BOSTON, Mass. — The Northeastern track and field team returned to the Track at New Balance in style, grabbing 18 wins at the Joe Donahue Games Sunday. Sophomore
Brunner Williams and junior
Ava Carry-McDonald lead all athletes with two wins.
Track Events:
- Williams ran a 6.86 in the 60m Preliminary Dash, a new personal best, before rounding out the event with a win in the 60m Dash Final. He ran a 6.89 in a neck-and-neck finish with second place, beating him out by .09 seconds. He also ran the eighth fastest time to put him on the All-Time Performance List.
- In the women's 60m Dash, sophomore Victoria Knight caught all eyes as she set a new personal best, running a time of 7.59. She followed that up, breaking her new personal best in the final, where she crossed the line at 7.57 to take first place and rank seventh on the All-Time Performance List. Classmate Ailani Sutherland took second with a 7.91 mark.
- Senior Paul Wisnaskas won the 60m Hurdles event after edging out second place by .16 seconds, running an 8.74. Freshman Elena Olson followed with her own win in the 60m Hurdles, beginning her college career with a 9.03 mark.
- Graduate student Conall Rogers led the Huskies to first place in the Men's Mile, setting a mark of 4:21.77 in his first race dawning the black jersey. Graduate student Daniel Caso followed with a 4:23.65 to take second, and freshman Ajay Raina closed out the Huskies runners with a 4:26.92 for third.
- Senior Lucy Abdow found another gear in the Women's Mile, passing first place on the final lap to win the event. She set a time of 5:06.98, while her teammate Lauren Trejo ran a 5:11.07 to take third.
- Freshmen Sloan Hinton and Morgan Hayward cruised to a one-two finish in the Women's 500 Dash, crossing the line at 1:16.53 and 1:16.77.
- Williams continued to light the Track at New Balance on fire, setting a new personal best of 33.67 in the 300m Dash. Freshman Taeshawn Berry also impressed, finishing third with 35.46 in his first collegiate race.
- Junior Ariann Robinson recorded the second-best time in the Women's 300 Dash, running a 40.28. Freshman teammate Zaida De Pina ran a 41.58 to take third in her first meet as a Husky.
- Carry McDonald and junior Abigail Thomas took second and third in the Women's 200m Dash with marks of 26.18 and 26.44.
- Northeastern's Joe Donahue Games running events concluded with the Women's 4x400 Relay. The A team of Robinson, Hayward, De Pina, and Hinton finished with a time of 3:55.42 to win the event.
Field Events:
- The Huskies swept the top four places in the Men's Shot Put, with sophomore Ohan Ambartsoumian grabbing the top spot in the event with a throw of 15.01m. Sophomore Mark Etienvre came in second with a 13.74m toss, and freshman Zackery DelSasso reached 9.79m in his first collegiate event.
- In the Women's Shot Put, Leila Curtis led all throws with a toss of 14.16m, more than one meter further than the closest opponent. Her throw puts her eighth the All-Time Performance List as well. Graduate student Madeleine DuChaussee and sophomore Catherine Sargent rounded out the podium places with throws of 12.97m and 11.51m.
- Sophomore Hannah Shaw led all Huskies in the Women's Pole Vault, vaulting over the bar at 3.50m, with classmate Cassandra Cinzoni finishing close behind with a height of 3.20m.
- In the men's pole vault, sophomore Alexander Yuen reached a height of 4.65m to win.
- Nicholas Pisciotta guided the Huskies to second place after reaching a length of 18.51m in the Weight Throw. Senior Tremaine Robinson took third and set a new personal best with an 18.23m throw.
- Junior Mia Belanger was the lone Husky to compete in the Women's High Jump, taking the win after leaping to a height of 1.60m. Sophomore Ian Solberg won the Men's High Jump after jumping to 1.90m.
- In the Women's Weight Throw, graduate student Hope Belvit was victorious after her toss reached 17.16m.
- Carry-McDonald found her stride in the Women's Long Jump, winning the event with a leap of 5.55m for a new personal best. She also won the Women's Triple Jump after leaping 11.69m.\
The Huskies will now wait four weeks for their next competition, the UMass Flagship Indoor Invitational. That event will take place on Sunday, Jan. 12 at the Track at New Balance.
