High School Boys Distance Medley Championship
Joe 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
Nicholas 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
Great 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.
2009 College 4×400 Men’s Heats
Our 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.
College Men's Distance Medley Relay
Texas is going for its fourth consecutive Penn championship in this event.
Slow early pace (2:00 @ 800) on the first leg, until Arkansas broke it open to hand off first in 2:56.0. Villanova, Princeton and Texas follow.
A 46.8 kept Arkansas in the lead, but Villanova’s Elvis Lewis closed down the gap. Princeton and Texas are [...]
College 100, 110/100H Heats
Follow the results of the college men’s and women’s straightaway heats via our Twitter feed: Twitter.com/thepennrelays
College Women's Shuttle Hurdle Relay
Central Florida wins the first heat in 54.07, with UNC second in 55.23.
Heat 2 goes to Eastern Kentucky in 58.45.
And heat 3 is won by Towson in 59.32.
Click here for results.
College Men's Shuttle Hurdle Relay
Florida cooks a 54.30 in the first heat, the second fastest ever at Penn. Nebraska in second at 54.90, equaling the #3 Penn time
Heat 2: Georgetown wins in 56.12.
Heat 3: Army takes in in 61.34.
Results are here.
High School Girls Championship 4×100
It is time for our championship heat, with 7 Jamaican schools and 2 schools from the US. However, Eleanor Roosevelt (MD) does have the fastest qualifying time.
We had a fantastic finish, with Vere Tech (JAM) on the outside winning in 45.10, Eleanor Roosevelt (MD) in 2nd place in 45.24. It was a very close finish [...]
2009 High School 4×100, Large & Small School Heats
As a preliminary to our High School Championship 4×100 for girls, we have two other heats for fast 4×100 teams. These heats are the next fastest teams beyond the Top 8, divided into size of school.
Our large school winner is Rancho Verde from California in 46.72, with Withrow (OH) in 46.86 for 2nd place.
The small [...]
College Women's 4×200 Heats
And they’re off. Defending champions Texas A&M blew out heat 1 with a 1:32.65 clocking.
Heat 2 is won by LSU in 1:35.14.
Heat 3: Auburn edges Oklahoma, 1:32.85 to 1:33.27
Heat 4: Hampton looks good in 1:35.33
Heat 5: University of Technology (JAM) shows they’ll be a factor in the final, winning in 1:33.99
Rankings list can be found [...]
College Mens 4×200 Heats
Our next event is the 4×200 for men – always an unusual event because of the very long stagger.
Clemson wins Heat 2 in 1:23.70, St. Augustine wins heat 3 in Heat 3 in 1:23.50. A&M takes over the top time with a 1:22 in Heat 4. South Carolina also ran 1:22.
Ranked list can be found [...]
College Women's 4×1500 Championship
Florida’s Charlotte Browning had the early lead but Tennessee’s Channelle Price took control on the last lap and handed off first in about 4:20. Georgetown, Washington and Villanova were right there, as those four teams separate from the pack.
Frances Koons took over the lead for Villanova on the second leg. Koons and Washington’s Katie Follett [...]
Qualifier Alert: 2009 College Men’s 4×100 Championship
Qualifiers for the College 4×100 Championship and related consolation heats are available here.
Clemson had the fastest qualifier with 39.73. The championship will be run on Saturday at 1:25.
College Women's 4×100 Championship
After the first leg it was all Texaas A&M. The Aggies cruise to a 43.10 win — the #6 time in Penn history. That’s the first time the Aggies have won this event. Auburn (44.13) was more than a second back as runner-up. Two-time defending champ LSU did not finish the race.
Results can be found [...]
High School 4×800 Girls Championship
Our first championship of the day, the High School Girls 4×800, is on the track. There are a number of Jamaican teams that have run very fast times in this race, even if the qualifying times from yesterday’s cold start do not reflect it.
Manchester (JA) leads after one exchange in 2:14, with Edwin Allen right [...]
College Men's 4×100 Heats
OK, the boys have stepped aside, and the Masters did their thing. Now it’s time for the college men to take the track.
Four-time defending champ LSU wins the first heat in 39.93.
Florida State takes heat 2 in 40.10.
Heat 3 goes to Florida in 40.65. Jeff Demps seemed to struggle with some sort of an injury [...]
High School Girls Discus: Halvorson Sets Record
Aslynn Halvorson of Butler HS (Matthews, NC) broke the Penn Relays record in the high school girls discus this morning. Halvorson threw 161 feet, 8 inches (49.28 meters) to break the 160-5 (48.90) mark of Linda Grigoriev (Atholton HS, Columbia, MD), set in 2003. Halvorson finished second at last year’s Relays.
Event results are here.
High School Boys 4×100 Heats
For the next two hours we’ve got heats of the high school boys 4×100. Top 8 times advance to Saturday’s championship.
Jamaica’s Camperdown clocks 42.18 in the seventh heat to set the early standard.
William Knibb — Usain Bolt’s alma mater — clocks in at 42.02 to win heat 12.
And now we have our first sub-42 of [...]
High School Boys 4×800 Splits
Our top splits of the day from the 4×800 this morning . . . this lists all of the boys under 1:56.
1 – T. Livingston, Great Neck South (NY) 1:53.4, 2 – L. Tansey, Morris Hills (NJ) 1:53.7, 3 – M. Gonzalez, Lawrenceville (NJ) 1:54.4, 4 – X. Fraction, Washington Township (NJ) 1:54.5, 5 – [...]
High School Boys 4×800 Heats
Our first relay of the day is the high school boys 4×800.
We’ll have 4 heats, taking the Top 12 to the finals tomorrow.
Heat 1: 2nd exchange, Bellefield Comprehensive (JA) followed by Lawrenceville (NJ). Bellefield leads by about 40 meters. Great Neck South (NY) makes a great move to take the lead at the final exchange [...]
College Men's 400 Hurdles
Another cool morning (52 degrees), but the wind has calmed down.
First heat — and overall championship — goes to William Wynne of Florida in 50.02. Not bad for 8:50 on a Friday morning!
Results are here.
Qualifier Alert: High School Girls 4×400 Championship
Qualifiers for the high school girls 4×400 Championship are now posted here.
The race will be held Friday at 6:15 pm.
Qualifier Alert: College Women's 4×100 Championship
The qualifers for the college women’s 4×100 Championship of America, plus the college and ECAC finals, are now posted here.
The championship is Friday at 1:10 pm.