Track & Field at the Sean Collier Invitational 
Friday, April 19 | 8:00 p.m. 
Saturday, April 20 | 10 a.m. 
Steinbrenner Stadium / Morrison Track | Cambridge, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's track & field teams travel to Cambridge for MIT's Sean Collier Invitational on Friday and Saturday. 
• Graduate student Anthony Rodriguez (5,000) and senior Julian Ivarra (10,000) will take part in Distance Night on Friday, while the rest of the Beaver squads are set to compete on Saturday.

2024 SEAN COLLIER INVITATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Rodriguez shattered his own school record with a time of 29:43.61 to finish first in the 10,000-meter run, sophomore Chris McDonough had a strong meet with a pair of top-five finishes, including first place in the 100-meter dash in 10.75 seconds, and Eric Bottern '24 captured the shot put with a season-best throw of 55-feet, 2.75-inches
• Babson's team of Max Gregoire, sophomore Niko Manolakos, Demarre Johnson '24, and Kainoa Ronquilio crossed the finish line in first place in the 4x400 meter relay in a season-best time of 3:26.10. Sophomore Stratton Seymour placed third in the 400 hurdles with a season-best 57.82 seconds, which was a New England Division III qualifying time, and senior Harrison Prucher took third in the 110-meter hurdles in a season-best time of 15.73 seconds.
• Junior Trista Sicard registered a fifth place in the triple jump, leaping a season-best 35-feet, 8-inches, which was a New England Division III qualifying mark.
• Junior Ashna Krishnamurthy had a pair of top-8 finishes, including fifth in the long jump with a mark of 16-feet, 5-inches.

SCOUTING THE BABSON MEN
• First-years Noa Wong and Patrick Allardi captured individual victories to lead the Babson men at the Silfen Invitational at Connecticut College last Saturday.
• Wong captured the 400 meters in a time of 51.64 seconds, and classmate Dominic Smith finished runner-up in 51.75 seconds. Allardi crossed the finish line in first place in the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.28 seconds.
• First-year Evan Dang was joined by Wong, Allardi and Smith to finish runner-up in the 4x100 meter relay in a time of 43.99 seconds.
• First-year Brian Ronayne finished second in the 800 meters in a season-best time of 2:02.32, and classmate Jackson Adams placed third in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 58.71 seconds.

SCOUTING THE BABSON WOMEN
• Sophomore Colleen Corman led the Beaver women with a first-place finish by 0.01 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:08.39 at the Silfen Invitational at Connecticut College last Saturday.
• First-year Shriya Peddi was the runner-up in the 5000 meters with a season-best time of 19:24.03, while junior Robyn Wilkes finished fourth in the 200 meters with a season-best time of 26.26 and also claimed fifth place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.09. 
• First-year Victoria Hart crossed the finish line in a season-best time of 15.95 to come in fourth in the 100-meter hurdles.
• Junior Chloe Clifford placed fifth in the 400 meters with a time of 1:03.15, and senior Angela Hagstrom was just under a half-second behind her in seventh with a time of 1:03.64. 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE UMASS MULTI-MEET
• First-year Aithan Bezanson set a new school record for points on the way to placing third in the decathlon at the UMass Multi-Meet on April 9-10 in Amherst, Mass.
• Bezanson finished with 6355 points to qualify for the Division III New England Championships while surpassing the previous mark of 6159 points achieved Dominic Esposito '15 back in 2015. First-year Matthew Vilela also qualified for D3 New England's and placed 10th overall with 4956 points.

RUNNING LIKE A BISON
• Rodriguez came in 12th in the 5000-meter run at Bucknell's Bison Outdoor Classic on April 12 in Lewisburg, Pa.
• The Beaver veteran posted a time of 14:27.16 that was third among Division III competitors. His time ranks second in program history and is good for second among Division III competitors this spring in New England and is among the top 20 times nationally. 

NEWMAC TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
• Bezanson was rewarded for his decathlon performance at UMass with the NEWMAC Field Athlete of the Week award on Tuesday.
• The Beaver rookie recorded season-best marks in seven events. He took first in the 1500-meter run and javelin, second in the 110-meter hurdles and third in both the shot put and high jump. 

EAST REGION RANKINGS
• The Babson men are ranked eighth in the East in this week's USTFCCCA Regional Rankings, and third among NEWMAC schools behind MIT (2nd) and WPI (3rd).
• Teams from the NESCAC take up the other four of the top six spots – Tufts (1st), Colby (4th), Bates (5th), and Bowdoin (6th), and UMass Dartmouth is sixth, one spot ahead of the Beavers.
• The Babson women are ranked 17th in the East, and fifth among NEWMAC schools behind MIT (2nd), WPI (9th), Wheaton (11th), Wellesley (14th).

DIVISION III NEW ENGLAND QUALIFIERS
• The Babson men have seven athletes and the women have four athletes who have qualified to the New England Division III championships later this spring.
• The seven men include McDonough in the 100 meters (11.00), sophomore Gerardo Fernandez in the 400 meters, first-year Nick Yacoub (31:48.20) and Ivarra (32:26.31) in the 10,000 meters, Allardi in the 110 hurdles (15.25) and Bezanson in the 110 hurdles (15.43), 400 hurdles (56.61), high jump (6-2.75), javelin (173-9) and decathlon (6355), and first-year Matthew Vilela (4956) in the decathlon.
• The four women include Hart in the 100-meter hurdles (15.95), and Corman in the 400 meter hurdles (1:08.36), first-year Amrit Rehal in the high jump (5-5), and Sicard in the triple jump (35-7.25).

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will begin post-season competition next weekend at the NEWMAC Championships on April 25-26 at Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Mass.