Final Results | ILN Broadcast: Day 1 | Day 2
HANOVER, N.H. -- For the fourth-straight year, Princeton is Ivy League Heptagonal Men’s Indoor Track & Field team Champion.
The Tigers totaled 169 points to hold off second-place Penn, which tallied 102. Brown was third with 85, followed by host Dartmouth (71), Cornell (58), Harvard (51), Yale (46) and Columbia (38).
Princeton’s 169 points is the most by the winning team since 2012, when the Tigers finished with 184. Their 67-point margin of victory is the largest in Ivy League indoor history, surpassing the previous mark of 63 set by Princeton in 2015.
Penn’s second-place finish is its best since 2002, ending a streak of 15-straight years with Cornell and Princeton holding the top two spots. The Quakers’ 102 points is their highest score since 1998, when they finished with 115.
Princeton won seven events on Sunday to build on its lead after day 1. Seniors
Garrett O’Toole and
Noah Kauppila went 1-2 in the mile and
Josh Freeman won the 400m, then the three combined with senior
William Paulson to win the DMR in 9:43.16, breaking the meet record that had stood since 1983.
Sophomore
Joseph Daniels won the 60mH with a blistering time of 7.81, a meet record, second-fastest time in Ivy League history and 21
st fastest time in the nation. Senior
Carrington Akosa won his second-straight 60m dash and placed second in the 200m behind defending champion
Calvary Rogers, who matched his own meet record with a time of 21.39.
Brown junior
Jason Katz was unanimously selected Most Outstanding Field Performer after winning the long jump on Saturday and finishing second in the triple jump on Sunday. Princeton’s Daniels and Harvard sophomore
Myles Marshall were voted co-Most Outstanding Track Performers; Marshall won the 800m and led the Crimson’s 4x800m relay team to victory.
The host Big Green were led by junior
Justin Donowa, who held off Katz to win the triple jump. Donowa is also a member of the Dartmouth men’s soccer team, which won the Ivy League championship in 2017. He is the first Big Green to be a part of a team championship and an individual indoor Ivy Heps championship in the same season since former Big Green and Olympian
Adam Nelson won a championship with football during the 1996 season and both the indoor and outdoor shot put in 1997.
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS
| 1 |
Princeton |
169 |
| 2 |
Penn |
102 |
| 3 |
Brown |
85 |
| 4 |
Dartmouth |
71 |
| 5 |
Cornell |
58 |
| 6 |
Harvard |
51 |
| 7 |
Yale |
46 |
| 8 |
Columbia |
38 |