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NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships Covered in Ivy

Final Results

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Ivy League garnered 23 All-American accolades, including three first team honorees, after four days of competition at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Austin, Texas.
 
The Penn women finished tied for 17th overall with 14 points to pace the Ancient Eight, marking the best finish by an Ivy League team since Dartmouth placed 14th in 2012. The 23 total All-Americans marks the Ivy League’s most in a single season since the conference set a record with 34 in 2013. First team honors go to those who finish 1-8, second team to those who place 9-16, and honorable mention to those who finish 17-24.
 
The 2019 contingent of Ivies was led by a pair of Quakers and a Crimson. Penn junior Nia Akins repeated her performance from the NCAA Indoor Championships, finishing as the runner up in the 800m after pacing the field in the preliminaries. Her teammate Anna Peyton Malizia recorded a mark of 6-0 ½ in the high jump – one of three competitors to clear six feet – en route to finishing third overall. On the men’s side, Harvard freshman Samuel Welsh placed sixth in the discus after throwing to 195-4.
 
Besides Akins and Malizia, Penn saw three individuals and a relay team earn honorable mention All-America status in Ucheche Nwogwugwu (400m), Mayyi Mahama (hammer throw), Ashley Anumba (discus) and the 4x400m relay squad. They were joined in earning honorable mention by Harvard’s Anna Juul (1,500m) and Cornell’s Briar Brumley (steeplechase) and Beatrice Juskeviciute (heptathlon).
 
Columbia’s Alexandra Hays finished 12th in the 5K to take home second team honors, while Brown’s Carly Paul earned second team in the heptathlon after placing 14th. Former Lion Nell Crosby, competing for NC State for her graduate year, also earned second team after finishing 12th in the 5K.
 
On the men’s side, four Ivies earned second team honors, including Dartmouth’s Benjamin Ose (decathlon), Harvard’s Will Battershill (steeplechase), Penn’s Sean Clarke (pole vault) and Princeton’s Joseph Daniels (110mH).
 
Eight more received honorable mention status: Columbia’s Alek Sauer and Harvard’s Myles Marshall (800m), Penn’s Colin Daly and Princeton’s Ed Trippas (steeplechase), Columbia’s Brian Zabilski (5K) and Daniel Igbokwe (triple jump), Harvard’s Erick Duffy (pole vault) and Penn’s Marc Minichello (javelin).