It”s that time of year again. Cross country season is upon us and the Illinois XC Club is ready to hit the ground running this fall!
Anyone who is interested in running with the club this fall should fill out this form.
The 2014 meet schedule is posted here.
Practice is 4:15 Monday-Friday at the west side of the Armory. See you there!
Hey Everyone,
So apparently I was incorrect last week. This week isn”t the last meet for the majority of the team, last meet was.
This week, we had one brave soul carry the ITC flag into battle competition at the Redbird Invitational (results). That single, brave, self-sacrificing, uncompromosing soul was… drumroll:
Beth McGreal.
She ran the 5000m. It was very exciting. Alas, she didn”t PR, meaning that this is the first update for which I have no PR”s to post. Way to let the team down, Beth.
Anyway, that”s all I have to say today. Don”t forget we have our board elections on Thursday at noon in the Armory, Room 134. If you”re a member of the team, make sure to be there and help us Make Democracy Work.
Only kidding! I”m sure you ran well, and had as much fun as you could possible have running the 5000m.
Before we get into the meet of the post (get it?), I have the following announcement to make:
The club will be having elections on Reading Day, on Thursday May 8th at Noon. If you”re on the team, you should have received an e-mail with more details (if you haven”t, you”ll want to contact our club president Eric De Guevara. His e-mail can be found under the Contact Tab. Make sure you scroll down to the Track and Field board NOT the Cross Country board). Unfortunately, because graduate school is a horrible, soul-sucking monstrosity (seriously, just get a job), I will not be standing for re-election. Therefore, we need people to run for the position. Otherwise, our beautiful website will be neglected, and your parents will start calling you to ask you how you did (and we don”t want that, now do we?).
Minimal responsibilities for webmaster are the following:
Upload the results of each meet into our performance database.
Post weekly updates about the meets (a bit of gentle humor appreciated). You should post the list of records (both club and personal) set at the meet, as well as anything else you may decide is worth mentioning.
Keep the club calendar and meet schedule up to date.
Post the minutes of each board meeting to the website.
Anything else related to the website that needs to be handled.
Note: Unlike previous years, the webmaster DOES have a vote on the board.
A technical background is nice, but by no means necessary. Writing proficiency is probably more important, considering the whole ‘”post updates about the meets'” thing.
If you are interested in the position and have questions about it, feel free to contact me (Andrew Cholewa) at acholew2@illinois.edu.
Anyway, now that that”s out of the way, meet results.
Our team split, and went to two different meets this weekend. Many of our distance runners went to Gina Relays in Hillsdale, while everyone else went to the True Blue Open in Jacksonville. True Blue Open Results. Gina Relay Results.
At Gina Relays, we had the following personal records:
Abby Madden ran a personal record in the 5000m with a time of 18:49.24 (so…many…laps…)
Steven Decker ran a PR in the 800m wiht a time of 1:59.37. This was also his first time getting under 2 minutes, at least while running for ITC. Congrats to Steve!
Michael Giocolo ran a PR in the 800m with a time of 2:01.41.
Kevin Lapp (I love this guy”s name so much) also ran a PR in the 800m with a time of 2:06.14.
Meanwhile, at Illinois College:
While Quenton didn”t run a PR in the 100m, he did run the exact same time down to a hundredth of a second in both the prelims and the finals (11.13. He also ran that at NIRCA Nationals, meaning that he”s run the exact same time three out of five of his outdoor races). What are the chances of that? (Answer: While the chances of it happening to Quenton in particular is quite small, it”s pretty much guaranteed that this would happen to somebody at some point, considering the massive number of people running the 100m in any given year).
Anyway, in the 1500m, Hanna Smith PR”d with a time of 5:30.18.
Jayme Roberts PR”d in the 400m with a time of 51.75.
Quenton Hardaway PR”d in the 200m with a time of 22.66.
Ryan Brewster also PR”d in the 200m with a time of 22.74.
David Choi PR”d in the 5000m with a time of 16:23.02.
Next week, the team runs at North Central, for the last meet of the Season for a large fraction of the team (after that we start getting into finals, and beyond).
Till then, everybody.
This past weekend was another small one. The team went out to the Big Blue meet hosted by Millikin. Full Results
However, just because only a few of our runners went, that doesn”t mean we didn”t have some excellent performances. Indeed, if the Conservation of Ninjutsu (Warning: TV Tropes link) is to be believed it”s expected. And Ninjutsu was conserved. Oh yes was it conserved.
Not sure quite where I was going with that. Anyway! We had two club records this past weekend:
Emuze Tare continues to obliterate the shot put records. This time, she broke the Shot Put record with a throw of 9.12m
Erin Murphy, determined to have been the record holder in every event below 800m at least once, has broken the 400m Hurdles record with a time of 1:07.31 minutes.
Meanwhile, we also had several personal records:
Erin Murphy set a PR in the 400m dash (and broke a minute for the first time) with a time of 59.96. Congratulations on that passing that particular milestone!
Jayme Roberts got a PR in the 400m with an impressive time of 51.91.
Ben Kanevsky was hot on his heels with a 400m PR as well, in a time of 52.07 seconds.
Short and sweet, and I”ll see you (well you”ll be seeing more words on the computer screen, anyway) next week.
Andrew Cholewa
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.
This past weekend the Illinois Track Club traveled to Bloomington, IN for NIRCA Nationals. We threw on twelve layers, brought half a dozen blankets each, and prepared (with great glee I assure you) for a long, cold, rainy day…Only for the weather to actually not be that bad. Rather cold in the morning, but by the afternoon, the sun came out and the weather flirted with warm several times. Clearly, we should sacrifice someone something to the Ye Olde Weathere Godse in thanks. Yes. Something. Like a hat. Not someone. Like not Scott Luedkte. We”re totally not going to sacrifice Scott to ancient and malevolent weather gods at exactly 00:00.58.11 (military time) this Tuesday in the Armory in thanks for decent weather at Nationals. That”s patently absurd. On a completely unrelated note, we”ll be needing some more hurdlers soon. If you know anyone whose interested, have them send our head coach Ben Kanevsky an e-mail.
Quickly moving on, it was a fun meet for both the girls and the guys, with lots of close, and exciting races. For the men in particular, it was an intense meet, with us and Penn State fighting desperately for every last point. In the end, both of our genders managed to take first place, though the men by a measly three points. Now we have two very large very fancy trophies to be placed…wherever we put our trophies. But wherever they”ll be placed, I”m sure they are easily found, and are seen by thousands of people every day.
Now, for the real reason you”re skimming this update, records and PR”s!
First, we had several club records set by the women on Saturday:
Lauren Choi set the club record in the 3000m Steeplechase with a time of 12:40.57.
Lauren Jonen set the club record in the 400m with a time of 58.67
Beth McGreal set the club record in the 5000m with a time of 18:05.91
Hayley Dorfman set the club record in the 100m with a time of 12.86
Emuze Tare set the club record in the shot put with a distance of 8.49m
Erin Murphy set the club records in the long and triple jump with distances of 5.04m and 10.59m respectively.
Now, for PR”s:
5000m:
Abby Madden – 18:58.49
200m:
Mike Kreiser – 23.43
400m Hurdles:
Scott Luedkte – 58.11
100m Dash:
Jesse Ayers – 13.00
Erin Murphy – 13.10
Quenton Hardaway – 11.13
Jayme Roberts – 11.50
1500m:
Megan Mocogni – 5:08.10
Greg Netols – 4:03.40
Evan White – 4:04.65
Joe Zeller – 4:13.09
Zach Boehmke – 4:16.5
400m:
Lauren Jonen – 58.67
Erin Murphy – 1:01.2
Beau Barber – 54.68
800m:
Emma Grimes – 2:19.60
Aleta Wurfel – 2:35.37
Greg Netols – 2:00.45
200m:
Hayley Dorfman – 27.5
Quenton Hardaway – 22.82
Long Jump:
Yemi Sonoiki – 6.08m
Discuss:
Thea Cudnowski – 16.14m
Great meet had by all.
This upcoming weekend will be a relatively quiet weekend: A few sprinters will be traveling to Benedictine, while much of the team volunteers at the Illinois Twilight meet hosted by the UIUC Varsity team.
Also, now that we”re done stealing all of your liberties apparently, I”m supposed to be posting the minutes for our Super Secret Executive Board Meetings. My bad. Anyway, check out the board meeting minutes for Sunday April 6 2014. Very exciting. I get to vote now! And I didn”t have to dump any tea in Eric”s sink to get it.
This past break, several of our runners ran at Rose-Hulman the Saturday at the start of break, and Washington University this past Friday and Saturday. While Rose-Hulman was nothing special, we had a slew of outdoor personal records (especially from the 5K runners), and even a record, at Washington University, despite the cold weather.
Lauren Jonen set the club record in the 200m Dash with a time of 26.18. Great start to the season Lauren!
Now, for the PR”s (rolls up his sleeves).
PR”s:
5000m:
Beth McGreal – 18:25.25
Megan Mocogni – 18:38.78
Abby Madden – 19:15.68
Paige Oboikovitz – 19:36.85
Adam Cobert – 15:48.50
Matt Birkel – 15:55.78
Steve Krauklis – 16:35.13
1500m:
Evan White – 4:11.2
400m:
Erin Murphy – 1:01.38
Ryan Brewster – 52.54
100m:
Jayme Roberts – 11.58
800m:
Evan White – 2:01.49
200m:
Erin Murphy – 27.00
Next week, the team has NIRCA Nationals, because nothing says club team like having your big meet as the third meet of the season for a few, second for a few more, and the firstfor a majority of the team.
Andrew Cholewa
EDIT: Fixed ‘”Ashley Madden'” to ‘”Abby Madden.'” I knew that. I was just testing you. Congratulations Mark! You pass!
Hello to all you runners, ex-runners, and bored parents. Before we get started, I would like to point out that I”ve added links to all my footnotes. Am I awesome?
Anyway, this past Saturday, our club hosted our yearly Club Relays meet. It”s just like every other meet ever, except either the athletes have to drag this metal hollow tube thing around the track, or their times/distances get added together (also there are a lot more heats of the mile than the 60. We even had more heats of the 3K than of the 60! What kind of meet does that?). Full results can be found under the Club Relays tab. Both the boys and girls teams came in first, though the competition was fierce, and there were some truly awesome races. A special shoutout goes to J.P. Lllinas for an epic last 100 meters in the 800 leg of the Sprint Medley Relay. At 100 meters to go, J.P. made up a significant lead, and managed to just edge out the Michigan State runner for the win, winning the SMR by a hundredth of a second. Cue the cheesy 80”s rock!
It was a great meet to watch, and I even participated! I had to run the 60m hurdles. Do you have any idea how high the high hurdles are? They”re pretty high. Like, really high. Like, high enough that I”m pretty sure Ben made me run them as revenge for that whole ‘”All mistakes in these updates are Ben”s fault'” thing from a few weeks back. Clearly, our Esteemed Head Coach just can”t take a joke.
Anyway, meet club and personal records! Oh man are there a lot. You remember all those PR”s we had at our first GVSU meet? Well, we have more than that. We have like three GVSU”s worth of PR”s here. We also haven”t broken this many club records since the team”s very first meet.[citation needed]
So, go to the bathroom, get something to eat, turn off your e-mail, and say good-bye to your loved ones. We”re going to be here a while.
First, the girls.
Erin Murphy set the club record in the 60m dash with a time of 8.37 seconds…
Only to have it broken in the very next heat by Hayley Dorfman with a time of 8.23 (it was also, coincidentally, Hayley”s very first race with ITC. Way to make an entrance, Hayley). While getting your thunder stolen by the new girl must have stung something fierce, on the bright side Erin is now the record holder for being the shortest record holder in the history of the club, beating out the record Jonen set at the beginning of the season.
Emma Grimes set the mile record with a time of 5:08.22. I”m pretty sure absolutely positive that she can run a faster mile than I could in my prime. Thanks for threatening my masculine pride Emma!
Our girl”s 4x200m A team: Sarah Sheehan, Erin Murphy, Ima Eno, and Lauren Jonen set the club record with a time of 1:49.65, despite some rather questionable hand-offs (blind hand-offs are probably a bad idea when we only practice hand-offs for the two weeks before Club Relays).
The girl”s 4x800m A team: Shannon Sledz, Thea Cudnowski, Emma Grimes and Megan McGreal set the club record in the 4x800m with a time of 9:45.5.
Completing the Indoor Relay Trifecta, the girl”s 4x400m relay: Lauren Jonen, Ima Eno, Emma Grimes, and Erin Murphy set a new club record with a time of 4:09.02.
Oh, and because they felt bad about the Sprint Medley Relay (SMR) being the only baton-passing relay whose record hadn”t been broken yet, the girl”s SMR A team: Erin Murphy, Sarah Sheehan, Shannon Sledz, and Lauren Jonen set the record for the SMR with a time of 4:22.55.
Erin Murphy set a club record in the Triple Jump with a distance of 10.12m
Tare Emuze set the club record in the shot put with a distance of 8.61m
Now, for the boys!
The men”s 4x400m A team: Ben Kanevsky, Scott Luedkte, Ryan Brewster, and Jack Skelton set a new club record with a time of 3:28.73. They were also dressed in hot pink spandex and pink and purple shirts with pictures of unicorns and puppies, because there is (unfortunately) no law in the US against wearing outfits that make everyone around you want to burn out their own eyes with the holy, cleansing flames of a tire fire.
Anyway, back in the land of the sane, the men”s 4x800m relay: J.P. Llinas, Evan White, Zach Boehmke, and Steven Decker set a new record with a time of 8:08.47.
Thus ends the records (come on guys! Two records to the girls” eight? Clearly our only recourse before NIRCA is to ‘”accidentally'” leave all the girls at home. Either that or chase them off the team. Maybe if we throw enough <insert feminine stereotype here> at them, they”ll go away).
Now, for the PR”s. We will start with the girls (does ‘”ladies first'” count as one of the feminine stereotypes we can throw at them?). Due to the massive numbers, I”m going to just list the event, then the name, then the time.
60m Dash:
Erin Murphy: 8.37
Lauren Jonen: 8.47
Mile:
Megan McGreal: 5:25.02
Megan Mocogni: 5:29.13
Paige Oboikovitz: 5:43.73
3K:
Megan Mocogni: 10:48.18
Paige Oboikovitz: 11:14.18
Beth McGreal: 10:54.7
Abby Madden: 11:19.95
Emma Burkhardt: 11:57.18
Molly Wagener: 12:27.41
Caroline Skibinski: 12:49.38
Long Jump:
Jenny Na: 4.16m
Now, for the boys! (Alright, guys the girls had 13 PR”s not including the records. Let”s see if we can beat them at this at least.)
60m:
Jayme Roberts: 7.22
Yemi Sonoiki: 7.35
Mile:
Zach Boehmke: 4:39.43
Kevin Lapp: 4:44.23 (I”ve been waiting all season for Kevin to get a PR, so I could mention him. I mean, look at him! He”s a track athlete whose last name is Lapp! The man is a running pun. I think he”s my new favorite person. Sorry, Cyclops but you”ve been replaced.)
Kevin Hearne: 4:45.74
Ankit Aggarwal: 5:17.83 (PR”d by .01 seconds. Talk about cutting it close.)
3K:
Jack Morrissey: 9:31.92
Ryan Kelch: 9:33.55
Steve Krauklis: 9:34.68
David Choi: 9:45.46
Tyler Dixon: 9:58.05
Chris Kennedy: 10:35.76
60m Hurdles:
Scott Luedkte: 09.44
High Jump:
Tyler Blum: 1.85m
Triple Jump:
Manny Del Rio: 12.10m
That puts the guys at 15 PR”s to the girls” 13. Aww yeah! If we include the (non-baton passing) records, then we”re at 15 PR”s for the guys compared to… 17 PR”s for the girls. Nerts. Ah well, the takeaway is that we had 32 personal records on Saturday, and 10 club records. What a meet.
Finally, please welcome Hayley Dorfman, Mary Rosenwinkel, Leann Beckman, Sina Gartner, Anthony Morgan, and Jordan Hahn to the ITC team. May you have many fast races, very few slow races, and zero injuries.
Till Outdoor folks.
Andrew Cholewa
It has come to my attention that people actually read these posts. Thanks a lot guys. Now when I run out of ideas, and these posts turn into dull, droning ‘”XYZ had this number associated with them. Yaaay.'” you”re all going to be very disappointed, and my teammates will give me a hard time I”ll feel like I”m letting you all down. So, thanks for the performance anxiety. And what are you doing reading these posts anyway?
If you”re a parent, you know what my parents did back in the Good Old Days, when I was a jolly, fresh-faced undergraduate, and everything was sunshine and rainbows? They called me and asked about my results on this impersonal electronic device thingy that you hold up to your ear. Then, once they had me on the line, they started asking the important questions: ‘”How are classes? How are your grades? What do you mean you weren”t studying when I called? Do you know how much I”m paying for you to attend college? Have you done laundry this week? What about shopping? You”re not living off of oreos and whip cream are you? When are you going to get a girlfriend? I”d like grandchildren at some point, you know. When was the last time you took out the trash? You”re actually using the trash can I spent good money on, right? Do you know how much that trash can cost? Your older sister never gave me this much trouble.'” So not only do you get a chance to connect with your child (and stop reading my posts), but you can make sure they”re not using their newfound independence to irrevocably ruin their lives.
If you”re a runner, you know what I did back in the Good Old Days, when I was a jolly, fresh-faced undergraduate, and everything was sunshine and rainbows? I called my parents, and told them my results on this impersonal electronic device thingy that you hold up to your ear. Then, once I had them on the line, I asked all the important questions: ‘”Can you pick me up tomorrow morning so I can bring my laundry home? I tried using the school machines, but some random girl left her underclothing in the washing machine, and it was really awkward, and I didn”t want to touch it. And while you”re picking me up tomorrow, think you could pick up some groceries? I”m down to oreos and whip cream, and while it was pretty awesome at first, now I feel nauseous. Also, I met this girl last night, and we really hit it off, and I was thinking of bringing her home tomorrow. Do you think that”s ok? Also, one of my friends kind of stole my trash can. Think you could get me a new one? I”ve been using my roommate”s hamper, but he got mad and emptied it on my bed, so now I”m sleeping on the floor. Also, my older sister isn”t going to be home tomorrow right? I really don”t want to deal with her right now. She”s such a jerk.'”[1] So not only do you get a chance to connect with your parents (and stop reading my posts), but you can get them to fix your irrevocably ruined life!
Anyway, if you managed to read this far, meet results! Our runners went to three separate meets this weekend, because team unity is for chumps. We ran at: GVSU, EIU, and UIUC. That”s right UIUC! The Real Track Team had a home meet this past weekend, and a few brave souls decided to show that you don”t need to have professional coaches, guaranteed track time, lots of fancy equipment, and loads and loads of natural talent to run fast in Champaign-Urbana (also they didn”t have to do any traveling).
First, club records:
Emma Grimes broke two club records on Friday at EIU. She set a new record for the Women”s Indoor Mile with a time of 5:09.2. She also broke the Women”s Indoor 800m record with a time of 2:20.29.
Congratulamations, Emma!
Now, personal records:
Ben Kanevsky ran at GVSU, and got PR”s in both the 400m and 200m. He ran a 52.73 in the 400, and a 24.28 in the 200.
Yemi Sonoiki also had a double PR at GVSU. He ran a 07.43 in the 60m Dash, and a 23.86 in the 200m.
Everyone else who PR”d ran at EIU.
Sarah Sheehan had a double PR at EIU (this has been the week for doubles, hasn”t it?), with a time in the 60m Dash of 8.61 and the 200m of 28.21.
Steven Krauklis PR”d in the 3000m with a time of 9:33.96.
Raushaun Warner PR”d in the 800m with a time of 2:12.2 (what is it with 800m PR”s and the number 2?)
Beau Barber PR”d in the 200m with a time of 25.37.
Finally, we have the new people. Give a great big ITC welcome to:
Jenny Na, Jared Konrardy, and Ankit Aggarwal, all of whom ran their first ITC meet at EIU this past Friday.
[1] My sister is not actually a jerk.[2]
[2] Hah! Yes she is.[1]
Before we get started, a correction is needed for last week: Apparently, Quenton”s name is spelled with an ‘”o'” not an ‘”e.'” Needless to say, this sent all the ITC Scholars into a panic, seeing as the whole ‘”e'” thing was kind of fundamental to Knotreel”s prophecy. Fortunately, the Dashing Webmaster saved the day by busting out the original prophecy and studying it more closely. Turns out Knotreel just has really bad handwriting, and his ‘”o'””s just look like ‘”e'””s. I also want to make it clear that this was not my fault, it was all our Head Coach Ben Kanevsky”s fault for misspelling Quenton”s name on the meet entries. In fact, if anything in these posts are ever inaccurate, it”s all Ben”s fault.
Don”t worry Quenton, I”ll fix your name in the database today tomorrow by the end of the week I dunno. Someday. Maybe. Until then, if anyone asks, just tell them you were trying out the spelling ‘”Quenten'” to see how it felt, before deciding that you really only needed one repeated letter in your name.
Anyway, this past Friday and Saturday, the team went all the way to the Grand Valley State University in Michigan to compete. This was a particularly treacherous journey, because Michiginians are really bad at giving directions (they start jabbing at their palms like that has anything at all to do with finding the nearest bathroom)[1], so if any of our kids had gotten lost they would have been lost forever. Fortunately, none of them did.
Instead, a whole bunch of them drove 10 hours round trip to compete for the shortest amount of time in their entire lives[2]. First up, club records:
Emma Grimes broke the indoor record in the 3000m and the mile. She ran the 3000m in 10:33.89, and the mile in 5:13.89 (girl doesn”t know when to quit)[3]
Lauren Jonen broke both the 200m and 400m indoor records with times of 26.84 (in the 200) and 59.96 (for the 400m). Having broken two of Erin”s records in a single day, and still stinging from that whole ‘”Oh look I”m a record holder-oh wait, no I”m not'” from the beginning of the season, she proceeded to mock Erin mercilessly, maybe even driving her ‘”friend'” to tears.[4]
Not to be outdone, Jack Skelton proceeded to break both the 200m and 400m indoor record for the guys, with a time of 22.17 in the 200 and 49.12 in the 400.
Shannon Sledz broke the girl”s 800m record with a time of 2:23.73. Not bad for her third race with ITC.
Quenton, filled with rage at the misspelling of his name at my Ben”s hands, shattered the 60m dash record with a time of 6.98. He then proceeded to chase Ben from one end of GVSU to the other, screaming incoherently about ‘”o'””s and ‘”e'””s. Apparently, it was hilarious.[5]
And now, for the (Indoor) PR”s (there are a lot of them. I highly suggest going to the bathroom before you begin reading).
Erin Murphy ran a PR in the 400m with a time of 1:01.27
Abby Madden ran a PR in the mile with a time of 05:51.51 (hope she likes the number 5)
Paige Oboikovitz ran a PR in the mile with a time of 05:52.03
Megan Mocogni ran a PR in the 3000m with a time of 10:52.81
Beth McGreal ran a PR in the 3000m with a time of 11:04.71
Jayme Roberts ran a PR in both the 60m (7.33 seconds) and the 200m (23.17).
Ben Kanevsky ran a PR in the 400m with a time of 52.97 (probably because Quenton was still chasing him)
Mitch Sullivan ran a PR in the 800m with a time of 2:05.24
Evan White ran a PR in the mile with a time of 4:24.62
Joe Zeller ran a PR in the 3000m with a time of 8:56.07
Manny Del Rio jumped a PR in the Triple Jump with a distance of 12.08m
This Friday, the team will be going back to GVSU for GVSU II: The Revenge, and to EIU for EIU II : The Revenge. I, alas, will not be there. Fortunately, my Super Reliable Source will be at both of them, so who knows what kinds of Completely Factual Information he/she/it will have for me?
[1] And I should know. My mother”s from Michigan, and thanks to her, I can”t give directions to save my life. Thanks mom.
[2] Indoors
[3] Get it? Get it? It”s funny because she”s a distance runner, and distance runners run for a long time.
[4] I wasn”t actually there, but I totally heard this from a super reliable source who shall remain anonymous. The fact that A) Jonen wouldn”t ever actually do that, and B) Erin would probably do a little less crying, and a little more no holds barred beatdown just makes it all the more believable!
[5] Same source as [4]. It”s a good thing I”m only paying this guy/girl/swamp thing if he/she/it can tell me something interesting. Ensures quality.