Cornell University’s women’s indoor track and field team finished fourth at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, held at The Armory Track in New York. The team earned a total of 63 points, placing behind Princeton, Penn, and Harvard but ahead of Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, and Columbia.
The highlight for Cornell was the victory in the 4×4000-meter distance medley relay. The team of Maisie McManus, Olivia Walters, Katja Jackson, and Mairead Clas won the Ivy title with a season-best time of 11:18.98. This performance currently ranks No. 43 in NCAA Division I.
Cornell also achieved two second-place finishes on the track. Francine Stevens finished as runner-up in the 400 meters with a time of 54.01 seconds. Sophia Comfere secured second place in the 500 meters with a time of 1:10.51. Comfere later anchored the 4×400-meter relay team alongside Justine Hounsell, Natasha Redmond, and Stevens to finish fourth in 3:42.40.
Other notable performances included Katja Jackson’s fifth-place run in the 800 meters (2:07.67), which was her season best, and Elise Sawyer’s sixth-place finish in the 500 meters (1:13.54). Arianna Allen placed sixth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.60 seconds, while Fiona Lee took seventh place in the 1000 meters (2:50.43).
Francine Stevens also scored by finishing eighth in the 200 meters with a time of 24.82 seconds.
The Big Red’s scoring concluded with their 4×800-meter relay team—composed of Riley Ebersole, Tenley Nelson, Fiona Lee, and Elise Sawyer—finishing sixth with a season-best time of 8:56.61.
