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 return to the Saint Mary's Track & Field Complex for their third home meet of the season on Saturday, hosting the 16-team Saint Mary's Open.
 
The Saint Mary's Open Field:
• Saint Mary's, Luther, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, UW-Superior, Winona State, St. Scholastica, Viterbo, St. Olaf, Cornell, Augsburg, University of Minnesota, Northwestern, Upper Iowa
 
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Cardinals' Last Action:
• April 22, 2018 * La Crosse, Wis.: Competing in their biggest meet this season, the Cardinals faced off against some of their toughest opponents yet—as 17 different teams clashed at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex. Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) wasn't fazed in the least by the large pool of talent, as the senior recorded a time of 1:53.17 to win the 800 in school record-setting fashion | Recap
 
Cardinals at Saint Mary's Open—A Year Ago:
• April 29, 2017 * Winona, Minn.: Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) posted the Cardinal men's top finish with a second-place effort in the javelin and David Kemper (Woodbury, Minn.) set a new school record in the pole vault at the Saint Mary's Open, while Becca Dup's (Albert Lea, Minn.) 1-2 finish in the triple jump and long jump led the way for the Saint Mary's women in the non-team-scored event | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals are back in action on Wednesday, heading to St. Paul, Minn., to take part in the St. Thomas Tommie Twilight.
 
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• Saturday's Saint Mary's Open will be the third home meet of the outdoor season for the Cardinals. … Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) led the way for Saint Mary's at the UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge last Saturday, breaking the school record in the 800 with a winning time of 1:53.17. … The Cardinal men's 4x100 relay team—Andrew Allemann (Cochrane, Wis.), Noah Anderson (Saint Paul, Minn.), Kyle Lichttenegger (De Pere, Wis.), and Desmond Steward (Bayside, Wis.)—ran a 43.18 to place second last Saturday, missing the school record by just over a tenth of a second. Steward also managed to earn a third-place finish in the triple jump, posting a leap of 13.72m. … The women's 4x100 relay team—Hannah Crowe (Baraboo, Wis.), Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.), Alexis Floresca (Romeoville, Ill.), and Portia Mensah (Bloomington, Minn.)—missed their school record by .03 seconds at the Phil Esten Challenge, placing fourth in 49.61. … Dup chipped in a fourth-place leap of 11.59m in the triple jump last Saturday, and Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) cleared a height of 3.38m in the pole vault en route to a fifth-place finish. … Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) won the javelin at the Spring, Sprung, Sprang Invitational on April 12 with a throw of 48.90m. … 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. … 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 Dup 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 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). … Missurelli 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). … Lichttenegger's 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.