Track and Field’s Santos Earns Second NEC Rookie of the Week Honor

EASTON, Mass. (April 30, 2025) – Freshman Hannah Santos (Swansea, Mass.) of the Stonehill College track and field team was named Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week for the second time this year, the conference announced on Wednesday.
 
Santos and the Skyhawks competed at the University of Massachusetts this past weekend as the Minutemen hosted the Ken O’Brien Pre-Conference Meet at the UMass Track and Field Complex.
 
Santos won the high jump on Sunday, reaching a distance of 1.63m (5′ 4.25″), the second-best mark in the NEC and the second-best mark among freshmen in the conference. Just a week ago, Santos was named an NEC Prime Performer after winning the high jump with the same mark of 1.63m at Merrimack. The Swansea, Mass. native ranks fourth all-time in Stonehill program history in the outdoor high jump with her personal record of 1.63m.
 
Santos has now tallied four Prime Performer honors, two in the outdoor season and two during the indoor season, while earning her second Rookie of the Week award after earning one during the winter.
 
Also earning NEC weekly honors were graduate student Kaytlin Encarnacao (Reading, Mass.) and junior Jordan Malloy (Colchester, Conn.), who were both tabbed as Prime Performers for their performances at UMass last weekend.
 
Encarnacao finished runner-up in the 400-meter dash, recording the second-fastest time of her career in the event, finishing in 55.35 seconds. This marks the top time in the NEC this spring. This also marks a Stonehill women’s outdoor track and field record. Encarnacao also placed sixth in the 200-meter dash, finishing in 25.18 seconds, the ninth-best time in the conference.
 
Malloy earned her first Prime Performer nod of the outdoor season after a fifth-place finish in the 1500-meter run as she set a new personal record at 4:30.73, the third-fastest time in the NEC this spring.
 
On the men’s side, graduate student Jacob Pacheco (Merrimack, N.H.) earned his first Prime Performer nod of the season. He had the second-best javelin throw in Stonehill’s program history, reaching a new PR of 59.78m (196′ 2″) while improving on his second-place ranking in the NEC in the event. He won the javelin throw at UMass and Merrimack in back-to-back meets.
 
Stonehill Track and Field hosts this weekend’s two-day Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships at W.B. Mason Stadium beginning on Saturday, May 3.
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