Junior Meredith Lambert has been running well in practice all season, but she has still been unhappy with her race day execution. At the Mt. Sac Invitational in Los Angeles on Friday evening, though, Lambert was able to follow her race plan exactly and even ran slightly faster than she had hoped, placing ninth in the 10,000-meter event.
Going into the event, Lambert planned to run each lap in 82 seconds and finish in 34:10. She bettered this goal with a new personal record of 33:55 and also automatically qualified for the NCAA championships. Her previous personal best was 34:24, set at the same meet last year.
Two members of the men's team also traveled to California. Junior Frank Macreery placed 17th in the 10,000m race with a time of 29:17, provisionally qualifying for the NCAA championships. Though he was disappointed to have missed the automatic qualifying time by just 17 seconds, Macreery said he was happy with his performance. The time was a personal record by 31 seconds.
Senior Austin Smith took 10th place in the 5,000m race in 14:10 and qualified for NCAA regionals.
Back east
The rest of the men's and women's track teams did not have to travel nearly as far for their Saturday competition. The women visited Philadelphia to face Penn and Yale, finishing third with 47 points to the Quakers' 84 and Elis' 72.
Meanwhile, the men's squad stayed in Princeton, hosting Penn, Rutgers and Villanova in a quad meet at Weaver Track. Though team scores were not kept, several athletes' performances qualified them for NCAA regionals.
Senior Mike Weishuhn placed first in the high jump with a height of six feet, 10.75 inches, successfully qualifying for NCAA regionals. Sophomore Andrew Park also qualified with a 16'10.75" in the pole vault. He earned first place in the event, while junior teammate Kyle Whitaker placed third.
Senior Dwaine Banton was the third member of the men's team to qualify for regionals. He won the long jump with his leap of 24'11.25". Junior Derek Davis and sophomore Tim Edmond followed Banton, taking second and third place, respectively, in the event. Banton also took fourth place in the 100m dash.
The Tigers took first in the 4x400m relay with its usual team, composed of seniors Justin Reed and Mike Kopp and sophomores Daniel Saltzman and Richard Stewart. The team posted a time of 3:14 this week. Saltzman, Kopp and Reed also swept the first three places of the 400m race. Saltzman pulled off the win with his time of 49.16, while Kopp and Reed followed in 49.75 and 49.86 respectively.
Freshman Dave Nightingale took second place in the 1,500m run in 3:53, and junior Ray Lenihan placed second in the 110m hurdles in 14.56. Senior Ryan Carpenter took second in the 400m hurdles, followed by freshman teammate Ross Elliot in third place.
In the hammer throw, Princeton swept the first four places. Junior Kenneth Stringer placed first and was followed by junior Michael Daylamani, sophomore Matthew McNamara and senior Drew Geant. Geant also took second in the discus.
Two of a kind
On the women's side, sophomore Catha Mullen won the 3,000m run with a time of 9:36. She was followed by her twin, sophomore Caroline Mullen, in third place and junior teammate Suzanne Andrews in fourth. Senior Carrie Strickland qualified for NCAA regionals in the 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 10:45, which earned her third place.
Senior Amy Krilla placed in two events, finishing second to teammate Brooke Minor in the high jump and winning the javelin throw. Minor jumped 5'5" in the high jump, while Krilla jumped 5'3". Krilla's winning throw went a distance of 143 feet and qualified her for NCAA regionals.
Junior Cack Ferrell took second to Yale's Lindsay Donaldson in the 1,500, running 4:29.66 to Donaldson's 4:29.24. Junior Annie Santi took second in the 100m hurdles, while junior Lindsay Cole took third in the 800m run. In the 400m run, freshman Leanne Bellar took third, and junior Laura Landry claimed fourth. Cole, freshman Liz Bergold and junior Jordan Wagenseller recorded third, fourth and fifth place finishes, respectively, in the 800m run.
Next week, both teams will stay home for the Larry Ellis Invitational on Friday and Saturday at Weaver Track.
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