NEW ORLEANS, La. — Six members of the Wheaton College (Mass.) men's track & field team were named to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Outdoor All-East Region Team, it was announced by the USTFCCCA.
Junior Kevin Smith (Norfolk, Mass.), sophomores Aidan Greenleaf (Topsham, Maine), Gavin Landry (Sebago, Maine), Harrison Page (South Berwick, Maine) and first years Josy Brown Wright (Sharon, Mass.) and Tyler Lamonde (Swansea, Mass.) were all selected. The total of All-Region choices matches the school record set last year.
All six honorees are receiving All-Region recognition for the first time.
Brown Wright, Greenleaf, Lamonde and Smith were all members of the Lyons' 4X100-meter relay team, while Brown Wright, Greenleaf, Landry and Page were part of Wheaton's 4X400-meter relay unit. Landry also earned All-Region as an individual in the 110-meter hurdles, while Brown Wright earned the status in the 200 meters, the 400 meters and the 400-meter hurdles to become the first Lyon in school history to earn All-Region laurels in five different events in the same season.
Brown Wright broke the school record in the 200 meters with a time of 21.35 to place second at the prestigious Augustana Midwest Twilight Final Qualifier in Rock Island, Ill. on May 14. The time was the second-fastest in the region. The Sharon High School product competed in the event three times during the season, winning the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference crown, while placing second in the other two races. Brown Wright posted the sixth-fastest time in the region in the 400 meters with a mark of 48.66 to finish third at the Division III New England Championship on May 2 and establish the fifth-fastest clip in program annals. The Education major won the event at the Sean Collier Invitational hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 18. He made his lone effort in the 400-meter hurdles a good one, smashing the school record by nearly four tenths of a second with a time of 54.15 for the eighth-fastest region time and a second-place showing at the Tufts Spring Stampede on April 11.
Landry posted a time of 14.72 for the fifth-fastest in the region in the 110-meter hurdles to place fifth in the preliminaries of the Division III New England Championship. The time was the third-fastest in school history and preceded a fourth-place finish in the finals of the event at the meet. A graduate of Baxter Academy of Science and Technology, Landry finished among the top five six times during the season in the event, including a pair of runner-up efforts and a third-place finish at the NEWMAC Championship.
Greenleaf kicked off Wheaton's fastest 4X100-meter relay time, followed by Brown Wright and Lamonde, before Smith closed out the race to combine for a time of 41.45 to place first at the Emory Dooley Elite Meet on April 4 in Atlanta, Ga. The mark was the fourth-fastest in the region and ranks sixth-best in school history. Greenleaf and Lamonde were staples on the Lyons' 4X100 relay all season, competing in four meets for the Blue and White.
Brown Wright and Greenleaf were joined by Landry and Page to post a time of 3:18.65 for the fifth-fastest clip in the region to place 11th in the 4X400-relay at the Midwest Twilight Final Qualifier. The time was also the fourth-fastest in school annals. The quartet ran together just once all season, while Greenleaf and Page competed in all three meets that Wheaton's 4X400-relay was entered.
The Lyons placed sixth at the NEWMAC Championship and recorded 24 top-10 marks in program history during the season.