The Daily Princetonian - Men aim for triple crown

He and the rest of the squad found their hunt to defend their Heps coronet this weekend. The cross society season may be over, however flash for the corresponding recognized distance standouts to be a clout on the track this winter.

The men's and women's track and environment teams engender their seasons this Saturday with the Advanced Year's Invitational in Jadwin Gym. The distance runners testament possible much be recovering from the fall season, nevertheless for the other athletes who enjoy been familiarity on account of October, it will be a chance to last of all compete.

The limit is to set where we are in this closest meet," senior tri-captain Caitlin McTague said. It will be a end to look where we are before leaving for the break." Ultimate winter, the men won Heptagonals in the ending relay with their pressure across all the events, while the women finished fourth at Heps by relying heavily on their distance runners. The women and sent a quartet to NCAAs to compete in the distance medley relay, where they finished eighth.

The men give back senior Dave Nightingale, who won the 3K and 5K at Heps and went on to stop eighth at NCAAs in the mile. In the distance events, Nightingale will be backed up by his man cross-country runners, who annex been impressive so far this year.

On the contrary what makes the men's squad a threat to repeat as Ivy champions this year is its extra power in other events. As far as the Ivy Confederation is concerned, we would cognate to sweep it all," said lesser Shafiq Kashmiri, one of the team's top returning sprinters.

Kashmiri in the 60-meter sprint and subordinate Ian Thomson in the 400-meter dash, along with sophomore Brian Li-A-Ping in the 500, will guidance the sprinters this year, everyone having finished in the top six at behind year's Heps. Freshmen including Mike Eddy, who ran 48.84 for the 400m in aerial school, should extremely action up.

Endure reading below "As distant as the band stays healthy, we accept a larger gunfire than at the end year to success the triple crown," Kashmiri said. Extreme season, the Tigers even-handed fell short of winning Ivy Cooperative titles in all three seasons, the elusive triple crown, as they disoriented the outdoor Heps reputation to Cornell.

Kashmiri said the added coercion may gain played a role in the loss. This season, inferior Duane Hynes, who finished 10th at persist year's indoor NCAA apt in the pentathlon, should again be a force. Sophomore Justin Frick, who has a personal boss of seven feet, one-quarter inches in the alpine jump, leaped his expedient to a land in the NCAA fit latest spring.

For the throwers, Princeton returns secondary Alex Pessala, endure year's Hep's weight lob champion, and sophomore Eric Plummer, who finished third in the shotput.

The women's foursome very looks to own a solid club this year after a fantastic performance at carry on year's outdoor Heps and an much exceeding spectacular cross homeland season this year.

After having such a able cross native land team, the intent just now is to bear a well-balanced gang and jab to cause the crew besides cohesive," McTague said. The meeting place is trying to arrange the gang aggrandized aware of the accepted objective that we all have."

The women's line-up will be led in the distance events by sophomores Liz Costello and Christy Johnson, who dominated the Heps cross sovereign state sphere to finish inaugural and second, respectively, this fall. Costello was competitive in a durable 800m nature at Heps to finish fourth remain year, while Johnson finished fourth in the mile and 3K.

The Tigers further send lower Jolee VanLeuven, who was third in the 5K. Juniors Agatha Offorjebe and Karen Okigbo will escort this year's dash squad, as both were top scorers at Heps last winter. Senior Marta Pardo will be the biggest component for the Tigers in the enlarged bob and triple jump, having trumped-up capacious improvements last year.

She's accompanied in the jumps by minor Christina Argyros, who was Princeton's top finisher in the formidable hop last winter. In spite of a disappointing fourth-place finish at last year's indoor Heps, the women's side bounced back, placing an impressive moment at the outdoor Heps championship.

Our strongest showing last year was our outdoor proper at Heps, and it took us a while to move there," McTague said. On the other hand now, having that confidence and the confidence that we can compete at the constant that we should be at, will support us a piece this year, despite having a fledgling team."

Provided this year's momentum is any indicator of advance to come, the Ivy Union exceptional prepare itself, considering both teams seem ready for another impressive season. NCAA Sanchez presiding at No.