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ITFC returned to Olivet-Nazarene University with a bigger force than last time. Every single one of us performed amazingly.
On Feb 5th, ITFC went back to Olivet-Nazarene University, some races were run, and some club records were established. All in all we had a great time.
Field Events:
Within our field events, starting with the jumps, Annie Brunton scored a 1.40m in the Women’s HIgh Jump. She jumped the same height from last meet, and like I previously said she is only 5 inches from beating the club record!
In the Women’s Long Jump, Khalia Mullin jumped 4.42m.
In the Men’s Long Jump, Derrick Stokes jumped 4.90m and Tyler Klein jumped 5.93m, farther than his previous attempt of 5.63m at the last ONU meet.
In the Women’s Triple Jump, Khalia Mullin jumped 10.17m, less than a meter away from breaking a club record.
Track Events:
Starting the day off with track events was the 5000m run. Will Gravelle took second place in the 5000m run with a time of 15:34.59. Faster than his performance last week which got him first place with a time of 16:11.48. However, not only that, Will now has the club record for the 5000m run! He beat the previous time of 15:40.10!
After the 5k as per usual is the 60m hurdles! This time at ONU we had three female hurdlers compete. Maria Becerra ran an 11.49, Georgia Reed ran a 10.01, Ari Afolabi ran a 9.70! Ari actually broke the previous club record for Women’s hurdles which was 9.77s! Get this though, Ari competed in the finals for the 60m hurdles and she managed to break her own record, in the same meet! Ari Afolabi is now the 60m hurdles record holder with a time of 9.59.
For the men, PJ Coleman ran a 11.77. This was PJ’s first time competing this semester in the hurdles.
In the Women’s 60m Dash, Chaitra Niddodi ran a 10.18. Rachel Sakwa ran a 8.65, doing better than her first 60m dash at ONU last week. Same with Ninawa Odicho, she ran a 8.35, faster than performance last week.
For the Men’s 60m Dash we had Jean Christophe Raymond-Betrand (who will be referred to as Chris for the rest of this meet write up) run a very impressive 7.18. Following up, Tyler Klein ran a 7.31. Jalen Frazier ran a 7.41, Andre Ells ran a 7.82, and Adam Adil ran 7.27s. Kevin Saju competed in the 60m this week and ran a 7.31. Jimmy Hoffman also ran his first meet this season today and threw down a 7.56. Anthony Stewart ran a 7.78 and Nic Soto competed and ran 7.40.
Next we had the 4x800m relay in which we had two teams of girls competing this time around. Both teams competed in the same heat, we had Katherine Vande Pol, Kaleigh Evans, Ella Chambers, Annie Brunton on one team. They ran a 10:18.90. On the other team consisting of Mikeelie Jensen, Clare Oehler, Wilma Rishko, and Kyla Wolski they ran a 10:47.93.
Up next we had the mile and had 5 women representing ITFC today. Starting off, we had Maddy Feehan run 6:00.34, a major improvement from her time last week of 6:12.18. Brianna Legner ran 6:16.11. Natalie Maguire ran a time of 6:35.62 and Lauren Bartels ran 6:35.50 improving her time last week of 6:40.86. Gabriela Aguilar-Ripley went on to run a 6:35.22. Finishing up, Bridget Brokaw ran a time of 6:26.71.
For the Men’s Mile Run: Charley Hoppis ran a cool 5:28.77 and Gabe Benson ran 6:24.08. Henry Hornbrook, ran 5:26.75. In the same heat we had Justin Ostrem run a 4:49.65, Alex Kogen ran 4:47.16 and Quinn Born a 4:55.55.
Next up, two girls crushed the 400m dash. Ninawa Odicho ran a 1:01.75 not only did she come in first place in the 400m dash in the entire meet, she also did better than her time last week of 1:03.63. Ciara Ward also competed, running a 1:09.21.
For our Men’s 400m we had a lot of ITFC members running together in pairs. In the first heat Derrick Stokes and Gerardo Porras ran their first 400m in a while. Together, they ran neck and neck and put down 57.62 and 57.87, respectively. Patrick Wilhalm and Trevor Glancy also were together in a heat, along with Eric Sylvester. They ran 54.51, 56.20, and 58.19, respectively. In the final heat featuring ITFC, we had Kevin Saju run 53.49 and Cam Reedy go 54.91. The third heat actually would have gotten a faster time, but unfortunately there was an ignorant athlete standing in lane 1 while the two were competing. They had to slow down so as not to cause a collision.
This meet we had a 1000m run, where Katherine Vande Pol ran 3:22.07 and Natalie Maguire ran 4:01.68. Mikeelie Jensen also ran in this event, putting in a time of 3:37.71. According to the current records since we do not have anything for the women’s 1000m run, Katherine Vande Pol is now officially the record holder for that event. For the fellas, Vignesh Ravibaskar and Beau Barber ran times of 2:53.21 and 2:56.06 respectively.
In the 600m Run, Annie Brunton ran a time of 1:43.92. Better than her previous time of 1:45:11, and she inches closer to besting the club record of 1:41.81. We had Henry Hornbrook run a 600 for the men’s today and he put up a time of 1:37.40.
In the 800m we only had the dudes compete today. Gabriel Inojosa ran a 2:26.79. We had Ryan Fredericks run 2:11.97 doing better than his last week’s time of 2:16.69. John Burns actually bested his insane time of 2:00.26, running a 1:58.52 this week. Nolan Enright went on to run a 2:05.56 and Jeffrey Hesselbein ran a 2:00.57.
After the 800m, next up was the 200 meter dash, my personal favorite as always. When it came to the 200m dash, the meet had some scheduling issues that they needed to get sorted out, causing some stress for our athletes. So I just want to give a shout-out to everyone that competed in this event for being resilient and sticking with it. You all are the best.
For the Women’s Maria Becerra ran a 30.19, Ciara Ward came in and ran a 31.72. Ninawa Odicho ran 27.33 along with Georgia Reed who ran 28.15. Ari Afolabi was in a heat with Kyla Wolski and they ran a 27.75 and a 31.33 respectively.
For Men’s 200m dash starting with Jimmy Hoffman he ran a 24.29 in his heat. Anthony Stewart came in next to run a 25.47. Eric Sylvester was with Derrick Stokes and PJ Coleman. They ran 25.64, 26.11, and 29.35 respectively. Eric and PJ both ran faster than they did in the last heat. Andre Ells was in a heat by himself and ran a 25.93. Nic Soto went on to place first in his heat, running a 23.54 marking a new PR for the athlete. Adam Adil was in a heat by himself and ran 23.37. Next we had another Illini filled heat like last week with Jalen Frazier, Kevin Saju, and Tyler Klein all running together. Jalen ran 23.92, Kevin ran 23.84, Tyler ran 23.23. Chris Betrand did amazingly well and broke 23 seconds, running a 22.92.
In the 3000m for the Women’s, Brisa McGrath took up a solo gig and ran 11:06.85.
Nathaniel Lenning ran a 11.15.46 and Vignesh Ravibaskar ran a 10:24.34. Spencer Nelson ran a 9:25.55, Alex Kogen put in a time of 9:42.09, and Cade Baker went on to run a 9:28.29. Will Gravele ran a 9:06.89 and Vijay Shah ran with a time of 9:56.71. Gabe Benson competed with a time of 12:14.43.
Once again, last but not least we have the coveted 4x400m run. For our Women’s team, Wilma Rishko, Ella Chambers, Annie Brunton, and Katherine Vande Pol ran and got a time of 4.34.44.
With the Men’s we had 4 teams of 4x400s. The “D” team composed of Eric Sylvester, Gerardo Porras, Gabriel Inojosa, and Beau Barber came together to run a 3:58.64. Our “A”, “B”, and “C” teams all ran in the same heat, so be prepared for some rapid name drops incoming. On the “A” team we had Adam Adil, Kevin Saju, Cam Reedy, and Tyler Klein. On the “B” team we had Jeffrey Hesselbein, John Burns, Spencer Nelson, and Patrick Willhalm. Then we had the “C” team which had Justin Ostrem, Nic Soto, Ryan Fredericks, and Trevor Glancy.
The “A” team took first in the heat with a time of 3:38.59, all respect paid to Tyler Klein with a split time of 52s, he had to pick up the slack of Adam who was not only tripped during the race but his shoe came off as well. Tyler tried his best and his efforts were enough for the “A” team to place first in the heat. The “B” team was not far behind at all with them running a 3:40.81 and the “C” team came in with a time of 3:53.97.
This meet was really fun and although we had steeper competition this time around, ITFC always seeks to try their best and we always perform well no matter the odds. We have another meet at UIndy that we ran on 2/12, so like always expect another meet write up in the future