Women's Cross Country

Columbia Claims Second-Straight Women's Cross Country Title

FINAL RESULTS

PRINCETON
, N.J. -- Columbia claimed its second-straight Ivy League Heptagonal Women’s Cross Country Championship, Saturday at Princeton’s West Windsor Fields.
 
The Lions led at each split, finishing the event with 51 points to hold off Dartmouth, which tallied 86. The host Tigers came in third with 90 points, Yale was close behind in fourth with 95 points, while Brown, Harvard, Cornell and Penn rounded out the rest.
 
Columbia tallied its best score since finishing with 51 points in 2004, and recorded the best score for the winning team since Harvard totaled 33 in 2016. The Lions last won consecutive Ivy Heps titles from 2002-05, when the Lions claimed four-straight. Senior Erin Gregoire led this year’s contingent, finishing second with a time of 20:49.3. Fellow classmate Libby Kokes was not far behind, coming in fourth, with junior Katie Wasserman placing 11th.


 
The Big Green placed all five of its runners in the top-20, paced by sophomore Glendora Murphy in 12th.
 
Yale senior Andrea Masterson, who finished second a year ago, became the first Bulldog to claim the individual title since Lindsay Donaldson in 2006.


 
The All-Ivy teams and Coach of the Year will be announced on Tuesday, Oct. 30, on IvyLeague.com.