Busy Day One of Stanford Invitational: Gopher Women Win Team Title in Florida

It was a busy day and night at the opening day of the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto on Friday.  The Gophers Zach Siegmeier won the invitational pole vault clearing 5.11m/16' 9.25".  Trevor Yedoni was third in the collegiate long jump with a leap of 7m/22' 11.75".  Danny Schiller finished tenth in the high jump clearing 1.96m/6'5" while teammate Luca Wieland finished tied for ninth in the second flight jumping 1.91m/6' 3.25". Wally Ellenson passed on his first three jumps but missed three times at his opening height of 2.01m/6'7".

Team USA Minnesota's Jon Peterson finished eighth in 5K(section 1)  in 13:46.36.  The Gopher's Aaron Bartnik won section 4 of the 5K in 14:13.02.  Teammate Christian Skaret won section 7 of the 1500 in 3:52.42 and Alex Brend was second in section 4 in 3:49.24. In that same section Gopher's Blayne Dulian was fourth in 3:50.22 and Marcus Paulson fifth in 3:50.46. Gopher Cole O'Brien was tenth in section 7 in 4:05.54, while Cretin Derham Hall grad Kevin Docherty, who runs for Iowa, finished eleventh in section 5 in 3:53.73.

U of M's Bobby Nicolls finished seventh in section 3 of the steeple in 8:59.13 and teammate Derek Storkel was eleventh in 9:07.65.  For the Gopher women Kelli Budd was second in section 3 of the steeple in 10:17.50 and teammate Kaila Urick was eleventh in 10:51.15.  Kaitlin Mincke finished tenth in section 5 of the 1500 in 4:33.  Maggie Bollig was eight in section 3 in 4:29.69. Katie Moraczewski finished eleventh in heat 1 of the steeple in 10:19.51. Liz Berkholtz was eighth in section 2 of the 10K in 34:12.67 and  Rachel Drake was thirty sixth in 35:53.57.

Full results are HERE.

The rest of the Gopher women's team competed in USF Collegiate meet in Florida, taking individual titles in nine events and winning the team title.  Summary of the meet plus full results are HERE.