This has been a rather quiet week, as our runners take a little bit of a well-deserved break after NIRCA Nationals. However, that didn”t stop a few runners from competing this weekend. We had people at the Eagles Invitational hosted by Benedictine University, and many of our top-tier runners competing at Illinois Twilight, the meet hosted by the UIUC Division 1 track and field team (not us!) this past Saturday. Results:
Eagles Invitational
The weather was absolutely gorgeous. Clearly the Weather Gods were pleased with Scott”s sacrifice. Guess we just got lucky. Between that, and the excellent competition we broke quite a few club records on Saturday, despite the small number of people competing.
Records:
Illinois Twilight:
Emma Grimes set a new club record for the 5000m with a time of 17:48.14.
Quenton Hardaway has set a new club record for the 100m Dash, with a time of 10.80.
Jack Skelton set a new club record in the 200m dash with a time of 22.01.
Of course not all of our records were broken at Illinois Twilight. Jess Ayers set a new record in the 100m Dash with a time of 12.74 at Benedictine.
Now, for PR”s.
Illinois Twilight:
Yemi Sonoiki ran the 100m in 11.50 seconds.
Ryan Brewster ran the 200m in 22.76 seconds.
Greg Netols ran the 800m in 1:59.95
Benedictine:
200m:
Beau Barber ran a new PR with a time of 24.19 seconds.
Erin Murphy ran 26.43 seconds.
400m:
Scott Luedkte (totally not a soulless automaton that the Gods gave us to replace the real Scott so that his parents never discovered that we sacrificed him in a bid for nice weather) ran a 52.46.
Erin Murphy ran a 1:00.88.
800m:
Shannon Sledz busted out a 2:24.18.
Great job guys and gals! Next week is … somewhere. I”m not actually sure, because a certain Head Coach (in the name of professionalism, I won”t mention any names) has rearranged the schedule a little, and hasn”t sent me the updated schedule yet.