Track & Field Competes at the New England Division III Championships Friday and Saturday

Track & Field at the New England Division III Championships

Friday, May 1 | 11:45 a.m.

Saturday, May 2 | 10 a.m.

Blake Track | Springfield, Mass.

WHAT TO KNOW

• The Babson men's and women's track & field teams travel to Springfield College for the New England Division III Championships on Friday and Saturday.

• The Beavers had a total of 13 automatic qualifiers (6 men, 7 women) for the meet, and 29 provisional qualifiers (17 men, 12 women) in a number of events.

2025 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIPS HIGHLIGHTS

• Three Babson women earned All-Region honors to highlight the Babson men and women's performances at the New England Division III Championships on May 2-3, 2025, at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.

• The Beavers claimed a pair of top-six finishes in the women's high jump as sophomore

Amrit Rehal placed fourth by clearing 5-feet, 3.25-inches, while senior

Brooke Jankowski took sixth with a mark of 5-feet, 1.25-inches. The other all-region honor came in the 400-meter hurdles as junior

Colleen Corman finished fifth in a time of 1:07.21.

• The top individual finish for the Beaver men came in the men's 10,000-meter run where Matthew Campbell M'25 came in seventh with a career-best time of 32:44.85. Sophomore

Victoria Hart missed qualifying for the finals in the women's 100-meter hurdles by a tenth of a second with her time of 15.21, which was good for ninth place.

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN

• The Beavers finished in fourth place at last weekend's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championships with 87 points, the second-most in program history.

• Graduate student

Skyler Mott and first-year

**Cameron Mehallo **captured individual championships to lead the way. Mott won the high jump by clearing 6-feet, 7-inches and finished in fourth place in the triple jump with a mark of 45-feet, 10.5-inches. Mehallo won the title in the 400-meter hurdles with a program record time of 53.85 seconds and sophomore

**Jackson Adams **was fourth in 54.52.

• Sophomore

Brady Kirtland placed fourth in the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 14.98 seconds after setting a program record of 14.86 in the preliminaries, and junior

Chris McDonough finished in fifth place in the 100-meter dash in 10.91 seconds.

• Sophomore

Nick Yacoub earned a podium finish in the men's 10,000 meters with a third place in a time of 31:16.26 and finished fifth in the 5000 meters in 15:04.80.

• Graduate student

**Diego Sanabria **finished in fourth place in the javelin throw with a mark of 171-feet, 8-inches. McDonough was fourth in the long jump with a leap of 21-feet, 10.75-inches, and sophomore

**Aithan Bezanson **was right behind in fifth with a season-best mark of 21-feet, 4.75-inches.

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN

• The Beavers scored a program-best 72.5 points and came in fifth for the third time since 2021, just 3.5 points behind fourth-place WPI at the NEWMAC Championships last weekend.

• First-year

Elaina Head produced podium finishes in three individual events to lead the Beavers. She took first place and broke the program record in the long jump with a leap of 17-feet, 9.75-inches, then earned All-NEWMAC honors with a runner-up finish in the triple jump; she broke her own program record by more than four inches with a mark of 37-feet, 7.75-inches after placing third in the high jump by clearing 5-feet, 3.25-inches earlier in the day.

• Babson earned another all-conference award in the 4x100-meter relay where junior

Reese Gallant, Hart, senior

Robyn Wilkes and first-year

Marcilee Kinerman posted a time of 48.67 to finish second. The mark helped the Beavers garner All-NEWMAC honors in a relay for the first time since 2023 and second time in school history. The Beavers' 4x400 relay team of Kinerman, sophomore

Serena Thaker, first-year

Reagan Myer and Head finished fifth in 4:09.86.

• The Green and White enjoyed a strong day in the hurdles as Hart came in fourth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:06.31 and Corman placed sixth just 0.42 seconds behind her. Jankowski finished fourth with a time of 15.19 in the 100-meter hurdles, which was 0.23 seconds ahead of Hart, who placed fifth.

• Rehal placed fifth in the high jump with a mark of 5-feet, 3.25-inches, senior

** **Trista Sicard finished sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 36-feet, 5.75-inches, and Kinerman came in sixth with a time of 25.92 in the 200 meters.

AMONG THE NATION'S BEST

• Entering this weekend's regionals, Mott ranks eighth in Division III in the high jump with his record-breaking leap of 6-feet, 9.75-inches, while Mehallo is 38th in the 400-meter hurdles with his time of 43.85, and Yacoub is 42nd in the 10,000 meters (30:39.52).

• On the women's side, Rehal is ranked 15th in the high jump with her leap of 5-feet, 5.25-inches and Head is 42nd in the triple jump (37-feet, 7.75-inches).

NEW ENGLAND RANKINGS

• Kirtland ranks seventh in New England in the 110-meter high hurdles (14.86) and Yacoub is seventh in the 10,000 meters (30:39.52). Mehallo is ninth in the 400-meter hurdles (53.85). Mott is first in the high jump (6'9.75") and 10th in the triple jump (46'2.75").

• On the women's side, Rehal ranks fifth in the high jump (5'5.25") and Hart is 10th in the 100-meter hurdles (14.82).

UP NEXT

• The Beavers are scheduled to compete at the Farley Inter Regional at Williams on May 8-9.