Theodor Schucht, Colin Peattie, and Mateo Bianchi from the Boston College Men’s Track and Field team qualified on May 22 for the 2026 NCAA Division I East First Round. The event will be held at the UK Outdoor Track & Field Complex in Lexington, Kentucky, starting Wednesday, May 27. Coverage will be available on ESPN+.
This qualification is significant as it provides these athletes with an opportunity to advance to the national stage. The top twelve competitors from each individual event and relay team in each first round move forward to subsequent rounds.
Schucht is scheduled to compete in the 5000-meter semifinal on Friday, May 29 at 8:10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. He enters with a time of 13:36.47, which ranks nineteenth in the East Region—a mark he set during last week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Championships where he finished seventh and extended his school record. Schucht previously raced in last year’s regional meet and finished seventeenth overall. He aims to become only the second athlete in program history since 1986 to reach the NCAA Championships in this event.
Peattie will participate in his first NCAA Regional after qualifying for the first round of the men’s 1500 meters on Wednesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time with a personal best of 3:41.17 achieved at this year’s ACC Outdoor Championships preliminaries. Earlier this season at Penn Relays he recorded what was then his fastest time before improving further at ACCs; Peattie hopes to join Steven Jackson as one of only two Eagles ever to reach Oregon for this race.
Bianchi is set for his debut appearance at an NCAA Regional by racing in the quarterfinals of the men’s 3000-meter steeplechase on Friday, May 29 at 5:40 p.m., having qualified with a time of 8:49.94 earned during ACC Championships where he also secured All-ACC honors and broke his own school record earlier this year.
These achievements reflect both individual milestones and broader progress within Boston College’s track program as all three athletes attempt to advance further than any Eagle has managed recently.
