Perkins Scores 2nd at NCAA

Two years ago Val Roeder '85's son won the NCAA Decathlon, then last year Marlon Mattis's (85) son was the #1 discus thrower in high school and this year John Malone's (82) son has run a 4:04.  Now Randy Perkins' son just finished 2nd in the NCAA 1500 yesterday.  It seems the alum's kids are doing pretty well in Division I athletics. 

Stites 10th in 5K

Frosh Emily Stites just earned another All-America title, this time in the outdoors 5K running 16:08.89 for 10th. 

Balouris

Elaina Balouris, who led for much of the first three miles, finished tenth in the NCAA 10K to earn her third All-American title.  More

NCAA LIVE FEED

You can go here to see a live feed of the NCAA meet.   Boularis is at 10:10 pm tonight.  Stites runs at 9:15 EST on Friday in the 5K. 

NCAA Regional Pictures

Thanks to Tim O'Dowd who posted these 57 pictures from the NCAA Regional meet. 

Stites Makes it to NCAA Meet

Emily Stites qualified for the NCAA meet in the 5K (as expected!).  Here is the complete story. 

Balouris Advanced to the NCAA Meet

Elaina Balouris broke the school record and for the second year advanced to the NCAA finals in the 10K with a time of 33:43.  Also racing in the 10,000m on Thursday evening was sophomore Dylan Hassett who ran 36:14.09 for 38th place.  The race brought Hassett's breakout year to a close, but not before she recorded lifetime-bests in every distance raced and earned All-CAA honors for the first time in cross country.  More

No Men Advanced - Yet at NCAA Regional

Josh Hardin came within two people of qualifying for the NCAA meet with a 14th place 30:07 10K.  Also competing earlier in the day was John Muller  who ran 3:54.54 for 42nd in the 1,500m in his NCAA debut.  Muller earned runner-up honors in the 1,500m at the CAA Championships each of the past two years.  Freshman Austin Vegas  tied for 38th in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 4.75m (15-7).  Vegas, the CAA champion in the vault, qualified for the NCAA meet by breaking the Tribe's freshman record two weeks ago with a 5.01m (16-5.25) at the Virginia Challenge.There are still four more men competing. More

Multiple Athletes Make it to the NCAA Regional Round

Here is the women's list which includes Emily Stites (4th in the 5K), Meghan McGovern (47th in the 5K), Elaina Balouris (11th in the 10K) and Dylan Hassett (40th in the 10K).

Here is the men's list which includes Liam Anastasia-Murphy (45th in the steeple), Alex McGrath  (11th in the 5K), Radford Gunzenhauser (47th in the 5K), Josh Hardin (18th in the 10K), Austin Vegas  (42nd in the pole vault), Robert Smutsky (29th in the javelin) and John Muller (38th in the 1500).  
  

27:59 for Christo Landry

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I remember seeing Landry get 13th place at the NCAA XC meet a number of years ago.  Then he headed into injury oblivion and took three years to get back to where he was before.  Two years ago he notched a mid 28 10K and now at the Payton Jordan meet he became the second fastest W&M runner ever (after Ed Moran) when he knocked out a 27:59 10K.