LOWELL, Mass. – The UMass Lowell men's track and field team capped off another historic season on Sunday, completing a conference championship season sweep for just the second time in program history and the first since 2023 after winning the 2026 America East men's outdoor track and field title at home in Lowell. The victory marks the men's third outdoor championship in the last four seasons.

"This means a lot," said Head Coach Gary Gardner. "It is really difficult to win one of these and to win back-to-back-to-back and complete the triple crown was not easy. Indoors, we squeaked out by a few points, and we had a few things go our way, especially yesterday, and today we just held our own. Yesterday, I thought we were exceptional and today I thought we were very good, but we set ourselves up yesterday to be successful today and we delivered. I am super proud of those kids."

UMass Lowell totaled 166.5 points throughout the weekend, beating out UAlbany, who finished second with 140 points. UMBC finished third as a team with 137 points.
The 4x100m relay kicked off day two, and the team of sophomore Dmitrius Shearrion (Taunton, Mass.), junior Evan Imasogie (Lowell, Mass.), sophomore Michael Gyimah (Kumasi, Ghana) and junior Daniel Kennedy (Tolland, Conn.) earned six points for the River Hawks with a third-place performance and 40.77 mark.

The 1,500m finals were next, and two River Hawks gathered points, as freshman William Simard (Francestown, N.H.) led the way in fourth place with a 3:49.41 mark for five points, just before graduate student Nate DeAngelo (Bristol, Conn.) added four points with a fifth-place finish and 3:49.63 mark. Senior Tristan O'Riorden followed that up with a fourth-place performance of his own in the 110m hurdles, zooming to a personal record time of 14.86.

Sophomore Michael Fisher (Wallingford, Conn.) shined in the 400m dash, earning a silver medal and eight points for UMass Lowell with a personal record time of 47.35. The squad then collected two scorers in the 100m dash, with Kennedy placing fourth for five points with a time of 10.46 and Imasogie racing to sixth place with a personal-best 10.70 mark to add three points. Eight more points were added to the team score in the 800m, as senior Basit Iddriss (Milford, Mass.) placed fourth for five points with a time of 1:51.51, before graduate student Graham Stedfast (Rowley, Mass.) claimed sixth place and three points with a time of 1:52.06.

The 400m hurdles saw two River Hawks combine for nine points as senior Alejandro Lynch (Somerville, Mass.) and O'Riorden finished in fourth and fifth place, respectively, and each finished with personal best marks. Lynch crossed in 52.09, just before O'Riorden at 52.59, which led to the 200m dash where Gyimah and Shearrion finished in fifth and seventh place, with times of 21.43 and 21.68.

The River Hawks found success in the 5,000m run, racking up 15 total points between three runners in the top eight. Graduate student Jan Wouter van den Akker (Groningen, Netherlands) led the way in second place with a 14:52.48 for eight points, before freshman James Cruse (Melbourne, Australia) finished in fourth for five points with a time of 14:53.55 and graduate student Will Benoit (Fairhaven, Mass.) finished seventh with a 14:58.41 mark to gather two more points.

The 4x800m and 4x400m relays capped off the track events, and the 4x800m team of junior Dennis Satchek (Boston, Mass.), sophomore Tyler Young (Marion, Mass.), DeAngelo and sophomore Jamie Lano (Strafford, N.H.) claimed third place with a 7:38.23 mark for six points. O'Riorden, Lynch, Iddriss, and Fisher competed in the 4x400m and concluded the event in fifth with a 3:11.99 mark.

In the field events, senior Derek Munroe (Tewksbury, Mass.) gained a half point in the pole vault, tying for eighth place with a 4.47m vault. Freshman John Kivlan (Chelmsford, Mass.) shined in the high jump, breaking his personal record and clearing 1.97m to finish tied for second place and earn seven points as the lone River Hawk scorer.

The throws were next, and freshman Reznor Rokicki (Loveland, Ohio) highlighted the day with a 52.64m discus throw for second place overall and eight points. Graduate student Ian Camerato (Mount Laurel, N.J.) also scored, finishing fourth with a personal-best mark of 49.21m. Freshman Kenneth Kalvinek (Sutton, Mass.) also competed and scored, finishing seventh for two points with his personal record of 48.09m. Kalvinek and Rokicki also competed in the shot put, finishing in fifth and sixth place, respectively. Kalvinek hit 16.05m, while Rokicki earned another personal best with his 15.97m toss. However, it was fellow freshman Kevin Vigneault (Jamesville, N.Y.) that led the River Hawks in the shot put with a 16.19m mark for fourth place.

In the decathlon, Munroe broke his own school record on his way to a first-place finish, hitting 7,034 points to earn 10 points for the team. Junior Brandon Riley (Weymouth, Mass.) added eight points and was just behind him in second with 6,483 points. Munroe won five of the 10 decathlon events and earned a personal record in the discus (41.84m), while Riley won two, making it seven of the 10 events with a UMass Lowell winner, and hit a personal record in both the 1,500m run (4:59.20) and 110m hurdles (15.07).