Babson College Men's Track

Eric Neely is in his 15th season as Babson’s head women’s volleyball coach in 2025. The only coach in program history with more than 200 wins, Neely boasts a .724 career winning percentage and has led the program to unparalleled success since arriving prior to the 2011 campaign. He has guided Green and White to 20 or more victories 10 times, has helped the Beavers capture four NEWMAC Tournament championships and has led his squads to eight NCAA Tournament berths. Babson registered six consecutive NCAA Tournament berths from 2017-23 and four straight second round appearances. The Beavers posted first round victories over UMass Boston in 2019, Endicott in 2021, Swarthmore in 2022 (before taking Tufts to a fifth set in the second round) and Stevenson in 2023. Following a 2017 campaign that saw the Beavers advance to the Potsdam Regional final after earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, Neely guided his program to uncharted territory in 2018. Babson captured its third conference tournament title in five years and was selected as one of eight NCAA regional hosts. The Green and White swept three straight matches on the way to capturing the Babson Park Regional championship before seeing its historic season come to an end in the national quarterfinals.  For its success, Babson cracked the top 25 for the first time in program history finishing at No. 20 in the AVCA Division III poll. The Green and White followed up its historic success by setting a new school record with 33 wins while earning the top seed in the NEWMAC Tournament for the first time in school history in 2019. Neely earned the first of his two NEWMAC Coach of the Year honors after leading the Beavers to a 22-8 mark in 2012, and followed it up by helping Babson secure its first home conference tournament match in two decades in 2013. In 2014, the Green and White won 27 matches, tied for a share of the league’s regular season title, and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time after claiming the program’s first NEWMAC Tournament championship. His 2015 squad was even better, winning a then-school-record 28 matches on the way to capturing a second consecutive conference title and reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. Under his tutelage, Neely's players have earned 14 AVCA All-America honorable mention honors and 24 all-region awards. He has also coached one NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Year, two conference rookies of the year, and has seen 27 athletes garner all-league accolades during his tenure. Neely came to Babson after a successful six-year tenure as the head volleyball coach at Ursuline Academy in nearby Dedham. He was selected as the Boston Globe coach of the Year in 2008, and his teams won four sectional titles while going 94-40 during his tenure. A 1998 graduate of the University of Rochester, Neely has served as a coach with the Smash Volleyball Club since 2006, and coached the women’s club team at Northeastern University in 2011. Additionally, he earned his law degree from the University of Georgia in 2003. Season Overall Conference Highlights 2011 17-13 4-5 NEWMAC Tournament 2012 22-8 4-5 NEWMAC Tournament 2013 18-12 7-3 NEWMAC Tournament 2014 27-9 9-1 NCAA Tournament - Second Round, NEWMAC Tournament Champions 2015 28-9 7-3 NCAA Tournament - Second Round, NEWMAC Tournament Champions 2016 18-13 7-3 NEWMAC Tournament 2017 22-10 8-2 NCAA Tournament - Regional Finalist, NEWMAC Tournament  2018 26-9 8-2 NCAA Tournament - Quarterfinals, NEWMAC Tournament Champions 2019 33-2 9-1 NCAA Tournament - Second Round, NEWMAC Tournament Champions 2020 canceled canceled ----- 2021 23-8 9-1 NCAA Tournament - Second Round, NEWMAC Tournament 2022 22-9 8-2 NCAA Tournament - Second Round, NEWMAC Tournament Runner-Up 2023 25-7 9-2 NCAA Tournament - Second Round, NEWMAC Tournament 2024 23-7 7-4 NEWMAC Tournament Totals 304-116 96-34 14 seasons

Brennen has brought both athletic and academic excellence to Babson. His 2015 squads are coming off an extremely successful campaign that included two individual berths to the NCAA Division III National Championships, seven All-New England awards and four All-NEWMAC accolades. The Beavers also claimed NEWMAC individual championships in both the men's and women's 800-meter run, while Marina Capalbo '15 became the program's first NEWMAC Athlete of the Year selection.  Brennan has coached over 200 NCAA New England regional qualifiers and has seen his student-athletes collect 33 all-conference, 20 all-region and six All-Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) laurels over his first 12 years.  In addition to their athletic accomplishments, Brennen's teams have also performed magnificently in the classroom. During his tenure, the men's and women's track and field teams have combined to earn 21 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team awards, while a total of 11 individuals have also garnered national all-academic status. Additionally, Brennen's track & field student-athletes have combined to earn 53 spots on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team.  After receiving his Master's degree from Syracuse University in 2001, Brennen spent the next three seasons as the assistant cross-country and track and field coach at Babson. During that time, he also served as a senior designer in the Office of Publications. In addition to collegiate coaching, Brennen has enjoyed great success working for TRACS, Inc., a well-established athletic consulting company, for the past 12 years. He has been involved with a wide variety of projects, including club-level coaching with the Cambridge Running Club and the Boston Running Club, a national powerhouse in cross-country and track. He has also worked on national and international projects like the John Hancock Elite Village for the Boston Marathon, the U.S. National Masters Track and Field Championships, and FILA's Discovery Kenya project. Also Babson's cross country coach, Brennen ran competitively at both the high school and college levels, participating in indoor track, outdoor track, and cross-country at RIT. He has also competed in a total of seven marathons, including three in Boston.   View: | Desktop

Amber Spencer is in her 12th season as an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s track & field program at Babson College in 2025-26. A native of Wellesley, Mass., Spencer has made a major impact since joining the coaching staff. Her most recent accomplishment came in 2024 when head coach Russ Brennan, Spencer and her fellow assistants were named New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Track & Field Coaching Staff of the Year. Spencer helped Babson send its first female athlete to the NCAA Championships in 2022 when Katherine Jacobs '22 placed eighth and earned All-American in the 100 meter hurdles. Both the men's and women's programs have set new records in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter events, in addition to earning a combined numerous all-conference honors in sprints since 2016. The men's 4x400-meter squad collected the Beavers' first NEWMAC relay title in 2017, and Angelina Raffone became the first Babson female to win the 100-meter dash at the league meet in 2018. Spencer joined the Beavers' coaching staff after wrapping up a tremendous four-year career at fellow NEWMAC institution Wheaton College in 2014. She earned All-America honors in both the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relays at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships and the 4x400 meter relay at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Spencer was also a six-time All-NEWMAC honoree and was twice garnered USTFCCCA All-Academic laurels. 

A 2011 graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Sarah Coscia is in her 12th season as an assistant coach for the Babson women's volleyball program in 2025. The Beavers, who set a school record with 33 victories in 2019, have won four NEWMAC Tournament championships and made eight NCAA Tournament appearances during her tenure. The Green and White reached the second round in both 2014 and 2015 before advancing to the Potsdam Regional final in 2017. Babson put together another historic campaign in 2018 as it swept three straight matches at home to capture the Babson Park Regional title on the way to advancing to the national quarterfinals for the first time in school history.  The Green and White followed it up by earning the top seed in the NEWMAC Tournament for the first time in program history in 2019. The momentum continued in 2021 when the Beavers shared the NEWMAC regular season crown and won a first-round match in the NCAA Tournament. The Beavers made it six consecutive NCAA Tournaments in 2023 and earned its third straight first-round victory. Coscia enjoyed a stellar playing career at UMass-Lowell where she finished fourth in program history with 1,321 kills and fifth in blocks with 306. She led the Northeast-10 Conference in scoring during her senior season and was a first-team All-Conference selection as both a junior and a senior. Coscia also earned All-New England honors in 2009. Her post-collegiate playing career continued as a member of Team New England, the region's professional volleyball squad. The team competed in the Premier Volleyball League Championship as part of the 2014 USA Volleyball Open National Championship in Phoenix, Ariz. The Pittsfield, Massachusetts, native currently serves as the freshman girls coach and JV boys coach at Wellesley High School and has also served as the coach of the 17-and-under boys team in the SMASH Volleyball Club.