No. 1 Women's Track & Field Takes Second at NE DIII Championships; Sanderson Sets Meet Record in 3000m

BOSTON, Mass. — Junior Kate Sanderson (West Hartford, Conn.) set a meet record in the 3000m, while graduate student Gillian Roeder (Delmar, N.Y.) and senior Alexis Boykin (Clayton, Ohio) each captured event victories to lead the No. 1 ranked MIT women's track & field team to a second place finish at the 2025 New England Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships at The TRACK at New Balance.

THE BASICS:

MIT Team Score: 2nd of 28 (108 points)
Top-Five Team Scores: 1. Williams (142.50), 2. MIT (108); 3. Tufts (88); 4. Amherst (73); 5. Middlebury (52)

HOW IT HAPPENED - TRACK EVENTS:

Mile: Roeder won the event in 4:54.50. Sophomore Jessica Meza (Columbus, Ind.) added a 20th place time of 5:15.41.
400m: Senior Olivia Dias (East Taunton, Mass.) was fifth in 57.46 and senior Marina Miller (Bel Air, Md.) was seventh in 58.03 seconds. First year Maeve Sullivan (San Antonio, Texas) added a 13th place time of 59.39.
800m: Junior Krystal Montgomery (San Jose, Calif.) was the runner-up in 2:12.35.
200m: Sophomore JoJo Miller (Marietta, Ga.) was 20th in 25.87 and junior Shreya Kalyan (Troy, Mich.) was 22nd in 25.90 seconds.
3000m: Sanderson and senior Christina Crow (Mercer Island, Wash.) finished 1-2, with Sanderson posting a meet record time of 9:36.29 and Crow finishing in 9:47.08. Sophomore Megan Diulus (Akron, Ohio) was 21st in 10:34.36.
4x800m Relay: Sullivan, grad student Archana Mohandas (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Meza, and Roeder took fifth in 9:31.02.
4x400m Relay: Marina Miller, Kalyan, Montgomery and Dias finished as the runner-up in 3:50.63.

HOW IT HAPPENED - FIELD EVENTS:

Weight Throw: Boykin won the event with toss of 19.38m (63"7"), junior Lilia Ould-Hammou (Metuchen, N.J.) took seventh with a mark of 15.37m (50' 5 1/4") and sophomore Macy Brennan (Westlake, Ohio ) was eighth with a mark of 14.93m (48' 11 3/4").
Triple Jump: Junior Nony Otu Ugwu (Katy, Texas) third with a mark of 11.61m (38' 1 1/4").
High Jump: Junior Katie Kempff (St. Charles, Ill.) 11th clearing 1.54m (5' 0 1/2").

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

All New England honors were awarded to top eight finishers in each event.
Sanderson broke the 3000m meet record set by Coast Guard's Kaitlyn Mooney in 2019 (9:36.62), she now ranks sixth nationally and first regionally in the event.
MIT's 4x400 Relay is 12th on the Division III national list and second in the region.
JoJo Miller is 24th in the region in the 200m, tied with Dias, while Kalyan is now 26th thanks to her performance on Saturday.
Brennan is ninth in the region in the weight throw with Saturday's finish.

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