Jackrabbits at the 93rd Howard Wood Dakota Relays

Friday, May 4

Sioux Falls, S.D.

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South Dakota State University

Howard Wood Dakota Relays

Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia

5/3/2018 6:45:00 AM | Men's Track and Field, Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

MEET 16: South Dakota State (Men & Women) at 93rd Howard Wood Dakota Relays

When	Dakota Relays: Friday, May 4: Field Events - 10:30 a.m.\| Track Events - 2:40 p.m. Saturday, May 5: Field Events - 9 a.m. \| Track Events - 10 a.m. Nebraska Invite: Saturday, May 5: 3:05 p.m. (4x100), 4:05 p.m. (400), 4:20 p.m. (100)
Where	Dakota Relays: Dakota Relays \| Howard Wood Field (PDF Map) \| Google Maps \| Sioux Falls, S.D. Nebraska Invite: Ed Weir Stadium (PDF Map) \| Google Maps \| Lincoln, Neb.
Live Results	Dakota Relays: DakotaTiming.com Nebraska Invite: DeltaTiming.com
Meet Notes	Dakota Relays: Meet Information \| Event Schedule \| Heat Sheets - TBD Argus Leader's Collegiate Preview Nebraska Invite: Event Schedule \| Heat Sheets 2018 Outdoor Performance Lists: Men \| Women School Record Pages: Men \| Women // School Outdoor Top 10 Lists: Men \| Women
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UPDATE (4/4): There have been some changes to where some of the Jackrabbits will be competing. The rest of the Jackrabbits will be competing in Sioux Falls, S.D. at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays.

At Nebraska Invitational (May 5)
4x100m (3:05 p.m.): R-Fr. Coby Hilton, So. Landon Larson, Fr. Daniel Clarke, So. Sam Zenner
400m (4:05 p.m.): Jr. Skyler Monaghan, Jr. Sam Johnson, Fr. Cameron Kuil
100m (4:20 p.m.): So. Sam Zenner, So. Landon Larson, Fr. Daniel Clarke, R-Fr. Coby Hilton

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The South Dakota State track and field team prepares for the 93rd Howard Wood Dakota Relays, the final meet of the 2018 outdoor season before The Summit League Championships.

"The Howard Wood Dakota Relays has experienced phenomenal growth since the first one-day event was held May 4, 1923. Over the years it has become one of South Dakota's premier athletic events.

The 93rd running of the Relays is scheduled for May 4 through May 5, 2018. More than 3,000 middle school, high school, college and university student athletes will be competing. The dedication of hundreds of volunteers, the financial support of area businesses and the outstanding facilities makes the Howard Wood Dakota Relays the meet of choice for many area track fans." (Dakota Relays)

Schedule
Friday morning will start off at 10:30 a.m. with the men's hammer throw and then roll into the women's pole vault and men's triple jump at noon. Field events will carry on throughout the afternoon while the track events will begin at 2:40 p.m. with the women's 4x100m relay.

There will be high school events scattered in throughout the day, starting with the girl's 100m hurdles at 2 p.m.

On Saturday, the women's discus will begin the field events at 9 a.m. and the finals of the women's 100m hurdles is scheduled to kick off the track events for collegiate runners.

For high school competitors, it will begin with the boy's shot put and girls (class B) sprint medley at 9 a.m.

Dakota Relays Gold Medal Scholarship Winners
"The Dakota Relays Gold Medal scholarship was established in 2000. The Howard Wood Dakota Relays Board of Directors created the scholarship to reward South Dakota Track & Field student athletes of accomplishment who have chosen to continue participation in the sport at the collegiate level in our State. Winners are announced during the Saturday session." (Dakota Relays)

South Dakota State has had six winners on the track and field program. (Fr. Cameron Kuil, So. Josh Goehring, So. Emma Johnson, and alums Shelby Assmus, Brittany Garner, and Valerie Warnke)

Admissions
Adult tickets purchased at the gate cover admission to both sessions – cost is $15.

For single-session tickets, cost is $10.

Student tickets purchased at the gate cover admission to one or both sessions - cost is $10.

For single session tickets, cost is $5.

Up Next
The Jackrabbits will travel to The Summit League Outdoor Championships back in Tulsa, Okla. on May 10-12, hosted by Oral Roberts. The Jackrabbits have been in Tulsa twice early on in the season and once at ORU's ONEOK Sport Complex.

Ranked Jackrabbits
South Dakota State has nine Jackrabbits in the top 48 regionally of their respective events. The top 48 individuals (top 24 multi-event athletes) in the West Region at the end of the season will qualify for the NCAA West Preliminaries on May 24-26 in Sacramento, Calif.

Last year, South Dakota State had eight NCAA West qualifiers competing in eight events on the men's side, while the women's team had five qualifiers competing in five events.

Junior Kyle Burdick and sophomore Bryant Courter competed each compete in two events, with Burdick reach the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1,500m.

Junior Kasie Vollmer was within 1-07.00 feet from qualifying for the outdoor championships in the discus throw.

Men
1,500m: Jr. Kyle Burdick - 3:44.78 (West: 36th, NCAA: 74th)
10,000m: So. Chase Cayo - 29:38.99 (West: 48th, NCAA: 78th)
Pole Vault: Fr. Trent Francom - 17-02.75 (West: 21st, NCAA: 38th)
Long Jump: So. Bryant Courter - 24-07.25 (West: 42nd, NCAA: 83rd)
Shot Put: Sr. Mason Leiseth - 57-04.75 (West: 47th, NCAA: 83rd)
Hammer Throw: Sr. Colton Bender - 206-09.00 (West: 21st, NCAA: 48th)
Outside the top 48, inside the top 100
100m: So. Sam Zenner - 10.60 (West: 80th, Top 48 Mark: 10.46)
5,000m: Kyle Burdick - 14:05.14 (West: 61st, Top 48 Mark: 14:01.35)
10,000m: Sr. Trevor Capra - 29:39.66 (West: 52nd, Top 48 Mark: 29:38:99)
3,000S: So. Micah Mather - 9:12.28 (West: 81st, Top 48 Mark: 8:58.55)
High Jump: Sr. J.J. Hejna - 6-07.00 (West: 85th, Top 48 Mark: 6-09.75)
Triple Jump: So. Bryant Courter - 49-07.25 (West: 49th, Top 48 Mark: 49-07.75)
Shot Put: R-Fr. Noah Huber - 55-05.75 (West: 69th, Top 48 Mark: 57-02.00)
Discus: Sr. Mason Leiseth - 169-05.00 (West: 77th, Top 48 Mark: 174-06.00)
Hammer: Sr. Logan Ammons - 192-00.00 (West: 60th, Top 48 Mark: 197-01.00)
Javelin: So. Dakota Leonhard - 181-00.00 (West: 99th, Top 48 Mark: 198-11.00)
Decathlon: So. Evan Hieber - 6,299 (West: 50th, Top 24* Mark: 6,822)
*Top 24 go to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the multi-events

Women
800m: Jr. Krista Steele - 2:07.55 (West: 33rd, NCAA: 73rd)
5,000m: Jr. Rachel King - 16:09.54 (West: 25th, NCAA: 43rd)
3,000m Steeplechase: Jr. Rachel King - 10:01.14 (West: 6th, NCAA: 10th, World: 39th)
Discus: Jr. Kasie Vollmer - 166-10.00 (West: 46th, NCAA: 79th)
Outside the top 48, inside the top 100
1,500m: Jr. Rachel King - 4:26.43 (West: 76th, Top 48 Mark: 4:24.33)
100H: So. Jaymie O'Connor - 14.00 (West: 91st, Top 48 Mark: 13.68)
Hammer: Jr. Abby Sudbeck - 180-10.00 (West: 59th, Top 48 Mark: 186-02.00)
Heptathlon: Sr. Vanessa Lane - 5,029 (West: 34th, Top 24* Mark: 5,184)
*Top 24 go to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the multi-events

There are 15 SDSU student-athletes who are not in the top 48, but in the top 100 of the West Region.

USTFCCCA Regional Rankings
The USTFCCCA.org ranked South Dakota State 16th on the men's side, and 18th on the women's side in week five of the Midwest Regional rankings. The men remained in the same spot as last week, while the women's team dropped one spot.

Six Jackrabbits are ranked top-eight individually in the region.

2. Jr. Rachel King (3,000S)
4. Jr. Kyle Burdick (1,500m)
5. So. Chase Cayo (10,000m)
6. Fr. Trent Francom (PV)
7. Jr. Rachel King (5,000m)
7. Sr. Trevor Capra (10,000m)
8. Sr. Colton Bender (HT)

#EventSquad Rankings
The USTFCCCA.org ranks the top four student-athletes in each event, from all of the Division I schools and ranks them. In order to be ranked in an event, the team must have four qualified student-athletes in that specific event.

The men's team has three of 12 eligible events ranked in the top 50, including the 10,000m squad (15th), the shot put squad (38th), and the high jump squad (50th). Pole vault (52nd) and long jump (58th) are close to making the top 50.

On the women's side, the Jacks have seven of the 12 eligible events in the top 100. The hammer throw (41st), shot put (58th), and discus (59th) squads are the lowest rankings for SDSU.

Summit League Leaders
State has 13 student-athletes, including six event leaders, and four relay teams ranked in the top three of the league as the last weekend in April approaches.

Men (9 Individuals/13 Top-Threes)
1. Jr. Kyle Burdick (1,500m)
1. So. Chase Cayo (10,000m)
2. Jr. Kyle Burdick (5,000m)
2. Sr. Trevor Capra (10,000m)
2. So. Micah Mather (3,000S)
2. So. Bryant Courter (LJ)
2. So. Bryant Courter (TJ)
2. Sr. Colton Bender (HT)
3. So. Sam Zenner (100m)
3. So. Josh Goehring (800m)
3. Fr. Trent Francom (PV)

3. 4x100m Relay
3. 4x400m Relay

Women (4 Individuals/8 Top-Threes)
1. Jr. Krista Steele (800m)
1. Jr. Rachel King (5,000m)
1. Jr. Rachel King (3,000S)
1. Sr. Vanessa Lane (Hept.)
2. Jr. Rachel King (1,500m)
3. Jr. Kasie Vollmer (DT)

3. 4x100m Relay
3. 4x400m Relay

Some of the notable marks on the performance list include:
Men: Jackrabbits have at least one student-athlete in the top five of 16 of the 21 events ... Goehring is within 0.93 seconds of the top 800m mark ... the Jackrabbits have 3-4-5 in the 800m, each with their PR and Hanna (No. 5) is within 2.32 seconds of the league leader ... Burdick leads the 1,500m by 0.44 seconds, and within 2.01 seconds of the best mark in the 5,000m ... Jacks have three of the five best marks in the 10,000m (1. Cayo, 2. Capra, 5. Ivanecky) ... Cayo leads the league in the 10,000m with Capra 0.67 seconds behind him - their marks are 1:23.96 and 1:23.29 minutes better than the third-best mark ... USD and SDSU have the only pole vaulters over 17 feet (Francom - 17-02.75) ... Courter is within 2.50 inches of the best mark in the long jump and 11.50 inches from the triple jump ... Leiseth cracked the league's top five in shot put, meaning the league's top five throwers are in the NCAA West qualifying round as of today.

Women: As a team, the Jacks have four event leaders, which is third most behind NDSU (7) and ORU (6) ... Flemister-Smith ran her first career 400m, which is fourth-best on the performance list ... Steele is leading the league in the 800m by 2.18 seconds ... King leads the 5,000m by 36.97 seconds and the 3,000S by 28.25 seconds ... individually, King (5,000m & 3,000S) and ORU's Etim (100m & 200m) and Abire (LJ & TJ) are the only student-athletes leading the league in multiple events ... Lane is leading the heptathlon by 224 points.

Record Breakers
The Jackrabbits have recorded a total of 68 school top 10 marks so far in 2018, including both men and women and indoor and outdoor.

Men ITF Top 10 Marks: 27
Women ITF Top 10 Marks: 21
Men OTF Top 10 Marks: 15
Women OTF Top 10 Marks: 15

SDSU has also reset 10 school records during 2018.

Men Indoor School Records: 3
Women Indoor School Records: 4
Men Outdoor School Records: 4
Women Outdoor School Records: 2

Junior Rachel King is leading the charge for resetting the school records. She is responsible for three school records indoor and two outdoor records (IN: Mile, 3,000m, 5,000m, OUT: 3,000m steeplechase, 5,000m). She added a personal-best mark in the 1,500m, which is second on the school's all-time list.

Senior Colton Bender reset the school record for indoor weight throw four times throughout the indoor season and has reset the school record for outdoor hammer throw twice this season, having first set the school record in 2017.

Sophomore Bryant Courter also was resetting school records during the indoor season in the triple jump. Throughout the season, he reset the school record four times and etching his name on three meet records (including in the indoor league championship record).

Courter also posted personal-best top 10 marks in the high jump and long jump indoors.

As for outdoors, he has tied his personal-best in the long jump, which is third all-time, and is within 7.50 inches of his personal-best triple jump, which is also third all-time.

Freshman Daniel Clarke has added top 10 marks in both the indoor and outdoor long jump marks, posting fourth all-time indoors and a tie for ninth-best outdoors.

Junior Krista Steele finally got the school record in the indoor 800m at the league championships, chasing teammate Oksana Covey's 2017 mark all year. She also was within 0.10 seconds of tying Covey's school record in the indoor 600m.

Steele has reset her outdoor 800m personal-best mark twice already this season, jumping into second all-time. She also notched a PR in the 1,500m, the same weekend she first reset her outdoor 800m PR.

Freshman Trent Francom is making a big freshman splash, finishing with a share of the school record in the indoor pole vault with his big jump in the indoor championships. He is sharing the record with his brother, Reagan Francom and Lynn Olson.

As for the outdoor season, he broke the school record wide open last weekend school's first-ever mark over 17 feet. He increased the school record by 5.50 inches.

Senior Mason Leiseth and redshirt Noah Huber have been juggling spots in the top 10 for shot put. Leiseth started out the outdoor season as 10th-best on the list, but Huber added his name to third-best the list, which kicked Leiseth off the list.

In California (April 19-20), Leiseth recorded a PR on Thursday right behind Huber for fourth. The next day, he added another 1-02.25 feet to the PR, which carved his name into second all-time.

At Mount Marty (April 25), he added another 1-01.50 feet to his PR to tie the school record. He's added 2-03.75 feet to his best throw in six days.

Leiseth is also eighth on the discus top 10 and second in the indoor shot put, ahead of his father, Dave Leiseth, who is now fifth, and Huber, who is third.

Last Time Out
Drake Relays - Thursday - Saturday
At the Drake Relays, the Jackrabbit relay teams posted a few top 10 all-time marks and school records in the three-day weekend at the Blue Oval.

The women's distance medley (1. So. Kendra Dykstra, 2. Jr. Savannah Dolezal, 3. Jr. Krista Steele, 4. Jr. Rachel King) notched a new school record. It beat the previous-best mark by 14.80 seconds.

The men's 4x100m relay (1. R-Fr. Coby Hilton, 2. So. Landon Larson, 3. Fr. Daniel Clarke, 4. So. Sam Zenner) competed in the finals of the relay, scoring the school's second-fastest mark in program history.

In the prelims, the team posted what would have been the school's third-best time.

The finals mark was 0.63 seconds better than the prelim mark and just 0.03 seconds short of the school record.

The women's sprint medley team (1. So. Delaney Carlson, 2. So. Miatta Flemister-Smith, 3. Sr. Vanessa Lane, 4. Sr. Jennie Scislow) ended up third on the school's top 10 list, just 0.01 seconds from tying for second all-time, and 2.58 seconds from the school record.

Also adding a top-three mark in the school record book was the women's 4x800m relay (1. Jr. Krista Steele, 2. So. Kendra Dykstra, 3. Sr. Jennie Scislow, 4. Fr. Madison Gray).

The women's 4x200m relay team (1. So. Delaney Carlson, 2. So. Miatta Flemister-Smith, 3. Sr. Vanessa Lane, 4. Jr. Savannah Dolezal) cracked the top 10, now sitting fourth on the all-time list. The mark was just 1.93 seconds from the school record and it was the first 4x200m mark of the season for the women's team.

On the men's side, the 4x200m relay team (1. Sr. Jalen Williams, 2. Jr. Skyler Monaghan, 3. Fr. Cameron Kuil, 4. Jr. Sam Johnson) recorded the school's seventh-best mark, just 1.47 seconds from the school record. It was the first 4x200m mark of the season for the men's team.

The women's 4x400m relay (1. Jr. Savannah Dolezal, 2. So. Delaney Carlson, 3. Sr. Vanessa Lane, 4. So. Allison Sebern) notched eighth all-time on the top 10, just 0.07 seconds behind seventh.

Individually, senior Colton Bender and freshman Trent Francom recorded personal-best marks and the school record of their respective events.

Francom broke the school record wide open in the pole vault with the school's first mark over 17 feet ever. He increased his outdoor PR by 1-00.25 feet, overall PR by 8 inches, and the school record by 5.50 inches.

He added his 10th top-three finish in 15 career events.

Bender reset his PR and school record, increasing it by 2-06.00 feet.

Juniors Kyle Burdick and Rachel King competed in the 1,500m races Friday evening. Burdick was just 0.44 seconds from his season-best mark and 3.70 seconds from his PR, which is third on the school's top 10. With Burdick's first-place finish, he's tallied four career wins in the 1,500m.

"Burdick led the men's 1500 meters wire-to-wire en route to the Jackrabbits' second-ever win in the event and their first win since 2005. Burdick crossed the line in 3:46.22 to join Brad Lowery as SDSU winners in the 1500 meters." (Drake Relay Notes)

King just missed her personal-best mark by 3.09 seconds, which is the second on the school's all-time list. She set her PR at the Bryan Clay Invitational.

Kip Janvrin Open - Friday
As the team competed one day at the Kip Janvrin Open, they made the most of it, recording five personal-best marks throughout the afternoon.

Both junior Mackenzie Schell and sophomore Emma Nelson recorded their personal-best marks. Schell beat her 2017 Kip Janvrin mark by 20.48 seconds to record the PR while Nelson posted her second attempt in the outdoor 5,000m, which beats her previous-best by 3.91 seconds.

The men's 200m was a tight race with senior Jalen Williams sneaking ahead of junior Skyler Monaghan by 0.001 seconds. Williams recorded his season-best mark, beating his previous-best by 0.25 seconds and Monaghan recorded his PR by 0.09 seconds.

On the women's side, sophomore Jennifer Thill notched a personal best, her third time resetting her PR mark, beating it by 0.02 seconds.

Freshman Michael Schwinghamer notched a career-best mark in the 3,000m steeplechase, beating his previous-best by 1.92 seconds and recording his best place finish in the event (third).

Ron Masanz Classic - Saturday
In Moorhead, Minn. on Saturday, some Jackrabbit competed in the throwing events. Unattached thrower, Samuel Coil notched his personal-best mark in the shot put, increasing it by 2.75 inches.

-GoJacks.com-