Outdoor Track and Field on Flotrack 2013

D'Agostino's Record Double, Arroyo Wins the Triple Crown

May 7, 2013 by Mitch Kastoff

Abbey D at the Double, Again

Originally taken from this week's Weekend Recap.

They weren’t NCAA titles, but they’ll do just the same. This weekend at Ivy League Heps, Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino defended her 1500m and 3000m titles and just as an added bonus, broke her own meet records set last year. Her seven second win in the 3000m (9:21.79) on day two broke her previous record of 9:24.64, but that was just the encore performance.

The main show came a day earlier where D’Agostino soloed an incredible 4:11.94 1500m to win by 13 seconds and break the meet record of 4:17.90. That being said, a 15:12 girl running 4:12 isn’t anything out of the ordinary.

The real stunner is the solo effort. This is the second time D’Agostino has run a killer mile (this time, metric) solo, so all the power to her. This wasn’t originally in this article, but we liked the race so much that we included it despite the indifferent connotations of the article.

How We Would’ve Been Impressed: If she won the women’s 5k (Difficulty level: There is none).

Andres Arroyo’s Triple, Again

The middle-distance talent from Florida, Colonial High School’s Andres Arroyo, won the triple crown last weekend at the Florida 4a Outdoor State Finals in fine fashion. In one day, Arroyo ran 4:15.50 in the 1600m, came back an hour later to run 1:54.09 in the 800m, and for his coup de grace, came back an hour later to run 9:30.75 in the 3200m for an easy win.

And according to Milesplit, all in his teammate’s spikes.

So why aren’t we screaming two inches away from each other? The Florida state meet triple has been done once before by Justin Taylor in ’06. Plus, this isn’t Arroyo’s first triple of the season.

In order to qualify for all three events at states, Arroyo would have had to run the 1600m, 800, and 3200m at both districts and regions.

Oh. Oh he did? Well then.

Arroyo's Road to the Triple

	FHSAA 4A District 4	FHSAA 4A Region 1	FHSAA 4A Finals
800m	1:56.47	1:54.35	1:54.09
1600m	4:25.39	4:20.58	4:15.50
3200m	9:32.85	9:31.18	9:30.75

Real talk, this year’s Dream Mile is going to be something special with Arroyo, Montoya, Saarel, McGorty, and Cheserek.

How We Would’ve Been Impressed: If, on his final event of the day, he went sub-4.