Video Tribute: The CMS Men's Track and Field Class of 2021

As part of NCAA Division III week (Apr. 5-11), we will be honoring the senior classes for all 21 of our varsity sports. A number of our student-athletes elected to take a semester or a school year off and could return to action next season, but we have chosen to honor the senior classes as they would have been, without the COVID-19 interruption. The members of the Class of 2021 lost so much of what they had built towards in their first 2-3 years of competition when the pandemic hit, but still clearly left their mark on CMS Athletics.

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The senior class for the CMS Men's Track and Field team condensed a lot of impact into a short time. After a fourth-place finish in the SCIACs in 2018, the group helped lift the Stags back to the top of the SCIAC packing order, winning a conference title on its home track in 2019, the 25th the program has won in its rich history.

CMS was picked fourth in the preseason poll, but came through with a comfortable 40-point win over Pomona-Pitzer, which entered SCIACs ranked No. 2 in the country. The Stags dominated the throws with several 21'ers finding their way onto the podium with All-Conference performances, and capped off the weekend with a 4x400 relay win as the finishing touch to a championship. 

The Stags were off to a good start in their quest to repeat in 2020, dominating the first SCIAC Multi-Dual, before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the season. 



The 11 track and field-only members of the CMS Class of 2021 are as follows (the eight distance runners were honored in Tuesday's cross country tribute video, and their bios are underneath)

Jacob Adolphe (Sprints, Leesburg, Va. - CMC, Economics and Computer Science)
Adolphe had a PR in the 100 meters in his last postseason meet, an 11.29 at the SCIAC Championships in 2019, which was good for 14th. As a junior, he competed in three meets before the suspension of spring sports, including a new PR in the long jump at the Rossi Relays (19' 0.75"). He had a top 10 finish in the 100 at the final meet of the year, a five-team SCIAC Multi-Dual at Whittier, while also setting a personal best in the 200 (23.47). An economics and computer science major at Claremont McKenna, Adolphe was part of the SCIAC All-Academic Team all three seasons with the Stags. He held a summer position as a data engineer with the United States Department of Defense, and recently had a technology consulting internship with Deloitte. 

Eamon Brady (Jumps, Kailua, Hawai'i - CMC, Economics)
Brady had his career sidetracked by injury after a promising start, which saw him finish 13th out of 30 at the 2018 SCIAC Championships in the long jump with a top distance of 20'5.25". He had a PR in the triple jump at the third SCIAC Multi-Dual at 43'6" and had two top-five finishes in the triple jump (third) and long jump (fifth) at the second SCIAC Multi-Dual. An economics major at Claremont McKenna, Brady is fluent in Japanese and has served as an advisor for the Asian Pacific American Mentors (APAM) on campus, as well as a member of the Claremont Colleges Christian Athletes (CCCA). When not on campus, he has held a summer position with the Bank of Hawai'i as a treasury analyst, assisted in updating and analyzing financial statements and key executives from foreign correspondent banks.

Maxwell Knowles (Throws, Chatsworth, Calif. - CMC, Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
The SCIAC champion and an NCAA Qualifier in the javelin in 2019, Knowles lost his chance to defend his title as a senior in 2020 and was planning to return for his final season this spring. Knowles won the 2019 crown with a throw of 199 feet even, leading a 1-2-3 finish of Stags, which also included 21'ers Jordan Venglass and Connor Schulz (as well as 21'er Ross Rainaldi in sixth). His 199-foot throw moved him into fourth place in the javelin CMS history, and he followed that by placing 12th at the NCAA Division III Championships. He started off his shortened senior season by finishing first at the Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers Meet (190'2") to take SCIAC Track Athlete of the Week honors and then winning the javelin at the first SCIAC Multi-Dual. A SCIAC All-Academic team selection as a PPE major, Knowles has worked for the last year at zerogrocery.com, a company that aspires to change the way Americans consume groceries

Andrew Maltz (Throws, Palo Alto, Calif. - CMC, Biochemistry)
Maltz played for both the CMS football and track and field teams during his career. He scored at the SCIAC Championships in 2018 by coming in fourth place in the shot put with a PR of 43'11.25" and also added a 10th place finish in the discus. He had a PR in the discus in the 2019 league championships as a sophomore with a throw of 120'11", which was good for 13th place. He competed in three meets his junior year before the suspension of spring sports, coming in fifth in the shot put at two events, including a five-team SCIAC Multi-Dual. A biochemistry major at Claremont McKenna, Maltz has also worked as a documentation specialist for the validation department at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Alex McDonald (Sprints/Hurdles, San Francisco, Calif. - CMC, Economics and Psychology)
McDonald earned two SCIAC Championships as a sophomore, taking the individual title in the 400 hurdles and combining on the winning 4x400 relay team. He qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships in the hurdles with his time of 53.10, which ties for the second-fastest in CMS history. He was a USTFCCCA All-West Region selection and earned the SCIAC Track Athelte of the Week during the regular season as well. In his shortened junior season, he earned two first-place finishes in the same two events at the five-team SCIAC Multi-Dual. McDonald attends Claremont McKenna, where he has a dual major in psychology and economics with a leadership studies sequence, and has been involved on campus as a founder and coach for the Claremont Boxing Club, which grew to over 700 members. He is currently serving an internship as a junior executive sales rep at Paycom. 

Dylan McGarvey (Hurdles, La Verne, Calif. - CMC, Computer Science and Economics)
McGarvey competed in the SCIAC Championships his first two years in the 110-meter hurdles, coming in 13th place as a sophomore in 2019 with a 16.39, just off his PR set earlier in the year with a 16.31 at the third SCIAC Multi-Dual. He knocked over a half-second off his time from his freshman season, when he had a 16.92 at SCIACs. He competed in the hurdles twice in his abbreviated junior senior, finishing ninth at the Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers Meet. A dual major in computer science and economics at Claremont McKenna, McGarvey took an academic leave of absence during this remote learning year due to the pandemic, opening up the possibility of returning to the track and field team next season with the Class of 2022.   

Ross Rainaldi (Multi, Denver, Colo. - CMC, Public Affairs)
Rainaldi has been a versatile athlete who has competed the decathlon, as well as the javelin, high jump and 110-meter hurdles. At the last SCIAC Championships, he was part of the CMS dominance in the javelin, finishing sixth as the Stags had four of the top six in the field. He also came in ninth in the high jump and 12th in the hurdles. He ended in third place in the decathlon at the Claremont Multis, winning the high jump and the javelin, and set a PR in the high jump by clearing six feet. As a first-year, he scored at SCIACs in both the 110-meter hurdles with a seventh-place finish and in the high jump by finishing eighth. A public affairs major at Claremont McKenna, Rainaldi has been a SCIAC All-Academic Team selection and served as an assistant organizing director for the Mike Johnston for Colorado campaign. 

Connor Schulz (Multi, La Canada, Calif. - CMC, Applied Mathematics)
Schulz was an All-SCIAC winner in the javelin at the 2019 conference championships, finishing third (173'7") to complete a 1-2-3 sweep in the event for the Stags. He also was second in the javelin at the final SCIAC Multi-Dual. As a first-year, he came in fifth at SCIACs with a throw of 166'11" and was part of a 4x400 relay that came in fourth, while also finishing fifth in the decathlon at the Claremont Classic. He added a third-place finish at the first SCIAC Multi-Dual as a junior prior to the suspension of spring sports. An applied mathematics major at Claremont McKenna, has been a SCIAC All-Academic Team selection with a GPA over 3.9 and has worked as a data analytics intern with Internet Brands in Los Angeles since June. On campus, he has served as a resident technology assistant and was selected as a lead lab technology assistant for the 2020-21 academic year. 

Matthew Sill (Throws, Wayzata, Minn. - CMC, Finance)
Sill was one of the central figures in the throws dominance that carried CMS to the 2019 SCIAC title, winning the individual championships in both the discus and the hammer. He also added a seventh-place finish in the shot put to provide 22 points to the Stags' winning total. He moved into the top 10 in CMS history in the discus at the SCIAC Championships with a winning throw of 150'2", while his winning throw in the hammer (163'5") was also a PR. As a junior, he competed in three meets before the suspension of sports and had a PR in the shot put (42'4"), while finishing second in the hammer and discus and fourth in the shot put at a five-team SCIAC Multi-Dual. A SCIAC All-Academic Team selection, Sill will graduate with a bachelors in economics and a masters in finance, and interned last summer as an analyst with Portage Point Partners. On campus he has been a student assistant in the Dean of Students Office and a research assistant with the Financial Economics Institute. 

Henry Sojico (Sprints, Santa Clarita, Calif. - HMC, Computer Science)
Sojico competed in the 100 and the 200 at the 2019 SCIAC Championships. He clocked an 11.28 in the 100 to come in 12th place, and added a 23.10 in the 200 to finish in 17th. He was part of a 4x100 relay team that came in first place in the second SCIAC Multi-Dual, while finishing sixth in the 100 with an 11.32. He competed in four meets as a junior before the suspension of sports, earning a new PR in the 200 at 22.99, while adding another PR in the 400 with a 53.64 at the CMS OIDFE Meet. As a first-year, he had an 11.17 in the 100 at the SCIAC Championships, but narrowly missed the finals. A SCIAC All-Academic Team selection as a computer science major at Harvey Mudd, Sojico has held a software engineering internship at Forma, worked as a computational and applied mathematics researcher at UCLA, and as a data science researcher on campus at Mudd. 

Jordan Venglass (Javelin, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif - CMC, Government)
Venglass transferred in as a sophomore from the University of California and only had one full season (plus two meets) with the Stags, but cracked the top 10 in school history in the javelin in that limited time, moving into the No. 9 spot. He earned All-SCIAC honors with a second-place finish at the SCIAC Championships, behind only teammate Maxwell Knowles (with classmates Connor Schulz in third and Ross Rainaldi in sixth). His top throw that moved him on to the CMS charts came at the second SCIAC Multi-Duals, when he reached 182'8" at Caltech, which was the winning throw at the event. He was second in the javelin at the first SCIAC Multi-Dual as a junior, before the cancelation of spring sports. Venglass majored in government at CMC as a Four-Year Army ROTC Scholarship Recipient and has accepted a full-time position with ICONIQ Captial in the San Francisco Bay Area.   

Distance Runners (honored in Tuesday's cross country tribute video)

Evan Hassman (Ardmore, Pa. - HMC, Engineering) 
Hassman earned All-America honors during track and field honors as a sophomore, finishing in eighth place in the steeplechase at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships. He also had his highest finish at the SCIAC Cross Country Championships as a sophomore, finishing in 29th place, while also adding a top-10 finish (sixth) at the Cougar Challenge and a 15th place finish at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational. His 9:08.60 in the steeplechase at the Occidental Distance Carnival moved him into third place in CMS Track and Field History. An engineering major at Harvey Mudd, Hassman earned SCIAC All-Academic Team honors and USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors and has held software engineering internships at Honeywell Aerospace and Google. 

Gage Hornung (Boulder, Colo. - CMC, Economics, Environment and Politics (EEP))
Hornung came in 36th place at the SCIAC Cross Country Championships as a freshman in 2017, while adding an 11th place finish at the Coyote Challenge and a 15th place finish at the Biola Invitational. He returned to action at the SCIAC Championships as a junior two years later, and ran in two meets during track and field season before the suspension of spring sports. A SCIAC All-Academic Team selection every year, Hornung majors in economics, environment and politics at Claremont McKenna and serves as a research analyst for the Lowe Institute of Political Economy at CMC. 

Will Kimball (Sammamish, Wash. - CMC, Mathematics and Economics)
Kimball had a strong performance at the SCIAC Track and Field Championships in 2019 with two top-10 finishes, earning fourth place in the steeplechase and coming back to earn 10th in the 5000.He  has made the All-SCIAC second team in each of his last two seasons of cross country competition, while representing CMS at nationals as one of the team's top seven. As a junior, he also added USTFCCCA All-West Region honors to his resume by coming in 12th place at regionals, matching his finish at the SCIAC Championships. As a sophomore, he finished 14th at SCIACs to earn all-league honors for the first time. A SCIAC All-Academic Team selection and a USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree, Kimball majors in mathematics and economics at CMC and has interned as a business analyst at Amazon. 

Bennett Mountain (West Springfield, Mass. - HMC, Computer Science and Mathematics)
In Mountain's last SCIAC Track and Field Championships as a sophomore in 2019, he contributed with a strong 13th place showing in the 1500 meters, earning a time of 4:13.52. He also finished in the top half of the field at his last SCIAC Cross Country Championships, earning a 53rd place finish. A computer science and mathematics major at Harvey Mudd, Mountain has held internships at Facebook for two straight summers doing data analytics, and has also recently served as an AI Engineer intern at Masimo in Irvine, California. On campus, he has served as a computer science grader and tutor, aiding students in Principles and Practice of Computer Science, a course taught in Java, Assembly and Python. 

Arjun Natarajan (Los Gatos, Calif. - HMC, Computer Science and Mathematics)
As a sophomore, Natarajan scored for the Stags at the SCIAC Track and Field Championships, earning eighth place in the steeplechase with a personal best time of 9:50.06. He also had three top-six finishes in the steeple at SCIAC Multi-Duals during the regular season, with a high of fourth at the second one hosted by Caltech. He has competed at the SCIAC Championships in cross country all three seasons, while earning SCIAC All-Academic Team honors each year, picking up his high finish of 33rd at the Coyote Challenge hosted by CSU San Bernardino. A dual major in computer science and mathematics at Harvey Mudd, Natarajan has held two internships in software engineering and product management at Opsani, and also interned as a software engineer for PayPal. 

Luke Ostrander (Tacoma, Wash. - CMC, Economics)
Ostrander transferred in to Claremont McKenna as a sophomore, after competing for Brandeis University as a freshman. During track and field season as a sophomore, he set a PR in the SCIAC Championships in the 5000 meters with a 16:14.84 after earning two top-five finishes in regular season multi-duals. As a junior, he came in eighth place in the 5000 at the first SCIAC Multi-Dual in track and field season before the suspension of spring sports and added top 50 finishes at the Coyote Challenge and the UC San Diego Triton Challenge during the fall. In his cross country debut for the Stags at the Biola Invitational, he earned a top-50 finish with a strong 44th place showing.  A SCIAC All-Academic Team member, Ostrander has worked as an investment banking analyst for Cowen, Inc. in New York City since June.  

Daniel Sealand (Portland, Ore. - HMC, Computer Science)
Sealand scored in both SCIAC Track and Field meets he competed in during his first two seasons with the Stags, qualifying for the finals and earning an eighth place finish in the 1500 as a first-year in 2018, and then earning an impressive fifth-place finish in the 800 as a sophomore in 2019. In cross country season, he had his best performance in his career at the SCIAC Cross Country Championships as a junior in the fall of 2019. He finished in 29th at SCIACs, a big jump from No. 64 and No. 69 his first two years, and added two top-20 finishes in the regular season at both the Coyote Challenge and the UC Riverside Invitational. A computer science major at Harvey Mudd, Sealand has held a global technology internship position at Nike for the last year, developing a time-series forecast to predict returns in stores.  

Stevie Steinberg (Los Angeles, Calif. - HMC, Engineering)
Steinberg has scored in both SCIAC Track and Field Championships, ending  in sixth place in the 5000 as a sophomore and seventh in the 10000 as a first-year. In cross country, he is a three-time USTFCCCA All-West Region honoree, improving his finish every season as a member of the Stags. He was 25th at regionals as a first-year in 2017, then improved to ninth place in 2018 and came in third place last year as a junior. He also earned All-SCIAC honors for the first time with a seventh place finish to earn first-team all-league, helping the Stags to the team championship, and added a 51st place finish at the NCAA Championships to help CMS finish sixth. An engineering major at Harvey Mudd, Steinberg has worked as an earthquake engineering researcher at Northeastern, and is serving as an engineering intern for Second Order Effects this spring.