WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University men's and women's track and field teams kick off their 2016 indoor season on Saturday, hosting the Saint Mary's Early Birdinal at the Gostomski Fieldhouse.
The Saint Mary's Early Birdinal Field:• Saint Mary's, Winona State, Viterbo, Luther, Bethany Lutheran, Saint Mary's Alumni
GameDay Live On The Web:•
Video Preview Cardinals' Last Action:• Saturday's Saint Mary's Early Birdinal is the 2014 indoor season opener for the Cardinals.
Cardinals At Saint Mary's Early Birdinal—A Year Ago:• January 17, 2015: Ill.)
Bryan Ortman (Chicago, Ill.) picked up a pair of first-place finishes in the in the long jump (6.24 meters) and the triple jump (11.53 meters) and
Tyler Kircher (Cashton, Minn.) chipped in a 1-2 showing in the weight throw (15.39 meters) and shot put (11.50 meters), respectively, to pace the Cardinal men, while
Laura Schommer (Hutchinson, Minn.) led the way for the Cardinal women, placing fourth in both the 55 (7.75) and the 200 (27.86), |
Recap Up Next:• The Cardinals are back on the track next Saturday, as Saint Mary's travels to Menomonie, Wis., to take part in the UW-Stout Open.
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:2016 Men's Roster |
2016 Women's Roster |
2016 Schedule |
Record Book•
Morris Dennis (Elk River, Minn.) became coach
Niels Anderson's first national qualifier, as the then-freshman earned a spot in the 400 at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor National Championships. … The Cardinals boasted a pair of conference champions at the 2015 MIAC Outdoor Championships in May, as
Tyler Kircher (Cashton, Wis.) won the hammer throw with personal-best throw of 50.83 meters, while Dennis was conference champion in the 400 with a school-record time of 48.42. …
Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) joined Kircher and Dennis as first-team all-conference performers at the outdoor championships, placing second in the pole vault, clearing 3.30 meters. … Dennis was one of three Cardinal men to break outdoor school records in 2015—being joined by
Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.), who broke the school mark in the 110 hurdles (15.19), and
Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.), who set the new school record in the 10,000 with a time of 32:04.45. … Missurelli set the school's outdoor pole vault mark last season with a vault of 3.36 meters. … The Cardinals broke six school records at the MIAC Indoor Championships in March. … 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 400 mark of 50.83, set by John Kelly in 2008. … Missurelli (pole vault, 3.32 meters),
Laura Schommer (Hutchinson, Minn. / 60, 8.08), and
Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn. / 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.
