DARTMOUTH, Mass. (April 27, 2025) – The Beacons' track and field team wrapped up the 2025 outdoor regular season at the Little East Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by UMass Dartmouth on Sunday. The women's team finished third overall out of nine teams, while the men scored ten points to place seventh out of nine. Six women reached the podium for All-LEC honors across seven different events, setting two new LEC Championship Meet records. The men scored points in five events, highlighted by several personal records. UMass Boston's first outdoor championship under Head Coach Ozzie Brown proved fruitful, building high hopes for the seasons ahead.

 

Women's Highlights:

• Shea Roche (Weymouth, Mass.) and Grace Colon (West Roxbury, Mass.) combined to sweep the women's 10,000m run. Roche set a new LEC Championship Meet record with a winning time of 38:52.70, while Colon secured second place with a six-second PR of 39:05.88. The duo scored 18 of the team's 86 total points. Roche and Colon win All-LEC First and Second Team honors.

• Jhenelle Evans (Milton, Mass.), Elizabeth Roy (Abington, Mass.), and Aryianna Garceau (Dalton, Mass.) loaded up the 100m dash. Roy just missed the finals with a 12.98, while Evans (12.91) and Garceau (11.95) both advanced. In the finals, Evans placed sixth for one point (12.96), and Garceau struck gold with a PR of 11.91 for All-LEC First Team.

• Garceau captured her second gold in the women's 100m hurdles, cruising to victory by a 1.56-second margin with a 13.81 finish, just 0.01 off her all-time best. Garceau won her second individual title and All-LEC First Team with the win.

• Garceau claimed her third gold medal and All-LEC First Team in the women's 200m dash, winning in 24.27, a new personal best as she continues to chase another school record, currently held by former Olympian Wadeline Jonathas.

• Jacqueline Earner (Abington, Mass.) earned silver in the women's 800m dash with a PR of 2:21.15, marking her second consecutive year on the podium in the event to win All-LEC Second Team.

• The 4x800m relay team of Kylee Browning (Attleboro, Mass.), Harleen Bassan (Northampton, Eng.), Colon, and Earner placed fourth of seven teams in 10:54.04, their first time competing in the event this year.

• In the women's long jump, Hialeah Turner-Foster  (Mashpee, Mass.) and Dorinda Okorji (Maynard, Mass.) went one-two. Turner-Foster soared to a massive PR of 5.29m for gold, while Okorji secured silver with a 5.25m jump. Turner Foster earns All-LEC First Team, while Okorji secured her first of two All-LEC Second Team honors.

• Okorji added seven more points by tying for second place in the women's high jump with a clearance of 1.48m for her second All-LEC Second Team finish.

• Katie Tuohy (Groton, Conn.) and Alessandra Albano (Haverhill, Mass.) competed in the throws. Albano threw 30.25m in the discus, while Tuohy posted a 10.34m mark in the shot put.

Men's Highlights:

• Robert Cannon (Quincy, Mass.) opened the day with a new PR in the 10,000m run, finishing sixth in 34:45.54 to score one point — his first time breaking 35 minutes on the outdoor stage.
• Derrick Touba (Yonkers, N.Y.) scored two points in the 100m dash, finishing fifth in 11.16 as UMass Boston's sole competitor in the event.

• Justin Riley (Weymouth, Mass.) doubled in the hurdles. He took fifth place in the 110m hurdles with a career-best 15.92, his first sub-16 performance, and placed fourth in the 400m hurdles with a PR of 57.25. Isaiah Stressman (Boston, Mass.) joined Riley in the 400m hurdles, placing ninth in 61.03.

• Olutemi Alofe (Boston, Mass.) added a point with a sixth-place 13.34m throw in the men's shot put.

• Neville Richards (Wellington, Fla.) narrowly missed the scoring table in the men's hammer throw with a best mark of 42.72m.

• In the men's discus, Ramez Guiruis (Upton, Mass.) led UMass Boston with a PR of 35.69m, while Richards threw 29.77m.

• Brady Poirier (Acushnet, Mass.) gave a strong effort in the men's javelin, throwing 40.45m for a top-ten finish.

• First-year Ryan Meacham (Trumbull, Conn.) doubled in the men's long and triple jumps, leaping 5.50m in the long jump and recording a 12.07m mark in the triple jump.

Coach's Corner:
Following his first LEC Outdoor Championship at the helm, Head Coach Ozzie Brown shared his thoughts:

"Today was a great day! I am incredibly pleased with our performance as a team. Many ladies and gentlemen stepped up, and not only PR'd, but we had many different scorers who were not projected to score. Three different women won conference titles, and two new LEC meet records on the day. On paper, we were ranked two places below where we actually finished for both teams, but paper doesn't run, jump, or throw — and these young men and women proved just that by showing out!"

What's Next:
Select qualifiers will continue their outdoor season next week at the NCAA Division III East Regional Championships at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., beginning Friday, May 2 at 10:00 a.m., and concluding Saturday, May 3 at 5:00 p.m. For those not competing, the focus shifts immediately to preparation for next year as the Beacons aim to reach new heights in 2025–26.

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