Senior Ben Haas at NCAA Division II Championships 2026 for indoor track and field.
Courtesy | Ashley Van Hoose
Women’s sprints broke the school record in the 4×100 meter relay with a time of 46.61 to kick off the outdoor track and field season at the Chuck Haering Classic hosted by Colorado State University Pueblo March 27-28.
Seniors Francesca Federici, Lucy Minning, Anna Lamoreaux, and freshman Anna Roessner had never raced the 4x100m together, and took first despite some shaky handoffs.
“The goal is to go to nationals, but in order to go you have to be top 16 in the nation,” Lamoreaux said. “We would have to drop our time significantly in order to go, but we all think that’s very doable because some of our handoffs this past weekend were not very clean at all. We were very encouraged by the time that we saw, because even with bad handoffs we ran that time.”
The previous record was 46.61 set last year by current sophomore Sarah Chappelle, and seniors Lucy Minning, Anna Lamoreaux, and Tara Townsend.
Roessner won the 100- and 200-meter in 11.60 and 23.83, respectively, running both in the second-fastest outdoor time in college history. Minning took third in the 100m in 11.79, and second in the 200m in 24.18. Lamoreaux ran a personal best in the 100m with a time of 12.35, and Federici placed third in the 400-meter in 57.83.
On the field, senior Ben Haas won men’s hammer throw with a mark of 65.41 meters and took second in shot put with a mark of 17.18 meters. Freshman Dominic Scharer was runner-up in hammer throw with a mark of 60.03 meters. Senior Matthew Belanich and junior Jackson Childress placed fourth and fifth in hammer with marks of 55.36 and 53.01 meters, respectively.
Junior Tommy Flud holds the school record in javelin and won the event with a mark of 59.90 meters. Flud received plasma treatment for a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in January, and recently finished recovery.
“I actually was just getting to the point where I was cleared to throw, so to open up three meters under my PR — I was pretty happy with that,” Flud said. “The weather affects javelin pretty harshly, so being that close to my PR in 40 degrees and windy was a good sign. I definitely want to throw a lot further than I did, but for the first meet that was a really good indicator.”
Flud said he’s hoping to breach the “70-meter barrier,” approximately 230 feet.
“For me the biggest thing is just being efficient in my technique and smooth on the runway,” Flud said.
Junior Amelia Lutz took second in women’s shot put with a throw of 14.50 meters. She also took second in discus and hammer, with marks of 45.45 meters and 51.01 meters, respectively, setting personal bests in both.
Junior Regan Wight placed fourth in hammer with a throw of 48.33 meters, followed by junior Olivia Newsome, who took fifth with a throw of 48.20 meters. In javelin, freshman Devan Foster threw 40.48 meters.
At the Charles Austin Classic hosted by Texas State University March 27-28, senior Tara Townsend took second in women’s pole vault with a clearance of 4.00 meters. She also ran a personal best in the 100m with a time of 12.55.
At the Cedarville Yellow Jacket Collegiate Invite March 28, senior Nathaniel Osborne placed second in the 10K in 33:11.06, junior Caleb Youngstedt took third in 33:11.11, and sophomore Will Winsor came in fourth with a personal best of 33:16.11.
“We were trying to be conservative, so not going very fast,” Youngstedt said. “I’m racing in two weeks again, so really it was just to get a feel of, ‘Okay, this is what a 10K is.’”
In the Cedarville steeplechase, freshman Jefferson Regitz came in fourth with a time of 9:48.84 and sophomore Zach Self took fifth with a time of 9:49.02.
Freshman Taylor Brodeur placed third in the women’s steeplechase with a time of 11:34.10, followed by senior Anna Roberts who took fourth in 11:34.16.
The Chargers will send several athletes to compete April 3-4 at the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, California, hosted by Stanford University. The rest of the team will compete April 3 at the Spartan Invitational March in East Lansing, Michigan, hosted by Michigan State University.
