WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – With the season winding down, the Brandeis University track and field teams competed at the Williams College FIRE Invitational to work on their NCAA qualifying performances.
TOP TEN PERFORMANCES - WOMEN
- The Judges had one new performance reach the top 50 of the NCAA Division III leaderboard, as the 4x400-meter relay team of first-years Peterly Leroy (Malden, Mass./Prospect Hill Academy Charter School), Jazmin Berganza (Providence, R.I. Classical), and Sarai Sealy (New York, N.Y./Ursuline School), and senior Hannah Bohbot-Dridi (Mountain View, Calif./Los Altos) finished in second place with a time of 3:51.03. That mark is 45th in Division III this season, and trails Brandeis's 31st-ranked team that features junior Shaniece Nugent (Hartford, Conn./Lawrence Acad.).
- The same quartet also finished fourth in the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 47.88 seconds.
- Sophomore Sophie Segal (Hartsdale, N.Y./Ardsley) placed fifth in the high jump with a height of 1.58 meters (5 feet, 2 ¼ inches), tying her personal best set at the UAA Championships two weeks earlier.
- Leroy took sixth in the 400-meters with a time of 57.55 seconds. Bohbot-Dridi was 10th in 58.21 seconds.
- Sophomore Natalie Liapis (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) took eighth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:06.38.
TOP TEN PERFORMANCES – MEN
- The top finish of the day for Brandeis men came in the javelin, where UAA champion sophomore Sam Krause (New Orleans, La./Isidore Newman) placed fourth with a distance of 52.77 meters (173-1). The performance came on his fourth throw of the series.
- The Judges' 4x100-meter relay placed fifth with a time of 43.12 seconds. The team was comprised of senior Jordon Colon (Devens, Mass./Bromfield School), junior Matthew Yue (Vancouver, B.C./Woodside Priory School), senior Danny Krigman (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) and first-year Jaiden Banton (Kingston, Jamaica/Woodstock Acad.).
- The 4x400-meter relay saw first-year Sam Rosen (Dallas, Texas/Lakehill Preparatory School) and junior Adam Rieden (Littleton, Mass./Littleton) join Yue and Banton to finish in seventh place with a time of 3:23.78.
- Senior Lucas Dia (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) took sixth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:24.09, setting a p.r. by nearly five seconds.
- Yue added a seventh-place finish in the long jump with a distance of 6.63 meters (21 feet, 9 inches).
- Sophomore Michael Laurin (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle Regional) rounded out the top-10 finishers for the Judges by placing ninth in the discus with a heave of 40.81 meters (133 feet, 11 meters).
