PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Princeton men’s head coach Fred Samara was voted Coach of the Year following the 2022 Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field championship. Samara guided Princeton to their seventh straight Heps title and 23^rd overall men’s title. The Tigers also took the crown at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country meet.
 
On the men’s side, Princeton won the meet by 56 points at 189 points. Harvard finished in second with their highest total in meet history at 133 points and Cornell finished in third with 82 points. Brown (56), Columbia (52), Yale (45), Dartmouth (36) and Penn(27) round out the final ledger.
 
Cornell’s Andrei Iosivas was named the Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet after totaling 10 points heptathlon by finishing on top of the podium with 6.036 points. Iosivas dominate performance allowed him to become the meet and Ivy League record holder in the event. He now ranks third in the NCAA among heptathletes. Acer Iverson of Harvard was named Most Outstanding Track Performer of the Meet after finishing first in the 3,000m and the 5,000m. Iverson’s performance in the 5,000m also earned him the meet record. He contributed 20 individual points to help Harvard clinch the Ivy title.
 
Additionally, one Ivy League men’s indoor track and field student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and in sport as members of the 2021-22 Ivy League Men’s Indoor Track and Field Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Altan Mitchell, Columbia’s David Vorbach, Cornell’s Tomas Kersulis, Dartmouth’s Ryan Cashman, Harvard’s Jaeschel Acheampong, Penn’s Andrew Colbert, Princeton’s Michael Phillippy and Yale’s Robert Miranda were each named to the team.
 
 
MOST OUTSTANDING TRACK PERFORMER OF THE MEET
Acer Iverson, Harvard (So. — Roseville, Minn.)
 
MOST OUTSTANDING FIELD PERFORMER OF THE MEET
Andrei Iosivas, Princeton (Sr. — Honolulu, Hawaii)
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Fred Samara, Princeton
 
MEN’S  INDOOR TRACK & FIELD FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
60m dash — Trenton Charles, Yale (Sr. — Baton Rouge, La.)
200m dash — Ibrahim Ayorinde, Princeton (Jr. — Oakville, Ont.)
400m dash — Michael Phillippy, Princeton (Sr. — Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
500m dash — Juma Sei, Yale (Sr. — Portland, Ore.)
800m run — Sam Ellis, Princeton (Sr. — Decatur, Ga.)
1,000m run — Harrison Witt, Princeton (Fr. — Highland Ranch, Colo.)
Mile — Sam Ellis, Princeton (Sr. — Decatur, Ga.)
3,0000m run — Acer Iverson, Harvard (So. — Roseville, Minn.)
5,0000m run — Acer Iverson, Harvard (So. — Roseville, Minn.)
60m hurdles — Christian Brown, Princeton (Sr. — Delray Beach, Fla.)
 
4x400 Meter Relay — Harvard: Aaron Shirley (Jr. — Chesapeake, Va.), Gregory Lapit (So. — Corona, Calif.), Oliver Murcko (Fr. — Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Lance Ward (So. — Carl Junction, Mo.)
4x800 Meter Relay — Columbia: Juan Zarate-Sanchez (Jr. — Davis, Calif.), Soloman Fountain (Sr. — Temecula, Calif.), Justin O’Toole (Weston, Mass.), Michael Danzi (So. — Smithtown, N.Y.)
DMR — Dartmouth: Seth Weprin (Jr. — Dallas, Texas), Myles Epstein (Jr. — Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Julien Hinz (Sr. — New York, NY), Will Daley (So. — Denver, Colo.)
 
High jump — John McNeil, Brown (So. — Medfield, Mass.)
Pole vault — Sondre Guttormsen, Princeton (Jr. — Ski, Norway)
Long jump — Aviram Shwarzbard, Princeton (Sr. — Kiryat Ono, Israel)
Triple Jump — Daniel Falode, Harvard (Fr. — London, England)
Shot put — Christopher Licata, Princeton (Sr. — Gladstone, N.J.)
Weight throw — Kegan Schroeter, Brown (Sr. — Narragansett, R.I.)
Pentathlon — Andrei Iosivas, Princeton (Sr. — Honolulu, Hawaii)
 
MEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
60m dash — Simang’Aliso Ndhlovu, Princeton (Sr. — Lusaka, Zambia)
200m dash — Daniel Duncan, Princeton (So. — North Plainfield, N.J.)
400m dash — Tomas Kersulis, Cornell (So. — Pleasanton, Calif.)
500m dash — Anderson Dimon, Princeton (So. — Perkasie, Pa.)
800m run — Ethan Reese, Princeton (Jr. — Portland, Ore.)
1,000m run — Rhys Hammond, Cornell (So. — Stonington, Conn.)
Mile — Michael Danzi, Columbia (So. — Smithtown, N.Y.)
3,0000m run — Matthew Pereira, Harvard (Sr. — Kildeer, Ill.)
5,0000m run — Matthew Pereira, Harvard (Sr. — Kildeer, Ill.)
60m hurdles — Christian Martin, Cornell (Jr. — North Plainfield, N.J.)
 
4x400 Meter Relay — Cornell: Christian Martin (Jr. — North Plainfield, N.J.), Fabien De Silva (Fr. — Albany, N.Y.), Angus Dove (So. — Goldsboro, N.C.), Tomas Kersulis (So. — Pleasanton, Calif.)
4x800 Meter Relay — Cornell: Eric Eng (Jr. — Los Altos, Calif.), Alex Mocarski, Damian Hackett (Fr. — Washington, D.C.), Rhys Hammond (So. — Stonington, Conn.)
DMR — Yale: Will Laird (Sr. — Seattle, Wash.), Colin Quinn (Fr. — Portland, Ore.), Cameron Wyman (Sr. — Gig Harbor, Wash.), Robert Miranda (Sr. — Atherton, Calif.)
 
High jump — Sidarth Raman, Brown (Jr. — Fremont, Calif.)
Pole vault — Simen Guttormsen, Princeton (Jr. — Ski, Norway)
Long jump — Kyle Murphy, Harvard (Jr. — Shepparton, Victoria)
Triple Jump — Altan Mitchell, Brown (Jr. — Ankara, Turkey)
Shot put — Alexander Kolesnikoff, Harvard (Jr. — Strathfield, Australia)
Weight throw — Kenneth Ikeji, Harvard (Fr. — London, England)
Pentathlon — Karl-Oskar Pajus, Dartmouth (Fr. — Tallinn, Estonia)