Dartmouth Women Take Seventh at Ivy Outdoor Championship Meet

Saturday, May 9

Philadelphia, Pa.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Ivy League Heptagonal Championship

Women Earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Team Honor

Dartmouth Women Take Seventh at Ivy Outdoor Championship Meet

5/10/2015 5:19:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

By: Dartmouth

PHILADELPHIA – The Dartmouth women's team claimed seventh at the 2015 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championship at Franklin Field on Sunday afternoon.

Harvard once again claimed the team title by leading the pack with 157 points. Princeton (118), Columbia (99), Cornell (87), Penn (72), Brown (60.5), the Big Green (57.5) and Yale rounded out the field.

Juniors Dana Giordano and Kaitlin Whitehorn both won individual titles, repeating in their respective events for the second year in a row at the Ancient Eight's outdoor championship.

Giordano won the 1500m, standing atop the podium for the second straight year at the outdoor meet. With the win in 2015, a member of the Big Green women's squad has won the event in each of the last four seasons. The New Jersey, native claimed the top spot by running a 4:19.55 in the high temperatures of the early afternoon in Philadelphia.

Whitehorn also retained her spot on the top of the podium for the high jump as she was the only individual to clear 5-8.75/1.75m, doing so on her first attempt at the height. Allison Frantz earned 1.5 points as she tied for fifth in the same event with a 5-7.0/1.70m to her credit.

For Whitehorn, she became just the second Dartmouth woman to win the high jump twice and in consecutive years, joining Laura Morrell who won the event in both 1979 and 1980. Prior to Whitehorn's first title in New Haven last season, Morrell's second win three and a half decades ago was the most recent Big Green women's high jump victory outside.

Frantz also earned a fifth-place finish in the heptathlon with 4,856 points in the seven events. Her placement in the field of 11 competitors also gave the Green another two points in the team standings. Miranda Lawson (4,523) was sixth overall and picked up the final point from the heptathlon.

Junior Molly Shapiro was third in the triple jump with her best try of the day measuring in at 40-0.0/12.19m to earn six team points. Jennifer Meech was also in the scoring in the 200m by running a 24.27 to take fifth and claim two points.

Reid Watson — another junior — was fourth in the 5000m, fighting through the heat of Sunday afternoon and crossing in 16:52.08 to add four more points to the standings.

The relay teams were all in the middle of the pack with a pair of fourth-place showings by the 4x400m (3:42.54) and 4x100m (46.19) groups and a fifth-place finish by the quartet in the 4x800m (8:47.54).