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The Ivy League at the Izumo Ekiden in Review



Last week I was contacted by Will Geiken, who I'd met years ago when he was a part of the Ivy League Select Team at the Izumo Ekiden. He was looking for historical results from Izumo and lists of past team members, and I was able to put together a pretty much complete history, only missing the alternates from 1998 to 2010 and a little shaky on the reverse transliterations of some of the names from katakana back into the Western alphabet for the same years. Feel free to send corrections or additions to alternate lists.

It's interesting to go back and see some names that went on to be familiar, to see the people who made an impact like Princeton's Paul Morrison, Cornell's Max King, Stanford's Brendan Gregg in one of the years the team opened up beyond the Ivy League, Cornell's Ben de Haan, Princeton's Matt McDonald, and Harvard's Hugo Milner last year, and some of the people who struggled with the format.

1998
Team: 15th of 21 overall, 2:14:10 (43.1 km)
Kilian Lonaghan/Harvard - 11th, First Stage (7.2 km) - 20:44
Darren Schiller/Harvard - 15th, Second Stage (6.0 km) - 17:57
Christian Lynch/Princeton - 20th, Third Stage (5.7 km) - 17:56
Daniel Johnson/Brown - 19th, Fourth Stage (5.6 km) - 17:49
Donal O'Sullivan/Brown - 15th, Fifth Stage (7.3 km) - 23:13
Kersey O'Shaw/Columbia - 16th, Sixth Stage (11.3 km) - 36:31

Team: 17th of 21 overall, 2:13:50 (43.1 km)
Kersey O'Shaw/Columbia - 16th, First Stage (7.2 km) - 21:25
Brock Tessman/Brown - 18th, Second Stage (6.0 km) - 18:48
Neville Davie/Brown - 14th, Third Stage (5.7 km) - 17:15
Amerigo Rossi/Columbia - 16th, Fourth Stage (5.6 km) - 17:25
James Betterino/Brown - 15th, Fifth Stage (7.3 km) - 22:48
Thomas Cruz/Columbia - 15th, Sixth Stage (11.3 km) - 36:09

Team: 14th of 21 overall, 2:14:24 (43.1 km)
Donal O'Sullivan/Brown - 20th, First Stage (7.2 km) - 22:47
Ray Biasback/Columbia - 16th, Second Stage (6.0 km) - 18:35
J. Kling/Princeton - 11th, Third Stage (5.7 km) - 17:02
D. Lesser/Brown - 14th, Fourth Stage (5.6 km) - 17:18
M. Grant/Columbia - 14th, Fifth Stage (7.3 km) - 22:57
Weldon Johnson/Yale - 12th, Sixth Stage (11.3 km) - 35:45

Team: 12th of 21 overall, 2:18:31 (44.0 km)
Sean Macmillan/Penn - 13th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 25:04
Ray Biasback/Columbia - 12th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 18:02
Jeffrey Nicholson/Dartmouth - 11th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:43
Patrick Anglin/Princeton - 14th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:51
Parker Pruett/Dartmouth - 19th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 15:53
Matthew Wikinson/Penn - 14th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 32:58

Team: 19th of 22 overall, 2:19:26 (44.0 km)
Brock Tessman/Brown - 17th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 24:57
Amerigo Rossi/Columbia - 18th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 18:11
David Martin/Harvard - 20th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 27:53
Patrick Anglin/Princeton - 16th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:55
Derrick Schulen/Brown - 18th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 16:15
Jeffrey Nicholson/Dartmouth - 14th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 32:15




20th of 21 overall, 2:21:09 (44.0 km)
Chad Beakle/Brown - 21st, First Stage (8.0 km) - 26:36
Patrick Anglin/Princeton - 21st, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 18:56
David Martin/Harvard - 20th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 28:14
David Leibowitz/Columbia - 20th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:39
Scott Moyo/Harvard - 16th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 15:22
Barry Kern/Cornell - 17th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 32:22

Team: 16th of 21 overall, 2:17:08 (44.0 km)
Paul Morrison/Princeton - 13th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 24:07
Jonathan Bell/Princeton - 19th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:47
Jarrod Shoemaker/Dartmouth - 17th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 27:04
Josh Oldway/Princeton - 17th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:53
John Traogott/Harvard - 18th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 16:00
Edward Baker/Harvard - 16th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 32:17

Team: 14th of 21 overall, 2:14:31 (44.0 km)
Paul Morrison/Princeton - 1st, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:36
Alistair McIan Foreman/Harvard - 14th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:45
Carl Dusen/Columbia - 17th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 27:09
Patrick Darby/Dartmouth - 8th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 18:38
Mike Beard/Princeton - 18th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 15:30
Josh Oldway/Princeton - 13th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 31:53

Team: 13th of 21 overall, 2:14:28 (44.0 km)
Carl Dusen/Columbia - 11th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:55
Frank McLeary/Princeton - 13th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 16:55
Mike Smith/Georgetown - 15th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:39
Emory Mort/Cornell - 14th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:52
David Nash/Columbia - 16th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 16:18
Steve Sundell/Columbia - 13th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:49

Team: 12th of 21 overall, 2:12:58 (44.0 km)
Max King/Cornell - 3rd, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:11
Pat Tarby/Brown - 5th, Second Stage (5.8. km) - 16:40
Jonathan Marcus/Columbia - 21st, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 27:12
Jordan Kinley/Brown - 13th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:44
Courtney Jowaski/Penn - 12th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 15:26
Steve Sundell/Columbia - 7th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:45

Team: 17th of 22 overall, 2:17:21 (44.0 km)
Sage Canaday/Cornell - 19th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 24:47
Emory Mort/Cornell - 15th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:26
Owen Washburn/Brown - 17th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 27:09
Ari Zamir/Brown - 16th, Fourth Stage (6.5 km) - 19:47
Jon-Paul Mandelburg/Columbia - 16th, Fifth Stage (5.0 km) - 15:43
Mark Olivier/Columbia - 16th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 32:29




Team: 13th of 21 overall, 2:15:10 (44.5 km)
Ben True/Dartmouth - 7th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:21
David Nightingale/Princeton - 8th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 16:48
Zach Hine/Cornell - 8th, Third Stage (7.9 km) - 23:40
Jordan Kinley/Brown - 15th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 20:00
Murat Kylie/Yale - 15th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 20:50 
Lucas Maya/Yale - 7th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:31

Team: 15th of 22 overall, 2:18:16 (44.5 km)
Frank Tinney/Princeton - 19th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 25:52
Michael Marg/Princeton - 12th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:36
Zach Hine/Cornell - 11th, Third Stage (7.9 km) - 23:55
Jordan Kinley/Brown - 13th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 19:00
Sam Raff/Cornell - 17th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 19:59
Steve Sundell/Cornell - 12th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 31:54

Team: 8th of 21 overall, 2:14:33 (44.5 km)
Christo Landry/Willian & Mary - 9th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:33
Scott Smith/UCSB - 11th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 16:55
Landon Peacock/Wisconsin - 10th, Third Stage (7.9 km) - 24:02
Andrew Benford/Richmond - 6th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 19:05
Thomas Robbins/Dartmouth - 14th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 20:44
Jonathan Grey/William & Mary - 4th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:14
alternates: 
Chas Gillespie/Harvard
Colin Leak/William & Mary

Team: 8th of 21, 2:13:26 (44.5 km)
Elliott Heath/Stanford - 4th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:33
Julian de Rubira/UCSB - 9th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:27
Landon Peacock/Wisconsin - 8th, Third Stage (7.9 km) - 24:26
JT Sullivan/Stanford - 11th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 18:39
Brendan Gregg/Stanford - 2nd, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 18:13 (CR)
Matt Llano/Richmond - 10th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 31:08
alternates:
Matt Duffy/Brown
Brendan Martin/Columbia

Team: 14th of 22 overall, 2:18:08 (44.5 km)
Joseph Stilin/Princeton - 10th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 24:29
Mark Amirault/Princeton - 10th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:31
Daniel Lowry/Brown - 14th, Third Stage (7.9 km) - 24:40
Kyle Merber/Columbia - 19th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 19:39
Trevor Van Ackeren/Princeton - 17th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 20:12
Brendan Martin/Columbia - 12th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 31:37
alternates: 
Jonathan Gault/Dartmouth
Phil Royer/Columbia

canceled right before race due to typhoon
Donald Cabral/Princeton
Joseph Stilin/Princeton
Brian Leung/Princeton
Michael Franklin/Princeton
Daniel Lowry/Brown
James Leakos/Harvard
alternates:
Jake Sienko/Columbia
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin/Princeton




Team: 9th of 21 overall, 2:15:20 (45.1 km)
Samuel Pons/Princeton - 9th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:20
Tyler Udland/Princeton - 13th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 16:57
Chris Bendtsen/Princeton - 14th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:10
Alejandro Arroyo Yamin/Princeton - 10th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 18:38
Will Geiken/Harvard - 10th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 19:39
James Leakos/Harvard - 7th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:36
alternates:
Peter Callahan/Princeton
George Galasso/Princeton

Team: 14th of 20 overall, 2:20:19 (45.1 km)
Henry Sterling/Dartmouth - 17th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 24:48
John Gregorek/Columbia - 20th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 18:54
Chris Bendtsen/Princeton - 18th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 27:39
Steve Mangan/Darmouth - 13th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 18:44
Will Geoghegan/Dartmouth - 11th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 18:53
Jake Sienko/Columbia - 9th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 31:21
alternates:
Ben de Haan/Cornell
Brian Masterson/Dartmouth

Team: 10th of 21 overall, 2:19:02 (45.1 km)
Jordan Mann/Brown - 17th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 25:05
Brian Eimstad/Cornell - 16th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:17
Will Geiken/Harvard - 12th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:05
Julian Heninger/Dartmouth - 9th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 19:34
Henry Sterling/Dartmouth - 11th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 20:27
Ben de Haan/Cornell - 2nd, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:34
alternates:
David Melly/Cornell
Michael Palmisano/Princeton

Team: 11th of 21 overall, 2:16:01 (45.1 km)
Jordan Mann/Brown - 8th, First Stage (8.0 km) - 23:51
Dan Nester/Columbia - 7th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:02
Kevin Donney/Yale - 13th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:16
Brian Eimstad/Cornell - 14th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 19:09
Julian Henninger/Dartmouth - 11th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 19:28
Matthew McDonald/Princeton - 3rd, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:15

Team: 13th of 21 overall, 2:16:31 (45.1 km)
Jordan Mann/Brown - 15th, First Stage (8.5 km) - 24:47
Timothy Gorman/Dartmouth - 19th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:53
Christopher Hatler/Penn - 14th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:01
Connor Clark/Dartmouth - 12th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 18:28
James Landon/Yale - 11th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 18:57
Dan Nester/Columbia - 7th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 30:25
alternates:
Garret O'Toole/Princeton
Brian Zabilski/Columbia

canceled due to pandemic

no Ivy League team

no Ivy League team

Team: 12th of 21 overall, 2:18:05 (45.1 km)
Hugo Milner/Harvard - 2nd, First Stage (8.0 km) - 22:53
Will Battershill/Harvard - 11th, Second Stage (5.8 km) - 17:14
Matthew Pereira/Harvard - 14th, Third Stage (8.5 km) - 26:29
Jakob Kintzele/Princeton - 18th, Fourth Stage (6.2 km) - 19:49
Owen Ritz/Dartmouth - 15th, Fifth Stage (6.4 km) - 19:52
Kevin Berry/Princeton - 12th, Sixth Stage (10.2 km) - 31:48
alternates:
Matt Grossman/Princeton
Kieran Tuntivate/Harvard

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