Monthly Archives: February 2018

Jonny ran in a home meet this weekend, the Kent State National Qualifier. He only ran in the 800 meter run. There were several schools that participated including Pittsbutg, Akron, Buffalo, Michigan, Ohio, Ashland and Toledo. Jonny ran in the 2nd heat, the faster heat, against a total of 17 runners. He finished 3rd overall with a new personal best time of 1:54.71 for indoor.  With his time he is ranked 419th in the nation at the Division I NCAA Level.  He is also ranked 1277 in the mile run according to DirectAthletics.com, the official NCAA ranking site.

I took some video at ground level, and I had to work my around the full stands, so there are a few moments where I had to change positions and pick up the racers again as they came down the home stretch straight.

Here is a link to the video on YouTube.

Jonny ran the 800 at the Akron Invitational. Unfortunately I got the flu and was unable to make the trip due to a fever, headache, nausea and overall soreness. Nikki did make the trip though and stayed all day as there was a chance that Jonny was also going to run the last event of the day, the mens 4×400, which the team ended up not starting. There were 23 teams in attendance and they split up the early sessions, the blue division from the later session the gold division. Jonny wasn’t considered a top tier gold division in the 800 which was a single heat, Instead he ran in the fastest heat of the blue division. He ran a 1:55.99 which placed him 3rd out of 20 in his division and he would have placed 9th overall out of 31 if they timed the 3 heats, 1 gold division and 2 blue division, together. Not bad for a freshmen!

Nikki was kind enough to take some video when she was there with her phone. Here is the video she took.

Here is a link to the video on You Tube.