NEW YORK, N.Y. — Plenty of Ivy League and meet records were broken on the first day of the Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Championships as Princeton ended the day in first place on both the men’s and women’s team races.
Medals were handed out in five events in the women’s championship and in four events in the men’s championship. The second and final day of the championship is set for tomorrow, March 1.
Women
Princeton, the defending women’s champion, tallied 51.5 points to lead through five completed events with 15 remaining. The Tigers were victorious in three of those five competitions. Penn finished the day second with 36.5 points and one event victory. Cornell found itself in third with 25 points and one win.
Princeton’s
Anna McNatt claimed victory in the women’s 3,000-meter with a meet record time of 9:03.94. It was the best mark of her career. Harvard’s
Molly Malague finished second at 9:09.28, also a personal best time. Penn’s
Lily Murphy rounded out the podium with a personal best 9:11.67.
The Tigers also led the way in the women’s long jump. Defending champion
Alexandra Kelly won with a meet-record distance of 6.49 meters and her teammate
Georgina Scott followed with the silver at 6.44 meters.
Mariella Schweitzer earned Dartmouth’s lone podium finish with a distance of 6.29 meters.
Cornell’s win came in pole vaulting courtesy of
Avery Hilliard with a height of 4.28 meters. Harvard’s
Ella McRitchie, last year’s champion, placed second at 4.18 meters. Princeton’s
Tessa Mudd and Harvard’s
Lilly Hodge tied for third at 4.08 meters.
Princeton’s
Angela McAuslan-Kelly successfully defended her 2025 gold medal in the weight throw with a distance of 19.77 meters.
Stella Inman earned silver at 19.60 meters and Yale’s
Makayla Harris picked up the Bulldogs’ lone women’s medal with a bronze at 18.07 meters.
Penn’s
Yuliya Maslouskaya earned the gold in the pentathlon with 4,166 points. She finished in the top five of all five events but did not win any. Her teammate
Amelia Kristen finished second with 4,155, including a victory in the 60-meter-hurdles. Cornell’s
Paula-Marie Brown notched the bronze with 4,096 points.
In the 60m dash prelims, Penn's
Fore Abinusawa broke the Ivy League record with a time of 7.22. The time breaks Harvard's Gabby Thomas' record from 2018.
1. Princeton - 51.5
2. Penn - 36.5
3. Cornell - 25
4. Harvard - 23
5. Yale - 20
6. Dartmouth - 6
7. Brown - 3
8. Columbia - 0
Men
Princeton, who won the men’s event in each of the last 10 seasons, ended day one ahead with 56 points after four of 20 competitions were completed. Penn finished the day second with 16 points while Cornell and Columbia tied for third with 14.
Harvard won in the 3,000-meter with
Charlie Ortmans who notched a time of 7:55.38. Princeton claimed the other two spots on the podium with
Jacob Nenow (7:56.95) in second and
Brian Boler (7:57.15) in third.
Princeton’s
Greg Foster defended his long jump crown with an Ivy-record distance of 8.24 meters to retain the gold.
Joshua Adams placed second for Columbia at 7.31 meters and
Robert Ruffini made it a double podium for the Tigers at 7.21 meters.
Penn placed two on the podium in the pole vault.
Thomas Bucks took home the gold medal for the Quakers, securing a distance of 5.20 meters, which tied a personal best. Princeton’s
Jacob Emerson also equaled a personal best in second at 5.15 meters. Penn’s
Alex Georgiev earned the bronze at 4.95 meters.
Peter Northrup secured Cornell’s lone men’s gold medal of day one in the weight throw with a personal-best distance of 20.71 meters. The silver went to Princeton’s
Asher Robbins at 20.65 meters, and the bronze was collected by Yale’s
Nolan Recker at 20.47 meters.
In the preliminary rounds of the 60m Hurdles, Penn's
Shane Gardner broke his own Ivy League record with a time of 7.73.
1. Princeton - 56
2. Penn - 16
3. Cornell - 14
3. Columbia - 14
5. Harvard - 12
6. Yale - 7
7. Dartmouth - 5
8. Brown - 0