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One week after winning the Heptagonal championships, the men’s and women’s track teams will be back in action this weekend, as they compete in the IC4A and ECAC championships in Boston. Cornell athletes earned All-Ivy nods in nearly every event. Senior captain Katy Jay topped the women’s list, earning first-team honors in the 400m and as a member of the 4x400m relay. She also claimed second-team spots in the 60m and 200m races. Other member of the 4x400m team who received first-team honors were sophomores Kari Steed, Jessica Brown, and Shonda Brown. Other women on the list included second-teamers senior Sarah Herskee and sophomore Becky Tucker. On the men’s side, 14 different athletes were named All-Ivy. First-team awards went to the 4x400m relay team of junior Mike Nanaszko, senior Mike Kiselycznyk, and sophomores Keenan Goggins and Brian Eremita. Additionally, sophomore Ryan Schmidt, junior Tyler Kaune, and senior Mike Harbeck all made the first-team list in the high jump, long jump, and pole vault, respectively. Eremita, junior Giles Longley-Cook, and seniors Derek Kingrey and Dan Dombroski also received individual mention on the second-team list. Eremita took home the award for the 500m; Longley-Cook, the weight throw; Kingrey, the shot put; and Dombroski, the 5,000m. Also garnering second-team honors was the distance medley relay team of senior Barry Kahn, freshman Greg Simonds, sophomore Oliver Tassinari, and senior Geoff Van Fleet. Following last weekend’s performance, the men head confidently into the IC4A’s — the country’s largest and oldest indoor championship. “Guys on the team are more determined than ever to stay on top,” said men’s head coach Nathan Taylor. The team also realizes, however, that the intensity of this meet will be a step up from that at Heps. Several prominent Division I programs and stiff competition from other schools, such as second-place Heps finisher Princeton, will give the Red a run for its money. Georgetown, last year’s champion, is the perennial favorite to take the top spot, as the Hoyas have emerged as meet champions in eight of the last 10 meets. Competition for the women will be similarly close fin the ECACs. “Our expectations are always the same,” said women’s head coach Lou Duesing. “We can’t expect anything more than best our women can give.” In the meet, the Red will face last year’s top-five finishers — Seton Hall, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, and Connecticut. Each of these teams returns many starters, but the Red has momentum on its side and will strive to break into this lineup. Barring any NCAA qualifiers, the IC4As and ECACs are the last indoor events for both the men and women, and each team hopes to conclude its season with a bang. Archived article by Everett Hullverson
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After finishing fourth a weekend ago at the Ivy Classic, the gymnastics team will return to action tomorrow when it hosts Temple in Teagle Gymnasium. Cornell will look to bounce back from one of its worst performances of the year, in which it struggled on several events. Last weekend at Penn, the tumblers provided uncharacteristically poor performances on the beam and the vault. The Red managed to score just 44.925 as a team on the beam, by far its season-low effort. The team was plagued by several falls on the apparatus, with sophomores Meghan Miller and Danielle Inwald being the only two members breaking the 9.0 mark. Despite a third-place finish by junior Denise Hurd, the Red also scored poorly on the vault. As it has done all season, the Red once again posted high scores on the uneven bars. The team finished first in the event, posting a team-record score of 48.350. Freshman Cathy Schnell broke the Cornell record, scoring a 9.9, and in doing so, claiming a share of the Ivy title. Sophomore Shellen Goltz also put up one of the best scores in program history, nailing her routine for a 9.8, which is fourth-best ever. Cornell, led by the efforts of sophomore Larissa Calka, also placed well on the floor exercise. Calka’s 9.775 led the team to a 48.175 showing on the event. The Red will look to bounce back in the beam and vault this week. “Hopefully we’ve got that problem solved. We’ve been working really hard on both all week,” Cornell head coach Paul Beckwith said. “I look for a moderate improvement on the vault … and beam should be a gigantic improvement.” Cornell, though, will face a tough opponent in Temple, which has been scoring higher than the Red this season. “They’ve been scoring pretty consistently in the 190-191 range,” said Beckwith. “That’s where our team is. We just need to show it.” “I think we’re every bit as good as they are,” Beckwith concluded.Archived article by Alex Ip