Our college athlete of the meet for relays is Matthew Gibney of Villanova with his excellent come-from-behind victory in the DMR, splitting 3:58.4.
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College Athlete of the Meet for Relays
April 25, 2009The Corporate Relay
April 24, 2009Tucked at the end of Friday is our Corporate Event. The companies run the DMR distance, and one key rule is that you have to have a woman run at least one leg.
The General Electric team, which has won this many times, is in the lead with the 1600 to go. GE wins in 10:47.47, [...]
College Men’s Sprint Medley
April 24, 2009Our last Championship of America is the Men’s Sprint Medley. Perhaps LSU can win the men’s and women’s events tonight ?
We have a huge group after the 200-200-400 legs, with Washington taking the lead on the first lap of the 800.
One to go, Washington, Tennessee, Arkansas, LSU in a tight group. Its Tennesse and Washington [...]
College Women’s Sprint Medley Championship
April 24, 2009Our next championship is the College Women’s Sprint Medley Relay.
LSU, with Philadelphia’s own Latavia Thomas, is battling with Georgia State. Latavia Thomas brings it home, anchoring her 3rd straight SMR championship in 3:47.26. Georgia State was 2nd in 3:48.66. We’ll wait to see the results of the 2nd heat before we declare LSU the winner [...]
High School Girls 4×400 Championship
April 24, 2009After two straight victories by Eleanor Roosevelt of Maryland, we have a new champion. Holmwood Tech and Manchester dueled the whole way, but they forgot about Edwin Allen, whose anchor, Ristanna Tracey came on strong and passed her fellow Jamaicans less than 50 meters from the line for a 3:41.25 victory. Edwin Allen wins the [...]
High School Individual Distance
April 24, 2009We have two individual events tonight before out high school girls 4×400 championship, the mile and the 3000m.
Jeremy Rae of Lakeshore (Ontario Canada) has opened up a very large lead at one lap, with an approximate half-mile split of 2:04. At three laps, Rae still leads, but the field is definitely stalking the leader.
Rae wins [...]
High School Boys Distance Medley Championship
April 24, 2009Joe Rosa of West Windsor Plainsboro North leads after the first exchange (3:07.4), with Cardinal O’Hara and Don Bosco close behind.
WWPN held the lead after the 400, but Upper Dublin’s Paul Reilly moved to the front with a little less than a lap to go on the 800 leg. WWPN’s Tyler Corkedale was having none [...]
Boys High School Shot Put: Vena Sets Penn Record
April 24, 2009Nicholas Vena of Morristown, NJ, absolutely destroyed the Penn Relays record in the boys high school shot put. Vena got the ball out 72 feet, 2-1/2 inches (22.01 meters), almost five feet better than the old mark, set in 1985 by J.J. Grant of Liverpool, NY (67-3/20.50).
Full results are here.
Friday’s Attendance: 39,501
April 24, 2009Great weather means a great crowd: Today’s attendance was 39,501, making it the third biggest Friday crowd in Penn Relays history. (The record, 39,943, was set in 2006.)
Combined with Thursday’s crowd, that brings our two-day total to 63,816. A Saturday crowd of 50,379 would break the Carnival’s three-day attendance record. in 2006 we drew 114,194.
College 4×400 Men’s Heats
April 24, 2009Our next event consists of the qualifying heats in the college 4×400.
Heat 1 featured some great times: Florida State, 3:05.83, Texas A&M 3:07.92, TCU, 3:08.29
Heat 2: LSU 3:06.07, St. Augustine’s 3:06:39, Kentucky 3:07.27
Heat 3: South Carolina 3:06.26, Texas Tech 3:07.26, Florida 3:09.61
You can follow along on the ranked list here.
