Wrestling hit the road last weekend, traveling to Cambridge to take on Harvard before heading to Providence for a matchup against Brown. The Lions put on a commanding performance, taking down both teams and earning their first in-conference wins of the season.

The phrase “may what is best happen” guided senior thrower Obiora Okeke at the 2024 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships. For him, it served as a mantra to stay grounded and find calm amid the competition. After facing the league’s best, Okeke walked away with a program record throw of 18.68 meters in shot put—and the championship title.

The Ivy League opted out of the settlement reached in Grant House and Sedona Prince v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al., last month. On Jan. 21, Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris informed student-athletes that the athletic conference would not alter its rules in response to the settlement, which is set for a final approval hearing on April 7.

Step into Levien Gymnasium on game day, and you’ll feel it: community. Fans sit shoulder to shoulder and voices rise in unison, cheering for a team that has built a powerhouse reputation in the Ivy League over the last several years. But, for the women’s basketball team, community isn’t just about the game. According to senior guard Kitty Henderson, it’s something they take beyond the court and into the heart of Harlem.

Blau Tor still remembers the long subway rides home from practice, exhaustion settling in as she chased better competition in Barcelona. With each move—from CB L’Hospitalet to Barça to Segle XXI—came greater sacrifices for the sophomore guard/forward. María Arrebola’s path was steadier, spending nearly her entire career in Almería’s biggest club, but the first-year guard/forward faced a difficult choice: stay close to home or pursue bigger opportunities in Spain’s competitive basketball system.

Phoebe Anderson won gold in the SPAR European Cross Country Championships’ U23 division in Antalya, Türkiye, on Sunday, taking first place in the 6-kilometer run for team Great Britain.

Wrestling faced Indiana University on Nov. 21 in a 10-bout contest at Levien Gymnasium. In a closely fought match, the Lions fell to the undefeated Hoosiers by a narrow margin, 23-21. Despite the loss, Columbia rebounded at the Black Knight Invitational at West Point, New York, on Nov. 24, where seven Lions delivered podium finishes and helped secure a fourth-place team finish out of nine competitors.

Senior Phoebe Anderson traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, to compete against the nation’s fiercest runners in a grueling 6,000-meter race. On Nov. 15, Anderson left the Zimmer Cross Country Course as an NCAA All-American for the second time in her career.

Senior Phoebe Anderson claimed the women’s individual title at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships earlier this month. Her monumental win comes two decades after Caroline Bierbaum, CC ’06, became the first woman in program history to win the title.

Cross country traveled to New Jersey on Oct. 18 to compete in the Princeton Invitational, measuring itself against Ivy League and NCAA rivals. The men secured 12th place in the 8,000-meter, while the women took 15th in the 6,000-meter.