Completed Event: Men's Track and Field at BIG EAST Championships on February 27, 2026 ,
Men's Track and Field
at BIG EAST Championships
Final
Providence College Athletics
Men's Track and Field
Sinead Delahunty Evans
- Title:
- Head Coach (Women's Track) / Assistant Coach (Cross Country)
- Email:
- sevans5@providence.edu
- Phone:
- (401) 865-2265
Sinead Delahunty Evans begins her third season at her alma mater in 2026-27 and her first as Head Coach of Women's Track and Field and Assistant Coach of Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track and Field. Delahunty Evans joined the staff after one season as an assistant coach at Boston College, where she was responsible for coaching the women's middle-distance athletes and helping recruit top-level NCAA talent.
Delahunty Evans’ first season in 2024-25 saw lots of success for the Friars. In the fall, the women's cross country team qualified for the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Championship and placed third overall, the program's seventh top-three finish all-time and its best result since winning the national title in 2013. Delahunty Evans was instrumental in assisting seven BIG EAST Champions throughout the season. The women’s DMR team (Flockhart, Fenerty, O’Neill, May) finished third at the NCAA Indoor Championships after winning the BIG EAST title for the second year in a row. At the 2025 Penn Relays, the Friars won the 4x1,500 Championship of America in a program record time of 16:59.65, the third-fastest time in collegiate history. Four Friars qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the program’s highest total since 1998. May led the way with a First Team All-America finish in the 1,500 meters (6th), while Millard (5,000 meters) and O’Neill (800 meters) were named Second Team All-Americans. Flockhart rounded out her season with All-America Honorable Mention recognition after competing in the 1,500-meter semifinals.
In 2025-26, Delahunty Evans helped guide the women's cross country team to its fifth consecutive NCAA Championship appearance and 33rd in program history after the Friars finished second among 37 teams at the NCAA Northeast Regional. During the indoor season, Maeve O'Neill enjoyed one of the finest campaigns in program history, setting school records in the 600, 800 and 1,000 meters while lowering her own 800-meter record to 2:00.33, the ninth-fastest time in NCAA indoor history. O'Neill captured the BIG EAST title in the 800 meters, helped lead the Friars to the indoor 4x800-meter relay championship and earned BIG EAST Most Outstanding Female Track Performer honors before collecting Second Team All-America recognition at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She later advanced to the semifinals of the 800 meters at the World Athletics Indoor Championships, becoming the first Friar to compete at the World Championships since 2019. O’Neill went on to win two more BIG EAST titles in the outdoor season (800 meters, 4x800 relay) and was named BIG EAST Most Outstanding Female Track Perfomer again. During the outdoor season, the Friars won a program-record nine BIG EAST track and field titles, highlighted on the women's side by championships from O'Neill (800 meters), Anna Gardiner (5,000 meters), Gabby Schmidt (10,000 meters) and the 4x800-meter relay team. O'Neill qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, where she earned Second Team All-America honors in the 800 meters.
During her short time at BC, Delahunty Evans had a significant impact on the program, coaching three of the top five athletes on the team that took 2nd place at the 2023 NCAA Cross Country Northeast Regional Championship to gain an automatic berth to the NCAA Championship, where the team would finish in 26th place. She also coached three of the four athletes on the DMR teams that would run a school record time of 10:50.00 and finish 9th at the NCAA Indoor Championship in Boston.
Prior to her time at BC, Delahunty Evans was the head men’s and women’s cross-country and track coach at Brandeis University, where she coached and mentored student athletes to 37 All- America honors, including Emily Bryson, one of the most decorated athletes in the history of the program, who won four national titles, and the women’s DMR team that won the 2019 NCAA DIII Indoor Championship title, the first in program history.
Delahunty Evans’ teams also shone at the national level, including the 2018 women’s cross-country team that finished a program best sixth place at the NCAA Championships, and the women’s indoor track and field team that took a seventh place finish at the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships.
A 1993 graduate of Providence College, where she was a six-time All-American, Delahunty Evans was a two-time Olympian for her native Ireland, competing in the 1,500 meters at the 1996 and 2000 Games. She was inducted into the Friars' Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.
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