The track year began slowly with cross-country. The team placed fourth at the Fordham Invitational, but losses to Princeton and Yale and an eighth place finish out of the nine teams at Heps left a bad taste in the team's mouth.

"It was a season with a lot of fairly serious injuries, bad flukish ankle turns, stress fractures and stuff like that," said Schotte, who also captained the cross country team.

"I think we ended the season with barely enough people to field a team, but the people who stuck it out and even those who were injured are coming back even more excited for next year. All six freshmen are coming back next year, so that's great."

Moynihan will captain cross country next year, and Johnson and rising junior Taylor will co-captain indoor and outdoor track.

Despite the outstanding showing at Heps, Schotte said she thinks the team's best meet was the Harvard-Yale showdown in the spring.

At stake was a trip to England for the Oxford-Cambridge meet. The top performers made a composite Harvard and Yale squad that will make the trip this summer.

Moreover, after the meet was a memorial legendary track coach Bill McCurdy, who coached at Harvard for 30 years. The stands were packed with alumni and friends of Harvard track for the tribute and the traditional rivalry with the Bulldogs.

The women won, 99-46, to extend their win 11-year win streak over Yale.