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Will Costello

Women’s Track & Field Looks to Garner Fourth NESCAC Title in Five Years

The Middlebury women's track and field team has its sights set on claiming its fourth NESCAC Championship in the last five seasons this weekend. Williams serves as the host for the two-day championship invite, which kicks off on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

ABOUT MIDDLEBURY

  • Middlebury first hoisted the conference trophy in 1998, followed by another title in 2000. The squad has secured the crown in three of the last four springs, earning the crown in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
  • The Panthers have finished in the top-three spots in 11 of the previous 12 editions of the meet.
  • Last year, Middlebury had eight individuals garner All-NESCAC honors, highlighted by a champion in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. 
  • Head coach Martin Beatty '84 and his staff have been lauded with coach of the year laurels three times on the women's side (2016, 2022, 2023).

PANTHERS TO WATCH

  • Middlebury returns the 2024 NESCAC Champion in the shot put this year. Julia Tulimieri claimed the title and was one-hundredth of a meter out of an All-NESCAC spot in the event a season ago. She owns the conference's best distance with a  toss of 12.49 meters. The Panther secured third in the hammer throw last spring and enters this year's edition with the third-longest heave of 49.59m from the Amherst Spring Fling.
  • Teammate Lilly Wurtz was the silver medalist at the conference meet last spring for the discus, coming into this year's installment with a program-record toss of 43.72m during the Amherst meet. The senior has the second-best showing among league peers in the shot put at 12.35m at the UMass Commonwealth Invitational and looks to best her fifth-place showing from a campaign ago. 
  • Maggie Kim ranks third in the conference with a mark of 39.65m in the discus and looks for her first accolade. Olive Lawrence spun and hurled the shot put  11.99m at the Middlebury Invitational to sport the fourth-furthest throw entering the league championships.
  • In the distance events, Claire Palmer has posted a trio of top-four clockings. The rookie sits third in both the 5,000 (16:51.87 at UMass) and the 10,000 (36:09.65 at Mangrum), while she ranks fourth in the 1,500 with a time of 4:34.95 established last weekend during the program's home meet.
  • The high jump event features Lily Haskins-Vaughan, who has cleared the bar with the second-greatest height of 1.62m at Amherst.
  • Rounding out the grouping of top-four ranked athletes are Grace Kaelber and Shea Fajen in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Kaelber sits third with a time of 10:44.34 (UMass Commonwealth), while Fajen is fourth at 11:02.15 from the Mangrum Invitational.
  • The 4x100 relay quartet of Katie Bruno, Jazmyn Hurley, Melissa White and Lawrence set a program record last weekend with a clocking of 47.41 seconds. Middlebury has not raced the 4x800 relay this spring, but is ranked fourth in the 4x400.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

  • Williams paces the league with 27 titles, including the 2025 crown. The program  had claimed six straight championships from 2014-19 before the Panthers' reign.
  • Connecticut College's Grace McDonough won the 1,500 and 5,000 a year ago and is ranked second in both events entering the weekend with times of 4:27.92 and 16:46.75, respectively. She has claimed the 1,500 in each of the last two springs.
  • Defending her titles in the long jump and triple jump is Elysse Cumberland of Tufts. She comes into the weekend with the conference's top distance in the triple jump (12.14m), and sits second with her long jump effort of 5.77m from the Jumbos' Spring Stampede. Teammates Makayla Moriarty in the 400 and Alexa Estes in the 800 return to defend their individual titles. Moriarty owns the fifth-quickest time (57.12), while Estes is a two-time victor in the discipline and ranks sixth headed into the meet (2:12.90).
  • The Ephs return a trio of individuals who posted individual triumphs. Maria Fareti claimedthe shot put and hammer throw disciplines a year ago. She has recorded the second-greatest throw in the hammer (49.81m), while her best shot put toss of 11.83m ranks sixth. Amelie Jamanka comes into action after outleaping the high jump field a season ago and enters the weekend tied for third at 1.58m. 
  • Colby's Simone Waheed blazed down the track in the 100, crossing the finish line with a victorious clocking of 12.15 seconds. The Mule is ranked second with a time of 11.67, just one-hundredth of a second behind Tufts' Simisola Lawal. 
  • The Amherst duo of Flora Biro and Emma Ramsingh secured wins last year. Biro outlasted the field in the 10,000 and is ranked eighth this spring (37:52.03), while Ramsingh hurled the discus with a winning effort for her second-straight crown. The Mammoth's best toss of 43.28m this season is second and sandwiched between Wurtz and Kim in the event.
  • Bowdoin's Mardy Novak stuck the javelin in the turf a year ago with the best distance. The Polar Bear enters the weekend ranked second in the discipline at 43.20m, while Hamilton's Dana Schwartz sits 0.64 meters ahead. 

CHAMPIONSHIP INFORMATION

The Panthers have a quartet of meets following the conference event before the NCAA Championship field is announced on Sunday, May 17.

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