Theodor Schucht, Colin Peattie, and Mateo Bianchi of 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, beginning Wednesday, May 27. Coverage will be available on ESPN+.
This qualification allows each athlete to compete for a spot in the NCAA Championships. The top twelve competitors from each individual event and top twelve teams from each relay event advance from this first round.
Schucht is scheduled to run in the 5000-meter semifinal on Friday, May 29 at 8:10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. He enters with the nineteenth-fastest time in the East Region at 13:36.47, a mark he set during last week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Championships while finishing seventh and extending his school record time. Schucht previously raced in last year’s regional where he finished seventeenth overall; he now aims to become only the second athlete in program history—and first since 1986—to reach the NCAA Championships in this event.
Peattie will race Wednesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in his first NCAA Regional appearance after setting a personal best of 3:41.17 in the preliminary round of this year’s conference championships. That performance earned him a spot in the final as well as fourth place all-time for Boston College over this distance; earlier this season he recorded what was then sixth fastest at Penn Relays before improving further at ACCs. Peattie seeks to join Steven Jackson as one of only two Eagles ever to advance to Oregon for nationals in this discipline.
Bianchi is set for competition Friday, May 29 at 5:40 p.m., running his first regional after qualifying with an eighth-minute forty-nine point ninety-four seconds mark—the forty-third fastest time—at ACCs on May fifteenth when he also earned All-ACC honors by improving upon his own school record set earlier this year. If successful here, Bianchi would become Boston College’s first-ever qualifier for nationals in steeplechase.
