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Track & Field claims eight titles on final day of Ivy League heps

Penn men’s and women’s track & field teams wrapped up competition at the Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Yale on Sunday, May 11, claiming first in the women’s 100m hurdles, 4x400m relay, 100m, and high jump. The men’s team took first in the 400m, 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay, and decathlon; both teams finished third overall.

Runners running on the track at Franklin Field during the Penn Relays.

Quakers notch a number of noteworthy performances at Penn Relays

The 129th running of the Penn Relays was held Thursday to Saturday at Franklin Field. The three-day extravaganza features nearly 20,000 athletes of all levels.

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Nayyir Newash-Campbell running the 400m.

Newash-Campbell breaks 93-year-old school record in 400m

The second-year sprinter topped Bill Carr’s mark, which was set in 1932.

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Penn’s newly built Ott Center serves as a ‘local community track’ for athletes

Penn alumni and former cross-country runners Jane and David Ott have helped reinvigorate track and field in Philadelphia with the newly built Ott Center, a $69.3 million, 73,000-square foot indoor track facility.

Penn celebrates official ribbon-cutting for new Ott Center

The state-of-the-art indoor track facility is the first of its kind in Philadelphia.

Penn wants Philly to be a global track destination. Bringing more pros to town is part of it

Penn Relays director Steve Dolan and Penn athletic director Alanna Shanahan share how the new Grand Slam Track circuit event will help make Penn a global track destination.

For Nia Akins, U.S. 800-meter Olympian, music was the path to confidence in track

Recent Penn grad and 2024 Paris Olympian Nia Akins is profiled for drawing connections between musical performance and running track and field.

Penn grad Nia Akins is about to release her first album. But first: Compete in the 800 meters at the Olympics

Penn graduate Nia Akins is running the 800 meters at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, with remarks from Penn coach Steve Dolan.

Penn’s Isabella Whittaker and sister Juliette are living out a childhood dream of being Olympians

Recent Penn graduate Isabella Whitaker and her sister Juliette are running for the U.S. track and field team in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

They shared a bedroom growing up. Now, the Whittaker sisters are Olympic Village roommates

Recent Penn grad Isabella Whittaker and her sister Juliette are supporting each other as runners at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

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