Track & Field at the New England Division III Championships
Friday, May 5 | 11:45 a.m.
Saturday, May 6 | 10 a.m.
Mount Holyoke Track Complex | South Hadley, Mass.

WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's track & field teams travel to South Hadley for the New England Division III Championships on Friday and Saturday.
• A total of 19 men and 10 women athletes will be competing for Babson after achieving regional qualifying results.

2023 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION III RECAP
• The Beavers set two school records while collecting four all-region awards at the 2023 New England Division III Championships at Springfield.
• Senior Eric Bottern captured the individual title in the shot put with a school-record mark of 55-feet, 10.5-inches to earn All-New England accolades. He also broke his own record in the hammer throw with a heave of 155-feet, 11.25 inches.
• Junior Michael Agard recorded a pair of top 12 finishes, taking ninth in the long jump and 12th in the 100-meter dash. Junior Jack Reynolds placed 12th in the high jump and classmate Julian Ivarra finished 13th in the 5,000 meters.
• Sophomore Brooke Jankowski and junior Angela Hagstrom earned All-New England honors with top eight finishes. Jankowski took fifth in the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 14.97 seconds and Hagstrom was seventh in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:06.27.
• Jankowski and Hagstrom combined with Caroline Reilly '23 and sophomore Chloe Clifford to earn All-New England honors with a fifth-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay in a time of 4:03.85, less than a half-second off the program record.

SCOUTING THE BABSON MEN
• The Beavers are coming off a program-best third-place finish at the NEWMAC Championships last weekend at Springfield with 151 points, nearly double their previous high of 80 points.
• The Green and White captured three individual victpories as senior Anthony Rodriguez repeated his title in the 10,000 meters, Bottern won the shot put crown, and first-year Chris McDonough finished atop the podium in the 100-meter dash.
• Babson finished runner-up in five events to earn All-NEWMAC honors while setting several program records. Agard took second in the long jump with a record leap of 22-feet, 9.75-inches, first-year Nicolas Kube finished second in the javelin with a record mark of 178-feet, 3-inches, Rodriguez crossed the finish line in second place in the 5,000 meters, junior Will Dean was runner-up in the decathlon, and the 4x100-meter relay team of McDonough, Agard, first-year Kainoa Ronquilio and senior Demarre Johnson finished second in a school record time of 41.52 seconds.
• Bottern also took third place in the hammer throw, first-year Stratton Seymour was third in the 400-meter hurdles in a program record time of 57.45 seconds, and junior Julian Ivarra was third in the 10,000 meters and fourth in the 5,000 meters.

SCOUTING THE BABSON WOMEN
• The Beavers posted a dozen top-10 finishes on the way to a sixth-place finish at the NEWMAC Championships last weekend at Springfield, breaking a pair of program relay records and scoring 49 points, second-most in program history.
• First-year Colleen Corman led the Beavers with a first-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles. Sophomore Trista Sicard finished runner-up in the triple jump with a program-record mark of 36-feet, 7.75-inches, and landed in 10th place in the long jump.
• Sophomore Ashna Kirshnamurthy had a pair of top-five finishes, taking third place in the long jump and fifth place in the triple jump. Jankowski crossed the finish line in fourth place in the 100-meter hurdles, first-year Maddie Stoltz placed fourth in her first career heptathlon, and sophomore Robyn Wilkes placed fifth in the 200 meters with a program record time of 25.76 seconds to go along with a seventh place in the 100 meters.
• Clifford scored team points with a seventh-place finish in the 800 meters and sophomore Julia Pike just missed the finals with a ninth place in the 100-meter hurdles.

NEW ENGLAND DIVISION III QUALIFIERS
• Here are the Babson athletes who have punched their tickets to this weekend's New England Division III Championships:
 

Men		Women
Joseph Addotta (Discus)		Chloe Clifford (800, 4x400)
Michael Agard (100, 4x100, Long Jump)		Colleen Corman (400 Hurdles, 4x400)
Eric Bottern (Shot Put, Discus, Hammer)		Reese Gallant (4x100)
Aryan Dass (400)		Angela Hagstrom (400 Hurdles, 4x100, 4x400)
Will Dean (Decathlon)		Brooke Jankowski (100 Hurdles, 4x400)
Gerado Fernandez (200, 400, 4x400)		Ashna Kirshnamurthy (4x100, Long Jump, Triple Jump)
Max Gregoire (4x400)		Julia Pike (100 Hurdles)
Julian Ivarra (5000, 10,000)		Trista Sicard (Long Jump, Triple Jump)
Demarre Johnson (100, 200, 4x100)		Maddie Stoltz (Heptathlon)
Nicolas Kube (Javelin)		Robyn Wilkes (100, 200, 4x100)
Chris McDonough (100, 200, 4x100, Long Jump)
Almond Nickerson IV (3000 Steeplechase)
Harrison Prucher (110 Hurdles)
Jack Reynolds (High Jump, Triple Jump, Javelin)
Anthony Rodriguez (5000, 10,000)
Kainoa Ronquilio (200, 400, 4x100, 4x400)
Gabe Rosenberg (110 Hurdles)
Stratton Seymour (400 Hurdles, 4x400)
Jordan Wright (Triple Jump)

 
TEAM RANKINGS
• The Babson men are ranked sixth among 35 schools in the East region and third among NEWMAC schools by the US Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
• Their 374.11 points trail only MIT, Tufts, Bates, Bowdoin, and WPI in the region and are ahead of Colby, Bridgewater State, Southern Maine and UMass Dartmouth in the top 10.
• The Beaver women are ranked 15th among 37 schools in the East region with 119.27 points, fifth among NEWMAC schools behind MIT (1st), WPI (4th), Wheaton (8th), and Wellesley (11th).

MEN'S EAST REGION INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
• The Babson men have eight individual and two relay team performances that rank in the top 10 in the NCAA East region.
• Bottern is ranked first in the region in the shot put (56-feet, 4.5-inches) and Agard is ranked eighth in the long jump (22-feet, 9.75-inches).
• Rodriguez is first in the 10,000 meters (29:43.61) and second in the 5,000 meters (14:31.92), McDonough is first in the 100 meters (10.54) and fifth in the 200 meters (21.80), Ivarra is ninth in the 10,000 meters (31:31.22), and Johnson is 10th in the 200 meters (21.98).
• Babson's 4x100-meter relay team Agard, Ronquilio, Johnson, McDonough) is ranked fourth in the region and the 4x400-meter relay squad (Fernandez, Gregoire, Seymour, Ronquilio) is ranked eighth.

WOMEN'S EAST REGION LEADERS
• The Babson women have four individual and one relay performances that rank in the top 12 in the East region.
• Hagstrom is eighth in the 400-meter hurdles (1:05.19) and Sicard is eighth in the triple jump (36-feet, 7.75-inches).
• Krishnamurthy is 11th in the triple jump (35-feet, 8.75-inches) and Jankowski is 12th in the 100-meter hurdles.
• The 4x400-meter relay team (Corman, Clifford, Jankowski, Hagstrom) is ranked 12th (4:10.41).

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will send a group of athletes who have qualified to the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships at Holy Cross in Worcester on May 10-11.