Men's Indoor Track & Field

Princeton Completes the Five-Peat at Ivy Heps

Final Results

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Princeton completed the second leg of the triple crown, holding off Penn and Harvard to win its fifth-straight Ivy League Heptagonal Men’s Indoor Track & Field Championships.
 
The Tigers posted 139 ½ points to win the trophy, while Penn totaled 111 and Harvard finished with 103. It marks the first time in Ivy Heps history that three teams surpassed the century plateau in the same championship. Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and Yale rounded out the rest of the standings.
 
Princeton was led on Sunday by junior Joseph Daniels, who claimed his second-straight 60m hurdles title with a time of 7.82, the fourth-fastest time in meet history and just shy of the 7.81 time he posted in the semifinals. He was joined on the podium by freshman Christian Brown, the runner up in the event.

In fact, the Tigers saw three freshmen place second on the track on Sunday, including Brown, Simang'Aliso Ndhlovu (60m dash) and Gregory Sholars (200m). In the field, Christopher Licata – another freshman – won the shot put with his teammate sophomore Kelton Chastulik taking third. Princeton also picked up valuable pointsi n the high jump with sophomore Jeff Hollis, senior Andrew Diehl and sophomore Jeffrey Lee-Heidenreich going 2-3-6.
 
Penn sophomore Marvin Morgan became the first Quaker to take the 60m dash since Gene Sun in 2000. He also placed fourth in the 200m, behind his teammate senior Calvary Rogers, who won the event for the third-straight season. Harvard won five titles on Sunday, highlighted by junior Kieran Tuntivate’s victory in the 5,000, a day after winning the 3,000 on one shoe.
 
After a vote by the League’s coaches, Tuntivate was selected Most Outstanding Track Performer and Princeton’s Adam Kelly received Most Outstanding Field Performer. Kelly won the weight throw on Saturday, defending his title with a mark of 72-7, fifth-best in meet history.
 
The 2019 All-Ivy teams and Coach of the Year will be announced on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
 
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS
  1. Princeton
 139 ½
  1. Penn
 111
  1. Harvard
 103
  1. Columbia
 83
  1. Brown
 62 ½
  1. Dartmouth
 50
  1. Cornell
 41
  1. Yale
 30