At the meet that marked the start of outdoor tracks’ championship season, both Red teams posted a number of impressive performances. It was the women’s team, however, that especially shined at the Penn Relays.

Following weeks of adverse conditions, the Red track teams will finally get a glimpse of springtime weather this weekend. Some athletes head to Allentown, Pa., for the Moravian Invitational, and others will travel up the road to SUNY-Cortland.

It’s not often that a relay squad is made up of four players as seasoned and as accomplished as the one the Cornell women put forth last Saturday in Knoxville.

Cameron Washington is a co-captain who owns ten conference titles and four ECAC titles — as well as all-time Ivy records in the 4×100, 4×400 and spring medley. Morgan Uceny, the other co-captain, has multiple Ivy and ECAC victories to add to two All-American awards and a top-5 800-meter finish at the NCAA Indoor championship. Nyam Kagwima, a natural cross country runner, is favored in this year’s 1500 at Heps after finishing second last year and reaching the final round of Regionals. And Toni-Lynn Salucci is the owner of the 2006 Penn Relays steeplechase title (among collegiates) and a former all-time Cornell record-holder in the event.

Last Friday it was the women’s tennis team’s turn to step into the role of giant-killer, as the women took down Harvard, 5-2, at Reis Tennis Center — defeating the Crimson for the first time in Cornell history — before defeating Dartmouth in a 4-3 nail-biter on Saturday. The men’s team, which beat Harvard last year for the first time in 46 meetings, dropped both of its matches to the Crimson and the Green on the road this weekend.

The men’s and women’s track teams will head to Philadelphia this weekend to compete in the Quaker Invitational hosted by Penn. The event marks the Red’s first outdoor meet of the year in the Northeast, where Cornell will face many of its ECAC conference rivals.

The men’s and women’s track teams spent their Spring Break where many other Cornell students did — in 75 degree weather on the sun-drenched beach. For the athletes, however, that meant traveling cross-country to California to compete in two meets and train twice a day for eight days to kick off the team’s outdoor season. Although the Red placed a combined 13 runners in the NCAA Regional’s and won this weekend’s UC Irvine Classic, many members of the team enjoyed the trip for reasons other than success on the track.

With the arrival of spring break, the men’s and women’s track teams will kick off their outdoor track seasons this weekend by traveling to California. The Red will compete in the Long Beach State Invitational before heading to the Spring Break Invitational in Irvine, Calif., next weekend.

Four players participated for the Red in the year-ending NISRA individual squash tournament, with varying results.

Women’s freshman No. 5 Liza Stokes made a surprising run to the quarterfinals of her draw, while men’s senior No. 3 Rohit Gupta won three matches en route to the semifinals of his final tournament. Women’s sophomore No. 3 Alex Cornett and freshman No. 4 Rachel Wagner each won one match before falling in the second round of the 32-player tournament.

After the women’s squash team took home its divisional title in the NISRA championships at Yale University last weekend, the men’s team (10-10, 1-5 Ivy) responded with a win of its own, taking the Hoehn Division (B) in dramatic fashion. The Red started off the weekend by beating Franklin and Marshall (13-11), then won consecutive, 5-4 decisions over Amherst (9-8) and Navy (24-8).