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Ivies Fare Well at USA Championships
Six former Ivy athletes finished in the top six at last weekend's USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., including Princeton grad Tora Harris (pic.), who won the national title in the high jump.
Ivies Past & Present to Compete in USA Championships
A total of 19 current or former Ivy Leaguers will be competing at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships beginning tomorrow at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Three Ivy Tracksters Earn Academic All-American Honors
A total of three Ivy League track and field athletes have earned ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America status.
Seven Ivies Become Track & Field All-Americans
Seven Ivy League track and field student-athletes earned All-America status at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at McDonnell Field on the University of Arkansas campus.
Ivy Tracksters Set for NCAA Nationals
Eighteen of the 23 Ivy Leaguers slated to compete at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., begin their quests for championships and All-America status today. Click inside for all the details.
Ivies Advance to Track & Field Nationals
Seventeen of the 100 Ivy athletes competing at the NCAA East Regional Track & Field Championship, punched an automatic ticket to the NCAA Championships (June 10-13) while others will be waiting to see if they are granted at-large entries.
Ivy Tracksters Head to NCAA Regionals
More than 100 Ivy League athletes have been confirmed to participate in the NCAA East Regional Track & Field Championship at North Carolina A&T’s Irwin Belk Track in Greensboro, N.C., on Friday and Saturday (May 29 & 30).
All-Ivy Outdoor Track & Field -- 2009
Brown sophomore thrower and Heps Female Athlete of the Meet Brynn Smith headlines this year's team as the only double winner on the women's side, after taking home the shot and hammer at Outdoor Heps in Philadelphia.
Princeton Women, Cornell Men Claim Heps Titles
The Princeton women ended seven years of Cornell dominance to claim its first outdoor title in 20 years, while the Big Red men won its seventh straight Heps team championship today at historic Franklin Field.
Ivy Tracksters Convene for Heps, Philly Style
The battle for the 2009 Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships will take place this weekend — May 9-10 — at Franklin Field on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa.
Penn's Bill Carr Posthumously Elected to USATF Hall
Former Penn track and field standout, Bill Carr, has been elected into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame. The Class of 2008 will be inducted Saturday, December 6 at the Jesse Owens Awards and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
Cornell's Halim Soars to National Title in Triple Jump
For a second year in a row, a student-athlete from Cornell has come away from the NCAA Track and Field Championships with the National title. Senior tri-captain Muhammad Halim had a remarkable series of jumps and reached a new school record (wind aided). His triumph came a year after Rayon Taylor won the title for the Big Red.
A Record From The Classroom
Four of the 15 Ivy Leaguers who have been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District teams will be competing at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday. The 15 bring the number of 2007-08 CoSIDA Ivy honorees to 81, breaking the 2005-06 record by two.
On To Tallahassee
The Ivy League will have nearly 100 entrants at the NCAA Track & Field East Regional Championships at the Mike Long Track on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., on Friday and Saturday.
All-Ivy Men's Outdoor Track (2008)
Three seniors — Cornell's Adam Seabrook and Muhammad Halim along with Yale's Victor Cheng — were double individual winners while Seabrook and Cheng each added a relay title at the Outdoor Heps in New Haven, Conn., over the weekend. That trio heads the 2008 All-Ivy squad.
All-Ivy Women's Outdoor Track (2008)
The All-Ivy women's track & field team is headlined by the co-Most Outstanding Performers of the meet, Cornell junior standout Jeomi Maduka and Penn senior distance star Stacy Kim.
Cornell Collects Double Win
The Cornell men's and women's track & field teams kept their tight grips on the John Baxter Taylor and Lynn Jennings trophies with huge team victories at the Outdoor Heptagonal Ivy League Championships at Dwyer Track in New Haven, Conn. Video of Heps is available here.
Dartmouth Alum Qualifies for Olympics
Former Dartmouth track standout and Heps cross country champion Jarrod Shoemaker '04, now specializing in the triathlon, has qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Celebrating Womyn
Angela Jimenez is an accomplished photojournalist who's latest project — Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival — is a remarkably intimate portrait of shared ritual and camaraderie, but one that could only come about with unusual circumstances and departures from more usual journalistic practice.
Big Red in Kenya Follow-up
Earlier in the summer, we brought you the story of Cornell assistant track coach Kevin Thompson, and his mission of bringing members of the Big Red track team to launch service projects in Kenya in conjunction with his non-profit Cross World Africa, Inc. The Cornell Chronicle recently featured a piece on the 10-day trip.
Jumping Around
Fresh off the jump of his life and a national title at last weekend's USATF Club Championships, former Harvard triple jump standout Samyr Laine is gearing up to represent Haiti in August's World Championships in Berlin, while balancing his studies at Georgetown law school.
Big Red in Kenya
After making a splash at the NCAAs in Arkansas with two All-American performances last weekend, it’s on to Kenya, where the ‘Big Red Travel Team’ will launch projects designed to bring opportunities to Kenyan youth and their families.
Hey There...Again
Columbia grad Delilah DiCrescenzo is a three-time Heps champion who was also the inspiration for a Grammy-nominated song. The former All-American steeplechaser is back in Morningside Heights as a coach and graduate student, while continuing to run professionally.
Staring Down London
Eighty-eight hundredths of a second is all that separated Columbia's Erison Hurtault ’07 from qualifying in his 400-meter heat at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is ready to make amends in London 2012.
Hey There, Delilah
For the last year, former Columbia steeplechase champion Delilah DiCrescenzo has been in the spotlight for reasons that were not of her doing. She discussed it with Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer on the Today Show this week.
Year of the Tiger
The Princeton men's and women's track teams start an adventure today — a 13-day trip to China. Frank Litsky detailed the trip and its origins in today's New York Times.
Q&A With A National Champ
On Saturday Cornell's Rayon Taylor, a Clifton, N.J., native, took the final leap of his college career and soared 53 feet, 8 1/2 inches to win the NCAA triple jump championship, becoming the first Big Red athlete to win a national track title since 1951.
The Assault Continues
Next weekend, Erison Hurtault will try to become the first male in Heps history to win a single event eight times. Today, the New York Times profiled the Columbia track star and '08 Olympic hopeful.
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