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Heptagonal / Ivy League XC ChampionshipsPublished by
By ELLIOTT DENMAN
PRINCETON, N.J. - Neither rain nor cold nor mud nor generally miserable conditions
could stay the harriers of Princeton and Dartmouth from the swift completion of their appointed Ivy League rounds.
The Tiger men and Big Green women delivered their messages with total dispatch at the 75th edition of the Heptagonal/ Ivy Cross Country Championships Saturday at Princeton's West Windsor Fields. And nothing was going to stand in their way.
Last year's illustrious individual champions were gone - Harvard's Maxsim Korolev, now completing his collegiate eligibility as a graduate student at Stanford; Dartmouth's multi-NCAA champion, Abbey D'Agostino, now competing as a pro runner out of Boston - so that opened the door to a pair of bright underclass athletes to claim the individual Ivy golds.
After Princeton sophomore sensation Megan Curham ran off with the women's 6K
crown in 20:24.3, Penn junior Thomas Awad took over the spotlight with a blazing homestetch sprint past Princeton's Michael Sublette for the men's 8K title
in 24:24.1
Given the goshawful conditions, both mud-splattered team champions notched eye-opening performances, as well.
Putting five men in the top 12, host Princeton netted the low-low score of 30 points (a winning total bested just once in the last 17 years) and regained the title it relinquished
(after a three-year Ivy reign) to Columbia a year ago.
The Cornell men hurtled from seventh in 2013 to second this time around (at 74 points), and Awad-led Penn (netting 111) zoomed from sixth to third. Rounding out the Ancient Eight men were Dartmouth (fourth at 112), Yale and defending champion Columbia (both 123), Harvard (146) and Brown (155.)
"The pace went out petty slow," said Awad, a junior and 3:58 miler out of Long Island's Chaminade High School. "We were being pretty cautious. Then we began breaking up but the Princeton man ( Sublette) was always up there. I kind of let him go in front of me, to break the wind, so I let him take me in."
With 50 meters to go, though, Awad decided enough was enough. He floored it to win by about two strides.
Still, Sublette's 24:25.2 powered the title-winning Tiger team. With Sam Pons (24:27.8) third, Eddie Owens (24:36.2) sixth, Matt McDonald (24:37.2) seventh and Sam Berger (24:47.5) 12th, the Tigers had it clinched.
"Thomas (Awad) is such a tough competitor," said Penn coach Steve Dolan. "You start to believe he's always going to find a way to win it.
"For a Penn man to win this, it's a very big deal. Our last (Heps/Ivy) champion was Dave Merrick and that was in 1973.
"Tommy was just amazing. And same for our whole team. To a man, they really put their hearts on the line. I'm very proud of them."
Likely even prouder was Princeton men's coach Jason Vigilante.
"We had a goal of having 12 men run well today and we did that," he said. "This was a real team effort. A year ago, Michael Sublette was not really running at this level, but he's worked so hard to get here and lead this team.
"Let me say I'm very proud of these Tigers."
Now minus the celebrated D'Agostino - the most decorated Ivy woman distance runner in history and the 2013 winner here in 19:40.8 - the Dartmouth women nevertheless came through once more, on a 47-point total that clearly bested Princeton's runner-up 67.
"One of the things we've been talking about all year is packing in as a group,
and that's exactly what helped us win today," said Courtney Jaworski, the first-year
Dartmouth coach.
Individual champion Curham is a homegrown New Jersey product, a Warren Township resident out of Villa Walsh High School.
"I knew it was going to be a close race, but I was always pretty confident," said Curham. "I knew how hard I'd trained for this day. I threw in a few surges, and guess that was key.
"I know Princeton's had a lot of outstanding distance runners. I know what they've done,
that's a huge inspiration for me now. I want to follow in their footsteps.
"Oh, definitely."
"Megan's a pretty tough kid," lauded Tiger coach Peter Farrell.
"She wasn't stretched out at all in her high school career and now that she's a college athlete she's beginning to show what she really can do.
"Remember that she's only a sophomore. At this stage, she's already ahead of some of
the great runners here before her. Megan has a huge aerobic capability and is very confident.
"She backs down from no one. She goes right to the front.
"It's clear that she has a lot of good running ahead of her, she really does."
Dartmouth's Dana Giordano ran second to Curham in 20:28.1, with teammate Sarah Delozier third (20:36.1.) When Sarah Bennett, Reid Watson and Ellie Gonzalez claimed the 12-13-17 spots, the Dartmouth team win was assured.
"Dana ran a wonderful race all the way; Curham ran great to win it but Dana gave her a battle, " said Jaworski. "I knew these two are going to have great races coming up the next couple of years.
"Delozier said she wanted to make top five, but did even better.
"And wrapping it up was our freshman, Ellie Gonzalez, who showed tremendous confidence and poise.
"Sure Abbey's gone, but now it gives everyone else the chance to step up, and that's exactly what they did."
This is Jaworski's first year as head coach at Dartmouth. A former Penn middle distance star, he served coaching earlier coaching stints at Smith College, College of the Puget Sound and Manhattanville College.
The Columbia women improved from fifth a year ago to third this time at 95, but Cornell, the 2011-12 champion and 2013 runner-up, dropped to fourth at 108.
Next in line: Harvard (119), Yale (130), Brown (153) and Penn (178.)
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Heptagonal / Ivy League XC ChampionshipsPublished by
By ELLIOTT DENMAN
PRINCETON, N.J. - Neither rain nor cold nor mud nor generally miserable conditions
could stay the harriers of Princeton and Dartmouth from the swift completion of their appointed Ivy League rounds.
The Tiger men and Big Green women delivered their messages with total dispatch at the 75th edition of the Heptagonal/ Ivy Cross Country Championships Saturday at Princeton's West Windsor Fields. And nothing was going to stand in their way.
Last year's illustrious individual champions were gone - Harvard's Maxsim Korolev, now completing his collegiate eligibility as a graduate student at Stanford; Dartmouth's multi-NCAA champion, Abbey D'Agostino, now competing as a pro runner out of Boston - so that opened the door to a pair of bright underclass athletes to claim the individual Ivy golds.
After Princeton sophomore sensation Megan Curham ran off with the women's 6K
crown in 20:24.3, Penn junior Thomas Awad took over the spotlight with a blazing homestetch sprint past Princeton's Michael Sublette for the men's 8K title
in 24:24.1
Given the goshawful conditions, both mud-splattered team champions notched eye-opening performances, as well.
Putting five men in the top 12, host Princeton netted the low-low score of 30 points (a winning total bested just once in the last 17 years) and regained the title it relinquished
(after a three-year Ivy reign) to Columbia a year ago.
The Cornell men hurtled from seventh in 2013 to second this time around (at 74 points), and Awad-led Penn (netting 111) zoomed from sixth to third. Rounding out the Ancient Eight men were Dartmouth (fourth at 112), Yale and defending champion Columbia (both 123), Harvard (146) and Brown (155.)
"The pace went out petty slow," said Awad, a junior and 3:58 miler out of Long Island's Chaminade High School. "We were being pretty cautious. Then we began breaking up but the Princeton man ( Sublette) was always up there. I kind of let him go in front of me, to break the wind, so I let him take me in."
With 50 meters to go, though, Awad decided enough was enough. He floored it to win by about two strides.
Still, Sublette's 24:25.2 powered the title-winning Tiger team. With Sam Pons (24:27.8) third, Eddie Owens (24:36.2) sixth, Matt McDonald (24:37.2) seventh and Sam Berger (24:47.5) 12th, the Tigers had it clinched.
"Thomas (Awad) is such a tough competitor," said Penn coach Steve Dolan. "You start to believe he's always going to find a way to win it.
"For a Penn man to win this, it's a very big deal. Our last (Heps/Ivy) champion was Dave Merrick and that was in 1973.
"Tommy was just amazing. And same for our whole team. To a man, they really put their hearts on the line. I'm very proud of them."
Likely even prouder was Princeton men's coach Jason Vigilante.
"We had a goal of having 12 men run well today and we did that," he said. "This was a real team effort. A year ago, Michael Sublette was not really running at this level, but he's worked so hard to get here and lead this team.
"Let me say I'm very proud of these Tigers."
Now minus the celebrated D'Agostino - the most decorated Ivy woman distance runner in history and the 2013 winner here in 19:40.8 - the Dartmouth women nevertheless came through once more, on a 47-point total that clearly bested Princeton's runner-up 67.
"One of the things we've been talking about all year is packing in as a group,
and that's exactly what helped us win today," said Courtney Jaworski, the first-year
Dartmouth coach.
Individual champion Curham is a homegrown New Jersey product, a Warren Township resident out of Villa Walsh High School.
"I knew it was going to be a close race, but I was always pretty confident," said Curham. "I knew how hard I'd trained for this day. I threw in a few surges, and guess that was key.
"I know Princeton's had a lot of outstanding distance runners. I know what they've done,
that's a huge inspiration for me now. I want to follow in their footsteps.
"Oh, definitely."
"Megan's a pretty tough kid," lauded Tiger coach Peter Farrell.
"She wasn't stretched out at all in her high school career and now that she's a college athlete she's beginning to show what she really can do.
"Remember that she's only a sophomore. At this stage, she's already ahead of some of
the great runners here before her. Megan has a huge aerobic capability and is very confident.
"She backs down from no one. She goes right to the front.
"It's clear that she has a lot of good running ahead of her, she really does."
Dartmouth's Dana Giordano ran second to Curham in 20:28.1, with teammate Sarah Delozier third (20:36.1.) When Sarah Bennett, Reid Watson and Ellie Gonzalez claimed the 12-13-17 spots, the Dartmouth team win was assured.
"Dana ran a wonderful race all the way; Curham ran great to win it but Dana gave her a battle, " said Jaworski. "I knew these two are going to have great races coming up the next couple of years.
"Delozier said she wanted to make top five, but did even better.
"And wrapping it up was our freshman, Ellie Gonzalez, who showed tremendous confidence and poise.
"Sure Abbey's gone, but now it gives everyone else the chance to step up, and that's exactly what they did."
This is Jaworski's first year as head coach at Dartmouth. A former Penn middle distance star, he served coaching earlier coaching stints at Smith College, College of the Puget Sound and Manhattanville College.
The Columbia women improved from fifth a year ago to third this time at 95, but Cornell, the 2011-12 champion and 2013 runner-up, dropped to fourth at 108.
Next in line: Harvard (119), Yale (130), Brown (153) and Penn (178.)
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