Women's Indoor Track & Field

Quakers Repeat at Ivy Heps

Final Results

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Penn claimed its second-straight Ivy League Heptagonal Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championship, holding off Harvard over the two-day event in Cambridge, Mass.
 
The Quakers garnered 136 points, while the Crimson totaled 102. Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Yale rounded out the rest of the standings. Penn wins back-to-back championships for the second time in program history and first since 1987-88.
 
The Quakers won seven events on Sunday, highlighted by junior Nia Akins’ performance in the 1,000. Akins won in 2:43.92, a meet and all-time Ivy League record. She also ran with Penn’s winning 4x880-yard relay team. Sophomore Melissa Tanaka (800) and junior Cecil Ene (200) also won their respective track events, as did Anna Peyton Malizia (high jump) and Maura Kimmel (shot put) in the field. For Malizia, it marked her second-straight high jump title.
 
With former Crimson 60m dash winners Danielle Barbian (2014, 15) and Gabrielle Thomas (2016, 17, 18) in attendance, Harvard made it six in a row as Ngozi Musa won in 7.42, part of a 1-2-3-4 finish for the host team in the event. Harvard junior Maya Miklos set the second-fastest 500m time in meet history – sixth-fastest all-time – winning in 1:11.78. In the field, junior Simi Fajemisin won the triple jump for the second-straight season, reaching 43-6 ½, third-best in meet history and third-best all-time in Ivy League history.
 
Dartmouth junior Cha’Mia Rothwell made it three in a row in the 60m hurdles, crossing the line in 8.37, matching the fourth-best time in meet history and eighth-fastest time in Ivy League history. She becomes the sixth three-time champion in the event and the first from Dartmouth.
 
After a vote by the coaches, Penn’s Akins was selected Most Outstanding Track Performer and Harvard’s Fajemisin was tabbed Most Outstanding Field Performer. Akins is just the second Quaker to receive the honor, joining Christelle Williams (1986). Fajemisin is the first Crimson to receive the award since Nikki Okwelogu in 2015.
 
The 2019 All-Ivy teams and Coach of the Year will be announced on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
 
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS
  1. Penn
 136
  1. Harvard
 102
  1. Dartmouth
 85
  1. Cornell
 80
  1. Princeton
 79
  1. Brown
 62
  1. Columbia
 55
  1. Yale
 21