
Posted: Jan 11, 2025
BOSTON - In the largest hosted event in Suffolk women's indoor track & field history, the Suffolk Relays, the Rams had one student-athlete earn her place at NCAA Division III Regionals, while three others and the Sprint Medley Relay team rewrote personal records at the Track at New Balance.
REGIONAL RAMS
- Amalia Dorion punched her tickets to New Englands in two events with a pair of runner-up finishes. In the 800, she clocked a 2:20.86 and ran a 5:02.62 mile.
RAMS RECORDS
- Dorion's performance of 2:20.86 in the 800 was program record.
- Hilma Ortega produced a personal record in the 60 as she sprinted to 8.38.
- Ainsley Dion ran a career-best 32.73 200.
- Catherine Brown leapt to a personal-best in the high jump with a 1.53.
- The Sprint Medley Relay team of Amanda Walden, JJ Conteh, Emily Concepcion and Shannon Groom combined forces for a program-record 4:32.79.
RAMS RELAY
- The foursome of Walden, Conteh, Concepcion, and Shannon Groom compiled a 4:32.79 in the Sprint Medley Rely to claim sixth.
RAMS RUNNERS
- Suffolk saw a quarter of student-athletes sprint the 60 in Conteh (8.11), Walden (8.23), Ortega (8.38) and Catherine Madden (8.84).
- Concepion (27.73), Ortega (27.94) and Dion (32.73) all made half a lap around the track in the 200.
- Concepcion turned in a fourth-place finish in the 400 as the senior finished the full lap around the track in 1:00.77. Kaylie Groom was featured in the 29-runner field as well and clocked a 1:06.29, good for 14th.
- Madden (10:00), Ortega (10.04) and Averie Denelle (10.75) all competed in the 60 hurdles.
JUMPERS JIST
- Denelle (1.53), Brown (1.53) and Evelyn Lansing (1.40) participated in the high jump.
- Kara Sickle (3.05), Devyn Battistoni (3.15) represented the blue-and-gold in the pole vault.
- Sasha Helfgott-Waters (9.07) and Dion (8.25) competed in the triple jump.
FIELDERS FACTS
- Divinety Johnson produced an 8.25-meter heave in the shot put.
- Johnson (10.38) was joined by Bailee Mallett (10.32), Gracie O'Connell (9.99) and Lydia Comprosky(8.07) in the weight throw.
YOU'RE NEW HERE
- Dorion ran the 800 and mile as a Ram for the first time.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk has a pair of events on its Saturday, Jan. 18 schedule in the Branwen Smith-King Invitational at Tufts and the Track at New Balance Collegiate Showdown.