The Jackrabbits split among two meets in the central Iowa region, competing in the second day of the Drake Relays and the lone track-action day at the Kip Janvrin Open.
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DRAKE RELAYS - DAY 2
DES MOINES, Iowa - It's fun to break school records, but it's more fun to do it with your squad.
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The South Dakota State speedsters were the first to re-write their record and claim South Dakota's state collegiate record.
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The team consisting of junior
Sam Zenner and sophomores
Coby Hilton and
Daniel Clarke came away with their third school-record reset in the 4x100m relay (40.12) in less than a calendar year, while newcomer
Emmanual Phoulom-Smith wrote his name atop the list for the first time.
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The Jackrabbit team ran stride-for-stride with a Houston squad in the opening heat of the prelims, finishing 0.12 seconds behind them with the overall third-fastest relay time at Drake this year. The group will have the opportunity to run the race again in the finals tomorrow at 3:16 p.m.
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The exact squad ran the No. 2 all-time mark last Thursday at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate (40.55) before seizing the old record from 2018 Summit League Championship-winning time and record (40.40) tonight, cutting 0.28 seconds off.
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Last year, the squad of Zenner, Hilton, Clarke, and junior
Landon Larson climbed the leader board starting at Drake with the No. 3 all-time mark in the prelims (41.47) and ended with the No. 2 all-time mark from the finals (40.94), just 0.03 seconds from the then-school record (40.91, set 2017).
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On the first weekend in May, the speedsters broke through the record by resetting it at 40.84 seconds at the Nebraska Invitational. But the squad wasn't finished, resetting it yet again in the outdoor league championships while also earning the league record as well.
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With the time of 40.12 seconds, the Jackrabbits reset the state collegiate record by 0.01 seconds and are now ranked No. 17 in the NCAA West Preliminary performance list, with the top-24 competing in Sacramento, Calif. for a chance to earn a trip to Austin, Texas for the NCAA Championships.
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Looking back, SDSU's mark would have qualified to the NCAA preliminaries each of the last five years and if it holds up, they will be the first relay team onto the NCAA DI regional preliminaries (worst seed times on the West Prelims start list: 2018 - 40.24, 2017 - 40.29, 2016 - 40.22, 2015 - 40.38, 2014 - 40.47).
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The last event on the Blue Oval also claimed the school-record and state collegiate record.
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In a time of 7:27.27, the men's 4x800m relay squad consisting of junior
Wyatt Gatrost, senior
Cal Lawton, sophomore
Derek Boekelheide, and freshman
Riley Bauer reset both records with a seventh-place finish at Drake Stadium in the evening.
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Lawton ran the second leg with a split of 1:49.07 to move up seven places into third - a mark that would be the school's No. 2 all-time 800m mark - while Bauer closed the relay with a 1:51.46 split - a mark that would have been No. 8 all-time. The previous state record was 7:30 and the school record was previously 7:32.
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Senior
Rachel King highlighted the individual tab of Jackrabbit action, posting her second consecutive personal-best reset in the 1,500m to remain No. 2 all-time for SDSU and hold onto the No. 1 spot on The Summit League's performance list. She led a majority of the race but finished runner-up (4:25.12) to come within 2.31 seconds from the school record held by Becka Manshiem (2007).
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Junior
Haley Mottinger was one of the first Jackrabbits to climb an all-time list on Friday, posting a 0.22-second personal-best reset, her second of the season, to climb from No. 6 all-time to No. 3 behind teammate
Jaymie O'Connor and Jennifer Stovall (2002).
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At the beginning of this year, she had a personal-best mark of 14.73w (2018 NSU Twilight) and has since cut 0.69 seconds.
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She had done the same sort of thing during the 2019 indoor campaign, entering the 60m hurdles all-time list at the SDSU Holiday Invite at No. 6 all-time (8.81). Before the start of the indoor season, she had a PR of 8.97, her only mark sub-nine seconds.
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KIP JANVRIN OPEN
INDIANOLA, Iowa - Junior
Micah Mather, along with eight other Jackrabbits, added personal-best marks at Simpson College.
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Mather cut 4.39 seconds to reset his personal-best mark in the 3,000m steeplechase for his fourth career runner-up finish in the event (9:07.89). The junior is only 1.89 seconds from the school's top 10 list, a list that hasn't been touched since 2011.
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The men's and women's 5,000m tallied five total personal-best marks for the Jacks as freshmen duo
Thomas Breuckman (second, 14:51.10) and
Lukas Pierson (18th, 15:28.73) were able cut 11.94 and 5.81 seconds, respectively.
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Sophomore
Cailee Peterson led the women (fifth, 17:56.68) while pairing with junior
Emma Nelson (ninth, 18:17.04) to reset their personal-best marks for second time this season.
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Freshman
Blake Iverson scored a personal-best mark, resetting his best from the South Dakota Challenge by 0.59 seconds, while senior
Rachel Propst added her fourth consecutive personal-best reset of the season by 0.98 seconds. In all, the senior has trimmed 7.26 seconds from her best prior to the season (2016 Jim Duncan Invite, 4:52.23).
RECAPPING THE WEEKEND SO FAR
Thursday Recap | Friday Recap | Saturday Recap
Thursday - SeniorÂ
Kyle Burdick attempted his first 5,000m race of the season, now sitting atop The Summit League outdoor performance list. The Rapid City, S.D. native scored the league's No. 1 mark of the season by 16.27 seconds, still 2.97 seconds from his personal-best and No. 3 all-time SDSU mark (his mark tonight would be No. 3 all-time as well), with a fifth-place overall finish (14:03.76) in the seeded race.
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Burdick was the third-best college competitor in the race and helps the Jacks dominate the league's top-five 5,000m performers as four of the are in Yellow and Blue uniforms (1. Burdick, 3. Fr.Â
Joseph Minor-Williams, 4. Jr.Â
Micah Mather, 5. Jr.Â
Lukas Nelson).
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As of last night, the senior is also 49th in the NCAA West Preliminary performance list, one spot out of the top-48 that compete in Sacramento, Calif. in late May for a chance to the NCAA Track and Field Championships in June. He's qualified for the 5,000m race at the West Prelims since 2017.
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For the women, the Jackrabbit duo in seniorÂ
Emily Berzonsky (11th, 36:33.86) and sophomoreÂ
Anna Donnay (14th, 36:58.24) ran personal-best marks in the open 10,000m at Iowa's capital. Both are within a minute of the school's all-time top-10 list (10th-best, 36:13.82), last entered in 2015 (Jenna Grossenburg).
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FreshmanÂ
Riley Bauer tallied the lone Jackrabbit win at the Distance Carnival in Des Moines, scoring his second career win in the unseeded 800m on Thursday night. Bauer scored the No. 10 all-time mark for SDSU to get the individual crown on the distance carnival night at the Blue Oval (won, 1:51.50). He bumped off teammateÂ
Wyatt Gatrost's personal-best mark off the list, which he added at the Mike Fanelli Classic to kick off the season.
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FreshmanÂ
Joseph Minor-Williams record his first 10,000m for the men at the distance carnival, 7.44 seconds from the school's top-10 all-time list (fifth, 30:18.34).
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REMAINING JACKRABBIT WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Saturday -Â Jacks will finish the weekend on Saturday back at the Blue Oval, starting at 10:30 a.mm and finishing with the men's 4x400m relay at 3:49 p.m.
FOLLOW ALONG
There are select live results and live stream options available in the links above. You can also follow Jackrabbit-specific action on the SDSU track and field's Twitter account (
@GoJacksTFXC). A meet recap will be made available following the conclusion of each day on GoJacks.com.
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UP NEXT
The regular season wraps up with a weekend in Sioux Falls at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays while some Jackrabbits may compete at the Nebraska Invitational in Lincoln.
Once the regular season is over, South Dakota State will pack up and head to Macomb, Ill. to compete in The Summit League Outdoor Track and Field Championships, looking to defend their 2019 indoor men's title.Â
JACKRABBIT PERSONAL-BEST MARKS RESET
- MEN -
Fr.Â
Riley Bauer (800m - No. 10)
Fr.
Blake Iverson (800m)
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Gabe Peters (1,500m)
Fr.
Thomas Breuckman (5,000m)
Fr.
Lukas Pierson (5,000m)
Jr.
Micah Mather (3,000S)
- WOMEN -
Fr.
Mikayla Wevik (200m)
Sr.
Rachel King (1,500m - No. 2)
Sr.
Rachel Propst (1,500m)
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Mackenzie Schell (5,000m)
So.
Cailee Peterson (5,000m)
Jr.
Emma Nelson (5,000m)
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Emily Berzonsky (10,000m)
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Anna Donnay (10,000m)
Jr.
Haley Mottinger (100H - No. 3)
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JACKRABBIT EVENT WINNERS
- MEN -
Fr.Â
Riley Bauer (800m Unseeded)
Relays in the School's Top-10 List:Â
School Record - Men's 4x100m Relay (Fr.
Emmanual Phoulom-Smith, So.
Coby Hilton, So.
Daniel Clarke, Jr.
Sam Zenner)
School Record -Â Men's 4x800m Relay (Jr.
Wyatt Gatrost, Sr.
Cal Lawton, So.
Derek Boekelheide, Fr.
Riley Bauer)
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JACKRABBIT INDIVIDUAL RESULTS (COMBINED)
100m - Men - Drake Relays
9. Hilton, Coby (10.58)
10. Zenner, Sam (10.60)
--. Clarke, Daniel (False Start)
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Sophomore
Coby Hilton and junior
Sam Zenner went runner-up and third in the third heat of 100m, becoming the first two out of the finals race tomorrow. Hilton missed the cut by 0.05 seconds and Zenner missed by 0.07 seconds.
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For Zenner, the mark was a season-best by 0.09 seconds after opening the season with a 10.69-second performance at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate. Hilton ran her third-best performance in the event for his career, short of his second-best mark by 0.01 seconds (10.57 in the finals at 2018 Summit League) and 0.08 seconds from his PR and No. 4 all-time mark (10.50w at the South Dakota Challenge).
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100m - Men - Kip Janvrin
10. Kuil, Cameron (11.09)
31. Johnson, Sam (11.53)
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Sophomore
Cameron Kuil added his first 100m of the season, missing his PR from 2018 by 0.09 seconds. Senior
Sam Johnson notched his third career attempt, all of them coming from this season.
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200m - Men - Kip Janvrin
7. Kuil, Cameron (22.31)
20. Johnson, Sam (22.80)
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Sam Johnson added his third attempt in the event this season while sophomore
Cameron Kuil ran his first.
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200m - Women - Kip Janvrin
7. Bermel, Chloe (25.82)
18. Wevik, Mikayla (26.28)
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Freshman
Mikayla Wevik ran a personal-best mark by 0.14 seconds while sophomore
Chloe Bermel finished with her second consecutive sub-26-second 200m, short of her personal-best mark by 0.18 seconds.
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400m - Men - Kip Janvrin
6. Acker, Mitchel (49.34)
7. Bray, Caleb (49.62)
12. Larson, Landon (50.24)
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Junior
Landon Larson recorded his first mark of the 2019 outdoor campaign (was a member of the ORU 4x100m relay squad that did not finish) while both sophomores
Mitchel Acker and
Caleb Bray came close to their respective PR's (Acker was within his by 0.12 seconds from Bryan Clay, Bray was within 0.32 seconds from his at Pacific Coast).
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400m - Women - Kip Janvrin
6. Sebern, Allison (59.04)
7. Carlson, Delaney (59.04)
10. Van Dyke, Lauren (59.15)
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Juniors
Allison Sebern and
Delaney Carlson notched season-best marks as Sebern edged Carlson by 0.006 seconds. Sebern trimmed 0.88 seconds from her previous-best at the Red Raider Open and Carlson cut 0.65 seconds from her previous-best at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate.
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Freshman
Lauren Van Dyke posted her second-best outdoor 400m outdoors, short of her PR by 0.30 seconds.
800m Unseeded - Men - Drake Relays
1. Bauer, Riley (1:51.50)
10. Lawton, Cal (1:53.57)
20. Goehring, Josh (1:54.58)
22. Boekelheide, Derek (1:55.18)
--. Gatrost, Wyatt (DNF)
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Riley Bauer posted his second career outdoor win in the 800m (also won the South Dakota Challenge 800m), adding a personal-best mark by 0.28 seconds in the unseeded 800m. His mark will go down as the No. 10 all-time mark for SDSU, knocking out teammateÂ
Wyatt Gatrost out of the list (he reset his PR at the Mike Fanelli Classic to begin the season at No. 10, 1:51.73).
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800m - Men - Kip Janvrin
5. Goehring, Josh (1:54.46)
8. Iverson, Blake (1:55.19)
11. Hanna, Jordan (1:56.87)
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Freshman
Blake Iverson added a personal-best mark, resetting his best from the South Dakota Challenge by 0.59 seconds. Junior
Josh Goehring and senior
Jordan Hanna posted their third season-best resets with Goehring dropping 3.46 seconds from the first mark of the season and Hanna cutting 3.20 seconds.
800m Unseeded - Women - Drake Relays
2. Covey, Oksana (2:08.82)
11. Steele, Krista (2:14.07)
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Oksana Covey posted a runner-up finish in the second heat that held up to be the second-best mark out of the two unseeded 800m heats. It's her fifth career top-three finish outdoors, first of the 2019 campaign. Covey's time would be the third-best all-time mark for SDSU if she didn't already have the school record from the Bryan Clay Invite last weekend.
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Both Covey and seniorÂ
Krista Steele added their first career 800m at the Drake Relays as Jackrabbits.
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800m - Women - Kip Janvrin
2. Dykstra, Kendra (2:15.80)
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Junior
Kendra Dykstra notched a season-best mark out of two attempts this season, trimming 0.66 seconds from her South Dakota Twilight mark. It's also her fifth career top-three finish outdoors in the 800m.
1,500m Unseeded - Men - Drake Relays
11. Peters, Gabe (3:54.73)
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Gabe Peters ran his third personal-best reset out of four attempts this season, this time trimming his mark by 0.80 seconds. He finished fifth in the first of two heats in the unseeded event.
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1,500m - Women - Drake Relays
2. King, Rachel (4:25.12)
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Senior
Rachel King, leading nearly the entire race, finished runner-up in the seeded 1,500m at the Blue Oval. She managed a 0.28-second personal-best reset, her second of the season (last weekend: Bryan Clay, 4:25.40 ... tonight: Drake Relays, 4:25.12). She remains No. 2 all-time for SDSU, just 2.31 seconds from Becka Manshiem's school-record mark (2007), while maintaining her No. 1 mark on The Summit League's outdoor performance list.
1,500m Unseeded - Women - Drake Relays
24. Friesen, Ellie (4:43.22)
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Ellie Friesen, from Crestwood, Iowa, ran her fourth 1,500m of the season for the Jackrabbits.
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1,500m - Women - Kip Janvrin
6. Propst, Rachel (4:44.97)
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Senior
Rachel Propst added her fourth consecutive personal-best reset of the season by 0.98 seconds. In all, the senior has trimmed 7.26 seconds from her best prior to the season (2016 Jim Duncan Invite, 4:52.23).
5,000m Seeded - Men - Drake Relays
5. Burdick, Kyle (14:03.76)
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Kyle Burdick posted his first 5,000m attempt of the season, finishing fifth in the seeded event, third among college competition. His mark is 2.92 seconds from his personal-best and No. 3 all-time mark (his mark tonight would be also ranked No. 3 all-time).
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Among Summit League competition, he jumps to the top of the performance list by 16.27 seconds, totaling four Jackrabbits in the top-five of the event (1. Burdick, 3. Fr.Â
Joseph Minor-Williams, 4. Jr.Â
Micah Mather, 5. Jr.Â
Lukas Nelson). He is also 49th in the NCAA West preliminary performance list as of Thursday evening as the top-48 qualify for the NCAA West preliminaries in Sacramento in late May (he's qualified for the NCAA West Prelims in the 5,000m since 2017).
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5,000m - Men - Kip Janvrin
3. Breuckman, Thomas (14:51.10)
18. Pierson, Lukas (15:28.73)
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Both freshmen
Thomas Breuckman and
Lukas Pierson posted their personal-best marks. Breuckman finished with his second career top-three finish in the event with an 11.94-second personal-best (won Sioux City Relays) while Pierson trimmed 5.81 seconds in his second career attempt.
5,000m Unseeded - Women - Drake Relays
13. Schell, Mackenzie (17:32.35)
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Mackenzie Schell reset her personal-best mark in the 5,000m at her first Drake Relays appearance in the unseeded event. She posted her previous-best mark on this weekend a year ago at the Kip Janvrin Open.
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5,000m - Women - Kip Janvrin
5. Peterson, Cailee (17:56.68)
6. Fasen, Anna (18:05.02)
9. Nelson, Emma (18:17.04)
23. Emmick, Elise (19:25.93)
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Sophomore
Cailee Peterson finished with her second personal-best reset of the season, this time by 26.86 seconds. Junior
Emma Nelson also recorded her second PR reset of the season, 8.42 seconds better than her previous-best. Freshman
Elise Emmick ran her best by 34.11 seconds out of two career attempts while junior
Anna Fasen added her first 5,000m race.
10,000m Open - Men - Drake Relays
5. Minor-Williams, Joseph (30:18.34)
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Joseph Minor-Williams notched his first career 10,000m attempt, finishing fifth in the open 10,000m among 22 other competitors. His mark was 7.44 seconds from the school's top-10 list.
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10,000m Open - Women - Drake Relays
11. Berzonsky, Emily (36:33.86)
14. Donnay, Anna (36:58.24)
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Both seniorÂ
Emily Berzonsky and sophomoreÂ
Anna Donnay reset their personal-best marks, Berzonsky by 15.30 seconds and Donnay by 1.28 seconds.
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It was Donnay's second career attempt in the event (first was in the 2018 Summit League Outdoor Championships) while Berzonsky ran her sixth, third at Drake (her best place-finish at Drake, finished 18th both times previously ... previous-best mark was from the 2017 Drake Relays). The school's 10th-best mark all-time is 36:13.82, last touched in 2015 (Jenna Grossenburg).
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110m Hurdles - Men - Drake Relays
25. Wessels, Nick (14.86w)
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Nick Wessels added his first mark in the Drake Relays as a Jackrabbit, finishing 0.17 seconds from his personal-best marks and No. 10 all-time mark.
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110m Hurdles - Men - Kip Janvrin
5. Pierzinski, Reid (15.20)
18. Bates, Peter (16.57w)
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Freshman
Reid Pierzinski and senior
Peter Bates added their first appearances at the Kip Janvrin Open as Jackrabbits.
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100m Hurdles - Women - Drake Relays
11. O'Connor, Jaymie (13.84w)
17. Mottinger, Haley (14.04w)
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Junior
Haley Mottinger posted a 0.22-second personal-best reset, her second of the season, to climb from the No. 6 all-time mark to the No. 3 all-time mark behind teammate
Jaymie O'Connor and Jennifer Stovall (2002). At the beginning of this year, she had a personal-best mark of 14.73w (2018 NSU Twilight) and has since cut 0.69 seconds.
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She had done the same sort of thing during the 2019 indoor campaign, entering the 60m hurdles all-time list at the SDSU Holiday Invite at No. 6 all-time (8.81). Before the start of the indoor season, she had a PR of 8.97, her only mark sub-nine seconds.
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O'Connor, who owns the indoor 60m hurdles record since 2017 and resetting it three times this year and re-established the outdoor 100m hurdles record twice this year (13.75, 13.74), was within 0.10 seconds of her personal-best mark.
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400m Hurdles - Men - Kip Janvrin
9. Bates, Peter (57.46)
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Senior
Peter Bates was within 0.17 seconds from his personal-best mark he first set at the South Dakota Challenge.
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3,000m Steeplechase - Men - Kip Janvrin
2. Mather, Micah (9:07.89)
6. Schwinghamer, Michael (9:29.21)
14. Klawitter, Chandler (9:51.37)
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Junior
Micah Mather reset his personal-best mark by 4.39 seconds, falling just short of the school's top 10 by 1.89 seconds, in his fourth career top-three finish in the event. The school's top 10 was last touched in 2011 by Greg Vollmer (No. 8, 9:05.54).
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Sophomore
Michael Schwinghamer added his second attempt of the season, missing his PR by 2.72 seconds set at the South Dakota Challenge, while senior
Chandler Klawitter recorded his second season-best reset of the season.
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3,000m Steeplechase - Women - Kip Janvrin
7. Schweiss, Jamie (11:28.33)
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Junior
Jamie Schweiss added her first career 3,000m steeplechase mark.
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4x100m Relay - Men - Drake Relays
5. "A" Team (40.12q)
(1. Fr.
Emmanual Phoulom-Smith, 2. So.
Coby Hilton, 3. So.
Daniel Clarke, 4. Jr.
Sam Zenner)
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The Jacks posted a school-record mark in the 4x100m relay alongside a Houston squad in the opening heat of the preliminaries. Overall, SDSU had the third-best mark out the round, second-best mark among "next-fastest" qualifying spots, to place fifth in the overall prelims. The squad was behind the likes of Kentucky, Purdue, and Houston, but were faster than Illinois, Northern Iowa, Iowa, Air Force, and Drake.
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This is the second career 4x100m relay race that freshman
Emmanual Phoulom-Smith has been a member of. The squad opened the season with the school's No. 2 all-time mark at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate last weekend (40.55).
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A majority of the squad is the same from last year's two-time record setting team (Hilton, Jr.
Landon Larson, Clarke, Zenner). Throughout the 2018 season, the men's 4x100m relay team added the second-best mark (40.94) all-time at Drake before resetting the school record at Nebraska (40.84) and ending with the Summit League Championship record and pushing the SDSU record for the second time (40.40).
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Another combination of the relay team had the third-best all-time mark (now No. 4) at the Tulsa Duals (
Jalen Williams ('18), Larson, Clarke, Zenner).
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Worst seed times on the NCAA West Prelims Start Lists the last five years:
2018 - 40.24
2017 - 40.29
2016 - 40.22
2015 - 40.38
2014 - 40.47
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The Jackrabbit squad will have the opportunity to reset the record again tomorrow in the finals at 3:16 p.m.
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4x100m Relay - Women - Drake Relays
13. "A" Team (48.36)
(1. So.
Emily Altenburg, 2. So.
Chloe Bermel, 3. Jr.
Jennifer Thill, 4. Fr.
Mikayla Wevik)
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The Jackrabbits posted their best mark of the season in the event by finishing fifth in the second heat of the preliminary round, 13th overall.
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4x800m Relay - Men - Drake Relays
7. "A" Team (7:27.27)
(1. Jr.
Wyatt Gatrost, 2. Sr.
Cal Lawton, 3. So.
Derek Boekelheide, 4. Fr.
Riley Bauer)
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The men's 4x800m relay squad reset both the school and South Dakota state collegiate records with a seventh-place finish at Drake Stadium in the evening.
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Lawton ran the second leg with a split of 1:49.07 to move up seven places into third - a mark that would be the school's No. 2 all-time 800m mark - while Bauer closed the relay with a 1:51.46 split - a mark that would have been No. 8 all-time. The previous state record was 7:30 and the school record was previously 7:32.
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Shot Put - Men - Drake Relays
16. Huber, Noah (54-09.50)
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Sophomore
Noah Huber threw his first shot put competition at Drake with his fourth competition of the season.
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Discus Throw - Women - Drake Relays
19. Vollmer, Kasie (140-11.00)
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Senior
Kasie Vollmer tossed the discus in her sixth competition of the season, representing the Jackrabbits for the second time at the Drake Relays.
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Javelin Throw - Women - Drake Relays
16. Astleford, Rachel (126-00.00)
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Senior
Rachel Astleford added her second Drake Relays competition in a Jackrabbit uniform with her second-best mark of the season.
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