The MIT ladies’s observe and subject staff received its first NCAA Division III Nationwide Championship in program historical past on Saturday, March 15, on the 2025 NCAA Division III Monitor and Subject Championships, hosted by Nazareth School in Rochester, New York.
The Engineers, who entered the meet because the top-ranked staff within the nation, scored essentially the most factors ever scored by an MIT ladies’s staff at a nationwide indoor meet. They completed with 49 factors, which earned them a primary place end in a subject of 62. They have been forward of Washington College, with 45.5 factors; the College of Wisconsin at La Crosse, with 37 factors; Loras School, with 32 factors; and the State College of New York at Geneseo, with 29 factors.
“This was such a enjoyable and thrilling final result, and what our staff has been working towards all yr,” says Julie Heyde, MIT director of observe and subject and head coach of cross nation and observe and subject. “Since final yr, even, the staff knew they’d a chance of being nationwide champs. We did not gear solely towards this aim; we now have been very process-driven, and that is why this staff win is so particular. Every individual competed for one another, representing a complete staff tradition.”
Subject occasions
On Friday, senior Alexis Boykin (Clayton, Ohio) delivered the second-best mark in NCAA Division III historical past within the weight throw, claiming her second consecutive NCAA Nationwide Championship within the occasion. Boykin’s opening try traveled 19.71 m and would have received the occasion, however the defending nationwide champion adopted with three throws of over 20 m on her subsequent 4 makes an attempt, together with a mark of 20.48 (67′ 2 1/4″) on her second try. Along with her second consecutive nationwide championship in hand, Boykin took goal on the nationwide file on her last try, encouraging the group to make some noise earlier than delivering with a mark of two.91 m.
On Saturday, Boykin’s third try within the shot put was the mark to beat, because the defending nationwide champion registered a mark of 15.31 meters. Senior Emily Ball (Des Moines, Iowa) set a brand new private file with a mark of 14.19m (46 toes, 6-3/4 inches) to complete in sixth and earn All-American honors. Ball’s second throw was the perfect try for the MIT senior, incomes the Engineers three worthwhile factors within the staff standings. The win gave Boykin two titles on the weekend and her seventh particular person NCAA nationwide championship.
Within the pole vault, junior Hailey Surace (Danville, Calif.) set a brand new collegiate private file of three.97 m (13′ 0 1/4″) to complete because the nationwide runner-up, incomes All-America honors within the pole vault and 7 factors within the staff standings. Surace cleared every of the primary six progressions on her first try at every peak. Nevertheless, nationwide champion Yasmin Ruff of WashU was the one competitor to clear 4.02m (13′ 2 1/4″).
Junior Nony Otu Ugwu (Katy, Texas) completed ninth within the first flight of the triple bounce and didn’t advance to the ultimate. Otu Ugwu’s finest mark got here on her second bounce with a mark of 11.78m (38 toes, 7-3/4 inches).
Operating occasions
On Friday within the 5000-meter race: Junior Rujuta Sane (Chandler, Ariz.) moved from sixth place as much as fifth place within the last stretch to earn MIT 4 factors within the occasion. Sane completed in 16:56.67 to earn All-America accolades.
Within the distance medley relay, senior Christina Crow (Mercer Island, Wash.), senior Marina Miller (Bel Air, Md.), and junior Kate Sanderson (West Hartford, Conn.) completed with a time 11:41.39 to select up eight factors for the Engineers.
On Saturday, Graduate scholar Gillian Roeder (Delmar, New York) completed fifth within the mile occasion in a hard-fought race, incomes All-America honors with a time of 4:51.97.
With MIT on the verge of clinching the nationwide title, Roeder, Crow, Sane and Sanderson took to the observe within the 3,000-meter occasion. Sane completed twentieth in 10:02.86, with Roeder taking sixteenth in 9:56.02. Crow and Sanderson held in the midst of the pack for many of the race earlier than Sanderson made a late transfer, taking on sixth place with only a few laps remaining. Sanderson would maintain the place to earn three factors and clinch the nationwide championship. Crow took eleventh in 9:44.99.
Different numbers of notice
Together with the second finest mark in Division III historical past, Boykin set a brand new private file, MIT program file, and a facility file on the Golisano Coaching Heart within the weight throw. Otu Ugwu was making her second look at indoor nationals and her third general NCAA look. She was 14th within the triple bounce at each the indoor and out of doors nationwide championship final yr. Roeder was operating within the last within the mile for the primary time since 2023 indoor nationals, the place she additionally completed fifth. Sanderson certified for indoor nationals within the 5,000 meters in each 2023 and 2024, however Saturday was her first All-American after ending sixteenth in 2024 and twentieth in 2023.
MIT will head outdoors in two weeks, opening the out of doors observe and subject season Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29, on the Raleigh Relays, hosted by North Carolina State College in Raleigh.
A model of this text first appeared on the MIT Athletics web site.
