By Donny Nadeau
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director

WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University men's and women's track and field teams host the first of two home meets on Thursday, welcoming 14 other schools to take part in the Dingels/Brueggen Invitational at the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex.

The Dingels/Brueggen Invitational Field:
• Saint Mary's, Viterbo, Winona State, Gustavus, UW-River Falls, Mankato State, Saint Benedict, UW-Superior, UM-Morris, Hamline, Upper Iowa, Saint John's, Northwestern (Minn.), St. Cloud State, Bethany Lutheran

Cardinals' Last Action:
• March 23, 2018 * San Diego, Calif.: Natalie King (Houston, Minn.) and Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) led the way for the Cardinal women at the Point Loma Invitational, taking first place in the weight throw (45.38m) and the triple jump (11.65m) respectively, while Desmond Steward (Bayside, Wis.) paced the Cardinal men with a first-place showing I the triple jump (13.76m).

Up Next:
• The Cardinals hit the road on April 7, traveling to La Crosse, Wis., to take part in the UW-La Crosse Ashton May Invitational.

Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2018 Men's Roster | 2018 Women's Roster | 2018 Schedule | Record Book
• The Cardinals picked up three first-place finishes at the outdoor season-opening Point Loma Invitational in San Diego, Calif. Natalie King (Houston, Minn.) and Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) led the way for the women's team, taking first place in the weight throw (45.38m) and the triple jump (11.65m) respectively, while Desmond Steward won the triple jump (14.76m) to pace the Saint Mary's men. … Dup also managed to finish second in the long jump (5.38m) at Point Loma, and Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) placed third in the pole vault (3.34m). … Kyle Lichttenegger (De Pere, Wis.) and Steward finished third (6.58m) and fifth (6.52), respectively, in the long jump, and Christian Beamer (Two Harbors, Minn.) placed fourth in the high jump (1.88m). … The Cardinal men posted 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. … Dup and Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) each claimed a pair of indoor 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.