Men's Cross Country

2021 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championship Set for Saturday

PRINCETON, N.J. --  The 2021 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championship – an event packed with energy, strategy and adrenaline – returns to Princeton at West Windsor Fields this Saturday with the men’s and women’s titles on the line. The race will feature three Ivies that have been nationally-ranked throughout the 2021 season.
 
The women’s race, which features four returning All-Ivy runners is set to begin at 11 a.m. Live results can be found here.
 
The men’s race will feature five returning All-Ivy runners, is set to begin at 12 p.m. Live results can be found here.


 
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
  • FOUR-PEAT: The Columbia women enter the championship looking to win their fourth straight Ivy League Heptagonal title. The Lions will look to freshman Phoebe Anderson to set the pace. She is coming off a top-60 finish at the Nuttycombe Invitational - the best finish by any Ivy runner in the meet.
  • FAMILIAR FACES: Several familiar faces will take the line on Saturday as a total of nine, combined women’s and men’s, All-Ivy performers from 2019 are set to return to the 2021 edition of Ivy Heps. Highlighting the returns is the reigning women’s individual champion Yale’s Kayley DeLay. Additionally, a total of 14 Ivies who competed at the NCAA Division I Championship in 2019 will be spotted on the course. For the women, Columbia’s Linnea Kavulich, Sofia Camacho and Emily Virtue remain on the roster along with Cornell’s Natalie Morris and Katy Storti and Harvard’s Anna Juul, Isabell Sagar, Judy Pendergast, Shaked Leibovitz and Maya Rayle. On the men’s side, Harvard returns Colin Baker, Matthew Pereira, Michael Alber and David Melville.
  • STACKED FIELD: On both the women’s and men’s side, seven of the Ivies are ranked in their region and two men’s programs are ranked in the latest national poll. Harvard men, who are slotted as No. 1 in the Northeast Region, sit at No. 25 on the USTFCCCA National Coaches’ Poll. The Princeton men, who are slotted at No. 2 in the Mid-Atlantic Region, rest at the No. 18 on the coaches’ poll.
  • RACE TO REGIONALS: The NCAA Regionals are slated for Friday, November 12 with Princeton and Penn competing in the Mid-Atlantic Regional held at Lehigh University, while Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale will be in Boston at the Northeast Regional. The top two teams from each Regional automatically advance to the NCAA Championships on Nov. 20 in Tallahassee, Florida, while the remaining squads and runners will look to earn an at-large berth.