Track and Field

69 NESCAC Athletes Selected for NCAA Track & Field Championship Field

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced the participants in the 2026 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The field includes 69 athletes from the NESCAC (28 men and 41 women).

For each contested event, including the decathlon and heptathlon, the top 22 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested, the top 16 declared relay teams, one per institution, were accepted into the competition.

The championships will be held May 21-23 at Veteran’s Memorial Field Sports Complex in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

The complete list of qualifiers is available on the following website: https://results.leonetiming.com/?mid=8721.

NESCAC Women Athletes – 2026 NCAA Division III  Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Event Name School Seed Time
Women 100 Meter Dash   Simisola Lawal Tufts 11.66
Women 100 Meter Dash   Simone Waheed Colby 11.67
Women 100 Meter Dash   Blessing Kieh Connecticut College 11.84
Women 200 Meter Dash   Blessing Kieh Connecticut College 24.18
Women 200 Meter Dash   Simone Waheed Colby 24.22
Women 200 Meter Dash   Simisola Lawal Tufts 24.27
Women 400 Meter Dash   Bella King-Harvey Williams 54.79
Women 800 Meter Run   Annika Paluska Williams 2:07.76
Women 800 Meter Run   Alexa Estes Connecticut College 2:09.36
Women 1500 Meter Run   Kate Tuttle Williams 4:24.47
Women 1500 Meter Run   Grace McDonough Connecticut College 4:26.70
Women 5000 Meter Run Kate Tuttle Williams 16:20.04
Women 5000 Meter Run Grace McDonough Connecticut College 16:33.13
Women 5000 Meter Run Claire Palmer Middlebury 16:36.62
Women 5000 Meter Run Jordan Liss-Riordan Williams 16:38.11
Women 5000 Meter Run Morgan Eigel Williams 16:41.61
Women 10000 Meter Run Tamar Byl Williams 34:49.60
Women 10000 Meter Run Kate Swann Williams 35:07.04
Women 400 Meter Hurdles   Myeh Medina Amherst College 1:00.08
Women 400 Meter Hurdles   Arielle Chechile Tufts 59.05
Women 3000 Meter Steeplechase   Charlene Peng Williams 10:32.21
Women 3000 Meter Steeplechase   Kiera Tallas Connecticut College 10:35.48
Women 3000 Meter Steeplechase   Grace Kaelber Middlebury 10:44.34
Women 4x100 Meter Relay   Tufts (Team) Tufts 46.37
Women 4x100 Meter Relay   Colby (Team) Colby 46.70
Women 4x400 Meter Relay   Williams (Team) Williams 3:44.63
Women 4x400 Meter Relay   Colby (Team) Colby 3:45.37
Women High Jump Lily Haskins-Vaughan Middlebury 1.71m
Women Pole Vault Ellie Fitzgerald Williams 3.93m
Women Pole Vault Emma Gall Tufts 3.89m
Women Long Jump Kennedy Kirkland Bowdoin 5.91m
Women Long Jump Heloise Hughes Amherst College 5.81m
Women Long Jump Eliza Ayres Williams 5.80m
Women Long Jump Elysse Cumberland Tufts 5.94m
Women Triple Jump Elysse Cumberland Tufts 12.14m
Women Triple Jump Alisandra Lindos Bates College 11.87m
Women Discus Throw Lillian Wurtz Middlebury 45.55m
Women Javelin Throw Dana Schwartz Hamilton College 43.84m
Women Javelin Throw Mardy Novak Bowdoin 43.27m
Women Javelin Throw Jackie Wells Tufts 41.53m
Women Heptathlon Lauren Zipoli Tufts 4755 pts
 
NESCAC Men's Athletes – 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Event Name School Seed Time / Mark
Men 200 Meter Dash   Uly Junker Williams 21.14
Men 400 Meter Dash   Cody Pierce Amherst College 47.11
Men 800 Meter Run   Zachary Liu-Walter Williams 1:49.67
Men 1500 Meter Run   Quinn Hampson Tufts 3:46.29
Men 1500 Meter Run   Cullen McCaleb Tufts 3:47.09
Men 1500 Meter Run   Keiyu Mamiya Williams 3:47.50
Men 1500 Meter Run   Benjamin Hughes Middlebury 3:47.94
Men 1500 Meter Run   Ross Tejeda Bates College 3:48.13
Men 5000 Meter Run Stan Craig Amherst College 14:05.16
Men 10000 Meter Run Harris Gulbransen Tufts 29:53.67
Men 110 Meter Hurdles   Josh Wilkie Tufts 14.10
Men 400 Meter Hurdles   Levi Biery Colby 51.80
Men 400 Meter Hurdles   Josh Wilkie Tufts 52.26
Men 400 Meter Hurdles   Joseph Caspar Middlebury 52.32
Men 400 Meter Hurdles   Cameron McLeod Tufts 52.84
Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase   Henry Alexander Williams 9:02.46
Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase   Owen Johnson Middlebury 9:06.00
Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase   John Quinn Hamilton College 9:06.11
Men 4x100 Meter Relay   Amherst (Team) Amherst College 40.92
Men 4x400 Meter Relay   Colby (Team) Colby 3:11.62
Men 4x400 Meter Relay   Middlebury (Team) Middlebury 3:11.79
Men Pole Vault Vincent VanMaaren Williams 5.03m
Men Pole Vault Lexington Lehnert Colby 5.01m
Men Long Jump Uly Junker Williams 7.41m
Men Triple Jump Michael Abbey Amherst College 14.90m
Men Discus Throw Charlie Aucoin Bowdoin 50.99m
Men Javelin Throw Randy Hamilton Tufts 63.77m
Men Decathlon Caleb Smith Middlebury 6680 pts