INDIANAPOLIS – For the first time since 2019 and second time in Suffolk women's outdoor track & field history, a Ram will head to the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships as Amalia Dorion heard her name called in the official field in the 1500.
For each women's individual event contested, including the heptathlon, the top 20 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition.
Dorion was one of the 20 in the 1500 field after positing the 20th-best time amongst her DIII counterparts this season with a personal-best 4:28.14 in MIT's Final Qualifier Thursday, May 15.
The graduate student that hails from El Paso, Texas, is the second Suffolk female to make the outdoor national field, first since Emily Manfra did so in 2019. She is the third-ever Ram to compete at outdoor NCAAs as Matyas Csiki-Fejer garnered a ticket in 2022.
In a single year as a Ram, Dorion has earned a spot at the national championship in each season with spots in cross country and indoor track & field. Indoors in the mile, she etched her name in Suffolk's record book as the program's second-ever female to garner All-America status with a spot on the U.S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches (USTFCCCA) Second-Team in the mile with a 15th-place performance. She joins Csiki-Fejer and Manfra to complete the trifecta and compete at all three national championships in – cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field – in one calendar year.
Dorion heads out to the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio May 22-24 to compete for outdoor national glory.