PRINCETON, N.J. -- Penn successfully defending its Ivy League women’s Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championship, holding off Harvard on a rainy Sunday in Princeton, N.J.
 
It marked the second time Penn went back-to-back and first since 1985 and 86. The Quakers totaled 160 points, including a sweep of the relays, while the Crimson finished second with 126 points. Cornell took third with 96 points and Princeton (82), Columbia (61), Brown (59), Dartmouth (51) and Yale (46) rounded out the rest of the standings.
 
Besides the relays, Penn won four other events on Sunday, including two in which the Quakers went 1-2. Junior Maura Kimmel and sophomore Ashley Anumba accomplished the feat in the shot put, while sophomore Uchechi Nwogwugwu and junior Cecil Ene did the same in the 400m. Penn junior Nia Akins won the 800m with a time of 2:04.86, second-fastest in meet history, trailing only former Cornell standout and 2012 Summer Olympian Morgan Uceny (2006). Akin also anchored the Quakers’ winning 4x800m relay team and was voted Most Outstanding Track Performer. Princeton sophomore Obiageri Amaechi was voted Most Outstanding Field Performer after breaking her own all-time Ivy League record in the discus on Saturday with a throw of 190-1.
 
Harvard won six events on Sunday, highlighted by the 100m, where the Crimson took five of the six podium spots led by senior Ngozi Musa. Harvard sophomore Lisa Tertsch completed the 10K-5K sweep, winning the latter event in 16:13.95, second-fastest in meet history.
 
Dartmouth junior Cha’Mia Rothwell became the first Big Green to win the 100mH three times, while Cornell freshman Beatrice Juskeviciute won her first Ivy Heps title, scoring 5,404 points in the heptathlon, fifth-best in meet history and 10^th-best all-time in Ivy League history.