Mount St. Mary’s Track & Field Finishes Second and Third at MAAC Outdoor Championships

EMMITSBURG, Md. (May 11, 2025) – With the Mount St. Mary’s men scoring 143 points and the women scoring 121.5 points, the track & field teams finish a respective second and third place at the 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships.

Three players took major honors bestowed by the conference. Emelie Beckman earned Women’s Most Outstanding Field Honors, and Camryn Jones-Howard took Women’s Field Rookie honors. Abdulazeez Iyiola took top Men’s Track Rookie honors. 

 

Winning performances on Sunday began with the 4×100 relay of Torian Neblett, Daniel Reader, Lucas Koon-Perez, and Kalani Pu’uloa. The quartet finished with a time of 41.19 seconds. Individual victories start with Madelyn Valpy, who came within .01 meters of her school record to take the triple jump with 12.24 meters. Keighan DeCoff won the discus at 42.56 meters while Maeve Parrish finished first in the 800m with a time of 2:15.10. Iyiola won the 400 hurdles with a 54.12 second effort.

 

Podium finishers also included Iyiola for the 110 hurdles where he finished second with 14.49 seconds.  Elizabeth Freymann was a second place finisher, coming one second after Parrish in the 800m (2:16.20), and Dante Elliott earned 2.01 meters in the high jump to also earn a second place showing. Caleb Nelson earned a runner-up mark of 14.97 meters for the triple jump.

 

Reader took third in the 200m (21.55 seconds), as did Jones-Howard for the triple jump (12.04 meters).

 

Both 4×400 relay teams finished in second place for the meet. The women’s team of Avery Ferron, Jasmine Kidd, Reanne Jones, and Zaria Wilson finished in 3:48.41. The men’s team of Iyiola, Gunnar Williams, Koon-Perez and Reader finished in 3:15.08.  

 

Qualified Mountaineers move on to compete at the IC4A/ECAC Championships, hosted by George Mason next weekend.