LONG BEACH and AZUSA, California – With April Break in full swing, members of the Brandeis track and field sprint and middle-distance teams went to California to take part in the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Meet at Long Beach State and at the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific. In the process, the Judges broke four school records with national-caliber performances.

RELAY RECORDS

• The Judges established new school records in both the women's 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays.
• In the 4x100 at the PCI, the Judges competed in a heat with Division I North Dakota and ran a time of 48.14 seconds, breaking the school record for the second week in a row. The team of first-year Peterly Leroy (Malden, Mass./Prospect Hill Academy Charter School), junior Shaniece Nugent (Hartford, Conn./Lawrence Acad.), senior Hannah Bohbot-Dridi (Mountain View, Calif./Los Altos) and first-year Jasmin Berganza (Providence, R.I./Classical) ran a time of 48.14 seconds. After a quartet that included first-year Sarai Sealy (New York, N.Y./The Ursuline School) ran 48.30 the week before, this group shaved another 0.16 seconds off the record established in 2024. The time is ranked 45^th in Division III this season.
• In the 4x400 ran at the Bryan Clay, the same group won their heat ahead of Division I Pepperdine with a time of 3:49.69. This lowered the mark set in 1999 by a team of All-Americans by 0.12 seconds. This ranks the Judges 11^th in Division III as of Friday evening.

INDIVIDUAL RECORDS

• On her own, first-year Peterly Leroy established two individual school records at the PCI. In the 400-meter dash, she posted a time of 55.36 seconds, behind only runners from Division I Idaho and Texas-El Paso and two-tenths of a second ahead of a runner from North Dakota, to finish in third place. Leroy's time bettered a school mark of 55.93 that had stood since 1992, set by Robyn Goby '92. Leroy, who placed 14^th in the event indoors, is now ranked third nationally in the 400.
• In the 200-meter dash, Leroy finished in 32^nd place with a time of 24.93 seconds. She placed 32^nd overall with a time that is the fastest electronically-recorded time in program history, though there are hand-marks on the books thought to be faster. Leroy's time is 47^th in Division III.

OTHER PERFORMANCES - WOMEN

• In the 200, Nugent finished 60^th with a time of 25.81 seconds. Berganza ran the 100-meter dash in 12.83 seconds, placing 67^th.
• Bohbot-Dridi ran the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:06.30, placing 29^th at the PCI and the 400-meter dash in 58.97 at the Bryan Clay, taking 59^th.
• Sealy's lone race of the weekend was the 100-meter dash at the PCI. She placed 55^th with a time of 12.53 seconds.

OTHER PERFORMANCES – MEN

• For the men, juniors Garret Rieden (Littleton, Mass./Littleton) and TJ Carleo (Newburyport, Mass./Newburyport) each competed in the 800 -meter run at the Bryan Clay Invitational. Remarkably, running in separate heats, the duo ran nearly identical times. Both were clocked at 1:51.05, separated by just eight-thousandths of a second, with Carleo edging his teammate, 1:51:042 to 1:51:050. The mark would put them in a tie for 10^th place nationally in Division III.
• Rieden ran the 400-meter dash in 49.93, placing 49^th, while Carleo ran the 1,500-meters in 3:53.05, placing 71^st, in a time that is 28^th in Division III this season.

UP NEXT

• The Judges who remained in Massachusetts will compete in Saturday's Sean Collier Invitational at MIT before heading to New York City next weekend for the UAA Championships at NYU.