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Men's Outdoor Track & Field - March Recap
Photo courtesy of Cornell Athletic Communications/Patrick
Shanahan
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Less than two weeks after the
indoor track and field NCAA Championships, the teams were back in
action to open the outdoor season, which will culminate with the
Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships on May 5-6 at Penn's
Franklin Field and the NCAA Outdoor Championships from June 6-9 at
Des Moines, Iowa.
Cornell boasts the top marks in 11 events thus far in 2012, while
Princeton is close behind with the top marks in five events. The
Big Red's trio of Kinsley Ojukwu, Chris
Bain and Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadon are
1-2-3 in the League in the 100m, with times of 10.62, 10.70 and
10.75, respectively. Ojukwu also holds the top time in the 200m, at
21.46, set during the UC Irvine Spring Break Invitational. The Big
Red is also 1-2-3 in the 800m, led by freshman Rutger
Admirand's 1:50.22.
However, the long distance events belong to Princeton, which holds
the top nine spots in both the 1,500m and the 5,000m. Senior
Donn Cabral, fresh off his 5,000m title and
third-place 3,000m finish in the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal
Championships, leads the League in the outdoor 1,500m with a time
of 3:43.11. Fellow classmate Joe Stilin, who
placed second in the 3,000m and the one mile at the Indoor
Championships, holds the best Ivy time in the outdoor 5,000m, at
13:51.17.
Tigers sophomore Damon McLean leads the Ancient
Eight in both the long jump (7.43m) and the triple jump (15.75m),
while his teammate and 2012 Indoor Championships Most Outstanding
Performer Conor McCullough holds the League's best
hammer throw mark with a toss of 71.47m.
Dartmouth sophomore Henry Sterling ran the 3,000m
steeplechase in 9:18.88 at the High Point Invitational to lead the
League, while Harvard is 1-2 in the javelin, led by freshman
Dean Sullivan's throw of 67.00m at the North
Florida Invitational. The Crimson's Nico Weiler,
who won the pole vault title at the Indoor Championships, is the
League leader in the outdoor, with a mark of 5.30m.
Penn holds the top time in the 4x800m relay (7:37.60) and the
10,000m (Connor Ryan, 33:30.00), while Brown
sophomore Evan Weinstock scored 6,832 points in
the decathlon at the Texas Relays to lead the League.
