Only Erin Aldrich of Texas, who beat out Gyorffy at NCAA Outdoors last year, is competitive with Siilats and Gyorffy on the national performance lists. A one-two Harvard finish at the upcoming NCAAs can only be stopped by Aldrich, and by Gyorffy's decision not to compete in the meet.
"I think the [one-two] finish is possible," Gyorffy said. "But there's still a long way to go. I might go to the World Championships in Lisbon instead of NCAAs, but I need to jump higher than I am right now."
Siilats had not yet returned from the Millrose Games at press time and could not be reached for comment.
New Balance Invitational
On Sunday at the Reggie Lewis Track and Tennis, co-captain Brenda Taylor and Harvard senior Ed Baker and a Crimson men's distance medley confronted the toughest competition they would face all season. None of the competitors beat anyone in their respective events, but still came up with top performances by Ivy standards.
Taylor finished the 400-meter run in 54.80 seconds. While her time was well short of the 52.18 finish of Jearl Miles-Clark--an Olympic Gold medallist in the 4x400 relay along with Marion Jones--Taylor's time was still by far the fastest Ivy time this season in the 400. Baker finished the 3000 in 8:18.19. Only Rob Doyle of Yale, at 8:13.56, has run faster in the league this year.
The Harvard distance medley team finished with 9:55.64--a new season-best in the league, just ahead of Princeton's performance of 9:56.63. Which team is truly better will be decided at the H-Y-P meet at Princeton this upcoming weekend.
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