NEW YORK, N.Y. – The University of Pennsylvania track and field teams opened day one of the 2022 Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor T&F Championships on Saturday, led by Mayyi Mahama claiming the weight throw title and two Quakers setting program records.
 
Mahama claimed the lone title for the day, landing 21.41m on her third attempt in the weight throw. The toss was over two meters further than the second-place finisher, as she wins the event for the second-straight year.
 
The program records were set in the long jump and the 60m hurdle preliminaries. On the infield, Victoria Agyin earned a podium spot with a second-place finish in the long jump, landing 6.11m. The distance topped former Penn athlete Elena Brown-Soler's 6.01m back in 2020. In the 60m hurdles, Skyla Wilson erased her previous program record time with a first-place time of 8.31, tying the 2020 championship time. She tops her record time of 8.35 that she set a few weeks ago.
 
Joining Wilson in the hurdles was Shevell Higgs and Katherine Muccio, who both qualified for Sunday's final. Higgs closed a time of 8.66 to move to sixth in program history, while Muccio was close behind with 8.75. Muccio also qualified for the finals in the 60m, taking seventh with a time of 7.71.
 
More qualifying times were landed in the 200m, 400m, and 500m. In the 200, Caia Gelli took fourth (24.73) and Wilson followed in sixth (25.08) to earn a spot in the finals. In the 400, Gelli bumped up to third (55.98) while Kayla Lee edged into eighth (56.24) to move to Sunday. In the 500m, Aliya Garozzo put together the ninth-best time in program history with 1:14.45 for third, and Wilson came through next to her at 1:14.94 to both qualify for the finals.
 
In the 3,000m, Maeve Stiles earned a sixth-place finish with a time of 9:24.47, beating the 2020 championship time by five second and moving to third in program history. Lizzy Bader wasn't far behind for eighth with a time of 9:28.80, shifting her to sixth in program history.
 
Back on the infield, Abby Norwillo and Natalia Ilieva competed in the pole vault. Norwillo took third place with a height of 3.90m, while Ilieva earned sixth with a 3.80m, a clearance that places her eighth in program history.
 
On the men's side, several record book moves happened in the 60m and 500m. Dimitri Nicholson narrowly missed the qualifying mark with his ninth place finish and time of 6.85, but his mark improved his personal best holding him at fourth in program history.
 
In the 500m, Antaures Jackson took fifth (1:04.01) and Robbie Ruppel took eighth (1:04.30) to both qualify for Sunday's final. Jackson's 1:04.01 was enough to move him into 10th in program history.
 
Qualifying times were also hit in the 60m hurdles and the mile. Jared Elters (8.22) and Enoch Cheung (8.24) both crossed the line in the 60 hurdles to move to Sunday's final, while Ray Sellaro (4:08.38) and James Lee (4:05.13) did the same in the mile.
 
Haley Rizek and Andrew Colbert competed in the pentathlon and heptathlon, respectively, on Saturday. Rizek concluded the pentathlon with 2,768 points for eighth. Colbert, through four of his seven events, currently sits fourth with 2,773 points. He still has the 60m hurdles, pole vault, and 1,000m remaining on Sunday.