Tigers see success as season kicks off

On Friday, Sept. 11, the men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Boston to participate in the second annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The men’s team came in first place for the second consecutive year and the women came in second to Harvard, placing one point out of first. Harvard won the women’s event, despite junior Lizzie Bird’s first-place finish.

On the men’s side, the Tigers clocked an average time of 25:03.40 for a total of 31 points. Harvard and Yale tied for second, scoring 47 points each. Junior William Bertrand, senior Michael Sublette and sophomore Wolfgang Beck finished 2-3-4, helping Princeton secure the victory, with another four Tigers in the top 15. Bertrand was only a second away from finishing in first, with Harvard’s Tom Purnell clocking in at 24:48.

On the women’s side, Bird ran the course in 17:14 — seven seconds faster than the second-place finisher from Harvard. As a team, the Tigers were only a point away from first place. Princeton finished with 37 points, while Harvard only had 36 points, despite the fact that the Tigers had a faster average time and the lowest combined times. Princeton’s average time was 17:41.20 and Harvard’s was 17:43. Yale finished third with 50 points.

Next weekend, the men's team will compete in and host the Princeton Interregional Meet, while the women's team is scheduled to participate in the Iona Meet of Champions.