NO. 2 IN
@NCAATrackField
INDOOR HISTORY
Nia Akins | 2⃣:0⃣0⃣.7⃣1⃣ | 800m
Akins' run is the second-best time in
#ncaaTF
indoor history, an
@IvyLeague
record and the best time in the country this season by more than TWO SECONDS!
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NATIONAL RUNNER-UP!
WOW! Nia Akins runs a 2:01.67, DESTROYING her PR to finish SECOND in the 800 NATIONAL FINAL!
What. A. Performance.
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WE DID IT!
#PennTrack
captures the CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICA DMR! Nia Akins, Uche Nwogwugwu, Melissa Tanaka and Maddie Villalba WON in 10:59.44 to become the first women’s
@IvyLeague
relay team to win a Champions of America crown!
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🔥🔥🔥
Freshman Marvin Morgan continues the FAST start to his career at Penn, posting a time of 6.86 in the 60-meter dash to place second at Navy and rise up to THIRD all-time at Penn!
#FightOnPenn
#HesARookie
SUB FOUR-MINUTE MILE
Colin Daly becomes just the third athlete in program history to dip below the four-minute mark with a 3:59.74 mile today at the BU Valentines Invitational!
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U20 NATIONAL CHAMPION
Marc Minichello UNLEASHES a throw of 77.15m (253-01), the second-best U20 mark in AMERICAN HISTORY and the fourth-best in the country among all throwers, to capture the
@usatf
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in the javelin!
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🚨𝙄𝙑𝙔 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙈𝙋𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎🚨
With victories in the final two events (4x400, 4x800), the women's team is your 2022
@IvyLeague
Outdoor Heps CHAMPION! They edged out Harvard by one point with a total of 137 points!
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THIRD IN THE COUNTRY!
Anna Peyton Malizia clears 1.84m (6-0.5), a PROGRAM RECORD in her final collegiate meet, as one of just THREE athletes that eventually advanced to 1.87m (6-1.5)! Malizia places THIRD at
@NCAATrackField
Championships!
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We'd like to welcome the newest addition to our coaching staff... Moose Akanno!
Read all about his coaching experience here:
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ADVANCING TO THE FINALS!
Nia Akins runs 2:02.90 in the semifinals of the 800 to advance to Sunday’s
@USATF
national championship race!
Nia is the ONLY collegiate runner left in the field!
#ToyotaUSATFOutdoors
NATIONAL FINALIST!
Nia Akins shatters the program record with a 2:02.88 to win the heat, run the fastest time of the field and advance to Saturday's national final!
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Congratulations to senior Sprinter, Wyatt David, winner of the George H. Frazier Award in recognition of his GPA-3.96!
Wyatt will graduate from Penn with:
Bachelors Degree in Physics
Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry
Masters Degree in Chemistry.
All accomplished in four years!
🚨 SCHOOL RECORD ALERT 🚨
Uchechi Nwogwugwu does it again! The freshman takes third overall in the 400m at the
#TennesseeRelays
with a program-best time of 53.17!
Day for the record books for these four gentlemen! Crushing the mile for four top-10 program times, including Ray Sellaro with the second-best time in history at 3:57.89!
How about the rookie throwers!?
Ashley Anumba SMASHES the program record in the discus with an
#IvyHeps
championship distance of 55.00m (180-5), ranking second in meet history!
BIG TIME throw for Sam Mattis in his first round, and the Penn alum holds on to WIN the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!
He'll go on to represent Team
@USATF
at the
@iaaforg
World Championships this fall!
#ToyotaUSATFOutdoors
Amid one of the greatest stretches of national success
#PennTrack
has ever seen,
#ThePursuit
embarks on The Campaign for Excellence, a $44-million initiative that includes Philadelphia’s only collegiate indoor track & field facility!
📃
#GameOnward
Among the nation's elite!
Nia Akins is the FIRST women's athlete in program history to be named to The Bowerman Award Watch List! Nia is one of only 10 of the nation's top track & field athletes to land on the list!
📰
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#IvyHeps
CHAMPIONS 🏆
Imani Solan, Elena Brown-Soler, Mia Knight and Camille Dickson WIN the women's 4x100m TITLE in 45.89! The title is Penn's first 4x100 win since 1988 and fourth all-time!
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We call it “Wins-day” here at PennTrack & All-American vaulter, Sean Clarke reminds us why we work so hard!
It’s only pre-season and he’s ready to win— a PR during practice at 5.57m! To put that in perspective, 5.55m placed 2nd at the 2018
@NCAA
Championships 😳
#WinsDay
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BACK-to-BACK-to-BACK
#IvyHeps
CHAMPIONS 🏆
With championships in EIGHT events and a total of 133 points, our women's team captures its THIRD consecutive
#IvyHeps
Indoor Championship!
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By unanimous decision, our very own
@UPennCoachDolan
has been named
@IvyLeague
Women's Coach of the Year!
Coach Dolan helped oversee a total of 24 All-Ivy selections for the Quakers, as Penn went first on the women's side and second on the men's.
TICKET. PUNCHED.
Freshman Marc Minichello advances to the NCAA Championships in the javelin with a throw of 67.35m (220-11)! The Ivy League champion will continue his rookie year in Austin, Texas!
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#IvyHeps
CHAMPION 🏆
Marvin Morgan breaks away with a 10.42 to WIN the 100 CROWN! Morgan is the first Quaker to capture the 100 since 2005!
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🚨𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗡🚨
With his first (only one needed) throw,
@minichello_
tossed 80.38m (263-8) for the new PROGRAM, IVY, & FACILITY RECORDS!
Indiana Facility Record: 74.90m in '97
Program/Ivy Record: 79.80m in '04 by Brian Chaput
Third best in D1 this year!
She's not done yet...
Nia Akins will continue a stellar season by representing the Red, White and Blue at the 2019 NACAC Championships in Mexico the first weekend of July! 🇺🇸
Senior Day Sendoff | Colin Daly
🔹 Third all-time at Penn in the mile (3:59.74)
🔹 Fourth all-time at Penn in the steeplechase (8:46.08)
🔹 2019 NCAA Finalist (steeplechase)
🔹 Ivy League runner-up in the mile and steeplechase
🔹 USTFCCCA Academic All-American
🔹 Team captain
NIA AKINS IS IN THE NATIONAL FINAL!
A HUGE late kick put Nia into third in the second heat, clinching a spot in tomorrow night's eight-athlete final at the
@NCAATrackField
Championships!
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The track & field world lost a legend of his craft this weekend… Tony coached and inspired over 30 years of Quakers.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Tenisci family.
A school record 177 points. A school record TEN individual champions.
For the first time since 1988, the PENN QUAKERS are
@IvyLeague
Outdoor Heptagonal Champions!
#IvyHeps
WOW.
What a season for freshman Uche Nwogwugwu. The rookie resets her own school record in the 400m with a time of 52.27, finishing 13th at
#ncaaTFEast
, just one spot shy of qualifying to Eugene.
The future is bright!
Staten Island:
Freshman Marvin Morgan just doesn’t stop 🛑! He posted his second fastest 60m dash in 6.86 and followed it with the 7th fastest 200m race in Penn History-21.90!!
#hesafreshman
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🚨SCHOOL RECORD ALERT🚨
The women’s 4x4 of Ene, O’Neil Taylor, Nwogwugwu take 3rd in the College section with a time a 3:37.17! Nwogwugwu anchored in a sizzilin’ official FAT split of 51.92!🔥🤭
#FloridaRelays
Freshman Marc Minichello launches a new PR of 72.45m (237-8), third-best all-time, to finish third at the Tennessee Relays!
Minichello is now fifth in
@NCAATrackField
this season and ninth in Ivy League history!
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We're pretty thankful for one of the best, biggest and baddest track & field stadiums in the 🌎and everyone with whom we get to share it!! Enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday!
#PennTrackFamily
What-a-year for this freshman!!! Ashley Anumba places 🥉 in the discus at the
@usatf
Junior National Championships!!! She is the official alternate for the USA 🇺🇸 Jr. World Team!! Congratulations, Ashley!!
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🚨 PROGRAM RECORD 🚨
At Clemson's Tiger Paw Invitational yesterday, Uche Nwogwugwu shattered the program record by more than a FULL SECOND in the 400m!
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🚨 PROGRAM RECORD 🚨
Another freshman, another program record!
Lauryn Harris captured the long jump title with a mark of 5.98m, a program record!
Elena Brown-Soler placed fifth in the event with a mark of 5.93, moving into second all-time behind just Harris!
CONGRATULATIONS to 2020 Penn Nursing grad Nia Akins on her first win as a professional athlete with
@BeastsTC
! Nia raced the 600m against two other professional heavy hitters today as part of Portland Track’s Summer race series: The Big Friendly.
#PennTrackForLife
#PTFL
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🚨 PROGRAM RECORD 🚨
She's a freshman!
Grace O'Shea placed third in the 60m hurdles final with a blistering time of 8.40, tying Breanne Brygrave's as the best in program history!
ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR.
They just keep on winning.
Following a spring that saw Penn SWEEP all three relays at
#IvyHeps
and advance its first ever 4x400 to nationals, Associate Head Coach Porscha Dobson has been named Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year!
🚨𝙄𝙑𝙔 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙈𝙋𝙄𝙊𝙉🚨
Marc Minichello set a meet record on his first throw of 76.78m (251-11) in the javelin to secure his second
@IvyLeague
title in the event!
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WOAH!
Sean Clarke has a MONSTER performance this weekend, clearing a height of 5.50m (18-0.5) in the pole vault, ranking seventh in the NCAA East Region!
WOW! Nia Akins is a national runner-up!
Nia ran the fastest race of her career, finishing in 2:03.74 with an INCREDIBLE effort to cross the line second in tonight's 800m final at the
@NCAATrackField
Championships!
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U20 NATIONAL CHAMPION!
Mayyi Mahama CRUSHES the field with a program-record mark of 65.66 (215-5) to capture the
@usatf
U20 national title, qualify for the U20 Pan American Games and move into second in
@IvyLeague
HISTORY!
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🚨Men’s 200m Record 🚨
The killer duo of Calvary Rogers and Marvin Morgan!! 🔥
Rogers: 21.05 School Record || # 2 in Ivy League History
Morgan: 21.46
#3
Penn All-Time
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TICKET. PUNCHED.
Uche Nwogwugwu CLINCHES a spot to the NCAA Championships in the 400 based on her time of 52.51! She’s the first Penn woman to ever qualify for NCAA’s in the 400!
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Flashing back to the stellar four-year career of Calvary Rogers! Collecting three-straight years of
@IvyLeague
Indoor and Outdoor Heps titles in the 200m, he still owns the both program records for the event!
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Just hours after being named the
@IvyLeague
Women's Coach of the Year, Steve Dolan was named the
@USTFCCCA
Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year for the SEVENTH time overall!
Are you serious?!
In the first meet of the year, Evan Lee racks up 5,532 points in the heptathlon, a PROGRAM RECORD! His total is also fifth all-time in
@IvyLeague
history!
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Repping the Red, (White) and Blue!
Nia Akins took her talents to Mexico earlier this month, part of a 1-2 sweep for 🇺🇸 in the 800 at the NACAC U23 Championship!
Another Championship, a Coach of the Year and 21 All-Ivy Honorees
Steve Dolan was unanimously named the
@IvyLeague
Women's ITF Coach of the Year while 21 athletes from both teams garnered All-Ivy distinction.
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Thursday's women's DMR led to the first Championship of America crown in Ivy League history. Let's run it back one more time!
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Another PENN WIN!
Anna Peyton Malizia clears a new personal best and school record height of 5.80m (5-10.75) in the high jump, giving the Quakers their FIFTH championship of
#IvyHeps
🚨 SCHOOL RECORD 🚨
Bygrave, Nwogwugwu, O’Neil and Brown-Soler DART in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:44.24, breaking the program’s No. 1 mark by over a second!