From Brandeis University Athletics

There were strong performances across the board by the Judges this weekend at most athletes' final meets of the indoor season. The Judges sent a sprinter squad to compete at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York and a distance squad—along with breakout rookie sprinter Irie Gourde (Portland, Ore. / York School, Canada)—to the Last Chance Meet at Tufts University. At the ECAC Championship, rookie Jack Allan (Wrentham, Mass. / King Phillip Regional) earned All-ECAC honors for his performance in the heptathlon.

Allan competed in the first 4 events in the two-day heptathlon in which he finished sixth (4329 points, 1 point shy of his PR). In the first event, the 60-meter dash, Allan ran 7.50 seconds—the first of 3 PRs in the 4 events on Friday. Allan did not PR in the high jump by clearing 1.75m (5 feet, 9 inches), however he found PRs in both the shot put with a throw of 10.66m (34' 11.75") and in the long jump with a leap of 6.49m (21' 3.5").

At the end of day one, these outstanding performances left him in fifth place and with even one more PR: the most points he had scored in one day. On Saturday, Allan came back in the 60-meter hurdles (his highest scoring event, 797 points) where he placed second in the heptathlon group, matching his PR of 8.77 seconds. Allan went onto clear 2.95m (9' 8.25") in the pole vault and run 2:59.56 in the 1000m.