Complete Tri-Meet Results
Complete Princeton Results

ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell men's track team had a very successful week of competition, with more than 25 IC4A qualifiers and 11 event wins at the tri-meet in Ithaca on Friday against Binghamton and the UK's Birmingham at the Robert Kane Sports Complex. Cornell also had athletes competing at Princeton's Larry Ellis Invitational on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

At Princeton, senior Nick Huber scored 7,529 points in the decathlon on Wednesday and Thursday to put himself in great position to advance to the NCAA Finals in Iowa this June. Meanwhile, classmate Chris Ryan set a personal record to garner 6,492 points, No. 9 all-time at Cornell.

A number of very good middle distance and distance performances highlighted the Big Red effort on Friday night, with seven IC4A qualifiers at Princeton. Junior Nick Wade was fourth in the 800 in 1:50.70, sophomore Eric Bice was 11th in the 800 in 1:51.34, junior Will McFall ran 3:48.97 and freshman Ben Potts ran 3:50.62 for 1500.

Juniors Matt McCullough (14:22.34), Kevin Johnson (14:30.06) and Brett Kelly (14:30.51) ran well in the 5000. Also competing was freshman Rutger Admirand, who ran 1:54.37 in the 800, and sophomore Gabe Heck who finished the 5K in 14:55.30.

Warm weather, sunny skies and very breezy conditions provided optimal conditions in the sprints and jumps on Friday in Ithaca, but was a bit tricky for the distance events, 400 hurdles and pole vault. The pole vault was even contested indoors due to unsafe high cross-winds. The Big Red took advantage of the nice spring day and good competition from Birmingham and Binghamton to have a very good day.

The Cornell men were off to a great start in the 4x100 as the team of sophomore Chris Bain, junior Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom, senior Chase Aaronson and sophomore Kinsley Ojukwu became the third-best quartet in school history with a track record of 40.49, also eighth-best in Ivy League history.

In the rarely run 2K steeplechase, junior Andy Arnold led a top-four sweep of the event for Cornell as he ran 6:30.81. In the 100 hurdles, senior Dan Haberg moved to No. 5 all-time with a slightly wind-aided 14.21w, while Nick Athanasopolous bettered the IC4A standard with a thirdplace 14.76w.

Senior Chase Aaronson ran a wind-aided 10.59w to take the 100, while classmate Brian Freitas pulled a remarkable double in winning the 400 hurdles in an IC4A-qualifying 52.92 soon after placing third in the 400 in 48.78. Classmate Dan Thomas was second in the 400 in 48.63.

Also placing first on the track was Ojukwu, who ran an IC4A-qualifying 21.43 in the 200, with sophomore Justin McColli second in 21.89. Sophomore Elliott Rosenberg was second in the 800 in 1:56.38 while the 4x400 of freshman Zach Flood (51.9), freshman Cisco Olloqui (49.5), senior Tom Randall (50.6) and Thomas (47.8) ran 3:19.98 for second.

There were stunning performances in the jumps for the Cornell men. Sophomore Montez Blair moved to No. 2 all-time at Cornell outdoors and tied the facility record with a huge high jump of 7' 2 1/2” while senior Chris Arlinghaus cleared a personal record 7' 1/4” to move to No. 5 all-time and sophomore Tommy Butler was over 6' 10 1/4” for third and an IC4A qualifier.

The Cornell men had an amazing six IC4A qualifiers in the long jump alone. Sophomore Steven Bell had a personal record of 24' 7 1/4”w to win the event, while Blair and sophomore Hercules Stancil both leapt 23' 11”. Freshman Han Wei Chew reached 23' 8 3/4” for fifth, Athanasopolous was seventh at 23' 6 1/4” and junior Jourdan White was 23' 6” for eighth.

In the triple jump, sophomore Dan Scott had a big personal record to move to No. 10 all-time with a mark of 50' 10 3/4”w.

In the vault, sophomore Peter Roach was the winner in an IC4A-qualifying 15' 9”. And in the throws, freshman Stephen Mozia was a double winner and IC4A qualifier, reaching 59' 2 3/4” in the shot put and 166' 8” in the discus while classmate Jesse Braun was second in the shot (50' 7 1/2”) and the hammer (156' 7”).

Next up is the Penn Relays, at Philadelphia's Franklin Field from April 26-28. Cornell will then host the Big Red Invite at the Kane Sports Complex on Sunday, April 29 before returning to Franklin Field for the Outdoor Heps on May 5-6.