Track & Field at the Sean Collier Invitational 
Friday, April 17 | 6:30 p.m. (Distance Night)
Saturday, April 18 | 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. 
• Friday's Distance Night schedule includes men's and women's track events 1500 meters, 3000-meter steeplechase, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters. The remainder of the meet begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

2025 SEAN COLLIER INVITATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Junior Chris McDonough captured the individual title in the men's 100-meter dash for the second year in a row in a season-best time of 10.56 seconds. Sophomores 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, a time that qualified him for the New England regional championships.
• Matthew Campbell M'25 finished third in the 5000 meters in a time of 16:06.97, and Ryan Wilson M'25 was fourth in the 1500 meters in a season-best time of 4:02.07. Babson's 4x100-meter relay team of Bezanson and fellow sophomores Noa Wong, Patrick Allardi and Dominic Smith placed fourth in a season-best time of 43.35 seconds. 
• Sophomore Amrit Rehal captured the women's high jump with a mark of 5-feet, 4.25-inches. Senior Trista Sicard placed third in the triple jump with a leap of 35-feet, 5.75-inches, and sophomore Brigid Kelly set a new school record in the hammer with a throw of 111-feet, 9-inches.
• Senior Brooke Jankowski came in fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.13, sophomore Victoria Hart registered a season-best time of 15.62, and Jankowski and senior Julia Pike (16.12) qualified for the New England regionals. Senior Robyn Wilkes qualified for the New England regionals in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.51, and teamed with Angela Hagstrom '25, junior Reese Gallant and Hart to record a third-place result in the 4x100-meter relay with a season-best 49.98. 

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN
• Graduate student Diego Sanabria (javelin) and fellow grad student Skyler Mott (high jump) won their respective events for Babson at the Tufts Spring Invitational last weekend in Medford. Sanabria posted a program record throw of 183-feet even and Mott registered a leap of 6-feet, 9-inches.
• Sophomore Nick Yacoub brought home an impressive performance in the 5000 meters, finishing third in a time of 14:52.54, the eighth-fastest in program history. Junior Jonathan Hanscom placed second out of just four runners in the 10,000 meters, competing the race in 33:02.61.
• First-year Cameron Mehallo broke the program record while winning the 400-meter hurdles with a regional qualifying time of 54.87 seconds, while Adams was second in 55.28. First-year Brady Kirtland took first place in the 110-meter hurdles with a regional qualifying time of 15.02 seconds.
• The Beavers had strong showings in both relay events. The team of Mehallo, Kirtland, Adams and Smith took second place in the 4x400-meter relay in a season-best time of 3:23.10, and the foursome of sophomore Timothy Kelm, McDonough, sophomore William Davila and Adams placed sixth in the 4x100-meter relay in a season-best time of 43.08 seconds.
 
ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
• Rehal captured first place in the high jump and first-year Elaina Head broke the program record in the triple jump to highlight the Babson women at the Tufts Spring Invitational last weekend in Medford.
• Rehal took first with a leap of 5-feet, 3.75-inches and Head produced a fifth-place finish in the triple jump with a record mark of 37-feet, 3.25 inches. Head also finished third in the high jump with a mark of 5-feet, 2.25-inches.
• Jankowski cleared a career-high 5-feet, 0.25-inches in the high jump, which is a New England regional provisional qualifying mark. Hart brought home a second-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles, crossing the line in 15.73 seconds.
• Babson had a strong showing in the 4x400-meter relay, as the team of Jankowski, first-year Reagan Myer, sophomore Serena Thaker and Head finished third in a season-best time of 4:04.96. 

NEWMAC HONOR
• Mott was recognized when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) released its weekly honors on Monday.
• Mott's winning mark of 6-feet, 9-inches in the high jump at the Tufts Spring Stampede on Saturday fell just 0.75 inches shy of his school-record set back on March 19, which currently has him ranked fifth in Division III this spring.

PROGRAM RECORDS
• Mott has set two of the three men's program records this spring for the Beavers in the high jump (6-feet, 9-75-inches) and the triple jump (46-feet, 2.75-inches).
• Mehallo established a new record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 54.87 seconds.
• The women's 4x100 relay team of Gallant, Hart, Wilkes and first-year Marcilee Kinerman has set the new program record twice this season, most recently with a time of 48.77.

TEAM RANKINGS
• The Babson men and women are both ranked ninth in the Northeast region this week by the US Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
• The men are behind Tufts, MIT, Bates, WPI, Colby, Bowdoin, UMass Dartmouth, and Southern Maine and ahead of 10th place Fitchburg State.
• The women are below Tufts, MIT, Bates, Colby, Bowdoin, Brandeis, WPI, Southern Maine and ahead of Keene State.

MEN'S EAST REGION LEADERS
• The Babson men have 10 individual performances that rank in the top 10 in the NCAA east region this spring.
• Mott is first in the region in the high jump (6-feet, 9.75-inches) and third in the triple jump (46-feet, 2.75-inches), and Sanabria is eighth in the javelin (183-feet, 0-inches).
• Yacoub is second in the 10,000 meters (30:39.52) and fourth in the 5000 meters (14:52.84), Kirtland is ranked seventh in the 110-meter hurdles (15.02) and Mehallo (54.61) and Adams (54.98) are ranked eighth and 10th in the 400-meter hurdles.
• The Beavers' team of Mehallo, Kirtland, Adams, and Smith is fifth in the 4x400-meter relay (3:23.10) and the foursome of Kelm, McDonough, Davila and Adams is 10th in the 4x100-meter relay (43.08).
• Mott's performance in the high jump is ranked fifth in Division III, and Yacoub's time in the 10,000 meters is 32nd.

WOMEN'S EAST REGION LEADERS
• The Babson women have eight performances that rank in the top 10 in the NCAA east region this spring.
• Rehal is first in the region in the high jump (5-feet, 5.25-inches) and Head is third in the high jump (5-feet, 3.25-inches) and sixth in the triple jump (37-feet, 3.25-inches).
• On the track, Jankowski (15.41) is eighth in the 100-meter hurdles, and Hart is 10th in both the 100-meter hurdles (15.52) and the 400-meter hurdles (1:05.99).
• The Beavers' 4x400 meter relay team of Jankowski, Myer, Thaker and Head is fourth in the east (4:04.96) and the 4x100 meter relay team of Gallant, Hart, Wilkes and Kinerman is eighth (48.77).
• Rehal's mark in the high jump ranks 11th overall in Division III.

UP NEXT
• The Beavers will compete in the annual NEWMAC Championships on April 24-25 at Coast Guard in New London, Conn.