Feb. 20, 2005
Four first-years won their events as the Columbia men and women's track and field competed at the Princeton Invitational in Princeton, N.J. The Lions won seven events in total.
Osamuede Iyoha (C-Ann Arbor, Mich.) won the women's 60m hurdles with a time of 8.97 for her first collegiate title. The first-year also placed third in the women's 60m dash.
Kurstin Nelms (C-Spotsylvania, Va.) bumped down for her usual middle distances to win the women's 400m dash in :58.07. Nelms had won the 1000 at Princeton's New Year's Invitational in December.
Another first-year Whitney Crayton (C-Houston, Texas) won the 500m dash with a time of :1:15.5, edging out teammate Katy Schlichtman (C-Rock Hill, N.Y.) by two tenths of a second. Both times qualified them for the ECAC Championships.
Sophomore Margaret Frank (B-Portland, Ore.) won the 3000m by nearly seven seconds, finishing in 10:28.88.
Susan Hendrick (C-Solomans, Md.) won the women's mile as the Lions took four of the top five spots. Hendrick and Corinne Roberts (C-Alameda, Calif.) finished as the top two while Rachel Belt (C-Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Elizabeth Carey (C-Portland, Ore.) took fourth and fifth.
The men's team secured two event titles and a number of places with a small squad. Brian Horneck (Hermiston, Ore.) won the men's 800m with a time of 1:55.72. First-years Jonah Rathbun (Seattle, Wash.) won the men's 1000m while classmate Justin Fiske (Yuba City, Calif.) finished second. Graham Treece (Portland, Ore.) placed second in the men's mile and Sam Miller (Austin, Texas) placed fourth in the same event.
Only twelve student-athletes competed for the men's team and seven placed in the top five of their events.
Next weekend the Lions will look repeat their Cross Country Heptagonal doubles as they compete in the indoor Heps in Cambridge, Mass.
