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Princeton Sweeps Indoor Titles
Monday, March 01, 2010
Men's Final ResultsWomen's Final Results
HANOVER, N.H. -- Princeton's men and women's track
and field teams have swept the Indoor Heps championships for only the third
time in program history and, first since 1998.
The men won their first indoor title since 2007 in convincing fashion, topping
two-time defending champions Cornell by 32 points (181-149). Host Dartmouth
finished third with 55 points, and were followed by Harvard (4th, 53), Columbia
(5th, 52), Brown (6th, 38), Penn (7th, 33) and Yale (8th, 28).
The Male Outstanding Performer of the Meet was Cornell senior Duane Teixeira,
who followed up last year's stellar outdoor performance by winning the double
in the triple and long jump. His championship long jump of 24-10 was the longest
at indoor Heps in 20 years.
On the women's side, Princeton edged second-place Columbia, 125-110. Cornell
placed third with 96 points, and were followed by Harvard (4th, 61), Brown (5th,
55) and Penn (6th, 48), as Dartmouth (7th, 16) and Yale (7th, 16) tied for seventh.
Columbia's Sharay Hale took home Female Outstanding Performer of the Meet honors.
On Saturday she ran the fastest heat times ever in both the 200- (24.24) and
400-meter dashes (54.46). She did things even faster today, winning both events,
one in record time. She first claimed the 400 in 53.79, the second-fastest time
in Heps history (behind only Meredith Rainey of Harvard 20 years ago). She then
erased Nicole Harrison's 13-year-old record in the 200, winning in 24.20, .02
ahead of the former Princetonian's standard.
