CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After a successful regular season on the trails, Harvard cross country returns to Highland Park in Attleboro, Massachusetts on Saturday, Oct. 31 for the 2026 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships.

Action begins at 11:00 a.m. with the women's 6k race, as the men's 8k race ends the action at noon.

WHAT TO KNOW

• Harvard returns to team action for the first time since Friday, Oct. 9, where the Crimson excelled on the national stage at the Nuttycombe Invitational.
• In the men's championship 8k race, the Crimson shined with a 10^th place finish, while the women's took finished in 30^th in the women's 6k championship race.
• Sophomore Tam Gavenas led the way with a 23^rd place finish in the men's 8k race, crossing the finish line in 23:09.0. Gavenas was the top finisher from the Ivy League and the northeast region at the Nuttycombe Invitational, earning Ivy League Men's Athlete of the Week in the process.
• Two more Crimson finished in the top 75 of the men's 8k race at the Zimmer Championship Course. Senior and team captain Sam Burgess took 27^th place with a time of 23:12.4, as sophomore Benjamin Bouie ran a 23:42.8 to take 74^th place.
• Over in the women's 6k championship race, first-year Aelo Curtis once again highlighted Harvard's showing, taking 96^th place with a time of 20:48.2.
• After its great performance at the Nuttycombe Invitational, Harvard moved up to No. 16 in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's Men's National Coaches Poll. The men's team is second in the USTFCCCA Northeast Rankings, while the women's team is fifth in the northeast.
• Last season saw the Crimson finish second at the 2025 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, while the women's team finished in fifth.
• The men's team owns 10 Ivy League titles, as Harvard is looking for its first since 1972.
• 10-time champions, the women's team is looking to lift the Ivy League trophy for the first time since 2023, as three of its 10 titles have arrived since 2020.

UP NEXT

Harvard continues the postseason in the Empire State, as the Crimson head to Bethpage, New York for the 2026 NCAA Northeast Regional Championships.

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