By Donny Nadeau
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Saint Mary's University men's and women's track and field teams kick off the outdoor portion of their 2018 schedule on Saturday, taking part in the Point Loma Collegiate Invitational.
 
The Point Loma Collegiate Invitational Field:
• Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal Tech, Hope International, La Verne, Marymount, Middlebury, Ottawa (Ariz.), Pacific Lutheran, Point Loma, Pomona-Pitzer, Saint Mary's (Minn.), Soka, Tufts, Vanguard and Williams. 
 
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Cardinals' Last Action:
• February 23-24, 2018 * St. Paul, Minn.: Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) and Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) each recorded a pair of individual titles to lead the way for the Cardinals at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Indoor Championships at Macalester | Day 1 Recap * Day 2 Recap
• March 10, 2018 * Birmingham, Ala.: Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.), coming off a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in the triple jump, thanks to a school record-tying and NCAA-qualifying leap of 11.74 meters, narrowly missed that record-setting mark—and All-American honors—in placing ninth overall at the NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals host the first of two outdoor meets next Thursday, taking part in the Dingels/Brueggen Invitational at the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2018 Men's Roster | 2018 Women's Roster | 2018 Schedule | Record Book
• The Cardinal men are coming off an eighth-place finish in the indoor season-ending MIAC Championships, while the Saint Mary's women placed ninth. … The eighth-place finish was the Cardinal men's team's highest indoor finish in program history. … Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) and Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) each claimed a pair of conference titles—Dup's in the long and triple jumps, and Krogman's in the 600 and 800—at the MIAC Indoor Championships. … Dup defended her MIAC indoor title in the long jump with a leap of 5.38 meters, while claiming her first conference triple jump title by equaling her school record with a leap of 11.74 meters. … Dup's 11.74-meter jump also earned the Cardinal junior her second straight NCAA national championship appearance. Dup, who placed 17^th in the triple jump at the 2017 outdoor national championships, narrowly missed All-American honors at the 2018 indoor championships, placing ninth with a leap of 11.67m. … Krogman joined Dup in standing atop the MIAC indoor podium twice, as the Cardinal senior followed up his conference-winning performance in the 800—where he won with a time of 1:55.87—by shattering his own school record in running away from the 600 field in collecting conference title No. 2 with a time of 1:21.50. … Desmond Steward (Bayside, Wis.) chipped in a second-place All-MIAC showing in the triple jump at the MIAC Indoor Championships, notching a leap of 13.72 meters, while Connor Nicholas (Las Vegas, Nev.) also landed all-conference honors with a third in the 60 hurdles (8.58). … Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) put together the best indoor championships of her career, breaking her own school record in the pole vault—clearing an All-MIAC 3.45 meters—to finish second behind St. Thomas' Kendall Novak, who won the event with a vault of 3.55 meters. … Dup (long jump, triple jump), Missurelli (pole vault), Steward (triple jump), and Krogman (800) all earned USTFCCCA Indoor All-Region honors. … Four of Saint Mary's five first-place showings at UW-Stout's Warren Bowlus Invitational on Jan. 27 were, at the time, school-record performances—Missurelli in the pole vault (3.40m), Dup in the triple jump (11.03m), Krogman in the 600 meter (1:23.06), and Austin O'Hare (Rushford, Minn.) in the 3,000 (8:43.45). … Kyle Lichttenegger's (De Pere, Wis.) 6.84-meter leap in the long jump and Krogman's 2:44.10 in the 1,000 at the Saint Mary's Early Birdinal on Jan. 13 were both school records.