With the sun cascading through skylights above, the men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in the Penn 10 Elite at the Ott Center in Philadelphia this Saturday. Earning three medals on the women’s side and one on the men’s, Brown showed out in the field events.
In their sixth meet of the season, Bruno saw strong individual performances in the triple jump, women’s weight throw and women’s long jump.
“The meet was a great opportunity for us to gauge where we are as a team coming out of the break,” Head Coach Ken Hunt wrote in a message to The Herald. “Our goals today were to compete with intensity, execute well and support each other, and I believe we achieved those.”
Battling for podium positions alongside the Bears were four other Ivy League teams: Cornell, Harvard, Penn and Princeton. UConn, Howard, Penn State, Villanova and Virginia traveled from other East Coast states to compete in the meet as well.
In the women’s weight throw — the first event of the day — Chidinma Agbasi ’25 excelled. With a massive 18.85 meter throw, she vaulted herself to the top of the podium.
“It made me very happy to hear my name announced” as first place, Agbasi wrote in a message to The Herald. In her first and second years at Brown, she could not “even imagine this happening,” she added.
Despite winning the gold — Brown’s only first-place finish of the day — Agbasi did not set a personal record, which was one of her goals for the meet.
But beating her current personal best of 19.54 meters, set last season, would not have come easy. In fact, a throw of this distance at last year’s Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships would’ve secured her the gold.
As it stands, Agbasi’s 18.85-meter throw on Saturday was still enough to best the reigning champ, Harvard’s Emilia Kolokotroni.
Beating Kolokotroni on Saturday “gave me hope for our Ivy League championship in the future,” Agbasi wrote. “Hopefully by the end of the season, it will all come together. I really want to win (Heps) and be able to stand on the podium with my teammates.”
Agbasi wasn’t the only Bear on top of their game at the Penn 10 Elite. Jada Joseph ’25 — one of the Bears’ most successful track athletes last season — finished second in the long jump and third in the triple jump.
Last year, her 12.53-meter effort in the triple jump at the NCAA National Championships earned her Honorable Mention All-America honors, and within the Ivy League, she was named an Academic All-Ivy honoree.
Entering Saturday’s competition, “I wanted to make sure I was intentional with everything I did,” Joseph wrote in a message to The Herald. “As a senior, every meet is a key opportunity to exemplify my hard work.”
And exemplify her hard work, she did. Her 6.12-meter leap in the long jump not only secured her a new personal record, but it also temporarily vaulted her into the 40th overall spot in 2025 NCAA Division I College Indoor Top 100 Rankings for the event. In the triple jump, Joseph bounded 12 meters even, landing her the bronze.
Despite her individual prowess, Joseph emphasized the importance of team spirit as a whole.
“Having teammates who push you to be your best self is essential to the team’s success, as well as our accolades as individual track athletes,” she wrote.
Alongside Joseph, Delaney Seligmann ’25 set a new personal record of 5.99 meters in the long jump, finishing in fourth place. Rounding out the field events for the women, Nene Mokonchu ’26 claimed the fourth overall spot in the high jump with a 1.66-meter effort.
“This group of athletes is truly special,” Head Coach Ken Hunt wrote. “Each season brings a new blend of talent, personality and determination, and this year is no different. What stands out most is the team’s cohesiveness and drive to push each other to new heights.”
On the men’s side, Joseph Oduro ’26 led the charge. Putting up an incredible 14.99-meter leap in the triple jump, Oduro clinched a bronze medal. Barely missing the podium, Trevor Wilder ’28 set a new personal record in the 200-meter race with a 21.49-second finish. He now ranks third in school history.
“I’m proud of the way our team competed and the resilience they showed,” Hunt wrote. “That said, we’re always looking for ways to improve, whether it’s refining technique, sharpening race strategies or simply staying consistent in our execution. The team is eager to put in the work to get better every day.”
The Bears will compete at the Harvard Invitational this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Lydell Dyer is a sports editor for The Herald. A junior hailing from Bonn, Germany, Lydell is studying nonfiction English and political science, and if he's not off "making words sound pretty," you can find him lifting heavy circles at the Nelson.