Coming off a successful debut season, the Drew University men's and women's track & field teams will set their sights on continued improvement within the Landmark Conference and Metro region this year under second-year Head Coach Sean Robinson.
 
Last season, the women's team celebrated its inaugural year with numerous individual accolades. During the indoor season, the Rangers claimed the first two Landmark Conference individual titles in team history with Emily Camlet (400-meter dash) and Melina Christodoulou C'24 (high jump) claiming one gold medal apiece. By virtue of their performances, both were named First Team All-Landmark Conference. Christodoulou went on to capture All-Metro Region honors for her performance in the high jump during the indoor season, as did Sage Hendershot in the long jump.
 
Outdoors, Camlet and Christodoulou medaled at the Landmark Conference Championships once again, with each finishing third in the same two events to earn Honorable Mention All-Landmark Conference recognition. They also captured a spot on the All-Metro Region team, along with Hendershot (long jump) and Kate Rice (5,000-meter run).
 
On the men's side, the Rangers also brought home some Landmark Conference hardware in their first-ever conference championship during the indoor season. Zach Mogambi led the way with a runner-up finish in the shot put to earn Second Team All-Landmark Conference honors while the 4x200-meter relay team of Ricky Ruto Talam, Adian Hanson, Alpha Sesay, and Jeff Ayeh-Datey gained honorable mention all-conference accolades with a third-place finish.
 
This season, Drew will feature a total of 42 student-athletes, including 27 returners. On the women's side, 11 Rangers return, including the award-winning trio of Camlet, Hendershot, and Rice.
 
In the sprints, Camlet and Hendershot return to lead the way. Camlet, a junior this season, finished the season with Drew's best times in both the 200- and 400-meter dash (indoors and outdoors) while Hendershot, a sophomore, posted the team's best performances in the 60-meter dash indoors and the 100-meter dash outdoors.
 
Sophomore Lauryn Brown and junior Matasia Christopher will also add depth the sprints this season.

After running the fastest cross country 6,000-meter time in team history this past fall, Rice returns to help lead the Rangers in a wide range of distance events. She posted the squad's top time in six different events spanning the 800 through the 5,000 meters last season.

Sophomore Sarah Hattan also returns after posting the team's top team for the season in the 800-meter run indoors and outdoors a year ago. The distance squad will also include freshman April Kusnier, sophomore Skyler McGuire, senior Caitlin Mulvey, freshman Bella Polizzi, freshman Perri Rubin, sophomore Ariana Vira, junior Annelise Wade, and freshman Deborah Wang.
 
Senior Mazzy Cirinelli also returns after making her presence felt all over the track as a multi-event competitor last year. She also finished as the team's top high hurdler both indoors and outdoors.
 
In addition to competing in the sprints, Hendershot will take to the long jump runway as well. Brown will also bolster the Rangers in the jumps.
 
In the throws, sophomore Lauren Rizzolo is back after competing in all six events last season, setting team-best throws in the indoor weight throw and the outdoor shot put, discus, javelin, and hammer. Juniors Michaela Fajardo and Dejanayha Hill will also compete in the throws this season.
 
With 16 returning athletes, the men's team will boast depth in a number of events, including the sprints, which will feature up to seven athletes this year. Ayeh-Datey returns after clocking the team's best times in all of the short sprints last season while Hanson is also back after posting the squad's second-best marks in the same events.
 
Sophomores Danny Perdomo and Grailin Simmons also return in the sprints while newcomers Olamilekan Olayiwola, Jarred Saltz, and Khalid Yussuf will provide additional depth.
 
Up to seven Rangers will compete in either the middle or long distance events this season, with senior Toby Gaynor leading the way. A long distance specialist, Gaynor is coming off another stellar cross country season in which he became the program's first-ever three-time All-Landmark Conference performer. On the track, he clocked the team's best indoor times in the mile, 3K, and 5K last season.

Also returning are junior Gaetano Allegri, junior Dylan Crain, sophomore Thomas Edwards, and sophomore Aidan Rosser. Edwards recorded Drew's best 1,500 and 5K outdoor times last season while Crain was the Rangers' fastest 10,000-meter runner a year ago. Freshman Matt Ellis and Eliot Vishnevsky will also compete in the distance events.
 
Sophomore Evan Richardson returns in the jumping events after finishing with the team's top mark in the high jump last season. He will be joined by junior Destan Llolla, who posted the team's top performance in the long jump during the outdoor season, and sophomore Ethan O'Bryan, who also the team's lone hurdler last spring.
 
Mogambi will pace Drew in the throwing events one year after his impressive freshman campaign, when he registered the team's best performance in all six indoor and outdoor throwing events. Llolla also returns as the team's top performer in the javelin while sophomore Carl Adolphe, senior Mike Borrelli, and graduate student Darius Sanders return as well. Freshman Teni Olufore will round out the throws contingent.
 
Sophomore transfer Aidan Riccardo will add depth as a multi-event competitor for the Rangers this season. In addition, freshman Owen Browne will compete as Drew's first pole vaulter this season while also competing in the jumps.
 
The Rangers open the season on Saturday, when they compete at the TCNJ Indoor Opener at The Armory in New York City.