No. 24 Lion Women And The Lion Men Set To Compete At The Ivy League Heps

Friday, November 1

Bronx, N.Y.

11:00 a.m.

Columbia

Ivy League Cross Country Heps

Photo by: Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin

No. 24 Lion Women And The Lion Men Set To Compete At The Ivy League Heps

10/31/2019 2:33:00 PM | Cross Country

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Both the No. 24 Columbia Cross Country women and the Lion men will head up to Van Cortlandt Park for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, set to start at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 1.

BRONX, N.Y. – Looking for a three-peat the No. 24 Columbia Cross Country women, along with the Columbia men will compete in the 2019 Ivy League Cross Country Heptagonal Championships to be hosted on Friday, Nov. 1, at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York, with the women's 6K set to get going at 11 a.m. and the men's 8K set to start at 12 p.m.

The race at VCP will be the 30th time that the Ivy League has hosted the Heps at VCP and the first since 2017, with the 2018 Heps being hosted at West Windsor Fields in Princeton, New Jersey.

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EYES ON THREE: The Lion women come in looking for their third straight Heps title, having won the 2017 and 2018 titles, and this would be the second title out of the three to be won at VCP. A win by the Lions would give them their seventh title overall and it would be the longest consecutive title streak in the league since Princeton won five straight from 2006-10.

Senior Katie Wasserman and junior Allie Hays have led the Lions throughout the season, recording a first (Wasserman) and second place (Hays) finish at the Iona Meet of Champions (Sept. 20), a second (Hays) and sixth place (Wasserman) finish at the Roy Griak (Sept. 28) and a 21st (Wasserman) and 27th place (Hays) finish at the Nuttycombe Invite (Oct. 18). As a team, the Lions won the Iona Meet of Champions, came in second at the Roy Griak, Paul Short Run (Oct. 5) and third at the Mets (Oct. 11) and they had an impressive showing at the Nuttycombe, coming in 17th overall.

VASBINDER LEADS THE MEN: Senior Kenny Vasbinder has had himself a solid year and he has been the leader for the men throughout the season. He just missed taking the Iona Meet, finishing second, but he bounced back with a vengeance, taking first at the Roy Griak. In his final race leading up to Heps, Vasbinder finished a strong 32nd at the Nuttycombe Invite and he enters the Heps looking to snag his first individual title as his best finish was fifth at the 2017 Heps.

COLUMBIA PARTICIPANTS LIST

Ivy League Cross Country Heps (Nov. 1, 2019)
Bronx, N.Y. (Van Cortlandt Park)

No. 24 Columbia Women (6K)
Emily Acker (Sr.)
Bianca Alonzo (Sr.)
Emily Digman (Sr.)
Katie Wasserman (Sr.)
Fiona Danieu (Jr.)
Allie Hays (Jr.)
Samantha Marin (Jr.)
Serena Tripodi (Jr.)
Sofia Camacho (So.)
Linnaea Kavulich (So.)
Emily Virtue (So.)
Angela Saidman (Fr.)

Columbia Men (8K)
Kenny Vasbinder (Sr.)
Owen Bishop (Jr.)
Aaron Breene (Jr.)
Dominic Dyer (Jr.)
Jonathan Lauer (Jr.)
Jackson Storey (Jr.)
Pat Bayeux (So.)
Ben Kelley (So.)
David Vorbach (So.)
Lucas Aramburu (Fr.)
Tyler Berg (Fr.)

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