Track & Field Set For Outdoor Heptagonal Championships

Ivy League Release and Meet Information

HANOVER, NH - The biggest meet of the season for the Dartmouth men's and women's track and field team is this weekend down at Princeton as the Tigers host the 2010 Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

The Big Green enter this weekend with many top seed performers and hopefully each one can put up points towards the team total.

Freshman Connor Reilly (Niskayuna, N.Y.), for the men, will be one of those top competitors for Dartmouth in the 100m dash. He was the Indoor Heps Champion in the 60m dash and is the favorite coming into his first outdoor championships. His top number was set in the tri-meet against Vermont and Middlebury as he crossed the line at 10.77 seconds, which is the second fastest in the Ivy League this season. He also posted a time of 10.9 seconds at the Yale Springtime Invitational.

New Jersey native Ted Lesher (Upper Saddle River, N.J.) returns home and will compete in more events than any other Big Green athlete. Lesher will be taking part in the long jump, triple jump and 110m hurdles, and the teams believes he can score in each event. He had a great performance in all three of those events at the Yale Springtime Invite with a first-place finish in the long jump and top-three finishes in the hurdles and triple jump as well. He will take on two of the three events on Saturday as the long jump will be at noon and the 110m hurdles at 1:45 p.m.

In other field events, junior David Irving (Manchester, N.H.) will be a top seed in both the hammer throw and discus going into Saturday. The hammer throw kicks off the entire event with a 10 a.m. start, while the discus is at noon on Sunday. He stretched his personal best to 57.57 meters in the hammer throw at the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton and took seventh place. Irving took second in the hammer at the Yale Springtime Invite and was the top collegiate finisher with a toss of 53.76 meters. He also finished third in the discus at 43.59 meters.

The women, like the men, have former champions and newcomers that will be making impacts throughout the weekend.

Junior Alexandra Tanner (Baltimore, Md.) returns to the Heptagonals as the reigning champion in the 400 meter hurdles and looks to become a two-time champion in the event. She is coming off a first-place finish at the Yale Springtime Invitational with a time of 1:01.5. Her fastest time of the season, which is third in the Ivy League, was at The Penn Relays at 1:00.31. The top four finishers in the event this season are no more than a second apart in their top times.

Sophomore Priscilla Trojano (West Bridgewater, Mass.) will look to sweep the multi-events as she won the pentathlon at the 2010 Indoor Heps in Hanover. She has the highest point total among Ivy Leaguers this spring with 4454 points at the Coastal Carolina Shamrock Classic in late March. Trojano is over 300 points ahead of the next competitor going into the event this weekend.

Freshman Emmaline Berg (Holliston, Mass.) will be competing in her first Outdoor Heps this weekend and will be throwing the shot put and discus. She is a top-10 seed in each event and is a fourth-seed in the shot put with her longest toss of the season coming at the Shamrock Classic. Berg made a mark of 14.27 meters (46-10) at the event and is within reach of the top throwers in the league. She will be the ninth seed going into the discus with her top throw a couple of weeks ago at the Yale Springtime Invite at 41.8 meters (137-2). Sophomore Anna Niedbala (Palermo, Maine) is the eighth seed in the same event with a mark of 41.83 meters (137-3) at the tri-meet against Vermont and Middlebury.

The Ivy League will be provided up-to-date event updates and be sure to log in throughout the weekend to HepsTrack.com for live blogging for each event.

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