RECORD-BREAKING MARKS HIGHLIGHT DAY ONE

Saturday, February 27

Brookings, S.D.

9 a.m.

South Dakota State University

SUMMIT LEAGUE INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

2/27/2021 8:26:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

BROOKINGS— The South Dakota State University track and field program walked away from day one the 2021 Summit League Indoor Track and Field Championships Presented by the U.S. Air Force Special Warfare with a broken school record, league record and nine medals.

Coby Hilton turned in two career-best marks in the 60-meter and 200-meter dash preliminaries. The Summit League leader in both events turned in two first-place finishes with a 60 mark of 6.75 that would give him the title of outright school record holder, breaking up the tie between himself and 2020 Summit League 200 champion Sam Zenner.

It wouldn't be the only time Hilton would pass his former teammate.

Hilton clocked a 21.05 in the prelims of the 200-meter dash to earn a spot in tomorrow's finals and set the new Summit League meet record. Hilton's mark was .02 faster than Sam Zenner who clocked a 21.07 during the 2019 event— the last time conference finals were hosted in Brookings.

Also advancing to day two's finals with Hilton are Daniel Clarke (6.87) and Emmanuel Phoulom-Smith (6.92). Representing the Jacks in the women's 60m dash, Rich-Ann Archer ran a 7.53 in 60m dash prelims and takes over as the second-fastest time in SDSU history. Archer's mark seeds her first in tomorrow's finals. Also in the finals, Jaiden Boomsma ran a 7.56, also a PR, and keeps her at fourth all-time for the Rabbits.

In the 200, Rich-Ann Archer recorded a personal-best 24.78 and moved from sixth to fourth all-time at SDSU. Jake Werner also punched his ticket to his first ever Summit League finals with a 21.92 posting.

Reid Pierzinski took home a personal-best of 47.73 in the 400, while Hannah Whitbread (5th, 56.94) and Lauren Van Dyke (6th, 57.17) will represent the Jacks tomorrow.

Three Jackrabbits will be represented in the 800, with Riley Bauer (5th, 1:54.44), Oksana Covey (2nd, 2:12.38) and Tori Glazier (8th, 2:15.60).

Over hurdles, Nick Wessels (4th, 8.21) and Pierre Lear (5th, 8.22, PR) secured spots in tomorrow's finals. Lear's mark in preliminaries has him tied for sixth
at SDSU. Jaymie O'Connor (2nd, 8.50) tied her PR and program record.

The seventh-ranked vaulter in the nation headed into the meet, Trent Francom took home the first medal of the day for the Jacks, finishing third in the men's pole vault with a mark of 16-10.00.

Thomas Breuckman took home the Jacks first gold medal of the championship, finishing the men's 3,000 finals with a personal-best 8:18.07 clocking. Also shining in the 3,000, Leah Hansen took silver with what became a massive drop from her previous best 9:45.88 clocking and is now ranked second behind Rachel King for the top time in program history. Ellie Friesen also ran a PR (9:41.22) to move to fourth all-time and take home a bronze medal.

2020 Summit League Newcomer of the Championship Annie Wendt secured the first medal on the women's side after tying her personal best mark of 19-02.00 in the long jump. Taking silver and bronze in the men's long jump, Daniel Clarke jumped for 23-08.00 and silver while Tre Manning picked up bronze with a leap of 23-06.00.

A second showing of SDSU's talented distance squads, both SDSU distance medley relay entries cashed in on medals. The men's relay of Michael Schwinghamer, Cameron Kuil, Josh Becker, Carter Knaus took third and turned in the seventh-best time in school history with a 10:05.27. in the women''s DMR, Tori Glazier, Emily Rystrom, Jessica Christoffer and Cailee Peterson connected for second place and the eighth-fastest mark in program history with a 12:04.78 clocking.

In the throws ring, Samuel Coil finished fourth with a 66-04.50 for the Jacks, while Caitlin Thilges recorded a top-10 conference performance, throwing for a PR of 59-00.25 and a ninth-place finish in the women's weight throw. Her mark places her No. 6 all-time at State.

Through five scored events, the North Dakota State men enter the final day of the championships with 64 points—7.5 points ahead of the Jackrabbits (56.5). South Dakota (50), Western Illinois (10), North Dakota (8) and Oral Roberts (3.5) complete the first day of the competition sitting third through sixth, respectively.

On the women's side, North Dakota State holds the lead going into day two with 78 points—42 points in front of South Dakota (36). South Dakota State (34), North Dakota (34), Omaha (5), Oral Roberts (4) and Western Illinois (3) head into the final day of the championships sitting third through seventh.

Up Next
Competition resumes Sunday inside the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex with the final men's multi-events starting at 9:30 a.m. CT, field events at 11:30 a.m and track events at 1 p.m.

-GoJacks.com-