Women's Track & Field Finishes Second at America East Championships

Sunday, May 4

Durham, N.H.

8:30 AM

University of New Hampshire

America East Championships

Photo by: Alex Miller

Women's Track & Field Finishes Second at America East Championships

5/4/2025 6:32:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

Wildcats Win Three Events and Break Two School Records on Sunday

RESULTS

DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's track & field team won three events and broke two school records on Sunday to finish second in the final team standings of the 2025 America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships that were held May 3-4 at UNH's Reggie Atkins Track & Field Facility.

UNH, which also had one individual champion on Saturday, compiled a two-day total of 128 points to place behind champion UAlbany (187 points) and edge Bryant University (127.50). It is the team's best finish since the Wildcats' stretch of five consecutive runner-up finishes from 2005-09.

New Hampshire won two major awards: Women's Coaching Staff of the Year was presented to director Anna Magle-Haberek and assistants Casey Carroll, Cullen Aubin and Alison Duffy and Most Outstanding Rookie went to Ruth White (Orono Maine). It marked UNH's fourth Coaching Staff of the Year award (2002, 2016, 2017, 2025) and third Rookie award (2009, 2015, 2025).

Senior Claire Ronan (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.) won the America East 1,500 meter title and anchored the champion 4x800m relay. Ronan was first across the 1,500m finish line with a time of 4 minutes, 37.15 seconds. Ronan, who entered as the top seed, was in third place with 800m to go and moved into a tie for the lead at the bell lap. She pulled away in the back straightaway and was the only runner with a sub-68 second last lap of 65.39. As the event champion, Ronan earned 10 points for the Wildcats.

Grad student Gabby DeAngelis (Bedford, N.H.), freshman Mia Carbone (Meriden, Conn.), junior Ella Malone (Barrington, N.H.) and Ronan combined to record a winning time of 9:03.53 in the 4x800m. Carbone recorded UNH's fastest 400m split of 1:04.08 in the first of her two laps. Ronan, who received the baton in fourth place, once again demonstrated her finishing speed with an 800m split of 2:13.44.

Freshman Sarah Moore (Lisbon, Maine) won the long jump and ran the anchor leg of the school record-setting 4x100 meter relay team. In the long jump, Moore recorded her winning leap of 6.08m (19 feet, 11.5 inches) on her third of six attempts.

The 4x100 meter quartet of Mariam Nada (Portsmouth, N.H.), Eva Roberts (Derry, N.H.), Audrey Thornton (Freedom, N.H.) and Moore crossed the finish line in 46.62 to break their previous benchmark of 46.85 established April 19. The record-breaking Wildcats placed fourth.

Nada also recorded a fourth-place finish in the 100m with a personal-best time of 12.06 seconds, and that added five more points.

Freshman Emma Reaves (Westminster, Md.) broke the school record in the shot put with a second-place throw of 13.63m (44-8.75) on the last of her six attempts. She supplanted the previous benchmark of 44-8.25 by Sarah Williams in 2021.

Reaves began the day with second place in the discus on a personal-best throw of 45.77m (150-2), which came on her fifth of six attempts. With eight points in each event, she added 16 points to the team total.

Senior Olivia Chamberlain (Warnerville, N.Y.) was runner-up in the long jump with a leap of 5.85m (19-2.5) on her second of six attempts for eight more team points.

Junior Kristen Kirk (Augusta, Maine) and sophomore Kailey Dillon (Merrimack, N.H.) placed third and fifth, respectively in the heptathlon for nine more team points. Kirk amassed a total of 4,528 points with a high of 740 points in the 110m hurdles, and she was the top heptathlon competitor in both the high jump (736 points) and javelin (569). Dillon finished with a total of 4,269 points with a high of 783 in the 110m hurdles and she had the second-fastest time in the heptathlon 800m (733 points).

Kirk also earned sixth place in the javelin with a mark of 35.43m (116 feet, 3 inches). She was followed in seventh place by freshman Rachel Poulin (Exeter, N.H.) at 34.74m (113-11). The duo added five points to UNH's total.

Senior Autumn Agri (Stratham, N.H.) recorded a jump of 11.86m (39-5) on the last of her six attempts to climb to third place and earn six points.

Carbone earned fourth place and another five team points in the 800m with a personal best time of 2:13.47.

Senior Jill Walker (Simi Valley, Calif.) crossed the finish line with a time of 4:40.89 in the 1,500m to finish fourth and add five points to the team score.

Freshman Ruby Prentiss (Falmouth, Maine) took fifth place in the discus with a mark of 38.57m (126-6) for three UNH points.

Sophomore Jules Hickey (Pawling, N.Y.) added three points to the UNH total with a sixth-place time of 1:04.02 in the 400m hurdles.

Freshman Kelley Mikelson (Concord, N.H.) tied for seventh place in the high jump by clearing a height of 1.50m (4-11) for two points.

Sophomore Ronnie Jones (Lowell, Mass.) took eighth place in the shot put with a throw of 12.23m (40-1.5), which added a point to the team score.

The quartet of junior Liliana Chirichella (Troy, N.H.), Hickey, sophomore Emily Williams (Sudbury, Mass.) and Agri placed eighth in the final event of the conference championship meet, the 4x400m relay, with a time of 3:57.54.

New Hampshire returns to action May 9-10 at the New England Championships (at UMass).