Completed Event: Women's Cross Country versus Maribel Sanchez Souther Invitational on September 20, 2025 , , 2nd - 41 Pts.
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Women's Cross Country
vs Maribel Sanchez Souther Invitational
2nd - 41 Pts.
Women Look to Continue Trend of Repeat Champions at Heps Saturday
10/31/2014 10:05:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
HANOVER, N.H. – For the first time since 1998 the Dartmouth women's cross country team will take to the starting line of the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship as defending champion.
The Big Green will look to defend their first title in 17 years from a season ago on Saturday morning at the West Windsor Fields 6K course at 11 a.m., competing against the seven other Ivy teams in hopes of bringing the trophy back to Hanover once again.
Tasked with repeating is no easy feat for any team, especially one who lost the defending individual winner to graduation in June. However, 12 talented student-athletes will meet the challenge head on the first day of November, looking to complete the trend of repeat champions that has been a constant for women's teams at Heps since 1977.
In that time, only four teams have won a title without stringing together multiple championships, a figure that bodes well for a deep and talented group of runners wearing the green and white. The last team to win just once was in 1999 when Brown took the title and was followed by stretches of success from Yale (2000-01), Columbia (2002-2005), Princeton (2006-2010) and Cornell (2011-12).
In his first year as head coach, Courtney Jaworski has cultivated the talent he inherited along with a solid group of young individuals to keep Dartmouth at the top of the Ivy League. Senior Sarah B. Delozier, junior Dana Giordano and freshman Ellie Gonzalez have proven to be a formidable trio, but Jaworski's title hopes will rely heavily on the group of runners to follow — a talented mix of youth and veteran runners.
“Reid Watson, Alison Lanois, Leigh Moffett and Sarah Bennett have rotated in our four and five spots at least once this season and we have had a variety of classes representing our top seven, which has been great,” Jaworski said.
With Watson making tremendous improvements to join the Green's lead pack this season and the emergence of freshmen Gonzalez and Moffett, the Big Green should have the right pieces in place for its five scoring runners to piece together another championship scoring effort.
Following the women's race, the men will take to the 8K course at noon. The awards ceremony is set for 1 p.m.
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