Lions Head To Boston For IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships

Saturday, March 5

Boston, Mass.

Columbia University

IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships

Photo by: Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin

Lions Head To Boston For IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships

3/4/2022 2:47:00 PM | Track and Field

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Columbia Track & Field will wrap up the indoor season at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships.

BOSTON — Columbia Track & Field, after two Ivy League Indoor Championships and 15 All-Ivy League honors, will wrap up the 2021-22 indoor season at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships, set to run from Saturday, March 5 to Sunday, March 6 at the Boston University Track & Tennis Center.

The action on Saturday gets going at 10 a.m. with the women's high jump and on Sunday things get going at 9:30 a.m. with the men's triple jump.

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LAST TIME OUT: Columbia last competed over the weekend of Feb. 26-27 at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships held at the Armory, where the Lions collected a pair of Ivy League Championships in the women's DMR and the men's 4x800m relay. They also locked up 15 All-Ivy League honors, which included a pair of Academic All-Ivy League (David Vorbach; Tiffany Bautista) awards.

In the DMR, Phoebe Anderson, Kimmi Woods, Seneca Willen and Nikki Vanasse, clocked a time of 11:20.20 to take the title. The Lions were powered to the win thanks to a strong final leg from Vanasse who caught and passed Harvard's final leg to finish the race in front.

While in the men's 4x800m relay, Juan Zarate-Sanchez, Solomon Fountain, Justin O'Toole and Michael Danzi finished first with a time of 10:00.22. Columbia also got second place finishes from Danzi (One Mile), Sofia Camacho (5,000m) and the women's 4x400m relay crew (Alexis Knight, Amara Onyeukwu, Elena Wilson, Sydney Goldson) to earn second team All-League honors.

LIONS SETTING RECORDS: Columbia had three Lions break school records in two different events at the Ivy League Indoor Heps, with the men's 5,000m record falling twice and the men's 200m being broken as well. In the 5,000m, Vorbach broke his own record with a third-place time of 13:47.05, while right behind him finished Tyler Berg, whose time of 13:49.27 also broke Vorbach's old record of 13:55.02.

As for the 200m, the record of 21.48, set by Jahi Hernandez on Feb. 12, as broken by Chris Balthazar. On the first day, Balthazar set a time of 21.45 putting his name a few seconds ahead of Hernandez.

MORRIS SETS THE RECORD: At the Bill Ward Invitational on Dec. 5, 2021, McKinlee Morris broke a 27-year old program record in the shot put with a toss of 46-2.75/14.09m on her first career collegiate throw. She broke the previous mark that was held by Rachelle Noble, who in 1994, posted a mark of 13.46m.

COLUMBIA'S PARTICIPANTS
IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships (Mar. 5-6)
Boston, Mass.

WOMEN

200-Meter Dash: Amara Onyeukwu,

800-Meter Run: Alex Rodman; Delaney Sanacore

1,000-Meter Run: Seneca Willen

One-Mile Run: Mary Caroline Heinen; Emily Virtue

3,000-Meter Run: Lilly Bradley

DMR: Willen, Alexis Knight, Virtue, Sanacore, Heinen

High Jump: Anna Jordahl-Henry; Julia Jordahl-Henry

Long Jump: Tiffany Bautista

Triple Jump: Kali Hatcher; Bautista

Shot Put: McKinlee Morris

Weight Throw: Lailah Malone

MEN

60-Meter Dash: Chris Balthazar; Jahi Hernandez

500-Meter Dash: Devon Davey

800-Meter Run: Solomon Fountain; Justin O'Toole; Nixon McKenzie; Brandon Hicks; Juan Zarate-Sanchez

1,000-Meter Run: Fountain

One-Mile Run: Ryan Borden; Evan Manley

Shot Put: Yoosang Kim

FOLLOWING THE LIONS: Stay up to date on all things Columbia Cross Country by following the Lions on Twitter (@CULionsXCTF), Instagram (@culionsxctf) and on Facebook (@ColumbiaAthletics).