Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Track and Field Has Great Outdoor Weekend
April 14, 2001 | Men's Track and Field
April 14, 2001
PRINCETON, N.J. - While the Princeton women's track and field team hosted Penn in a dual meet at Weaver Stadium and most of the men's team competed at Penn in the Penn Invitational, Tora Harris was winning the high jump competition at the Sea Ray Invitational, the nation's biggest meet of the weekend, in Knoxville, Tenn. Harris won with a jump of 7' 3.25" beating out Olympian Steve Smith and this year's indoor champion and All-American Shaun Guice of Purdue.
The Penn women's team totaled 89 points to finish ahead of Princeton's 61 points. Catherine Casey (4:42.09) and Kate Reid (4:43.41) went one-two in the 1,500 meters as did Liz Morse (58.19) and Kellie Cramm (58.45) in the 400. Becca Desman won the high jump (1.64 m), Lauren Simmons (2:10.97) won the 800 and Becky Haarlow took the triple jump (38' 3.25"). Khalila Thomas outdistanced herself from the competition with her win in the shot put throwing of 42' .75", almost a foot and a half farther than the next closest competitor.
The Princeton men placed third at the Penn Invitational with a score of 157. Penn State won the meet with 215.5 points, Penn was second with 166 points and Villanova was fourth with 127.5. Jonathan Bell won the 3,000 meters with a time of 8:20.12 and was followed closely by Paul Morrison in second place (8:20.52). Rocky Craley won the shot put with a throw of 16.65 meters and Josh McCaughey took the hammer throw with a toss of 60.54 meters.
The Princeton men will host Iona, St. John's and Manhattan College on Sat. Apr. 21 and the women will travel to New York City to face Columbia and Army.