Completed Event: Men's Track and Field at NCAA Championships on June 11, 2025 , , No Team Score
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Men's Track and Field
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South Dakota State University Athletics
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Renae Dykstra
- Hometown:
- Rapid City, S.D.
- Prev School:
- Rapid City Stevens H.S.
- Indoor:
- Jr.
- Position:
- Middle Distance
- Outdoor:
- Sr.
- Class:
- Senior
Bio
CAREER RESULTS
PERSONAL-BEST MARKS: (updated after 2018 TF)
600M IN: 1:36.36 (2016 - SO, SDSU Tune Up - 2/19)
800M IN: 2:13.61 (2016 - SO, Jim Emmerich - 1/23)
800M OUT: 2:13.35 (2015 - FR, Bryan Clay - 4/17)
1,500M OUT: 4:46.32 (2015 - FR, Dakota Duals - 4/4)
MILE IN: 5:07.35 (2016 - SO, Bison Classic - 1/16)
4x400M IN: 3:56.13 (2015 - FR, Jack Johnson - 1/30-31)
4x400M OUT: 3:57.04 (2015 - FR, Arkansas Invite - 3/27-28)
4x800M IN: 9:12.37 (2016 - SO, SDSU Classic - 2/12-13)
4x800M OUT: 8:59.24 (2016 - SO, Drake Relays - 4/27-30)
DMR IN: 11:53.27 (2016 - SO, Summit League - 2/26-27)
DMR OUT: 11:38.37 (2016 - SO, Drake Relays - 4/27-30)
CROSS COUNTRY
4K XC: 15:51.8 (2017 - JR, Bison Open - 9/2)
5K XC: 18:07.8 (2017 - JR, Ron Pynn - 10/14)
6K XC: 21:54.5 (2017 - JR, NCAA Midwest - 11/10)
HONORS & AWARDS:
All-Summit League (ITF 2015, 2016, 2018)
Summit League Commissioners List of Academic Excellence (‘16TF, ‘16XC, ‘17TF, '17XC, '18TF)
Summit League Honor Roll (‘14F*, ‘15S*, ‘16S*, ‘16F, ‘17S, '17F, '18S)
* Denotes Distinguished Scholar
2017-18:
OUTDOOR: Competed in 12 events ... finished 12th in the prelims (2:20.11) of the 800m and in the championships 1,500m (4:48.67) at The Summit League Championships (5/10-12) ... it was her first career 1,500m and third 800m at the league championships ... added season-best marks in both the 800m and 1,500m at the Howard Wood (5/4-5), finishing eighth (2:16.21) in the 800m - 2.86 seconds from her 2016 PR - and placing 11th (4:48.05) in the 1,500m - 1.73 seconds from her 2015 PR ... reset her season-best three times throughout the season, knocking off 5.08 seconds from the first 800m (2:21.33, seventh place) of the season at the Tulsa Duals (3/16-17) ... had the team’s fourth-best 800m on the season performance list (ranked 13th in the league) and seventh-best 1,500m (24th).
INDOOR: Competed in 11 events ... finished seventh in the finals of the 800m (2:51.51) and third (12:10.76) as the first leg of the DMR at The Summit League Championships (2/23-24) ... the 800m finals mark was her season-best, missing her indoor PR by 1.90 seconds ... competed in her lone 4x400m relay at the SDSU Last Chance (2/16), winning the event (4:12.35) as the second leg ... won her lone individual event on the season in the 800m (2:16.84) at the SDSU Last Chance ... added her best DMR mark of the season at the SDSU Classic (2/9-10) as the fourth leg, finishing fourth (12:07.27) ... the mark is tied for the 10th best mark all-time at SDSU ... placed fifth (5:09.62) in her only mile of the season at the Mark Messersmith (1/27), making it the best career place-finish in the event and 2.27 seconds from her PR ... ran one 600m at the SDSU DII Invite (1/19), finishing fourth (1:38.41), 2.05 seconds from her 2016 PR ... recorded the team’s fourth-best 600m on the season performance list, third-best 800m (eighth best in the league), third-best mile (18th), 13th-best 4x400m, and best DMR mark (third).
CROSS COUNTRY: Competed in six events, including her first Summit League and NCAA Midwest Regional Championships ... set career-bests in the 4k, 5k, and 8k throughout the year ... finished the season at the NCAA Midwest Regionals (11/10), posting fourth on the team, 116th overall for a career-best time of 21:54.5 ... at The Summit League Championships (10/28), recorded sixth among Jackrabbits, 23rd overall (22:31.23) ... posted a career-best 5k by improving by over a minute at the Ron Pynn Open (10/14), placing fifth overall, first for the Jacks (18:07.8) ... set a personal-best performance at the SDSU Classic (9/29), finishing sixth on the team, 10th overall (19:08.84) and beating her previous event-best by nearly a minute ... recorded her best 4k performance at the NDSU Open (9/1) by posting an sixth-place team finish and 18th overall (24:57.7).
2016-17:
OUTDOOR: Competed in three events ... ran a season-best 4:52.76 in the 1,500m at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays (5/5-6), finishing 12th ... placed 11th (5:04.57) in the 1,500m at the Lyle Hankanson Classic (4/21-22) ... finished 12th (2:20.24) in the 800m at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays.
INDOOR: Competed in two events ... placed seventh in the 600m (1:38.18) at the SDSU Holiday Open and Multi (12/2-3) ... recorded a season-best 2:22.13 in the 800m at the SDSU Last Chance (2/17), finishing fifth.
CROSS COUNTRY: Competed in two races ... ran a 15:56.2 in the 4k at the Bison Open Cross Country Meet (9/2), finishing 25th ... posted 19:59.1 in the 5k at the SDSU Classic (10/1), placing 16th.
2015-16:
OUTDOOR: Ran a 2:13.68 for a season-best 800m at the Howard Wood Dakota relays to finish fourth ... placed third in the 4x400m relay at the Jim Duncan Invitational with a time of 4:00.74 ... won the 800m run at the USD Twilight with a time of 2:14.89 ... ran a season-best 1,500m in 4:55.81 at the Vance Butler Invitational.
INDOOR: Distance medley relay team won at The Summit League Indoor Championships, finishing in 11:53.27 ... won the 4x800m relay at the SDSU Indoor Classic, finishing in 9:12.37 ... ran a season-best 600m (1:37.13) at the SDSU Holiday Invite to place second ... took first in the 4x400m relay at the SDSU Tune Up, finishing in 4:05.89 ... placed second in the 800m run at the Jim Emmerich Invitational, finishing in 2:13.61.
CROSS COUNTRY: Redshirted ... competed in two races, the SDSU Classic (10/3) and the Mount Marty Invitational (10/24) ... ran a season-best 5k 20:02.8 at the Mount Marty Invitational.
2014-15:
OUTDOOR: Clocked fastest 1,500m run time (4:46.32) at the Dakota Duals ... recorded top outdoor 800m run time (2:13.35) by a Jackrabbit in 2014-15 at the Bryan Clay Invitational ... ran the 4x800m relay at the Drake Relays, clocking in at a school top-10 time of 9:08.95 and placing 13th ... placed 10th in the preliminaries of the 800m run at The Summit League Outdoor Championships with a time of 2:14.72.
INDOOR: Clocked fastest 600m run at the SDSU Open, placing second with a time of 1:37.40 ... ran best mile (5:12.93) time of the season at the Jack Johnson Classic ... posted fastest indoor 800m run time (2:13.86) by a Jackrabbit, finishing eighth at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational ... finished 11th in the preliminaries of the 800m run at The Summit League Indoor Championships with a time of 2:16.25
CROSS COUNTRY: Placed 16th at the Bison Open (8/29) in 20:02.94 ... finished 39th at the Oz Memorial (9/5) in 24:39.7 ... ran a 26:04.5 in the 6k at the Roy Griak Invite (9/27) ... placed sixth in the open division at the Bradley Pink Classic (10/17), in 23:38.6.
BEFORE SDSU: Lettered three years in cross country and four years in track ... captained track team senior year ... 2014 state champion in the 4x800m relay and 2013 state champion in the medley relay ... appears on school’s top-10 lists in sprint medley (1), 4x800m relay (2), 800m run (4) and 1,600m run (9) ... named 2014 all-state and academic team all-state ... team’s 2013 Most Improved ... team’s 2013 Sledgehammer award winner ... three-time Iron Raider ... named to the 2013 all-state academic team ... 2012 all-state team .... named 2013 Outstanding Female Athlete at school ... Team’s 2012 Most Valuable Runner ... team’s 2011 Most Improved Runner ... graduated magna cum laude and was on the National Honor Society Honor Roll.
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