WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The 4x800-meter relay captured the first AARTFC title in program history with a school-record run that led the Union College men's outdoor track & field to a 20th-place finish after the second and final day of the 2025 All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference Outdoor Championships, held on Thursday afternoon at Williams College's Weston Athletic Complex.
 
The Garnet Chargers earned all their points on Thursday's second day of competition, picking up points from all three of the team's day-two entries to finish the event with 16 points.
 
The highlight of the event came after a long wait, as the second heat of the 4x800 relay was halted at the tail end of the opening 800 due to lightning in the area and delayed over 2.5 hours. When the competition finally resumed, the all-class quartet of senior Ben Neff, junior Will Plante, sophomore Michael Fitzmaurice and first-year Liam Fitzgibbon traversed the track in a program-record 7:49.31. The team ran faster with each subsequent 800, and Neff closed by running his two laps in 1:55:17 to overtake Hamilton College and earn the win.
 
Neff also started the day for the men in the 1,500 meters and took almost a second off his personal best time, finishing his final collegiate individual race in 3:52.24 to place fourth. The senior finished less than a second off the winning time in earning five points for the Garnet Chargers.
 
Junior Jason Bois earned a point for Union as well after qualifying for the finals of the 110-meter hurdles yesterday. Bois finished eighth in Thursday's final, finishing in 14.93 seconds.
 
The AARTFC Championships concludes another excellent season for the men's track & field team that saw two program records broken and the team's third top-20 finish at regionals in the last five years.