NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Three members of the Yale women's cross country team have been honored by the Ivy League. Sophomore
Phoebe Benun (Santa Monica, Calif.) has earned first team All-Ivy League recognition. Senior
Hebe Chadwick (Delft, the Netherlands) has earned second team All-Ivy League. Junior
Sylvie Sanok Dufallo (Ann Arbor, Mich.) has earned Academic All-Ivy League. The league announced the honors Wednesday. First team All-Ivy honors go to the top seven finishers at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, and second-team honors go to those who finish eighth through 14th.
Benun was Yale's top finisher (20:43.5) at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships this past Saturday at Highland Park in Attleboro, Mass. She was seventh overall and was second among all sophomores at the race; only Princeton's Caroline Barton finished ahead of her. Benun had the team's fastest split in the final 1K (3:23.6), moving up seven spots in that span.
Benun was Yale's No. 2 finisher in the first four races this season. She earned All-East honors for her 13th place finish at ECACs.
Benun is a graduate of Santa Monica High School.
Chadwick was Yale's No. 2 finisher (20:43.5) at Heps. She was eighth overall. She made a dramatic improvement over her previous best Heps finish (30th last year). She and Benun also made Yale one of only two teams to have more than one top-eight finisher (Princeton had three).
Chadwick has been Yale's No. 1 finisher in three races so far this season. That includes a first-place overall finish at the Maribel Sanchez Souther Invitational, where she set a course record (20:53.9). She earned All-East for her ninth-place finish at ECACs.
Chadwick is a graduate of Stanislascollege Westplantsoen.
Sanok Dufallo is a physics (int.) major. This past Saturday marked her third career Ivy League Heps appearance. She has run in NCAA Regionals twice.
Sanok Dufallo had finished in Yale's top seven four times this season, including the ECAC Championships where she helped Yale to bronze. Last year she competed in five meets, including the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships (seventh on team, 47th overall) and the NCAA Northeast Regional (sixth on team, 70th overall). Her 6K cross country time of 21:22.8 at NCAA Regionals was a personal best. She competed in three races in her first season, 2024, including helping Yale to a win at the ECAC Championships.
Sanok Dufallo is a graduate of Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.
