FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Three Stanford pole vaulters will get an additional chance at NCAA qualifying by competing at the NAU Tune-Up indoor track and field meet on Friday at Northern Arizona University’s Walkup Dome.
Flagstaff’s 7,000-foot elevation certainly benefits high jumping. With this meet, Stanford’s vaulters have two cracks at the NCAA’s, along with the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships on Feb. 26-27. Those with the nation’s top 16 marks after the conference championship weekend earn passage to the NCAA Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 11-12.
All three – junior Dylan Duvio, senior Garrett Starkey, and freshman Kaitlyn Merritt – achieved their season bests last weekend at Albuquerque’s 5,600-foot elevation. Duvio and Starkey reached 17-3 ½ (5.27 meters), which was a personal record for Starkey. Merritt jumped 13-4 ¼ (4.07m), moving her up to No. 3 on Stanford’s all-time indoor performers’ list and No. 3 all-time among Stanford freshmen, including outdoors.
Duvio has an outdoor best of 18-2 ½ and an indoor best of 17-5 ½, and was third at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
At the moment, the men’s No. 16 mark is 17-5 (5.31m), but that will change in the coming weeks. The average last-mark-in over the past six years is 17-8 ½ (5.40m), though last year it took a 17-11 clearance to make nationals.
For the women, 14-0 ½ (4.28m) is No. 16. The six-year average NCAA cut-off has been 13-11 (4.24m), and last year, it took 14-0 (4.27m). Those goals already are obsolete, meaning this will be the most elite field yet.
Meet information:
NAU Tune-Up
City: Flagstaff, Ariz.
Venue: Walkup Dome
Live results: Click here
Stanford schedule (Pacific time):
2 p.m.: Women’s pole vault (Kaitlyn Merritt)
After women’s pole vault: Men’s pole vault (Dylan Duvio, Garrett Starkey)
Stanford in the USTFCCCA rankings:
Men: No. 16
Women: No. 20
Stanford athletes ranked in NCAA Division I top 25:
Men
3,000: 3, Sean McGorty, 7:48.79
5,000: 21, Collin Leibold, 13:50.04.
Distance medley relay: 2, Stanford (Tom Coyle, Jackson Shumway, Justin Brinkley, Sean McGorty), 9:27.27.
Triple jump: 10, Darian Brooks, 52-9 ¼ (16.08m).
Heptathlon: 8, Harrison Williams, 5,690.
Women
800: 8, Olivia Baker, 2:04.10; 11, Claudia Saunders, 2:04.43; 21, Malika Waschmann, 2:05.47
Mile: 21, Elise Cranny, 4:38.44
3,000: 15, Vanessa Fraser, 94.06.
4x400 relay: 13, Stanford (Gaby Gayles, Olivia Baker, Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Kristyn Williams), 3:34.22*.
Distance medley relay: 1, Stanford ‘A’ (Claudia Saunders, Kristyn Williams, Olivia Baker, Rebecca Mehra), 10:54.58; 10, Stanford ‘B’ (Maddy Berkson, Kaitlyn Williams, Malika Waschmann, Hannah Long), 11:18.50.
U.S. Olympic marathon trials
LOS ANGELES – Jacob Riley ’11 was the highest finisher among 10 former Stanford runners who competed in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials on Sunday, capturing 15th in heat so severe for marathoners that nearly a third of those who started the men’s and women’s races failed to finish.
The races were run in the hottest Olympic marathon trials in history, with temperatures climbing to 73 degrees, as the racers grinded on the mostly shadeless pavement. The late start times, 10:06 a.m. for the men and 10:22 for the women, did not help.
Of the 166 men who started the race, only 108 finished. Of the 198 women starters, 149 finished. Four former Cardinal were unable to finish, while six crossed the line. Here are results, listed with their graduating classes.
Men
15, Jacob Riley ‘11, 2:18.31
100, Kevin Havel ‘12, 2:44.02
DNF: Brett Gotcher ’06, Brendan Gregg ’11.
Women
38, Teresa McWalters ‘07, 2:44.54
42, Madeline Duhon ‘11, 2:45.20
45, Stephanie Marcy Dinius ‘11, 2:46.20
76, Heather Tanner ‘01, 2:51.35
DNF: Sara Bei Hall ’05, Shaluinn Fullove ’00.
Flagstaff’s 7,000-foot elevation certainly benefits high jumping. With this meet, Stanford’s vaulters have two cracks at the NCAA’s, along with the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships on Feb. 26-27. Those with the nation’s top 16 marks after the conference championship weekend earn passage to the NCAA Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 11-12.
All three – junior Dylan Duvio, senior Garrett Starkey, and freshman Kaitlyn Merritt – achieved their season bests last weekend at Albuquerque’s 5,600-foot elevation. Duvio and Starkey reached 17-3 ½ (5.27 meters), which was a personal record for Starkey. Merritt jumped 13-4 ¼ (4.07m), moving her up to No. 3 on Stanford’s all-time indoor performers’ list and No. 3 all-time among Stanford freshmen, including outdoors.
Duvio has an outdoor best of 18-2 ½ and an indoor best of 17-5 ½, and was third at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
At the moment, the men’s No. 16 mark is 17-5 (5.31m), but that will change in the coming weeks. The average last-mark-in over the past six years is 17-8 ½ (5.40m), though last year it took a 17-11 clearance to make nationals.
For the women, 14-0 ½ (4.28m) is No. 16. The six-year average NCAA cut-off has been 13-11 (4.24m), and last year, it took 14-0 (4.27m). Those goals already are obsolete, meaning this will be the most elite field yet.
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Meet information:
NAU Tune-Up
City: Flagstaff, Ariz.
Venue: Walkup Dome
Live results: Click here
Stanford schedule (Pacific time):
2 p.m.: Women’s pole vault (Kaitlyn Merritt)
After women’s pole vault: Men’s pole vault (Dylan Duvio, Garrett Starkey)
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Stanford in the USTFCCCA rankings:
Men: No. 16
Women: No. 20
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Stanford athletes ranked in NCAA Division I top 25:
Men
3,000: 3, Sean McGorty, 7:48.79
5,000: 21, Collin Leibold, 13:50.04.
Distance medley relay: 2, Stanford (Tom Coyle, Jackson Shumway, Justin Brinkley, Sean McGorty), 9:27.27.
Triple jump: 10, Darian Brooks, 52-9 ¼ (16.08m).
Heptathlon: 8, Harrison Williams, 5,690.
Women
800: 8, Olivia Baker, 2:04.10; 11, Claudia Saunders, 2:04.43; 21, Malika Waschmann, 2:05.47
Mile: 21, Elise Cranny, 4:38.44
3,000: 15, Vanessa Fraser, 94.06.
4x400 relay: 13, Stanford (Gaby Gayles, Olivia Baker, Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Kristyn Williams), 3:34.22*.
Distance medley relay: 1, Stanford ‘A’ (Claudia Saunders, Kristyn Williams, Olivia Baker, Rebecca Mehra), 10:54.58; 10, Stanford ‘B’ (Maddy Berkson, Kaitlyn Williams, Malika Waschmann, Hannah Long), 11:18.50.
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U.S. Olympic marathon trials
LOS ANGELES – Jacob Riley ’11 was the highest finisher among 10 former Stanford runners who competed in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials on Sunday, capturing 15th in heat so severe for marathoners that nearly a third of those who started the men’s and women’s races failed to finish.
The races were run in the hottest Olympic marathon trials in history, with temperatures climbing to 73 degrees, as the racers grinded on the mostly shadeless pavement. The late start times, 10:06 a.m. for the men and 10:22 for the women, did not help.
Of the 166 men who started the race, only 108 finished. Of the 198 women starters, 149 finished. Four former Cardinal were unable to finish, while six crossed the line. Here are results, listed with their graduating classes.
Men
15, Jacob Riley ‘11, 2:18.31
100, Kevin Havel ‘12, 2:44.02
DNF: Brett Gotcher ’06, Brendan Gregg ’11.
Women
38, Teresa McWalters ‘07, 2:44.54
42, Madeline Duhon ‘11, 2:45.20
45, Stephanie Marcy Dinius ‘11, 2:46.20
76, Heather Tanner ‘01, 2:51.35
DNF: Sara Bei Hall ’05, Shaluinn Fullove ’00.
