Track & Field | NEWMAC Championships
Friday, April 24 | 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 25 | 10:30 a.m.
Nitchman Track | New London, Conn. 

WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's track & field teams head to New London, Conn., for the NEWMAC Championships beginning on Friday afternoon at the US Coast Guard Academy.
• 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.

2025 MEN'S NEWMAC CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
• The Babson men registered 11 top five finishes on the way to a fifth-place finish with 79 points, third most in program history at last year's NEWMAC Championships at Mount Holyoke.
• Anthony Rodriguez M'25 (32;25.04), sophomore Nick Yacoub (32:25.64) and Julian Ivarra '25 (32:28.50) finished 1-2-3 in the men's 10,000 meters. Rodriguez captured his third straight 10,000-meter title and fourth overall ('21, '23, '24, '25), Yacoub finished runner-up, and Ivarra recorded his second straight third-place finish. Rodriguez also brought home fourth place in the 5,000 meters in 15:09.08 while Yacoub finished fifth in 15:11.28.
• Junior Chris McDonough earned All-Conference honors with a second-place finish in the 100-meter dash in 10.71 seconds. Babson's 4x400-meter relay team of sophomores Jackson Adams, Brian Ronayne, Dominic Smith and Noah Wong finished fourth in a season-best time of 3:26.97, and Smith and Wong were joined by classmates Patrick Allardi and Aithan Bezanson for a fifth place in the 4x100-meter relay in a season-best 42.55 seconds. Adams produced a fifth place in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 57.41 seconds.
• The top Beaver performances in field events included a fifth place in the discus by senior Joseph Addotta with a career-best mark of 132-feet, 9-inches.

2025 WOMEN'S NEWMAC CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
• The Babson women totaled 44 of their 46 points on day two of last year's NEWMAC Championships to record their third-highest point total in program history in an eighth-place showing, just one point out of seventh place.
• The Beavers' top individual finish came in the high jump as sophomore Amrit Rehal took second to earn All-NEWMAC honors by clearing 5-feet, 3.25-inches. Senior Brooke Jankowski 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 the New England Division III Championships. 
• Jankowski was also one of three Beavers to finish among the top six in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in fourth in 15.59 seconds. Sophomore Victoria Hart came in third with a season-best 15.08, while senior Julia Pike posted a 15.93 to place sixth. 
• Junior Colleen Corman finished third in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 1:07.10, while sophomore Annabelle Svenson placed sixth by matching her best time of the season (20:38.74) in the 5000 meters. Senior Robyn Wilkes also scored in a pair of events for Babson coming in sixth in the 200 meters (26.15) and taking seventh in the 100-meter dash (12.61). Hart and Wilkes teamed with Angela Hagstrom '25 and junior Reese Gallant to place fourth in the 4x100-meter relay in 49.98. 

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN
• The Beavers are coming off a solid performance at the MIT Sean Collier Invitational last week in Cambridge as the team registered nine top-6 finishes. Graduate student Skyler Mott led the way with his third straight first-place finish in the high jump, clearing 6-feet, 9-inches, less than an inch off his program record that he set last month.
• The Beavers had a pair of second-place performances as Ronayne was runner-up in the 1500 meters in 4:02.54 and first-year Cameron Mehallo crossed the finish line second in the 400-meter hurdles in 54.83 seconds. First-year Brady Kirtland finished in fifth place in both the 110-meter hurdles in 15.35 seconds and the 400-meter hurdles in 57.01 seconds.
• Junior Coleman Hayes turned in a strong showing in the shot put with a season-best mark of 44-feet, 10.25-inches, which was good for fourth place and a provisional New England regional qualifying mark. Addotta took sixth in the hammer throw with a season-best mark of 139-feet, 8-inches.
• McDonough came in sixth place in the 100 meters in a season-best time of 10.93 seconds. Smith finished sixth in the 400 meters in a season-best 49.94 seconds.

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
• The Babson women broke the program record in the 4x100-meter relay for the third time this season to highlight nine top-5 finishes at the Sean Collier Invitational at MIT on Saturday. The quartet of Gallant, Hart, Wilkes and first-year Marcilee Kinerman took first place in the 4x100 relay in a record-breaking time of 48.24 seconds. 
• The Beavers had several second-place finishes. Senior Trista Sicard was second in the triple jump with a mark of 36-feet, 3-inches, which is an automatic New England regional qualifying mark. Rehal and first-year Elaina Head finished second and third, respectively, in the high jump with successful clears of 5-feet, 4.25-inches and 5-feet, 2.25-inches.
• The Babson 4x400-meter relay team of Kinerman, sophomore Serena Thaker, first-year Reagan Myer, and Head finished runner-up in a time of 4:12.03.
• Other top-10 finishes include Gallant (season-best 12.61) and Wilkes (12.80) finishing seventh and ninth in the 100 meters; Hart (15.49) and Pike (15.99) placing seventh and ninth in the 100-meter hurdles; Myer placing 10th in the 400 meters (season-best 1:01.29); and first-year Angelina Widmer coming in 10th in the 800 meters (season-best 2:27.72). Top-10 showings in field events included sophomore Kate Henderson finishing seventh in the javelin (106-feet, 5-inches) and first-year Emma Hsu placing seventh in the triple jump (34-feet, 1.25-inches).

NEWMAC HONOR
• Mott was recognized when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) named him Field Athlete if the Week for the third time this season on Monday.
• Mott's winning mark of 6-feet, 9-inches in the high jump at the Sean Collier Invitational on Saturday fell just 0.75 inches shy of his school-record set back on March 19.

AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
• Entering this weekend's conference meet, Mott ranks sixth in Division III in the high jump with his record-breaking leap of 6-feet, 9.75-inches, while Yacoub is 38th in the 10,000 meters (30:39.52).
• On the women's side, Rehal is ranked 13th in the high jump with her leap of 5-feet, 5.25-inches and Head is 46th in both the high jump (5-feet, 3.25-inches) and triple jump (37-feet, 3.25-inches).

CHASING TITLES
• A number of Babson athletes are ranked in the top five in the NEWMAC (10 men's events, seven women's events) entering this weekend's championships: 
 

MEN
5000m	Yacoub	4th	14:52.84
10,000m	Yacoub	1st	30:39.52
10,000m	Hanscomb	3rd	32:39.40
110 hurdles	Kirtland	5th	15.02
400 hurdles	Mehallo	3rd	54.61
400 hurdles	Adams	4th	54.98
4x100 relay	Kelm, McDonough,
	Davila,Adams	4th	43.08
4x400 relay	Mehallo, Kirtland,
	Adams,Smith	3rd	3:23.10
High jump	Mott	1st	6'9.75"
High Jump	Bezanson	4th	6'3.25"
Triple jump	Mott	4th	46'2.75"
Discus	Addotta	4th	134'11"
Javelin	Sanabria	4th	183'0"
WOMEN
100 hurdles	Jankowski	2nd	15.33
100 hurdles	Hart	5th	15.49
400 hurdles	Hart	4th	1:05.99
400 hurdles	Corman	5th	1:06.53
4x100 relay	Gallant,Hart,
	Wilkes,Kinerman	2nd	48.24
4x400 relay	Jankowski,Myer,
	Thaker,Head	3rd	4:04.96
High jump	Rehal	2nd	5'5.25"
High Jump	Head	5th	5'3.25"
Triple Jump	Head	2nd	37'3.25"
Heptathlon	Stoltz	5th	2296

PROGRAM RECORDS
• Mott has set a pair of program records this spring, the high jump (6'9.75") and the triple jump (46'2.75"), both at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on March 19. Mehallo broke the 400-meter hurdles record (54.87) and graduate student Diego Sanabria bettered the javelin record with a 183'0" mark at the Tufts Spring Stampede on April 10.
• The women's 4x100-meter relay team of Gallant, Hart, Wilkes and Kinerman has broken the program record three times this season, most recently with a time of 48.24 seconds at the MIT Sean Collier Invitational on April 17.

UP NEXT
• Babson has 19 athletes (nine men, 10 women) that have qualified for the Division III New England Championships, which will be held May 1-2 at Springfield College.