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Women's Track & Field Challenges for Ivy Championship at Heps This Weekend
May 06, 2015 | Women's Track and Field
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PRINCETON, N.J. (5/6/14) – The Princeton women's track & field team competes for the 2015 Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championship this weekend, May 9 & 10 at Franklin Field. The Tigers have won nine outdoor titles in program history; it's last coming in 2011.
The meet begins on Saturday at 11 a.m., at Irv Mondschein Field with the hammer throw with the first running event at 1 p.m., the trials of the 100.
Sunday's action will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network. Live results will also be available and the crew from @HepsTrack will keep you updated on Twitter.
SPRINTS, HURDLES, MIDDLE DISTANCE
Junior Cecilia Barowski, senior Kim Mackay and senior Jasmine Blocker are expected to get points in the longer sprints. Barowski owns the best time in the league in the 800 at 2:07.23 and the second-best time in the 400 at 54.02. While not competing at outdoor Heps last year, she did win the 800 this past indoor season. Mackay owns times of 55.83 and 2:09.71 and won the indoor 500, and was a scorer in the 800 last spring. Blocker, who also didn't compete last spring brings in a 400 time of 54.79 and was a scorer in the event indoors.
Senior Joanna Anyanwu boasts the Tigers top times in the short sprints.
Junior Meghan McMullin was a scorer in the 400 hurdles last year and aims to hit top six again.
Sophomores Lizzie Bird and Ally Markovich both rank in the top 10 in the league in the 1500. Bird has a 4:25.82 and Markovich has run a 4:26.05. Another possible competitor is sophomore Katie Hanss, who has had a great spring season, as well as Zoe Sims who was a scorer in the 1000 indoors.
DISTANCE
Princeton will rely upon four-time All-America Megan Curham to grab as many points as she can in the distance events. She won the indoor 5k and was second in the 3k in February. Last outdoor Heps she was the runner-up in the 10k and third in the 5k. She owns the fastest 5k time in the league at 15:54.03 and second-fastest in the 10k at 34:07.08.
Kathryn Fluehr was second and third in the indoor distance events and is a solid No. 2 to Curham. She has the third-best time in the league in the 10k at 34:30.74 and the fourth-fastest 5k time at 16:23.06
Other potential scorers in the 3k, 5k and 10k include: senior Emily de La Bruyere, Linsday Eysenbach, Erika Fluehr, Kathryn Little and Melinda Renuart.
Sophomore Lizzie Bird has a dominant time in the steeplechase at 9:58.33. She is the only Ivy League to run under 10 minutes this season. Bird was fourth a year ago. de La Bruyere has the fifth best time in the steeple and was a scorer in the event in 2012.
RELAYS
Princeton looks to regain its footing in the 4x800 this year after a three-year winning streak in the event came to an end last year. The team took fourth two weeks ago at Penn Relays in the Heps race. The 4x400 has the third-best time in the league at 3:42.70, while the 4x100 ranks seventh at 47.17 and won back-to-back years in 2012 and 2011.
JUMPS
Junior Inka Busack looks to build off of her third-place finish indoors in her specialty, the high jump. She has a season best 1.70 (5-7) to rank third in the league. Junior multi-eventer Taylor Morgan is fifth a with 1.68 (5-6).
Sophomore Allison Harris is a two-time scorer in the pole vault, and along with freshman Brittany Henderson and sophomore Lauren Santi, enter the meet with season bests of 3.45 (11-3.75).
In the long jump, junior Sara Ronde has the sixth-longest mark in the league at 5.61 (18-5) and placed third indoors. Sophomore Alex Lanazafame ranks ninth in the league in the triple at 11.78 (38-7.75).
THROWS
Julia Ratcliffe is the heavy favorite to win the hammer throw. The 2014 NCAA champion in the event, Ratcliffe has steadily improved on her marks all season and threw 66.31 (217-7) her last time out. No other Ivy competitor has come close to 200 feet. Also in the top 10 are junior Brielle Rowe at 50.32 (165-1) and freshman Kennedy O'Dell at 49.64 (162-10).
Rowe and O'Dell have trained in all three weighted throws this season and should score in the shot put and discus. Rowe has the fifth-best mark in the discus in the league at 46.28 (151-10) while O'Dell has a 40.47 (132-9). In the shot put, it's O'Dell that has the top mark. She ranks fourth in the league with a 13.43 (44-0.75).
MULTI
Kerry Krause and Morgan were both scorers in the heptathlon last year – with Krause fourth and Morgan fifth. Neither has competed in the multis this season, but bring PRs of 4937 and 4770 respectively.