are sustaining a high standard for participation and contributions in 2012-13. We take great
pride in continuing to be one of the most supportive Friends groups at the University, and your pride as parents and alumni is a big
boost to our student-athletes.
Please consider supporting the teams financially this year if you have not done so in the past year or years, or continuing your
generous support if you have been a contributor. Your gifts make a difference.
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Friends of Princeton Track
Chairman’s Corner
Chairman’s Statement
Executive Committee
To our normal excellence in Ivy competition this year three titles were won by the men’s team, and
some incredible results were set forth on the national stage by some of our individual stars. Read on,
Dan Biederman ’75 - Chairman
Joe Bolster ’52 - President Emeritus
and be very proud of our program. And keep supporting it as generously as you have!
Susan Dawson ’86 - Treasurer
Bill Farrell ’77 - Awards Chair
Young Park ’94 - Communications
Robert Varrin ’56 - Secretary
Augie Wolf ’83 - Fund Chair
Joe Alala ’88
Alan Andreini ’68
Frank Bergold P’08
Nancy Crocker ’79
Christine Danielewski ’83
Marge DeMarrais ’86
Nancy Easton ’88
Joe Handelman ’52
Sheri Hatton ’85
Lisa Kiernan P’10
Michael Kingston ’62
Craig Masback ’77
Betty Newsam ’84
Tim Releford ’04
Brad Rowe ’82
Chris Stelling ’83
Richard Yaffa ’54
Dan Biederman ’75
Chairman, Friends of Princeton Track
Talk Track on TigerNet
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Become a Class Ambassador
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created an e-mail list on TigerNet
as a means to distribute and discuss
meet results, achievements, events
and various other opportunities to
friends and former members of the
Princeton women’s and men’s track
and field teams. The list is an open
forum and is a wonderful opportunity
to stay in contact with teammates and
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The Friends hope that more
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opportunity in the coming year.
Everyone who has signed up for the
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First, click on Discussion Groups,
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name is track-field-alums. Thus, our
official e-mail address is: track-fieldalums@lists.tigernet.princeton.
edu. It’s another opportunity to stay
connected with our terrific teams.
The Friends of Princeton Track is looking for two ambassadors from each class to help with
the communication between their classes and the Princeton track & field programs. It is a
terrific way for people to reconnect with their teammates. Each class will have one male and
one female representative and we are still looking to complete representation.
If you would like to volunteer to be your class’s ambassador for one year, please e-mail
Augie Wolf ’83 (awolf@alumni.princeton.edu) or Tim Releford ’04 (timothyr@holborn.com).
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August 2012
Tiger Tracks
An Olympic Year
TIGERS AT THE TRIALS
Name
Tora Haris ‘02
Justin Frick ‘10
Donn Cabral ‘12
Ashley Higginson ‘11
Carrie Dimoff ‘06
Greta Feldman ‘13
Liz Costello ‘10
Austin Hollimon ‘13
Ashley Higginson ‘11
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Donn Cabral ‘12 became the first Princeton track & field athlete to compete
at the Olympics since Tora Harris ’02 in 2004 Athens Olympics, and the first
runner since J. Coard Taylor ’23 ran the 400 in the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Cabral finished in second place in the steeplechase at the US Olympic
Trials to earn a spot on the team. He ran 8:19.81, just 0.40 seconds off his
personal best of 8:19.41.
He sat behind the leader for the first few laps and with four to go was
in fourth place. Favorites Evan Jager and Daniel Huling started to break
out ahead with two laps left. Cabral moved into third at the start of the
bell lap. As soon as the announcer starting talking about Cabral, and what
an amazing finisher he is, Cabral passed Huling on the back stretch and
took second and maintained that position. It was a tough field as six of the
finalists had already ran the Olympic A standard, leaving Cabral knowing
he must finish top three to make US Olympic team. Fortunately, he did one
better.
Cabral’s dream of making the Olympic team became a possibility
on May 18 at the 2012 USATF Oxy High Performance Meet at Occidental
College. Cabral set an American college record and ran the Olympic A
qualifying standard as he won the steeplechase in 8:19.14.
His time broke the American college record mark of 8:19.27 set by
Farley Gerber of Weber State in 1984, and is the second best college time in
history, trailing only Kenyan Henry Rono who ran a world record of 8:05.4 in
1978 while at Washington State.
Oxy was an Olympic Trials preview as Cabral moved into third with
three laps to go, behind Jager and Huling. Jager fell on the final water
barrier as Cabral moved into second place. Cabral handled the last barrier
with ease as he got in front of Huling and blazed to the finish in his bright
orange kicks.
Cabral got one step closer to his dream when he finished second in the
qualifying round to advance to the final. He ran behind the top five the entire
race and was fifth with one lap to go. He pushed ahead of three others and
moved into second in the last 50 meters. He finished second in the heat and
seventh overall with a of time was 8:30.64.
Cabral was one of several members of the Princeton track & field
programs to compete at the trials in Eugene, Ore.
Liz Costello ‘10 kicked things off in the women’s 10,000 on June 22.
Costello finished 16th in the final with a time of 32:53.31. Amy Hastings won
the race at 31:58.36 to make the Olympic team, along with Lisa Uhl, who
was fourth, and Janet Bawcom, who was seventh. Both have the Olympic A
standard.
Tora Harris ’02, who was on the Olympic team in 2004, was joined in
the high jump by recent alum Justin Frick ’10 who was taken off the pending
list and told he could compete just a day before the event. The pair both
cleared 2.18 (7-1.75) in the preliminary round to advance to the final. Frick
finished fifth in the finals with a mark of 2.25 (7-4.5) while Harris was ninth
clearing 2.15 (7-0.25) in the finals.
Greta Feldman ‘13 was the only current Tiger competing in the trials.
Feldman advanced to the semifinals after finishing sixth in her qualifying
heat at 4:14.89 – the fourth time, all consecutive, she’s run the event under
4:15. Feldman was sixth overall, the best time by a collegiate athlete. She
Event
High Jump
High Jump
Steeplechase
Steeplechase
Steeplechase
1500
10k
400m Hurdles
Trial Finish
9th/2.15
5th/2.25
2nd/8:19.81
4th/9:38.06
6th/9:45.01
18th/4:12.29- semis
16th/32:53.31
26th/56.50 - prelims
was one of four collegians to compete in the semifinals. Her time was better
than this year’s national champion Katie Flood of Washington by nearly a
second. The next day Feldman had her Olympic trial run come to an end
in the semifinals despite running a new PR. Feldman clocked in at 4:12.29,
shaving 0.42 seconds off her school-recording holding time from the NCAA
semifinals that qualified her for this trials. She finished 18th overall in the
semifinals.
Like Frick, Carrie Dimoff ‘06 came off the pending list and ran in the
qualifying round of the women’s steeplechase and reached the final - along
with Ashley Higginson ‘11. Higginson ran a PR in the race, at 9:45.21, to
finish third in heat 2 and fourth overall. After sitting second, Higginson took
the lead with 3.5 laps to go but dropped back to second with a lap to go at
8:28 on the clock. She just missed the Olympic A standard of 9:43. Dimoff
was fifth in the same heat as Higginson and was eighth overall, crossing the
line at 9:49.03.
Three days later Higginson got the Olympic A standard, but
unfortunately just missed making the Olympic team by just one place as
she finished fourth, running a personal best 9:38.06. She ran most of the
race between third and fifth place. With one lap remaining she was fifth
and then pushed ahead into fourth with 200 meters left, but couldn’t catch
up to Bridget Franek and Shalaya Kipp, who were neck and neck for second
and third and finished at 9:35.62 and 9:35.73. Emma Coburn won the race at
9:32.78.
During the second lap the announcers took notice of Higginson in
fourth place and launched into a sound bite on Princeton and it’s presence
in the steeplechase, with Cabral qualifying for the Olympic Team the
previous night. They noted that there are two Princeton graduates in this
race, with Carrie Dimoff ‘06 as well. Dimoff finished sixth in the race at
9:45.01, missing the A standard of 9:43 by just two seconds.
In a crushing turn-of-events, Austin Hollimon ‘13, who took the year off
from Princeton to train for the Olympics, failed to advance in the qualifying
round of the 400-meter hurdles. Hollimon had the lead in heat 3, but on the
third curve, Hollimon’s left foot clipped the hurdle and he fell, allowing the
2008 bronze medalist Bershawn Jackson to take the lead. Hollimon finished
the race and crossed at 56.50, placing him 26th overall.
Justin Frick ‘10
Interview with Olympian Donn Cabral ’12
You set some lofty goals for yourself, wanting to win the NCAAs and make
the Olympic team this year. What went in to achieving both goals, physically
and mentally?
I had several goals including breaking 4 in the mile, winning Penn Relays,
and getting the team triple crown at the Heps championships this year. But
in the end doing everything to realize my Olympic dream made the other
goals possible. All the belief I had to have in myself carries over to other
races. The fitness I gained and the health I protected all year couldn’t help
but show during the regular season as well as at the Olympic Trials. But to
be more direct lots of miles, repetitions, lifts, sleep, and single-mindedness
went in to achieving what I have this year.
After attaining those goals, what goals have you set for yourself now, and
what is your goal for this year’s Olympics?
At the Olympics I’ll have to treat the semi-finals as if they are the finals. My
goal is to run a personal best there and to make the finals. I think I can still
shave several seconds off my time if things go well between now and then.
After that I’ll reassess. My long term goals are to make the future world
championship teams and Olympic teams and to break the American Record,
by a lot. Getting a medal at the World Championships or the Olympics is a
dream of mine, but I’m not at the level yet where I feel comfortable saying
that’s currently a goal.
On the Olympic Trials
You were in 4-5th for most of the race (trial final), that’s a place you haven’t
been all year. You usually like to sit second or third. Were you nervous you
were back a little further?
No, I wasn’t really nervous that I was further back than usual. In college
races the competition isn’t usually quite as deep meaning it is usually easier
to maintain a spot toward the front of a race. I’d only get nervous mid-race if
I felt like my legs were tired and I were not completely confident in my ability
to close at least as fast as the other guys around me.
When did you realize you had top three and weren’t going to be caught?
Once I came off the final water barrier and had just over 100 meters left
I knew I wasn’t going to get Evan but that I also had an Olympic berth
guaranteed.
What was going through your head on the last couple laps as you made your
way into second place?
It wasn’t really excitement until the last 100 meters. Until then it was just
typical racing thoughts. I knew that I was in the mix of guys who were going
to London, but I needed to do a better job positioning myself to ensure third
place was in reach but also positioning myself for the win by the final lap.
Describe the feeling of crossing the line and knowing you were going to
London?
I knew it was possible, and I’ve known for months that I’ve got what it takes
to be an Olympian, but at that moment it became an actual title that I’d
earned. I had the whole final 100 meters to soak in that feeling - it was a
beautiful thing.
What are your plans post Olympics? I plan to stay in Europe for a bit and get in another race or two post-Olympics,
and then begin my early season training while traveling around Europe.
I’m no longer going to Colorado and I haven’t chosen a coach or training
group yet so I have no commitments. I still plan to go to business school
eventually, but in the meantime I’d like to have a part-time job to make sure
I keep busy and my mind doesn’t go stale.
You’re known as being a great finisher – how do you train for something
like that? When you’ve just run 2,000+ meters how do you get that strength
to push harder and faster in those final 2-3 laps? What do you tell yourself
when you’re just exhausted?
Late in the race when the pace starts ratcheting down I just make sure to
tell myself that I’ve still got plenty of gears left and plenty of gas in the tank.
This makes me feel more relaxed and able to hold my form as I start to really
push my limits. Coach Dolan has us do a few accelerations once a week
where we hit top-speed and hold it for a very short time. That has definitely
added to my new-found ability to finish well. But the biggest reason is that
the guy who finishes fastest is usually the guy who feels the best at the end
of a race. Meaning this year I’ve just been fitter than I’ve ever been so if
everyone else has given 98% and I’m neck and neck with them only having
run 95%, I’ll have more gears to show at the finish. So I attribute most of my
finishing kick to my big leap in fitness this year.
On the NCAA Championships
Being the runner-up at the NCAAs the last two years, did you feel a lot of
pressure to be successful this year?
It wasn’t the kind of pressure that makes things difficult to bear, but just
uncomfortable. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to be sharp for the full indoor
and outdoor track seasons, so it was uncomfortable being the top returning
steeplechaser in the country and getting beat as often as I was for a lot of
the track season. I knew my plan, but I didn’t like adding to the reputation
that steeplechase might just be a weaker, watered-down competition. Once
I began to run well I had no worries that I was hitting my stride at the right
time.
You were the runner-up the last two years, did you feel a lot of pressure
coming into the race?
This is a huge event for me. I got second the last two years and I really
wanted to end my Princeton career with a national championship. I knew I
could do it, but actually going ahead and doing it means so much to me.
I’ve wanted this for two year’s now. After my sophomore year I said ok
next year, junior year, I’m going to come back and win this thing. I ended up
getting beat significantly, so I said ok no more messing around, senior year
is the year. This is a big deal, I’ve seen the list of All-Americas and national
champions in our locker room and I wanted to add my name to that.
I got out exactly how I expected. A hard first 80 meters because
everyone wants a good position. And no one is comfortable any slower than
under 70 seconds per lap and I think we were running 69. So we did that for
2,000 meters. And my plan was to be on the shoulder of the leader for 2,000
meters and then with 1,000 meters I was going to make a decisive move and
run to the pit from there. I executed it pretty well and it went according to
plan.
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August 2012
Tiger Tracks
2011 Women’s Cross Country Season in Review
With the loss of All-Americas Sarah Cummings and Ashley Higginson, the
women’s team knew it would face an uphill battle this season. With 18 of the
28 harriers being either freshmen or sophomores, the Tigers were young
and weren’t battle tested.
Expectations were still high for five-time defending Ivy League
Champion and frequent NCAA qualifier. Before the season even began,
Princeton was ranked 22nd in the national preseason poll, and fourth in the
preseason Mid-Atlantic region.
The team opened the season with a win at the Fordham Invitational
on Sept. 10. The Tigers earned 34 points to finish ahead of 16 teams.
Sophomore Clare Gallagher had the Tigers’ best time at 18:23.83 to place
fifth overall. Junior Alexis Mikaelian and freshman Emily de la Bruyere
finished right with her in sixth and seventh, less than a second behind.
Junior Greta Feldman came home ninth with a time of 18:27.43. Sophomore
Molly Higgins rounded out the top five placing 12th with a time of 18:34.77.
Princeton got its first
taste of the Ivies at the
HYP meet in Cambridge.
The squad won the annual
meet for the eighth
consecutive year, with all
five scorers finishing in
the top 10. Eleven points
back from Princeton in
second place was Yale with
36 points, while Harvard
was last with 71. Senior
captain Alex Banfich won
the meet covering the 5k
course in 17:33. Her time
was six seconds ahead of
the second-place runner
Liana Epstein of Yale.
Mikaelian placed third
in the race at 17:41 and
classmate Mel Newbery
followed in fifth place at
17:43. de la Bruyere was
the top freshman, across
all three schools, as she
Senior Alex Banfich
ran 17:47 to take eighth
overall. Feldman was the
final Tiger scorer with a
time of 17:55 for 10th place.
The Notre Dame Invitational delivered the first national caliber
competition as Princeton entered the meet ranked No. 19 in the nation. The
Tigers finished eighth out of 28 teams with Banfich leading the way with
a 13th-place finish and a time of 17:19. Mikaelian and Feldman began to
secure their places as the second and third runners, as Mikaelian ran 17:47
and Feldman posted a 17:51. Freshman Andrea Keklak and Newbery both
ran under 18 minutes to round out the scoring.
Meanwhile, at the Paul Short Run, Princeton had seven runners
compete in the open women’s 6k. Leading the Tigers was freshman
Rachel Skokowski who posted a time of 22:41 to finished 19th out of 341
competitors. Freshman Gina Talt was three seconds back at 22:44 and
junior Abby Levene ran 23:30. Sophomore Katie Skinner and junior Abby
Hewitt finished four seconds apart at 23:42 and 23:46. Freshman Sophie
Harkins and senior Bernie Da Costa also competed for Princeton.
Two weeks later the Tigers faced 19 ranked squads at the Wisconsin
Invitational. Princeton finished 25th out of 44 and had a impressive effort
from Banfich who finished fourth overall at 20:11. She kept in the top pack
throughout the race posting a 3k time of 10:32. Feldman and Mikaelian both
finished at 21:24. Higgins was 10 seconds back to finish in 21:34 and Keklak
crossed the line at 21:54. In comparing to the Ivies, the Tigers had a 28-point
edge over Columbia, which had its top runner finishing 52nd and posting a
team average time of 21:25. Harvard also competed and had an average
of 21:56 with its top runner placing 171st. Gallagher showed promise by
running 21:54.5 in the B race to finish 19th overall.
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Back in Princeton the next day, the B squad took fifth at the Princeton
Invitational. Skokowski was the first Tiger across the line finishing 19th with
a time of 23:36. Hewitt clocked in at 23:37 and Harkins was three places
back with a time of 23:49. Skinner and junior Melissa Zajdel finished four
seconds apart at 24:34 and 24:38, respectively.
The Tigers spent the next two weeks training for the Ivy League
Heptagonal, to be held on their home course West Windsor Field. It marked
just the third time in the 72-year history of Heps, that the championship was
held somewhere other than Van Cortlandt Park, the site of the last 31 Heps.
The site was changed because of ongoing construction at Van Cortlandt
Park that concerned the league’s coaches. [Note: the 2012 Heps will also be
held in Princeton].
It was one of the wildest Heps in history due to a freak storm that
pelted the area, and the runners. After a morning of rain and hail, it was
snowing by the time the women’s 6k race started at noon. The wind was
intense, blowing the precipitation horizontally into the runners’ eyes making
it difficult to see the course, which was a mixture of mud and slush.
Princeton had its five-year Ivy League run end on its home course,
as Cornell won the title for the first time since 1998. Banfich finished in
third place, covering the course in 22:04.9 to earn first-team All-Ivy League
honors for the fourth straight season. Feldman was the second Tiger across
the line at 22:40.2 for 15th. Mikaelian was 23rd at 22:57.4, followed by
Higgins in 24th place at 22:59.1. Sophomore Marisa Cummings rounded out
the scorers running 23:09.6 to take 29th.
Between the NCAA Regional and NCAA Championships, the B squad
represented at the ECAC Championships taking sixth. Newbery led the team
with a fifth-place finish of 17:54. Rookie Jackie Nicholas, Higgins, Gallagher
and Skokowski also scored with times under 19:40.
Two weeks later, Banfich finished fourth and helped the Princeton
women’s cross country
team to a fifth-place finish
at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic
Regional. She cruised
across the line at 21:37.7
to finish in fourth place in
the 6k race. Mikaelian and
Feldman ran in together
at 22:32.3 and 22:32.9,
respectively, earning 23rd
and 24th place. Freshman
Jackie Nicholas was the
fourth Tiger across the line
with a time of 23:01.3, and
Marisa Cummings scored
with a 23:03.9. Banfich,
Mikaelian and Feldman
earned all-region honors
for their performances, and
Banfich and Mikaelian both
earned individual bids to
the NCAA Championships.
Banfich turned in
an explosive finish to her
Princeton cross country
career, finishing fifth at Junior Alexis Mikaelian
NCAAs in Terre Haute, Ind.
She covered the 6k course
in 19:45 flat to finish in fifth place out of 254 runners. Her performance is
the highest finish by a Princeton individual in NCAA Championship history
and second-best in national championship history (Lynn Jennings was third
at the AIAW Championship before the NCAA assumed women’s sports).
Banfich earned All-America honors for the fourth time in her career. She
finished 20th last year at 20:36, to earn her first All-America honor in cross
country. Her time of 19:45 is 51 seconds faster than her time on the same
course one year ago. Mikaelian clocked in at 22:16.0.
2011 Women’s Cross Country Results
Sept. 10 Fordham Fiasco
Van Cortlandt Park - 5k
1st of 17
Princeton Finishers
5. Clare Gallagher ’14 18:23.83
6. Alexis Mikaelian ’13 18:24.22
7. Emily de la Bruyere ’15 18:24.80
9. Greta Feldman ’13 18:27.43
12. Molly Higgins ’14 18:34.77
13. Andrea Keklak ’15 18:35.51
14. Marisa Cummings ’14 18:40.62
15. Jackie Nicolas ’15 18:41.90
25. Gina Talt ’15
19:07.13
28. Mel Newbery ’13 19:11.57
37. Sophie Harkins ’15 19:27.05
43. Abby Hewitt ’13
19:34.69
48. Rachel Skokowski ’15 19:39.59
50. Abby Levene ’13
19:41.46
52. Katie Skinner ’14
19:47.63
118. Bernie da Costa ’12 21:08.26
Team Totals
1. Princeton
34
2. Yale
43
3. Penn
96
4. Rutgers
147
5. Sacred Heart
164
Sept. 17 HYP
Boston, Mass. - 5k
1st of 3
1. 3. 5. 8. 10. 11. 13. 16. 19. 22. 24. 26. 30. 31. 32. 34. 38. 41. 45. 1.
2.
3.
Princeton Finishers
Alex Banfich ’12
17:33
Alexis Mikaelian ’13
17:41
Mel Newbery ’13
17:43
Emily de la Bruyere ’15 17:47
Greta Feldman ’13
17:55
Molly Higgins ’14
17:55
Andrea Keklak ’15
17:59
Clare Gallagher ’14 18:10
Marissa Cummings ’14 18:22
Jackie Nichols ’15
18:34
Gina Talt ’15
18:39
Abby Hewitt ’13
18:42
Rachel Skokowski ’15 19:08
Melissa Zajdel ’13
19:14
Abby Levene ’13
19:15
Sophie Harkins ’15
19:22
Katie Skinner ’14
19:28
Kristin Smoot ’14
19:52
Bernie da Costa ’12
21:47
Team Totals
Princeton
27
Yale
36
Harvard
71
Oct. 29 Ivy League Heptagonals
West Windsor Fields - 6k
3rd of 8
3. 15. 23. 24. 29. 32. 35. 44. 49. 74. 81. 89. 1.
2.
3. 4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The women’s team lines up before the 2011 Ivy League Heptagonal.
Sept. 30 Notre Dame Invite
South Bend, Ind. - 5k
8th of 28
Princeton Finishers
13. Alex Banfich ’12
43. Alexis Mikaelian ’13
53. Greta Feldman ’13
63. Andrea Keklak ’15
98. Mel Newbery ’13
111. Molly Higgins ’14
138. Jackie Nicholas ’15
142. Clare Gallagher ’14
216. Emily de la Bruyere ’15
Team Totals
1. Florida State
2. Arkansas
3. New Mexico
4. Penn State
5. Notre Dame
8. Princeton
Oct. 14 Wisconsin Invitational
Madison, Wisc. - 5k
25th of 44
17:19
17:47
17:51
17:53
18:14
18:19
18:33
18:26
19:48
54
116
164
188
210
268
Sept. 30 Paul Short Run
Bethlehem, Pa. - 6k
NTS
Princeton Finishers
19. Rachel Skokowski ’15
21. Gina Talt ’15
35. Abby Levene ’13
58. Katie Skinner ’14
60. Abby Hewitt ’13
97. Sophie Harkins ’15
218. Bernie da Costa ’12
22:41
22:44
23:20
23:42
23:46
24:29
26:11
Princeton Finishers
20:11
119. Greta Feldman ’13
21:24
120. Alexis Mikaelian ’13
21:24
139. Molly Higgins ’14
21:34
204. Andrea Keklak ’15
21:54
237. Mel Newbery ’13
22:15
289. Emily de la Bruyere ’15 23:19
Team Totals
1. Washington
199
2. Vanderbilt
211
3. Arizona
230
4. Villanova
232
5. Stanford
256
25. Princeton
586
B Race
19. Clare Gallagher ’14 21:54.5
32. Marisa Cummings ’1422:09.9
49. Jackie Nicholas ’15 22:30.3
Oct. 15 Princeton Invitational
5th of 11
19. 28. 31. 48. 50. 65. 71. 1.
2.
3. 4.
5.
Princeton Finishers
Rachel Skokowski ’15
Abby Hewitt ’13
Sophie Harkins ’15
Katie Skinner ’14
Melissa Zajdel ’13
Abby Levene ’13
Michelle Yousefian ’12
Team Totals
Yale
St. Joseph’s
Monmouth
Keene State
Princeton
Haverford
23:26
23:37
23:49
24:34
24:38
25:11
25:24
15
71
120
153
156
156
Princeton Finishers
Alex Banfich ’12
22:04.9
Greta Feldman ’13
22:40.2
Alexis Mikaelian ’13 22:57.4
Molly Higgins ’14
22:59.1
Marisa Cummings ’1423:05.2
Jackie Nicholas ’15 23:09.6
Clare Gallagher ’14 23:11.8
Andrea Keklak ’15
23:28.3
Mel Newbery ’13
23:43.3
Rachel Skokowski ’15 24:26.1
Abby Hewitt ’13
24:56.1
Emily de la Bruyere ’1525:29.2
Team Totals
Cornell
49
Columbia
51
Princeton
94
Yale
104
Dartmouth
119
Harvard
129
Brown
153
Penn
226
Nov. 12 NCAA
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Princess Anne, Md. - 6k
5th of 29
4. 23. 24. 36.
39.
48.
54.
1.
3.
4.
5.
Princeton Finishers
Alex Banfich ’12
21:37.7
Alexis Mikaelian ’13 22:32.3
Greta Feldman ’13
22:32.9
Jackie Nicholas ’15 23:01.3
Marisa Cummings ’1423:03.9
Molly Higgins ’14
23:13.4
Clare Gallagher ’14 23:23.7
Team Totals
Villanova
57
Georgetown
57
West Virginia
64
Penn State
90
Princeton
124
Nov. 21 NCAA Championships
Terre Haute, Ind. - 6k
NTS
Princeton Finishers
19:45.0
232. Alexis Mikaelian ’13 22:16.0
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August 2012
Tiger Tracks
2011 Men’s Cross Country Season in Review
Princeton started the season with a No. 11 ranking in the nation. On Oct.
18 the team broke into the top-10 rankings for the first time since 1998.
The team would hold the No. 9 slot for four of the final five weeks of the
season. In addition, the Tigers held the No. 1 spot in the Mid-Atlantic region
all season.
The team finished in the top five in all but one meet, prior to the
championship season. It wasn’t easy as the Tigers faced some stiff
competition. At the Notre Dame Invitational, Princeton finished third in a
race that featured five nationally ranked teams. Two weeks later, at the
Wisconsin Invitational, the Tigers took fourth in a race of 21 nationally
ranked squads. Those high team finishes garnered the team that top-10
ranking.
The first meet of
the season, the Fordham
Fiasco ended in victory for
both the team and senior
captain
Donn Cabral.
Cabral ran 25:30.37 for the
win with only four other
runners finishing within
23 seconds of his time.
Freshman Eddie Owens
was the runner-up, 12
seconds back, at 25:42.43.
Senior
captain
Brian
Leung and sophomore
Tyler Udland finished fifth
and sixth, finishing one
second apart with times
of 25:53.08 and 25:54.37,
respectively.
Competing against
five other nationally ranked
squads at the Notre Dame
Invitational on Sept. 30,
Princeton finished third.
Cabral was the runner-up
Senior Donn Cabral
at 24 flat. It was a race to
the finish with BYU’s Miles
Batty slightly outkicking
Cabral to win the race at 23:59, with Cabral one second back at 24:00. It
was a tight finish altogether, with the top five runners being separated by
just five seconds. Leung crossed the line at 24:24 to finish in 14th place.
Freshman Sam Pons had a time of 24:44, while senior Peter Maag and
Udland both landed at the finish at 24:54. Owens, and a trio of sophomores
Jonathan Vitez, Alejandro Arroyo Yamin and Chris Bendtsen also ran in the
Blue Race. Owens had the top time for the Tigers in that race, posting a time
of 24:56.
That same afternoon at the Paul Short Run, the Tigers’ B squad finished
21st out of 45 teams in the gold 8k race. Senior Thomas Dialynas was the
top Tiger across the line at 25:24. A pair of freshmen, Matt McDonald and
Connor Martin finished one second apart at 25:34 and 25:35. Junior Michael
Franklin and sophomore William Brown rounded out the scoring with times
of 25:43 and 25:56.
Cabral finished fourth and led the team to a fourth-place finish at the
Wisconsin Invitational on Oct. 14. Cabral clocked in at 23:31, the best time
of any runner from the top five teams. Leung was 29th at 24:17, while Maag
and Bendtsen were steps apart at 24:35 and 24:37. Udland was the final
scorer crossing the tape at 24:38. A total of 21 of the 39 teams competing
were nationally ranked. Princeton finished ahead of No. 7 Indiana by 44
points and also out kicked No. 13 Northern Arizona, No. 9 NC State and
No. 10 Oregon. In an Ivy League comparison, the Tigers finished 248 points
ahead of Columbia.
The next day at the Princeton Invitational, the B squad placed second
on its home course. Arroyo Yamin led Princeton with a third-place finish of
25:01. Vitez clocked in three seconds later at 25:04 to finished in sixth place.
Franklin ran a 25:12 and McDonald clocked in at 25:21. Rounding out the
scoring was junior Michael Palmisano at 25:22.
8
Princeton had the honor of hosting the 2011 Ivy League Heptagonal
Championships on Oct. 29. It marked just the third time in the 72-year
history of Heps that the championship was held somewhere other than
Van Cortlandt Park, the site of the last 31 Heps. It wasn’t the first time
that the event took place in Princeton. The 1947 championship was held
at the Princeton Battlefield, the former home of the Tigers’ cross country
programs. The other non-Van Cortlandt Park Heps was at Saucon Valley in
Bethlehem, Pa., in 1979.
The change in venue, however, would turn out to be the least of
anyone’s concerns, as this year’s Heps will go down in history as one of the
wildest ever. A nor’easter hit the area, starting with rain in the morning,
moving into hail, and by the time the men’s 8k race ended it was snowing.
The wind was intense, blowing the precipitation sideways into the runners’
eyes and making it difficult to see the course, which was a mixture of mud
and slush with many of the runners taking tumbles going around turns.
One of those runners taking a spill was Cabral, the 2010 Heps
champion. Cabral would finish in third place, covering the course in 24:58.
Princeton would win the title with a team score of 37. A sea of orange
would come across the finish line, as all five Princeton scorers finished in
the top 12, which let fans know the Tigers had once again taken the title. It
marks Princeton’s fifth title in the last six years, and its 16th overall.
Maag would be the second Tiger across the line, finishing in fifth place
overall at 25:10.3. Udland was seventh at 25:10.9, Bendtsen was 10th at
25:15.8, and McDonald was 12th at 25:20.8 and was the first freshman in the
league across the line.
The trio of Cabral,
Maag and Udland earned
first-team All-Ivy League
honors, while Bendtsen
and McDonald captured
second-team honors.
It would be two
weeks later that Princeton
would race in the NCAA
Mid-Atlantic Regional with
hopes of earning an bid to
Reminiscent of his
performance at the 2010
Heps, Cabral sprinted
across the line with a good
distance between he and
the rest of the competition.
Eight seconds in fact.
He won the NCAA MidAtlantic Regional with a
time of 30:30.3, more than
eight seconds ahead of the
second-place finisher, en
route to being named allregion. Bendtsen finished Senior Peter Maag
12th overall, as the second
Tiger across the line, with
a time of 30:51.8. Owens ran 31:08.5 for third place. Sophomores Arroyo
Yamin and Udland finished five seconds apart, at 31:14.9 and 31:19.9,
respectively.
The Tigers finished third as a team with 90 points. Despite not earning
an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with a top-two finish,
Princeton’s incredible season earned it an at-large bid.
At the NCAA Championships, Cabral was 19th overall to lead the team
to a 19th-place finish. Cabral covered the 10k course in 29:45, shaving
42 seconds off his time from last year’s NCAAs. His 19th-place finish is
the second highest finish for a Princeton Tiger in program history (Paul
Morrison was ninth in 1999). Cabral earns All-America honors for the sixth
time in his career and second time in his cross country career. Bendtsen
was the second runner across the line at 30:48, while Udland posted a time
of 31:17 and not 10 places back were Owens and Leung at 31:24.
2011 Men’s Cross Country Results
Sept. 10 Fordham Fiasco
Van Cortlandt Park - 5 mi.
1st of 16
1. 2. 5. 6. 12. 14. 18. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Nov. 12 NCAA
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Princess Anne, Md. - 10k
3rd of 25
Princeton Finishers
Donn Cabral ’12
25:30.37
Eddie Owens ’15
25:42.43
Brian Leung ’12
25:53.08
Tyler Udland ’14
24:54.37
Chris Bendtsen ’14 26:12.53
Matt McDonald ’15 26:15.72
Jonathan Vitez ’14 26:21.36
Team Totals
Princeton
26
Navy
41
Yale
88
Penn
146
NYU
155
1. 12. 22. 27. 29. 34. 37. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Sept. 30 Notre Dame Invite
South Bend, Ind. - 5 mi.
3rd of 26
Princeton Finishers
2. Donn Cabral ’12
14. Brian Leung ’12
25. Sam Pons ’15
48. Peter Maag ’12
49. Tyler Udland ’14
51. Eddie Owens ’15
107. Jonathan Vitez ’14
Team Totals
1. BYU
2. Florida State
3. Princeton
4. Stanford
5. Washington State
24:00
24:24
24:44
24:54
24:54
24:56
25:33
46
93
138
202
205
Sept. 30 Paul Short Run
Bethlehem, Pa. - 8k
21st of 45
Princeton Finishers
77. Thomas Dialynas ’12
101. Matt McDonald ’15
104. Connor Martin ’15
126. Michael Franklin ’13
161. William Brown ’14
170. Joe Stilin ’12
182. Michael Palmisano ’13
Team Totals
1. Oklahoma
2. Georgetown
3. Columbia
4. Villanova
5. Syracuse
21. Princeton
25:24
25:34
25:35
25:43
25:56
26:01
26:06
34
143
156
177
229
569
Princeton Finishers
Donn Cabral ’12
30:30.3
Eddie Owens ’15
31:08.5
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ’14 31:14.9
Tyler Udland ’14
31:19.9
Sam Pons ’15
31:26.2
Peter Maag ’12
31:29.3
Team Totals
Georgetown
47
Villanova
63
Princeton
90
Penn State
117
Navy
142
Nov. 21 NCAA Championships
Terre Haute, Ind. - 10k
19th of 31
The men’s team after crossing the finish line at the 2011 Heps.
Oct. 14 Wisconsin Invitational
Madison, Wisc. - 8k
4th of 39
Princeton Finishers
64. Chris Bendtsen ’14
190. Thomas Dialynas ’12
Team Totals
1. Wisconsin
2. BYU
3. Stanford
4. Princeton
5. Indiana
23:31
24:17
24:35
24:37
24:38
24:42
25:29
66
120
125
227
271
Oct. 15 Princeton Invitational
2nd of 12
3.
6. 15. 24. 25. 45. 58. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Oct. 29 Ivy League Heptagonals
1st of 8
3. 5. 7. 10. 12. 15. 22. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Princeton Finishers
Donn Cabral ’12
24:58.0
Peter Maag ’12
25:10.3
Tyler Udland ’14
25:10.9
Matt McDonald ’15 25:20.8
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ’14 25:26.8
Thomas Dialynas ’12 25:32.4
Team Totals
Princeton
37
Columbia
51
Dartmouth
79
Brown
91
Cornell
125
Yale
162
Harvard
184
Penn
233
Princeton Finishers
101. Chris Bendtsen ’14
223. Sam Pons ’15
Team Totals
1. Wisconsin
2. Oklahoma State
3. Colorado
4. BYU
5. Stanford
19. Princeton
29:45
30:48
31:17
31:24
31:24
32:08
32:11
97
139
144
203
207
474
Princeton Finishers
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ’1425:01
Jonathan Vitez ’14
25:04
Michael Franklin ’13
25:12
Matt McDonald ’15
25:21
Michael Palmisano ’13 25:22
Sean Wilson ’12
25:40
Connor Martin ’15
25:52
Team Totals
Cornell
50
Princeton
68
Yale
107
St. Joseph’s 110
Haverford
136
9
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
2011-12 Women’s Indoor Track and Field Season in Review
As it has, as of late, the indoor season began with Princeton hosting the
New Year Invitational in December. Two freshmen won their first collegiate
events in their first meets as Tigers. Teju Adewole was the champion in
the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.78, while Nonny Okwelogu won the
shot put throwing to 12.77 meters (41-10.75). Senior Eileen Moran won the
60-meter dash, clocking in at 7.65, and went on to take third in the 300 at
40.85. Junior Tory Worthen was the runner up in the pole vault but had the
best mark among the collegians, clearing 3.80 (12-5.50). After the holiday break the Tigers came out and won the Princeton
Quad Meet against Rutgers, St. John’s and St. Joseph’s. Sophomore Imani
Oliver broke a 12-year Princeton record in the triple jump, landing at 12.44
meters (40-9.75), besting the previous record of 12.42 (40-9) set by Nicole
Springer in 1990. Moran was a double winner, finishing first in both the 60
and the 200 at 7.71 and 25.18. The Tigers would take first and second places
in four events helping to load up the score with points. Senior Alex Banfich
won the mile as the only runner to finish in under five minutes, while
freshman Jackie Nicholas was second. Freshman Cecilia Barowski won the
500 with sophomore Kacie O’Neil second with a PR of 1:16:85. In the 800,
junior Greta Feldman was first and freshman Andrea Keklak second; while
in the 1,000 sophomore Kristin Smoot won with junior Alexis Mikaelian the
runner-up. It was a tight race between the two Tigers in the 1000. Smoot
clocked in at 2:51.11 and Mikaelian 2:51.16, both PRs for the pair. Princeton
went 1-2-3-4 in the 3000 highlighted by a PR for the winner junior Mel
Newbery at 9:40.95; while sophomore Theresa Devine took second. The 4x4
of junior Joie Hand, sophomore Jasmine Blocker, sophomore Carrie Vuong
and Barowski took top honors in the race with a time of 3:53.13. The Tigers
had the top four in the pole vault, led by the champion Worthen. Sophomore
Theresa Kennedy finished in a first-place tie in the high jump, while junior
Erin Guty was the runner-up in the long jump.
Princeton was second at the Saturday Night at The Armory II race,
winning five events. Moran won the 60, while junior Abby Levene recorded
a new PR by 16 seconds, at 9:43.61, to win the 3k. Worthen continued
her success in the pole vault winning at 3.90 (12-9.50), while Oliver was
victorious in the triple jump with a jump of 12.42 (40-9). The 4x400 also
posting a winning time of 3:46.12
The following weekend the Tigers finished third at the Sykes & Sabock
Challenge Cup held at Penn State. Princeton put together its first distance
medley relay team of the season, and it was a winning combination of four
freshmen. Emily de la Bruyere, Nicholas, Barowski and Keklak won the race
at 11:48.05. Devine and Feldman were the runners-up in their respective
events, the 5k and the mile.
Moran was a double winner to help guide Princeton to a victory at
the annual HYP meet at Harvard on Feb. 11. The Tigers won nine events
including Moran winning both the 60 and the 200. Also posting wins were
Oliver in the triple jump, Worthen in the pole vault, Adewole in the 60-meter
hurdles, Feldman in the mile, Barowski in the 400, Newbery in the 3000 and
both the 4x400 and 4x800
relays. Five others were
runners-up
including:
Kennedy in both the triple
and high jumps, Okwelogu
in the shot put, Easton in
the 60, O’Neil in the 800
and Devine in the 3000.
The team completed
its home schedule for the
indoor season with the
Princeton
Invitational.
Worthen won her fourth
pole vault title of the
season by clearing 3.96
(13). Senior Lydia Arias,
senior Bianca Reo and
junior Lauren Tauscher all
tied for second with marks
of 3.50 (11-5.75). Also
capturing a victory was
junior Maggie McKeever in
the 800. Guty and Blocker
took second in the 200
and 400, respectively, with
Junior Joie Hand
Blocker posting her best
10
time of the season in the event at 58.44. Princeton had three participants in
the indoor pentathlon and the trio went 1-2-3. Sophomore Beth McKenna
won the five-event combination with 3,229 points. Kennedy and sophomore
Samantha Anderson followed with 3,121 and 3,045 points, respectively.
Worthen’s Ivy League and Princeton record setting pole vault
highlighted the 2012 Ivy
League Indoor Heptagonal
Championships for the
team. Worthen was named
the Most Outstanding
Performer of the Meet
after winning her third
straight indoor pole vault
title clearing 4.12 (136.25). She entered the
meet with a season-best
mark of 3.96 (13-0) and a
personal best of 4.11 (135.75), which she improved
to 4.12 reaching it on
her second attempt. No
other vaulters in the field
attempted anything higher
than 3.90 (12-9.50).
The
4x800
relay
put on a spectacular
performance to win the
relay on Day 2. The relay
of sophomore Kristin
Smoot, O’Neil, Mikaelian Junior Tory Worthen
and
Feldman ran its
fastest time of the season
at 8:44.32. Individually, Feldman and Mikaelian both qualified for the finals
of the mile. Feldman was fourth as she crossed the line at 4:49.95 to earn
four points, while Mikaelian was eighth.
The 4x400 of senior Moran, Vuong, Barowski and Hand clocked in at
3:46.75 to finish as the runner-up. In the sprints, Moran qualified for the
finals of both the 60 and the 200 and earned two third-place finishes. She
was third in the 60 at 8.86 and in the 200 at 24.83 to pick up six points in each
event.
The Tigers received four points from Devine and Oliver. Devine posted
a PR of 16:45.23 in the 5000 to finish in fourth place, while Oliver jumped to
12.19 (40-0) to take fourth place in the triple jump.
Rounding out the scorers were Adewole and McKenna. Adewole was
fifth in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.86 to earn two points for the Tigers
in her first Heps. McKenna picked up two points in the pentathlon. She
finished with 3,333 points to place fifth out of 16, earning Princeton’s first
points in the pentathlon since 2009.
Princeton finished Heps with 56 points to finish in sixth place with nine
Tigers earning All-Ivy League honors. Columbia ended Princeton’s two-year
title streak with 124 points. Cornell was second with 103, and Dartmouth
was third with 73.
After Heps, the team finished third at the ECAC Indoor Track & Field
Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. Barowski, Hand,
Moran and senior Danielle Glaeser set a program record in the 4x400 relay.
The group ran 3:44.92 in the preliminary round and ran 3:45.12 in the finals.
The previous record of 3:45.21 was set in 1998 by Catherine Sutcliffe ‘01,
Allison Brown ‘00, Michelle D’Agostino’98 and Bynia Reed ‘98. Barowski
went on to win the 500 with a PR of 1:12.37. Worthen continued her success
in the pole vault, winning her second career ECAC title.
In all Princeton finished in the top three of seven of its 10 scored meets
during the indoor season.
2011-12 Women’s Indoor Track Season
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Eileen Moran ’12
Emily Easton ’15
Abidemi Adenikinju ’13
Erin Guty ’13
7.70
7.79
7.80
7.83
New Years
HYP
HYP
Heps
4x800
Kristin Smoot ’14
Kacie O’Neil ’14
Greta Feldman ’13
8:44.32
Heps
60 High Hurdles
Teju Adewole ’15
Beth McKenna ’14
Theresa Kennedy ’14
Samantha Anderson ’14
8.78
9.38
9.74
9.81
New Years
Heps
PI
Quad Meet
4x400
Cecilia Barowski ’15
Joie Hand ’13
Eileen Moran ’12
Danielle Glaeser ’12
3:44.92 *
ECAC
200
Eileen Moran ’12
Emily Easton ’15
Lily Miller ’14
24.83
25.22
25.58
25.73
25.78
Heps
HYP
HYP
HYP
S&S
Distance Medley Relay
Jackie Nicholas ’15
Emily de la Bruyere ’15
Andea Keklak ’15
11:48.05
S&S
400
Carrie Vuong ’15
Joie Hand ’13
55.43
56.73
57.00
57.38
HYP
ECAC
HYP
HYP
High Jump
Beth McKenna ’14
1.70
1.59
1.45
S&S
PI
HYP
500
Joie Hand ’13
Carrie Vuong ’15
1:12.38 *
1:13.50
1:16.85
1:16.92
ECAC
ECAC
Quad
Quad
Pole Vault
Tory Worthen ’13
Lauren Tauscher ’13
Bianca Reo ’12
Lydia Arias ’12
4.12 ^*
Heps
3.70
SNR2
3.60
ECAC&HYP
3.60
Heps
3.60
Heps
800
Greta Feldman ’13
Kirstin Smoot ’14
Andrea Keklak ’15
2:07.84
2:10.34
2:11.52
2:11.73
2:12.35
ECAC
Heps
HYP
S&S
HYP
Mile
Greta Feldman ’13
AlexBanfich ’12
Molly Higgins ’14
Theresa Devine ’14
4:48.45
4:48.69
4:53.35
4:57.64
4:59.48
ECAC
HYP
Quad
HYP
SNR2
3,000
Mel Newbery ’13
Abby Levene ’13
Clare Gallagher ’14
9:40.95
9:43.61
9:45.37
9:48.06
Quad
SNR2
HYP
HYP
5,000
Alex Banfich ’12
Abby Hewitt ’13
Abby Levene ’13
16:33.17
16:45.23
17:31.96
17:42.25
BU Meet
Heps
S&S
Heps
Senior Eileen Moran
Long Jump
Erin Guty ’13
Lily Miller ’14
5.44
5.31
5.21
5.07
Triple Jump
Imani Oliver ’14
11.15
12.44
HYP
Quad
Shot Put
Nonny Okwelogu ’15
Chelsea Cioffi ’14
13.22
11.02
10.48
HYP
HYP
PI
Weight Throw
14.59
PI
Pentathlon
Beth McKenna ’14
3229
3121
3045
PI
PI
PI
New Years
PI
SNR2
SNR2
Sophomore Theresa Kennedy
Individual Champions
Adewole Hurdles (2x)
New Years, HYP
Moran
60 (4x)
New Years, Quad
SNR 2, HYP
Moran
200 (2x)
Quad, HYP
Smoot
1000
Quad
Okwelogu Shot Put
New Years
Worthen
Pole Vault (6x) Quad, SNR2, HYP,
PI, Heps, ECAC
Oliver
Triple Jump (2x)
SNR2, HYP
Banfich
Mile
Quad
Barowski 500 (2x)
Quad, ECAC
400
HYP
Feldman 800
Quad
MIle
HYP
Newbery 3k (2x)
Quad, HYP
Kennedy
HJ
Quad
Levene
3k
SNR2
McKeever 800
PI
Team Schedule/Results
Dec. 10
New Years Invitational
Jan. 14
Princeton Quad Meet
1st of 4
Jan. 28
at Saturday Night at
The Armory II
2nd of 12
Feb. 4
at Sykes & Sabock Cup (Penn State)
3rd of 16
Feb. 11
at HYP (Harvard)
1st of 3
Feb. 18
Princeton Invitational
Feb. 25-26 at Heps (Cornell)
6th of 8
March 3-4 at ECAC Championships 2nd of 50
Key
S&S
SNR2
PI
*
^
Sykes & Sabock
Saturday Night at The Amory II
Princeton Invite
Princeton record
Ivy League record
11
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
2011-12 Men’s Indoor Track and Field Season in Review
Princeton set a number of records as it took one step closer to a triple crown. The
Tigers won their third straight indoor Heptagonal title, and had two All-America
performances at the NCAA Championships.
Five Ivy League records were set this winter, including: senior Donn Cabral in
the 5000 at 13:45.92, senior Joe Stilin in the 3000 at 7:53.15, senior Dave Slovenski in
the pole vault at 5.37 (17-7.50), sophomore Conor McCullough in the weight throw at
23.19 (76-1) and the distance medley relay in 9:31.96. In addition, a sub-4-minute mile
was run three times. Junior Peter Callahan ran 3:58.86 and 3:58.76 on consecutive
weekends, and Stilin ran 3:59.98 in his last race of the season. The duo are just the
third and fourth Ivy Leaguers to run a sub-4-minute mile in Ivy League history. In
addition, Callahan ran a program record in the 1000 in 2:20.78.
Another national nod was given to McCullough as he earned his way onto The
Bowerman “receiving mention” list. He is the first student-athlete in the Ivy League to
be named to The Bowerman lists, which debuted in 2009 as the sport’s version of the
Heisman Trophy.
The season kicked off
with the Tigers hosting the
News Years Invitational in
December and it started with
a bang. Slovenski set an Ivy
League record in the pole vault
as he cleared 5.37 (17-7.50).
Sophomore Tom Hopkins was
a double winner, taking first
in both the 300 and the long
jump. He sprinted to 34.53 in
the 300 and had a mark of 7.31
(23-11.75) in the jump. In the
throws, senior Patrick Park
was the victor in the shot put
throwing to 17.02 (55-10).
Princeton
defeated
Navy 107-71 in early January,
winning 13 of 17 events. It
marked the ninth straight
win for the Tigers in the dual,
as Princeton takes a 21-20
edge in the meet series which
spans 54 years. Hopkins was
a double winner once again,
with victories in the 400 and
long jump. He ran 48.58 in the
400 and reached 6.95 in the
Senior Dave Slovenski
long jump. Freshman Stephen
Soerens was third in three
events, setting himself up to be a great multi-event athlete for the Tigers in years to
come.
The hot streak continued as the Tigers won the Saturday Night at The Armory
I meet the following weekend, finishing in front of 14 other squads. Hopkins won the
60-meter hurdles crossing the line at 8.32. He later took second in the 400 with a
time of 48.33, to give his team 18 points. Freshman Bradley Paternostro won the
1000 cruising in at 2:28.98, while sophomore Chris Bendtsen posted a winning time of
8:12.88 in the 3000.
The team returned to the Armory the following weekend to win the Saturday
Night a the Armory II meet, as Stilin and Callahan both set Princeton records. Callahan
won the 1000 with a time of 2:20.78, more than two seconds faster than the previous
program record, which he set himself last year, of 2:22.94. Stilin led Princeton to 1-23-4 finish in the 3k, as the only runner in the race to finish in less than eight minutes, at
7:56.28. His time is .12 seconds faster than Michael Maag’s ’09 record time from 2008.
Other winners included junior Michael Palmisano in the 800 and sophomore Damon
McLean in the long jump.
Callahan continued to set the track afire as he ran a 3:58.86 mile at the Sykes
& Sabock Challenge Cup at Penn State in February. Callahan’s time situated itself as
the eighth-best time in the nation and was a meet record. He is the second Tiger in
program history to run a sub-4 minute mile, joining Bill Burke ‘91 who ran a 3:58.70 in
1991 to win the Millrose Games. Callahan is just the third Ivy League runner in history
to break the four-minute indoor mile. As a team Princeton finished third at the meet
and had wins from senior Thomas Dialynas in the 3k and Slovenski in the pole vault.
Cabral, Stilin, Callahan and McCullough all posted national-level results during
a strong weekend in early February. All four posted marks that ranked them in the top
15 in the country. Cabral set an Ivy record in the 5k at the Husky Invitational at 13:45.92,
6.50 faster than the previous best Ivy mark set in 1994. The time ranked Cabral 11th
best in the nation. Callahan, one week after running a sub-4:00 mile, topped that effort
at the Husky Invitational. He won the event with a time of 3:58.76 marking the 14thbest time in the nation. Stilin ran a Princeton and Ivy League record time in the 3k of
7:53.15, the 15th best in the nation. McCullough became the national leader in the
weight throw in his first meet of the season. He smashed the Ivy League record with a
throw of 23.19. It topped the old Ivy League record by nearly six feet and got Princeton
off on the right note in its win at the HYP meet. Princeton took the event with 100.5
points, while Harvard finished second with 56.5 points and Yale was third with 13 points.
Other victors at HYP were sophomore Omar Jarrett in the high jump, junior Richard
12
Sheldon in the 60-meter hurdles, freshman William Egi in the 60, senior Trevor Van
Ackeren in the mile, Hopkins in the long jump and 400, McLean in the triple jump,
Paternostro in the 800, Bendtsen in the 3k and the 4x400 and 4x800 relays. After the
weekend, Princeton found itself ranked No. 24 in the national rankings.
Rounding out the home slate, Princeton won five events at the Princeton
Invitational on Feb. 18. The big winner of the day was Sheldon who took first in both the
60-meter hurdles and the heptathlon. Other winners included Jarrett in the high jump,
senior Derek Hynes in the pole vault and freshman Daniel McCord in the 200.
The Tigers’ championship season began by winning seven events en route to
winning their third Ivy League Heps title. Princeton earned 184 points, while the host
Cornell accumulated 176. Columbia was far back in third place with 70 points followed
by Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale.
On Day 1, McCullough set a Heps meet record to retain the weight throw crown
for Old Nassau for the fourth straight year. Later in the day, Princeton earned big
points in the pole vault, 17 total, as the Tigers went 2-3-4. Slovenski was the runnerup, clearing 5.20 (17-00.75), while Hynes and freshman Adam Bragg were third and
fourth.
Princeton would get the most points from the 5k, 22 total, as Cabral ran 14:23.67
to win his second straight indoor title. Bendtsen was second while classmate Jonathan
Vitez was fourth. Stilin and Cabral combined for 14 points in the 3k finishing second
and third at 8:11.42 and 8:11.69, respectively. Stilin was also the runner-up in the mile,
with Van Ackeren third. Van Ackeren claimed the crown in the 1k with a time of 2:26.09.
Paternostro picked up a point in the event as well.
Callahan won the 800, crossing the line at 1:49.72 to set a Barton Hall record. He
was the only runner to clock in under 1:50. Sophomore Michael Williams was fourth
with a PR of 1:51.73, as the Tigers accumulated 14 points in the event. Junior Russell
Dinkins, who won the 800 last year, found his stride in the 500 as well. Dinkins won the
500 at 1:02.72, the only competitor to finish under 1:03. Hopkins followed up with a win
in the 400 taking the race in 48.33, with senior Ricky Kearney was sixth.
The Tigers got eight points in the long jump with Hopkins taking third and McLean
finishing fifth. McLean won the triple jump to get the field events started on the right
foot on Day 2. McLean reached 15.12 (49-7.25) on his fifth attempt. He reached 15.00
(49-2.50) on two other attempts, a mark no other competitor would reach. Freshman
Nana Owusu-Nyanteky finished fourth in his first Heps as the Tigers got 14 points in
the event.
Others earning points were Jarrett in the high jump, Sheldon in the heptathlon
and the hurdles, Park in the shot put and freshman Rob Mohr in the hurdles. In the
relays, Princeton earned a second-place finish and two third-place finishes.
Princeton spread out across the nation in the last qualifying weekend for the
indoor NCAA championships in early March. The DMR set an Ivy League record at the
Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame. The relay of Van Ackeren, Hopkins, Williams
and Callahan ran 9:31.95. The time is nearly four seconds faster than the Ivy record
which was set by Princeton last year at this same meet. That relay was composed of
Van Ackeren, Dinkins, Mike Eddy ‘11 and Mark Amirault ‘11 and ran 9:35.02. The Tigers
record setting times didn’t end there. Stilin ran 3:59.98 in the mile at the Last Chance
Meet at the Armory. He is the second Tiger this season to run a sub-4-minute mile,
joining Callahan who ran 3:58.76 a few weeks prior.
Callahan finished sixth in the mile and Cabral eighth in the 5000 at the 2012
NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Nampa, Idaho to each earn All-America
honors.
Callahan pushed into sixth place after going outside on the bell lap to speed past
a few of his competitors. He finished with a time of 4:02.66, exactly one second behind
the national champion, in his
first NCAA championship.
Callahan had qualified for the
finals by running 4:06.96 in the
prelims to make the 10-man
final.
Cabral ran 13:53.14 in a
race that featured the 15 best
5,000-meter runners in the
nation. It was the third time he
ran the 5k at the NCAAs and
each time he earned points by
finishing in the top eight. At the
2010 outdoor championships
he finished sixth and at the
2011 outdoor championships
he was eighth.
The duo became the
program’s third pair to finish
in the top 10 in their respective
events at the NCAA indoor
championship in the same
season. They join Alex Pessala
(weight) & Justin Frick (high
jump) from 2009, Tora Harris
(1st) and Josh McCaughey
(9th) from 2002.
Junior Peter Callahan
2011-12 Men’s Indoor Track Season
60
William Egi ’15
Ivan Charbonneau ’12
Tumi Akinlawon ’15
Tommaso Greenbaum ’15
6.92
6.96
7.00
7.04
HYP
Heps
New Years
New Years
5,000
Donn Cabral ’12
Chris Bendtsen ’14
Jonathan Vitez ’14
13:45.92 ^* Husky
14:28.10
Heps
14:29.52
Heps
60 High Hurdles
Richard Sheldon ’13
Rob Mohr ’15
Tom Hopkins ’14
PI
Heps
SNR2
4x400
Daniel McCord ’15
Russell Dinkins ’13
Bradley Paternostro ’15
Tom Hopkins ’14
8.10
8.24
8.32
3:16.75
HYP
200
Tom Hopkins ’14
Daniel McCord ’15
Sebastian Steffen
21.80
22.33
22.41
22.62
SNR2
PI
Navy
HYP
4x800
Connor Martin ’15
Joe Stilin ’12
Michael Williams ’14
7:36.23
Heps
400
Tom Hopkins ’14
Kashif Smith ’12
Ricky Kearney ’12
Daniel McCord ’15
47.92
49.51
50.08
50.24
S&S
SNR
Heps
S&S
Trevor Van Ackeren ’12
Tom Hopkins ’14
Peter Callahan ’13
9:31.95 ^*
500
Nilan Schnure ’12
Tom Scott ’14
Jordan Sawadogo ’12
1:02.72
1:06.06
1:06.27
1:06.38
Heps
HYP
SNR2
SNR
Heptathlon
Stephen Soerens ’15
Brad Pelisek ’14
5037
4811
4428
PI
PI
PI
800
1:49.72
1:49.91
1:49.92
1:51.73
Heps
CLC
S&S
Heps
High Jump
Omar Jarrett ’14
Brad Pelisek ’14
2.00
1.99
1.90
1.85
Heps
Heps
Heps
PI
Pole Vault
Dave Slovenski ’12
Adam Bragg ’15
Derek Hynes ’12
David Coneway ’14
5.37 ^* New Years
4.95
CLC
4.90
Heps
4.50
HYP
Long Jump
Tom Hopkins ’14
Shane Molidor ’14
Damon McLean ’14
7.33
7.33
7.20
7.13
1,000
Michael Palmisano ’13
2:20.78 *
2:23.91
2:24.80
2:26.79
SNR2
SNR2
SNR2
HYP
Mile
Joe Stilin ’12
Donn Cabral ’12
3:58.76
3:59.98
4:00.30
4:07.86
Husky
CLC
CLC
HYP
3,000
Joe Stilin ’12
Donn Cabral ’12
7:53.15 ^*
8:04.00
8:12.28
8:17.74
Husky
SNR2
SNR
HYP
Triple Jump
Damon McLean ’14
15.24
Nana Owusu-Nyantekyi ’1514.76
Garner McCloud ’12
14.65
CLC
PI
PI
New Years
Heps
HYP
New Years
New Years
Sophomore Tom Hopkins
Key
S&S
SNR
SNR2
PI
*
^
Senior Trevor Van Ackeren
Shot Put
Patrick Park ’12
Scott Rushton ’15
Jake Taylor ’14
17.38
15.23
14.78
Weight Throw
Conor McCullough ’14
Patrick Park ’12 Jake Taylor ’14
23.19 ^*
13.51
14.51
Heptagonal Champions
Donn Cabral ’12
Tom Hopkins ’14
Damon McLean ’14
Trevor Van Ackeren ’12 Heps
S&S
SNR2
HYP
Navy
HYP
5,000
800
500
400
Weight Throw
Triple Jump
1,000
Dec. 10
New Years Invitational
Jan. 7
at Navy Dual
W, 107-71
Jan. 14
The Amory 1st of 12
Jan. 28
The Armory II
1st of 13
Feb. 4
at Sykes & Sabock Cup (at Penn State)
3rd of 14
Feb. 11
at Husky Invitational
(University of Washington)
Feb. 11
at HYP (Harvard)
1st of 3
Feb. 18
Feb. 25-26
at Heps (Cornell)
1st of 8
March 2-3
at Columbia Last Chance
March 2-3
at Alex Wilson Invitational
(Notre Dame)
March 9-10 at NCAAs (Boise State)
-
Sykes & Sabock
Saturday Night at The Armory
Saturday Night at The Amory II
Princeton Invite
Princeton record
Ivy League record
13
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Season in Review
(continued from page 1)
After Yale bowed out of
the annual PYP meet,
Princeton
traveled
to
Franklin Field to compete
in a dual with Penn. The
Tigers won the meet,
85-77, with Okwelogu
recording a win and a
PR in the shot put with a
throw of 11.23 (36-10.25).
Also earning wins were:
sophomore Molly Higgins
in the 1500, junior Greta
Feldman in the 800, senior
Alex Banfich in the 3k, Guty
in the long jump, Oliver in
the triple, Nicholas in the
steeplechase, Moran in
both the 100 and 200 and
the 4x400 relay.
Personal bests were
abound at the Larry Ellis
Invitational on April 20.
Freshman Cecilia Barowski
Feldman was the runnerup in the 1500 with a time
of 4:18.86 - which would be the first of five PRs she would run this season.
She inched her way closer to taking over the Princeton record, which at
this point belonged to Laura Cattivera with a time of 4:17.15 set in 1989.
Tauscher picked up a PR as well, clearing 3.85 (12-7-.50) to win the pole
vault. Seven others posted personal bests.
The 4x400 relay set a program record on Day 1 of the Penn Relays in
late April. The quartet ran 3:41.07 in the 4x400 Heptagonal facing the other
Ivy League squads with the exception of Brown. Its time is 1.30 faster than
the previous record of 3:42.37 set in 1982 by Betty Newsam, Sally Anderson,
Sherri Hatton and Monica Egbuonu. That foursome incidentally earned AllAmerica honors in the event in 1982. Vuong kick started the relay with a split
of 56.9, while Moran and Barowski both ran 53.9 in the middle legs. Junior
Joie Hand followed up with a 56.1 in the last leg. The time of 3:41.07 makes
the Ivy top-10 list. The DMR of Higgins, Feldman, senior Danielle Glaeser
and sophomore Kacie O’Neil ran the second-best time in program history in
the Championship of America race at 11:13.40. Catha Mullen, Laura Landry,
Jordan Wagenseller, Cack Ferrell ran 11:12.53 in 2006, while the third-best
time is 11:23. Glaeser ran an incredible 57.0 in the second leg and O’Neil ran
2:08.6 in the third. Higgins ran the first in 3:29.1 and Feldman ran the final
leg at 4:38.7. Princeton had the best time of the non-BCS schools beating
Indiana by nearly three seconds. The next day, Oliver posted a Princeton
record with a new personal best in the triple jump at 12.50 (41-0.25). She
already held the Princeton record after a jump of 12.49 (40-11.75) last year
as a freshman.
That same weekend the squad sent competitors to the Lions
Invitational at The College of New Jersey. Freshman Emily de la Bruyere
won the steeplechase with a PR of 10:57.57, and was the only runner to
finish the race in under 11:25. Junior Tory Worthen picked up a victory in
the pole vault clearing 3.75 (12-3.50).
Worthen won her sixth Ivy League pole vault title as Heps got underway
at Franklin Field on Saturday, May 5. She has now won six of six Heps titles
in the event with two left in her career. She launched to 3.91 (12-10) to win
the crown. Princeton vaulted into third place in the team standings after an
incredible 22 points were collected in the event. Tauscher was the runnerup at 3.80 (12-5.50) while classmate Bianca Reo finished in a three-way tie
for third at 3.70 (12-10.59). It was a Class of 2013 showcase as Princeton’s
other four points on Day 1 came from a junior. Guty finished fourth in the
long jump reaching 5.72 (18-9.25), hitting the mark on her final attempt of
the afternoon.
On Day 2 the Tigers continued to redeem themselves from a
disappointing finish at Indoor Hep. An incredible 38 points came from
Moran, who won the 100 and 200, anchored the winning 4x100 and was a
part of the 4x400 runner-up relay. Princeton opened the day with a program
record in the 4x100 as Adenikinju, Guty, Moran and freshman Emily Easton
ran 46.03. Moran clocked in at 11.98 in the 100, the only sprinter to run
14
under 12 seconds. In the 200, Moran set a PR of 24.05 with a good distance
between her and the second-place finisher who clocked in at 24.28.
It was the 800 that vaulted Princeton into second place, ahead of Brown
and behind Cornell. The Tigers earned 16 points in the event with Feldman
leading the way with a victory time of 2:06.22, the only runner to finish under
2:07. Earlier in the day she was the runner-up in the 1500. After the 800
Princeton had 90 points, 14 points back from Cornell, but couldn’t catch up
in the final seven events.
Barowski was the runner-up in the 400 with a PR of 54.43, nearly one
second faster than her previous best time. Oliver was also a runner-up,
jumping to 12.18 (39-11.50) in the triple. Other point scorers included: Hand
in the 400 hurdles with a PR, Okwelogu in the discus and shot put, Banfich
in the 3k - running though a nagging injury, O’Neil in the 800, Higgins in the
1500, sophomore Beth McKenna in the heptathlon and sophomore Chelsea
Cioffi in the discus. Incredibly, the Tigers set school records in every relay
at Heps. The 4x1 broke its own record from Larry Ellis at 46.03, the 4x400
broke its own record from Penn Relays and the 4x800’s 8:38.05 broke the
record that was set last spring.
The ECAC Track & Field Championships were highlighted by the 4x400
posting yet another program record. Vuong, Barowski, Hand and Moran ran
3:39.96, marking the third time this season the relay rewrote the record,
starting with a 3:41.07 at the Penn Relays and a 3:40.26 at Heps.
Seven members of the team qualified for the 2012 NCAA East Regional
in Jacksonville, Fla. A trio of juniors, Feldman, Higgins and Mikaelian
qualified for the 1500. Feldman ran 4:23.76 to win her heat in the first
round. She then put on a spectacular performance to win the Regional
with a Princeton record and a PR of 4:15.00. Feldman finished ahead of the
four of runners who have top-10 times in the 1500 in the nation including
third-ranked Emily Infeld of Georgetown and fourth-ranked Cory McGee of
Florida. In all Feldman beat 12 runners who entered the race ranked higher
in the event. She ran the fastest final lap, at 1:01.51 to move up from fifth to
take the lead. O’Neil competed in her first NCAAs and ran 2:08.32 in the 800
to finish fifth in her heat. Worthen competed for the third consecutive year,
while classmate Tauscher qualified for the first time in her career. Worthen
finished 18th, clearing 3.95 (12-11.5) but couldn’t clear 4.05. Tauscher
reached 3.65 (11-11.75) to finish 35th.
Aiming to become Princeton’s first All-America in the 1500, Feldman
got one step closer as she qualified for the national final on June 7. Feldman
finished third in heat 2 at 4:12.73, a Princeton record, a personal best and
the second-best time in Ivy League history. In addition, Feldman’s time
qualified her for the Olympic trials as she reached the qualifying mark of
4:12.93. Feldman was in the back for the first couple laps but turned on the
heat in the final lap. She was in ninth place with 400 meters to go and blazed
down the final stretch and past six others in impressive fashion to finish
third. Overall her time was the sixth-best in the semifinals.
Two
days
later,
Feldman attained AllAmerica status with a fifthplace finish in the national
final of the 1500. Feldman
ran 4:14.76 to earn fifth
place. She ran 52.30 in
the first 300 meters to sit
in eighth place. In the next
lap she clocked a 1:11.95
but picked it up, moving up
two places with a 1:07.65
in her next lap. On the bell
lap she cruised past four
other runners to move
into fifth place and hit a
1:02.87 in her final lap.
In the final month of the
season, Feldman ran her
three fastest times: 4:15
to win the East Regional,
4:12.73 in the national
semifinals and a 4:14.76 in
the national final.
Junior Greta Feldman
2012 Women’s Outdoor Track Season
Sophomore Imani Oliver
100
Eileen Moran ’12
Emily Easton ’15
Erin Guty ‘13
Jasmine Blocker ‘14
11.87
12.26
12.33
12.38
12.43
Ellis
Ellis
Ellis
Howell
Ellis
100 Hurdles
Teju Adewole ’15
Beth McKenna ’14
14.95
15.63
15.79
16.76
Heps
Penn
Howell
UCF
200
Eileen Moran ’12
Emily Easton ’15
Abidemi Adenikinju’13
Sarah Houtmann ’12
24.05
25.31
25.73
25.84
25.93
Heps
Ellis
Howell
Penn
Howell
400
Carrie Vuong ’15
Eileen Moran ’12
54.43
56.43
57.12
57.56
57.70
Heps
Heps
UCF
Heps
Ellis
400 Hurdles
Joie Hand ’13
Carrie Vuong ’15
1:00.28
1:04.58
Heps
Penn
800
Greta Feldman ’13
Molly Higgins ’14
2:03.65
ECAC
2:08.32 NCAA Reg.
2:09.24
UCF
2:09.95
Ellis
2:11.54
UCF
1500
Greta Feldman ’13
Molly Higgins ’14
Maggie McKeever ’13
4:12.73 *
4:24.24
4:24.46
4:36.30
4:38.51
NCAAs
Ellis
ECAC
Penn
Ellis
3,000
Alex Banfich ’12
Abby Levene ’13
Abby Hewitt ’13
Molly Higgins ’14
9:37.24
9:56.58
9:59.56
10:02.77
Heps
Penn
Penn
Howell
5,000
Abby Levene ’13
Alex Banfich ’12
Abby Hewitt ’13
16:38.78
16:50.32
17:15.44
17:25.43
Ellis
ECAC
Ellis
Howell
10,000
Abby Levene ’13
Abby Hewitt ’13
35:32.64
36:48.10
Howell
Howell
Steeplechase
Emily de la Bruyere ’15
10:38.33
10:48.56
Heps
Howell
Heptathlon
Beth McKenna ’14
4425
4332
Heps
Ellis
4x100
Emily Easton ’15
Erin Guty ‘13
Eileen Moran ’12
46.03 *
Heps
4x200
Eileen Moran ’12
Emily Easton ’15
Erin Guty ‘13
1:40.63
Disney
4x400
Carrie Vuong ’15
Eileen Moran ’12
Joie Hand ’13
3:39.96 *
ECAC
4x800
Joie Hand ’13
8:38.05 *
Heps
4x1500
Molly Higgins ’14
Kristin Smoot ’14
18:36.22
Disney
Molly Higgins ’14
Greta Feldman ’13
11:13.40 Penn Relays
High Jump
Beth McKenna ’14
1.64
1.55
1.50
Pole Vault
Tory Worthen ’13
Lauren Tauscher ’13
Bianca Reo ’12
Lydia Arias ’12
3.95
NCAA Reg.
3.85 Howell & Ellis
3.75
Howell
3.55
Heps
Long Jump
Erin Guty ’13
Imani Oliver ’14
Lily Miller ’14
5.72
5.50
5.35
Triple Jump
Imani Oliver ’14
12.50 *Penn Relays
Shot Put
13.19
11.23
Heps
Penn
Discus
48.59 *
44.19
UCF
Heps
Hammer Throw
46.75
Heps
Javelin
Ashley Vandolah ’14
Sarah Waszewitz ’15
39.90
39.27
TCNJ
UCF
Penn & Heps
Penn
Penn
Mar. 23-24 at Central Florida Invite
NTS
Mar. 23-24 at Walt Disney Invite
13th of 30
Apr. 6-7
Sam Howell Invite
NTS
Apr. 14
at Penn
1st
Apr. 20-21 Larry Ellis Invite
NTS
Apr. 26-28 at Penn Relays
NTS
Apr. 27-28 at TCNJ Invite
NTS
May 5-6 at Heps
2nd of 8
(at Penn - Philadelphia)
May 11-13 ECAC Championships
11th of 46
May 24-26 at NCAA East Regional
NTS
(at U of North Florida - Jacksonville)
June 6-9 at NCAA Championships 50th of 68
(at Drake - Des Moines, Iowa)
Key
*
^
Princeton record
Ivy League record
Heps
Penn
Penn
Freshman Nonny Okwelogu
15
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Season in Review
(continued from page 1)
16
McCullough continued his dominance in the hammer throw at the Sam
Howell Invitational in early April as he rewrote the records book once again
with a throw of 74.01 (242-10). All five of his scored throws were over 71.31
with the next best throw being 68.31 (224-01). Cabral set a meet record
in the steeplechase at 8:39.92, about four seconds off his personal best.
Sophomore Alejandro Arroyo Yamin won the final event of Day 1 as he ran a
meet record and a PR of 29:27.00 in the 10k. Sophomore Tom Hopkins was
the star of Day 2 as he won the 200 and 4x400 and was the runner-up in the
long jump.
Coming off of a big weekend at the Sam Howell Invitational, Hopkins
continued his onslaught. He erased a 52-year Princeton record in the 400 at
the Patriot Invitational at George Mason. Hopkins time of 46.23 bests Dick
Edmunds ‘61 time from 1960 when he ran 46.44. Stilin was the runner-up in
the 1500 with a PR of 3:42.79, taking six seconds off his previous best. His
time was the best time by a collegian in the event.
More than 2,000 athletes were on the Princeton campus on April 20-21
for the Larry Ellis Invitational. On Friday night, sophomore Chris Bendtsen
won the 5k with a PR of 13:57.51, shaving 7.23 seconds off his previous best
time. He was one of just two in the race of 100 runners to finish the event
in under 14 minutes. Cabral was the champion in the 1500 running a PR of
3:42.83, approximately four seconds better than his previous best time. The
next day, McLean won the long jump as he reached 7.38 (24-2.50) on his
second attempt. Hopkins was the runner-up to McLean in the long jump
and runner-up in the 200. Freshman Adam Bragg was the runner-up in the
pole vault as he reached a PR of 5.06 (16-7.25).
At the same time, a record was falling in California. Stilin set the
school record in the 5k at the Mt. Sac Relays. Stilin ran the ninth best time
in the nation at 13:38.36, meeting the Olympic Trials B qualifying standard.
The previous record was held by Stilin’s classmate Cabral, who ran 13:40.62
at the 2011 NCAA championship.
No
one
could have
anticipated
what would
take place
at the 118th
running of
the
Penn
Relays. The
Tigers won
both
the
distance
m e d ley
relay and
the 4xmile.
S t i l i n ,
Trevor Van Ackeren, Michael Williams, Donn Cabral and Joe Stilin. H o p k i n s ,
Cabral and
sophomore Michael Williams posted a time of 9:42.45 in the DMR. Stilin
started the relay off with a 2:59 in 1200 meters, before Hopkins ran one
lap in 46.3 for the second leg. Williams ran the 800 in 1:51.4 and Cabral
anchored with a 4:05.8 in the final 1600 meters. The Tigers beat out relays
from nationally ranked squads No. 1 Texas A&M, No. 7 Indiana, No. 10
Texas, No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 22 Oregon. The next day the Tigers did
it again, winning the 4xmile for the second straight year. Williams started
off with a 4:12 and Stilin ran 4:02.8 in the second leg. Van Ackeren ran the
third leg in 4:02.1 and Cabral ran the anchor in 3:59.9 as the team posted
a time of 16:16.79. The Tigers become the first Ivy League team to win two
Championship of America relays at the same Relays since Yale in 1961. In
the center of the track McLean recorded the second-best mark in program
history in the triple jump. McLean reached 15.88 (52-1.25) to set a new PR
and situate himself amongst the nation’s best in the event.
Princeton collected its second straight Ivy League triple crown,
finishing with 193 points to Cornell’s 161.75, a margin of victory of 31.25
points.
Hopkins had an unbelievable weekend helping Princeton earn 42
points. He won the 400, was the runner-up in the 200 and the long jump,
and ran in two second-place relays, the 4x100 and the 4x400. His time of
46.43 in the 400 is the third-fastest time in Heps history.
McCullough couldn’t have started off the first day any better. He set
a Heps record in the hammer throw to win the first event of the day with a
mark of 72.13 (236-08). McCullough would also score points in the discus.
Cabral won both the 10k and the steeplechase, becoming the first
person in Heps history to win three steeplechase titles, and is just the
second to win three Heps 10k titles. Princeton would get 21 points in the
steeplechase as freshman Eddie Owens, senior Tyler King and freshman
Connor Martin also scored. The Tigers got big points in the pole vault, a total of 17, as Bragg
finished runner-up in the event with seniors Dave Slovenski and Derek
Hynes adding points. Continuing the success in the field events, McLean
won the triple with a jump of 15.54 (51) and senior Garner McCloud was the
runner-up with a PR of 14.93 (48-11.75). McLean was also the runner-up to
Hopkins in the long jump, an event that brought the Tigers 12 points.
Other scorers included: junior Richard Sheldon in the decathlon and
110-meter hurdles, freshman Rob Mohr in the 110-meter hurdles, junior
Russell Dinkins in the 400, freshman William Egi in the 200, senior Brian
Leung in the 10k, freshman Stephen Soerens in the decathlon, Stilin in the
1500 and Arroyo Yamin in the 10k. Van Ackeren and Williams were runnersup in the 1500 and the 800, respectively. The 4x100 and 4x400 relays both
finished second, while the 4x800 had a third-place showing.
Sandwiching Heps and the NCAA Regionals was the IC4As held at
Weaver Stadium. McCullough won the hammer throw with a toss of 73.81
(242-10), while Owens put together a runner-up finish in the steeplechase
with a PR of 8:56.39. Princeton closed out the meet with five top-10 finishes
on the final day.
Seventeen members of the team earned bids to the 2012 NCAA East
Regional in Jacksonville, Fla., held on May 24-26. Five would advance and
compete at the NCAA Championships.
Cabral won heat 1 of the steeplechase at 8:38.41 to advance to the
semifinals in Des Moines. Owens finished 18th at 8:53.55 and King ran
9:11.11 in the quarterfinal round.
Van Ackeren competed in his second postseason 1500. He ran 3:47.99
in the qualifier to advance to the quarterfinal. He then ran 3:48.73 to
finish fourth in his heat to be one of 12 from the region to advance to the
semifinal.
Princeton had the most athletes qualify in the 5k. Stilin ran the secondfastest time in the 5k at 14:01.37 to qualify for the national final. Junior
Michael Franklin ran 14:22.45 and was just four places out of qualifying.
Bendtsen clocked in at 14:24.53 and sophomore Tyler Udland ran 14:52.22.
Three more competed in the 10k with Leung qualifying for the national final
with a time of 30:17.64. Arroyo Yamin and senior Thomas Dialynas clocked
in at 31:20.32 and 32:11.61, respectively.
McLean finished in fifth place in the triple jump with a mark of 15.75
(51-8.24) to earn a trip to the finals in Des Moines. McCullough won the
men’s hammer throw at the Regional with a winning throw of 72.40 (237-6),
but he would not compete at the championship due to academic reasons.
Slovenski took on the pole vault but wouldn’t advance past the first round.
In the sprints and middle distance, Hopkins and Dinkins both competed
in the 400, posting times of 47.19 and 47.31, respectively, in the first round.
Williams reached the quarterfinals of the 800 in his first NCAA appearance.
He ran 1:49:56 in the first round and 1:49.61 in the quarterfinals to miss the
top 12 by just four places.
Leung earned second-team All-America honors on the first day of
the 2012 NCAA Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. Leung
finished 16th in the national final of the 10k with a time of 29:58.45 in a highly
competitive race that saw a 30-year facility record go down. Leung is the
third Princeton athlete to compete in the 10k at the NCAA championships.
He joins Frank Macreery (2006) and Joe LeMay (1989) who boast the top two
times in program history. Leung leaves Old Nassau holding the fourth-best
time in the 10k at 29:09.84.
McLean set the Princeton record in the triple jump en route to being
the first All-America triple jumper in Princeton history. In his NCAA
Championships debut, McLean hit 16.03 (52-7.25) on his third and final
attempt in the first round. He was sitting in 13th place after the first two
rounds before his final jump vaulted him into the finals of nine competitors,
who would each get three more attempts. McLean wouldn’t surpass 16.03 in
his final three jumps, but it was good enough for eighth place, a spot on the
podium and All-America honors. He is the only triple jumper in Princeton
history to reach the 16-meter mark. McLean erases an 18-year record at
Princeton, set by Ugwunna Ikpeowo in 1994, a mark of 15.97 (52-4.75).
Stilin earned second-team All-America honors in the 5k posting a time
of 14:03.76 to finish 14th overall in the national final. In a heartbreaking
result, Van Ackeren just missed making the final of the men’s 1500. Van
Ackeren ran a PR of 3:42.83 but was two places out of making the cut for the
final. Van Ackeren does earn All-America honors for his 14th-place finish.
Capping off the NCAAs, and the season, was an unforgettable
performance by Cabral in the steeplechase. His time of 8:35.44 was
five seconds better than the second-place finisher in one of the largest
differentials at the weekend’s track finals. He reached the finals by posting
the fastest time in the semifinal, 8:38.12. Cabral became Princeton’s third
outdoor national champion, and first since Tora Harris won the 2002 high
jump. In addition, Cabral is the first individual track national champion
since 1934 when William Bonthron won the mile.
2012 Men’s Outdoor Track Season
100
William Egi ’15
Daniel McCord ’15
Sebastian Steffen ’13
10.79
10.88
10.90
10.95
10.99
UCF
UCF
IC4A
Howell
Mason
110 Hurdles
Rob Mohr ’15
Brad Pelisek ’14
14.69
17.04
14.68
16.06
Ellis
Mason
Heps
Howell
200
Tom Hopkins ’14
Daniel McCord ’15
William Egi ’15
Sebastian Steffen ’13
21.19
21.68
21.79
22.19
22.34
Heps
UCF
Heps
Ellis
Ellis
400
Tom Hopkins ’14
Ricky Kearney ’12
Daniel McCord ’15
400 Hurdles
Nilan Schnure ’12
Tom Scott ’14
Rob Mohr ’15
Mile
Donn Cabral ’12
4:00.96
4:04.47
4:06.38
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ’144:07.74
5,000
Joe Stilin ’12
Tyler Udland ’14
Brian Leung ’12
13:51.17
13:57.51
14:05.78
14:06.82
14:09.82
Raleigh
Ellis
Raleigh
Raleigh
Ellis
10,000
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin ’1429:27.00
Donn Cabral ’12
29:32.92
Brian Leung ’12
29:34.72
Tyler Udland ’14
29:39.81
Thomas Dialynas ’12
29:41.22
Howell
Heps
Howell
Howell
Howell
46.23 *
47.25
49.25
49.76
Mason
Ellis
Heps
Ellis
Steeplechase
Donn Cabral ’12
Connor Martin ’15
Eddie Owens ’15
Tyler King ’12
8:19.41 * ^ 8:57.61
8:53.55
9:03.99
54.13
55.17
56.07
Heps
Ellis
Howell
Decathlon
Brad Pelisek ’14
6895
6754
6413
Ellis
Ellis
Ellis
4x100
William Egi ’15
Daniel McCord ’15
Tom Hopkins ’14
40.96
Heps
800
1:49.53
1:50.25
1:50.46
1:50.67
1:53.90
Heps
IC4A
Mason
Howell
Raleight
1,500
Joe Stilin ’12
Donn Cabral ’12
3:42.79 3:42.83 3:43.60
3:44.97
3:48.30
Mason
NCAAs
Raleigh
Mason
IC4A
4x400
Ricky Kearney ’12
Nilan Schnure ’12
Tom Hopkins ’14
4x800
4xMile
Joe Stilin ’12
Donn Cabral ’12
Senior Joe Stilin
Monmouth
Monmouth
Monmouth
Monmouth
3:12.03
7:25.22
Oxy
Ellis
Heps
Heps
Heps
Heps
16:16.79 Penn Relays
Joe Stilin ’12
Tom Hopkins ’14
Donn Cabral ’12
9:42.45
High Jump
Omar Jarrett ’14
2.03
1.88
Mason
Mason
Pole Vault
Dave Slovenski ’12
Adam Bragg ’15
Derek Hynes ’12
David Coneway ’14
5.10
5.06
4.80
4.42
UCF
Ellis
Ellis
Mason
Penn Relays
Sophomore Damon McLean
Long Jump
Damon McLean ’14
Tom Hopkins ’14
Shane Molidor ’14
7.43
UCF
7.32
Ellis
6.92 UCF & Howell
6.86
Mason
Triple Jump
Damon McLean ’14
16.03 *
Garner McCloud ’12
14.98
Nana Owusu-Nyantekyi ’1514.60
NCAAs
IC4A
UCF
Shot Put
Patrick Park ’12
Scott Rushton ’15
16.21 Ellis & TCNJ
16.15
TCNJ
Hammer
74.01 * ^ Howell
Discus
Patrick Park ’12 Brad Pelisek ’14
51.34
43.72
38.22
Heps
UCF
Howell
Javelin
Alec Bingaman ’14
Brad Pelisek ’14
57.68
52.82
41.06
TCNJ
TCNJ
TCNJ
Mar. 23
at Monmouth Invite
NTS
Mar. 24
at Central Florida Invite
NTS
Mar. 30-31 at Raleigh Relays
NTS
Apr. 6-7
Sam Howell Invite
NTS
Apr. 14
at George Mason Invite
NTS
Apr. 19-21 at Mt. Sac Invite
NTS
Apr. 20-21 Larry Ellis Invite
NTS
Apr. 26-28 at Penn Relays
NTS
Apr. 27-28 at TCNJ Invite
NTS
May 5-6 at Heps
1st of 8
(at Penn - Philadelphia)
May 11-13 IC4A Championships
5th of 54
May 24-26 at NCAA East Regional
NTS
(at North Florida, Jacksonville)
June 6-9 at NCAA Championships 27th of 71
(at Drake, Des Moines, Iowa)
17
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
Women’s Heptagonal Highlights
Event
Weight
Long Jump
Pole Vault
5,000 Pentathlon
Mile
60m Hurdles
400
60
800
200
High Jump
3,000
Shot Put
4x800
Triple Jump
4x400
Champion
Harvard 18.28
Columbia 5.95
Worthen 4.12
Brown 16:38.01
Dartmouth 3733
Dartmouth 4:46.81
Penn 8.49
Columbia 55.99
Cornell 7.57
Harvard 2:10.35
Columbia 24.61
Columbia 1.76
Columbia 9:21.82
Cornell 15.01
Princeton 8:44.32
Columbia 12.91
Cornell 3:45.76
Event
Champion
Hammer
Brown 55.75
Long Jump
Columbia 5.89
Javelin
Brown 47.20
Pole Vault
Worthen 3.91
10,000
Cornell 34:07.85
5,000
Brown 16:18.89
Shot Put
Cornell 15.03
Triple Jump
Columbia 12.67
Steeplechase Dartmouth 9:58.80
1500
Dartmouth 4:17.90
100 Hurdles Penn 14.09
400
Brown 54.17
100
Moran 11.89
Hepathlon
Dartmouth 4924
800
Feldman 2:06.22
400 Hurdles Cornell 59.08
200
Moran 24.05
High Jump
Cornell 1.76
3,000
Dartmouth 9:24.64
Discus
Harvard 48.47
4x800
Princeton 8:38.05
4x400 Cornell 3:39.61
4x100
Princeton 46.03
18
Princeton Scorers
-
-
-
Devine (4th) 16:45.23
McKeann (5th) 3333
Feldman (4th) 4:49.45
Adewole (5th) 8.86
-
Moran (3rd) 7.62
-
Moran (3rd) 24.83
-
-
-
-
Oliver (4th) 12.19
(2nd) 3:46.75
Indoor
Event Points
-
10
4
2
4
2
-
6
6
10
4
8
Outdoor
Princeton Scorers
Event Points
-
-
Guty (4th) 5.72
4
-
Tauscher (2nd) 3.80
22
Reo (3rd) 3.70
-
-
Okwelogu (6th) 13.19
1
Oliver (2nd) 12.18
8
de la Bruyere (6th) 10:38.33 1
Feldman (2nd) 4:20.98
9
Higgins (6th) 4:25.99
-
Barowski (2nd) 54.43
8
-
10
McKenna (6th) 4425
1
O’Neil (3rd) 2:08.52
16
Hand (3rd) 1:00.28
6
-
10
-
Banfich (5th) 9:37.42
2
Okwelogu (3rd) 47.15
8
Cioffi (5th) 44.19
-
10
(2nd) 3:40.26
8
-
10
Team Total
10
14
16
20
22
28
Team Scores
1. Columbia 124
2. Cornell 103
3. Dartmouth 73
4. Harvard 65
5. Brown 57
6. Princeton 56
7. Penn 37
8. Yale 12
34
44
48
56
Team Total
4
26
27
35
36
45
53
63
64
80
86
96
98
106
116
124
134
Team Scores
1. Cornell 158
2. Princeton 134
3. Brown 94
4. Dartmouth 89
5. Penn 79
6. Harvard 71
7. Columbia 66
8. Yale 22
Men’s Heptagonal Highlights
Indoor
Event
Champion
Weight
McCullough 22.94
Long Jump
Cornell 7.42
Pole Vault
Harvard 5.30
3000
Dartmouth
Mile
Columbia 4:21.11
60m Hurdles Cornell 7.98
400
Hopkins 48.33
500
Dinkins 1:02.72
60
Harvard 6.79
800
Callahan 1:49.72
1000
Van Ackeren 2:26.08
5000
Cabral 14:23.67
High Jump
Penn 2.20
Triple Jump
McLean 15.12
Shot Put
Harvard 17.95
Heptathlon
Cornell 5446
4x400
Brown 3:17.42
4x800
Columbia 7:34.99
DMR
Columbia 9:52.01
Princeton Scorers
Event Points
Team Total
-
10
10
Hopkins (3rd) 7.19
8
18
McLean (5th) 7.13
Slovenski (2nd) 5.20
17
35
Hynes (3rd) 4.90
Bragg (4th) 4.80
Stilin (2nd) 8:11.42 14
49
Cabral (3rd) 8:11.69 Stilin (2nd) 4:22.25 14
63
Van Ackeren (3rd) 4:22.38
Sheldon (3rd) 8.18 10
73
Mohr (4th) 8.24 Kearney (6th) 50.08
11
84
-
10
94
-
-
Williams (4th) 1:51.73 14
108
Paternostro (6th) 2:28.40 11
119
Bendtsen (2nd) 14:28.10
22
141
Vitez (4th) 14:29.52 Jarrett (6th) 2.00
1
142
Owusu-Nyanteky (4th) 14.52 14
156
Park (4th) 17.38
4
160
Sheldon (4th) 5004
4
164
(3rd) 3:19.43
6
170
(3rd) 7:36.23 6
176
(2nd) 9:54.11
8
184
Event
Champion
Hammer
McCullough 72.13
Long Jump
Cornell 7.38
Pole Vault
Cornell 5.12
Javelin
Harvard 63.68
10,000
Cabral 29:32.92
4x100
Cornell 40.77
Steeplechase Cabral 8:43.59
High Jump
Penn 2.24
1500
Columbia 4:02.85
400
Hopkins 46.43
100
Brown 10.62
Discus
Yale 53.79
800
Columbia 1:49.31
200
Brown 21.05
Triple Jump
McLean 14.54
5,000
Stilin 14:05.62
Shot Put
Cornell 18.81
4x800
Columbia 7:20.53
4x400
Cornell 3:10.77
Decathlon
Cornell 7632
Princeton Scorers
-
Hopkins (2nd) 7.28
McLean (4th) 7.06
Bragg (2nd) 5.00
Slovenski (3rd) 4.90
Hynes (4th) 4.65
-
Leung (5th) 29:38.22
Arroyo Yamin (6th) 29:50.33
(2nd) 40.96
Owens (3rd) 9:00.14
King (4th) 9:03.99
Martin (6th) 9:06.96
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Van Ackeren (2nd) 4:03.41
Stilin (5th) 4:04.82
Sheldon (3rd) 14.68
Mohr (5th) 14.90
Dinkins (6th) 48.45
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McCullough (4th) 51.34
Williams (2nd) 1:49.53
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Hopkins (2nd) 21.19
Egi (4th) 21.79
McCloud (2nd) 14.93
Bendtsen (3rd) 14:06.80
Udland (6th) 14:13.96
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(3rd) 7:25.22
(2nd) 3:12.03
Soerens (3rd) 6622
Sheldon (4th) 6549
Team Scores
1. Princeton 184
2. Cornell 176
3. Columbia 70
4. Harvard 59
5. Brown 43
6. Dartmouth 23
7. Penn 18
8. Yale 16
Outdoor
Event Points
10
12
Team Total
10
22
17
39
-
13
52
8
21
60
81
10
91
8
99
11
4
8
12
110
18
17
152
169
6
8
10
175
183
193
Team Scores
1. Princeton 193
2. Cornell 161.7
3. Harvard 92.7
4. Brown 71
5. Columbia 58
6. Penn 37.5
7. Yale 36
8. Dartmouth 32
114
122
134
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August 2012
Tiger Tracks
2011-12 Women’s Honors & Awards
Team Awards
Women’s Cross Country
Varsity Rosengarten Award
Freshman Rosengarten Award
Women’s Track & Field
Nancy Kramer Award
Joseph Myers Award
Curtis McGraw Coaches Awards
100
200
400
800
1500
3000
5000
10.000
Steeplechase
100 Hurdles
400 Hurdles
Long Jump
Triple Jump
High Jump
Pole Vault
Shot Put
Discus
Hammer/Weight
Javelin
Multi Event
The Reach Award
Most Improved Performer (Field)
Most Improved Performer (Track)
Most Outstanding Freshman
Relay Leg Award
Heps Leading Scorer
Most Valuable Performer
Most Outstanding Performer
Ivy League Awards
Alex Banfich
Jackie Nicholas
Alex Banfich & Eileen Moran
Lydia Arias
Eileen Moran
Eileen Moran
Cecilia Barowski
Greta Feldman
Greta Feldman
Alex Banfich
Theresa Devine
Abby Levene
Emily de la Bruyere
Teju Adewole
Joie Hand
Erin Guty
Imani Oliver
Theresa Kennedy
Tory Worthen
Nonny Okewlogu
Nonny Okwelogu
Chelsea Cioffi
Ashley Vandolah
Beth McKenna
Bianca Reo & Eileen Moran
Bianca Reo
Joie Hand & Kacie O’Neil
Cecilia Barowski
Joie Hand
Eileen Moran
Eileen Moran
Tory Worthen & Greta Feldman
USTFCCCA Awards
All-Academic
Cross Country Team
Alex Banfich
Track & Field Team
Alex Banfich
Molly Higgins
Theresa Devine
Tory Worthen
All-Region
Alex Banfich
Alexis Mikaelian
Greta Feldman
All-America
Alex Banfich
Greta Feldman
Cross Country
Track & Field
Track & Field
Track & Field
Track & Field
Capital One/CoSIDA
Cross Country
Cross Country
Cross Country
C. Otto von Kienbusch Award
C. Otto von Kienbusch Award
Cross Country - 4th place
Outdoor 1500 - 5th place
NCAA Participants
Cross County
Alex Banfich
Alexis Mikaelian
Outdoor
Greta Feldman
Molly Higgins *
Alexis Mikaelian *
Kacie O’Neil *
Abby Levene *
Tory Worthen *
Lauren Tauscher *
* Regional only
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Academic All-Ivy
Alex Banfich
Cross Country
Tory Worthen
Indoor Track & Field
Tory Worthen
Outdoor Track & Field
Cross County
First Team
Alex Banfich
Cross Country
Indoor
First Team
Greta Feldman
4x800
Alexis Mikaelian
4x800
Kacie O’Neil
4x800
Kristin Smoot 4x800
Tory Worthen
Pole Vault
Second Team
Cecilia Barowski
4x400
Joie Hand
4x400
Eileen Moran
4x400
Carrie Vuong
4x400
Outdoor
First Team
Abidemi Adenikinju
4x100
Emily Easton
4x100
Greta Feldman
800 and 4x800
Erin Guty
4x800
Molly Higgins
4x800
Alexis Mikaelian
4x800
Eileen Moran
100, 200 and 4x100
Kacie O’Neil
4x800
Tory Worthen
Pole Vault
Second Team
Cecilia Barowski
400 and 4x400
Greta Feldman
1500
Joie Hand
4x400
Eileen Moran
4x400
Imani Oliver
Triple Jump
Lauren Tauscher
Pole Vault
Carrie Vuong
4x400
Heps Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet
Tory Worthen
Indoor
1500
1500
1500
800
10,000
Pole Vault
Pole Vault
Academic All-America (third team)
Alex Banfich
Cross Country & Track
Princeton Varsity Club Awards
Alex Banfich
Eileen Moran
2011-12 Men’s Honors & Awards
Team Awards
Men’s Cross Country
Varsity Rosengarten Award
Freshman Rosengarten Award
Most Improved
Men’s Track & Field
Babb Memorial Award
Bonthron Award
Peter J. Morgan Award
Irwin W. Weiss Award
Joseph Myers Award
Keene Fitzpatrick Awards
100
200
400
800
1500
5000
110 Hurdles
400 Hurdles
Steeplechase
Hammer
Javelin
Shot put
High Jump
Pole Vault
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Discus
Multi Event
The Reach Award
Donn Cabral
Eddie Owens
Peter Maag
Adam Bragg & Eddie Owens
Donn Cabral
Dave Slovenski & Joe Stilin
Patrick Park
Trevor Van Ackeren
William Egi
Tom Hopkins
Tom Hopkins
Michael Williams
Trevor Van Ackeren & Peter Callahan
Joe Stilin
Ricky Sheldon
Nilan Schnure
Donn Cabral
Conor McCullough
Alec Bingaman
Patrick Park
Omar Jarrett
Dave Slovenski
Tom Hopkins
Damon McLean
Conor McCullough
Stephen Soerens
Trevor Van Ackeren & Peter Maag
USTFCCCA Awards
The Bowerman
Conor McCullough
Donn Cabral
All-Academic
Cross Country Team
Track & FIeld Team
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin
Peter Callahan
Thomas Dialynas
Trevor Van Ackeren
Regional Awards
Donn Cabral
Conor McCullough
Fred Samara
Steve Dolan
All-Region
Chris Bendtsen
Donn Cabral
Eddie Owens
All-America
Donn Cabral
Donn Cabral
Donn Cabral
Peter Callahan
Damon McLean
Second Team
Brian Leung
Joe Stilin
Trevor Van Ackeren
NCAA Participants
Cross County
Chris Bendtsen
Donn Cabral
Brian Leung
Peter Maag
Eddie Owens
Sam Pons
Tyler Udland
Indoor
Donn Cabral
Peter Callahan
Outdoor
Trevor Van Ackeren
Tom Hopkins *
Russell Dinkins *
Watch List
Semifinalist
Track & Field
Track & Field
Track & Field
Track & Field
XC & Outdoor Track Athlete
Indoor Field Athlete
Indoor & Outdoor Coach
Indoor Assistant
Cross Country
Cross Country
Cross Country
Cross Country - 19th place
Indoor 5,000 - 8th
Outdoor Steeplechase - 1st
Indoor Mile - 6th
Outdoor Triple Jump - 8th
Outdoor 10,000 - 16th
Michael Williams *
Donn Cabral
Tyler King *
Eddie Owens *
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin *
Thomas Dialynas *
Brian Leung
Conor McCullough *
Damon McLean
Dave Slovenski *
Joe Stilin
Chris Bendtsen *
Tyler Udland *
Michael Franklin *
* Regional only
800
Steeplechase
Steeplechase
Steeplechase
10,000
10,000
10,000
Hammer Throw
Triple Jump
Pole Vault
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
Ivy League Awards
Academic All-Ivy
Peter Maag
Cross Country
Peter Callahan
Indoor Track & Field
Trevor Van Ackeren
Indoor & Outdoor Track & Field
Cross County
First Team
Donn Cabral
Peter Maag
Tyler Udland
Second Team
Chris Bendtsen
Matt McDonald
Indoor
First Team
Donn Cabral
5,000
Peter Callahan
800
Russell Dinkins
500
Tom Hopkins
400
Conor McCullough
Weight Throw
Damon McLean
Triple Jump
Trevor Van Acakren
1000
Second Team
Chris Bendtsen
5,000
Peter Callahan
DMR
Nilan Schnure
DMR
Dave Slovenski
Pole Vault
Joe Stilin
Mile and 3,000
Trevor Van Ackeren
DMR
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin
DMR
Outdoor
First Team
Donn Cabral
10,000 and Steeplechase
Tom Hopkins
400
Conor McCullough
Hammer Throw
Damon McLean
Triple Jump
Joe Stilin
5,000
Second Team
Adam Bragg
Pole Vault
Ivan Charbonneau
4x100
Russell Dinkins
4x100
William Egi
4x100
Tom Hopkins
200, Long Jump, 4x100, 4x400
Ricky Kearney
4x400
Garner McCloud
Triple Jump
Daniel McCord
4x100
Nilan Schnure
4x400
Trevor Van Ackeren
1500
Michael Williams
800
Heps Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet
Conor McCullough
Indoor
Donn Cabral
Outdoor
CoSIDA
Academic All-District
Nilan Schnure
5000
Mile
Cross Country & Track
Princeton Varsity Club Awards
William Winston Roper Trophy
Donn Cabral
1500
400
400
21
August 2012
Tiger Tracks
Senior Sendoffs
Lydia Arias
Will be starting at Bain Consulting in Atlanta, Ga., in the fall working as a
generalist associate consultant. She is no longer competing but is helping
at the Slovenski Pole Vault Camp this summer in Maine.
Bianca Reo
Continuing her studies at Villanova where she is pursing a Masters in
biology. She will pole vault for the Wildcats with her remaining two years of
indoor and outdoor eligibility.
Alex Banfich
Begins pursuing a Master’s degree in art history at Christie’s Education in
London, England in September. She plans on continuing to compete in road
races, including 5ks and 10ks and perhaps half marathons.
Jordan Sawadogo
Working as a Field Engineer in offshore oil exploration for Schlumberger.
Will be stationed on a platform, off the coast of Takoradi, Ghana for 4-5
years and hopes to have some track alums come by for a visit. Is no longer
running but would like to break 30s in a 200 at an all comers meet before
leaving the US.
Donn Cabral
Signed a contract to be a professional runner for Nike for the next three
to four years and changed his original plans to attend business school in
Colorado next year.
Ivan Charbonneau
Traveling through Europe this summer. Has plans to work at Holborn
Corporation, which is a reinsurance intermediary located in the financial
district of New York City as a Reinsurance Analyst. He will work alongside
two Princeton track and field alums, Duane Hynes ‘10 and Tim Releford
‘04.
Thomas Dialynas
Working as an analyst for Promontory Financial Group, a consulting firm
in Denver.
Sarah Houtmann
Studying at Drexel University College of Medicine. She is interested in
sports medicine, but is open to changing interests as she progress through
medical school.
Dave Slovenski
Will be the assistant track coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(RPI) in Troy, N.Y.
Kashif Smith
Recently finished studying for, and taking the MCAT, on July 6. He is in the
midst of applying to medical school for matriculation in the fall of 2013.
Currently doing software engineering at Humanistic Robotics, a company
that specializes in using robots to neutralize anti-personnel land mines and
pressure-sensitive explosives. If all goes well, will be volunteering at his
high school, Penn Charter, this upcoming winter and spring.
Derek Hynes
Spent the month of July traveling throughout his mother’s homeland of
Vietnam. Began working for PNC in the business credit division in August.
Joe Stilin
Will be doing a two-year graduate program in aerospace engineering at the
University of Texas, and plans to use his final a year of indoor eligibility and
compete for the Longhorns.
Ricky Kearney
Working as a manufacturing engineer for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn,
Mich.
Trevor Van Ackeren
Enrolled at the University of Texas in the Masters of Education program. He
will use his final year of outdoor eligibility for the Longhorns track team.
Tyler King
Pursuing a Master’s in Finance at Boston College and continuing to run for
the track and cross country teams at the College.
Sean Wilson
Working for a year in the clinical research department at The Hospital
for Special Surgery in New York City. Is in midst of the medical school
application process and plans to enter in the fall of 2013.
Peter Maag
Working as a software developer at a company called Cloud Conversion in
Park City, Utah.
Eileen Moran
Living in the south suburbs of Chicago and is on the job hunt. Looking for
a position for a year or two in a biology lab before applying to go back to
school for a Master’s degree.
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Nilan Schnure
Schnure is doing breast cancer research as a Clinical Research Intern at the
UCSF Breast Care Center, a position made possible through the Princeton
Project 55 Fellowship. He is running recreationally and currently applying
to medical school.
The Newest Tigers
Name
Hometown
Event/PR
Inka Busack
Hohen Neuendorf, Germany High Jump/5-8
Long Jump/18-0
Name
Hometown
Event/PR
Samuel Berger
Zionsville, Ind.
1600/4:11.25
800/1:54.50
400/50.8
4x800
800/1:53.91
1600/4:16.98
5k XC/15:17
Summer Hanson Bellevue, Wash.
800/2:13.08
400/57.82
5k XC/18:53
Isabel Henderson Bedminster, N.J.
800/2:19.79
Luke Brahm
Indianapolis, Ind.
Birdie Hutton
Aspen, Colo.
800/2:17.58
Mile/5:03.76
5k XC/17:57
Greg Caldwell
Princeton Junction, N.J.
110 Hurdles/14.20
55 Hurdles/7.36
200/22.9
Kerry Krause
Heptathlon
Jamie Fehrnstrom Orinda, Calif.
800/1:55.91
1600/4:15.65
Jabari Johnson
Randolph, Mass.
400/49.28
200/22.6
100/11.1
Triple/43-3
Brett Kelly
Gilbertsville, Pa.
800/1:59.53
3200/9:24.50
Mile/4:23.86
5k XC/15:41
Bryan Oslin
Franklin, Tenn.
Decathlon/6392
Pole Vault/14-0
100/11.68
Shot Put/42-9
Brian Poirier
Windsor, Conn.
400/50.2
800/1:53.41
1600/4:17.68
Everett Price
New Providence, N.J.
David Pugliese
Middletown, Conn.
800/1:54.13
1600/4:14.96
Jake Scinto
Cheshire, Conn.
High Jump/6-11
Long/23-5
Triple/47-9
100/10.7
Michael Sublette Columbus, Ind.
1600/4:18
3200/9:11
5k XC/15:18
Keene, N.H.
Sarah Lavin
Limerick, Ireland
60 Hurdles/8.42
100 Hurdles/13.73
100/11.9
200/24.4
Meghan McMullin Holmdel, N.J.
400 Hurdles/62.3
800/2:13
Taylor Morgan
High Jump/5-8
Maple Glen, Pa.
Sarah Porter
Coto de Caza, Calif.
800/2:14.93
5k XC/17:57
Julia Ratcliffe
Hamilton, New Zealand
Hammer/219-10
Julia Rizio
Montville, N.J.
100/11.97
Sara Ronde
East Northport, N.Y.
100/12.07
Long Jump/18-8
Brielle Rowe
Los Altos, Calif.
High Jump/5-4
Heptathlon
Maria Seykora
Broomall, Pa.
800/2:12.11
Mile/4:52.44
3200/10:47.21
5k XC/18:30
Jamie Shenk
Javelin/125-0
San Francisco, Calif.
Michelle Tracy
West Chester, Pa.
800/2:12.7
400/58.56
5k XC/15:57
800/1:54.66
1k/2:32.86
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August 2012
Tiger Tracks
Coaches’ Statements on Cross Country Season
PETER FARRELL
Women’s Head Coach
Well, the streak had to come to an end at some
point. Five consecutive Heps titles and eight
consecutive team appearances at NCAAs are
obviously something the program can be very
proud of. Unfortunately for some, it’s also the
benchmark by which the present and future
teams will be judged. I know the team took it
hard as they surrendered the Ivy title to Cornell
despite slogging through the five inches of snow
on Princeton’s home course. These Tigers did
not give up without a fight. The disappointment on their frozen faces as I
addressed them after the race told me that their hearts and minds were
in the right place. One could take some solace from the fact that they take
personally, the responsibility of an outstanding legacy. In some ways the
season was remarkable when you realize that several of our better long
distance runners never got to the line this year due to injuries incurred
during summer training. Our top five eventually consisted of senior AllAmerica Alex Banfich and four middle distance runners. They actually
performed remarkably when you compare their results to last year’s times.
Juniors Alexis Mikaelian and Greta Feldman earned All-Region honors and
Mikaelian made it to the NCAAs. Feldman earned second-team All-Ivy and
missed NCAAs by one place! Sophomore Molly Higgins emerged as number
four for us after spending freshmen year on the JV.
Perhaps the most significant individual highlight for the season was
the extraordinary performance of Banfich at the NCAA Championships.
Perhaps because she missed all of preseason training in July, Banfich
reached a physical and mental peak right around the NCAA Championships
on what would have to be considered her home course in Terre Haute, Ind. I
say home course because this was her 17th race on this grassy, undulating
stretch of Indiana prairie. Banfich is a three-time semi state and state
champion in the Hoosier state. Standing in a coaches’ box 300 meters from
the finish line, my view of the last 1000 meters was blocked by an unusually
thick crowd. Suddenly in front of me nine women emerged with all nine
driving the last 300 meters to the tape. Though I’ve been involved with cross
country since 1959, I had never witnessed anything like this. Nine with
300 to go and one of them driving hard in orange and black. The captain
and two-time All-America came up fifth for the second-highest Princeton
finish in meet history. It was truly a remarkable cap to an incredible career
and she did it in front of her home state fans. There is an old adage in my
book which states that “if it didn’t happen in cross country then it will most
certainly happen in track.” I can’t wait.
STEVE DOLAN
Men’s Head Coach
We kicked off a competitive season with the
Fordham Fiasco at Van Cortlandt Park. After
pack running at a moderate pace in the early
stages, the Tigers charged, taking four of the
top six places. Donn Cabral and Eddie Owen led
the team to victory with a 1-2 finish.
We were back in action at two locations
on Sept. 30th. The hard work of the summer
months and the first few weeks on campus were
evident as the team finished an impressive third
at the highly competitive Notre Dame Invitational. Returning All-Americas
Cabral and Brian Leung showed their experience by finishing second and
14th in a field that included a number of national caliber runners. Freshman
Sam Pons had a breakthrough race to finish 25th overall and third for the
team. We also had a number of good efforts at the Paul Short Run. Senior
Tommy Dialynas led the team as he turned in a time of 25:24 on Lehigh’s 8k
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course. Freshmen Matt McDonald and Connor Martin were not far behind
as they clocked 25:34 and 25:35, respectfully.
A select group traveled to the Midwest to compete in the Wisconsin
Invitational on Oct. 14. The team excelled in a field that included over 20
nationally ranked teams with a fourth-place finish. Cabral and Leung ran
very well to bring home the low sticks that the team needed and recorded
impressive times of 23:31 and 24:17. The big story of the day, however, were
the huge efforts by Peter Maag, Chris Bendtsen and Tyler Udland, who
rolled past numerous competitors over the final mile ensuring a great team
score. After kicking by many, they hit the finish line in personal bests of
24:35, 24:37 and 24:38.
We hosted the Princeton Invitational on Oct. 15. On a windy, but
otherwise beautiful fall day, the Tigers put in a good team effort and
finished a strong runner-up. Alejandro Arroyo Yamin and Jonathan Vitez led
the group as they completed the course in 25:01 and 25:04 to place third and
sixth individually.
The 2011 Heps was truly one for the ages! A special thanks to Karen
Malec and the Princeton administration for all the support in hosting this Ivy
League championship event. The teams had an opportunity to preview our
well-groomed course and appreciate the great work of Elyse Nicolas and
the Princeton grounds crew on Friday. Unfortunately, Saturday provided a
different scene as runners and spectators had to deal with cold, rain, snow,
wind and mud. The team displayed a great deal of determination and mental
toughness to defend the title. When the fifth Tiger, McDonald, crossed the
line 12th it was clear that the team trophy was staying in Princeton. The
Tigers tallied 37 points to win their fifth Heps title in the last six years. It was
time to try and get warm!
Cabral wins the Mid-Atlantic Regional! At this point in his career,
there is no doubt that Cabral is one of the greatest runners in Princeton
history. Sometimes, I fear we almost take his success for granted since he
consistently produces such amazing performances. I still get excited every
time he spikes up to race since I know that there is a very good chance I’m
going to see something special. Many others in the running community feel
the same way as the coaches in our region selected Cabral as the regional
runner of the year. This honor is well deserved and I for one am going to
cherish each opportunity to watch him compete the rest of the year as a
Tiger. The team finished third in the region and earned a bid to compete at
This year’s team is probably the deepest in recent history. Although
some guys were preparing for the NCAAs, we sent a strong group to compete
at the IC4A Championships. The team ran exceptionally well to bring home
the title with an impressive score of 50 points. The big performance was
from Joe Stilin, who won the race with a great senior effort of 24:47! Michael
Franklin, Michael Williams, Vitez and Dialynas all turned in outstanding
efforts.
The team couldn’t wait to compete at the NCAAs. It has been a special
season for our team. In many ways, it is due to the fact that we have a
great senior class. Cabral was impressive again as he earned his sixth AllAmerica award by finishing 19th. Fellow seniors Leung and Maag gave it
everything they had to help the team to its second straight top-20 finish.
The future is very bright as sophomores Bendtsen and Udland along with
freshmen Owens and Pons gained valuable national meet experience.
It’s been an honor to work with the team this season. I couldn’t be
prouder of this group. I want to acknowledge and thank Coach Kyle Soloff
for his efforts. He has been a great addition to our staff. Thanks very much
to the alumni, families and friends as well. We couldn’t do this without your
support and can’t wait to see you on the track!
Coaches’ Statements on Indoor Season
PETER FARRELL
What was shaping up to be another good indoor
season was marred by a below-par performance
at Heps. The league meet was sandwiched
between a spirited comeback victory at HYP and
a surprising, school-record-filled third-place
finish at ECACs. What happened is anybody’s
guess. Injuries to some big scorers, coupled with
novice mistakes by our younger stars, relegated
the Tigers to a disappointing sixth-place finish.
Highlights included junior Tory Worthen’s first
place Ivy League record vault of 13-6. Tory has now won every Heps vault
that she has competed in. Our 4x800 earned first-team All-Ivy honors as
well with an 8:44.67 first-place performance. Junior Greta Feldman capped
this spirited come-from-behind race with a scintillating 2:08 anchor leg.
One meet does not a season make. HYP was a marvellous team effort.
The first three events (long jump, weight throw and shot put) did not help
our cause, and we found ourselves trailing Harvard 30-3. The mile and the
60 cut the lead significantly and the staff realized that it would come down
to the 200 and the 3,000. A Princeton woman won each of the six heats in the
200 and we went 1-3-4 in the 3,000. Co-captain Eileen Moran won the 200
in 24.92, while junior Mel Newbery shut the door on Harvard with a winning
3,000 time of 9:43.
ECACs provided some Tigers with a chance to “wash” Heps out of
their system. Junior Joie Hand broke Lauren Simmons ’02 record in the
500 at 1:13.83 in the trials only to see it broken by frosh Cecilia Barowski’s
1:13.20! They both improved their time in the final with Barowski lowering
the record to 1:12.38. Feldman scared Simmons’ 800 record with a secondplace finishing time of 2:07.92. Worthen ended an undefeated indoor season
by winning the pole vault.
As Catha Mullen relayed in a consolatory email: “the thing about a
disappointing indoor Heps is that you have outdoors to make things right.”
FRED SAMARA
Men’s Head Coach
Heps Champs! It never gets old saying it, or
winning it! In what can only be described as
a super team effort, the men’s program won
our third straight indoor championship. It also
marked the second leg of what we hope will be
our second triple crown in a row.
The 2012 indoor championship held on
Cornell’s home site was truly a barn burner. It
was exciting from the first gun to the last throw.
As I reflect back upon the meet it is clear that
we have many, many dedicated and downright tough kids on our team. We
asked a lot of these young men, and they responded with flying colors at
every turn.
The meet started off with a bang, literally. Sophomore Conor
McCullough exploded to a new meet record almost throwing out of Barton
Hall at 75-0. During the season he would throw over 76-0 and have the No.
1 throw in the nation.
The first day went equally as well as almost all the expected qualifiers
made it to the second day. But it seemed that even though Princeton was
firing on all cylinders, Cornell was lining it up too, and most prognosticators
had the Big Red winning by 15-20 points. Prognostication is fine, but it
doesn’t take into account heart and soul. That is what the men from Old
Nassau had and we would not be denied!
Right from the gun on the second day Princeton started to roll.
Sophomore Tom Hopkins continued his brilliant career winning the 400.
Junior Russell Dinkins followed with an easy win in the 500. Superstar Peter
Callahan won the 800, over a very strong field, running a new fieldhouse
record of 1:49.72. Senior Trevor Van Ackeren ran an incredible double of the
1,000 and mile. He won the 1,000 and placed third in the mile. Trevor’s heart
and dedication to “team” was one of the keys to our victory.
I could write the entire article about the season that senior Joe Stilin
had. At the Heps, Stilin placed second in the mile and the 3,000. These fields
were both of national caliber. More about Stilin later.
When senior Donn Cabral runs you know he’s going to give you 110%
effort and set the example for others to follow. The turning point in the meet
was the 5,000 meters where Cabral won as expected. But his determination
and infectious competitive spirit spurred his teammates on, as sophomore
Chris Bendtsen placed an inspired second, followed closely by classmate
Jonathan Vitez, giving the Tigers a huge 22 points, and the lead prior to the
relays.
The runners weren’t the only ones in the spotlight. Princeton’s always
strong field squad strutted its stuff too! Sophomore Damon McLean, coming
back from his broken ankle, won the triple jump. In the pole vault senior
Dave Slovenski, senior Derek Hynes and freshman Adam Bragg placed 2-34, scoring big points. Senior Patrick Park had a fine PR in the shot, throwing
57-1. Junior Ricky Sheldon placed a strong second in the 60 hurdles and
scored a big fourth place in the heptathlon.
So it came down to the relays, and the coaching staff had to juggle a
number of our team’s tired bodies around to put together the best relay
units. The distance medley was first and they responded with an outstanding
second-place effort. Van Ackeren came back once again to run an incredible
leg. Callahan got the stick 60 meters down, but his 4:02 anchor saved the
day.
Next was the 4x800 comprised of freshman Bradley Paternostro,
freshman Connor Martin, sophomore Michael Williams and Stilin running
his third race. Their third-place victory all but assured Princeton of the win.
But the saying “don’t count your chickens before they hatch” had significant
meaning when the final event, the 4x400, lined up with the Tigers 10 points
up. Senior Ricky Kearney led off and put us in good position, handing off to
superstar Dinkins. All was fine until 250 meters to go when Dinkins pulled
his hamstring! The race was in doubt as Dinkins slowed to a jog and almost
stopped. Regaining himself slowly he struggled around the track in one of
the toughest runs we have ever seen, saving the day. Frosh Dan McCord
then ran his best race of the year a 49.0 split handing off to Hopkins, who
brought it home. The team was exhausted, the coaches were exhausted, but
the victory was ours!
The indoor season had many other highlights. Princeton once again
demonstrated that we are a nationally ranked power. Slovenski set an alltime Ivy record in the pole vault at 17-7.5. As mentioned, McCullough set
the all-time league record for the weight. Princeton has always had strong
mid-distance and distance teams, but this year we were off the charts as
we set all-time records for the Ivy League in the 3,000 by Stilin in 7:53.15
and Cabral in the 5,000 at 13:45.92. Not to be outdone, Princeton had an
exceptional group of milers; Callahan ran 3:58.76 and Stilin also broke the
elite 4-minute barrier with 3:59.98. Cabral just missed with a 4:00.30.Finally,
the distance medley team of Van Ackeren, Hopkins, Williams and Callahan
broke the all-time league record with an incredible time of 9:31.96. Whew!
What an indoor season, with another to go. How exciting as we look forward
to the spring.
As always, thanks to the many members of the Friends of Track who
support our team and the coaches. It is an honor for me, the staff and the
team to represent you both on and off the field.
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Tiger Tracks
Coaches’ Statements on Outdoor Season
PETER FARRELL
FRED SAMARA
What a difference a season makes. I closed
my indoor statement with a note from Catha
Mullen consoling me with “the thing about
a disappointing indoor Heps is that you have
outdoors to make it right.” That’s just what the
team did. It may have been the spirited team
meeting two days after our disastrous sixthplace finish at Heps; it may have been the
collective team sacrifice they were willing to
make (all gave up something to help them focus
on their commitment) or quite possibly they returned to being Tigers. I like
to think it was all of the above. Eileen Moran ’12 and Greta Feldman ’13
literally put on a show at Franklin Field. Spectators walked away talking
about the little Irish woman who dominated the sprints. Eileen collected
firsts in the 100 (11.98) and 200 (24.05), as well as anchoring the 4x100 to first
with a new school record of 46.03. She wasn’t through as the Chicagoland
native came back to contribute a 0.54 second leg to our second-place
4x400. Greta put in what some may call the finest middle distance weekend
in Heps history. First she qualified for the finals of the 1500 and 800 with
impressive performances of 4:22.55 and 2:06.85, respectively. She topped
that on Sunday going 4:20.98 for second, 2:06.22 for a gold medal and added
another gold medal with her 2:05 come from behind win the 4x800. This
was truly a performance of historic proportions. The team took its cue from
our outgoing and incoming track co-captains, and clicked through the meet
with impressive performances in all event areas. Tory Worthen ’13 won her
sixth consecutive pole vault championship with a clutch performance at
12-10. The vault literally sparked the team to amp up for Sunday’s finals,
as Tory was backed up by Lauren Tauscher ‘13’s runner-up performance
of 12-5 and Bianca Reo’s fourth place with a 12-0. They have been just
so consistent. Cecilia Barowski ’15 captured second in the 400 with a near
school record of 54.43. Imani Oliver ‘14 scorched the triple jump runway with
a 39-11 jump good enough for second place. Nonny Okwelogu ’15 placed
third in the discus with a 154-8 toss. Next year’s co-captain Joie Hand ‘13
got into the act with a creditable third place in the 400 hurdles.
The second-place finish at Heps was clearly the defining moment for the
team’s outdoor season. But there were other noteworthy efforts. The spring
trip went off without a hitch, and the friendly warm training in Orlando
allowed for some terrific team bonding as well as great training. We won
our annual dual with Penn. Those kind of meets really help the team focus
on what it takes as a team to be competitive at Heps.
I would have to mention the incredible season that Greta Feldman had.
I’ve already recounted her Heps heroics, but she went on to much greater
heights on an individual level. She finished second in the 800 at ECACs
taking down Lauren Simmons’ school record with a 2:03. Next up was
Regionals where she moved onto the NCAAs in the 1500. At the national
championships in Des Moines, Iowa, Greta made it to the final with a 4:12.
Again another school record. She took an impressive fifth in the final to earn
All-America status. That 4:12 earned her a trip to the Olympic trials where
she again ran 4:12 to make it as far as the semifinals. What an incredible
year. What a role model for our younger athletes. What a season!
The 2012 outdoor season proved to be one of
the greatest, not only in Princeton history, but
in the entire Ivy League and even nationally. As
a team, the season highlight was undoubtedly
the big win at outdoor Heps. That victory gave
Old Nassau its second straight “Triple Crown.”
Princeton has the distinct honor of having
won five triple crowns in the past 30 years, an
achievement made all the more impressive
when you consider that no other Ivy League
team has won a single triple crown over that same time span.
Olympian Donn Cabral led the team all year, especially during the
outdoor season. As I watched Donn run in the steeplechase final at the
London Olympic games I marveled at the thought, and reflected on his
incredible senior year. Donn ran at national and then world-class levels from
cross country season to indoor and outdoor track, and through to the Olympic
racing season in Europe. His accomplishments made a strong statement
about the quality of the student-athletes that attend this fine institution. In
addition, it is a positive reflection on the goals and commitments that the
athletes, coaches and administrators have for the cross country and track
& field programs here at Princeton.
Of course, Donn wasn’t the only Tiger to have a stellar season. That
list is long and bright as numerous athletes in all event areas stood out on
the league and national stage. Good thing they did too, because we needed
every one of those clutch performances to pull together as a team and
stage one of the greatest comebacks in league history! At the outdoor Heps
the Tigers fought and clawed their way to another championship and that
coveted triple crown in a way that made the entire staff and those Princeton
fans in attendance proud.
The outdoor Heptagonal Champions for Princeton were Conor
McCullough (hammer throw), Joe Stilin (5,000, Damon McLean (triple
jump), Tom Hopkins (400) and Donn Cabral (10,000 & steeplechase). As
mentioned though, there were a host of others who also contributed with
strong placings and personal bests. The team spirit and enthusiasm at Heps
was at the highest level I have seen in my time at Princeton! The coaching
staff was immensely proud of the way in which the team competed. The
Heps were truly a team effort as almost every athlete on the 36-man team
contributed.
On the national level the team also strutted its stuff. At the worldrenowned Penn Relays, Princeton’s 4xmile and distance medley relay teams
did what many thought was impossible. Win two Championship of America
Titles! The sight of the orange and black runners crossing the finish line
first in both nationally loaded fields was breathtaking.
A few weeks later, at the NCAA Regional Championships in Jacksonville,
Fla., Princeton fielded an all-time school best of 15 individual athletes. Of
that stellar group Brian Leung (10,000), Stilin (5,000), McCullough (hammer
throw) McLean (triple jump) and Cabral (steeplechase) all qualified for the
prestigious NCAA finals.
At Drake Stadium in Des Moines for the NCAA Championships, the
Tigers stepped up again. McLean broke the school record in the triple jump
and earned first-team All-America honors. Cabral continued his mastery
of the steeplechase with a convincing win and his third consecutive AllAmerica award in that event. The NCAA title was a truly great capstone to
his incredible collegiate career.
Along with the excitement and energy of team and individual titles, the
2012 season was literally one for the record books. Six school records were
broken during the past season. Cabral led the record-breaking spree as he
set the American Collegiate record in the steeplechase with a world class
clocking of 8:19.41. Stilin, who had a season for the ages, accounted for two
new records. He ran an incredibly impressive 3:39.42 for 1,500. That time
not only converts to a 3:56.82 for the mile, but also is the second fastest
1,500 ever run by an Ivy League student-athlete! Stilin also ran himself into
the Princeton records book with his 13:38.42 for 5,000. Super sophomore
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Men’s Head Coach
Hopkins broke the oldest record on the Princeton books. Rich Edmunds’
400 mark of 46.4 had stood since 1960. Tom’s time of 46.23 is outstanding,
and also one of the top times in Ivy League history (#6). McLean came all
the way back from his ankle injury to record a big 52’7 ¼” triple jump. Like
Hopkins, McLean is just a sophomore. Exciting times are ahead for both
of them. Finally, McCullough launched a national leading 242’9” in the
hammer throw to further etch his name atop the Princeton leaderboard.
The youngsters got into the act too. Freshman steeplechaser Eddie
Owens qualified for the World Junior Championships in Barcelona. Eddie
ran a great 8:51.44 in the final at the worlds, stamping himself as one of
the up and coming starts nationally. Pole vaulter Adam Bragg continued to
improve all season long. He jumped a big PR of 16’9”, just missing the world
team. Matt McDonald also continued Princeton’s tradition of outstanding
distance runners. He placed a strong third at the US Junior Trials in the
10,000 meters, missing a trip to Barcelona by a lean-out at the tape.
Capping off our truly historic season by watching Donn Cabral at the
2012 Olympic games was spectacular. Running like a seasoned pro, Donn
qualified for the steeplechase final. In the final Cabral ran a beautiful tactical
race, to finish eighth in a field full of world-renowned runners. We wish
Donn great success in the future as he begins his career as a professional
runner.
Off the track we have been just as busy. This summer three significant
things have happened with our program. First, we have hired Michael
Henderson to be our new Director of Operations. Mike’s duties will include
assisting both the men’s and women’s programs with all aspects of team
administration, home meet management and recruiting.
Second, Coach Steve Dolan has moved on to be the new coach at Ivy
League rival Penn. We wish Steve good luck as he begins his new job. Many
thanks go to Steve for his wonderful work with our cross country and track
team.
Third, after a comprehensive national search, I am very pleased to
announce that the highly respected Jason Vigilante will be our new cross
country and assistant track coach. Jason’s stellar coaching record at Texas
and Virginia speaks for itself. Jason will make an immediate impact at
Princeton and help us continue our rise at the national level.
In closing, I really want to thank all of the many people who contributed
to the success of our program during the 2011-12 season. The Friends
of Track and Field, our Athletic Administration Department, the Sports
Information Department, our athletic trainers, and the grounds crew
have all helped to elevate our program to national levels. For all of their
assistance and help I am extremely grateful!
WELCOME OUR LATEST STAFF MEMBERS
Head Men’s Cross Country Coach
and
Assistant Men’s Track & Field Coach
JASON VIGILANTE
Assistant Women’s
Track & Field Coach
BRIAN MONDSCHEIN
Director of Track Operations
MIKE HENDERSON
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Tiger Tracks
Where Are They Now?
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Augie Wolf ‘83
Excellence is mundane. Augie Wolf ’83 follows that mantra, and it has
served him well through his life thus far. He came to Princeton as he says
“not very good at all” and shaped up to be arguably the best thrower in
Princeton history and an Olympian.
Wolf is a four-time All-America in the indoor and outdoor shot put. His
senior year he was the runner-up at the indoor national meet and was sixth
outdoors. Wolf holds both indoor and outdoor school records in the shot
put, as well as the record in the discus. He holds a Heps-record six outdoor
titles, winning the shot and discus in 1981, 82 and 83, while helping the
team win four Heps team titles in his career.
“I think Fred Samara holds the world record for a coach who can take
someone from a high school level to an Olympic level,” Wolf said.
“I was not very good at all. My first meet at Princeton I had a 43 in
the shot put in 1979 - which was a good 10 feet from placing at Ivy League
Championships. Five years later I was on the United States Olympic team. I
improved 28 feet which is more than 50 percent.”
Following his career at Princeton, Wolf began his training for the 1984
Olympics in Los Angeles. He was the US Champion in 1984, at both the
indoor and outdoor championships, with a PR of 71-3.5. At the Olympic
trials Wolf hit 69-8.25 to earn his red, white and blue uniform. He wasn’t
done yet, taking the Olympics by storm, finishing fourth in the shot put
finals with a final mark of 68-8.
Wolf made a run for the Olympics again in 1988, but an injury would
end his dream. Six weeks before the trials, he tore his pectoralis muscle.
Wolf didn’t give up,
“Instead of bagging it, I trained the other parts of my body, did a lot
of visualization and went to trials without touching the implement for six
weeks. I missed the team on his last throw by two inches hitting 67 feet.
That is absolutely my best performance.”
Wolf blames the post-graduate path he chose.
“Instead of focusing on my sport for another four years, which could
have given me the opportunity to do something really special, I got a job on
Wall Street. So I half trained, half did the Wall Street stuff. For a number of
years I didn’t do either right, sadly.”
“I advise athletes, like Donn Cabral and Ashley Higginson to take the
next four years, while preparing for life after sport, and focus 100 percent
on being the best they can be because they’ll have the experience of a
lifetime. And if they prepare themselves during those four years of training
for a career after sport, they aren’t going to lose any ground over anyone
else.”
To help those athletes along that path, Wolf started a program called
US Athletic Trust (www.usathletictrust.org). US Athletic Trust provides
direct financial support and mentoring to qualified athletes with Olympic
aspirations. Every four years, over 1,000 American college graduates qualify
for spots on Olympic teams. Their accomplishments require courage, skill,
discipline and unyielding drive. They also require financial sacrifice. The
group has now supported between 50-75 Ivy League graduate athletes to
compete at the Olympics.
Unifying the 50 Ivy Leaguers at the London Olympics, including 16 from
Princeton, Wolf has put together a reception, on his own, near Buckingham
Palace for all Ivy League Olympians and their families.
Professionally, Wolf has been a bond salesman for 20 years but
recently retooled his profession, slightly. Just one month ago, he took a job
in the private banking sector with Credit Suisse.
His proudest accomplishments aren’t his athletic achievements
however. They are his children. He and his wife Anne, have four children.
Their oldest son A.J., earned a scholarship last year to play football at
Duke. Sixteen-year-old twin sons Alex and Andrew are making their way
in the same direction. Alex is currently being scouting by DI teams for
basketball, while Andrew has excelled at swimming but has recently taken
up rowing. Dubbed ‘the real athlete of the family is 14-year-old Abby. At
6-0 and predicted to hit 6-3, 6-4, she is already receiving literature from DI
basketball programs.
Augie Wolf ‘83
Wolf throwing at the US Olympic Trials in Los Angeles
Where Are They Now?
Carol Wingard ‘83
Carol Wingard ’83 was a member of the cross country and track teams when
the programs were in their varsity infancy. She came to Princeton in 1979
when the program attained varsity status, but to her it didn’t seem like a
start-up, as the Tigers already had a great influx of athletes. Wingard spent
four years on the track team, while running two seasons of cross country
on the JV squad. Although she was a “middle of the pack” hurdler on the
team, Wingard says the Princeton track & field experience was a vital part
of her college career.
“Princeton track & field was an absolutely integral part of my Princeton
experience. I should say I adored going to Princeton. I was the first one
in my family to go to college, and it really changed my world view and
introduced me to all sorts of different people, experiences and certainly the
academic environment was amazing. But having the track & field program
as a constant every single day and the camaraderie with both the men’s and
women’s teams…it was a meaningful experience.”
Wingard was part of the program’s first triple crown in 1980-81. The
track team would carry on the success and won both the indoor and outdoor
Heps titles the next two years.
She received a degree in history but studied a number of languages
while at Princeton. It was her language background that propelled her in
her career as she went to Japan for a one-year rotary exchange following
graduation.
Wingard says it was an experience that changed her life as her interest
in Asia grew.
It was in Tokyo that Wingard met her husband, Rob Pease. Also from
the Class of 1983 and a member of the Princeton men’s tennis team, Pease
never crossed paths with Wingard at Princeton. The couple returned to
Boston and Wingard studied Mandarin Chinese. In the past 20 years, they’ve
gone back and forth between Asia and the U.S. They lived in the US when
their oldest son Alexander “Sander” was born, lived four and a half years
in Singapore where they welcomed daughter Amanda. Twice they lived in
Beijing and have spent five years in Shanghai.
While living in Shanghai, Wingard hosted the Princeton track & field
teams for a dinner when they traveled to China during the summer of 2007.
After receiving word from the Friends of Princeton track & field that the
team would be coming to Asia, she got together with some other local
Princeton alums to organize a team dinner at the Shanghai Racquet Club.
Wingard is a partner with L.E.K. Consulting. She ran the China team
for years, helping with strategy consulting in a global market. Now based
in Boston, Wingard looks over the Asian office with corporations on their
global strategies.
Following in his parents’ footsteps, Zander attended Princeton. A
member of the men’s track & field teams, he graduated in 2012. His
experience was a bit different as he studied the sciences and earned a
degree in physics. “He took much harder courses,” she laughed. “One of
the big differences was the residential college. That has been a big benefit
to the Princeton community. I think Princeton changes a lot in the external
ways. A lot of new buildings and stuff like that, but I don’t think the spirit
really changes.”
Daughter Amanda is a sophomore at Washington University and is an
art major. She ran track through high school.
It was important to Wingard that her kids participated in track & field.
And it didn’t hurt that they had a good coach, as Wingard coached her kids’
track & field teams for years.
Her own athletic edge hasn’t dissipated. “It’s ingrained. It is in your
blood that at 4 o’clock everyday to go and work out. I’m very active. I think
the whole life fitness thing is something that is really learned and ingrained
during that Princeton experience.”
Now living in Coastal New Hampshire, Wingard says her door is open
to her fellow Princeton runners. If you show up at 4 p.m., you’re guaranteed
a running partner.
Wingard in the 1983 team photo
Wingard with her husband Rob, son Zander and daughter Amanda.
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Tiger Tracks
Where Are They Now?
Peter Hunt ‘88
Peter Hunt ’88 recalls that his time on the Princeton track and field team was
a ‘truly transformative experience’. The two main memories of his time at Old
Nassau are working on his senior thesis and head coach Fred Samara.
Hunt started his Princeton athletic career as a member of the football
team. After meeting Samara, Hunt took up track & field. As the next fall season
came around Hunt gave up football to focus solely on track, thanks in part to
Samara’s dedication to working with Hunt in the decathlon.
“He was committed from day one to work with me as a decathlete,” Hunt
said of Samara.
A history major taking pre-med classes, Hunt recalls that his time with
the track & field team was the highlight of his Princeton experience.
“Samara was a mentor for me. He was very influential. Seeing how
committed he is to the team and the guys through the years is a constant
reminder to me of how I should live my life. How I should be committed to what
I do, and do the best at what you do. It wasn’t about the winning, it was about
pulling as much out of each athlete as he could.”
Princeton won four Heptagonal titles while Hunt was on the team, but the
team wasn’t getting points from him in the multi-events – they weren’t scored
events at Heps. Ironically, the pentathlon became a Heps event the year after
Hunt graduated, in 1989. The decathlon wouldn’t become a Heps event until
2004.
“You can still lead by example and not necessarily be the highest scorer,”
Hunt said. “I certainly was at the track before everyone, and probably left
later than everyone. They are probably going ‘What’s he doing? He’s not going
to medal or score any points.’ But I had a bigger goal. I wanted to try to the
master the event, and to put it all together, and that’s hard to do. You do great
in some events and not so great in some others.”
Hunt ended his Princeton career with a bang. He competed in an
unbelievable three decathlons in three weeks. The IC4A Championship couldn’t
have been going any better for Hunt. He was winning and on track to NCAA
qualification. It took a turn when he no-heighted in the pole vault. The pole
Hunt competing in the hurdles
vault for decathletes is third on the second day, placed in a difficult position
that lends itself to athletes cramping. Which happened to Dan O’Brien in the
2004 trials – thus rendering the Dan & Dave media blitz insignificant for the
Olympics.
Samara scrambled to put together a decathlon at Princeton for Hunt, in
the final week before NCAAs in order to help him qualify for the championships.
Hunt succeeded in the meet to get qualifying standard and headed to the
NCAAs just a few days later. Hunt finished one place out of earning All-America
honors at the NCAAs, placing ninth with 7,232 points.
He continues to hold Princeton’s record in the decathlon with 7,466 points.
The one-time record holder in the pentathlon, Hunt has been moved to fourth
with 3,846 points.
The year he graduated in 1988 was an Olympic year. Samara had Hunt go
to California to train to Harry Mara, a renowned decathlon coach and national
team coach. “It was a great memory and experience to be out there and
training with other athletes who were going to be in the Olympics,” Hunt said.
Hunt ended up being a couple hundred points shy of qualifying for the Olympic
trials.
After the Olympic trials, Hunt attended medical school at Vanderbilt and
did a fellowship there. He trained at the Baylor Medical Center in Houston
and did surgical training. Hunt now has a private practice in Chattanooga,
specializing in head and neck cancers (otolaryngology). He also does general
ENT surgical work. He is trying to develop a center of excellence for head and
neck cancer at Parkridge Medical Center. He also teaches at an indigent clinic
for those who are uninsured.
Hunt is the father of three sons, all of whom compete in sports. He helped
to organize a high jump competition at the elementary school, and has been
involved with the middle school track team. In addition, he works with an inner
city track team in order to get them more resources. “As kids get into middle
and high school, I’m hoping to get out on the track and help in the field and
hurdling events.”
Hunt and Samara pose for a photo at Princeton
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Larry Ellis Alumni Awards & Fun Run
Larry Ellis Alumni Award Recipients
Bill Farrell
Joe Handleman
Debbie St. Phard
Reunions 5k Fun Run 5k
PL. TIME
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NAME CLASS Kevin Gallagher
2002
Paul Morrison
2002
Joe LaMay
1989
Jonathan Stewart
1997
Tiger
Jocelyn Petrella Gallagher
2002
Tiger
Jen Livsey
2007
Caroline Mullen
2007
Eric Beights 2007
Jeff Pasqual
2003
Rich LeBano
2008
Kim (Helmer) Reidy
1997
Victor Shnayder
2003
Sarah Cummings
2011
Marisa Cummings
2014
Ashley Higginson
2011
Katie Sirico
2011
Rachel Farnsworth
2007
Greg Kirschen
2012
Jim Cohen
1987
Tiger
Tiger
Chris Stelling
1983
Ace Miller
1975
Courtney Gaughan (Sibling) 2012
Shannyn Guaghan
2012
Laura Boyce
2007
Jeff Barg (Spouse ‘07)
Robert Cattana
1989
Simone Cattana
1980
Sarah Gerth
2012
Tiger
Bob Taub
1977
Misha Simmonds
1992
Chris Milly
1978
Nick Schmeller
1987
Marco Wetheiner (Grandson ‘57)
Eddie Allen
1982
Erin Mcbarry
2007
Greg Arzoomanian
1979
Jessic a Aronson McKenzie
2002
Mike Norton
2002
Ray Baldwin
1952
Tiger
Eric Edmunds
1975
Melanie Paposian
2003
Barbara Quackenbos
1982
Cathy Seibel
1982
Deb Schulte
1982
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Tiger Tracks
2012-13 Schedules
2012 Women’s Cross Country Schedule
Date
Sept. 8
Sept. 28
Sept. 28
Oct. 12
Oct. 13
Oct. 27
Nov. 9
Nov. 17
Nov. 17
Meet
at Spike Shoe Invitaitonal (Penn State)
at Paul Short Invitational (Lehigh)
at Notre Dame Invitational
at Wisconsin Invitational
Heps
at NCAA Regionals (Penn State)
at ECAC (Van Cortlandt Park)
at NCAA Championships (Louisville)
2012 Men’s Cross Country Schedule
Place
University Park, Pa.
Bethlehem, Pa.
South Bend, Ind.
Madison, Wis.
Princeton
Princeton
State College, Pa.
New York
Louisville, Ky.
Date
Sept. 8
Sept. 28
Sept. 28
Oct. 12
Oct. 13
Oct. 27
Nov. 9
Nov. 17
Nov. 17
Meet
at Spike Shoe Invitaitonal (Penn State)
at Paul Short Invitational (Lehigh)
at Notre Dame Invitational
at Wisconsin Invitational
Heps
at NCAA Regionals (Penn State)
at IC4A (Van Cortlandt Park)
at NCAA Championships (Louisville)
Place
University Park, Pa.
Bethlehem, Pa.
South Bend, Ind.
Madison, Wis.
Princeton
Princeton
State College, Pa.
New York
Louisville, Ky.
2012-13 Women’s Indoor Track & Field Schedule
2012-13 Men’s Indoor Track & Field Schedule
Date
Dec. 9
Jan. 11
Jan. 26
Feb. 1
Feb. 2
Feb. 9
Feb. 16
Feb. 23-24
Mar. 2-3
Mar. 8-9
Date
Dec. 9
Jan. 6
Jan. 12
Jan. 26
Feb. 2
Feb. 9
Feb. 9
Feb. 16
Feb. 23-24
Mar. 1-2
Mar. 1-2
Mar. 8-9
Meet
Place
New Year’s Invitational
Princeton
Quad Meet (Rutgers, St. Joe’s, St. John’s) Princeton
at The Armory Invitatonal II
New York
at New Balance Collegiate Invite
New York
at Sykes & Sabock (Penn State)
State College, Pa.
HYP
Princeton
Princeton
at Heps (Harvard)
Cambridge, Mass.
ECAC Championships
Boston, Mass.
at NCAA Championships
Fayetteville, Ark.
Meet
New Year’s Invitational
Navy
at The Armory Invitational
at The Armory Invitatonal II
at Sykes & Sabock (Penn State)
HYP
at Husky Classic (U of Wash.)
at Heps (Harvard)
at Columbia Last Chance
at Alex Wilson Invitational (Notre Dame)
at NCAA Championships
Place
Princeton
Princeton
New York
New York
State College, Pa.
Princeton
Seattle, Wash.
Princeton
Cambridge, Mass.
New York
South Bend, Ind.
Fayetteville, Ark.
2012-13 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Schedule
2012-13 Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Schedule
Date
Mar. 23
Apr. 5-6
Apr. 13
Apr. 18-20
Apr. 19-20
Apr. 25-27
May 4-5
May 10-12
May 23-25
June 5-8
Date
Mar. 23
Mar. 29-30
Apr. 5-6
Apr. 13
Apr. 18-20
Apr. 19-20
Apr. 25-27
May 4-5
May 10-12
May 23-25
June 5-8
Meet
at Central Florida Invitational
Sam Howell Invitational
PYP
at Mt. Sac Relays
Larry Ellis Invitational
at Penn Relays
Heps
ECAC Championships
at NCAA East Regional (NC A&T)
at NCAA Championships (Oregon)
Place
Orlando, Fla.
Princeton
Princeton
Walnut, Calif.
Princeton
Philadelphia
Princeton
Princeton
Greensboro, N.C.
Eugene, Ore.
Meet
at Central Florida Invitational
at Raleigh Relays (NC State)
Sam Howell Invitational
at George Mason Invitational
Mt. Sac Relays
Larry Ellis Invitational
at Penn Relays
Heps
IC4A Championships
at NCAA East Regional (NC A&T)
at NCAA Championships (Oregon)
Place
Orlando, Fla.
Raleigh, N.C.
Princeton
Fairfax, Va.
Walnut, Calif.
Princeton
Philadelphia
Princeton
Princeton
Greensboro, N.C.
Eugene, Ore.
2012-13 Team Captains
Greta Feldman ’13
Cross Country
Track & Field
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Joie Hand ’13
Track & Field
Cross Country
Peter Callahan ‘13
Track & Field
Tom Hopkins ‘14
Track & Field

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