On Friday, at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the Penn men and women's cross country teams ran in the 2006 Heptagonal Championships.
Competing against their Ivy rivals, the women's team finished in fifth place while the men's team finished in sixth.
Women's coach Gwen Harris and her team were disappointed with their fifth-place finish in the five-kilometer race.
"No one wants to finish fifth," Harris said. "You want to finish in the top three, you want to win. As a team, we weren't happy with our performance, but sometimes you make little mistakes and that costs you."
With the exception of Yale's Lindsay Donaldson, Harris did not feel like any other athlete dominated the race.
Penn led the race at the start, but in the end, the pace became too much for the Quakers, with the first mile marked at 5:27.
Princeton took first place with 42 points, followed by Columbia with 64 and Cornell with 68.
One highlight for Penn was junior Stacy Kim's performance, as she claimed first-team All-Ivy honors with a time of 17:45.3.
"When you have a kid like Stacy, she's always going to give you her best," Harris said. "She did a fine job finishing fifth. She worked hard and she's always worked hard."
The men's team shared in the disappointment with its sixth-place finish, despite being just seven points away from fourth place.
Junior Brian Goldberg led the way for Penn, clocking in at 25:02.4 to place 11th overall.
Senior Ian Foley also had a strong showing, finishing 14th overall in 25:08.7, second for the Quakers.
Princeton swept the Championships, taking first place in the men's race as well with 50 points, followed by Columbia with 63 points.
It was only the fourth time in Heptagonal cross country history that a school swept both the men and women's races. Princeton swept the Heptagonal Championships in 1980 and 1978, and Columbia took both races in 2004.
