SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.—The Babson College women's track & field team recorded its third highest point total in program history on the way to finishing eighth at the New England Women's Track & Field Championships on Saturday at the Mount Holyoke College Turf and Track Complex.
The Beavers totaled 44 of their 46 points on day two of the meet to come just one point behind seventh-place Wellesley and five off the pace of sixth-place Smith. Third-ranked MIT captured its 16th NEWMAC title with 278 points, while Coast Guard (127.5) and Springfield (94.5) came in second and third, respectively.
The Beavers' top individual finish of the day came in the high jump as first-year Amrit Rehal (Alpharetta, Ga.) came in second to earn All-NEWMAC honors by clearing 5-feet, 3.25-inches. Junior Brooke Jankowski (Derry, N.H.) matched the top mark of her career with a leap of 5-feet, 1.25-inches that was good for fifth place and qualified her for next weekend's New England Division III Championships.
Jankowski was also one of three Babson competitors to finish among the top six in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in fourth with a time of 15.59. First-year Victoria Hart (Greenwich, Conn.) came in third with a season-best time of 15.08, while junior Julia Pike (Mansfield, Mass.) posted a time of 15.93 to finish in sixth position.
Sophomore Colleen Corman (Quaker Hill, Conn.) finished third in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 1:07.10, while first-year Annabelle Svenson (Montclair, N.J.) placed sixth by matching her best time of the season (20:38.74) in the 5000 meters. Junior Robyn Wilkes (Atlanta, Ga.) also scored in a pair of events for Babson coming in sixth with a time of 26.15 in the 200 meters and taking seventh in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.61.
Hart and Wilkes teamed with senior Angela Hagstrom (Portsmouth, N.H.) and sophomore Reese Gallant (West Newbury, Mass.) to place fourth in the 4x100-meter relay in a time of 49.98, while the quartet of Corman, first-year Sophia Draxler (Montclair, N.J.), Hagstrom and junior Chloe Clifford (Marshfield, Mass.) helped the Beavers finished eight with a season-best time of 4:12.25 in the 4x400-meter relay.
Draxler finished ninth in the 1500 meters with a season-best time of 5:00.63, while Hagstrom crossed the finish line with a season-best time of 1:01.80 to place 13th in the 400 meters and also came in 18th with a time of 27.28 in the 200 meters. Clifford recorded a 13th-place showing with her best time of the spring (2:24.25) in the 800 meters and senior Eujin Shin (Rochester Hills, Mich.) came in 15th by matching her best time of the year (21:17.31) in the 5000 meters.
Sophomore Taijah Harvey (Concord, Mass.) recorded a season-best time of 5:23.23 to finish 15th in the 1500 meters, while junior Avery Butt (Orange, Conn.) was one spot behind her in 16th with a time of 5:23.46.
Sophomore Maddie Stoltz (Somers, Conn.) completed the final three events of the heptathlon and finished seventh overall with 2528 points. She followed up a seventh-place showing in the long jump with a leap of 13-feet, 1.25-inches by coming in third with a mark of 81-feet, 6-inches in the javelin. Stoltz also placed sixth with a time of 2:45.93 in the 800 meters.
Babson returns to action at the New England Division III Championships next Friday and Saturday on the campus of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
MEET NOTES
• The Beavers' 46 points rank only behind their total of 55 in 2023 and 49 at last year's conference meet.
• Rehal is the first Babson high jumper to earn all-conference honors since Alexa Untermann '12 finished first back in 2009.
• The Beavers have received at least on all-conference award at five consecutive league meets.
