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Cornell Women Wrap Up 2006 Outdoor Heps Title
Created: 5/7/2006 12:12:20 PM
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The 2006 Ivy League Women’s Heptagonal Championships, Day 2
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To see the full recap of Day 1 action, including winners and qualifiers in every event, click here
To see the updated women's results, click here
To see the updated men's results, click here
As if anyone needed a reminder, the Cornell women reasserted their dominance at the 2006 Heptagonal Games Sunday at Penn’s Franklin Field, opening a big lead early in the day and winning the 2006 outdoor Ivy League title with 152.50 points. That total was 50 points ahead of runner-up Penn, which had 102 points.
The 2006 championship is the fifth in a row for the Big Red at outdoor Heps. Brown was third with 95 points, followed by Yale (91), Princeton (81), Dartmouth (68), Harvard (64.50) and Columbia (59).
Cornell won the 2005 title with 177.50 points to 110 for the Lions.
Yale’s Joslyn Woodard was named the meet’s Most Outstanding Performer after setting outdoor Heps records in winning the long jump and the 200-meter dash — breaking the all-time Ivy record in the long jump and posting the second-best mark in the history of the 200 — and winning the 100-meter dash.
Woodard’s three titles, all of which she also won in 2005, gives her 10 individual outdoor Heps titles to go with 10 indoor Heps titles. The 20 overall crowns are the most by any woman in the history of the Ivy League.
But even Woodard’s historic performance was not enough to eclipse the Big Red machine, which generated meet records en route to victory.
The Cornell women’s 4x100 relay team ran 46.04 to eclipse the old record of 46.32; Morgan Uceny was dominant in the 800 meters, finishing in meet-record time of 2:04.83; and Jamie Greubel set a new Heps record in the heptathlon with 5,465 points. Cornell then capped off the meet by taking more than two seconds off the meet record in the 4x400 relay.
Princeton’s Cack Ferrell won the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs to join Woodard as the only female athletes to win two individual races.
Women’s 4x400 relay
Morgan Uceny of Cornell held off a brilliant late charge by Penn’s Jesse Carlin and the Big Red won a blistering 4x400 relay in 3:39.51. The Quakers finished in 3:39.50, putting both teams well ahead of the previous meet record of 3:41.71. Brown finished third in 3:47.34. The runners for Cornell were Linda Trotter, Cameron Washington, Tameka Royal and Uceny.
Women’s 4x800 relay
The 2006 Heps steeplechase champion Anna Willard completed a sterling day — she was also second in the 800 meters — by anchoring Brown to victory in the 4x800 in the second-fastest time in meet history. The Bears’ foursome finished in 8:49.03, ahead of Princeton, which finished in 8:52.16, and Harvard, in 8:52.52. The other Brown runners were Smita Gupta, Naja Ferjan and Kelly Powell.
Women’s 3,000-meter finals
Princeton’s Cack Ferrelljoined Yale’s Joslyn Woodard as the only two two-time individual women’s champions of the 2006 Heps with a victory in the 3,000. Ferrell lost the lead on the final turn but regained it down the stretch run to pass Yale All-American Lindsay Donaldson and win her second 3,000 crown in three years. Ferrell was third as Donaldson won the 3,000 last year. This year Ferrell finished in 9:35.17, with teammate Catha Mullen finishing second in 9:35.42 and Donaldson coming in third at 9:35.55.
Women’s Triple Jump
Brown’s Brittany Grovey joined Army’s Diana Wills ’90 and Harvard’s Dora Gyorffy ’91 as the only athletes to win the outdoor Heps triple jump three times, jumping 42-09.75 to take the 2006 crown. Yale’s Dionna Thomas was second with 41-03.00 and Cornell’s Jeomi Maduka was third at 40-09.50. Thomas was also second at last year’s meet.
Women’s 200-meter finals
Yal’e Joslyn Woodard etched her name into the Ivy League record books by winning the 200-meter dash in a meet-record time of 23.73, which ranks second all-time. The victory, her third straight in the 200, gives Woodard 20 individual titles (indoor and outdoor) in her Ivy career, which is tops in the history of the League. She also won the 100-meter dash earlier in the day. Penn’s Shaunee Morgan was second in 24.05 and Brown’s Akilah King was third in 24.16.
Women’s 400-meter hurdles finals
Columbia’s Whitney Crayton won a two-woman battle with Penn’s Dana McCurdy to win the 400 hurdles at 1:00.23. McCurdy, who entered the meet with the season’s fastest time, finished in 1:00.54, with Yale’s Katherine Dlesk coming in third at 1:02.13. McCurdy was second in last year’s meet, with Crayton finishing third.
Women’s Heptathlon
Cornell’s Jamie Greubel defended her heptathlon title in style, closing out the event by winning the 800-meter run in 2:16.41 to set a new meet record with 5,465 points. Dartmouth’s Kelsy Wiegmann was second for a second straight year with 5,174 points, which also places her in the all-time Heps top 10, and Penn’s Shani Boston was third with 5,011 points.
Women’s 800-meter finals
Cornell’s Morgan Uceny easily defended her title in the 800 meters, cruising to victory in 2:04.83. Uceny’s time is a new meet record and ranks fourth all-time in Ivy history. The 2006 steeplechase champion Anna Willard of Brown was second in a time of 2:07.12 and Penn’s Christina Morrison was third in 2:07.80. Uceny, who led the race from start to finish, placed fourth in the 800 at the NCAA Indoor Championships earlier this year.
Women’s 100-meter finals
Yale’s Joslyn Woodard became the first woman at the 2006 outdoor Heps to win two individual titles, taking the 100-meter dash in a time of 11.82. The victory marks Woodard’s third 100 crown in four years; she won in 2003 and 2005 as well. She also won the long jump on Saturday. Columbia’s Melissa Ikono was second in 11.95 and Penn’s Shaunee Morgan was third in 12.08.
Women’s 400-meter finals
Penn’s Jesse Carlin, third in 2005, accelerated out of the last turn and past her closest competitors to win the 400-meter dash in a time of 53.62. The time is a new Penn record and ranks sixth all-time at outdoor Heps. Brown’s Nicole Burns was second in 54.34 and Cornell’s Cameron Washington was third in 54.40. Washington was second in the 2005 race to teammate Linda Trotter, who finished fifth this year at 55.27.
Women’s 100-meter hurdles finals
Running into a stiff wind, Cornell’s Stephanie King breezed to the 100-meter hurdles crown in a time of 14.39, nearly half a second ahead of second-place Dara Wilson of Harvard (14.81). Penn’s Jeanette Curtis was third in 14.88. The 2005 champion, King had posted the top time in the Ivy this season entering the race.
Women’s 1,500-meter finals
The top three runners separated from the pack down the final straightaway, with Harvard’s Laura Maludzinski outleaning Cornell’s Nyam Kagwima for the victory in a time of 4:26.82. Kagwima finished in 4:26.92, with Penn’s Stacy Kim coming in third at 4:27.06.
Women’s Discus
Heavy favorite Maria Matos of Cornell lived up to her advanced billing in the discus, winning a two-woman battle with a throw of 160-08. Yale’s Erica Davis was second with a throw of 155-11, her best effort of the season, while Dartmouth’s Emily Daly was third at 142-03. Davis was also second at the 2005 outdoor meet.
Women’s Steeplechase
Brown’s Anna Willard closed a big early gap, passed Columbia’s Lisa Stublic with three laps to go and cruised to an easy victory in the steeplechase with a news Heps record of 10:11.51. Willard’s performance was the second-best in Ivy history and broke the old meet record by 17 seconds. Stublic finished second in 10:18.87 and Susanne Andrews of Princeton was third in 10:32.10. Stublic was second and Willard third in 2005.
Women’s High Jump
Harvard’s Becky Christensen entered the meet with the fourth-best mark of the season but out-jumped the favorites to win the high jump at 5-08.75. Cornell’s Sarah Wilfred, the only women to clear 6-00 this season, was second at 5-07.00, followed by Tara McNerney of Dartmouth, also at 5-07.00.
Women’s 4x100 relay
The Cornell women’s team set the second meet record of the 2006 Heps — joining Joslyn Woodard of Yale in the long jump — by winning the first relay of the meet in 46.04 to hold off Yale (46.33) and Columbia (46.96). The winning time shattered the old record of 46.32 of the 2003 Cornell team and is also the fastest recorded time in Ivy history. The Cornell team was comprised of Linda Trotter, Jeomi Maduka, Cameron Washington and Jessica Retelny.
Women’s 5,000-meter finals
Princeton’s Cack Ferrell, the indoor Heps champion in the mile and the 3,000 meters, added the 5,000-meter outdoor title to her trophy case in the first track event of the day. After running with the pack for the bulk of the race, Ferrell pulled away to win in 16:26.82, which ranks as one of the top 10 times in meet history. Dartmouth’s Melanie Schorr was second in 16:31.55 and Cornell’s Emily McCabe was third in 16:34.29.
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