Larry Ellis Invitational

[excattyguy]

Here are a few results. The rest can be found at the Princeton website:
1500 Gibney 3:44.95 // McEntee 3:47.77 (running unattached) //McKenzie 3:47.98 // Tetreault 3:48.07

800 Apwah 1:51.33 // Wikler 1:55.09

women's 800 Neutts 2:10.61 // Lipari 2:09.10 //McElroy 2:11.42

 

[whitecat]

Given the importance of next weekend, I wonder if those who will participate
just ran a good workout. But not running at their fullest.

 

[excattyguy]

It may have been the weather too. The most interesting thing is McEntee running unattached. Maybe he is redshirting the outdoor season. I'm also curious aobut Fitzsimmons' status.

 

[sebastianc]

There was a Chris Fitzsimmons sighting at the Widener Invitational, Friday. He won the 800 in 1:53.37. He ran unattached.

Note that Chris Williams ran for the first time in a very long time (a year? two years?) Finished 10th in section 9 of 800 in 1:57.91. What happened?

 

[LSU-Nit]

Re FitzSimons: if ever there was an American kid who one would expect not to be red-shirted, it was this kid. Marcus has been consistent throughout his tenure about his reluctance to let true freshman use a year of eligibility; I've read him say that the best that can be expected of a freshman is to run at his high school level and that most kids go backwards as freshmen. But FitzSimons was so promising, I expected him to be a big part of things this year. But Marcus stuck to his blueprint and basically red-shirted the lad for all three seasons. Marcus has allowed the (usually older) imported kids to run as freshman, but usually shuts down 18-year old American kids for their first year. Still, FitzSimons was splitting 1:47 last summer. With 4 years of eligibility left, he could turn out to be a monster.

 

[novaclassof90]

Totally understand Marcus' philosophy on the true 18 yr. old frosh. The jump from HS to college is more about training than racing I would think. A HS kid has never gone through the type of training/workouts that they will in college and I think that really hurts their racing quality as a frosh. Most just aren't ready to make the jump.

The only exception, which I am sure that Marcus has factored in, is that for the non full scholarship guys, staying at Nova for a 5th year can be pretty darn expensive. Even if you are giving a kid a 50% scholarship, the family still will need to come up with about 25K to pay for that 5th year.