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Tigers Have Lead After Day 1 of #IvyHeps
February 25, 2017 | Women's Track and Field
Live Results
Team scores after four events: Princeton 31, Harvard 30, Dartmouth 21, Penn 17.33, Columbia 16.33, Cornell 4, Brown 2.33, Yale 2
Qualifiers headed into tomorrow: Princeton 11, Penn 11, Dartmouth 11, Cornell 9, Columbia 8, Brown 6, Harvard 6, Yale 4.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (2/25/17) – It was a Day 1 that couldn't have been scripted any better for the Princeton women's track field team at the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. With points in every final today, advancing 11 to tomorrow's finals, and PRs coming left and right at The Armory this afternoon, the Tigers hold the lead after Day 1, one point over Harvard.
"We executed very well today." Princeton head coach Michelle Eisenreich said. "We advanced everyone we expected to advance plus a few surprises. We advance at least one runner in every race but the 60m and 200m and will have scoring potential in all the other event finals tomorrow. With the way everyone competed today, I am confident we will see outstanding performances tomorrow."
Julia Ratcliffe began the day with a personal best and new school record in the weight throw. Ratcliffe reached 20.45 (67-1.25) on her third throw to claim her second weight throw title, with the third furthest throw ever executed by an Ivy athlete. She finished as the runner-up the other two years she competed. Three of her other throws would have won her the event as well as she hit 20.30, 19.13 and 19.08 as well. It was just last week that Ratcliffe became the first thrower in program history to throw over 20 meters when she threw 20.13 at the Princeton Invitational.
Sophomore Kennedy O'Dell finished fourth in the event with a throw of 18.44 (60-6). That throw came on her third attempt, as she scores in the event for the second consecutive season. In all the Tigers claimed 14 points in the weight throw.
Senior Allison Harris followed up that performance with a grand one of her own as she matched the meet record, held by herself, of 4.15 (13-7.25). Harris won the indoor title a year with the same mark. She easily cleared the height on her first attempt, while no other vaulter made it over 3.95. Harris holds both the Ivy League and Princeton record in the event with a 4.27, a height she hit a week ago at Virginia Tech.
The Tigers were just getting started. Sophomore Ellie Randolph jumped to huge PR of 19-2.75 (5.86) in the long jump – the second longest jump in Princeton history. It was just one centimeter off the school record held by Jenn Byrd '04, who jumped 5.87 (19-3.25) at the 2004 Indoor Heps. Randolph crushed her previous best of 5.47 (17-11.25) which she posted just weeks ago at the HYP meet.
"Initially we only wanted her to focus on the hurdles, but she said she was feeling ready to jump and she proved she was!"
Harris and Randolph both qualified for the 60-meter hurdle finals tomorrow as well. Randolph clocked a PR of 8.70 in the prelims while Harris matched her PR with an 8.72
Junior Maia Craver was the runner-up in the pentathlon, earning her team eight points with an enormous personal best. She finished with 3,774 points, in the first time scoring for the Tigers. She PR'ed in three of the five events. Craver was second in the shot put (11.53), long jump (5.82) and the 800 (2:22.24), while taking third in the hurdles (8.83) and eighth in the high jump (1.49).
"It's amazing how far she has come along after only starting to train the multies last year," Eisenreich said of Craver.
Senior Lizzie Bird earned six points in the only scored track event of the afternoon, the 3k. Bird finished in a time of 9:39.27 with a great kick down the stretch to get herself in the front of a pack and beat out Cornell and Yale's distance runners.
"Lizzie ran a super, gutsy race in the 3k. It was a tactical and very physical race all the way. She was fighting Jackie Katzman of Cornell for about the last 350m before Katzman finally relented and Lizzy squeezed around her and managed to hold her off for the last 50m."
Princeton has two competitors in tomorrow's 400 final with freshmen Heide Baron and Ashley Willingham as both ran collegiate bests. Baron was fifth overall at 56.60, while Willingham was seventh at 57.05.
Sophomore Elisa Steele had the second-best time in the 500 prelims to advance to tomorrow's final. She ran a PR 1:13.54, improving on her previous best of 1:14.11. Sophomore Carly Bonnet joins her in the final as she posted a 1:15.55, also a PR.
In the mile, the Tigers have junior Delaney Miller and sophomore Alie Fordyce in the final. Miller ran 4:52.49 and Fordyce 4:52.52 to grab the final two spots.
Anna Jurew, who scored in the 800 as a freshman, will get another chance tomorrow in the 800 final. She had the sixth-best time this afternoon to qualify, running 2:10.63.
Seniors Katie Hanss and Zoe Sims each look to come up with points in the 1,000 final tomorrow. Hanss had the fourth-best time today at 2:50.76. Both have been scorers in the past, Sims in this event in 2015 and Hanss in the mile in 2015.
Also tomorrow is the triple jump, shot put and high jump, as well as the three relays.
The women's mile final gets things started at 11 a.m.
Team scores after four events: Princeton 31, Harvard 30, Dartmouth 21, Penn 17.33, Columbia 16.33, Cornell 4, Brown 2.33, Yale 2
Qualifiers headed into tomorrow: Princeton 11, Penn 11, Dartmouth 11, Cornell 9, Columbia 8, Brown 6, Harvard 6, Yale 4.
"We executed very well today." Princeton head coach Michelle Eisenreich said. "We advanced everyone we expected to advance plus a few surprises. We advance at least one runner in every race but the 60m and 200m and will have scoring potential in all the other event finals tomorrow. With the way everyone competed today, I am confident we will see outstanding performances tomorrow."
Julia Ratcliffe began the day with a personal best and new school record in the weight throw. Ratcliffe reached 20.45 (67-1.25) on her third throw to claim her second weight throw title, with the third furthest throw ever executed by an Ivy athlete. She finished as the runner-up the other two years she competed. Three of her other throws would have won her the event as well as she hit 20.30, 19.13 and 19.08 as well. It was just last week that Ratcliffe became the first thrower in program history to throw over 20 meters when she threw 20.13 at the Princeton Invitational.
Sophomore Kennedy O'Dell finished fourth in the event with a throw of 18.44 (60-6). That throw came on her third attempt, as she scores in the event for the second consecutive season. In all the Tigers claimed 14 points in the weight throw.
Senior Allison Harris followed up that performance with a grand one of her own as she matched the meet record, held by herself, of 4.15 (13-7.25). Harris won the indoor title a year with the same mark. She easily cleared the height on her first attempt, while no other vaulter made it over 3.95. Harris holds both the Ivy League and Princeton record in the event with a 4.27, a height she hit a week ago at Virginia Tech.
The Tigers were just getting started. Sophomore Ellie Randolph jumped to huge PR of 19-2.75 (5.86) in the long jump – the second longest jump in Princeton history. It was just one centimeter off the school record held by Jenn Byrd '04, who jumped 5.87 (19-3.25) at the 2004 Indoor Heps. Randolph crushed her previous best of 5.47 (17-11.25) which she posted just weeks ago at the HYP meet.
"Initially we only wanted her to focus on the hurdles, but she said she was feeling ready to jump and she proved she was!"
Harris and Randolph both qualified for the 60-meter hurdle finals tomorrow as well. Randolph clocked a PR of 8.70 in the prelims while Harris matched her PR with an 8.72
Junior Maia Craver was the runner-up in the pentathlon, earning her team eight points with an enormous personal best. She finished with 3,774 points, in the first time scoring for the Tigers. She PR'ed in three of the five events. Craver was second in the shot put (11.53), long jump (5.82) and the 800 (2:22.24), while taking third in the hurdles (8.83) and eighth in the high jump (1.49).
"It's amazing how far she has come along after only starting to train the multies last year," Eisenreich said of Craver.
Senior Lizzie Bird earned six points in the only scored track event of the afternoon, the 3k. Bird finished in a time of 9:39.27 with a great kick down the stretch to get herself in the front of a pack and beat out Cornell and Yale's distance runners.
"Lizzie ran a super, gutsy race in the 3k. It was a tactical and very physical race all the way. She was fighting Jackie Katzman of Cornell for about the last 350m before Katzman finally relented and Lizzy squeezed around her and managed to hold her off for the last 50m."
Princeton has two competitors in tomorrow's 400 final with freshmen Heide Baron and Ashley Willingham as both ran collegiate bests. Baron was fifth overall at 56.60, while Willingham was seventh at 57.05.
Sophomore Elisa Steele had the second-best time in the 500 prelims to advance to tomorrow's final. She ran a PR 1:13.54, improving on her previous best of 1:14.11. Sophomore Carly Bonnet joins her in the final as she posted a 1:15.55, also a PR.
In the mile, the Tigers have junior Delaney Miller and sophomore Alie Fordyce in the final. Miller ran 4:52.49 and Fordyce 4:52.52 to grab the final two spots.
Anna Jurew, who scored in the 800 as a freshman, will get another chance tomorrow in the 800 final. She had the sixth-best time this afternoon to qualify, running 2:10.63.
Seniors Katie Hanss and Zoe Sims each look to come up with points in the 1,000 final tomorrow. Hanss had the fourth-best time today at 2:50.76. Both have been scorers in the past, Sims in this event in 2015 and Hanss in the mile in 2015.
Also tomorrow is the triple jump, shot put and high jump, as well as the three relays.
The women's mile final gets things started at 11 a.m.
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