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In the last four years, the women’s cross country team has both struggled and rebounded.

In 2021, when most of this year’s graduating seniors were first years, the Bulldogs finished third in the Ivy League Cross Country Championships, across a six-kilometer course. In both 2022 and 2023, the team placed sixth, but this year it returned to the third-place spot — led by juniors Claire Archer ’26, who was named an All-Region runner for her performance at the NCAA’s Northeast meet, and Linde Fonville ’26, who was selected to captain the team for fall 2025. 

In a remarkable team performance earlier in the 2024 season, the women’s cross country squad won its first Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship banner since 2003.

After some attrition, the class of 2025 includes only two active runners on the team’s online roster, captain Kylie Goldfarb ’25 and Iris Bergman ’25. Bergman was Yale’s fifth finisher at the 2024 NCAA regional meet.