Autumne Franklin comes into the Heptagonal Championships as the top-ranked hurdler in the Ivy League (Gil Talbot).

The Particulars
The Harvard track and field team's season culminates this weekend at the 2013 Outdoor Heptagonal Championships in Princeton, N.J. Competition begins Saturday, May 4 and concludes Sunday May 5.

Follow Live
Live results from the 2013 Heptagonal Championships can be found here.

The Ivy League will also be posting pictures, videos and results throughout the competition on its track and field championships page here.

Harvard At The Heptagonal Championships
The men's Heptagonal Championships were first contested in 1935 on the campus of Princeton and Harvard took the initial title with a total score of 57.75. The Harvard men have the fifth-most titles amongst Ancient Eight schools, claiming 10 overall. The men's last meet title came in 1983.

The women's meet was first run in 1977 at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y., and Dartmouth captured the first title. The Harvard women did not join the meet until 1979 and won its first and only title in 1990, totaling 131 points to edge Brown for the crown.

Last Year's Meet
The Harvard track and field team saw its men's squad finish third for the first time since 2002 at the 2012 Outdoor Heptagonal Championships. The men finished with 92.75 points while the women placed sixth with a final score of 71 points. Cornell captured the women's title with a final score of 158, topping Princeton by a 24-point margin. Princeton earned the victory on the men's side compiling 193 points over the two days, 31.25 more than second-place Cornell.

Harvard's throwers generated an impressive 85 points over the weekend. Ben Glauser led a 2-3-4 finish in the men's shot put and Shannon Watt took first in the discus and second in the shot. Then-freshman Dean Sullivan captured the title in the men's javelin and Glauser took second in the men's hammer throw. Hannah Mayer earned valuable team points for the women with a runner-up showing in the javelin.

Mary Hirst took second in the heptathlon and the high jump for a pair of All-Ivy performances, while Jarvis Harris (110 hurdles) and Erika Veidis (800) also turned in runner-up performances for the Crimson.

Scouting the Crimson
Both the men's and women's team are well positioned heading into the conference championship meet.

Connor McCarthy enters the weekend as the top sprinter in the Ivy League, holding the year's fastest times in the 100 and 200. The men also have the distance events covered as James Leakos is ranked second in the 5,000 and Maksim Korolev has the second-fastest time in the 10,000 in the league this season. Jarvis Harris will battle with Cornell's Max Hairston and Zach Heller for the 110 hurdle crown, with Harris entering the meet tied for first in the event. Nico Weiler is once again the favorite in the pole vault while Igor Liokumovich, Ben Glauser and Dustin Brode are ranked second, third and fourth, respectively, in the shot put.

On the women's side, Erika Veidis is the person to beat in the 800, entering the meet with the best time in the Ivy League at 2:05.92. Freshman Autumne Franklin looks to capture both hurdles titles, as she holds the top times in both the 100 and 400 hurdles events. Harvard's 4x400 relay team has the best time in the league this season by nearly four seconds, while the 4x100 will also be in the hunt. Mary Hirst has the second best outdoor mark in the league in the high jump and Adabelle Ekechukwu will look for an All-Ivy finish in the weight throw.

Up Next
Following the Heptagonal Championships, Harvard will send qualified competitors to the IC4A/ECAC Championships May 10-12 in Princeton, N.J.