Tuesday, May 27, 2008


Mary Whitehead (1985-2008)
Thanks to Coach Davis for these additional pictures of Mary who died recently.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

National Qualifying Meet
It's finally here. At the regional meet, the top five athletes in each event and the next seven nationally by time, will qualify for the national meet. In addition to the 13 listed below, Katie Guevel has provisonally qualified in the heptathlon with 5158 points and is ranked 39th in the NCAA). (regional ranking in parentheses) For the women, Emily Anderson (5) leads the way with a 4:17.02 1500 and joining her is Meghan Burns (39) with her 4:30. In the steeple, frosh Betsy Graney (18) and Emily Arena (35) have 10:41 and 10:54 respectively while Allie Lewis (38) has run a 2:09.68 in the 800. Field eventers Abby Lemon (19) has a 53.34 in the hammer and Carly Morse (35) is going with her 13.81m in the shot put while Cam Shriver (10) has qualified in the high jump with a 2.10m and Nicole Kazuba (5) has made it in the pole vault. Rob Dennis (36) and Harry Miller (5)are both going in the steeplechase with a 9:08 and a 8:49. Ian Fitzgerald (24, 9) has a 3:45.74 in the 15oo and a 13:55 5K. Joining Ian will be Patterson Wilhelm (32) with his 14:16.80 and Lynn Morelli (40) with a 16:46.

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Men's NCAA D1 rankings  Women's NCAA D1 rankings

The meet will be on Friday and Saturday at FSU in Tallahassee and the schedule is here. We will have more about the meet later this week, but for now, the live results can be found here.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

IC4A Champion Fitzgerald Talks to sss.org
Ian Fitzgerald talks about what he terms his surprising win in the IC4A 1500, his thoughts on the upcoming regional 5K and his post collegiate plans. Click here to hear the podcast (will take 30 seconds to load).

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Mary Whitehead, 1985 - 2008
As many of you may know by now, Mary Whitehead '07 died last Thursday, 5/15. The service will be held this Thursday, May 22 at 11:00am at St. Philip Catholic Church (7500 St. Philip Court, Falls Church, VA 22042; 703-573-3808). More

Monday, May 19, 2008



ECAC/IC4A Champions
Thanks to Coach Fritz for the great camera work. Up top is Nicole Kazuba's ECAC winning jump in the pole vault and below is the entire 1500 that was won by Ian Fitzgerald.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

IC4A/ECAC Finishes with Two W&M Victories
Senior Ian Fitzgerald (Glenshaw, Pa.) started the day for W&M by winning the 1,500m with a furious sprint down the home stretch, and timed 3:46.26, only five hundredths of a second ahead of the runner-up. It is Fitzgerald’s first individual IC4A title, but second overall as he ran the mile leg of the championship distance medley relay team at the 2007 indoor championships. More Sophomore Emily Anderson (Golf, Ill.) cruised to one-second victory in the 3,000m run, timing 9:33.32 for her second ECAC gold medal.
Junior Lynn Morelli (Philadelphia, Pa.) earned All-East honors with her sixth-place finish with a time of 9:48.91. More Pictures and video will be coming in the next few days.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Four More Earn All-East Honors
Sophomore Nicole Kazuba (Chantilly, Va.) had been pounding against the 13-foot barrier all spring, and finally broke through Saturday to win the ECAC pole vault title with a height of 13’ 1.5”. Also in the pole vault, freshman Emily Jeremiah (Mechanicsville, Va.) vaulted 12’ 3.5” for fifth place and her first All-East award. The jump also gave her W&M’s freshman outdoor record. Both of the College’s heptathletes persevered through adversity through the last three events to earn All-East honors. Freshman Katie Guevel (Burlington, Kan.) finished sixth with 4,642 points, and senior Brenna Blevins (Pulaski, Va.) finished her career by taking eighth with a score of 4,534 points. More
Senior Ian Fitzgerald (Glenshaw, Pa.) ran comfortably to the top seed in tomorrow’s 1,500m finals, advancing in a time of 3:46.53. He will be joining the 4x800 team that also qualified for the finals. More

Friday, May 16, 2008

IC4A Meet Opens w. Four Earning All-East
Sophomore Patterson Wilhelm (Lynchburg, Va.) earned the Tribe’s first All-East award of the weekend, placing fourth in the 5,000m run with his second fastest race ever, 14:19.23. In the same race, senior Dave Mock (Johnstown, Pa.) ran 14:49.45 for 29th, and junior Charlie Swartz (Manassas, Va.) was 30th in 14:49.62. CAA Champion Ben Massam (Chatham, N.J.) ran the team’s season-best time in the 10,000m, timing 30:23.09 for fifth place and All-East honors. More
Freshman Betsy Graney (Harper Woods, Mich.) was just off of career-best pace in the 3,000m steeplechase, but still ranked third in the field with her time of 10:41.68 to earn All-East honors for the first time. Junior Emily Arena (Manassas, Va.) also ran the steeplechase, finishing 20th in 11:24.99. In the 5,000m run, senior Emily Gousen (Arlington, Va.) was named All-East for the sixth time in her career after taking fifth in 17:01.98. Classmate Katie Endres (Sterling, Va.) took 20th in the 10,000m, running 38:00.12. More

Thursday, May 15, 2008

IC4A/ECAC Championships This Weekend
The Tribe has achieved 27 qualifying marks for the ECAC Championships, and will send 20 women and two relays up to Princeton, the largest squad in school history. Two returning champions (Emily Anderson and Brenna Blevins) are included in the group. The men’s team is also sending a large crew to the IC4A meet, with 16 athletes and one relay representing 22 qualifying marks. More and more

Look for live results (as well as the schedule) here starting tomorrow.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Post Season Marks Set at Taylor Cattle Farm Meet
Emily Anderson returned to competition in the 1500 and qualified for the NCAA regional meet as well as provisionally for the US Olympic Trials. Her time of 4:17.02 set a new school record by 2 seconds besting All-American Emily Furia and is now the 6th fastest time among NCAA runners this spring. Joining her in NCAA regional qualifying was Nicole Kazuba in the pole vault and Ian Fitzgerald who won by a minute in the 5K. Qualifying for the IC4A/ECAC meet was Bryce Wilk (steeple), Brian Skldowski and Alex Heacock (15oo), Emily Jeremiah (pole vault), Kelly Elroy (800) and Katie Guevel (100 m h). Andrew Mearns also nabbed a trip to the USA Track and Field Junior Championships.
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