https://www.tfrrs.org/results/71037/Gerry_England_Invitational/
ITFC had a great time competing at the University of Indianapolis Gerry England Invitational meet.
On Feb 12th, ITFC had a great meet. We ran fast and traveled far. Our payoff for this meet was not only training and experience but being fully ready to head into our own meet. The long awaited Club Relays.
Field Events:
Within the field events, starting with the jumps, Derrick Stokes scored a 1.64m in the Men’s High Jump, doing better than his attempts in a previous meet of 1.5m.
In the Women’s Long Jump, Khalia Mullin jumped 4.27m and Ari Afolabi jumped 4.11m.
In the Men’s Long Jump, Jad Karajeh jumped 5.74m and Derrick Stokes jumped 4.65m.
In the Women’s Triple Jump, Khalia Mullin jumped 10.06m.
Today the throws team joined us for a meet and they did exceptionally well like always.
In the Women’s Shot Put Carley Polan threw 9.71m and Kara Cannon threw 7.09m.
For the Men’s Matt Bilek threw 13.07m and Chris Rhydberg threw 12.43m.
Track Events:
For today in our Women’s 60m hurdles. Ari Afolabi ran a 9.74 and Khalia Mullin ran a 11.23. For the men’s Derrick Stokes and PJ Coleman ran a 10.60 and an 11.99 respectively.
Moving onto the Women’s 60m Dash, we had Ninawa Odicho, Khalia Mullin, and Rachel Sakwa run a 8.32, 9.25, and 8.53 respectively. All three of these runners did better than previous meets in this race. Chaitra Niddodi competed and ran a 10.16.
For the Men’s 60m Dash we had, like usual, a line up of sprinters. Jean Christophe Raymond-Betrand (who will be referred to as Chris for the rest of this meet write-up) ran a stunning 7.18 and Tyler Klein ran a 7.19. In addition, Nic Soto and Kevin Saju ran 7.33 and 7.36. Jad Karajeh ran his first 60m of the season putting in a 7.59, Andre Ells ran a 7.77, and Sandin Cuturic ran 8s.
Today’s miles for the Womens was chock full of improvements. Maddy Feehan went running to clock in a 5:55.33 doing better than her season PR of 6 minutes. MaryBeth Feeley did exceptionally well as well, running 6:10.53 beating her previous time of 6:20.7. Brianna Legner, ran a 6:17.13. Wilma Rishko, ran a 6:01.43. Natalie Maguire ran 6:37.27 and Gabriela Aguilar-Ripley ran 6:31.06 marking yet another improvement from the previous time of 6:35.22. Brisa McGrath ran a time of 5.38.96 doing better than her season PR of 5:42.52 so far.
In the Men’s mile, Eldon Warner came in with a 4:19.43 and John Burns ran with a 4:31.19. Cade Baker competed and ran a time of 4:40.10 and Phillip Hu ran a time of 5:07.04. Henry Hornbrook ran well with a time of 5:09.03 doing better than his seasonal PR of 5:29.03. Isaac Schifferer ran a 5:11.06, Charley Hoppis ran a 5:20.84. Brennan Taylor and Gabriel Inojosa ran a 5:23.62 and 5:24.28 respectively. Gabe Benson came in running a 6:08.92.
Next up our team did great in the 400m dash. For the women in the 400m dash, Ninawa Odicho ran a 1:02.52, and Maria Becerra ran a 1:09.51. Ninawa came in 3rd overall in the meet for the 400m dash. For our Men’s Tyler Klein ran an amazing 51.70, Cameron Reedy ran 54.58, and Gerardo Porras ran 57.26. Tyler came in second place for the 400m in the entire meet.
Next up we get into the 800m dash, starting off with the Women’s, Katherine Vande Pol ran 2:20.49 this meet, however recently she beat the previous club record of 2:20.37 with a 2:19.57 in a meet hosted by the University of Illinois! So congrats to her on that. Bridget Brokaw ran a 2:36.52, Wilma Rishko came in with a 2:42.32, Mikeelie Jensen finished with a 2:43.99, and Maddy Feehan finished the women’s race with a 2:44.50. On the Men’s side of things we had Cade Baker run 2:07.01 doing better than a previous time of 2:07.91. Spencer Nelson went on to run 2:02.06, coming in 3rd place overall for the meet. Nolan Enright ran a 2:03.70, John Burns came in to run a 2:09.83. Kevin Saju, running an 800m for the first time this season, ran a 2:10.20. Trevor Glancy ran a 2:12.20. Charley Hoppis and Lane Weber ran a 2:21.47 and 2:25.26 respectively. Gabe Benson ended it off by running a 2:46.96.
After the 800m, next up was the 200 meter dash, which as you all know by now is my personal favorite. For Women’s Ninawa Odicho was running solo in the event today and ran her personal best so far in this meet coming in at a 27.29. For Men’s 200m dash we had Nic Soto run a 23.40, Kevin Saju ran a 23.70, Jalen Frazier and Sandin Cuturic ran a 23.98 and a 27.34 respectively. PJ Coleman came in and ran a 29.61.
In the 3000m run we had Brisa McGrath and Natalie Maguire run 11:08.10 and 13:10.97 respectively. For the guys, Will Gravelle and Jeffrey Hesselbein ran 9.05:07 and 9:07.86 respectively.
Last but not least we have the coveted 4x400m run. For our Women’s team, Claire Casiello, Katherine Vande Pol, Wilma Rishko, Rachel Sakwa ran and got a time of 4.42.62. They took second place overall. With the Men’s in the A team Jalen Frazier, Cameron Reedy, Hector Ramos, Tyler Klein ran and took first overall with a time of 3:38.83 and in the B team we had Spencer Nelson, Eldon Warner, Trevor Glancy, Nic Soto run a 3.44.29 and come in 3rd
That spells the end of the UIndy meet, the last meet we had before Club Relays. There were a lot of time improvements so things are looking brighter than the sun for Club Relays.
