Ivy League HepsXC 2023 - 10/28, Franklin Park (Boston MA)

The men’s team will be between Harvard and Princeton. Slight edge to Harvard. Slight home course advantage as well. Blanks and Iverson are most likely 1 and 2. Not sure if Anthony Monte is injured but is always a factor when healthy. I think Harvard now has some really good depth and with the top 2 will this one for the first time in 51 years.

team:

harvard

princeton

cornell

yale

individual:

1 blanks

2 iverson

3 bendsten

4 troop

5 rosa

6 Hammond

7 Nisbet

8 Hogan

9 o’brien

10 ewing

One more thing to add. If Graham Blanks wins the XC individual, he will hold the indoor 3k, indoor 5k, outdoor 5k, outdoor 5k, and XC titles. Not sure thats ever happened.

Acer Iverson did it in 2022 calendar year... but I get your point. Looking back at what info I have for previous champs, I see they would also did some other distance combo at a Heps (i.e., Princeton's Donn Cabral did SC/10km doubles at Outdoor Heps while he also had XC titles and indoor 3k/5k titles; Dartmouth's Jim Sapienza won the outdoor 1500 and 10km, XC, and indoor 1500/5km in 1984). Long distance runners have a LONG competition year.

I have ESPN+ but can't watch it live.

Any idea if it will be accessible later in the day?

It doesn't look like I can record it.

I believe you can watch replays (based on a google search), but I'm not 100% sure as I don't have ESPN+.

Wow. You are right. I didn’t realize that Acer actually did it the year before. I really think they are going to be the surprise team at NCAAs.

The event should be viewable on ESPN+ replays - specify 20231028

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can you feel it?

Bit surprised there was no mention of HepsXC in Kyle Merber's The Lap Count newsletter for this week (not even a "heads up, conference meets are starting, including the one where I got hypothermia back in my senior year..."). Jon Gault did a shout out to it on Twitter (he says he lives in town so he'll be at the meet).

Just fyi, if you are outside the U.S. (and therefore cannot access ESPN+) you can see it here for around $5: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/ivy/

Any thoughts about the women's competition? It seems Harvard's Maia Ramsden is the favorite while Columbia's Phoebe Anderson has had a strong individual campaign so far (she was 17 seconds behind Ramsden at Nuttycombe). Penn's Maeve Stiles won the Outdoor Heps 10k in 2023 and the Indoor Heps 5k in 2022, and she was 3rd at this meet last year (she's running well this season so far so I see her in the top 3). The defending runner up - Victoria Patterson from Columbia - has not competed yet this season. Another other individuals to watch?

Victoria Patterson is at OR supposedly working on eligibility.

Thanks - I see her on Oregon's XC roster. Didn't know she had transferred.

Stiles was 6 seconds in back of Ramsden @ Battle of Beantown/Franklin Park end of Sept. Morganti of Penn was 15 secs back. Tho that was a 5k - this is a 6k with one more trip up the hill at the back to separate the runners!

Penn does have some strong individuals. They have Dylan Throop on the men's side, and I think he can get an individual berth to NCAAs. I think you could write him in as First Team All-Ivy this weekend.

Acer didn’t win cross you dunce

Pretty sure he won heps XC in 2022. Was that the race in question?

No need for name calling. The poster said calendar year (Jan - Dec), not academic year (Sep - Jun)

Check under his results for 2022:

Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships Feb 26-27, 2022

30008:00.09 1st (F)
5000 13:42.88 1st (F)

Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships May 7- 8, 2022

5000 13:56.53 1st (F)
10,000 29:16.31 1st (F)

Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships Oct 28, 2022

8k 23:59.3 1st

https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/7400013/Harvard/Acer_Iverson.html