The St. Lawrence University women's track and field team turned in a four event-win 2025-26 campaign, headlined by a record-setting first-year season from Ella Baker, success in multis from Amelia Berthold, and steady contributions across the roster from the sprints to the distance events.
Along the way, the Saints claimed team titles at four regular-season meets. The Saints Holiday Relays on December 5, the SLU Open on February 20, the Saints Ice Breaker on April 4, and the SLU Twilight Invite on April 20.
The Saints opened the Liberty League Indoor Championships at RIT's Gordon Field House in fifth place after day one, powered by podium finishes from Berthold and Madison Beaudoin. Berthold took second in the pentathlon with 3,080 points, highlighted by event wins in the high jump and 800-meter run.
Beaudoin earned bronze in the mile with a personal-record time of 5:06.43 in her first postseason appearance. The DMR squad of Ellie Riley, Maya Dixon, Mia Astrauskas and Paige Poirier placed sixth in 13:55.36, while Baker advanced to the 60-meter final with a fourth-place prelim time of 7.91.
Baker carried that momentum into day two, taking third in the 60, and second in the 200. The Saints earned four USTFCCCA All-Region indoor honors, with Baker recognized in the 60 and 200, Berthold in the pentathlon, and the DMR squad of Beaudoin, Machado, Ash and Avery Blanchard.
At the AARTFC Championships at The Armory in New York City, Baker broke her own 200-meter program record again, lowering it to 25.36. Beaudoin turned in the second-fastest mile of her season for an eighth-place finish, running just 24 hours after anchoring the DMR. The 4x200 squad of Machado, Isla Bougard Duncan, Ash and Baker posted a season-best 1:47.67, Blanchard set a season standard in the 3,000 with a time of 10:26.92, and Ash closed her first-year campaign with the second-quickest 400 of her season.
The Saints opened their outdoor slate in record-setting fashion at the Liberty League Outdoor Championships, hosted on their home track at the Merrick-Pinkard Track and Field Complex. Baker set a program record in the 200 prelims at 25.04 and matched the program record in the 100 at 12.13. Blanchard punched her ticket to regionals with a 10,000-meter PR of 38:24.51, hitting the AARTFC standard. Berthold sat second in the heptathlon through four events after clearing 1.49 meters in the high jump, and Rosemary Fleischmann and Eva Gaetano set personal records in the hammer throw at 40.65 and 37.86 meters.
Baker delivered again on day two, breaking two program sprint records, one of which had stood for nine years. She opened by setting the 100-meter record with a runner-up finish in 12.11, then won the 200 in 24.78 for another program record and her first individual conference championship. Berthold finished second in the heptathlon with 4,234 points and added a fourth-place finish in the high jump, clearing 1.47 meters. The 4x100 squad of Bougard Duncan, Machado, Samantha Legate and Baker placed fourth in 50.08, and Dixon scored in the 400 hurdles with a seventh-place time of 1:10.10. St. Lawrence finished sixth as a team.
At the AARTFC Championships, Beaudoin highlighted the Saints with a personal-record performance in the 800, winning her heat and finishing seventh overall in 2:14.56, six-tenths of a second off the program record. Berthold closed her heptathlon season in eighth place overall, posting a long jump of 4.72 meters, a javelin throw of 25.88 meters, and a fourth-place finish in the heptathlon 800 in 2:29.54 to clinch the podium.
The Saints closed the season with three USTFCCCA All-Region outdoor honors, with Baker recognized in both the 100 and 200, and Berthold in the heptathlon. Berthold capped her season by receiving the Scott Woodburn Female Senior Scholar-Athlete Award at the SLU Sports Awards ceremony.
