Shriver’s IC4A-Qualifying Jump Leads Tribe at George Mason

Kiernan Lofland Wins CNU Pole Vault

01/26/08 8:20PM

FAIRFAX, VA - Junior high-jumper Cam Shriver (Oxford, Ohio) has become very familiar with the IC4A-qualifying standard this season, clearing the required height for the third time on Saturday to win the high jump at George Mason’s Patriot Games.

Patriot Games Complete Results
CNU Saturday Results

Shriver set a personal-best height in the day’s competition, clearing 6’ 8.75” to move past teammate Brandon Evans (Virginia Beach, Va.) to stand alone with the eighth-best performance in school history. Evans, who has already met the IC4A-qualifying height this season, took second with a leap of 6’ 6.25”. Evans also took second in the long jump with a distance of 21’ 1.5”.

Also earning runner-up honors was sophomore Dan Klatzkin (Gaithersburg, Md.) in the shot put, with a personal-record put of 48’ 9”. Classmate Brandon Oliver (Richmond, Va.) was third with a put of 46’ 11.5”.

In the 60m hurdles, redshirt-freshman Chad Cochran (Centreville, Va.) turned in a pair of personal-best showings to place fifth overall. In the preliminaries, Cochran timed 9.02 seconds to qualify for the finals, and then turned on the jets to clear the course in 8.97 seconds, the seventh-best time in school history. Freshman David Blitzer (Haworth, N.J.) had the College’s 10th-best performance ever in the 60m dash, running 7.52 seconds.

Also on Saturday, the pole vault corps competed in Newport News, Virginia, at the CNU Captain’s Invitational. Sophomore Kiernan Lofland (Crozier, Va.) won the event after clearing a height of 15’ 3”.

William and Mary returns to action next Friday and Saturday, February 1-2, at the Texas Roadhouse Carolina Classic, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.