TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's and women's outdoor track & field teams will be represented by six student-athletes at the 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, scheduled for May 21-23 at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The NCAA Championships will feature the nation's top competitors, with the top 22 declared student-athletes in each individual event, along with the top 16 relay teams nationally, earning selection to the national meet.
The Engineers will be represented on both the men's and women's sides by qualifiers across the sprints, hurdles, middle distance, jumps, and throws.
Leading the women's qualifiers is
Alice Brambati, who earned national selections in two events. Brambati enters the championship seeded 16th in the 100-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 14.33 seconds, while also qualifying in the long jump, where she is seeded ninth nationally following a top mark of 5.80 meters this spring.
Joining Brambati in the hurdles will be
Emma McGuinn, who qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 14.34 seconds. McGuinn enters the national meet seeded 19th overall, giving the Engineers two qualifiers in the event and highlighting the strength of RPI's hurdling group this season.
On the men's side, RPI qualified three distance runners and one field athlete for the national championships. In the 800 meters, Dominic Pena earned selection after posting a season-best time of 1:50.23, entering the championship seeded 18th nationally.
RPI also qualified two competitors in the 1500 meters, led by
Jack Czarnecki, who enters the field seeded 15th with a season-best time of 3:47.89. Teammate
Evan Lacey joins him in the national field after running 3:47.92, earning the 16th seed overall.
In the field events,
Tristan Mangin earned one of the highest national seeds among the Engineers, qualifying in the javelin throw as the eighth seed nationally with a season-best mark of 65.86 meters.
