A Look Back: Track & Field Season in Review

7/15/2021

BOSTON — Northeastern's track and field teams both had impressive seasons with multiple individuals setting school records and qualifying for the NCAA Championships and Preliminaries. The Huskies had a strong showing at the CAA Championships, with the men's team winning their sixth consecutive and the women's team finishing fourth.

MEN'S TEAM HIGHLIGHTS

Won their sixth CAA Track and Field Championship, finishing with 291 points
Head Coach Tramaine Shaw won her third CAA Men's Track and Field Coach of the Year award
David Adams was named 2021 CAA Most Outstanding Track Athlete of the Meet after winning four gold medals and sweeping the 110- and 400-meter hurdles
Adams broke the school record with a 50.85 time in the 400 hurdles at the NCAA East Preliminary
Adams went on to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor National Championships and finished 14th in the 400-meter hurdles
Cam Dickson ran a CAA Championship Meet Record and PR (29:55.50) to win his first CAA Title and also finished second in the 5000-meter (14:15.91)
Dickson finished second at the IC4A Championships in the 10,000-metter with a PR, second All-Time and NCAA preliminary round qualifying mark of 30:24.94
Alexander Korczynski won the 3000-meter steeplechase and set a CAA Championship meet record with a time of 8:49.71 to win it
Korczynski qualified for the NCAA Outdoor National Championships with personal-best 3000-meter steeplechase time of 8:44.46, second all-time at Northeastern
Dickson earned All-American honors in addition to the CAA Leadership and Sports Excellence Award
Adams and Korczynski both earned USTFCCCA All-America Honors
Adams, Naukym Morton, Dametrius O'Connor and Brandon Moorer won the 4x100 relay and Adams, Moorer, Mayowa Osunsami and Pierre Sylvain won the 4x400 relay at the CAA Championships
Donatien Djero, O'Connor and Morton earned first, second and third place finishes, respectively, in the 100-meter dash at the CAA Championships
Bryan Keller finished first in the 1500 meters at the CAA Championships with a personal-best time of 3:49.13

WOMEN'S TEAM HIGHLIGHTS

Finished fourth at the CAA Championships with 97 points
Dominique Biron was named the 2021 CAA Most Outstanding Field Athlete at the CAA Championships after winning the heptathlon with 5,136 points
Erica Belvit earned All-CAA honors and finished 15th in the women's hammer throw at the NCAA East Preliminaries, throwing 204 feet, 10 inches
Belvit won gold at the Jamaican National Championships with a hammer throw of 217 feet, 8 inches
Belvit broke the school record in the hammer throw at the UConn Invitational with a throw of 219 feet, 7 inches
Biron broke the school record in the heptathlon at the IC4A/ECAC Championships, finishing first with a school record of 5,336 points and qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries
Tessa McClain earned All-CAA Honors for the 1500 meters, finishing third at the CAA Championships and set the school record for the mile with time of 4:52.07
Michelle Nkoudou won gold in the 100-meter hurdles at the CAA Championships and was named to the All-CAA team
Leeyan Redwood earned All-CAA honors in the shot put, finishing third at the CAA Championships with a distance of 44 feet, 11.75 inches
Madison Neuner earned bronze in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the IC4A/ECAC Championships and Abigail Hassman earned bronze in the 5000 meters

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