For the first time in program history, women’s basketball is headed to the brightest stage in collegiate basketball—the NCAA tournament.

Columbia is through to the Ivy Madness final after defeating Harvard 63-61 on Friday. Enroute to finding the semifinal victory they were unable to clinch in 2023, four Lions scored in double digits to secure Columbia’s place in the tournament final for the first time since 2022. Now poised to face Princeton on Saturday, the teams will vie for automatic qualification to the NCAA tournament.

After a record-breaking indoor track season, junior Phoebe Anderson traveled to Boston for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, where she competed against the best distance runners in the country. Anderson, who qualified for the women’s 5,000-meter, took to the track on Friday evening and raced alongside the likes of NCAA record holder University of Florida runner Parker Valby.

Columbia women’s swimming placed fourth at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships this weekend, falling from their third place finish in 2023. The Lions clinched fourth place with a score of 372.5 accompanied with multiple near podium finishes—an achievement that comes just one week after a sixth place finish at the Ivy League Championships.

Women’s basketball wrapped up its last multi-game road trip of the regular season in convincing fashion, taking down Brown 77-62 and Yale 76-50 over the weekend.

Women’s swimming and diving traveled to Rhode Island to compete at the Ivy League Championships last week.

Phoebe Anderson’s junior season has been record-breaking. During the indoor season, Anderson has broken three separate school records in the mile, 3000-meter, and 5000-meter.

After a series of defeats continuing into the new year, both the Columbia women’s and men’s squash teams found success on Saturday at Dartmouth for their first wins of 2024 before losing at Harvard the following day.