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Men's Track & Field Seeks Seventh Straight HYP Title on Saturday
February 10, 2011 | Men's Track and Field
PRINCETON, N.J. (2/8/11) - The Princeton men's track & field team will compete at the annual HYP Meet on Saturday, Feb. 12 at Yale.
A schedule of events can be found below.
The Tigers are on six-year win streak, since resuming the HYP in 2005. Last year Princeton won with 105 points with Harvard second with 48 points and Yale third with 27.
Princeton won 13 of the 17 events last year, including: 60, 200, 400, 800, mile, 3000, hurdles, 4x4, 4x8, high jump, pole vault, shot put and weight throw. Yale won the 500 and 1000 and Harvard earned wins in the long and triple jumps.
Returning winners include Craig Pearce in the weight throw. On his first competition of the season, he threw to 19.22 meters, two meters further than the second place throw. David Slovenski won the pole vault clearing 5.05 meters. On the track Peter Callahan took first in the mile with a time of 4:12.60. Kyle Soloff won the 3000, beating out 23 other competitors in one of the most highly participated events of the day, clocking in at 8:24.81. Ivan Charbonneau was the only runner to complete the 60-meter dash in less than seven seconds, clocking in at 6.93. Also earning first-place finishes were Mike Eddy in the 400 with a time of 48.61, Russell Dinkins in the 800 at 1:52.43 and Adam Thayer in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.58. Both relay teams also posted victories.
HYP SCHEDULE
FIELD EVENTS
10:30 AM Men's Weight, followed by
Women's Weight, followed by Me
Men's Shot Put (West Circle)
10:30 AM Women's Shot Put (East Circle)
10:30 AM Women's High Jump, followed by
Men's High Jump
12:00 PM Women's Long Jump, followed by
Men's Long Jump, followed by
Women's Triple Jump
Men's Triple Jump
1:00 PM Women's Pole Vault, followed by
Men's Pole Vault
TRACK EVENTS
1:30 PM Men's 60m Hurdles (trials)
1:40 PM Women's 60m Hurdles (trials)
1:50 PM Men's 60m (trials)
1:55 PM Women's 60m (trials)
2:00 PM Men's Mile (sections)
2:10 PM Women's Mile (sections)
2:20 PM Men's 60m Hurdles (finals)
2:25 PM Women's 60m Hurdles (finals)
2:30 PM Men's 400 (sections)
2:40 PM Women's 400 (sections)
2:50 PM Men's 500 (sections)
3:00 PM Men's 60m (final)
3:05 PM Women's 60m (final)
3:10 PM Men's 800 (sections)
3:20 PM Women's 800 (sections)
3:30 PM Men's 1000 (sections)
3:40 PM Men's 200 (sections) non-scoring
3:50 PM Women's 200 (sections)
4:00 PM Men's 3000
4:20 PM Women's 3000
4:30 PM Men's 4x400
4:40 PM Women's 4x400
4:50 PM Men's 4x800
5:00 PM Women's 4x800
For the second straight week, the Princeton men's track & field team is ranked second in the Mid-Atlantic region. Penn State remains first. Navy is third, followed by Villanova and Georgetown.
Princeton has three marks that are top-40 in the NCAA. Austin Hollimon ranks 13th in the 400, running 46.47. The 4x400 relay of Tom Hopkins, Russell Dinkins, Mike Eddy and Hollimon is now 21st after running an Ivy League record 3:09.35 at Sykes & Sabock last weekend. Freshman Damon McLean is 35th in the NCAA in the triple jump with a mark 15.49 meters.Tigers who have the top 5 marks in the region are held by:
| Kashif Smith | 7th | 60 |
| Austin Hollimon | 1st | 400 |
| Russell Dinkins | 7th | 400 |
| Tom Hopkins | 10th | 400 |
| Russell Dinkins | 4th | 800 |
| Peter Callahan | 10th | 800 |
| Peter Callahan | 3rd | Mile |
| Donn Cabral | 1st | 3000 |
| Kyle Soloff | 5th | 3000 |
| Mark Amirault | 6th | 3000 |
| Brian Leung | 8th | 3000 |
| Richard Sheldon | 3rd | 60m H |
| Hopkins, Dinkins, Eddy, Hollimon |
2nd |
4x400 |
| David Slovenki | 1st | PV |
| Derek Hynes | 3rd | PV |
| Dion Lehman | 3rd | LJ |
| Damon McLean | 4th |
LJ |
| Tom Hopkins | 6th |
LJ |
| Damon McLean | 2nd | TJ |
| George Abyad | 6th | SP |
| Craig Pearce | 5th | WT |