PRINCETON, N.J. – The Yale women's cross country team took fourth place (139 points) among 25 teams at the Princeton Fall Classic Friday morning on the 6K Meadows Campus Course. Boise State (55 points) won, edging host Princeton by two points. Utah Valley's Morgan Nokes finished first individually (19:29.7) in a field of 270 finishers.
The Bulldogs were third out of of six Ivy League teams at the race, trailing second-place Princeton (57 points) and third-place Penn (131 points). The Bulldogs finished ahead of Cornell (seventh place, 229 points), Columbia (eighth place, 230 points) and Dartmouth (17th place, 466 points).
The field also included three of the eight teams currently ranked ahead of Yale in the Northeast Region. The Bulldogs finished ahead of all of them, besting Syracuse (third in the Northeast, 19th at the Princeton Fall Classic), UConn (fourth in the Northeast, fifth at the Princeton Fall Classic) and Columbia (sixth in the Northeast, eighth at the Princeton Fall Classic). Updated rankings come out next week.
The Bulldogs:
- Running for her second time this season, senior Claire Archer extended her streak of being the team's top finisher to seven straight races dating back to the start of last season. She finished 17th overall on Friday with a time of 20:27.4. Archer was sixth among Ivy League runners.
- Senior Charlotte Whitehurst (19th, 20:31.2) was less than four seconds behind Archer, finishing among the team's top two for the third time this season.
- Junior Hebe Chadwick (29th, 20:47.4)and senior Linde Fonville (35th, 20:54.3) were next across the line for the Bulldogs. Fonville's time of 2:20.0 in the final 600 meters – fastest among all the Bulldogs – enabled her to move up 16 spots in that stretch.
- First-year Phoebe Benun (45th, 21:00.1) was Yale's fifth scorer. She was the lone first-year to compete for the Bulldogs, and she has finished in Yale's top five in all three of her races this season. Benun moved up 17 places over the final 1800 meters.
- Junior Daniella Henderson (51st, 21:05.5) was Yale's sixth finisher and sophomore Zoe Martonfi (73rd, 21:19.1) was seventh.
- Rounding out Yale's finishers were sophomore Sylvie Sanok Dufallo (82nd, 21:26.8), senior Anna Chamberlin (104th, 21:39.6), sophomore Lily Jin (135th, 21:54.4), senior Miranda Lorsbach (175th, 22:28.0), sophomore Muriel Lovshin (198th, 22:39.7) and senior Cara Joyce (217th, 22:53.4).
Up Next:
- Yale will compete at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships on Oct. 31 at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y. The Bulldogs placed third at Heps last year, a three-place improvement over the previous year. Five of Yale's top seven from the 2024 edition of Heps raced on Friday.
