This weekend, the Columbia track and field team will travel to its last meet of the outdoor season before the Ivy League Heptagonal, ECAC/IC4A, and NCAA outdoor track and field championships. The Light Blue will be heading to Princeton, NJ for the Princeton Elite Meet.
Several Lions had good showings at the meet last year in tight competition. Columbia junior Serita Lachesis took first in the 800-meter run, just three-tenths of a second ahead of Brown’s Kesley Ramsey. In the 5,000-meter run, fellow Columbia junior Christina Henderson placed second with a time of 18:25.73, behind Meghan Braffet of Maryland. Henderson was joined in the event by sophomores Hannah Kligman, Katherine Carrington, Jillian Pollack, and Jillian Goodwin, who finished third, fifth, seventh, and eighth, respectively. Sophomore Katherine Kolombatovich came in fourth in the 400-meter hurdles.
On the men’s side, junior Mike Mark narrowly missed a first-place finish in the 800-meter run, as he was outpaced by Penn’s Darryll Oliver, who took the title with a time of 1:51.84, a narrow four-hundredths of a second ahead of Mark. But Zach Richard brought home the title in the subsequent 1,500-meter run for Columbia, a cool second ahead of the competition, while junior Sean Quinn managed a solid third-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles for the Light Blue.
This year, Columbia brings a much-improved, stronger force to the competition. Sophomore Jeff Moriarty, who has been the success story of the 2009 season, is expected to perform outstandingly in the distance events, while freshman Kyra Caldwell will be visiting the Princeton track for the first time, looking to continue her success in both the 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles. Fellow freshman Sharay Hale has proven herself to be a force in the 200-meter and 400-meter dash, sweeping the events several times.
The Princeton Elite meet will run from Friday, May 1 to Saturday, May 2.
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