Tim Kaijala won two Heptagonal championships last season, in the 1,000-meter and as part of Penn's winning 4x800m relay team.
This year, he finally took home the title in his bread-and-butter event, the 800m, besting the field with a 1:49.76 and leading the Quakers to a fourth-place finish at the Ivy Heps in Princeton, N.J., last weekend.
Penn's 4x100 team of Kevin Benjamin, Joey Brown, Sam Shepherd and Grafton Ifill also took home first place with a time of 41.01.
Cornell continued to dominate the men's Heptagonals, cruising to a fifth straight title by a 47-point margin over second-place Princeton.
The Big Red dominated the field events - junior Aaron Arlinghaus took the steeplechase, junior Muhammad Halim took both the triple jump and the long jump and junior Adam Seabrook won the 400 hurdles.
Senior Evan Whitehall also gave Cornell a big boost by winning the pole vault with the meet's second-best performance even after spending most of the season recovering from a back injury.
The Quakers got valuable points from Kyle Calvo, who met the NCAA provisional mark in the decathalon en route to a second-place finish, and from Brown, who took second in the 100m, running a 10.65.
But even the Big Red were upstaged by Columbia senior Erison Hurtault, who capped off a stellar Heps career by winning his fourth straight Outdoor Heps 400m championship. He completed a sweep of all eight 400m Heps races in his career with the Lions.
The Penn women disappointed by comparison, taking sixth as a team.
Shani Boston was the biggest bright spot for the Quakers. She took a lead in the heptathalon after day one and pulled away from the pack, setting a new Penn Heps record in the process with 5,152 points.
Pari Hashemi took second in the 400-meter hurdles, as did the 4x800 relay team, composed of Kinjal Parikh, Christina Morrison, Claire Kim and Anna Aagenes.
Cornell sophomore Jeomi Maduke, who also competes for the Big Red on the basketball court, was busy piling up the accolades on the women's side.
Maduke won both the long jump and the triple jump, finished second in the 100-meter dash and also helped her Big Red to a victory in the 4x100-meter relay.
Penn's best point-scorer in the field events was senior Catrina Chisholm, who threw 50.08 meters in the hammer throw to take home third place.
