Men’s track & field finishes indoor season with 16 All-Region and 5 All-American honors
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College men's track and field team completed an impressive indoor season, with a number of individuals earning All-Region and All-American honors while the team captured valuable points at the national championship meet, finishing 25th among the 61 schools represented.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College men's track and field team completed an impressive indoor season, with a number of individuals earning All-Region and All-American honors while the team captured valuable points at the national championship meet, finishing 25th among the 61 schools represented.
The distance medley relay squad finished in 6th place at the NCAAs with a time of 9:47.56, the third best time in the event in school history, giving TJ Zwall, Bryce Cooper, Zachary Liu-Walter, and Keiyu Mamiya First Team All-American honors. Additionally, first-year jumper Ulysses Junker earned All-American plaudits after finishing 6th in the long jump, with his season-best mark putting him in second place on the school's all-time indoor record list.
Williams also had 16 All-Region performances, an honor given to the top eight individuals in each event from each region on the year-end Descending Order Lists, in addition to each member of the region's top eight relay teams. The honors came from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The DMR team earned All-Region laurels for their mark that qualified them for NCAAs, with Liu-Walter also earning the title in the 800m and Mamiya doing so in the mile, and Junker was an All-Region performer in both the long jump and the 200m. The Ephs had a pair of honorees in the 5000m, with Eli Welch and Luke Zanuck both performing among the top in the region, and the Ephs other relay, the 4x400m which consisted of Desmond Snyder, Juan Talisayon, Colin Stone and Cooper, also earned the honor. Vincent VanMaaren was All-Region in the pole vault, as was Joseph Kouame-Waldman in the heptathlon.
The full list of All-American and All-Region performers is below.
USTFCCCA ALL-AMERICANS
DMR Bryce Cooper First Team
Long Jump Uly Junker First Team
DMR Zachary Liu-Walter First Team
DMR Keiyu Mamiya First Team
DMR TJ Zwall First Team
USTFCCCA ALL-REGION
4x400 Relay Bryce Cooper
DMR Bryce Cooper
Long Jump Uly Junker
200m Uly Junker
Heptathlon Joseph Kouame-Waldman
800m Zachary Liu-Walter
Mile Keiyu Mamiya
DMR Keiyu Mamiya
4x400 Relay Desmond Snyder
4x400 Relay Colin Stone
4x400 Relay Juan Talisayon
Pole Vault Vincent VanMaaren
5000m Eli Welch
5000m Luke Zanuck
DMR TJ Zwall