Track & Field 
at the Raleigh Relays | Thursday, March 28, 1 p.m. | Friday, March 29, 2:15 p.m. | Paul Derr Track & Field Facility | Raleigh, N.C. 
at the Tufts Snowflake Classic | Saturday, March 30 | Dussault Track | Medford, Mass. | 10 a.m. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    Following the cancelation of the Bridgewater State Invitational due to poor weather last Saturday, the Babson men's & women's track teams will compete over three days at two different meets beginning on Thursday. 
•    Senior Eric Bottern and first-year Chris McDonough will travel to NC State to compete in the Raleigh Relays on Thursday and Friday, while the Babson women and the remainder of the Beavers' men's squad will head to Medford, Mass., for the Tufts Snowflake Classic. 

RALEIGH RELAYS MEET INFO
•    Bottern, who owns the top Division III throw of the spring in the shot put (53-feet, 2.25-inches) will begin competition at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, while McDonough is slated to run the 100-meter dash at 2 p.m. on Friday.  

2023 TUFTS SNOWFLAKE CLASSIC HIGHLIGHTS
•    The Babson track & field teams combined for three school records and three event victories as the men placed second while the women earned a sixth-place finish at last year's meet on April 1, 2023. 
•    The quartet of Caroline Reilly '23, sophomores Brooke Jankowski and Chloe Clifford and junior Angela Hagstrom broke a school record in the 4x400-meter relay, Jankowski also finished third in the 100-meter hurdles and first-year Robyn Wilkes earned a third-place result in the 100-meter dash. 
•    Yudai Yamakawa '23 won the men's 3000-meter steeplechase with a program-record time of 9:51.53, sophomore Max Gregoire came in first in the 800 meters and Bottern broke his own school records in both the shot put and hammer throw in addition to placing third in the discus. 

SCOUTING THE BABSON WOMEN
•    Wilkes set a new school record in the 200 meters and was one of four females to qualify for the D3 New England Meet last Saturday at Point Loma.
•    Wilkes posted a time of 26.04 to better the mark set by Angelina Raffone '19 five seasons ago, while sophomore Trista Sicard finished second in the triple jump with a career-best leap of 35-feet, 3.75-inches.
•    Sophomore Ashna Krishnamurthy finished fifth in both the triple jump (34-feet, 0.75-inches) and long jump (16-feet, 8-inches), Hagstrom took fifth in the 400-meter hurdles and sophomore Chloe Clifford placed ninth with a time of 2:20.88 in the 800 meters. 
•     The Beavers return 15 athletes from a team that placed fifth with a school-record 55 points at last year's NEWMAC Championships.

SCOUTING THE BABSON MEN
•    McDonough shattered school records in the 100 and 200 meters in his collegiate debut and the Beavers set D3 New England qualifying marks in eight events last Saturday at Point Loma. 
•    McDonough came in second with a time of 10.56 in the 100-meter dash and was sixth with his time of 21.83 in the 200 meters, Bottern placed third in the shot put and junior Jack Reynolds finished fourth in the high jump.
•    Senior Anthony Rodriguez and junior Julian Ivarra placed fifth and seventh, respectively, in the 5000 meters, first-year Kainoa Ronquilio took fifth in the 400 meters and 10th in the 200, and classmate Aryan Dass came in seventh in the 400 in his collegiate debut. 
•    The Beavers bring back 13 athletes after recorded their fourth consecutive fourth-place finish with a school-record 80 points at last year's NEWMAC Championships.

HAGSTROM EARNS WEEKLY HONOR
•    Thanks to her time of 1:05.19 in the 400-meter hurdles at Point Loma, Hagstrom was selected as the NEWMAC Women's Track Athlete of the Week on Monday. 
•    Her time ranks 11th this spring in Division III this spring and was just 0.07 seconds off her career best.

QUALIFYING MARKS
•    Bottern (shot put), Rodriguez (5000m), Ivarra (5000m), McDonough (100m, 200m), Ronquilio (200m, 400m) and Dass (400m) all achieved qualifying marks for the D3 New England Championships for the Babson men last Saturday. 
•    Hagstrom (400m hurdles), Wilkes (100m, 200m), Clifford (800) and Julia Pike (100m hurdles) all qualified for the regional meet for the Babson women.

POLL POSITION
•    The Babson men were picked to finish fifth, while the women's squad finished in a tie for sixth when the NEWMAC released its preseason coaches' polls last week.

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers will compete in the Tufts Snowflake Classic next Saturday in Medford, Mass.