Owls student-athletes’ Jarrod Ledvina, Shea Hamel, Molly Finnegan, Dylan Clark, Tom Onorato, Katie Slattery, Ben Dawe, and Emma Nihill were all named to the 2024 MASCAC Fall Sportsmanship Team.
After a strong 2024 fall season, Westfield State Athletics leads in the 2024-25 Howard C. Smith Cup standings, which is awarded annually to the best overall athletics institution in the league.
Tealei Chandonnet (Dracut, Mass.) finished 60th overall with a time of 23:05.8 to lead Westfield State women’s cross country to a 14th-place team finish at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional at Harkness Park in Waterford, Conn.
After winning their fourth consecutive MASCAC Championship, Westfield State women’s cross country dominated the league’s 2024 All-Conference list as eight of the ten spots went to Owls’ athletes after this past Saturday’s MASCAC Championship meet from Doyle Conservation Center in Leominster, Mass.
The Westfield State Athletics SmugMug website has been officially launched to enhance the accessibility of sports photography for student-athletes, families, and the WSU community.
The Owls top unit went to the Conn College meet at Harkness Park in Waterford, Conn., a meet that serves as a preview of the course for the NCAA Mideast Regional later this fall.
Westfield State junior Shea Hamel and first-year Sophia Rebenciuc swept the conference weekly honors as Hamel was named the MASCAC Runner of the Week while Rebenciuc was tabbed the conference’s Rookie of the Week.
Westfield finished with 99 points, behind just regionally ranked Williams (46) and Wesleyan (99). Roger Williams University (108) and Salve Regina (143) rounded out the top five teams at the meet.
Owls teams will wear pink ribbons on their uniforms for home games from Oct. 11 through 19, and SAAC will host a walkathon at the Jerry Gravel Track on October 17.
Westfield State’s women’s cross country first year Sophia Rebenciuc (Southwick, Mass./Bedford HS) was named the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference’s rookie of the week, for the week ending Oct. 6
Tealei Chandonnet paced the Owls with a 61st place finish at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational, a meet featuring 45 teams, and a total of 346 individual runners.
After a team victory at the Owls season-opening meet at Keene State, women’s cross country posted a strong fourth place showing at the Trinity College Invite on Saturday afternoon.
An action packed weekend is about get under way at the Westfield State campus for Owls sports teams. Men’s and women’s cross country, women’s golf, women’s volleyball, field hockey, and women’s soccer all play on Saturday, September 7.
Westfield State women’s cross country junior Shea Hamel and first-year men’s cross country athlete Gavin DaFonte both earned MASCAC weekly honors this past weekend.
Shea Hamel topped the individual performance list with a first place finish to lead Westfield State women’s cross country to a team victory at the Keene State Alumni meet from Keene, N.H. on Saturday afternoon.
Westfield State’s fall sports teams spring into action this weekend, as the Owls have six of their varsity teams begin action starting Friday, August 30.