Jacks travel to USD, Nebraska for weekend meets

Friday, February 7

Lincoln, Neb.

6 p.m. /11:30 a.m.

South Dakota State University

Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational

Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia Sports Media

2/5/2020 1:14:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

The South Dakota State track and field teams split this weekend to travel for their second road event of the year with the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational hosted by University of Nebraska and the USD Dakota Realty/Alumni Open hosted by South Dakota on Friday and Saturday.

The USD Dakota Realty/Alumni Open is set to begin at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7 and resume at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8. The Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. begins at 6 p.m. on Friday and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.

USD Dakota Realty/Alumni Open Live Results: https://results.dakotatiming.com/

USD Dakota Realty/Alumni Open Friday's Live Stream: https://goyotes.com/watch/?Live=926

USD Dakota Realty/Alumni Open Saturday's Live Stream: https://goyotes.com/watch/?Live=927

Meet schedules, heat sheets and other meet information for both meets will be posted here for the men, and here for the women when made available.

LAST TIME OUT: (via GoJacks.com)

The South Dakota State track and field teams hit the road for the Jack Johnson Classic hosted by the University of Minnesota. The Jacks picked up four individual event wins and made three changes to the program's all-time top 10 lists.

Freshman Annie Wendt picked up first place and the new third best all-time mark in the women's long jump at 19-02.00, while Emily Altenburg grabbed third with a jump of 17-04.75. Later in the meet, Wendt's triple jump of 36-07.00 earned her second place. Unattached Jackrabbit Jaymie O'Connor took first in the women's 60m hurdles finals with a mark of 8.60. Haley Mottinger came in third with a mark of 8.87. Emily Altenburg finished third for the Jackrabbits in the women's 60m dash finals with a mark of 7.87.

From there, the Jacks went 2-3-4 in the women's high jump. Addison Eisenbeisz jumped a personal best 5-07.24 and continues to hold SDSU's eighth best all-time mark. Chloe Holtz jumped 5-05.25 and Madison Mingo turned in a 5-03.25, beating her previous best by 1/4 inch. Oksana Covey ran a 57.35 to take first place in the women's 400.

SDSU's 4x400 relay made up of Lauren Van Dyke, Hannah Whitbread, Delaney Carlson and Oksana Covey took second place with a time of 4:01.27.

Nick Wessels won the men's 60m hurdles finals with a time of 8.10, while Jacob Lackas finished fourth with a 8.26 and picked up a personal best and the new eighth best all-time mark. Coby Hilton took third in the men's 60m dash finals with a mark of 6.91. Caleb Bray (50.20), Cameron Kuil (50.27) and Mitch Acker (50.58) went 1-3-4 for the Jackrabbits in the men's 400m.

In the pole vault, Trent Francom matched his career-best height of 17-00.25 to take second in the men's pole vault.

In the jumping pits, the Jacks went 1-3-4 in the long jump. Daniel Clarke lead with a jump of 23-02.75, Evan Hieber followed with a mark of 22-05.25 and Tre Manning jumped for 22-04.50. Trey Tiefenthaler leaped 44-05.25 to take third place in the triple jump, and Tom Breuckman took third in the men's 3000 with a time of 8:30.98. To wrap things up, the Jackrabbits 4x400 relay squad of Emmanuel Phoulom-Smith, Reid Pierzinski, Caleb Bray and Landon Larson took second with a mark of 3:18.09.

"Largely, I think we competed really well," said head coach Rod DeHaven. "Everything is pointing towards the 28 and 29 of February in Fort Wayne. We've got work to do, but we're pleased with the progress we've made so far."

The Jack Johnson Classic was a non-scoring event. Full results can be found here.

RANKED JACKS: The Jackrabbit men's shot put throwers found themselves ranked sixth on the USTFCCCA #EventSquad Rankings with an average throw of 57-5.00.

#EventSquad Rankings EXPLAINED (via USTFCCCA.ORG):

USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings places a rank order to a program's "squad" of athletes in a particular event, using the cumulative season-best qualifying marks from a team's top-four ranked athletes on the national descending-order list. As with the national descending-order list for qualifying and seeding purposes, marks are subject to be converted due to track size and/or altitude. A team must have four or more athletes with a valid season-best mark recorded with TFRRS to achieve a ranking in a particular event.

Daniel Clarke holds the top mark across the Summit League in the men's long jump with his leap of 24-0.25 from the SDSU Holiday Invite and Multi on Dec. 6.

On the women's side, Elise Emmick holds the top Summit League 5,000 mark with her 18:34.81 posted at the SDSU Div. II Classic. Addison Eisenbeisz's 5-7.25 high jump mark also ranks her first in the conference.

The Jackrabbits return to the SJAC Feb. 14 and 15 for the SDSU Indoor Classic in the SJAC.

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