Meet Information
• Meet: ECAC/VCU Last Chance Meet
• Location: Princeton University/VCU
• Date: Saturday, May 11; Sunday, May 12
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins track and field teams will be sending more athletes to the NCAA Championships in Geneva OH as JHU participated in two last chance meets over the weekend and
Therese Olshanski and
Alex Mollick posted top-20 times in the nation.
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ECAC Results/
VCU Results
Meet Highlights:
• Therese Olshanski raced to the ninth-fastest time in Division III in the 1,500-meter race as her new personal best time of 4:31.58 at the ECACs at Princeton secured her a spot at NCAAs. Also at the meet,
Ollie Hickson ran a 32:23.79 in the 10k.
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Alex Mollick broke the school record at the Centennial Conference Championships last weekend and went ahead and broke it again this week as his time of 10.61 gave him second in the event at VCU and now ranks in a tie for 12
th in the nation in the event.
• The Blue Jay 4x100 relay team of
Matthew Su,
Justin Canedy,
Nathaniel Amoah and Mollick clocked in with a time of 42.04 which is the fastest relay time for a JHU 4x100 team this season.
• Canedy and Su notched third and sixth place finished in the long jump as Canedy finished third with a leap of 7.14m and Su finished with a mark of 6.95m. Freshman
Ethan Bartlett recorded a leap of 13.75-meters in the triple jump which was good enough for third overall.
• Freshman
Ashley Tyburski recorded a time of 1:00.91 in the 400-meter dash at VCU.
Up Next
• Blue Jay athletes will look to post more NCAA qualifying times at the Swarthmore Last Chance Meet which will take place tomorrow, Monday, May 13 with events beginning at 3:30 pm.
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