PRINCETON, N.J. – A total of four student-athletes individually qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships, while the Harvard and Princeton men’s teams earned automatic bids following strong performances at both the Northeast Regional in Contoocook, N.H., and the Mid-Atlantic Regional in University Park, Pa.
 
The top two team finishers at each regional automatically qualify for the NCAA Championship set for Nov. 23 in Verona, Wisc., and the top four individual finishers not on a team that received an automatic qualification earn automatic individual qualification. The remainder of the field (13 teams and two individuals) will be announced during the NCAA selection show on Saturday.
 
WOMEN’S RECAP
Heps individual champion Phoebe Anderson from Columbia punched her ticket individually to Wisconsin, placing second in the Northeast Regional in 19:31.48. A four-time first team All-Ivy honoree, Anderson earned All-America honors last season after finishing 29th at the NCAA Championship. This marks the third time in her career that she earned an individual spot at the national championship meet.  
 
Harvard posted the highest team score amongst the Ivies in the Northeast, placing fourth with 144 points. All six teams finished in the top 13 in a field of 39.
 
Princeton placed fourth in the team score in the Mid-Atlantic. Mena Scatchard placed ninth in the race with a time of 19:58.2. She is just outside the automatic individual qualifiers, placing fifth among finishers not on a team that earned an automatic bid.
  
Team Finishes (Northeast)
4. Harvard (144)
9. Dartmouth (294)
10. Columbia (295)
11. Yale (305)
12. Brown (376)
13. Cornell (379)
 
Team Finishes (Mid-Atlantic)
4. Princeton (99)
7. Penn (258)
 
MEN’S RECAP
Harvard’s Graham Blanks, the reigning national champion, repeated as the Northeast Regional champion. Blanks finished nearly 18 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher with a time of 29:34.65.
 
Blanks led the charge for the Crimson which secured a team spot in the NCAA Championship with a second place finish with 97 points. Shane Brosnan (10th, 30:12.20) and Sam Burgess (15th, 30:18.51) each posted top-15 finishes for the Crimson. Cornell’s Derek Amicon also punched his ticket to Wisconsin by placing fifth overall in 29:59.85 and third amongst finishers not on automatic qualifier teams. Cornell, Yale and Columbia finished in the top 10 in team scores in a field of 38.
 
Princeton placed second in the Mid-Atlantic Regional to secure its spot at the NCAA Championship in what was a very tight race for the second automatic bid. The Tigers, which finished with 80 points, won a tiebreaker 3-2 over Georgetown. The tiebreaker is determined by comparing the head-to-head matchups between the top five runners of the tied teams. Myles Hogan (7th, 29:42.8) and Nicholas Bendtsen (10th, 29:50.3) each finished in the top 10.
 
Penn had a pair of individual qualifiers in Dylan Throop (3rd, 29:34.6) and Luke Johnson (6th, 29:41.3).

Team Finishes (Northeast)
2. Harvard (97)
3. Cornell (106)
5. Yale (183)
9. Columbia (286)
14. Dartmouth (453)
20. Brown (532)
 
Team Finishes (Mid-Atlantic)
2. Princeton (80)
7. Penn (190)