Saturday Field Event Highlights
It’s been another busy day for jumpers and throwers. Here are the championship-division winners:
Olympic Development Men
• Jacob Freeman (NYAC) won the hammer throw with a 229′ 11″ (70.08) toss. That’s his second straight win in the event, and he also won the college division twice (2001, 2002) for Manhattan College. Results.
Olympic Development Women
• Toni Smith [...]
Straightaway Finals
College Women’s 100-meter hurdles: Queen Harrison (Virginia Tech) takes the lead at the third hurdle and goes on to win in 12.61 a new Penn Relays record (wind: +1.1). Results.
Olympic Development women’s 100-meter hurdles: Former Michigan star Tiffany Ofili wins in 13.06 (wind: +0.3). Results.
College men’s 110-meter hurdles: Barrett Nugent (LSUO wins in 13.58 (wind: [...]
Intermediate Hurdles
Our early race of the day was the intermediate hurdles . . . . results can be found here (high school) or here (olympic development).
High School Boys Distance Races
Pat Schelleberg (Delbarton School, NJ) took the lead just before the half mile and opened up a margin of 15 meters at the bell (3:05) and finished in 4:08.07, to just get under the Penn Relays record of 4:08.13, run last year by Canadian Jeremy Rae.
Isaac Presson (Asheville, NC) closed fast to take second in [...]
Friday Field Event Highlights
The men and boys joined the field event action on Friday. Here are the championship-division winners:
College Men
• Stanley Gbagbeke of Middle Tennessee won the long jump at a wind-aided 25′ 11″ (7.90). His best legal jump was 25′ 8-1/4″ (7.83). NCAA Indoor champion Alain Bailey took second at 25′ 9-1/2″ (7.86). Results.
• Kemal Mesic of [...]
High School Girls Individual Athlete of the Meet
With our high school girls’ individual events complete, the Penn Relays has selected Akela Jones of Springer Memorial High School (St. Michael, Barbados) as the high school girls individual athlete of the meet. Ms. Jones won the girls high jump in a height of 5′11 1/4″ / 1.81m. This performance, in the over 30 years [...]
College Men’s 400 hurdles
Johnny Dutch of South Carolina has won the opening race of Friday’s schedule, the college intermediate hurdles. Full results can be found here.
CW Steeplechase
Sarah Pease of Indiana outlasts Claire Michel of Oregon, winning the College Women’s Steeplechase. Pease won the Drake Relays steeple last year – and now has a Penn Relays championship as well. Certainly a very interesting double !
Thursday Night Distance Races
Event 70: College men’s steeplechase: Donn Cabral of Princeton wins in 8:48.92. Results.
Event 72: Olympic Development men’s steeplechase: Steve Slattery ran wire to wire for an 8:41.15 victory. Results.
Events 73 & 74 (run concurrently): Olympic Development and college women’s steeplechase: Sarah Pease of Indiana was the overall winner in 10:16.51. College results. OD results.
Event 76: [...]
Thursday Field Event Highlights
It’s been a busy day for jumpers and throwers. Here are some of the championship-division winners:
College Women
• Shara Proctor (Florida) won the long jump with a wind-aided leap 21 feet, 2 1/2 inches (6.46 meters). She also had a legal jump of 21-0 1/2 (6.41), the 10th best ever at the Relays. Results.
• NCAA Indoor [...]
And We’re Off…
The 116th Penn Relays are underway. The first event, the college women’s 400-meter hurdles, went off ahead of its 10:00am start time. With the sun shining and the temperature at 58 degrees, Tameka Jameson of Miami (Florida) ripped a 57.57 in Heat 3 to win the event. Landria Buckley of Howard was second in 59.03, [...]
College Athletes of the Meet for Individual Events
Our collegiate athletes of the meet for individual events are Rachel Laurent of LSU and Jeremy Hicks, also of LSU.
Laurent set a meet record with a 13-10 1/2 pole vault clearance, and Hicks won the long jump in 26-3 on his last jump. Hicks’ mark was #7 All-Time.
Straightaway Finals
College women’s 100-meter hurdles: Seun Adigun (Houston) wins in 12.98. Wind is 0.0, so it’s legal. Results.
Olympic Development women’s 100-meter hurdles: Nickiesha Wilson goes 12.95 for the victory. Results.
College men’s 110-meter hurdles: Jason Richardson of South Carolina wins 13.56, just 0.02 ahead of Ronnie Ash of Bethune Cookman. Results.
Olympic Development men’s 110-meter hurdles: Jacoby Dubose [...]
High School Boys 400 Hurdles
Much nicer weather this morning, 56 degrees at 8:50 am, when our first running event, the high school boys 400H, goes off.
Jordan Rispress of Hilliard, Ohio, wins the first heat in 51.89, the eighth best time ever at the Relays.
Results can be found here.
2009 High School Individual Distance
We 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 [...]
Qualifier Alert: College 100, 100H, 110H
The qualifiers for the college women’s 100-meter hurdles final are here. The race is scheduled for 2:55 pm Saturday.
The qualifiers for the college men’s 110-meter hurdles final are here. The race is scheduled for 3:05 pm Saturday.
The qualifiers for the college women’s 100-meter dash final are here. The race is scheduled for 3:20 pm Saturday.
The [...]
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
High School Girls Individual MVP
Not surprisingly, from Edwin Allen (JA) is our 2009 High School Girls Athlete of the Meet for Individual Events. Ms. Tracey won the intermediate hurdles in 57.44, which was the 2nd fastest ever run at Penn. She also ran a faster time than the college champion. Congrats Nikita Tracey !
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.
Distance Night Races
College Men’s Steeplechase: Scott Macpherson of Arkansas made a big move off the penultimate water jump and won in 8:44.64. Results.
Olympic Development Men’s Steeplechase: Eric Ashe jumped Luke Watson at the bell and nearly stole the race, but Watson had another gear and moved back into the front in the final 10 meters, for a [...]
High School Girls Mile Run
Chelsey Sveinsson of Greenhill School (Addison, Texas) blew the field away, opening up a huge lead early and never looking back. She clocked 4:46.85, good for #5 all-time at Penn. (Sveinsson’s own 4:43.51, which she ran for third place last year, is the #4 time.) That’s the fastest time by a high school girl this [...]
High School 400 Hurdles
We have a very strong field today in the high school hurdles, including the US leader and the Jamaican leader.
Nikita Tracey of Edwin Allen (Jamaica) has won in 57.44 – she was the Jamaican national HS champion earlier this year. For the cold weather, that is an excellent time — equaling the No. 2 time [...]
Straightaway Finals
Event 241 College women’s 100-meter hurdles: Nickeisha Wilson of LSU wins in 13.03 with Georgia Tech’s Shantia Moss second in 13.17. Results here.
Event 242 Olympic Development women’s 100-meter hurdles: Candice Davis wins by more than half a second in 12.92. Results here.
Event 243 College men’s 110-meter hurdles: Jason Richardson of South Carolina wins in 13.68. [...]
Olympic Development Men's Mile
They’re not in a hurry. Pat Tarpey leads at the quarter in 62.2, with Penn grad Sam Burley second. Tarpey still leads at 880 in 2:03.3, with Alex Bean second. Those two start to pull away from the field on the backstretch. Tarpey continues to lead at the bell in 3:04.4. Villanova alum Jason Jabaut [...]