{"id":313242,"date":"2026-10-24T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:26:12","slug":"womens-cross-country-takes-first-at-haverford-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313242\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Cross Country Takes First at Haverford Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 HAVERFORD, Pa. \u2013 The Quakers&#8217; women&#8217;s cross country team traveled to Haverford, Pa. on Friday for the Haverford Invitational, turning in a strong performance to claim first place out of seven teams in the women&#8217;s 5K.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/sara-khiri\/25838\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25838\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Khiri<\/a> led the Red and Blue, finishing second overall with a time of 17:43.7. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/courtney-kaiser\/25837\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25837\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Kaiser<\/a> followed closely behind, crossing the line in third place with 17:51.1 to give Penn two runners in the top three.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAd\u00e8le Martin continued the Quakers&#8217; strong showing, finishing fifth with a time of 18:05.6. First-year <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/maeve-going\/25874\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25874\" target=\"_blank\">Maeve Going<\/a> placed seventh in 18:15.0, while <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/aoife-shovlin\/25843\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25843\" target=\"_blank\">Aoife Shovlin<\/a> rounded out the Quakers&#8217; top five with a 10th-place finish in 18:37.1. With all five scorers finishing in the top 10, the Red and Blue secured the team victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/lindsay-yakaboski\/25845\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25845\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Yakaboski<\/a> also competed for Penn, finishing 19th overall with a time of 19:31.3 to round out the Quakers&#8217; six-runner lineup.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<br \/>\nThe regular season comes to an end as both Penn&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country teams travel to Attleboro, Mass. on Halloween for the Ivy League Heptagonal championship.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaverford Invitational<br \/>\nHaverford, Pa.<br \/>\nOct. 23, 2026<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nResults<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s 5k \u2013 1st out of 7 teams<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/sara-khiri\/25838\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25838\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Khiri<\/a> \u2013 17:43.7<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/courtney-kaiser\/25837\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25837\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Kaiser<\/a> \u2013 17:51.1<br \/>\n5. Ad\u00e8le Martin \u2013 18:05.6<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/maeve-going\/25874\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25874\" target=\"_blank\">Maeve Going<\/a> \u2013 18:15.0<br \/>\n10. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/aoife-shovlin\/25843\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25843\" target=\"_blank\">Aoife Shovlin<\/a> \u2013 18:37.1<br \/>\n19. <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/lindsay-yakaboski\/25845\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"25845\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Yakaboski<\/a> \u2013 19:31.3<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the latest on Penn cross country, follow @PennTrack on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; HAVERFORD, Pa. \u2013 The Quakers&#8217; women&#8217;s cross country team traveled to Haverford, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-313242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}