LA CROSSE, Wis. — The Saint Mary's University men's and women's track and field teams are back in action Friday, traveling to UW-La Crosse to take part in the UW-L Phil Esten Challenge.
 
The UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge Field:
• Bethel, Carleton, Hamline, UM-Morris, Saint John's, Saint Mary's, St. Norbert, St. Olaf, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Stout, UW-Superior, Viterbo, Winona State

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Cardinals' Last Action:
• April 15, 2017 * St. Peter, Minn.: Desmond Steward put together Saint Mary's best performance of the afternoon at the Gustavus Lee Krough Invitational, winning the triple jump with a leap of 13.36 meters. And that was just the beginning for Steward, who finished the afternoon with three top-10 finishes, adding a third in the long jump and a sixth in the high jump. Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.), meanwhile, recorded three, third-place showings in the 100, long jump, and triple jump to lead the way for the Cardinal women | Recap
 
Cardinals At UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge—Their Last Appearance:
• April 22, 2016: * La Crosse, Wis.: Morris Dennis (Elk River, Minn.)—an NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships qualifier in the 400 a year ago—was in top form at the Phil Esten Challenge, as the Cardinal sophomore outdueled the rest of the field in winning the 400 in a time of 48.22. Dennis' effort—one of five top-10 showings for the Cardinals—helped the Saint Mary's men to a ninth-place finish in the 19-team field. The Cardinal women, meanwhile, got an eighth-place effort from Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) in the pole vault en route to a 16^th-place team finish | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals return home to the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex next Saturday, hosting the Saint Mary's Open.
 
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• Desmond Steward (Bayside, Wis.) led the way for the Cardinals at last weekend's Gustavus Lee Krough Invitational, winning the triple jump with a leap of 13.36 meters. Steward also added a third in the long jump (6.11m) and a sixth in the high jump (1.65m). … Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.)—coming off back-to-back school record-setting performances in the long jump in each of her last two meets—posted three, third-place efforts at the Lee Krough to pace the Cardinal women. Dup clocked a time of 12.60 in the 100, and adding leaps of 4.63m and 11.01m in the long and triple jumps, respectively. … Kyle Lichttenegger (De Pere, Wis.)—who placed second in the 100 (11.15) last Saturday—paced four Cardinals finishing in the top six in the long jump, uncorking a leap of 6.38 meters for his second second-place effort of the afternoon. Steward, Jacob Hagen-Erickson (Austin, Minn.), and Dean Marlin (Sauk Rapids, Minn.) went 3-4-6 in the long jump with leaps of 6.11m, 6.00m, and 5.83m, respectively. … Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) recorded a fourth-place throw of 41.71m in the javelin, while Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) breezed to an eighth-place time of 2:20.97 in the 800. … On the women's side at the Lee Krough Invitational last weekend, Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) posted a fourth-place effort in the pole vault, clearing 3.25m, while Rebekah Ramos (Roscoe, Ill.) added a sixth with a vault of 2.81m. Bailey Joens (Osage, Iowa) recorded a pair of top-10 finishes, placing fourth in the high jump (1.50m), and adding a seventh in the long jump with a mark of 4.63m, with Danielle Franke (Mounds View, Minn.) adding a fifth in the 3000 steeplechase (12:49.85) and Natalie King (Houston, Minn.) collecting a top-10 showing in the hammer, uncorking a toss of 41.96m. … Dup broke the school record in the long jump for the second straight week  at the UW-La Crosse Ashton May Invitational on April 8, posting a mark of 5.49 meters. … Dup also set a new school record in the triple jump with a leap of 11.70 meters. Dup's triple jump effort was not only a school record, but also the 11th-longest triple jump in NCAA Division III this season. … The Cardinals kicked off the outdoor season in style on April 2, posting six first-place finishes and recording three new school records at the Dingels/Brueggen Open. … Along with Dup's then-school record-setting long jump, Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.) smashed the school's 19-year-old record in the 3,000 with a time of 8:57.35 and David Kemper (Woodbury, Minn.) shattered the school's 12-year-old pole vault record, clearing 4.60m. … The Cardinals enjoyed a banner indoor season, setting 20 Top 5 all-time performances—13 for the men and seven for the women. … Saint Mary's also posted seven indoor school records. On the women's side, records fell in the 60 (Dup, 8.03) and long jump (Dup, 5.53m), while on the men's side, new records were set in the 60 (Lichttenegger, 7.03), 600 (Brandon Krogman, 1:23.19), 800 (Krogman, 1:55.62), 3,000 (Newsum, 8:45.92) and 5,000 (Newsum, 15:04.16). … Dup won the long jump at the indoor season-ending conference championships, posting a jump of 5.43 meters. … Newsum, Krogman, and Steward also posted top-three finishes at the indoor conference championships—Steward finished second in the triple jump (13.78m), while Newsum placed third in the 5,000 (15:28.49) and Krogman was third in the 800 (1:55.86). … Missurelli has placed second in the pole vault at the MIAC Outdoor Championships in each of her first two seasons as a Cardinal.