2021 Ivy League XC predictions...?

Springfield's contract wasn't renewed - nothing dramatic happened, just team's performance.

Kurt Benninger, Molly Huddle's husband, and former Notre Dame All American is now taking over as Men's coach. He's been a volunteer assistant for the last 7-8 years.

brownalum wrote:

Springfield's contract wasn't renewed - nothing dramatic happened, just team's performance.

Kurt Benninger, Molly Huddle's husband, and former Notre Dame All American is now taking over as Men's coach. He's been a volunteer assistant for the last 7-8 years.

They wouldn't let his contract expire at the end of August ( a few days before school year starts) and not have anyone to replace him. Keep in mind, he was the Director of XC and Track...

Harvard is in trouble. They won't get an auto qualifier to NCAA's because they can't beat Iona or Syracuse.

They won't beat Princeton at Heps because they only won HYP by 1 point, without Princeton's top runner (Trippas). Princeton put 8 in front of Harvard's 5th, so in a bigger meet their #5 will really cost them. Yale had 9 in before Harvard's 5.

Is Harvard the most over-hyped team in the NCAA? They are certainly the most overhyped team on LetsRun.

To be fair Harvard did not run their full team at HYP either.

bawpers20 wrote:

To be fair Harvard did not run their full team at HYP either.

Did they rest an Olympian?

HepsHerald wrote:

brownalum wrote:

Springfield's contract wasn't renewed - nothing dramatic happened, just team's performance.

Kurt Benninger, Molly Huddle's husband, and former Notre Dame All American is now taking over as Men's coach. He's been a volunteer assistant for the last 7-8 years.

They wouldn't let his contract expire at the end of August ( a few days before school year starts) and not have anyone to replace him. Keep in mind, he was the Director of XC and Track...

Keep in mind they were willing to cut the entire Men’s programs and never had a full allotment of coaches for many years according to their website, so this seems like something right up their alley.

Looking ahead to the weekend action:

Paul Short Invitational (10/1): Cornell, Penn, Princeton men, Yale

Paul Short Race Assignments: Cornell men/women, Yale men/women, and Princeton men - gold; Penn men/women - Brown

Piane Notre Dame Invitational (10/1): Penn, Princeton women

women racing 5k, men racing 5 miles

Race assignments have not been published publicly yet for this invitational.

Based on the scheduling and known race assignments, I'm assuming Penn is sending A-teams to Notre Dame and B-teams to Paul Short.

Off this weekend: Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard

C/M Runner wrote:

Looking ahead to the weekend action:

Paul Short Invitational (10/1): Cornell, Penn, Princeton men, Yale

Paul Short Race Assignments: Cornell men/women, Yale men/women, and Princeton men - gold; Penn men/women - Brown

Piane Notre Dame Invitational (10/1): Penn, Princeton women

women racing 5k, men racing 5 miles

Race assignments have not been published publicly yet for this invitational.

Based on the scheduling and known race assignments, I'm assuming Penn is sending A-teams to Notre Dame and B-teams to Paul Short.

Off this weekend: Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard

Piane Notre Dame Invite race assignments are available. All of the Ivy teams scheduled to run will be in the Blue Races (women at 10:30, men at 11:15). Live results can be found here:

Looks like Princeton's Ed Trippas has made his XC season debut at the Paul Short Invite. He won the Men's Open 8k by 2 seconds. Can't find any details on how the race went other than the live results.

Men's Open 8k (showing top 2 and Ivies in the top 10 only - no team scoring):

1. Trippas (Princeton), 24:30.5

2. Donnovan Tucker (Iona), 24:32.5

3. Thomas Foster (Cornell), 24:36.9 - #6 Cornell scorer for team at Yellowjacket Invite on 9/18/21

...

7. Damian Hackett (Cornell), 24:46.9 - first non-team scorer for Cornell at Yellowjacket Invite on 9/18/21

8. Nate Tavakolian (Princeton), 24:47.9 - 26th at HYP, not a Princeton scorer for HYP

9. Jack Stanley (Princeton), 24:50.7 - season debut race

Paul Short Invite results can be found here:

http://results.tfmeetpro.com/Mitchell_Timing/47th_Lehigh_Paul_Short_Run/

In the Paul Short Women's Open 5k, four Ivies finished in the top 10, led by Princeton rookie Lucy Huelskamp (6th, 22:02.1). No team scoring for the Open races.

Top 10:

1. Maggi Congdon (NAU), 21:10.4

...

6. Huelskamp (Princeton), 22:02.1 - collegiate debut

7. Tsion Yard (Princeton), 22:05.9 - collegiate debut

8. Lucinda Doogan (Princeton), 22:06.9 - 20th at HYP, first non-scoring Princeton runner

9. Katy Storti (Cornell), 22:06.9 - 26th at Yellowjacket Invite, non-scoring Cornell runner

First race at the ND Piane Invitational is complete - the women's blue 5km race, featuring Princeton and Penn.

Princeton finished 16th out of 25th in the team scoring, led by rookie Fiona Max with a 48th individual finish (17:00.4). Max was the top Tiger runner throughout the race. Four of their seven runners today were freshmen, and none were seniors. Team had a time spread of 33.5 seconds.

48. Max (FR), 17:00.4

72. Abigail Loveys (SO), 17:16.9

100. Caroline Timm (JR), 17:27.2

102. Angela Allen (FR), 17:27.7

113. Gillian Wagner (JR), 17:33.6

115. Lucca Fulkerson (FR), 17:34.0

118. Alexis Allen (FR), 17:34.6.

Penn finished 25th in the team scoring, led by rookie Olivia Morganti with a 90th individual finish (17:23.5). The team had a time spread of 1:35.0.

90. Morganti (FR), 17:23.5

110. Ariana Gardizy (JR), 17:32.6

147. Fabianna Szorenyi (FR), 17:53.5

165. Elizabeth Bader (SO), 18:07.7

174. Niamh Hayes (SR), 18:16.8

189. Phoebe White (FR), 18:58.5

192. Laura Baeyens (FR), 19:34.0

Back to Paul Short:

In the men's gold 8km race, Princeton finished 3rd in the team standings (74) behind UNC (56) and Villanova (57). Of the entire 40 team field, Princeton was the only team to have a scoring spread of less than 10 seconds (9.7 seconds), as their runners finished 11-12-13-17-21-(22)-(31), led by senior Kevin Berry (23:43.5), who was the top overall Ivy finisher in 11th place. Cornell finished 8th in the team standings (292; 27-48-55-75-88-(103)-(105), 48 second scoring spread), led by senior Matt Fusco (23:56.0), while Yale finished 34th in the team standings (989; 153-173-214-218-231-(259)-(263), 35.3 scoring spread), led by rookie Ryan Smithers in 168th place (25:17.2).

In the women's gold 6km race, Cornell and Yale were the only Ivy squads in the field, finishing 10th and 29th out of the field of 37 teams. Cornell was led by junior Rebecca Hasser (43rd place, 20:57.8) as the team went 43-46-48-111-127(158)(163) to get 375 points in a 1:03.5 scoring spread. Yale was led by rookie Kathryn Rodriguez (126th place, 21:52.6) as the team went 116-138-153-161-202(242) for 770 points in a scoring spread of 54.9 seconds.

Final race of the day:

Penn men finished 17th (394) in a field of 23 teams at the ND Piane Invite men's blue 5 mile race. Senior Noah Carey finished 19th overall to run 23:58.0 to lead the Quakers. Carey passed 12 men in the final 1+ km of the race to get his top 20 finish. The team had a 1:24.0 scoring spread.

19. Carey (SR), 23:58.0

64. Michael Keehan (SO), 24:42.2

75. Zubeir Dagane (FR), 24:47.0

109. Ray Sellaro (JR), 25:08.0

128. James Lee (JR), 25:21.9

136. Luke Johnson (FR), 25:30.6

138. Justin Cornetta (JR), 25:31.8

149. William Shaughnessy (FR), 25:47.5.

Who's running this weekend?

Carbon Plate In My Head wrote:

Who's running this weekend?

Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale at the New England XC Championships (Franklin Park, Boston)

Columbia at the Metro XC Championships (VCP)

Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton - off

C/M Runner wrote:

Carbon Plate In My Head wrote:

Who's running this weekend?

Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale at the New England XC Championships (Franklin Park, Boston)

Columbia at the Metro XC Championships (VCP)

Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton - off

More details about the meets:

New England XC Championships: Saturday 10/9. Women will race a 5k (sub-varsity at noon, varsity at 12:30) , men will race an 8k (subvarsity at 1pm, varsity at 1:45pm). Cannot find any information about live results or timing right now, so if anyone knows what it is, please share. General meet info can be found here:

Metro XC Championships are today, men racing at the 8k at 11am while the women's 5k race at 11:30. Live results thru leonetiming.com. Entries are up, and IMO, it looks like Columbia should win both team races (no Iona).

This video from the Battle in Beantown popped up on my YT feed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xcqaYDLN4

Carbon Plate In My Head wrote:

Maybe it's too easy. Harvard, led by future Olympian Graham Blanks and his merry band of Gibby-honed soldiers stomp the Princetonians into the turf when all is said and done. Everyone else... watching from a distance. Discus.

Who cares? You are talking about future white-collar criminals with some of the most toxic worldviews since Caligula. The Ivy League can be abolished.

It seems that all four of the teams were racing their B squads this weekend or at the very least holding out their top 5-7. Sub-par showing from Columbia, Yale, and Brown who look to be struggling for depth this year. Dartmouth seemed to win New England's handily and look they are on the rise at the moment.

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/xc/18725/NEICAAA_2021_Cross_Country_Championships#124461

https://results.leonetiming.com/xc.html?mid=4632