THE BASICS:
 
- Location: BU Track and Tennis Center (Boston, Mass.); Johnson Indoor Track (Cambridge, Mass.)
 
- The Lead: Led by school records from juniors Kenneth Wei (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) and Jeremiah Budiman (Plano, Texas), the No. 6 ranked MIT men's track and field team competed at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at BU and the Gordon Kelly Invitational at MIT.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED AT BU:
 
- On Friday night, the distance medley relay team of sophomore Henry Hardart (Annapolis, Md.), first-year Ian Koe (San Mateo, Calif.), first-year Pau Ilerbaig-Bajona (Toronto, Canada) and Ryan Wilson (Redwood City, Calif.) ran the No. 8 time in the nation as they finished eighth overall in a time of 9:57.75.
 
- On Saturday, Wei finished sixth overall and is ranked third in the country with the school-record time of 8.04 seconds in the finals. This broke his own school record by a .05-second margin.
 
- In the 800 meters, Wilson and Ilerbaig-Bajona both ran times that rank among the top 20 in the nation. Wilson was 16th overall and is ranked second nationally at 1:50.16, while Ilerbaig-Bajona was 47th overall and is ranked No. 19 with a time of 1:52.66.
 
- In the 1,000, first-year Reece Shuttleworth (Arlington, Va.) finished 20th overall in 2:28.60 and was second in his section, followed by first-year Ziyad Hassan (Ashburn, Va.) in 30th place at 2:30.65. In the mile, Hardart finished 71st overall and is ranked 12th in the nation as he ran a time of 4:07.79, along with sophomore Raymond Brookman (Santa Cruz, Calif.) placing 21st in the 3,000 in 8:30.19.
 
- Graduate student Reid Kovacs (Palo Alto, Calif.) finished second overall and won his section of the unseeded 5,000 meters as he ran a time of 14:38.50. In the seeded 5K, junior Matthew Kearney (Austin, Texas) ran 14:20.63 and is ranked 13th in the country. Junior Vedang Lad (Plainsboro, N.J.) is now ranked 31st after running a 14:35.14, while senior Andrew Mah (Newton, Mass.) is 33rd nationally after posting a time of 14:49.46.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED AT THE GORDON KELLY INVITATIONAL:
 
- In the 60 meters, Budiman captured the event in a time of 6.94 seconds to break the previous school record by .02 seconds. The previous record holder was junior McKinley Polen (Los Altos, Calif.), who finished seventh in the race in 7.27 seconds. Budiman also finished fourth in the long jump with a leap of 21 feet, 3.5 inches.
 
- First-year Carlos Villa (Gurnee, Ill.) earned the win in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:10.12, while first-year Samir Amin (Olympia, Wash.) was second in the 1,000 meters in 2:38.32.
 
- In the weight throw, senior Nathan Basinger (Dalton, Ohio) won the event with a toss of 53 feet, 8.5 inches. Senior William Woltmann (Secaucus, N.J.) finished fifth at 49 feet, 2.25 inches and first-year Sam Engbretson (Sioux Falls, S.D.) was sixth at 48 feet, 8.75 inches. The trio also competed in the shot put, where Basinger led the way in third at 48 feet, 4.25 inches. Woltmann was eighth with a throw of 47 feet, 7.25 inches and Engbretson was 10th at 45 feet, 7.25 inches.
 
- Led by a runner-up finish by senior Max Hardy (Houston, Texas), the Engineers had five top-10 performances in the pole vault. Hardy posted a season-best height of 15 feet, 11 inches and is currently ranked 11th in the nation. Senior Everett Brandyberry (Hill City, Kan.) and graduate student Liam Ackerman (Miami, Fla.) were third and fourth, respectively, with heights of 15 feet, five inches and 14 feet, 11 inches. First-year Luka Srsic (Worthington, Ohio) placed sixth with a clearance of 14 feet, 5.25 inches, with junior Bryan Sperry (San Diego, Calif.) finishing 10th with a height of 13 feet, 5.25 inches.
 
- In the high jump, sophomore Spencer Yandrofski (Chapel Hill, N.C.) was third with a clearance of six feet, 2.75 inches, along with junior Steven Marquez (El Centro, Calif.) placing eighth at six feet, 0.75 inches.
 
- Sophomore Garrett Whitmore (Webster City, Iowa) was fourth in the 200 in 23.42 seconds, while junior Evan Schaefer (Frederick, Md.) was fifth in the 400 (52.18) and first-year Andrew Spears (Albuquerque, N.M.) crossed in sixth (52.87).
 
- Below are the current top-20 rankings for the Engineers, from meets up to this point in the season as listed at www.tfrrs.org.
 
200 Meters
14. Benton Wilson - 22.09 @
 
800 Meters
2. Ryan Wilson - 1:51.74 @
19. Pau Ilerbaig-Bajona - 1:54.28 @
 
Mile
5. Ryan Wilson - 4:09.17 * @
12. Henry Hardart - 4:10.97 @
 
3,000 Meters
10. Matthew Kearney 8:18.27 @
 
5,000 Meters
13. Matthew Kearney - 14:29.84 * @
19. Andrew Mah - 14:34.82 @
 
60-Meter Hurdles
3. Kenneth Wei - 8.04 *
 
Distance Medley Relay
8. Hardart, Koe, Ilerbaig-Bajona, Wilson - 10:05.88 @
 
Long Jump
4. Kenneth Wei - 23' 11" *
 
Triple Jump
18. Kenneth Wei - 47' 0.75"
 
Pole Vault
10. Liam Ackerman - 16'
11. Max Hardy - 15' 11"
 
Shot Put
14. William Woltmann - 51'

* Denotes School Record
@ Denotes time converted from a banked track to flat track
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT returns to action next weekend on February 19th as the Engineers travel to the Springfield College Triangle Classic for a 10:30 a.m. start.
 
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