ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota track and field teams hit the road this Wednesday, as the Cardinal men travel to the Concordia-St. Paul Twilight, while the Cardinal women take part in the St. Thomas Tommie Twilight
The Concordia-St. Paul Twilight Field:• Concordia-St. Paul, Minnesota Duluth, St. Cloud State, Minnesota, St. Thomas, Hamline, Augsburg, Saint John's, Bethel, Saint Mary's, Northwestern-St. Paul
The St. Thomas Tommie Twilight Field:• Augsburg, St. Thomas, Carleton, Hamline, Macalester, Saint Benedict, St. Catherine, Saint Mary's, St. Olaf, Univeristy of Minnesota
Cardinals' Last Action:• The Cardinals collected 14 Top 10 finishes—led by
Bryan Ortman's (Chicago, Ill.) second-place effort in the triple jump—at the Saint Mary's Open last Saturday in Winona, Minn. |
Recap Cardinals At The Concordia-St. Paul Twilight—Their Last Appearance:•
May 2, 2012: Tyler Kircher (Cashton, Wis.) and Peter Borash (Bowlus, Minn.) led the way for the Saint Mary's men at the Concordia-St. Paul Twilight in St. Paul, Minn., as Kircher placed sixth in the hammer throw (44.34 meters) and Borash was seventh in the 1,500 (4;00.76) |
Recap Cardinals At The St. Thomas Tommie Twilight—Their Last Appearance:• May 2, 2012: Coco Booker (St. Paul, Minn.) led the Cardinals' charge at the St. Thomas Tommie Twilight in St. Paul, Minn., with a seventh-place showing in the shot put (12.21 meters), while Kassondra Burtis (Fairmont, Minn.) and
Katie Stolz (Forest Lake, Minn.) chipped in 10th-place efforts in the hammer throw (42.04 meters) and the steeplechase (12:22.18), respectively |
Recap Up Next:• The Cardinals are back on the track on this weekend, as
Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) takes part in the MIAC Decathlon in Northfield, Minn., on Thursday and Friday, while the rest of the Saint Mary's squads will compete in the Winona State Invitational.
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:2015 Men's Roster |
2015 Women's Roster |
2015 Schedule |
Record Book• The Cardinals collected 14 Top 10 finishes at last Saturday's Saint Mary's Open, led by
Bryan Ortman (Chicago, Ill.), who uncorked a lead of 12.75 meters to place second in the triple jump. …
Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) added a third in the long jump (6.69 meters) and a fourth in the 110 hurdles (15.44), and
Laura Schommer (Hutchinson, Minn.) tallied a third in the 200 (26.13) in the Cardinals' lone home meet of the season. … Other top performances for the Cardinals at the Saint Mary's Open included:
Tyler Kircher (Cashton, Wis.) finished fifth in the hammer throw with a toss of 48.68 meters in the home meet of his collegiate career, with Ortman and
Jacob Hagen-Erickson (Austin, Minn.) chipping in sixth-place efforts in the long jump with identical 6.31-meter performances. The Cardinals swept the sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-place spots in the triple jump, as
Ryan Buchmeier (St. Paul, Minn.),
Gordy Paulman (DeForest, Wis.), and
Phil Emmerich (Mondovi, Wis.) notched leaps of 11.23, 11.11, and 10.84, respectively.
Aaron Haley (Plainview, Minn.) chipped in a sixth in the 5,000 (16:12.81) and Emmerich also added a seventh in the javelin (44.81 meters).
Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) and
Mary Hayes (Chicago, Ill.) also got into the Top 10 act, placing eighth in the pole vault (3.22) and 10th in the 1,500 (5:41.52). … The Cardinals broke three school records at the Phil Esten Challenge on April 17—giving Saint Mary's four new outdoor school marks this season. …
Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.) broke the school's 10,000 mark with a time of 32:04.45—it was the second straight year that record has been broken at the Phil Esten Challenge. …
Morris Dennis (Elk River, Minn.) posted one of the top times in NCAA Division III this season in shattering the Cardinal record in the 400 with a time of 58.45 at the Phil Esten Challenge, while
Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) cleared 3.25 meters to etch her name in the record books in the pole vault. …
Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) owns the Cardinals' other new school mark this season, breaking the school record in the 110 hurdles at the Lee Krough Invitational on April 11, stopping the clock in 15.19. … The Cardinals are coming off an indoor season in which they broke six school records at the MIAC Indoor Championships. … Kinderman broke his own school record in the 60-meter hurdles, stopping the clock in 8.56 seconds, while Dennis equaled Kinderman's third-place, all-conference performance in the 400 at the indoor conference championships—also in record-setting fashion—stopping the clock in 50.18, and shattering the seven-year-old mark of 50.83, set by John Kelly in 2008. … Missurelli (pole vault, 3.32 meters), Schommer (60, 8.08), and Krogman (600, 1:25.30) also broke school records at the conference indoor championships. … Krogman, Dennis and Kinderman also teamed with
Tyler Fiebig (Baraboo, Wis.) to rewrite the Cardinal record book with a sixth-place time of 3:29.36 in the 4x400 relay.