Minnesota State Mankato’s Tandy Juell (Sr., Redwood Falls, Minn.) won the NSIC Decathlon scoring 6,926 and holds the NSIC record in the event. He placed second in the javelin and sixth in the pole vault at the NSIC Outdoor Championships, for a total of 21 points, the most by an athlete in only the field events. Juell ranks seventh in the nation in the Decathlon.
NSIC Men’s Track Athlete of the Year:
Minnesota State’s Jerrell Hancock (Jr., St. Louis, Mo.) won two individual titles and ran two winning relay legs en route to helping lead MSU to the 2013 NSIC Championship. His winning time of 20.49 in the 200 meters was a school record and ranks 11th all-time in the event in Division II history. The performance makes him just the third since the turn of the century to dip under 20.50. Hancock won the NSIC outdoor 200m dash for the second consecutive year and bested the MSU record of 20.84 that was set by Michael Lawrence in 2004. He also claimed a title at 100 meters in 10.32 which ranks seventh in Division II this year. In addition to his individual efforts, he ran legs of the winning 4×100m and 4×400m relays.
NSIC Men’s Track & Field Newcomer of the Year:
Sioux Falls’ Scott Greenman (Fr., Clovis, Calif.) was conference champion in the pole vault with his school-record leap of 16-8.75 (5.10m) which is an NCAA provisional mark.
NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championship High Point Performer
MSU Moorhead’s Derek Bredy (Sr., Hoffman, Minn.) earned NSIC High Point Performer honors for the sixth time in his career at the 2013 NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. After winning the long jump on day one with a record-setting performance, Bredy won the triple jump with an effort of 47'6.25". It was the 15th NSIC title (including relays) of the senior’s outstanding Dragon career. Bredy was also third in the 100-meter dash (10.59) and fifth in the 200-meter dash (21.50) to score points for the Dragons in both events.
Men’s Track & Field Coach of the Year:
Minnesota State’s Mark Schuck, for the fourth time in the last five years, was voted by his peers as the NSIC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Coach of Year after leading his Mavericks to their fourth outdoor title in the last five year. Schuck will go out on a high note as he announced that he will retire this spring after 34 years of coaching at Minnesota State.
NSIC Women’s Field Athlete of the Year
NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championship High Point Performer
Minnesota Duluth ‘s Chanel Miller (So., Burnsville, Minn. / Apple Valley HS), as she had done two months earlier at the NSIC Indoors Championships, finished as the top female point-scorer, accruing 27 points thanks to a championship performance in the heptathlon, second in the 100-meter hurdles (in a school-record time of 14.20) and fourth in the long jump. She also anchored UMD’s 4 x 100 relay team which took fifth.
NSIC Women’s Track Athlete of the Year:
University of Mary’s Melissa Agnew led the Marauders as she won the 800 and 1500 meter races at the NSIC Championships. Agnew placed first in the 1500m with a provisional qualifying time of 4.33.77 and claimed her second win of the championship by posting a provisional qualifying time of 2:13.98 in the 800 meter run.
NSIC Women’s Track Newcomer of the Year:
University of Mary’s Brittney McKinley (Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.) won the triple jump, was fourth in the 100 meter dash, was fifth in the 100 meter hurdles, and was part of the winning 4X100 Relay at the NSIC Championships. McKinley came through with a win in the triple jump with a mark of 38'9.75", an NCAA provisional qualifying mark.
Women’s Outdoor T&F Coach of the Year:
University of Mary’s Mike Thorson was voted by his peers for the fifth time in the last seven years as NSIC Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Coach of Year. Thorson led his Marauders to their second straight outdoor title and fifth in the last seven years.
NSIC ODTF Team NotesBemidji State
The Bemidji State University track and field team participated in the 2013 NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships May 10-11 in Sioux Falls, SD. BSU finished 11th as a team and was led by a trio of seniors. Tina Larson (Morris, Minn.) established a new school record in the 1,500-meter run of 4:45.30, which trimmed more than a second off the record set in 1991 by BSU's Jayne Dusich. The time came in the preliminary race Friday qualifying her for the event final. Saturday she turned in a 5:00.52 and placed 12th overall. The BSU 4x400-meter relay team of Larson, Taylor Sautbine (Sr., Tamarack, Minn.), Mackenzie Haupert (Jr., Andover, Minn.) and Sara Melom (Dawson, Minn.) posted a seventh-place finish in the event, while Melom, Sautbine, Ashely Larva (Sr., Floodwood) and Tia Lindberg (So., Chisholm, Minn.) also posted a seventh-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay. Individually, Larva took seventh in the 100-meter hurdles, posting a time of 14.61 in her final collegiate race. The senior earned a spot in the finals of the event after coming within .06 of a second from her own school record in the 100-meter race (14.41) in the prelims. The NSIC Championships brings the Beavers’ 2013 outdoor season to a close.
Concordia-St. Paul
Men’s Track: Concordia-St. Paul men’s track finished in ninth at the 2013 NSIC Outdoor Championships paced by All-NSIC performer Nic Cass with a second place finish in the 800m and senior thrower Nate Thienes scoring points in all four throws events. Both Zach Pederson and Tyler Naumowics scored in the 110m hurdles and Nic Rudolph rounded out the scoring in the 1500m.
University of Mary
Men Track: Three outstanding performances by Tracy Lide headlined the University of Mary effort on the final day of the 2013 Northern Sun men’s outdoor track & field championships. His efforts led the Marauders to 61 team points and a fifth place finish. The U-Mary senior sprinter set one school record and met two provisional qualifying standards. The native of Las Vegas, NV, ran the 100 meter dash in 10.39 to place second. It is the 13th fastest time in the nation. Lide led the 4x100 meter relay team to a second place finish and was third in the 200 meter run. Other top finishes included third place in the discus by Travis Gavin and fourth place in the triple jump by Thomas Hartwell and the javelin by Brent Peltz.
Women Track: After scoring just 15 points on Friday and trailing the leaders by 35, the University of Mary women’s track & field dominated championship day on Saturday to win a second straight title and the fifth in seven seasons. U-Mary exploded for 165 points on the second day, posted 180 total, and won the title by 42 points, a swing of 77 points. The Marauders won eight event titles – the 4x100 meter relay and seven individual titles. Kathryn Stewart captured three titles – the 200 and 400 meter dashes and ran a leg of the winning 4x100 meter relay – and Melissa Agnew won both the 800 and the 1,500 meter runs. Brittney McKinley won the triple jump, Jennifer Agnew the 3,000 meter steeplechase and Janet Johnson set a conference and school record in the 100 meter hurdles. McKinley and Walker placed in four events each. In seven seasons as a member of the Northern Sun, the Marauders have won titles in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013.
Minnesota Duluth
Women Track & Field: Just as she had done two months earlier at the conference indoors, UMD sophomore Chanel Miller finished as the top female point-getter, accruing 27 points on her own thanks to a championship performance in the heptathlon earlier in the week, a second in the 100-meter hurdles (in a school-record time of 14.20) today and a fourth in the long jump Friday. She also anchored UMD’s 4 x 100 relay team (seniors Kirsten Bjork and Brietta Clementson and sophomore Erin Hickey), which took fifth. Other placers for the Bulldog women on Saturday included junior Kelsi Ring (third in the 100-meter hurdles; 14.33), junior Kate Hassing (fifth in the 800 meter run; 2:17.64), sophomore Katherine Ayers (fifth in the shot put; 45’-02.50”), freshman Hannah Olson (fifth in the 1,500-meter run; 4:43.46), sophomore Hannah Jocelyn (sixth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase), freshman Madeline Schaeffer (sixth in the 400-meter hurdles; 1:05.79) and sophomore Alexandra Rudin (eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase; 11:36.32).
In addition, Bjork, Hassing, Schaeffer and sophomore Tatum Garrity were sixth in the 4 x 400 meter relay. Collectively, the Bulldog women turned in 25 career-best performances at the NSIC outdoors and both Miller and Ring provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 100-meter hurdles. Sophomore Amelia Maher, who captured Friday’s high jump crown, joined Miller as the Bulldogs’ lone two outdoor titleholders.
Men Track: Senior Ryan Eason, who placed third in Friday’s 10,000-meter run final, had the fourth-best 5,000-meter time Saturday (16:02.58) while sophomores Chris Wilson (800-meter run; 1:56.89) and Dan Nielsen (3,000-meter steeplechase; 9:38.45) also claimed fourths on the meet’s final day. In the 1,500-meter run, Bulldog juniors Tyler Stevens (4:21.51) and Cole Toepfer (4:22.51) finished 7-8 and sophomore Nick Moran followed up a fourth-place effort in the hammer throw Friday with an eighth in the discus (134’1”) today. The quartet of Mark Emlaw, junior Jacob Heifort, junior Jake Nelson and senior Ben Niemann wound up eighth in the 4 x 100 meter relay. Emlaw, who was making his NSIC outdoor debut, was fifth in the Friday’s long jump event. Senior Robert Kostick (10:02.40) and freshman Joey Erickson (10:08.14) also contributed points to the Bulldog cause by placing sixth and eighth, respectively, in the 3,000-meter steeplehase
Minnesota State Mankato
Men: The Minnesota State men’s track and field team claimed its fourth Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Outdoor Track and Field title in the past five seasons and the victory for Minnesota State also marks the fourth time in the last five years that it has swept both the indoor and outdoor crowns. Junior Chris Reed is now a three-time NSIC outdoor champion in the shot put with a toss of of 62’ 3.25”, which is be the best throw in the nation in NCAA Division II this year.
Reed also won the hammer throw title and junior Keyvan Rudd won the league outdoor high jump championship. Senior Grant Luer finished first in the discus with a toss of 176’ 5”. Junior Jerrell Hancock won the NSIC outdoor 200m dash for the second consecutive year with his time of 20.49 this year establishing a school record. It’s also the fastest time in DII this year. Hancock also captured the NSIC 100m title with a time of 10.32. In the relays, the Mavericks won 4x100m and the 4x400m titles.
Women: Senior sprinter Danielle Jones turned in a pair of top-five performances Saturday in helping lead Minnesota State to an eighth-place finish at the 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championship. Jones ran 12:09 in the 100m in finishing second and then was clocked at 24.36 in finishing fifth in the 200m. Senior Annie Dahl finished third in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:04.66, while freshman Jenni Vanttinen was eighth at 1:08.83.
Sophomore Anna Veroven was fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 37-08.75. Freshman Emily Knapczyk finished sixth in the 5000m with a time of 18:29.85) and junior Sarah Bowler checked in with a seventh-place finish in the 3000m steeple chase with a time of 11:42.23. The Maverick 4X400m relay team comprised of Annie Dahl, Alexis Dickens, Bonnie Pickford and Kate Sanft finished fifth with a time of 3:58.40. MSU’s 4X100m relay team of Zevin Carter, Annie Dahl, Rachel Lindquist and Danielle Jones finished eighth with a time of 49.85.
MSU Moorhead
Men Field: Derek Bredy (Sr., Hoffman, Minn. / West Central Area) earned High Point Performer honors for the sixth time in his career at the NSIC Outdoor Championships last weekend in Sioux Falls, S.D. Bredy won the long jump with a record-setting effort of 24'7.75" (which set school and NSIC records), and also won the triple jump. He was also third in the 100-meter dash and fifth in the 200-meter dash and also was part of the 4x400 relay that finished second. Including relays, Bredy had 15 NSIC titles during his Dragon career.
Men Track: Clayton Foster (Sr., Pequot Lakes, Minn. / Pequot Lakes HS) claimed his sixth NSIC career title (including relays) with a win in the 1,500-meter run at the NSIC Championships on Friday. Foster, battling a gusty wind, ran a time of 4:16 to win his second straight 1,500-meter title.
Women Track: Alissa Mears (Fr., West Fargo, N.D. / West Fargo HS) earned All-NSIC honors in the 800-meter run during the outdoor championships last weekend. Mears ran a personal-best time of 2:15.34 to finish in third.
Women Field: Kara Nygaard (Jr., Jamestown, N.D. / Jamestown HS) had a strong showing in the javelin at the NSIC Outdoor Championships, taking second after firing a toss of 132'11", which was a personal best. The finish earned Nygaard all-conference honors for the second time in her Dragon career.
St. Cloud State
Junior sprinter Becky Schmidt (White Bear Lake) won the 100 meter dash to lead the Huskies in the final day of the 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls, SD.
The St. Cloud State University men’s team placed fifth and the women’s team eighth in the final team standings. The Husky men posted 61 points and the women collected 44 points. The top three individual place-winners and top two relay teams in each event earned All-Conference honors. In all the Huskies earned six all-conference honors on the final day of the championships.
Women’s: Schmidt ran the 100 meter dash in 12.02 and teammate Ellen Wikstrom (Huskvarna, Sweden) placed third in the event in a time of 12.25. Other top finishes for the women included a second place finish for the 4x100 meter relay of Wikstrom, Schmidt, GaBrina Cornelious (Brooklyn Park) and Alicia Evans (Melrose). The relay finished in a time of 48.69. Senior Keely Rubash (New Lisbon, Wis.) placed fourth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in a time of 11:26.96. Evans placed fourth in the 400 meter dash in 58.58 and Wikstrom had another top finish, placing sixth in the 200 meter dash in 25.57. In the women’s field events it was Kellan Flynn finishing fifth in the women’s high jump finals posting a mark of 5-03. Schmidt posted a seventh place finish in the long jump with a mark of 17'10.75".
Men’s: Jackson Walters (Baxter) had a second place finish in the 110 meter hurdles in a time of 14.67. Teammate Rashad Cohen (Chanhassen) was seventh in the hurdles in 15.39. Junior Leon Cheneyon (Brooklyn Park) ran the 400 meter dash in 49.71 to place third. The 4x100 relay of Tendeh Brownell (Osseo), George Kawalawu (Brooklyn Park), Walters and Brady Wilkerson (Hazel Green, Wis.) placed third with a time of 42.29.The Huskies also posted three sixth place finishes as Gemechu Bekelchu (Minneapolis) ran the 5,000 meters in 16:05.99. The 4x400 relay of Cheneyon, JaVonte Suber (St. Louis, Mo.), Cohen and Hilary Luke (Richfield) claimed sixth with a time of 3:22.95.
In the discus, Ryan Johnson (Amery, Wis.) threw 148'7" to place sixth. Suber scored points in the 800 meter run with a seventh place finish in 1:59.45. In the men’s field events Joe Mooney finished second in the high jump finals as he posted a new personal best and national qualifying provisional mark of 6'10.25", while Dustin McColley posted a fifth place finish and national qualifying provisional mark of 6-08.75. David Braaten took fourth in the pole vault as he posted a mark of 15'11.75". In the hammer throw finals, Ryan Johnson finished in eighth place recording a mark of 153'10".
Winona State
The Warriors placed 2nd as a team to follow up their runner-up finishes in Indoor Track & Field and Cross Country last fall. The Warriors won the 4x400 meter relay consisting of (Kelsey Bethke, Katie Bagley, Brittney Rynda, and Catherine Whitcomb) and had three runner-up finishes from Brittney Rynda (Triple Jump), Kelsey Bethke (400m), and Shanai Guider (Discus). With a balanced team, the Warriors scored points in 18 of the 21 events contested; the most by any team.
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