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ITFC had an amazing second meet at Olivet-Nazarene University, and we have many more to come.
On Jan 29th, ITFC had a great meet to mark down in the history books, we came down to Olivet-Nazarene and ran our hearts out.
Field Events:
Within our field events, starting with the jumps, Annie Brunton scored a 1.40m in the Women’s HIgh Jump. I personally am not too well versed in High Jump statistics but she is actually only 5 inches from beating the club record! Maybe she will break it by the end of the season, anything is possible for our club members. In the Men’s High Jump, Nick Hartmann jumped 1.81m, the athlete noted that this was his first time jumping in a bit so he will surely soar in the future.
In the Men’s Long Jump, Nick Hartmann jumped 5.72m and Tyler Klein jumped 5.63m.
In the Men’s Triple Jump, Nick Hartmann jumped 11.34m, and Jad Karajeh, current triple jump club record holder, jumped 12.47m. Not yet usurping the current record of 13.91m, but since he did it before we are sure he can do it again and bring the rest of his jumpers with him.
Track Events:
As per usual at track meets starting us off for the day is the 60m hurdles! We only had one female hurdler this time around but she still brought the heat. Maria Becerra, who ran an 11.43 managed to break her own PR! For the men’s Matas Carmichael ran a 9.89. This a mass improvement from his last meet time which was 10.42. So today was the mark of improvement for the Hurdles Team.
You all let me tell you right now, and I should have mentioned this beforehand, but you are going to see the Women’s names a lot in this meet write up, because let me tell you. They went absolutely insane this meet. They really showed up and showed out.
In the Women’s 60m Dash, we had Ninawa Odicho, Katherine Vande Pol, and Rachel Sakwa run a 8.36, 8.62, and 8.67 respectively. Not only did all three of these runners go to the 60m finals, but Ninawa Odicho came in first in the 60m in the women’s in the entire meet. As a freshman by the way.
For the Men’s 60m Dash we had a full line up of men’s sprinters who were raring to go. Jean Christophe Raymond-Betrand (who will be referred to as Chris for the rest of this meet write up) ran a stunning 7.19, maybe he can break under 7 seconds by the end of the season? Following up, Tyler Klein, Joe Lian, and Matas Carmichael ran 7.24, 7.95, and 7.88 respectively. Jalen Frazier ran a 7.34, Andre Ells ran a 7.74, and Adam Adil ran 7.24s. Nandil Patel ran 9s and unfortunately injured himself, we wish him a speedy recovery. Yifan Cao ran a 8.53 and Sanyu Kuraman ran a 7.89. In the end Chris Betrand wound up coming in 3rd for the Men’s 60m Dash.
In the 600m Run, Annie Brunton ran a 1:45:11, which is pretty good considering she placed 4th in this event.
Next up was the mile and like I said before the Women’s performance this meet was phenomenal, just like any other to be fair, but it is always worth mentioning. Starting us off we had a heat of Maddy Feehan running 6:12.18, MaryBeth Feeley running 6:20.71, Natalie Maguire running 6:35.35 and Lauren Bartels running 6:40.86. In the third heat Brisa McGrath was by herself but she didn’t let that scare her because she went on to run a 5:42.52 and place overall second in the Women’s Mile Run.
For the Men’s Mile Run in the first heat, Phillip Hu ran a nice 5:05.55, Norb Nieves ran 5:06.20. Henry Hornbrook, who hadn’t ran a mile since High School, ran 5:11.62. Issac Schifferer and Gabriel Inojosa ran 5:22.43 and 5:24.85 respectively. Wrapping up the first heat, Gabe Zeller ran a 5.35.33. In the second heat of the multitudinous distance we call the mile, Alex Kogen ran 4:43.57 and Vignesh Ravibaskar a 5:02.05. In the third and final heat, Jeffrey Hesselbein ran 4:32.20 and Spencer Nelson came in with a 4:41.41. Overall, Jeffrey Hesselbein placed 3rd in the Men’s Mile.
Next up, the Women absolutely dominated the 400m dash. Ninawa Odicho ran a 1:03.63, Annie Brunton came in with 1:05.27, Rachel Sakwa with a 1:08.92, and Ciara Ward followed up with a 1:09.26. Katherine Vande Pol finished up with a 1:10.86. These 400m runners placed 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 7th, respectively. For our Men’s we had newcomer Eric Sylvester run a 58.35, and Kevin Saju ran 53.49 to snag a third place.
Next let us double the distance into the 800m dash, starting off with the Women’s we only had 2 runners, Kyla Wolski and Ella Chambers. Kyla ran a nice 2:33.11 and netted 3rd place overall at the meet, and Ella was not far behind, running a 2:34.41. On the Men’s side of things we had Ryan Fredericks run 2:16.69, Cade Baker ran 2:07.91, next up was John Burns who had a monstrous comeback in his race, running 2:00.26. Cadyn Grafton ran 2:04.59. John Burns took overall 3rd in the Men’s 800m as well.
After the 800m, next up was the 200 meter dash, my personal favorite. For Women’s Maria Becerra ran a 30.32, Ninawa Odicho ran 27.40, and Katherine Vande Pol ran a 29.17. Niniwa Odicho managed to take overall 3rd in the Women’s 200m dash. Really impressive because she placed either top 3 or first in every event she ran today.
For Men’s 200m dash we had some of our athletes run it for the first time this season, more notably Sanyu Kumaran, Eric Sylvester, and Joe Lian. They ran 26.15, 26.21, and 26.37 respectively. Joe Lian went on record to say his shorts were falling down during the race. Yifan Cao ran in a heat with PJ Coleman and they ran 29.69 and 30.31. Adam Adil was in a heat by himself and ran 23.53. Next we had an Illini filled heat with Jalen Frazier, Kevin Saju, Tyler Klein, and Chris Betrand all running together. Jalen ran 23.79, Kevin ran 23.94, Tyler ran 23.74, and Chris ran 23.50. In the end Adam Adil took 3rd place overall and Chris Betrand took 2nd place overall, only slightly losing to a competitor of 23.0, which both are looking to blaze past that time in the next meet.
In the 3000m run Nathaniel Lenning ran a 11.14.62, Justin Ostrem ran 9:27.02, Jeffrey Hesselbein was right behind him, running a 9:29.56, and Quinn Born went on to run 9:42.47.
Can I just say that I have full respect for anybody running over 400 meters? Personally I couldn’t do it. So the fact that so many of our Mid-D and Distance runners have the courage to do this is honestly quite astounding.
There was also the 5000m run and the Mixed Distance Medley that took place. Will Gravelle took first place in the 5000m run with a time of 16:11.48. In the MDM our team of Clare Oehler, Mikeelie Jensen, Bridget Brokaw, and Wilma Rishko came together and ran a combined might of 14:30.98.
Last but not least we have the coveted 4x400m run. For our Women’s team, Clare Oehler, Kyla Wolski, Ninawa Odicho, and Rachel Sakwa ran and got a time of 4.34.44. With the Men’s in the first heat we saw Henry Hornbrook, Cade Baker, Ryan Fredericks, and Matas Carmichael run 3:50.00. In heat 2 Eric Sylvester, Cadyn Grafton, John Burns, and Tyler Klein ran to a 3:38.0. Thus wrapping up this as a successful meet for us.
This meet was exciting, showed even greater promise from our last meet at IWU. Let me just say for the record, that based off these performances and future ones to come. Man, am I excited for Club Relays. We will be running at Olivet again on 2/5/22. So expect another write-up some time soon in the future.