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Lead Stories: Friday, December 5, 2008

Lehigh set to host the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional XC Champs on Saturday

Posted November 9th, 2007 at 9:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, College

Lehigh will host the 2007 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Saturday morning on the Goodman Campus Cross Country Course. The Division I men’s 10K race will start at 11 a.m., followed by the Division I women’s 6K race at 12:15 p.m. Goodman Campus will also serve as host to the Division III Mideast Regional, with the women’s 6K race starting at 1:15, followed by the men’s 8K race at 2:15.

The Division I men’s race will feature 33 schools, including defending champion and nationally ranked Georgetown (No. 14) as well as Patriot League champion American and Paul Short winner Villanova. The Mountain Hawks will send eight runners to the course, led by freshman Dan McClimon and junior Dan DeWitt.

The women’s race will feature 33 schools, including defending champion and nationally ranked Princeton (No. 4), West Virginia (No. 14), Georgetown (No. 20) and Penn State (No. 28). The Princeton women are also the winners of this year’s Paul Short Run, finishing ahead of West Virginia. The Brown and White will send nine runners to the course, led by junior Shannon Alejandro, who was named to the All-Patriot League first team.

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Raschker sets records at 2007 National Senior Games

Posted July 12th, 2007 at 3:34 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Masters track and field legend Phil Raschker set one world record and two U.S. records at the 2007 National Senior Games July 1-4 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Raschker set the W60 world record in the 400 meters with her time of 66.69 seconds, bettering the previous record of 67.30 set by Ann Stobaus of Australia in 2001. Raschker’s time in the 100 meter final was 13.67, a significant improvement over the existing world record of 13.89 seconds set by Brunhilde Hoffman from Germany in 1999. However, the wind gauge in that race recorded 2.8 meters per second, over the allowable limit of 2.0 for record consideration.

In the long jump, two of Raschker’s best legal jumps of 4.73 meters/15 feet 6.25 inches, and 4.64m/15-2.75, surpassed the listed American W60 record of 4.55m/14-11 set by Nadine O’Connor in 2006. The triple jump witnessed an even more impressive performance, where Raschker recorded leaps of 9.42m/30-11, 9.46m/31-0.5, and 9.63m/31-7.25 meters, each of which bettered Betty Vosburgh’s U.S. record of 8.05m/26-5 meters established in 1992.

Raschker will continue her assault on the record book at the USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships to be held August 2-5, 2007 in Orono, Maine.
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