EASTON, Mass. (May 29, 2025) – Stonehill College track and field head coach Michael Delgado and his staff were named the Northeast Conference Outdoor Track & Field men's coaching staff of the year, the conference announced on Thursday.
 
Delgado (Throws/Hurdles/Horizontal Jumps), in his sixth season at the helm of the Skyhawks Track & Field program, led a staff of head cross country coach Karen Boen and assistant cross country coach Carl Boen (Distance/Mid-Distance), along with assistant track & field coach Dan Schwartz (Vertical Jumps/Sprints), to the staff's first postseason honor at the Division I level, as voted on by the other NEC head coaches.
 
This is Delgado's second Coaching Staff of the Year award in total, having earned the honor in the Northeast-10 at the Division II level in 2019. He joins Boen, who was given the honor of NEC Cross Country Coach of the Year in both 2022 and 2023, leading the women's squad to the NEC title in 2023.
 
At outdoor championships at W.B. Mason Stadium this past May, the men's team propelled itself from sixth place after the first day of competition, up to second place in the final standings with a team score of 105.50 points, trailing only Central Connecticut, which won the title with 235 points.
 
This was the highest placement for the men's team at NEC Outdoor Championships, placing fourth last year and ninth the year before. Their second-place finish included seven top-three finishes and four silver medals. The women's team placed third with 124 points, their best finish at the DI level after coming in sixth in 2024 and fourth in 2023.
 
Along with the Skyhawks coaching staff receiving postseason recognition, graduate students Jacob Pacheco (Merrimack, N.H.) and Cody DeAngelo (Old Saybrook, Conn.), and senior Parker Hagen (Newport, R.I.) were named to the NEC All-Conference Second Team for their silver medals in the javelin throw, pole vault, and the triple jump. The Skyhawks' 4x100-meter relay team also earned Second Team honors.
 
The men's NEC All-Rookie Team included freshmen Kyle Kwiatek (Lynn, Mass.) and Jacob Tobin (Natick, Mass.), who were the top first-year finishers in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races.
 
On the women's side, graduate student Abigail Larsson (Bayport, N.Y.) won the pole vault to be the lone Skyhawk to earn All-Conference First Team honors. Classmate Kaytlin Encarnacao (Reading, Mass.) was named to the All-Conference Second Team after earning a silver medal in the 400-meter race. Joining her with second team honors was senior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) for her performance in the 100-meter hurdles and sophomore Kayla Oakes (Kingston, N.Y.), who placed second in the long jump.
 
Stonehill's 4x400-meter relay and 4x800-meter relay teams were also additions to the NEC All-Conference Second Team. The Skyhawk women led the conference with four student-athletes on the NEC All-Rookie Team, as freshmen Hannah Santos (Swansea, Mass.), Rachael Korowski (Hudson, Mass.), Emmy Belvin (Chepachet, R.I.), and Makenna Dube (North Andover, Mass.) were all recognized by the conference. Santos was the top freshman finisher in the high jump, Korowski in the 1500-meter race, Belvin in the 800-meter race, and Dube in the shot put.

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