ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota track and field teams close out the outdoor portion of their 2017 season on Friday and Saturday, taking part in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships, hosted by Hamline.
 
The MIAC Outdoor Championships Field:
• Augsburg, Bethel, Carleton, Concordia, Gustavus, Hamline, Macalester, St. Catherine, Saint John's, Saint Benedict, Saint Mary's, St. Olaf, St. Thomas
 
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MIAC Outdoor Championships—A Year Ago:
May 13-14, 2016 | Saint John's University * Collegeville, Minn.
• MEN: The drive for five was completed, as St. Thomas claimed its fifth-straight MIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championship at Clemens Stadium on the campus of Saint John's University. The host Johnnies gave the Tommies a tough test throughout, but UST held its margin from Day 1 to win title No. 5 in a row. The championship is No. 34 overall for St. Thomas, and the 29th since 1983. In fact, outdoor track has been another outstanding chapter in the Tommie-Johnnie rivalry as those two schools have won each of the 34 titles in that span. Saint John's last won in 2011, St. Thomas returned to the top in 2012, and hasn't relinquished the championship since which continued with a fifth-straight title this weekend in Collegeville, Minn., despite Saint John's staying on the Tommies' heels throughout the two-day meet. St. Thomas scored exactly 100 points on Saturday to boost its championship-winning total to 184 points. Saint John's kept pace and finished with 156.5 points to stay solidly in second. Hamline also topped the century mark with 108 points in third, St. Olaf's 98 points were good for fourth and Carleton scored 61 to also join the top five. Bethel was just four points behind the Knights in sixth with 57, Gustavus (55) was another two points back in seventh, Concordia scored 48 in eighth, Augsburg had 40 to finish ninth and Saint Mary's (27) and Macalester (21) completed the final 2016 standings | Men's Championships Recap * 2016 MIAC Championships Homepage
• WOMEN: St. Thomas made it a dozen titles in a row with the team's 12th-straight championship at the 2016 MIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Saint John's University's Clemens Stadium in Collegeville, Minn. UST's latest MIAC title was a dominant performance, with more than a 90-point margin of victory. The championship is the 32nd overall for the Tommies, who have now won 32 of the 35 MIAC Outdoor titles in the meet's history. Head Coach Joe Sweeny has now guided his team to every title since Concordia won in 2004. The Cobbers also won in 1999 and St. Olaf claimed the 1984 title, but it's been St. Thomas in the winner's circle in every other season. St. Thomas scored 191.3 points to nearly double up the rest of the field, with a 91.3-point lead - or more - on everyone else in the MIAC. Carleton moved up into second place on the second day with an even 100 points, and Concordia rounded out the top three with 88.8 points. Gustavus was just three points behind the Cobbers in fourth with 85, and Bethel's 76.5 points were also good for a spot in the top 10. Saint Benedict was sixth with 71 points, St. Olaf (56.3) edged Hamline (56) by less than a point for seventh, Macalester was ninth (49), St. Catherine (42) finished 10th and Augsburg (28) and Saint Mary's (12) rounded out the final standings | Women's Championships Recap * 2016 MIAC Championships Homepage
 
Saint Mary's at MIAC Outdoor Championships—A Year Ago:
• Day 1: It was a busy day for Saint Mary's Madeline Eichers at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships. And the Cardinal sophomore made it a memorable one, as well. Eichers posted a career-best throw of 40.4 meters to place seventh in the hammer throw and pace the Cardinal track and field teams during the opening day of the two-day, season-ending conference championships. Eichers was one of three Cardinal individuals to place during Day 1, as Bryan Ortman added an eighth-placing showing in the long jump (6.55 meters) and Ross Kinderman chipped in a 10^th in the javelin (45.60 meters). The Cardinal men's 4x800 relay team of Brandon Krogman, Jared Wolt, Jovan Newsum, and Austin O'Hare also recorded a top-10 performance, posting a seventh-place time of 8:14.56 | Day 1 Recap
• Day 2: If there's one thing that can be said about Saint Mary's Maria Missurelli, it's that she's consistent. For the third straight Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships, the Cardinal sophomore recorded a second-place finish in the pole vault. Missurelli, who was second at last season's outdoor championships, and second again at this season's indoor championships in early March, was at it again on Saturday, clearing 3.30 meters en route to her All-MIAC First-Team second-place effort. Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.) and Bryan Ortman (Chicago, Ill.) led the way for the Cardinal men, placing fourth in the 5,000 and the triple jump, respectively. Fueled by Missurelli on the women's side, and the honorable-mention efforts of Newsum and Ortman on the men's, the Cardinal women finished 12th in the team standings, with the Saint Mary's men placing 10^th | Day 2 Recap
 
Saint Mary's MIAC Outdoor Qualifiers:
• Men: Tyler Amy (Discus), Ben Borash (1500), David Kemper (PV), Ross Kinderman (Javelin, LJ), Brandon Krogman (800), Kyle Lichttenegger (100, 200, LJ), Jovan Newsum (10,000), Connor Nicholas (Hammer), Austin O'Hare (Steeplechase), Desmond Steward (LJ, TJ)
• Women: Molly Abraham (400), Alicia Berkenes (800), Carley Cronen (800), Becca Dup (100, LJ, TJ, 4x100), Danielle Franke (5000), Madison Gueningsman (400h), Bailey Joens (HJ, LJ, 100h, 4x100), Natalie King (Hammer), Portia Mensah (100, 4x100), Maria Missurelli (PV), Rebekah Ramos (PV),  Kynzie Smedsrud (100h, TJ, 4x100), Molly Sweet (1500)
 
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• David Kemper enters this weekend's MIAC Championships having broken the school record in the pole vault twice this season—clearing 4.63 meters at the Saint Mary's Open on April 29, before upping that mark to 4.87 at the Tommie Twilight on May 3. … Becca Dup has dominated the jumping events this season, owning school-record leaps of 5.49m in the long jump and 11.70m in the triple jump. Dup also set the school mark in the indoor long jump with a leap of 5.53m. … Dup's school-record triple jump effort of 11.70m—set at the UW-L Aston May Invitational on April 8 was not only a school record, but also ranks as the 17th-longest triple jump in NCAA Division III this season, while Kemper's 4.87m effort in the pole vault at the Tommie Twilight leaves him sitting 15^th in the nation. … Desmond Steward and Jovan Newsum also got into the record-setting trend this season, with Steward shattering the school mark in the triple jump (13.99m), while Newsum owns the program's top time in the 3,000 (8:57.35). … 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 (Kyle Lichttenegger, 7.03), 600 (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.