CAMBRIDGE, MA (May 15, 2025) – The Tufts University men’s track and field team made the most of their prelude to the NCAA Division III Championships with a great performance at the M.I.T. Final Qualifier in Cambridge on Thursday.

Josh Wilkie picked up the only Tufts win of the day in the 110m hurdles. His finish in 14.41 seconds was the best time of the entire field, including Division I, II and III athletes. It was just three thousandths off of his personal best.

Randy Hamilton took the next-best finish for the Jumbos, landing second place in the javelin throw. His personal best toss of 59.71m was enough for the runner-up position in the event, but was not enough to break the long-standing program record of 60.43m set in 1996. However, Hamilton dethroned himself for the second-best mark in Tufts program history. 

Luke Benson also landed a second place finish, taking the position in the triple jump. His mark of 14.53m was just shy of his personal best, but was still a great lead up to the NCAA Championships.

Sebastian Cohen led a pair of Jumbos with a third place finish in the 400m hurdles, just ahead of Cameron McLeod in fourth. Cohen just beat out his teammate with a personal best time of 54.50. McLeod was just behind his first year teammate with a time of 54.89, just about a second off of his personal best.

Meba Henok was the final Jumbo to break his personal best. He set a new record for himself in the 800m run, taking 14th place with a 1:52.27.

The Jumbos now have to shift their attention to the NCAA Division III Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships next weekend in Geneva, Ohio.

–JUMBOS–

RESULTS

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Ithaca College men’s and women’s track & field teams competed in their final meet of the season as the Bombers traveled to Williams College for the AARTFC Outdoor Championships on May 14-15.

The men totaled nine points to finish in 29th, while the women placed third with 52 points.

Laura Suppa highlighted the championship for the Bombers as she won the 100-meter hurdles with a finals time of 13.86 seconds. That time moved her up to No. 4 on the Division III list and set a new school record.

The 4×100-meter relay team of Suppa, Marykate Rudnicki, Rachel Larson and Aynisha McQuillar finished in third with a time of 47.51 seconds, which set a new school record.

IC earned three podium spots in the pole vault as Talia Hutchinson placed third at 3.74 meters, while Erin Eastwood was sixth with a mark of 3.59 meters and Bree Boyle followed in seventh at 3.44 meters.

Lily Seyfert was a third place finisher in the shot put with a heave of 12.67 meters.

McQuillar claimed fifth in the 100-meter dash in 11.99 seconds and was eighth in the 200-meter dash in 25.09 seconds.

The Bombers’ 4×400-meter relay squad of Rudnicki, Natalie MacArthur, Lyla Powers and Julia Ryba were seventh overall in 4:00.12.

Celia Ryan was fourth in the high jump at 1.62 meters and Madeleine Wright took sixth with the same clearance.

Alexis Brown measured out 11.36 meters in the triple jump to finish sixth overall, while Cameron Ting secured eighth in the heptathlon with 4047 points.

Noah McKibben and Rhys Tickner combined to earn six points in the decathlon as McKibben finished fifth with 5707 points and Tickner was seventh with 5575 points.

Luke Ellor took seventh in the shot put with a mark of 15.62 meters, while Drew Taylor placed eighth in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 31:53.23.

A native of Chicago, Ill., Yates spent the 2024 season as an assistant at Angelo State University, where the program made an appearance in the 2024 Division II Final Four. 

“I am excited to have Chris join our staff as an assistant coach,” Head Coach Brittany Harry said. “He has spent time at some top-notch programs with winning traditions and I am excited for him to add his experiences into our program here in Carbondale.”

Before his first collegiate coaching job, Yates was heavily involved at his alma mater, the University of Dayton. As a student, he was a practice player for the school’s women’s volleyball team where he gained valuable experience with a program that won back-to-back Atlantic-10 championships and in turn made the NCAA tournament in both the 2018 and 2019 seasons. In addition to working with the women’s team, Yates held high-level positions in the Dayton Men’s Volleyball Club, holding the positions of treasurer, vice president and president. The club would rank as high as No. 16 in 2018 and No. 22 in 2019 by the National Collegiate Volleyball Federation.

He returned to Dayton in 2023 to serve as a virtual coach mentee, where he would assist in recruiting database management, provide feedback on film evaluations and scout multiple opponents every week.

“He is really good on the tech side of things and being able to add that layer for our players was really important in this hire,” Harry said.

At the high school level, Yates helped St. Ignatius High School (Ill.) to a third-place finish in the state as an assistant. 

From 2020-24, Yates was the head coach for the 1st Alliance Volleyball Club, where his team won the 2023 WCNQ 17 American & Presidents Day Classic 17 Premier Championship.

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Alvaro Filho

DeLand, Fla. – Stetson Assistant Beach Volleyball Coach Alvaro Filho has been selected to join the coaching staff for the USA Volleyball Men’s U21 Spring Development Training Camp.

Filho will be part of a star-studded staff that includes Olympic gold medalist April Ross as Head Coach and Florida State’s Travis Mewhirter as Assistant Coach.

The Men’s U21 group will be training from May 15–18 in Manhattan Beach, California.

The Training Series gives junior beach volleyball athletes the opportunity to train and compete alongside some of the nation’s top talent while receiving instruction from elite-level coaches. A total of 120 athletes will participate in the 2025 Beach NTDP Spring Training Series.