WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University men's and women's track and field teams kick off their 2016 outdoor season on Sunday, hosting the Saint Mary's Dingels/Brueggen Open at the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex.
The Saint Mary's Dingels/Brueggen Open Field:• Saint Mary's, Viterbo, Luther, Upper Iowa
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enior Salute Cardinals' Last Action:• Sunday's Saint Mary's Dingels/Brueggen Open, named after the Cardinals' first two track and field All-Americans—Ashley Dingels on the women's side and Andrew Brueggen on the men's—is the 2016 outdoor season opener for the Cardinals.
Up Next:• The Cardinals are back on the track next Saturday, as Saint Mary's travels to La Crosse, Wis., to take part in the UW-La Crosse Ashton May Invitational.
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Record Book• The Cardinals boasted a pair of all-conference performers at the MIAC Indoor Championships in March.
Morris Dennis shattered his own school record in the 400, for the second time this year, placing third with a time of 49.46—four-tenths of a second faster than his previous school mark.
Maria Missurelli, meanwhile, broke her own school record in the pole vault, clearing 3.35 meters to place second. …
Bryan Ortman earned honorable-mention all-conference honors in both the triple jump and the long jump, placing fourth and sixth, respectively. …
James Davis and
Brandon Krogman also collected honorable-mention All-MIAC honors at the indoor championships, with Davis placing fourth in the 200 and Krogman adding a sixth in the 600. … Davis set the school record in the indoor 200 at the UW-Stevens Point Big Dawg Invitational, stopping the clock in 22.71, while Krogman became the new school record-holder in the 800, breaking the tape in 1:58.74. … Competing in her first MIAC Indoor Championships,
Becca Dup earned honorable-mention all-conference honors with a sixth-place showing in the long jump. … Dennis 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.
