THE BASICS:
 
- Location: Sherie and Don (1961) Morrison Track (Cambridge, Mass.)
 
- The Lead: Led by nine event wins and five top-20 finishes, the No. 23 ranked MIT men's track and field team hosted the Sean Collier Invitational on Saturday. The meet is the first outdoor meet hosted by MIT since the spring of 2019.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- Junior Kenneth Wei (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) and senior Nathan Basinger (Dalton, Ohio) each won a pair of events to lead the team. Wei is ranked eighth in the nation in the long jump after a winning jump of 24 feet, 1.75 inches, as well as 19th in the country in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.72 seconds. First-year Walter Truitt (Houston, Texas) finished second in the hurdles as he was right behind Wei at 14.82 seconds.
 
- Basinger won both the shot put and discus, as well as finishing third in the hammer throw. He won the shot put with a throw of 50 feet, 1.25 inches, along with a distance of 154 feet, eight inches in the discus. He then followed that with a throw of 167 feet, four inches in the hammer. First-year Sam Engebretson (Sioux Falls, S.D.) also finished in the top five in all three events, including second in the discus at 153 feet, six inches. He was also third in the shot put at 48 feet, 2.75 inches and fourth in the hammer throw at 164 feet, two inches. Senior William Woltmann (Secaucus, N.J.) placed fourth in the shot put with a throw of 47 feet, 9.75 inches.
 
- Graduate student Liam Ackerman (Miami, Fla.) led a sweep of the top five spots in the pole vault as he is now eighth in the country with a height of 15 feet, 11.25 inches. Senior Everett Brandyberry (Hill City, Kan.) and junior Bryan Sperry (San Diego, Calif.) tied for second at 15 feet, 1.5 inches, with first-year Luka Srsic (Worthington, Ohio) placing fourth at the same height. Senior Max Hardy (Houston, Texas) completed the sweep in fifth with a height of 14 feet, 7.5 inches.
 
- Senior Ryan Wilson (Redwood City, Calif.), the indoor NCAA national champion in the 800, is now ranked sixth in the country outdoors after winning in a time of 1:50.72. First-year Pau Ilerbaig-Bajona (Toronto, Canada) was second and is 13th in the nation with a time of 1:51.75.
 
- Benton Wilson won the 400 meters by a .40-second margin in a time of 49.63 seconds, while sophomore Jacob Hansen (Bountiful, Utah) captured the 5,000 meters in 14:53.79. The Engineers took by 4x100 relay by just .06 seconds as the team of junior Jeremiah Budiman (Plano, Texas), junior McKinley Polen (Los Altos, Calif.), Wilson and junior Omozusi Guobadia (Katy, Texas) ran a time of 42.39 seconds. Budiman was second in the 100 at 11.06 seconds, with Guobadia in fourth at 11.09 and Polen in fifth at 11.12.
 
- First-year Pablo Arroyo (Richardson, Texas) finished third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 10:09.64, while junior Steven Marquez (El Centro, Calif.) was fifth in the high jump with a clearance of five feet, 11.25 inches.
 
- In the final relay of the meet for the Engineers, the team of Ilerbaig-Bajona, first-year Ziyad Hassan (Ashburn, Va.), senior Matt Schofield (Shorewood, Ill.) and first-year Dreese Fadil (Newburyport, Mass.) was third in 3:28.19.
 
- Below are the current top-20 rankings for the Engineers, from meets up to this point in the season as listed at www.tfrrs.org.
 
110-Meter Hurdles
19. Kenneth Wei - 14.72
 
400 Meters
14. Benton Wilson - 48.28
16. Ian Koe - 48.32
 
800 Meters
6. Ryan Wilson - 1:50.72
13. Pau Ilerbaig-Bajona - 1:51.75
 
4x400 Relay
11. Evan Schaefer, Benton Wilson, Walter Truitt, Ian Koe - 3:16.75
 
Pole Vault
8. Liam Ackerman - 15' 11.25"
17. Everett Brandyberry - 15' 5"
17. Luka Srsic - 15' 5"
 
Long Jump
8. Kenneth Wei - 24' 1.75"
 
Discus
10. Sam Engebretson - 164' 10"
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT returns to action on Saturday, April 30th as the Engineers travel to the NEWMAC Championship at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
 
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