Final Results | ILN Broadcast: Day 1 | Day 2
HANOVER, N.H. -- For the fourth time overall, and the first since 1996, Penn can call itself Ivy League Heptagonal Women’s Indoor Track & Field Champion.
The Quakers totaled 137 points to hold off five-time defending champion Harvard, which finished with 105. The host squad Dartmouth was third with 96 points, followed by Columbia (80), Cornell (75), Princeton (65), Brown (47) and Yale (15).
Penn’s points total is its highest in program history and the most by the winning team since Cornell finished with 159 in 2007.
The Quakers won five events on Sunday to expand its lead from day 1, and placed second in five others. After winning the 3K on Saturday, senior
Abby Hong – who before this championship had never scored at #IvyHeps – punctuated her impressive weekend with a win in the 5K. Freshman
Uchechi Nwogwugwu won the 500m, junior
Rachel Wilson claimed the weight throw, junior
Anna Peyton Malizia took the high jump and the Quakers placed first in the 4x800m relay.
Harvard, meanwhile, was led by all-time Ivy Heps great
Gabrielle Thomas, who reached the podium four times on Sunday. Thomas won the 60m in a meet-record and all-time Ivy League record-matching time of 7.26, claimed the 200m in 23.26, third-fastest in meet history, was a part of the Crimson’s winning 4x400m relay team and placed fifth in the triple jump. For her efforts, she was selected Most Outstanding Track Performer for the second-straight year.
Dartmouth sophomore
Cha’Mia Rothwell was voted Most Outstanding Field Performer for the second-consecutive season after winning the long jump on Saturday with a mark of 20-7, matching the second-best jump in meet history and the third-best jump all-time in Ivy League history. Rothwell also competed on the track for the Big Green, winning the 60mH in 8.20, a meet and Ivy League record as well as the all-time New England mark, besting former British Olympian
Sharon Colyear’s 37-yeard old mark of 8.21 set in 1981 as a member of Boston University. Rothwell also finished second in the 200m.
Another record was set in the 1K, as Columbia senior
Sarah Hardie – the only person to win the event in its four-year history – crossed the line in 2:44.85, breaking her own meet record and setting the second-fastest mark all-time.
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS
| 1 |
Penn |
137 |
| 2 |
Harvard |
102 |
| 3 |
Dartmouth |
96 |
| 4 |
Columbia |
80 |
| 5 |
Cornell |
75 |
| 6 |
Princeton |
65 |
| 7 |
Brown |
47 |
| 8 |
Yale |
15 |