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Cornell women's indoor track and field team competes at the 2026 indoor track and field ivy league heptagonal championships in NYC

Distance Medley Relay Claims Crown, Cornell Women Place Fourth at Ivy Heps

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NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cornell women's indoor track and field wrapped up competition Sunday at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at The Armory Track, placing fourth overall with 63 team points.

Princeton secured the team championship, followed by Penn and Harvard, with Cornell finishing ahead of Yale, Dartmouth, Brown and Columbia.

The Big Red's top performance of the day came in the distance medley relay, where Maisie McManus, Olivia Walters, Katja Jackson and Mairead Clas captured the Ivy title in a season-best 11:18.98. The mark currently ranks No. 43 in NCAA Division I and third fastest meet time since the event was added to competition in 2014. Leg splits were 3:31.2, 57.02, 2:09.5, & 4:41.3. 

Cornell also earned two runner-up finishes on the track. Francine Stevens placed second in the 400m in 54.01, while Sophia Comfere took second in the 500m in 1:10.51. 

Comfere's performance in the 500m earns her the new freshman record spot in program history as well as the No. 1 spot in overall program history. She later returned to be the third leg in the 4x400-meter relay along with Justine Hounsell, Natasha Redmond and Francine Stevens, to achieve a fourth-place finish in 3:42.40.

Additional scoring performances included: 

Katja Jackson's fifth-place season-best run of 2:07.67 in the 800m that also puts her at no. 8 in program history

Elise Sawyer's sixth-place finish in the 500m with a time of 1:13.54

Arianna Allen's sixth-place finish in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.60 which ties her at no. 9 in program history

Francine Stevens' eighth-place finish in the 200m dash with a time of 24.82

Syna Sony's fifth place finish in the high jump, with a mark of 1.71m

Anika Sukumar's sixth-place finish in the triple jump, with a mark of 12.38m

Cornell's 4x800-meter relay team of Riley Ebersole, Tenley Nelson, Lee and Sawyer placed sixth in a season-best 8:56.61 to round out the scoring.

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