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Women's Outdoor Track & Field - March Recap
Photo courtesy of Cornell Athletic Communications/Tim
McKinney
PRINCETON, N.J. -- There was little time to waste
in between the end of the indoor track and field season and the
beginning of the outdoor campaign. The Ivy League teams were back
in action shortly after the NCAA Indoor Championships, working
towards the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships on May 5-6
at Penn's Frankin Field and the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Des
Moines, Iowa, from June 6-9.
Cornell holds the top 2012 outdoor marks in 10 events, followed by
Princeton (3), Penn (2), Brown (2), Harvard (2), Dartmouth (1) and
Yale (1).
The Big Red is 1-2-3 in the 3,000m steeplechase, led by junior
Genna Hartung's 10:27.96. Cornell is 1-2 in the
200m, 1,500m and 5,000m and also holds the top spots in both the
4x100 and 4x400 relays. Sophomore Ebolutalese
Airewele ran the 200m in 24.53 at the UC Irvine Spring
Break Invitational and freshman Katie Woodford was
close behind with a time of 24.79.
Yale senior Lindsey Raymond and junior
Elizabeth Marvin are 1-2 in the 10,000m with times
of 35:47.98 and 35:53.83, respectively. Penn sophomore
Gabrielle Piper, who won the 60m hurdles title at
the 2012 Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships, leads the
League in the outdoor 100m hurdles with a time of 14.21.
Harvard junior Sydnie Leroy holds the best pole
vault mark in the League, at 3.80m, but Indoor Championships Female
Most Outstanding Performer Tory Worthen of
Princeton has yet to compete in her signature event. Crimson junior
Olivia Weeks has a lead of more than a foot in the
long jump thus far in 2012, recording a leap of 5.92m.
Brown holds the top spots in the hammer throw (Lacey
Craker, 55.62m) and the javelin (Nina
Al-Hassan, 42.01m), while Dartmouth is 1-2-3 in the
Heptathlon, led by Janae Dunchack's 4,741 points
set in the Shamrock Invitational. Dunchack won the pentathlon at
the Ivy League Indoor Championships.
