PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania men's and women's cross country teams travel to Bronx, N.Y. on Friday to compete at the 2025 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, hosted by Columbia. 

Meet Information
Friday, Oct. 31 | Bronx, N.Y. | Van Cortlandt Park
Women's 6k – 11:00 a.m.
Men's 8k – 12:00 p.m. (Noon) 
Live Results

2025 Regular Season Highlights
Senior Lily Murphy placed 10^th at the Paul Short Run recording a personal-best 6k time of 20:01.0. She was first at the Main Line Invitational with a 5k personal-best time of 16:48.6. 

Lara Cota finished second at the Jersey Jam on Sept. 5 recording a personal-best 4.1k time of 14:07.4. Cota ran a 6k time of 20:51.7 at the Paul Short Run. Gabby Jones followed closely behind at 20:51.9. Jones recording a personal-best 6k time of 20:50.3 at the Princeton Fall Classic. 

The women's team won the season opener at Princeton scoring 32 points. Cota took second, followed by Jones in fourth, Izzy Rodriguez in fifth, L'Mio Edwards in ninth, and Kyra Compton in 12^th.

Penn men won the Main Line Invitational at Haverford with 24 points. Sahil Dodda led the team clocking in first with a personal-best four-mile time of 19:19.6. Kofi Fordjour placed third at 19:37.6, followed by Shane Murphy in fourth at 19:38.7, Esfan Daya in seventh, and Vinay Raman in ninth.  

Last Year at the Ivy Championships 
Penn men finished fourth with 101 points.  Penn women placed seventh with 149 points. 
 
Competing on Friday for the Quakers
Men's 8k
Nick Carpenter, Esfan Daya, Sahil Dodda, Kofi Fordjour, Liam Going, George Keen, Shamus Larnard, Shane Murphy, Vinay Raman, and Joseph Ruiz

Women's 6k 
Kyra Compton, Lara Cota, L'Mio Edwards, Sarah Fischer, Gabrielle Jones, Courtney Kaiser, Adele Martin, Lily Murphy, Izzy Rodriguez, Aoife Shovlin, Quin Stovall, and Anna Weirich. 

Races in November 
Nov. 14 – NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional
Nov. 22 – NCAA DI Cross Country Championships 

Weekly Ivy Awards
Lily Murphy – Women's Athlete of the Week, Sept. 23
Sahil Dodda – Men's Athlete of the Week, Sept. 23

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