Track & Field at the NCAA New England Championships
Friday, May 5 | 12 p.m.
Saturday, May 6 | 10 a.m.
Blake Track | Springfield, Mass.
Championship Information
WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's track & field teams travel to Springfield for the NCAA New England Championships on Friday and Saturday.
• A total of 14 Babson athletes will be competing after achieving NCAA regional qualifying results.
2022 NCAA NEW ENGLAND REGIONALS RECAP
• The Beavers combined to set three school records while earning eight all-region awards at the 2022 NCAA New England Championships at Williams.
• Katherine Jacobs '22 finished second in the 100-meter hurdles, shattering her previous school record with a time of 14.18 and earning the first runner-up finish in program history for a Babson female. Sophomore Angela Hagstrom earned All-New England honors by placing seventh in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 1:06.00. The duo also teamed with seniors Rachel Ip and Caroline Reilly to collect all-region accolades in the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 50.04 that was good for seventh place.
• The Babson men saw six athletes earn All-New England laurels with top-eight finishes, highlighted by Colin Cianciolo '22 finishing second in the 400 meters with a school-record time of 47.61. Junior Michael Agard broke his own school record in the long jump with a leap of 22-feet, 7-inches to finish seventh. Henry Rosaly came in seventh in the 800 meters with a season-best time of 1:53.81, while junior Anthony Rodriguez ran 15:01.62 in the 5000 meters to grab eighth place. Babson's 4x400-meter relay squad of Rosaly, Cianciolo, Talal Al Alami '22M and Joseph Marwill '22 finished fifth with a season-best time of 3:21.52.
SCOUTING THE BABSON MEN
• The Beavers are coming off a fourth-place finish at the NEWMAC Championships last weekend at MIT, posting 15 top-eight finishes and scoring 80 points, the most in program history.
• Rodriguez pulled off a pair of individual titles, capturing the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, and setting a conference record of 14:41.39 in the 5,000.
• Junior Eric Bottern finished runner-up in the shot put, registering a mark of 54-feet, 1.25-inches to break the program record for the fifth time this season. He also placed third in the hammer throw with a program-record distance of 151-feet, 0-inches, and finished fifth in the discus.
SCOUTING THE BABSON WOMEN
• The Green and White posted 11 top-eight finishes on the way to a fifth-place finish at the NEWMAC Championships last weekend at MIT, breaking a pair of program relay records and scoring 55 points, nearly double the previous program-best of 28 points in 2019.
• Senior Lauren Zatulove captured the inaugural NEWMAC heptathlon with a score of 3,259 points. Hagstrom finished runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:05.12 and first-year Brooke Jankowski placed third in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.24 seconds.
• Babson's 4x400-meter relay squad of Reilly, Jankowski, first-year Chloe Clifford and Hagstrom brought home second place in a program-record time of 4:03.37 seconds, and the contingent of Reilly, Jankowski, first-year Robyn Wilkes and Hagstrom finished in fifth place in the 4x100 relay in a program-record time of 49.25 seconds.
NCAA NEW ENGLAND QUALIFIERS
• Here are the Babson athletes who have punched their tickets to this weekend's NCAA New England Championships:
• Men: Agard (long jump, 100m), Bottern (shot put, hammer, discus), first-year Max Gregoire (800m), sophomore Julian Ivarra (5,000m), sophomore Harrison Prucher (110 hurdles), sophomore Jack Reynolds (high jump), Rodriguez (5000m), graduate student Ryan Wilson (1500m) and senior Yudai Yamakawa (3000m steeplechase).
• Women: Hagstrom (400 hurdles), Jankowski (100 hurdles), first-year Ashna Krishnamurthy (long jump, triple jump), Wilkes (100m), and Zatulove (heptathlon) as well as the 4x100m relay (Reilly, Jankowski, Wilkes, Hagstrom) and 4x400m relay (Reilly, Clifford, Jankowski, Hagstrom).
TEAM RANKINGS
• The Babson men ranked ninth among 35 schools in the East region and third among NEWMAC schools by the US Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
• Their 194.94 points trail only MIT, Tufts, Bates, Bowdoin, UMass Dartmouth, WPI, Colby, and Bridgewater State and ahead of Wentworth in the top 10.
• The Beaver women moved up to 13th among 37 schools in the East region with 157.66 points, fifth among NEWMAC schools behind MIT (1st), WPI (3rd), Wheaton (9th), and Wellesley (10th).
MEN'S EAST REGION INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
• The Babson men have four individual performances that rank in the top 10 in the NCAA east region.
• Bottern is second in the region in the shot put (54-feet, 1.25-inches) and ninth in the discus (140-feet, 1-inch.
• Rodriguez is fourth in the 10,000 meters (30:12.90) and sixth in the 5,000 meters (14:40.02),
WOMEN'S EAST REGION LEADERS
• The Babson women have four individual performances that rank in the top 10 in the east region and two top 10 relay times.
• Hagstrom is seventh in the 400-meter hurdles (1:05.12), Jankowski is eighth in the 100-meter hurdles (15.24), Krishnamurthy is ninth in the long jump (17-feet, 2.75 inches) and Zatulove is 10th in the heptathlon (3284 points).
• The 4x100-meter relay team is ranked fifth (49.25) and 4x400-meter squad is ranked sixth (4:03.37).
UP NEXT
• The Beavers will send a group of athletes who have qualified to the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships at Northeastern University on May 12-13.
