UNH Prepped for Conference Championships on May 1-2 (AE.tv) - University of New Hampshire Athletics

Saturday, May 1

Lowell, Mass.

10 AM

University of New Hampshire

America East Outdoor Championships

4/30/2021 10:26:00 AM | Men's Track & Field

DURHAM, N.H. – Led by 39^th-year head coach Jim Boulanger, the University of New Hampshire men's track & field team will compete at the 2021 America East championship meet May 1-2 at UMass Lowell's Cushing Field Complex. Saturday's action begins at 10 a.m. and Sunday's first event starts at 9 a.m.

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Saturday, May 1 (12-7 p.m.) | Sunday, May 2 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

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AT THE AMERICA EAST MEET

New Hampshire has finished in the Top 5 each of the past five years. The Wildcats placed third in the most recent meet in 2019 and was also third in '17.

THE THROWERS

Grad student Zachary Astle (Newbury N.H.) has been dominant this season with seven first place finishes in four outdoor meets. And he is the reigning conference champion in the shot put – he won the title in 2019.
Astle won the shot put at every 2021 outdoor meet and won the hammer in 3 of 4; he was runner-up the lone time he did not place first.
Astle recorded a career-best throw of 194 feet, 8 inches to win the hammer at last week's UNH six-team invitational.
Freshman Joshua Hoffman (Litchfield, N.H.) has won the discus at all four outdoor meets this season. His top mark of 161-2 was established at the Cushing Field Complex.
Junior John King Jr. (Derry, N.H.) has three first-place finishes in the javelin, including each of the past two weeks, and has a season-best mark of 200-6.
Junior Patrick Brogioli (Milford, Mass.) has been consistent in the hammer and discus with seven top-6 performances, and that includes a pair of third-place finishes in the hammer.

NOT SHORT BUT NOT LONG

New Hampshire has a strong corps of middle distance runners.
Senior James Wilkes (Concord, N.H.) has raced in the 800-meters three times this season and placed first all three times with a personal-best time of 1 minute, 50.19 seconds last week.
Grad student Matthew Adams (Concord, N.H.) has been consistent in the 800m this season with one fourth-place finish and a pair of fifth-place efforts.
Sophomore Aidan O'Hern (Concord, N.H.) has four top-5 finishes in the 1,500m this season. He ran a PR of 3:56.15 last week to finish in third place, and he placed second one week earlier at UMass Lowell.

LEAPING PAST THE WATER PIT

Grad student Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly (Chester, N.H.) has two wins in two 3,00m steeplechase races this season, and that includes a personal-best time of 8:52.72 at UMass Lowell two weeks ago. He has also raced in the mile and 1500m this season.
Senior Aidan Sullivan (Nashua, N.H.) placed second to Sevilla-Connelly at UMass Lowell in a time of 9:05.60. Sullivan has also competed in the 800m and 1500m this season.

GO AHEAD AND JUMP

Junior Nate Hobbs (Peabody, Mass.) broke his own school record in the long jump with a distance of 24 feet, 10.50 inches last Saturday. Hobbs has won the long jump all three times he has competed in the event this season.
Hobbs is the defending conference champion; he won the long jump at the 2019 America East outdoor championship meet.
Senior Jordan Buckmire (Nashua, N.H.) took first place in the triple jump last week with an effort of 47-0.75. He placed second at UMass Lowell two weeks ago. And at the 2019 outdoor conference meet, Buckmire placed third.

CLEARING THE HURDLES

Senior Michael Monahan (Tewksbury, Mass.) has won the 110m hurdles at all four meets this season and ran a personal-best time of 14.79 seconds last Saturday. He also has a pair of third-place finishes in the 400m hurdles.

RETURN TO CUSHING FIELD COMPLEX

UNH competed at the site of this year's championship for the George Davis Invitational on April 17, and the Wildcats won six events.
Astle won both the hammer and shot put. He recorded a distance of 184-6 inches to capture the hammer, and his mark of 55-5 was tops in the shot put.
King Jr. won the javelin with a throw of 200-6 on the last of his six attempts that moved him from fifth to first.
Hoffman bested the field of competitors in the discus with a throw of 161-2.
Sevilla-Connelly crossed the finish line first in the 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 8:52.72.
Monahan was the fastest runner in the 110m hurdles with a clocking of 15.20 seconds.

PEAKING AT THE RIGHT TIME

UNH won nine individual events and one relay at the Pre-Conference Invitational last weekend at the Wildcats' home venue, the Reggie Atkins Track & Field Facility.
New Hampshire amassed 172 points to place ahead of Dartmouth College (127), University of Maine (125), UMass Lowell (75), University of Hartford (54) and University of Vermont (49).