RESULTS

BOSTON, Mass. – The UMass Lowell women's indoor track and field team traveled to the Track and Tennis Center at Boston University on Saturday for the first day of the 2025 America East Indoor Championship. The team finished the day in sixth place with 12 points.

"The team competed very well, as always," said Head Coach Gary Gardner.

The 60m hurdles preliminaries kicked off the track events, as graduate student Alexandria Grasso (North Reading, Mass.) qualified for the finals with a sixth-place finish and time of 8.84. In the 400m dash, freshman Amelia Stebe (Honolulu, Hawaii) was the lone River Hawks qualifier with an eighth-place performance and personal-best 56.73 mark.

Junior Nia Mainer-Smith (Taunton, Mass.) shined in the 500m dash preliminaries, finishing atop the leaderboard with a personal-best time of 1:14.93 to qualify for tomorrow's finals.

Three River Hawks competed in the 5,000m run, as junior Miana Caraballo (Methuen, Mass.) led the way in 11^th place with a time of 17:45.20. Junior Mia Jones (Blacksburg, Va.) claimed 17^th with an 18:19.92 mark, before sophomore Emma Eagan (Danvers, Mass.) finished in 21^st with a time of 18:33.99.

Sophomore Jayani Santos (Tewksbury, Mass.) shined in the 200m dash preliminary, finishing first with a personal-best 24.19 mark as the only River Hawk competitor.
The 4,000m distance medley relay closed out the track events, and the team of graduate student Rachel Thomas (Perry Hall, Md.), sophomore Emily Burdick (Billerica, Mass.), junior Raihana Yameogo (Dillsburg, Pa.) and senior Sarah Ross (Agawam, Mass.) finished in third place with a time of 11:48.66 to earn six points for the team.

"The DMR team overachieved, which was fantastic," said Gardner.

In the field events, the pole vault kicked it off, with sophomore Úna Brice (Cork, Ireland) leading the squad with a ninth-place finish and mark of 3.40m. Senior Jules Gravier (Bronxville, N.Y.) claimed 11^th with a 3.25m mark, while senior Madison Sanchez (Amesbury, Mass.) and freshman Jaden Kasule (Tewksbury, Mass.) each cleared 2.95m for 15^th and 16^th place, respectively. The weight throw was next, with senior Arlene Davila (Peabody, Mass.) finishing 14^th with a 14.61m mark. Joyce Nabagereka finished in 23^rd with a toss of 12.80m.

The long jump closed out the field events and it was Grasso that led the way with a 10^th-place performance and 5.37m jump. Senior Olamide Bamgbose (Fitchburg, Mass.) finished in 28^th with a 4.37m mark.

In the pentathlon, senior Fleur Balogh De Galantha (Grafton, Mass.) finished fourth overall, scoring 3213 points to snag five points for the team. Junior Paige Murphy (Billerica, Mass.) claimed eighth place with 3008 points for one team point and freshman Chloe Champagne (Brockton, Mass.) finished 15^th with 2217 points.  

In the pentathlon 60m hurdles, Balogh De Galantha finished fourth with a 9.17 mark, while Murphy finished in ninth place with a time of 9.73 and Champagne took 16^th with an 11.15 mark. Balogh De Galantha led the way in the high jump as well, tying for second place with a 1.57m mark, while Champagne finished tied for seventh with a personal-best 1.45m mark and Murphy claimed a tie for 11^th with a jump of 1.42m.  

The shot put was next, with Balogh De Galantha putting a great performance and claiming second place with a personal-best toss of 10.39m. Murphy was not far behind, finishing fifth with a personal-best 9.72m mark, while Champagne finished 16^th with a 6.09m mark. Balogh De Galantha leaped to a 5.09m mark in the long jump to claim fifth, as Murphy finished in ninth with a personal-best jump of 4.91m and Champagne finished in 16^th with a personal-best 4.52m. The final event of the pentathlon was the 800m run, where Murphy led the way with a fourth-place finish and personal-best time of 2:32.24. Balogh De Galantha (2:46.78) and Champagne (2:53.35) crossed the finish line in 14^th and 15^th place, respectively.

The River Hawks will now return to the Track and Tennis Center tomorrow, Sunday, February 23 for day two of the 2025 America East Indoor Championship.