Women’s Track & Field Wins Indoor Patriot League Championship

Saturday, March 1

Annapolis, MD / Wesley A. Brown Field House

Boston University

Patriot League Championships

Women's Track and Field poses with the trophy for the Patriot League Championship

Women’s Track & Field Wins Indoor Patriot League Championship

March 2, 2025 | Women's Track & Field

Results Grant Cartwright Postmeet Audio

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – For the third time in program history and the first time since 2016, the Boston University women's track and field team claimed the Patriot League indoor track and field championship at Navy's Wesley A. Brown Field House on Sunday afternoon.

BU amassed 166 points to win the championship, marking its second-highest points total in program history and its highest since last winning the title in 2016. Navy finished second with 148.5 points while Army West Point took third with 139.5 points.

Director of track and field and cross country Grant Cartwright was named coach of the year. Junior Peace Omonzane was named the field athlete of the meet while junior Vera Sjöberg was named track athlete of the meet and the highest points scorer. Both Omonzane and Sjöberg received their honors for the second year in a row.

The Terriers picked up three golds, one silver and one bronze on the final day of competition for a total of 11 medals to help BU to its title.

Sjöberg successfully defended her titles in the mile and 3,000m races to complete a sweep of the women's distance events for the second year in a row. She is the first in Patriot League history to claim golds in the mile, 3,000m and 5,000m in back-to-back years at the indoor championship meet. Sjöberg also accumulated 30 points from her three event wins, marking her as the highest point scorer for the second year in a row. The Stockholm, Sweden native's time of 4:40.71 in the mile set a meet record, taking down a time that had been set by former Terrier Monica Adler in 2014.

Omonzane took gold in the triple jump to sweep the horizontal jumps for the second consecutive year. She is the first Terrier to win both horizontal jumps in back-to-back years since Lovie Burleson in 2016 and 2017.

The Terriers swept the podium in triple jump with senior Emma Lawrence claiming silver and senior Jamie Chamberlain taking home bronze. BU took five of six positions on the podium in the horizontal jumps after Omonzane won the long jump on Saturday and senior Jamie Chamberlain took silver.

Freshman Iman Roka picked up a bronze for BU in the 60m hurdles. In the high jump, senior Asia Hamilton finished tied for third, earning a bronze medal.

The Terriers had a number of athletes pick up important points in finals, with junior Jada Smith taking fourth in the 60m finals and earning five points. Junior Merem Gabriel-Rodriguez earned fifth in the 3000m, freshman Caroline Collins took fifth in the mile and junior Sammy Seabury took sixth. The 4x400m relay crew of Smith, junior Ijeoma Ezechukwu and freshmen Alexis Caggiano and Kendall Barnhart took fourth. Graduate student Juliana Nakouzi and junior Ellie Roan each added points with fourth- and fifth-place finishes in the shot put.

TERRIER TOP 10

Nakouzi's mark of 14.73 meters is a personal best in the shot put and keeps her at third all-time in the event.
Roan reached 14.68 meters in the shot put, improving her fourth-best mark of all time with a personal best.
Lawrence added her name to the top 10 list with a 12.30m mark, coming it at seventh in the triple jump at BU.

DAY TWO RESULTS

PL	NAME	EVENT	TIME/MARK	TOP-10 TERRIER
4	Jada Smith	60m Finals	7.58
3	Iman Roka	60m Hurdles Finals	8.60 - Bronze Medalist
6	Kendall Barnhart	400m Finals	56.31
7	Lily Borin	800m Finals	2:12.36
8	Leonni Griffin	800m Finals	2:14.32
1	Vera Sjöberg	Mile	4:40.14 - Gold Medalist
5	Caroline Collins	Mile	4:48.13
6	Sammy Seabury	Mile	4:50.61
1	Vera Sjöberg	3000m	9:29.07 - Gold Medalist
5	Merem Gabriel-Rodriguez	3000m	9:44.79
8	Ola Szulska	3000m	9:48.19
12	Abby Waddington	3000m	9:57.50
25	Caroline Collins	3000m	10:18.49
4	Jada Smith, Ijeoma Ezechukwu, Alexis Caggiano, Kendall Barnhart	4x400m	3:49.80
T3	Asia Hamilton	High Jump	1.65m
9	Dakota Wang	High Jump	1.60m
4	Juliana Nakouzi	Shot Put	14.73m	3rd All-Time
5	Ellie Roan	Shot Put	14.68m	4th All-Time
7	Kiana Lino	Shot Put	14.50m
11	Madison Sorrell	Shot Put	13.52m
1	Peace Omonzane	Triple Jump	12.62m - Gold Medalist
2	Emma Lawrence	Triple Jump	12.30m - Silver Medalist	7th All-Time
3	Asia Hamilton	Triple Jump	11.87m - Bronze Medalist

DAY ONE RESULTS

PL	NAME	EVENT	TIME/MARK	TOP-10 TERRIER
4	Jada Smith	60m Semifinals	7.59Q
10	Chinonye Moneme	60m Semifinals	7.75
13	Ijeoma Ezechukwu	60m Semifinals	7.81
3	Iman Roka	60m Hurdles Semifinals	8.57Q
10	Jada Smith	200m Semifinals	25.06
15	Ijeoma Ezechukwu	200m Semifinals	25.20
24	Chinonye Moneme	200m Semifinals	25.59
25	Kendall Barnhart	200m Semifinals	25.73
29	Alexis Caggiano	200m Semifinals	26.07
5	Kendall Barnhart	400m Semifinals	56.50Q
20	Alexis Caggiano	400m Semifinals	58.79
5	Lily Borin	800m Semifinals	2:11.29Q
7	Leonni Griffin	800m Semifinals	2:11.35Q
9	Olivia Dodds	800m Semifinals	2:12.31
14	Maura Woodland-Medenilla	800m Semifinals	2:13.71
1	Vera Sjöberg	Mile Semifinals	4:51.00Q
3	Sammy Seabury	Mile Semifinals	4:51.40Q
10	Caroline Collins	Mile Semifinals	4:54.15Q
1	Vera Sjöberg	5000m Finals	16:21.28 - Gold Medalist
6	Ola Szulska	5000m Finals	16:53.10
8	Merem Gabriel-Rodriguez	5000m Finals	17:07.80
13	Abby Waddington	5000m Finals	17:31.53
3	Leonni Griffin, Olivia Dodds, Lily Borin, Maura Woodland-Medenilla	4x800m Relay	9:03.56 - Bronze Medalist	5th All-Time
1	Peace Omonzane	Long Jump	6.20m - Gold Medalist	School Record, Meet Record
2	Jamie Chamberlain	Long Jump	5.97m - Silver Medalist	Tied 7th All-Time
4	Asia Hamilton	Long Jump	5.86m
5	Emma Lawrence	Long Jump	5.80m
10	Iman Roka	Long Jump	5.44m
11	Cailey Spanitz	Pole Vault	3.50m
13	Alli Lofquist	Pole Vault	3.50m
1	Ellie Roan	Weight Throw	20.43m - Gold Medalist
6	Uchenna Uba	Weight Throw	17.80m
7	Juliana Nakouzi	Weight Throw	17.19m
18	Madison Sorrell	Weight Throw	14.72m
1	Olivia Hughes	Pentathlon	3,581 points - Gold Medalist	5th All-Time
2	Olivia Hughes	Pentathlon 60m Hurdles	9.05
1	Olivia Hughes	Pentathlon High Jump	1.64m
1	Olivia Hughes	Pentathlon Shot Put	11.97m
7	Olivia Hughes	Pentathlon Long Jump	5.01m
8	Olivia Hughes	Pentathlon 800m	2:31.29