Track & Field at the New England Division III Championships

Friday, May 2 | 11:45 a.m. 

Saturday, May 3 | 10 a.m. 

Nitchman Track | New London, Conn. 

•    The Babson men’s and women’s track & field teams travel to Coast Guard for New England Division III Championships on Friday and Saturday. 
•    The Beavers have a total of 20 qualifiers (12 men, 8 women) eligible to compete in a number of events this weekend. 

2025 DIVISION III NEW ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS

2024 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIPS HIGHLIGHTS
•    Eric Bottern ’24 repeated as the shot put champion and sophomore Chris McDonough finished as the runner-up in the 100-meter dash to help the Babson men score a school-record 29 points on the way to tying for 11th place in the 2024 New England Division III Championships. 
•    Bottern recorded a throw of 56-feet, 1.25-inches in the shot put, McDonough posted a time of 10.84 seconds in the 100 meters and also teamed up with Demarre Johnson ’24, Michael Agard ’24 and Kainoa Ronquilio in collecting All-New England honors with their third-place showing in the 4×100-meter relay (41.65). 
•    Junior Trista Sicard recorded the top finish for the Babson women by coming in 10th with a mark of 35-feet, 4.75-inches in the triple jump, while classmate Brooke Jankowski qualified for the finals of the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 15.53. 

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN

•    The Beavers totaled 79 points on the way to finishing fifth at the NEWMAC Championships last Saturday. 

•    The weekend was highlighted by the trio of graduate student Anthony Rodriguez, first-year Nick Yacoub and senior Julian Ivarra sweeping the top three spots in the 10,000-meter run last Friday night. 

•    McDonough earned his second consecutive all-conference honor with a runner-up finish in the 100 meters (10.71), while first-year Matthew Vilela placed fourth overall in the decathlon. 

•    Rodriguez and Yacoub came in fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 5,000 meters, first-year Jackson Adams placed fifth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 57.41, and fellow rookies Dominic Smith and Noa Wong were separated by just 0.26 seconds in the 400 meters to claim sixth and seventh place. 

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN

•    The Beavers totaled their third highest point total in program history (46) on the way to placing eighth at the NEWMAC Championships last weekend. 

•    First-year Amrit Rehal earned all-conference honors with her runner-up finish in the high jump (5-feet, 3.25-inches), while the trio of first-year Victoria Hart (15.08), Jankowski (15.59) and junior Julia Pike (15.93) finished third, fourth and sixth, respectively, in the 100-meter hurdles. 

•    Jankowski added a fifth-place showing with a career-best mark of 5-feet, 1.25-inches in the high jump, sophomore Colleen Corman took third with a time of 1:07.10 in the 400 hurdles, and junior Robyn Wilkes came in sixth in the 200 meters (26.15) and seventh in the 100 meters (12.61). 

•    First-year Annabelle Svenson added a sixth-place finish in the 5,000 meters with a time of 20:38.74, while classmate Kate Henderson finished seventh with a season-best mark of 109-feet, 5-inches in the javelin. 

FINISHING ON TOP

•    Rodriguez captured his third consecutive title in the 10,000 meters and became the only five-time NEWMAC champion last weekend’s conference meet. 

•    A two-time NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Year, Rodriguez won the 10,000-meter run four times (2021, 2023-25) and also claimed the 5,000-meter title back in 2023. 

AMONG THE NATION’S BEST

•    The Babson men enter the weekend with four athletes ranked among the top 50 in Division III in their respective events. 

•    First-year Aithan Bezanson is 14th in the decathlon with 6355 points, Rodriguez is 15th with a time of 29:43.74 in the 10,000 meters and 43rd in the 5000 meters (14:27.16), and McDonough is 40th with his time of 10.56 in the 100 meters. 

NEW ENGLAND RANKINGS

•    Rodriguez ranks second in New England in the 10,000 meters and fourth in the 5000 meters, while Bezanson (decathlon) and McDonough (100 meters) are also second in their respective events entering the weekend. 

•    Bezanson also ranks ninth in the 400-meter hurdles, while Ivarra time of 31:01.28 is eighth in the 10,000 meters. 

•    On the women’s side, Rehal ranks sixth with a top mark of 5-feet, 5-inches in the high jump, Hart and Jankowski are 13th and 15th, respectively, in the 100-meter hurdles, and Corman is 16th in the 400 hurdles. 

UP NEXT

•    The Beavers are scheduled to compete at both the Farley Inter Regional at Williams and the NEICAAA Championships at UMass Amherst on May 9-10.  

GULF SHORES, Ala. – The #4 LMU Beach Volleyball team opened the 2025 NCAA Championships in dominant fashion, sweeping #13 Florida Atlantic, 3-0, before the final horn sounded.
 
The Lions took the first set on four of the five courts to open the morning. Tanon Rosenthal and Giuliana Poletti Corrales earned LMU’s first dual point, winning on the Five Court, 21-12, 21-14.
 
The second and third dual points were earned within moments of each other as Isabelle Reffel and Magdalena Rabitsch won 21-18, 21-13 just before Abbey Thorup and Lisa Luini earned dual point with a Thorup kill on Court Three, 21-19, 14-10.
 
Courts One and Two were left unfinished just as Michelle Shaffer and Anna Pelloia took the second set on one and Chloe Hooker and Vilhelmiina Prihti led, 21-19, 14-10 on two.
 
The Lions will face 5-seed USC on Saturday morning at 9:00 AM CT / 7:00 AM PT. on ESPN2. The Trojans advanced with a 3-1 win over North Florida in their opening round matchup.
 
Official Beach Volleyball Results (Final)
#4 Loyola Marymount (36-6) vs #13 Florida Atlantic (21-15)
05/02/2025 at Gulf Shores, Ala. — The Hangout
Match Score: Loyola Marymount 3, Florida Atlantic 0
 

1. Michelle Shaffer and Anna Pelloia (LMU) vs. Ashleigh Adams and Marketa Svozilova (FAU): match was unfinished; 15-21, 21-18, 0-0
2. Chloe Hooker and Vilhelmiina Prihti (LMU) vs. Kate McLaughlin and Julie Honzovicova (FAU): match was unfinished; 21-19, 14-10
3. Abbey Thorup and Lisa Luini (LMU) def. Klaire VanDeusen and Shayna Wolf (FAU): 21-14, 22-20
4. Isabelle Reffel and Magdalena Rabitsch (LMU) def. Olivia Strandberg and Sydney Schroder (FAU): 21-18, 21-13
5. Tanon Rosenthal and Giuliana Poletti Corrales (LMU) def. Shantel Starling and Kendall Mignerey (FAU): 21-12, 21-14

 
MATCH NOTES
Order of finish: 5, 4, 3
Start Time: 8:10 AM
Duration: 43
 
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2025 GERMAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

We entered day two of the 2025 German Swimming Championships and the first national age group record of the competition bit the dust in this morning’s prelims.

Kaii Winkler produced a huge new lifetime best of 48.41 while racing in the heats of the men’s 100m freestyle.

The 19-year-old captured the 2nd seed behind top performer Josha Salchow who pulled out an AM effort of 48.09 to land lane 4 for this evening’s final.

As for NC State’s Winkler, the teen opened in 23.40 and closed in 25.01 to register the new age record, becoming Germany’s 7th-swiftest performer in history.

Entering this competition, Winkler had never before been 48-low, with his previous PB resting at the 48.81 put up at the 2023 Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale. That represented the only time he’d been under the 49-second barrier in the event.

While the World Aquatics ‘A’ selection standard for this summer’s World Championships sits at 48.34, the German Swimming Federation set its own qualification time at a quicker 48.20. Salchow’s time dipped under that while Winkler will need to shave off another .21 to meet the mark in tonight’s main event.

Top 8 Heats Finishers in Men’s LCM 100 Free at German Championships

1. Josha Salchow – 48.09 *Worlds qualifying
2. Kaii Winkler – 48.41 *German Age Record
3. Luka Armbruster – 49.09
4. Lukas Märtens  – 49.16
5. Martin Wrede – 49.23
6. Tobias van Aggelen – 49.65
7. Timo Sorgius – 49.68
8. Moritz Schaller – 49.69

As a refresher, after competing at the U.S. Olympic Trials last year, Winkler changed his sporting citizenship to represent Germany at the actual Games in Paris.

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