By Donny Nadeau
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
ST. PAUL, Minn.  — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota men's and women's track and field teams are back in action on Wednesday, as the Cardinals head to St. Thomas to take part in the Tommie Twilight.
 
Cardinals' Last Action:
• April 28, 2018 * Winona, Minn.: Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) broke her own school record in the long jump, posting a leap of 5.74 meters—the seventh-longest in NCAA Division III this season—to pace the Cardinals at the Saint Mary's Open at the SMU Track & Field Complex | Recap
 
Cardinals at Tommie Twilight—A Year Ago:
• May 3, 2017 * St. Paul, Minn.: For the second time in the last five days, David Kemper (Woodbury, Minn.) etched his name in the Cardinal track and field record books, clearing 4.87 meters to place second in the pole vault at the Tommie Twilight at Concordia-St. Paul's Sea Foam Stadium. Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) continued her dominance in the jump events to pace the Cardinal women, placing first in both the long jump (5.35m) and triple jump (11.35m) | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals are back in action on Saturday, heading back to St. Paul, Minn., to take part in Hamline's Meet of the UnSaintly.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2018 Men's Roster | 2018 Women's Roster | 2018 Schedule | Record Book
• Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) broke her own school record in the long jump with a leap of 5.74 meters at last Saturday's Saint Mary's Open. Dup's leap is the seventh-longest jump in NCAA Division III this season. … Dup's effort was one of 16 Top 10 efforts for the Cardinals at the Saint Mary's Open last Saturday. Saint Mary's also got second-place showings from Danielle Franke (Forest Lake, Minn. / steeplechase, 12:22.36), Desmond Steward (Bayside, Wis. / triple jump, 43.38m), Austin O'Hare (Rushford, Minn. / steeplechase, 9:38.14), Kyle Lichttenegger (De Pere, Wis. / 100, 10.94) and the men's 4x100 relay team of Steward, Lichttenegger, Andrew Allemann (Cochrane, Wis.), and Matthew Boone (Mindoro, Minn.). … Along with her second in the long jump, Dup added a sixth in the triple jump (11.30m) at last Saturday's Saint Mary's Open, with Alexis Floresca (Romeoville, Ill.) chipping in a sixth in the 100 (12.84), and Alicia Berkenes (Buffalo, Minn.), Emily Ortiz (Albert Lea, Minn.), and Rachel Ohde (Chetek, Wis.) chipped in sevenths in the 800 (2:29.85), 5,000 (21:21.42), and high jump (1.55m), respectively. … Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) led the way for Saint Mary's at the UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge on April 21, breaking the school record in the 800 with a winning time of 1:53.17. … 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. Natalie King (Houston, Minn.) 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 O'Hare 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.