NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Cornell men and women continued their stranglehold on the outdoor Heps, as both squads claimed the team championships at Yale this weekend. The women took home their seventh-straight outdoor Heps title (and 13 of the last 14 Heps track titles overall) and the men won their sixth-straight outdoor Heps title (and 10 of the last 12 Heps track titles overall).  It was an unbelievable weekend with the Cornell men putting together a meet of historical proportions, setting a meet record for most points (199) and the second-largest margin of victory ever, with a 75 point cushion over a very good Princeton team. On the women's side, the team showed remarkable poise in staging a tremendous comeback on Sunday afternoon, overcoming a deficit that had ballooned to as much as 51 points early in Sunday's program, before rolling to to a 165-141 victory over a strong Princeton squad.

With the win, the women's seventh consecutive outdoor Heps title matches the longest streak in men's or women's Heps history (indoor or outdoor), joining the outdoor men's teams from Penn of 1971-1977. It is the longest women's streak in league history.  The men's run of six straight outdoor Heps titles is the second most in men's Heps history, behind only the aforementioned Penn dynasty of the 1970s.

Both teams won 8 events and each team boasted a meet Most Valuable Performer.  On the men's side, senior Adam Seabrook won one of the most demanding (and very rarely attempted) individual doubles, claiming both the 400 and 400 hurdles while also running a leg on the runner-up 4X100 and anchoring the 4X400 to victory.  On the women's side, junior Jeomi Maduka was co-meet Most Valuable Performer (along with Penn senior Stacy Kim), winning the long jump (in a meet record), triple jump, the 200, running a leg on the victorious 4X100 and placing second in the 100 (in a school record time), a phenomenal set of performances over five events.  Maduka has now been the meet Most Valuable Performer at the past four indoor and outdoor Heps.

Just as remarkable as these top performances were the great efforts from both teams across the board.  The men scored in 20 of 21 events and the women scored in 21 of 23, a fine demonstration of both team breadth and depth as the Big Red came to play in every event they entered.  And while the Heps is all about head-to-head competition, the quality of performances were also very strong as the women had 35 ECAC qualifying efforts on the weekend and 13 NCAA Regional qualifiers to go along with six alterations to the school all-time lists, two school records and two meet records.  The men had nearly 40 IC4A qualifiers, nine NCAA Regional qualifiers and three alterations to the all-time lists.