Garceau Repeats as National Champion
On the heels of her NCAA Division III National Championship, Wahconah graduate and UMass-Boston senior Aryianna Garceau was named the Northeast Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association this month.
Garceau broke her own Division III record in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.25 seconds at the National Championship meet in Birmingham, Ala.
She also earned all-America honors with a seventh-place finish in the 200-meter dash at the meet -- the fifth all-America recognition in her stellar colleague career.
With this month's win at the NCAA indoors, Garceau has won three national crowns, including the 2025 indoor 60-meter hurdles and the 2025 outdoor 100 hurdles.
Garceau and the Beacons open the outdoor season on Saturday at the Flagship Opener at UMass-Amherst.
Staying on track, Mount Greylock graduate Jack Catelotti helped the Rensselaer Polytechnic men win the Liberty League Indoor Championship. Catelotti ran a leg on the Engineers' third-place 4-by-400 relay team.
Another former Mountie, Wesleyan University first-year student-athlete Katherine Goss, placed 10th in the triple jump with a mark of 10.9 meters at the New England Division III Championships. She opened the outdoor season with a third-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles at last weekend's J. Elmer Swanson Spring Classic in Middletown, Conn.
Gavin Hetherington (Mount Greylock) and the Middlebury men's track and field team started their spring season on the other side of the country at the University of California Riverside Spring Classic last weekend. Hetherington, a first-year thrower for the Panthers, placed ninth in the hammer (38.39 meters) and seventh in the discus (42.94).
On the ski slopes this winter, Eliza Mullen (Pittsfield) placed seventh in the giant slalom at the USCSA Eastern Regionals, helping her Vermont State University Castleton team win the eventh. The Spartans went on to win the slalom and their third regional crown in 10 years at the event at Carrabassett Valley, Maine.
In Nordic skiing, Mount Greylock alum and St. Lawrence University junior Foster Savitsky posted his team's second-fastest time in the 7.5 kilometer Classic race at the NCAA Eastern Regionals. Savitsky and the Saints ended their season at the regionals, where they posted a season-best seventh-place finish in the 20K freestyle on the event's second day.
Dion Brown (Monument Mountain) and the St. Louis University men's basketball team reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament, where the Billikens fell to No. 1 seed Michigan. Brown, a senior, scored 13 points in that loss. He had a team-high 18 points in a first-round win over Georgia. For the season, he averaged 11.3 points and 5.4 rebounds per game at St. Louis.
Another former Spartan, Emmanuel College junior Connor Hanavan, averaged 4.1 points per game while making 21 appearances for the Saints, who compiled a record of 14-13 while reaching the semi-finals of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference tournament.
Hoosac Valley graduate Carson Meczywor finished his senior season at UMass-Boston by starting 22 games and appearing in all 26 for the Beacons (16-10). Meczywor scored 3.7 points this winter.
In her first year at Mount Saint Mary's College, Jaelynn Walker (Taconic) played in 15 games. She scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds (both career highs) in a January win over Yeshiva for the Knights, who went 17-10.
Abigail Scialabba (Hoosac Valley) started every game and played a team-high 725 minutes this winter for the MCLA women's basketball team as the Trailblazers revived their program. Scialabba averaged 8.35 points per game for 0-20 MCLA. She was joined on the squad by McCann Tech grad Amaya Todd, who played 10 games, starting seven, and Taconic alum Khadija Faye, who played 18 games with three starts.
The MCLA men went 9-16 this winter with two Berkshire County products making strong contributions. Frank Field (Hoosac Valley) led the Trailblazers in rebounds (165) and was third in points (285) while starting all 24 games in his first college season. Junior Kymani Harley (Pittsfield) played 13 games, including 11 conference games, and averaged 3.8 points per game for the 9-16 Trailblazers.
Staying in North County, Monument Mountain's Khalil Carlson appeared in four games this winter at Williams College, helping the team go 13-11.
