A few of our athletes took the opportunity to compete post-nationals at Illinois College last weekend.
In the men’s 100m, Michael Jang crossed the line in 11.22, just narrowly missing a new PR while beating both of his 100m performances from Oxford. John Brandenburg ran 11.43 for his best 100m time of the season! PJ Coleman finished in 13.87, setting a new PR by almost a second! Sure, it was a bit windy out there, but these guys ran awesome times among those aspiring DIII nats qualifying varsity chumps.
Becky Haight had strong performances of her own in the 100m. She ran 12.33 in the prelims and 12.47 in the finals! Desarae Echevarria came through in 13.20.
In the 200m, Andy Marszewski clocked in at 23.02. Michael Jang posted 23.20, with John Brandenburg behind in 23.33.
Becky Haight ran fast again in her 200 coming through in a time of 25.26.
Andy Marszewski led our 400m performances, running 50.71 for his second sub 51 performance this season! Justin Nebel came in next in 51.59. Then it was Beau Barber with his 54.64, a season best for him!
Running his first 800 was Alex Bienduga who ran a pretty impressive 2:09.05. I bet he could improve at least five seconds or so on that if he became more experienced in the event.
Malorie Moore was our lone female 800m runner. She crossed the line in 2:30.66 in her first 800 this season!
We had just one distance runner at Illinois College in Josh Feldman. This senior, who was All-American in the steeple a few weeks ago, won the 5000m with a time of 15:50!
Michael Jang also competed in the 110m hurdles, where he went 15.92 in the prelims and 16.23 in the finals, both of these times were under his previous best mark!
In the women’s 100m hurdles, Desarae Echevarria ran 16.50 in the prelims and 17.06 in the finals. Both of these runs were under her previous best!
Alton Barbehenn is a busy grad student who competed for the first time this season, although he has been to many practices over the months. He ran 1:01.02 in the 400m hurdles, which would’ve given him 16th place at NIRCA Nationals! PJ Coleman crossed the line in 1:14.44, a new PR of seven seconds!
Our men put together a 4x100m team of John Brandenburg, Michael Jang, Alex Bienduga, and Andy Marszewski. They ran 42.86, our fastest time in that event all season, and the second best time in our club’s history!
Taylor Millsap competed and won the pole vault with her mark of 3.43m (11’ 3”)!
Justin Nebel landed at 6.30m (20’ 8”) in the long jump.
Congrats to these athletes on their impressive marks and times!
As the end of the season approaches, we only have two more meets to which we will only be sending a few athletes. Both are at North Central College in Naperville, the first being May 9th and 10th.
Good luck with finals, everyone!