Rousseau Earns Share of NEC Track Athlete of the Week

EASTON, Mass. (April 24, 2025) – Senior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) of the Stonehill College track and field team won three events last week at the Merrimack Alumni Classic and earned her first Northeast Conference Track Athlete of the Week honor, the conference announced Wednesday.
 
Rousseau the 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles while being a member of the first-place 4×100-meter relay race team. She won the 100H in 14.87 seconds before setting a personal record in the 400H at 1:03.56, the second-best time in the NEC this spring. Her 100H time also ranks in the top five of all runners in the conference. The 4x100m relay team won the event with a combined time of 48.01 seconds, the best time of the outdoor season for the Skyhawks and the third-best time in the conference.
 
Rousseau shares the award this week as Co-Track Athlete of the Week with Wagner’s Ruth-Ann Chambers, who set PRs in the 100 and 200-meter dashes at the Rider Invitational for the Seahawks. This was Rousseau’s first career NEC weekly award and the first Track Athlete of the Week award for a Skyhawk since junior Jordan Malloy (Colchester, Conn.) earned the same honor twice during the indoor season.
 
Sophomore Kayla Oakes (Kingston, N.Y.) was named an NEC Prime Performer for her performance at Merrimack last week, setting her best long jump mark of the outdoor season, winning the event with a leap of 5.62m (18′ 5.25″). Her jump puts her in a tie for third-best in the conference.
 
Freshman Hannah Santos (Swansea, Mass.) had an excellent showing in North Andover on Thursday, winning the high jump with a leap of 1.63m (5′ 4.25) to earn herself an NEC Prime Performer nod. This is her second time earning a Prime Performer award this year, as she now ranks second in the NEC in the high jump this spring.
 
On the men’s side, senior Shea Drugan (Westfield, Mass.) earned his first NEC Prime Performer nod of the outdoor season, placing second in the 100m dash at 10.67 seconds, a new PR and the fifth-best time in the conference. Drugan would then go on to win the 200m dash at 21.35 seconds, setting another PR and the third-best time in the NEC.
 
Stonehill Track and Field is back in action tomorrow afternoon in Amherst, Mass., for the first day of the Ken O’Brien Pre-Conference Meet at the UMass Track and Field Complex with track events and the javelin throw beginning at 1 p.m. Day two will be on Sunday, April 27 with the remainder of the field events kicking off at 10:30 a.m.

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