NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The first-place finishers in each of the 22 events at the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships have been named first-team All-Ivy, while the runner-up finishers have been named to the second team following competition on May 6-7 at Yale’s Cuyler Field and Dwyer Track.
Yale senior Marc-Andre Alexandre (Montreal) was selected Most Outstanding Track Performer after winning the 400m and being a part of the Bulldogs’ first-place 4x400m relay and second-place 4x100m relay teams. Harvard senior Efe Uwaifo (London) was voted Most Outstanding Field Performer after winning the long and triple jumps. Princeton head coach Fred Samara was the unanimous choice for Coach of the Year after guiding the Tigers to the Ivy Heps outdoor title.
MOST OUTSTANDING TRACK PERFORMER OF THE MEET
Marc-Andre Alexandre, Yale (Sr. – Montreal)
MOST OUTSTANDING FIELD PERFORMER OF THE MEET
Efe Uwaifo, Harvard (Sr. – London)
COACH OF THE YEAR
*Fred Samara, Princeton
*-Unanimous selection
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY
100m – Zach Menchaca, Cornell (So. – The Colony, Texas)
200m – Calvary Rogers, Penn (So. – Rochester, N.Y.)
400m – Marc-Andre Alexandre, Yale (Sr. – Montreal)
800m – Myles Marshall, Harvard (So. – Kingwood, Texas)
1,500m – Rob Napolitano, Columbia (Sr. – Brick, N.J.)
5,000m – Ryan Thomas, Columbia (Jr. – Charlottesville, Va.)
10,000m – Mark Tedder, Cornell (Sr. – Battle Ground, Wash.)
110mH – Joseph Daniels, Princeton (Fr. – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
400mH – Greg Leeper, Princeton (Sr. – Rockaway, N.J.)
Steeple – Nick Tuck, Penn (Sr. – Burke, Va.)
4x100m – Cornell: Brailin Paulino, Cornell (Jr. – Fresno, Calif.); Jonathan Avery (So. – Durham, N.C.); Alex Beck (So. – Oceanside, Calif.); Zach Menchaca (So. – The Colony, Texas)
4x400m – Yale: Chandler Crusan (Sr. – Hempfield, Pa.); Alexander McIntyre (So. – Davis, Calif.); Connor Hill (So. – Skaneateles, N.Y.); Marc-Andre Alexandre (Sr. – Montreal)
4x800m – Columbia: Sam Ritz (So. – Philadelphia); Willie Hall (Fr. – Davis, Calif.); Alek Sauer (So. – Yardley, Pa.); Rob Napolitano (Sr. – Brick, N.J.)
High Jump – Myles Lazarou, Cornell (Jr. – Summerfield, N.C.)
Pole Vault – August Kiles, Princeton (Jr. – Mill Valley, Calif.)
Long Jump – Efe Uwaifo, Harvard (Sr. – London)
Triple Jump – Efe Uwaifo, Harvard (Sr. – London)
Shot Put – Chris Cook, Princeton (Sr. – Washington)
Discus – Noah Kennedy-White, Penn (Sr. – Jericho, N.Y.)
Hammer – Rudy Winkler, Cornell (Sr. – Sand Lake, N.Y.)
Javelin – Brett Henderson, Harvard (Sr. – Valley Center, Calif.)
Decathlon – Nico Robinson, Dartmouth (Sr. – Stanford, Calif.)
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY
100m – Charles Volker, Princeton (So. – Fair Haven, N.J.)
200m – Zach Menchaca, Cornell (So. – The Colony, Texas)
400m – Joshua Freeman, Princeton (Jr. – Chesapeake, Va.)
800m – Zachery Emrich, Brown (Jr. – North Kingstown, R.I.)
1,500m – William Paulson, Princeton (Jr. – Tetbury, England)
5,000m – Dominic DeLuca, Cornell (Jr. – Dallas, Pa.)
10,000m – William Bertrand, Princeton (Sr. – Clarksburg, Md.)
110mH – Paedyn Gomes, Yale (Jr. – Chesterland, Ohio)
400mH – Spencer Long, Princeton (Jr. – Fort Collins, Colo.)
Steeple – Michael Wang, Cornell (Jr. – Lafayette, Calif.)
4x100m – Yale: Kyle Macauley (Fr. – Los Gatos, Calif.); Vincent Vaughns (Fr. – Sparr, Fla.); Marc-Andre Alexandre (Sr. – Montreal); Alexander McIntyre (So. – Davis, Calif.)
4x400m – Harvard: James Heckendorn (Sr. – Eagle, Idaho); Alexander Moore (Jr. – Tacoma, Wash.); Tom Rienas (Fr. – Old Tappan, N.J.); Matthew Hurst (Jr. – Newport Beach, Calif.)
4x800m – Yale: Tim Cox (Sr. – Acton, Mass.); James Lewis (Fr. – Westport, Conn.); Trevor Reinhart (So. – Marin, Calif.); James Randon (Sr. – New Canaan, Conn.)
High Jump –Xavier Bledsoe, Princeton (Sr. – St. Louis)
Pole Vault – Grant Sisserson, Cornell (Sr. – Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Long Jump – Corey Muggler, Dartmouth (Sr. – Holland, Pa.)
Triple Jump – Bobby Plummer Cornell (Sr. – Scarsdale, N.Y.)
Shot Put – Mitchel Charles, Princeton (Jr. – Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Discus – Mitchel Charles, Princeton (Jr. – Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Hammer – Adam Kelly, Princeton (So. – Barrington, R.I.)
Javelin – Mark Buda, Brown (Sr. – Pittsburgh)
Decathlon – Benjamin Ose, Dartmouth (So. – Eden Prairie, Minn.)