Michigan
Big Ten Outdoor Championships
Morrissey Wins Big Ten 800 Meters as Wolverines Tie for Fifth
5/13/2018 8:03:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
Site: Bloomington, Ind. (Robert C. Haugh Track & Field Stadium)
Event: Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships (Day 3 of 3)
U-M Team Result: T-Fifth Place of 13 Teams (60 points)
Next U-M Event: Thu-Sat., May 24-26 -- NCAA East Preliminary Rounds (Tampa, Fla.)
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- For the third day in a row a University of Michigan women's track and field distance runner stood atop the Big Ten Outdoor Championships podium as the Wolverines finished the conference meet on Sunday (May 13) in a four-way tie for fifth in the team standings.
Jamie Morrissey claimed the 800 meters title Sunday to follow in the footsteps of teammates Friday's 10,000 meters winner Erin Finn and Saturday's steeplechase winner Claire Borchers, propelling the Wolverines to a 60-point performance in the team standings to tie with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Nebraska.
Minnesota took the team title with 134 points.
Not only did Morrissey take the 800 meter title, but she also added a fifth-place effort at 1,500 meters behind runner-up Haley Meier. Sprinter Jade Harrison scored points in two different events on the day, anchoring the eighth-place 4x100 relay before coming back to take eighth at 800 meters.
Though she has been a Big Ten relay champion and an eight-time finalist in Big Ten 800-meter competitions, Sunday's win marked Morrissey's first breakthrough for an individual conference title.
In the face of temperatures approaching 90 degrees, Morrissey still blasted an impressive wire-to-wire win in 2:05.73 to take the win over the hard-charging Indiana duo of Kendell Wiles and Kelsey Harris by just under half a second.
After coming through the bell neck-and-neck with Wiles and the rest of the field, Morrissey began to pull away down the backstretch on her final lap to open up a gap between herself and the rest of the field. The margin proved to be just as much as the Indiana pair closed hard on her down the stretch, but were unsuccessful in their pursuit.
Impressive in its own right, Morrissey's 800 meter title -- Michigan's second in the past three seasons -- takes on extra significance by virtue of it coming just over an hour after she took fourth in the 1,500-meter final.
Haley Meier was the top Wolverine in that final, clocking 4:28.13 as she nearly outdueled multiple-time conference winner Danae Rivers of Penn State (4:27.47) to the line. Meier led through the first 1,100 meters of the race, only ceding the front of the race to Rivers over the final quarter mile.
Morrissey employed the opposite strategy of Meier and herself in the 800 final an hour later, moving up from sixth at the bell to fourth to come home in 4:29.39,
Hannah Meier just missed the scoring in ninth, clocking 4:33.96. Sharing that distinction with her in the 5,000 meters later in the afternoon was Kathryn House, coming through in 17:01.43 for ninth in an oppressively hot final.
Michigan's other two points on the day came by way, in part, of Harrison.
She anchored the 4x100 relay team that clocked 45.07 to kick off the day, just missing the 20-year-old school record of 45.01 by .06 of a second. While it was not a record, the point that Harrison, Meghan Marias, Torisa Johnson and Lauren Morgan earned contributed to keeping Michigan tied for fifth in the standings.
So, too, did Harrison's solo effort in the 200-meter final. She clocked 23.75 into a 0.5m/s headwind to earn another point for the Wolverines.
Entries will be announced later this week for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds in Tampa, Florida, on May 24-26. The meet will serve as the gateway to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in early June.
COLLEGIATE CAREER-BEST PERFORMANCES AT BIG TENS
Kathryn House -- 17:01.43 / 5000m
FULL MICHIGAN RESULTS BY EVENT
w = wind-aided (greater than 2.0 meter-per-second [m/s] wind; marks with wind up to 4.0m/s are allowable for NCAA Preliminaries qualifying purposes)
100 Meters (Prelims) (Saturday)
20. Torisa Johnson / 12.04 (-0.1m/s)
23. Meghan Marias / 12.20 (+0.1m/s)
24. Lauren Morgan / 12.22 (+0.1m/s)
26. Akili Echols / 12.31 (+0.1m/s)
200 Meters (Final)
8. Jade Harrison / 23.75 (-0.5m/s)
9. Jade Harrison / 23.74q (+0.2m/s) (Friday Prelims)
31. Meghan Marias / 25.38 (+0.2m/s) (Friday Prelims)
400 Meters (Prelims) (Saturday)
12. Jade Harrison / 53.72
26. Julia Hall / 57.16
800 Meters (Final)
1. Jamie Morrissey / 2:05.73
1. Jamie Morrissey / 2:05.30Q (Saturday Prelims)
12. Jaimie Phelan / 2:09.25 (Saturday Prelims)
18. Carola Jansohn / 2:11.41 (Saturday Prelims)
20. Mallory Barrett / 2:12.37 (Saturday Prelims)
1,500 Meters (Final)
2. Haley Meier / 4:28.13
4. Jamie Morrissey / 4:29.39
9. Hannah Meier / 4:33.96
2. Jamie Morrissey / 4:19.96Q (Friday Prelims)
6. Hannah Meier / 4:22.56Q (Friday Prelims)
9. Haley Meier / 4:24.06Q (Friday Prelims)
15. Alice Hill / 4:26.66 (Friday Prelims)
5,000 Meters (Final)
14. Rachel Coleman / 17:11.85
17. Meg Darmofal / 17:27.74
9. Kathryn House / 17:01.43
10,000 Meters (Final) [Friday]
1. Erin Finn / 32:45.51
10. Sophie Linn / 35:22.43
7. Madeline Trevisan / 35:02.22
12. Gina Sereno / 35:33.65
400-Meter Hurdles (Prelims) [Friday]
11. Chloe Foster / 59.72
29. Jenna Reid / 65.99
3,000-Meter Steeplechase (Final)
1. Claire Borchers / 9:58.36
3. Sarah Zieve / 10:14.86
15. Ellie Leonard / 10:50.58
4x100 Relay (Final)
8. Johnson, Marias, Morgan, Harrison / 45.07
4x400 Relay (Final)
9. Foster, Hall, Reid, Harrison / 3:41.21
High Jump (Final) (Saturday)
8. Katt Miner / 1.76m (5-9.25)
Pole Vault (Final) [Friday]
14. Sarah Uhlian / 3.82m (12-6.25)
Hammer Throw (Final) [Friday]
8. Courtney Jacobsen / 59.50m (195-2)
Heptathlon (Day 2 of 2) (Saturday)
4. Aaron Howell / 5,527 points
100 meter hurdles - 14.07 (+0.8m/s) / 968 points [Friday]
High Jump - 1.75m (5-8.75) / 916 points [Friday]
Shot Put - 12.79m (41-11.5) / 713 points [Friday]
200 meter dash - 26.28 (-1.1m/s) / 773 points [Friday]
Long Jump - 5.37m (17-7.5) (-0.1m/s) / 663 points
Javelin - 43.19m (141-8) / 729 points
800 meter run - 2:24.38 / 765 points
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