By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota track and field teams close out the outdoor portion of their 2018 season on Friday and Saturday, taking part in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships, hosted by Carleton.
 
The MIAC Outdoor Championships Field:
• Augsburg, Bethel, Carleton, Concordia, Gustavus, Hamline, Macalester, St. Catherine, Saint John's, Saint Benedict, Saint Mary's, St. Olaf, St. Thomas
 
GameDay Live On The Web:
• Live Results | Championships Homepage | Men's Preview * Women's Preview
 
MIAC Outdoor Championships—A Year Ago:
May 12-13, 2017 | Hamline University * St. Paul, Minn.
• Men: St. Thomas dominated the 2017 MIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships with the team's sixth-straight championship. UST's latest MIAC title was a dominant performance, with more than a 100-point margin of victory. The championship is No. 35 overall for St. Thomas, and the 30th since 1983. St. Thomas scored 218 points on Saturday beating the rest of the field by 127 points. St. Olaf kept pace and finished with 91 points to stay in second.Gustavus was right behind St. Olaf with 87 and Bethel (84) and Hamline (81), finished in third, fourth, and fifth. Carleton finished in sixth with 77, St. John's in seventh with 76, Concordia (50), Saint Mary's (41), Macalester (30), and Augsburg with 20 to complete the final 2017 standings | Men's Championships Recap * 2017 Championships Homepage
 
• Women: St. Thomas made it 13 titles in a row, running away to claim the MIAC Outdoor Championships title by a 16.75-point margin of victory. The championship is the 33rd overall for the Tommies, who have now won 33 of the 36 MIAC Outdoor titles in the meet's history. Head Coach Joe Sweeny has now guided his team to every title since Concordia won in 2004. The Cobbers also won in 1999 and St. Olaf claimed the 1984 title, but it's been St. Thomas in the winner's circle in every other season. St. Thomas scored 146.75 points to champion the rest of the field. St. Benedict moved up into second place with 130 points, and Concordia rounded out the top three with 108.25 points. Macalester came in at fourth with 90.25 and St. Olaf with 84 were also good for a spot in the top five. Hamline was sixth with 81.25 points, Bethel (72) edged Carleton (55) for seventh, while St. Catherine was ninth (29). Augsburg (25) finished 10th and Gustavus (23.50) and Saint Mary's (13) rounded out the final standings | Women's Championships Recap * 2017 Championships Homepage
 
Saint Mary's at MIAC Outdoor Championships—A Year Ago:
• Day 1: Becca Dup narrowly missed breaking her own school record in the long jump, uncorking a winning leap of 5.48 meters—well in front of runner-up Callie Jones of Augsburg, who finished a distance second in 5.28 meters. Dup also qualified for Saturday's final in the 100, clocking a seventh-place time of 12.60. Jovan Newsum, competing in his final collegiate conference championships, recorded a fifth-place time of 33:07.98 in the 10,000, while Kyle Lichttenegger also locked up a fifth-place performance in the long jump with a mark of 6.83 meters | Day 1 Recap
• Day 2: The Cardinals combined for two new school records and four top-3 finishes at the outdoor season-ending conference meet at Hamline University. The Cardinal men placed ninth overall, while the women finished 12^th. Austin O'Hare enjoyed a record-setting day in the steeplechase, placing second with a school-record time of 9:29.44. The Cardinal women's 4x100 relay team of Becca Dup, Bailey Joens, Portia Mensah, and Kynzie Smedsrud collected the Cardinals' other school record, breaking the school mark with a sixth-place time of 49.58. David Kemper, Kyle Lichttenegger, and Desmond Steward joined O'Hare as All-MIAC performers, placing second, third, and third, respectively in the pole vault, 200, and triple jump. Kemper cleared 4.73 meters en route to his second-place showing in the pole vault, while Lichttenegger clocked a time of 22.18 in the 200, and Steward posted a leap of 13.79 meters in the triple jump to finish third | Day 2 Recap
 
Saint Mary's MIAC Outdoor Qualifiers:
• Men: Ross Kinderman (javelin), Eric Ohde (discus, hammer), Tyler Amy (shot put), Connor Nicholas (hammer), Austin O'Hare (steeplechase), Jordan Malkowski (steeplechase), Isiaih Olsem (5,000), Brandon Krogman (800, 4x400), Ben Borash (1,500), Jon Meaden (1,500), Matt Boone (100, 200, 4x100, 4x400), Andy Allemann (200, 4x100, 4x400), Kyle Lichttenegger (100, 200, long jump), Desmond Steward (long jump, triple jump, 4x100), Christian Beamer (high jump), Evan Huntley (high jump), Noah Anderson (200), David Kemper (pole vault)
• Women: Alicia Berkenes (800), Carley Cronen (800, 4x100), Hannah Crowe (400 hurdles, 4x100, 4x400), Becca Dup (100, long jump, triple jump, 4x100), Alexis Floresca (100, 200, 4x100, 4x400), Danielle Franke (1,500), Madison Gueningsman (400 hurdles), Natalie King (hammer), Portia Mensah (100, 4x100), Maria Missurelli (pole vault), Rachel Ohde (high jump), Kynzie Smedsrud (400 hurdles, 4x400)
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2018 Men's Roster | 2018 Women's Roster | 2018 Schedule | Record Book
• Maria Missurelli broke her own school record in the pole vault at the St. Thomas Tommie Twilight on May 2, clearing 3.50 meters. Missurelli's school-record effort, which broke her own 2016 mark of 5.49m, was the top performance by a Division III competitor—the University of Minnesota's Karlie Place and Lexi Kiefer took home the top two spots. … Natalie King (Houston, Minn.) also put together a top-five showing at the Tommie Twilight, placing fifth in the hammer throw (45.19m), … Becca Dup (Albert Lea, Minn.) broke her own school record in the long jump with a leap of 5.74 meters at the Saint Mary's Open on April 28. 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. … 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. … King 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 Desmond Steward (Bayside, Wis.) 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.