It was a disappointing day for both the men’s and women’s cross country teams last Friday at the 70th annual Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in Van Cortlandt Park, N.Y.
The blistering cold temperatures of Harvard-Yale weekend stretched all the way to the Bronx, N.Y., where the men’s and women’s cross-country teams ran their final races of the season.
In the midst of multiple broken records and a dominant performance by the orange and black of Princeton on the women’s side, the Yale’s men’s and women’s cross country teams both posted disappointing performances at the Heptagonal Championships on Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The men took seventh place overall with 176 points, only beating Penn who scored...
Victory was sweet Saturday morning at the Fairfield Invitational cross country meet. Both Yale men’s and women’s cross country teams finished first in fields of nine and eight teams, respectively.
The men’s and women’s cross country teams turned in less than stellar performances at the Heps and Regional Championships this year, but runners on both squads said they were proud to close the curtain on their seasons with their Nov. 17 finale at Van Cortlandt Park. The men’s team finished sixth out of 15 teams at the IC4A Championships in the Bronx, and the women’s...
Low finishes at the Ivy League Championship two weeks ago may have left a bad taste in the mouths of the Yale cross country teams, but this past weekend’s race in Boston provided the runners with a big helping of redemption.
The glass is not half-empty just yet for the men and women’s cross country teams, who both finished in the bottom half of their respective races in the Bronx.
Get Ready, Get Set… Runners are organized by team when they come to the starting line. Each team gets a “box” in which to organize its runners in a specific order — not all of the athletes fit on the front line.
