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Harris & Ratcliffe Repeat as Ivy Champions
May 06, 2017 | Women's Track and Field
Results
Team scores after five events: Penn 45, Harvard 33, Princeton & Dartmouth 29, Columbia 12, Yale 4, Cornell 2, Brown 1
Qualifiers headed into tomorrow: Penn 14, Princeton 10, Harvard 10, Cornell 8, Columbia 6, Dartmouth 5, Brown 4, Yale 2
It seems like history repeating itself as seniors Allison Harris and Julia Ratcliffe won their respective events on Day 1 of the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal Championship.
Princeton is in third place tie after the first day with 29 points, while Penn has a surprising 12-point lead over Harvard and has the most competitors in the finals with 14. Princeton and Harvard both advanced 10 to the finals.
In the pole vault, Harris won with meet record of 4.23 (13-10.5). This is her fourth Ivy pole vault title, and second outdoors. She crushed the previous best record of 4.00 (13-1.5), a record she herself held along with Tory Worthen '13and Natalie Gengel (Cornell). Harris also improved upon her own Princeton record of 4.15 (13-7.25) which she reached at the 2016 Larry Ellis Invitational. Her 4.23 is the 17th best vault of the season in the NCAA, and seventh best in the East.
Ratcliffe became the first ever student-athlete to win four hammer throw titles. All three of her countable throws this afternoon were the best throws, with a 69.24 (227-2) being her furthest. The 2014 NCAA champion and 2015 NCAA runner-up has an all-time best of 70.75 (232-1.50) and looks to make her fourth trip to the NCAAs again next month. The Tigers know they will still have success next year, after her graduation with junior Kennedy O'Dell and freshman Ellen Scott-Young. O'Dell, who won the event last year, was fourth this afternoon with a 55.11 (180-9) on her final attempt of the afternoon, while Scott-Young tossed a 54.77 (179-8) on her second attempt. In all the Tigers claimed 16 points in the event.
The Tiger earned pointed in the javelin for the first time in more than a decade. Both freshmen Reese Schachne and senior Ariel Becker scored in the event as the first Tigers to score in the event since 2005. Schachne was fifth with a throw of 40.27 (132-1) while Becker was sixth at 39.51 (129-7). In just her first year, Schachne already has the second-best javelin throw in program history after a 43.71 this spring, while Becker ranks fifth with a PR of 39.59.
Sophomore Ellie Randolph just missed a scoring spot in the long jump, with a 5.70 (18-8.5). It was the best jump she has had this season as she rises up at Heps after posting a PR of 5.86 (19-2.75) at indoor Heps in February.
Randolph will race in the 100-meter hurdle final tomorrow after clocking a PR of 13.73 in the prelims. This is the second year Randolph has made the finals, placing fourth a year ago. Harris, who was fifth in the hurdles last year, was unable to compete in the event because of the timing of the pole vault.
In the lone scored track event of the day, the 10k, senior Nicole Marvin just missed a scoring spot by taking eighth at 35:32.99.
Senior Katie Hanss will race in the 1500 final tomorrow after qualifying with a time of 4:36.24. She can certainly run faster as she posted a PR in the event just a few weeks ago at the Larry Ellis Invitational with a 4:19.68, which is seven seconds faster than the best qualifying time today.
Both senior Elisa Steele and freshman Ashley Willingham qualified for the 400 final. Steele posted the second-fastest time of the day at 55.35 by winning heat 1. Willingham qualified on time with a 55.65 in heat 3.
Freshman Devon Block-Funkhouser clocked her fastest time in the 400 hurdles, to make the eight-person final. She was second in heat 2, qualifying on time with a 1:00.76, the fourth fastest of the afternoon.
Junior Christina Walter qualified in both the 100 and 200 sprints. She clocked a wind-aided 11.71 in the 100, the fifth best time overall. The wind helped the sprinters again in the 200 with blistering fast times as Walter put up a 24.37
After four events of the women's heptathlon all three Tigers are in scoring position with junior Maia Craver is in third place, sophomore Frances Lodge is in fifth and sophomore Mikaela Sawyer is in eighth. Craver finished first in both the shot put and the 200, was second in the 100 hurdles and sixth in the high jump to claim 3,087 points. Lodge has picked up 2,921 points while Sawyer has 2,590.
Day 2 begins tomorrow with the continuation of the heptathlon beginning at 11 a.m. The first event on the track is the steeplechase at 11:15 a.m, while the triple jump kicks off the field events at 11 a.m.
Team scores after five events: Penn 45, Harvard 33, Princeton & Dartmouth 29, Columbia 12, Yale 4, Cornell 2, Brown 1
Qualifiers headed into tomorrow: Penn 14, Princeton 10, Harvard 10, Cornell 8, Columbia 6, Dartmouth 5, Brown 4, Yale 2
It seems like history repeating itself as seniors Allison Harris and Julia Ratcliffe won their respective events on Day 1 of the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal Championship.
Princeton is in third place tie after the first day with 29 points, while Penn has a surprising 12-point lead over Harvard and has the most competitors in the finals with 14. Princeton and Harvard both advanced 10 to the finals.
In the pole vault, Harris won with meet record of 4.23 (13-10.5). This is her fourth Ivy pole vault title, and second outdoors. She crushed the previous best record of 4.00 (13-1.5), a record she herself held along with Tory Worthen '13and Natalie Gengel (Cornell). Harris also improved upon her own Princeton record of 4.15 (13-7.25) which she reached at the 2016 Larry Ellis Invitational. Her 4.23 is the 17th best vault of the season in the NCAA, and seventh best in the East.
Ratcliffe became the first ever student-athlete to win four hammer throw titles. All three of her countable throws this afternoon were the best throws, with a 69.24 (227-2) being her furthest. The 2014 NCAA champion and 2015 NCAA runner-up has an all-time best of 70.75 (232-1.50) and looks to make her fourth trip to the NCAAs again next month. The Tigers know they will still have success next year, after her graduation with junior Kennedy O'Dell and freshman Ellen Scott-Young. O'Dell, who won the event last year, was fourth this afternoon with a 55.11 (180-9) on her final attempt of the afternoon, while Scott-Young tossed a 54.77 (179-8) on her second attempt. In all the Tigers claimed 16 points in the event.
The Tiger earned pointed in the javelin for the first time in more than a decade. Both freshmen Reese Schachne and senior Ariel Becker scored in the event as the first Tigers to score in the event since 2005. Schachne was fifth with a throw of 40.27 (132-1) while Becker was sixth at 39.51 (129-7). In just her first year, Schachne already has the second-best javelin throw in program history after a 43.71 this spring, while Becker ranks fifth with a PR of 39.59.
Sophomore Ellie Randolph just missed a scoring spot in the long jump, with a 5.70 (18-8.5). It was the best jump she has had this season as she rises up at Heps after posting a PR of 5.86 (19-2.75) at indoor Heps in February.
Randolph will race in the 100-meter hurdle final tomorrow after clocking a PR of 13.73 in the prelims. This is the second year Randolph has made the finals, placing fourth a year ago. Harris, who was fifth in the hurdles last year, was unable to compete in the event because of the timing of the pole vault.
In the lone scored track event of the day, the 10k, senior Nicole Marvin just missed a scoring spot by taking eighth at 35:32.99.
Senior Katie Hanss will race in the 1500 final tomorrow after qualifying with a time of 4:36.24. She can certainly run faster as she posted a PR in the event just a few weeks ago at the Larry Ellis Invitational with a 4:19.68, which is seven seconds faster than the best qualifying time today.
Both senior Elisa Steele and freshman Ashley Willingham qualified for the 400 final. Steele posted the second-fastest time of the day at 55.35 by winning heat 1. Willingham qualified on time with a 55.65 in heat 3.
Freshman Devon Block-Funkhouser clocked her fastest time in the 400 hurdles, to make the eight-person final. She was second in heat 2, qualifying on time with a 1:00.76, the fourth fastest of the afternoon.
Junior Christina Walter qualified in both the 100 and 200 sprints. She clocked a wind-aided 11.71 in the 100, the fifth best time overall. The wind helped the sprinters again in the 200 with blistering fast times as Walter put up a 24.37
After four events of the women's heptathlon all three Tigers are in scoring position with junior Maia Craver is in third place, sophomore Frances Lodge is in fifth and sophomore Mikaela Sawyer is in eighth. Craver finished first in both the shot put and the 200, was second in the 100 hurdles and sixth in the high jump to claim 3,087 points. Lodge has picked up 2,921 points while Sawyer has 2,590.
Day 2 begins tomorrow with the continuation of the heptathlon beginning at 11 a.m. The first event on the track is the steeplechase at 11:15 a.m, while the triple jump kicks off the field events at 11 a.m.
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