January 28-29, 2011 -- Captain's Invitational & Combined Events

The middle distance crew and the hurdlers produced the lion’s share of 30 PRs at the Captain’s Invitational including a new School Record in the 4x800m Relay. Jenna Elliot also jumped on to the CNU All-Time List at #3 in the High Jump and Taryn Langley vaulted to #7on the Pole Vault list.

Men’s 4x800m Relay Claims School Record

Women Atop Regional Power Rankings; Men Ranked Second

The Captain’s Invitational offered an expanded event list including a chance to run a 4x800m Relay. CNU lined up three squads including a little bit of a grudge match on the first legs of the “A” and “B” teams for Friday evening’s race.

Corey Lofton’s (Vienna, VA) background in the longer distances left him on the “B” team while four 800m specialists made up the “A”

squad. Shaowei Tu (Mechanicsville, VA) started with the baton for the “A” team and found himself chasing his elder teammate around

all four laps. Lofton split a 1:57.8 with Tu handing off in 1:58.6 – his fastest four laps ever. On the second leg, redshirt junior Jeff Ball (Chesapeake, VA) extended the “B” team’s lead with a 2:01 leg versus Brian Huffman’s (Charlottesville, VA) 2:04.4. The “A” team finally took charge at the end of the third leg. Sophomore Wilson Bever (Chantilly, VA) ran his fastest indoor 800 with a 2:04.6 split, but junior Scott Teribury (Woodbridge, VA) was on his game, too, with a 1:59.7. Matt Winkler (Palmyra, VA) made the final circuits for the lead squad and his 1:56.4 carry stopped the clock at 7:59.24 to set the new school standard (one that appears to be very temporary).

Four of the relay men raced the open 800m on Saturday and all four came away with lifetime bests. Teribury won the event in 1:59.84 with Ball right behind in 2:00.33. Douglas McLellan (Columbia, MD) and Bever also netted PRs at 2:05.91 and 2:06.83, respectively. Winkler won the 600m with a PR 1:23.73 finish. Huffman was 5^th in that race at 1:27.93 – also a PR. Lofton returned to the longer races with a 9:01.99 win in the 3,000m.

The women’s squad claimed two spots on the CNU All-Time Lists in the vertical jumps. In the High Jump, frosh Jenna Elliott (Fredericksburg, VA) cleared an indoor PR 1.58m/5-2.25 and now ranks 3^rd in CNU History. Taryn Langley (Hopewell, VA) scaled two PR heights on the day. Her final clearance at 2.70m/8-10.25 moves her to #7 All-Time for CNU. Kalee Hammerton (Royersford, PA), already CNU’s #4 All-Time Pole Vaulter, slipped over one more height than her teammate (2.85m/9-4.25).

The hurdlers were almost perfect on the PR front. In Friday’s preliminaries, all six Captain’s claimed lifetime bests. Cheria Jackson (Woodbridge, VA) led the way with a 9.76 qualifier – almost half a second faster than her previous 60m Hurdles best. Amanda Reap