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Tigers Travel To Penn Relays Beginning Thursday
April 23, 2008 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Princeton will send a host of men's and women's athletes to the annual Penn Relay Carnival beginning Thursday at Franklin Field, including 17 individuals or relay teams that will compete in championship or Olympic Development divisions. In all, 28 female athletes and 19 male athletes will compete at the meet for the Tigers.
Thursday will feature the Tiger women in action for most of the day before three Tiger men's distance standouts?All-America David Nightingale, Ben Sitler and Justin Pines?compete in the Olympic Development 5,000-meter race at 9:50 p.m.
Freshman Isabell von Loga competes in the championship division of the shot put Thursday during the day, as does junior Jess Kloss in the pole vault competition. At night, regional NCAA qualifiers Liz Deir and Megan Brandeland run in the steeplechase championship race, followed by Liz Costello and Reilly Kiernan in the championship 3,000 meters and freshmen Ashley Higginson and Sarah Cummings in the championship 5,000 meters.
Tiger teams will compete in three "Championship of America" events on Friday. At 3 p.m., Princeton has a women's entry in the shuttle hurdles race, while the Tiger men run less than an hour later in the distance medley event. At 6:15, a Tiger foursome will compete in the women's sprint medley Championship of America race.
The Princeton men will also have three entrants in "championship" divisions Friday, beginning with Tom Zozokos in the 400-meter hurdles at 9 a.m. Eric Plummer will take part in the shot put competition starting at 10:30, while freshman George Abyad not only throws the discus but also takes part in the "Eastern" shot put collegiate event Friday.
Princeton will enter two-mile relay team on both the men's and women's sides Saturday in "Championship of America" races. The women's group of Liz Bergold, Karen Aherne, Libby Bliss and Liz Costello runs at 2:45 p.m.; the men's group consisting of Kurt Kuehne, Jordan Hill, Jeff Carbonella and Mike Kowal takes the track at 4:50 p.m.
Several of the Tigers' top field event standouts on the men's side also compete in championship divisions Saturday. Alex Pessala and Craig Pearce throw the hammer in the morning, while Justin Frick in the high jump and Chad Faulkner in the pole vault.
Princeton Athletes at the Penn Relays
Thursday, April 24
Men
9:50 p.m., Olympic Development Men's 5,000 Meters
David Nightingale, Ben Sitler, Justin Pines
Women
Courtney Regan (college women pole vault), 10 am
Emma Harper, Emma Ruggiero, Christine Vidmar (college women hammer throw),
11:15 am
Isabell von Loga (college women shot put championship), noon
Thanithia Billings (college women shot put Eastern), 1:15 pm
Emma Giunipero (college women discus), 3 p.m.
Jess Kloss (college women pole vault championship), 3 p.m.
Heptagonal 4X400, 6:30 p.m.
Liz Deir, Megan Brandeland (college women steeplechase championship)
Liz Costello, Reilly Kiernan (college women 3,000-meter championship)
Ashley Higginson, Sarah Cummings (college women 5,000-meter championship)
Friday, April 25
Men
9 am, College Men 400 IH Championship
Tom Zozokos
10 am, College Men High Jump
Ian Fox
10:30 am, College Men Shot Put Championship
Eric Plummer
Noon, College Men Shot Put Eastern
George Abyad
12:15 pm, College Men Discus Throw Championship
George Abyad
1:30 pm, College Men Discus Throw
Joel Karacozoff
3:50 pm, College Men Distance Medley Championship of America
Ben White, Jordan Sawadogo, Jeff Carbonella, Dennis Walsh
Women
Tiffany Liu, Johanna Valdez, Bianca Williams (college women triple jump
Eastern), 11 am
Karen Okigbo, Leanne Bellar, Bianca Mathabane, Agatha Offorjebe (college
women 4X200 heats), 2:05 pm
Lauren Barber, K.C. Wade, Bianca Mathabane, Katie Sirico (college women
shuttle hurdles Championship of America), 3 pm
Leanne Bellar, Karen Okigbo, Agatha Offorjebe, Melissa Swigert (college
women sprint medley Championship of America), 6:15 pm
Sat., April 26
Men
11 am, College Men Hammer Throw Championship
Alex Pessala, Craig Pearce
1:30 pm, College Men High Jump Championship
Justin Frick
2 pm, College Men Pole Vault Championship
Chad Faulkner
4:50 pm, College Men 4X800 Championship of America
Kurt Kuehne, Jordan Hill, Jeff Carbonella, Mike Kowal
Women
Liz Bergold, Karen Aherne, Libby Bliss, Liz Costello (college women 4X800
championship of America), 2:45 p.m.