By Donny Nadeau
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
WINONA, Minn.  — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota men's and women's track and field teams take part in the second of three home invitationals on Thursday, hosting the Spring, Sprung, Sprang Invite at the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex.
 
The Spring, Sprung, Sprang Invitational Field:
• Saint Mary's, Winona State, Viterbo, UW-Stout, Crown, Luther
 
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Cardinals' Last Action:
• March 29, 2018 * Winona, Minn.: Despite temperatures in the high 30s, not to mention going up against 15 other teams—including NCAA Division II Minnesota State-Mankato, St. Cloud State, and Upper Iowa—the Cardinals posted numerous top 10 finishes at the Dingels/Brueggen Invitational at the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals hit the road again next Saturday, heading to La Crosse, Wis., to take part in the UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge.
 
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2018 Men's Roster | 2018 Women's Roster | 2018 Schedule | Record Book
• Natalie King (Houston, Minn.) posted the Cardinals' top place finish at the Dingels/Brueggen Invitational on March 29, placing second in the hammer throw with a toss of 45.03 meters. … Other top five performances for the Cardinals at the Dingels/Brueggen Invitational included: David Kemper (Woodbury, Minn.) took third in the pole vault (4.35m); the 4x100 relay team of Andrew Allemann (Cochrane, Wis.), Noah Anderson, Matthew Boone (Mindoro, Wis.), and Melic Thomas (St. Peter, Minn.) finished third with a time of 44.44—third-fastest in program history; Ben Borash (Bowlus, Minn.) took fourth in the 1500 meter run (4:14.96); Noah Anderson finished fourth in the 200 (23.02); and Isaiah Olsem (Fulda, Minn.) and Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) chipped in fifth-place finishes in the 3,000 (9:28.55) and 400 (50.48), respectively. … The Cardinals picked up three first-place finishes at the outdoor season-opening Point Loma Invitational in San Diego, Calif., on March 24. King 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. … 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 Krogman 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. … Steward 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.