Track & Field | NEWMAC Championships
Friday, April 25 | 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 26 | 10:30 a.m.
MHC Turf & Track| South Hadley, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's track & field teams head to South Hadley, Mass., for the NEWMAC Championships beginning on Friday afternoon at Mount Holyoke College.
• The league's nine women's and six men's programs will compete in 20 events as well as the decathlon and heptathlon Friday and Saturday.

2024 NEWMAC CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
• The Babson men captured three individual events and set five school records on the way to a program-best third place and 151 points at last year's NEWMAC Championships at Springfield. The Babson women placed sixth with one individual champion, two program records and 49 points, second-most in program history.
• Graduate student Anthony Rodriguez captured his second straight men's 10,000 meters title and finished runner-up in the 5,000 meters. Sophomore Chris McDonough took first place in the 100-meter dash and finished runner-up in the 200 meters in a program-record time of 21.80 seconds. McDonough also anchored Babson's 4x100 meter relay team that finished second with a school record time of 41.52.
• Eric Bottern '24 captured the individual title in the shot put and placed second in the discus. Senior Will Dean earned a second-place finish in the decathlon, scoring 4.331 points; Michael Agard '24 finished second in the long jump with a program-record leap of 22-feet, 9.75-inches; and sophomore Nicolas Kube had a second-place finish in the javelin, recording a program-record mark of 178-feet, 3-inches.
• Sophomore Colleen Corman led the Beaver women, capturing the individual title in the 400-meter hurdles. Junior Trista Sicard recorded a second-place finish in the triple jump with a program-record mark of 36-feet, 7.75-inches.
• Junior Ashna Krishnamurthy finished third in the long jump with a leap of 16-feet, 8.75-inches. Junior Brooke Jankowski had a strong run in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing fourth in 15.74 seconds; classmate Robyn Wilkes broke the program record in the 200 meters, crossing the finish line in fifth place with a time of 25.76 seconds; and sophomore Maddie Stoltz turned in a solid fourth-place finish in the heptathlon with 2,973 points.

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN
• McDonough captured the individual title in the 100-meter dash for the second year in a row at MIT's Sean Collier Invitational last Saturday, crossing the finish line in a season-best time of 10.56 seconds.
• First-year Aithan Bezanson finished runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles in a program-record time of 54.94 seconds and classmate Jackson Adams took third place in 56.92 seconds. Graduate student Matthew Campbell finished third in the 5000 meters in 16:06.97, and fellow grad student Ryan Wilson was fourth in the 1500 meters in 4:02.07.
• Bezanson took fifth place in the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.27 seconds, and Bezanson and fellow first-years Noa Wong, Patrick Allardi and Dominic Smith placed fourth in the 4x100-meter relay in a season-best time of 43.35 seconds.
• Bezanson set a new program record in the decathlon at the UMass Multi-Meet back on April 9-10, recording 6,355 points and a third-place finish.

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
• First-year Amrit Rehal posted the Beavers' top individual finish at MIT's Sean Collier Invitational last Saturday by coming in first in the high jump with a mark of 5-feet, 4.25-inches. Sicard placed third in the triple jump with a leap of 35-feet, 5.75-inches. 
• The Beavers' top performance in the throws came from first-year Brigid Kelly, who set a new school record in the hammer with a throw of 111-feet, 9-inches.
• Jankowski came in fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.13. Wilkes came in fifth in the 200 meters with a season-best time of 25.87 and also posted a season-best time of 12.51 in the 100-meter dash to place sixth. Corman finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:08.96.
• Wilkes teamed with senior Angela Hagstrom, sophomore Reese Gallant and first-year Victoria Hart to record a third-place result in the 4x100-meter relay with a season-best time of 49.98. 

AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
• Entering this weekend's conference meet, Bezanson ranks 12th in Division III in the decathlon (6,355 pts.), Rodriguez is 15th in the 10,000 meters (29:43.74), and McDonough is 34th in the 100 meters (10.56).
• On the women's side, Rehal is ranked 17th in the high jump with her leap of 5-feet, 5-inches.

CHASING TITLES
• A number of Babson athletes are ranked in the top five in the NEWMAC (nine men's events, six women's events) entering this weekend's championships. 
 

MEN
100m	McDonough	1st	10.56
5000m	Rodriguez	2nd	14:27:16
10,000m	Rodriguez	1st	29.43.74
400 hurdles	Bezanson	1st	54.94
4x400 relay	Smith,Adams,
		5th	3:27.27
High jump	Bezanson	4th	6'2.75"
Long Jump	Bezanson	4th	21'8.25"
Hammer	Brett White	3rd	141'11"
Decathlon	Bezanson	1st	6355
Decathlon	Matthew Vilela	3rd	4956
WOMEN
100 meters	Wilkes	4th	12.51
100 hurdles	Jankowski	2nd	15.13
100 hurdles	Hart	4th	15.62
400 hurdles	Corman	4th	1:08.39
4x100 relay	Gallant,Wilkes,
	Hagstrom,Hart	4th	49.98
High jump	Rehal	2nd	5'5"
Heptathlon	Stoltz	5th	2780

PROGRAM RECORDS
• Bezanson has set a pair of program records this spring, the 400-meter hurdles (54.94) at the Sean Collier Invitational on April 19, breaking the mark of 56.52 by Seymour set last May, and the decathlon (6355) on April 9-10, bettering the total of 6159 points achieved Dominic Esposito '15 back in 2015.
• Rehal's leap of 5-5 in the women's high jump broke the mark of 5-feet, 4.5-inches by Katie Collins at the ECAC Championships on May 11, 2002, and Kelly's heave of 111-feet, 9-inches in the hammer throw broke the mark of 110-feet, 1-inch by Nina Sitarski on April 30, 2022.

UP NEXT
• Babson has 20 athletes (12 men, eight women) that have qualified for the Division III New England Championships, which will be held May 2-3 at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.