LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – After beginning the weekend with a pair of individual MAAC Champions, Siena Outdoor Track rounded out the 2024 MAAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships with solid team performances and accolades to reflect them.

The Saints wrapped weekend action at the Michael P. Brady Track & Field Complex in Lawrenceville, New Jersey with a pair of fifth place team finishes, matching both programs' best outdoor finishes and the first time both teams have finished fifth in the same meet.
The conclusion of the weekend also brought the program's first-ever outdoor track major award winner, with freshman Collin Brown named the 2024 MAAC Male Track Rookie of the Meet after placing second in Saturday's men's 3,000-meter steeplechase and fourth in Sunday's men's 5,000-meter race.

 Sunday's action featured four podium finishes for the Green and Gold, with two coming in 800 and two more in the 4x800 relay. Junior Keira Flaherty (2:12.92) finished second in the women's 800, while fifth year Matthew Laframboise (1:53.61) took third on the men's side. The group of sophomore Mattingly O'Rourke, senior Gabby DeAngelis, senior Jennifer McClintock, and Flaherty placed second in the women's 4x800 relay (9:17.29), while the team of senior Griffin Cooke, junior Luke Tkaczyk, fifth year Tommy Anderson, and Laframboise placed third on the men's side (7:51.86).

Graduate student Madeleine Hesler scored with a fourth-place finish in the women's 1,500 (4:39.22), while senior Killian McNamee took sixth on the men's side (3:54.89). The women's 800 also saw DeAngelis (2:17.34) and O'Rourke (2:24.24) score on the women's side in fourth and eighth, respectively. Freshman Faith Skowvron scored with a seventh-place finish in the women's 5,000 (18:07.97), while Brown (14:44.41) and senior Ryan Shanahan (14:50.44) did so on the men's side in fourth and eighth, respectively.

The women's 4x400 relay saw sophomore Julianna Tourangeau, sophomore Chloe Poulos, freshman Katie Hayes, and senior Christina Peppy take tenth place (4:27.38), while the men's team of sophomore PJ Dauer, sophomore Jayson Chichelli, freshman Marcus Homa, and freshman Connor Thomas finish seventh (3:35.97).

The women's team of Peppy, junior Julia Caputo, McClintock, and senior Miranda Gilbert took tenth in the women's 4x100 relay (59.98), while the group of Homa, senior Patrick Fiorillo, Dauer, and Thomas placed seventh on the men's side (50.13).

Following a successful weekend performance, Siena will head to the 2024 ECAC/IC4A Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Fairfax, Virginia May 11 & 12.