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Cross Country Kicks Off The Season With First Place at Harry F. Anderson Invitational
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“Everyone had a really good track season last year and so we just really wanted to see where the momentum was going to take us,” Haquet said.
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“Everyone had a really good track season last year and so we just really wanted to see where the momentum was going to take us,” Haquet said.
With several athletes hitting their stride at the right time of the season, the Cornell track and field teams are poised for continued success as they progress through their spring schedule.
Women’s Track and Field Placed First in the ECACC Championship and look ahead to taking on the Penn Challenge.
Men’s Track and Field finishes its season with respectable titles in championships.
Track and Field prepares for the Heptagonal Championships starting on Feb. 24.
Track and field had a strong tune up for the Ivy Heptagonal Championship at the Transatlantic Series.
The Cornell men’s distance squad showed up in force on April 1 to the Stanford Invite, one of the biggest meets in the country. Leading the charge was senior Perry Mackinnon in the second heat of the 10,000-meter event last weekend. Mackinnon won his heat and beat many athletes in the heat above him with a time of 28:33, breaking the previous 29-year-old school record by nearly 27 seconds. “I just knew during the warmup that it would be a good day for me. I’ve done enough of these races to know when I feel that good on the warm up that it’s going to be a good day for me.
Junior Tomas Keršulis, the sole Cornell athlete at the NCAA Championships, earned All-American honors.
Junior Thomas Kersulis, senior Rishabh Prakash and junior Rhys Hammond all had historic performances at the Dr. Sander Inivtiational.
Track and field finished in fourth place at the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championship.