The Harvard women's track team reached its season-long goal last weekend, winning the Heptagonal Championships for the first time since 1990.
The men's team, devastated by injuries, finished last in the nine-team field, consisting of the eight Ivy schools plus Navy.
Harvard Women
The Crimson victory was not wholly unexpected. Harvard was undefeated in the dual-meet season, and beat Brown and Cornell, its toughest competition easily in a tri-meet in January.
The Crimson women had been consistently improving throughout the regular season. Not a week went by without someone setting a personal record.
And it all came together this past weekend at Dartmouth.
Leading the way, as usual, were two juniors, Dora Gyorffy and captain Brenda Taylor.
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