This past weekend, the Princeton men and women’s cross country team competed in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton race at West Windsor Fields on Saturday. The first men’s triangular meet was held in 1922 and is a tradition that has lasted almost a hundred years, with minimal interruptions.
For the third year in a row, not only did the Tigers win, but also dominated both Yale and Harvard. With a final score of 23 points, the team placed 2-3-4-5-9. It was a very close race, with the top 30 athletes all within five seconds of each other at the three-mile mark. First for the Tigers was junior Noah Kaupilla with a time of 25:01.0, immediately followed by freshman Conor Lundy with a time of 25.01.7. In fourth was senior captain William Bertrand with a time of 25.09.6, and fifth was sophomore runner Jeremy Spiezio with a time of 25:12.3. The last scorer for the Tigers was another freshman, Gannon Wilcutts, in ninth place with a time of 25:16.3. For their sixth and seventh men, junior Wolfgang Beck ran 25:25.5 and freshman Perrin Hagge placed 14th with a time of 25:34.2.
Yale took second place with a score of 49 points. The top finisher was a Bulldog, James Randon, with a time of 24.58.9. Randon placed tenth last year and showed major improvement this year. The Crimson, on the other hand, had a rough race, unable to place any athletes in the top six. The men’s next races at Lehigh's Paul Short Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 1.
In the women’s race, Yale won with a score of 20 points, Harvard took second with 53 points, and Princeton finished third with a tally of 63 points. Senior Ally Markovich finished first for the women Tigers in ninth place with a time of 19:29.9. Junior Melinda Renuart also finished three places behind, in 12th,with a time of 19:54.3.
As the final three scorers, freshmen Alexandra Rome was 13th at 20:00.5, Rachel Granovsky 16th at 20:05.9, and Madeleine Sumner 18th at 20:11.0. Junior Melissa Reed and sophomore Allie Klimkiewicz were, respectively, the sixth and seventh scorers with times of 20:25.3 and 20:34.0. The strong freshmen show the young strength and the potential the program has under its new coach, Coach Hunt. The Orange and Black return to the course next Friday, Sept. 23 to race in the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational in Charlottesville.
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