Championships Central

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Penn holds the lead after day one of the Ivy League women’s Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships, as the Quakers look to win the title for the second-straight season.
 
The Quakers totaled 42 points through five events, while the host Tigers are second with 32. Brown is in third (24) and Harvard (17), Cornell (14), Dartmouth (13), Columbia (7) and Yale (6) round out the rest of the standings.
 
Penn picked up points in multiple finals, highlighted by the hammer throw, where senior Rachel Wilson and freshman Mayyi Mahama went 1-3. Wilson’s throw of 208-7 ranks fifth in meet history. The Quakers also saw sophomore Ashley Anumba and junior Maura Kimmel go 2-3 in the discus, trailing Princeton sophomore Obiageri Amaechi, who broke her own all-time Ivy League record with a throw of 190-1.
 
Brown went 1-2-3 in the long jump, led by junior Zion Lewis, who reached 20-1 ½ on her best effort. Dartmouth junior Julia Valenti claimed the pole vault title, becoming the second Big Green to accomplish the feat and first since Elizabeth Beck in 2000. Running under the lights, Harvard sophomore Lisa Tertsch won the 10K in 35:05.32.
 
Day two of Ivy Heps begins at 10 a.m. with the women’s javelin and and the decathlon 110m hurdles. The live broadcast on ESPN+ will begin at 12:30 p.m. with the women’s steeplechase.