Northeastern track and field took third place in both men’s and women’s competition at the CAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Virginia Beach, Va. Feb. 26-27.

After winning the men’s and women’s tournaments at the 2024 CAA Championships, Northeastern did not find the repeat success they were looking for. Across the two-day competition, the men’s team totaled 140.5 points, and the women’s team finished with 94.5 points. The Huskies had several podium finishes and three meet records, taking home an impressive 15 medals in total.

Freshman Jaice Dorsey kicked off the first day of competition with a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon, tallying 3,433 points for a new personal best. Her top finishes in the series were an 8.84-second win in the 60-meter hurdles, a second place throw of 10.66 meters in the shot put, and a fourth place finish in the long jump at 5.40 meters. Freshman Genevieve Duchaussee followed in fifth, also setting a new personal best of 3,360 points. Duchaussee placed second in the 800-meter at 2:26.83 minutes, and fourth in the shot put with a 10.38-meter throw.

In the women’s pole vault, sophomores Hannah Shaw and Katie Rodriguez both finished with a vault of 3.68 meters, taking fourth and sixth, respectively, in a three-way tie. The vault was a personal best for Rodriguez.

Graduate student Nicholas Pisciotta took gold with a 19.00-meter toss in the men’s weight throw, setting a meet record and claiming his third CAA men’s weight throw title. Senior Tremain Robinson followed for silver after throwing 18.41-meters on his fifth attempt. Graduate student Hope Belvit also championed the women’s weight throw after her second attempt reached 18.76 meters — a quarter of a meter more than her closest opponent.

Sophomore Camryn Cole claimed a gold medal in the women’s long jump, leaping 5.98m and setting a new personal best. Finally, senior Athanasios Pantazopoulos took the last spot on the podium for field events, clearing the bar at 4.65m to tie for third in the men’s pole vault.

In the track events, three Huskies qualified for the women’s mile final. Graduate student Ava Duggan led the Huskies in the preliminary with a 4:57.66-minute finish to take fifth. Graduate student Stephanie Kriss and senior Shannon Trevor followed in ninth and 12th, respectively. 

Benjamin Godish won the men’s mile preliminary, cruising across the line at 4:09.53 minutes. Graduate students Tyler Brogan and Daniel Caso, as well as freshman Jacob Redman, all finished within the next five seconds to join Godish in the final.

Dorsey continued a successful afternoon in the women’s 60-meter hurdle preliminary, sprinting into third with a personal best of 8.73 seconds. Graduate student Savion Thompson took fourth in the men’s preliminary for the event at 8.10 seconds.

Graduate student Tristen Howard and sophomore Brunner Williams blazed through the men’s 60-meter race, qualifying for finals in fourth and sixth with times of 6.85 seconds and 6.79 seconds, respectively.

In the women’s 400-meter preliminary, junior Ariann Robinson took sixth with a time of 56.02. In the 800-meter preliminary, senior Nicole Dunbury took third at 2:12.99 minutes, and Duggan followed in fourth less than two seconds later. For the men’s side of the event, senior Reed Cherry finished at 1:52.72 to take fifth, and junior Conall Rogers finished at 1:53.39 to take seventh, both qualifying for the final.

Sophomore Savannah Blair grabbed sixth in the women’s 200-meter preliminary with a 24.07-second race. For the men’s side, all three competing Huskies qualified, with Williams leading in fifth at 21.24 seconds, and sophomore Alex Landry and Howard following in seventh and eighth.

Godish took his first gold medal of the tournament in the men’s 5000-meter, sailing across the line at 13:57.24 minutes and setting a meet record. 

The Huskies concluded day one with a victory, claiming gold in the women’s distance medley relay, or DMR. The relay team of senior Lucy Abdow, freshman Morgan Hayward, sophomore Brittani Westberry, and graduate student Lena Lebrun finished at 11:45.34 minutes — the sixth-fastest time in program history.

With seven medals on the board, the men’s and women’s teams were both in second place at the end of the day, with the men half a point behind Monmouth, and the women two points behind Elon.

Senior Paul Wisnaskas started day two with an 8.64-second finish in the 60-meter hurdles to take fifth place. This race rounded out his heptathlon, earning him fourth place with 4,855 points. Wisnaskas clocked a 4.05-meter, fifth-place finish in the pole vault and a win in the 1000-meter at 2:55.94 minutes to contribute to his overall heptathlon finish.

In the field events, Cole cleared the bar at 1.75 meters to take fourth in the women’s high jump. Sophomore Ohan Ambartsoumian then finished seventh in the men’s shot put with a 15.06-meter throw.

Back on the track, Godish continued his successful tournament with a gold medal in the men’s mile final. Controlling the field from start to finish, Godish crossed the line at a speedy 4:04.80 minutes. Brogan followed at 4:06.07 minutes to take the silver medal, and Redman rounded out the Huskies in sixth at 4:10.29 minutes.

In the women’s mile final, Kriss crossed the line at 4:58.49 to come sixth, and in the men’s 60-meter hurdles, Thompson ran an 8.11-second race to win his heat and come fourth overall. Howard claimed the bronze medal in the men’s 60-meter, dashing across the line at 6.78 seconds.

Dunbury picked up the pace in the final two laps to win the women’s 800-meter, finishing at 2:08.59 minutes to clinch the gold. In the men’s 800-meter, Cherry finished sixth at 1:52.36 minutes. 

In the women’s 400-meter, Robinson finished fifth at 55.75 seconds. Blair also finished fifth in the 200-meter with a time of 23.88 seconds. In the men’s 200-meter, Williams led the Huskies in fourth at 21.17 seconds, with Landry and Howard taking sixth and eighth.

Graduate student Azza Borovicka-Swanson took fourth in the women’s 3000-meter, clocking in at 9:30.73 minutes. Godish continued to dominate across distance races in the men’s 3000-meter, crossing the line at 8:09.96 to set another meet record and snag his third gold medal. Godish’s three golds and two meet records earned him the CAA Men’s Track Athlete of the Meet for the second consecutive year.

Senior Kyle Sarney and freshman Nico Boyle followed in fourth and fifth, both at 8:18.86. This time was a new personal best for Boyle.

The Huskies took silver medals in both 4×800-meter relays. A team of Abdow, sophomore Waverly Hassman, freshman Alanna Hagen, and Dunbury ran a 9:07.20-minute race for the women’s side. In the men’s relay, freshmen Ajay Raina, Cian Gara Grady, and Jack Mattingly teamed up with Brogan to clock a time of 7:35.85 minutes.

Northeastern concluded the championship with a bronze medal in the women’s 4×400 relay. The team of Robinson, Blair, Hayward, and freshman Sloan Hinton group finished the 1600-meter race at 3:44.26 minutes. 

The Huskies competed at the ECAC/IC4A Championships at the BU Track and Tennis Center March 7-9. This was the final opportunity for athletes to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.