WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University track and field teams earned wins in five different events – four from the women, one from the men – and the Judges set one school record today at the 2025 Reggie Poyau '04 Memorial Invitational in the Gosman Athletic Center. The women finished second of 10 teams in the team standings, while the men came in fourth of 10.
MEN'S 4x200 SETS SCHOOL RECORD
- The Judges' school record was set in the 4x200-meter relay. The team of junior Matthew Yue (Vancouver, B.C./Woodside Priory School), senior Danny Krigman (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford), senior Jordon Colon (Devens, Mass./Bromfield Acad.), and sophomore Jon Klu (East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg South) ran a time of 1:35.81, besting the record set in 2016 by 0.47 seconds.
- The squad finished in fourth place in their heat and sixth overall.
FIVE WINNING PERFORMANCES
- The Judges earned three wins in field events that were among the top 20 in Division III, and two more on the track.
- Leading the way in the field was first-year jumper Sarai Sealy (New York, N.Y./The Ursuline School), who won the triple jump in her first collegiate meet with a distance of 11.97 meters (39 feet, 3 ¼ inches). The distance is the second-longest in Division III this season.
- Junior captain Alisha Anderson (Denver, Colo./Ralston Valley) also earned a top-20 performance in the pole vault, winning with a p.r. height of 3.55 meters (11 feet, 7 ¾ inches), ranking her 12th in Division III. Anderson was just four-hundredths of a meter shy of the school record that has stood since 2006.
- Junior transfer Aiana Colas (Strasbourg, France/Le Gymnase Jean Sturm) captured the high jump with a height of 1.61 meters (5 feet, 3 ¼ inches), which is good for 14th in Division III this season.
- The women's lone victory on the track came in the 4x200-meter relay, where their time of 1:45.86 bested St. Anselm by five seconds. The team comprised of Sealy, junior Shaniece Nugent (Hartford, Conn./Lawrence Academy), first-year Jasmin Berganza (Providence, R.I./Classical) and senior Hannah Bohbot-Dridi (Mountain View, Calif./Los Altos). They were five-hundredths of a second shy of the school record set in 2004.
- On the men's side, junior All-American TJ Carleo (Newburyport, Mass./Newburyport) was the lone victor, taking the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:33.87, a full 10 seconds ahead of teammate Parker Cook (Old Saybrook, Conn./Old Saybrook).
OTHER TOP PERFORMANCES
- Sealy also added a third-place finish in the 60-meter dash (7.98 seconds).
- In addition to her win in the 4x200-meter relay, Nugent was runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles (9.91 seconds) and the triple jump (11.19m/36 feet, 8 ½ inches), with the latter ranked 18th in Division III this season.
- Other second-place finishes were turned in by
- Sophomore Sadie Harrow (Bangor, Maine/Bangor) in the 3000-meter run (10:51.52);
- Junior Emma Liu (Taipei, Taiwan/Phillips Exeter, N.H., Academy) in the 20-pound weight (13.87m/45 feet, 6 ¼ inches);
- Junior Garret Rieden (Littleton, Mass./Littleton) in the 500-meter run (1:05.89);
- And Yue in the long jump (6.43m/21 feet 1 ¼ inches).
TEAM SCORING
- The Brandeis women finished in second place with 113 points, just three behind Division II St. Anselm College and nine ahead of Colby College
- The men placed fourth overall with 73 points, just 5 ¼ behind St. Anselm and edging out Wentworth by 1 ½ points.
UP NEXT
- The Judges return to action on January 25th at the Wheaton College Lyon Invitational.
