Junior Piper Lentz of the women's track and field team and sophomore Andreas Sillaste of the men's tennis team have been named Amherst's Student-Athletes of the Month for May.

Lentz capped the outdoor track season with a New England championship, two school records and All-America honors.

Lentz began the month of May by winning a New England Division III championship in record time, anchoring the 4x800m relay alongside teammates Julia Schor, Sylvan Wold and Zoë Marcus. The Amherst quartet's time of 9:03.53 was a meet record for the NED3 Championships as well as an Amherst program record. Lentz also earned All-New England honors in the 400m at that meet with a sixth-place finish.

Lentz broke another record at the MIT Final Qualifier, running the 800m in 2:08.21 to establish a new Amherst school record.

That time qualified Lentz for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, where she finished 15th in the nation in the 800m to earn Second Team All-America honors for the second time in her career.

A double major in astronomy and physics from Sparks, Maryland, Lentz is a two-time NESCAC champion in the 4x800m relay and a member of the NESCAC All-Academic Team.

Sillaste led the Mammoths to the NCAA Tournament and earned All-America honors with his play during the month of May.

Sillaste went 5-2 overall in singles play during the month of May, winning his singles matches against both Wesleyan and Bowdoin in the NESCAC Tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, Sillaste won both his singles match and doubles match alongside Edred Opie in Amherst's first-round win over SUNYAC champion Oswego State.

His play throughout the season earned Sillaste an invitation to the NCAA Division III singles tournament, where he opened with an upset of seventh-seeded Alex Feies of Carnegie Mellon in the round of 32 to earn All-America honors for the second straight season. Sillaste then defeated Nicholas Chen of Williams in the round of 16 before falling in the quarterfinals to the eventual national champion.

An economics major from Oulu, Finland, Sillaste was named Division III Rookie of the Year last year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and is a two-time First Team All-NESCAC selection in both singles and doubles.