• LAST TIME OUT: The Cardinals picked up first-place efforts from both Samantha Kubes (New Prague, Minn.) and Garrett Jackson (West Linn, Ore.) and added six other Top 2 performances at the non-team-scored St. Olaf Quadrangular last Friday.
• LEADING THE CHARGE: Kubes collected one of the teams’ two first-place finishes with a toss of 14.21 meters to win the women’s weight throw, while Jackson stopped the clock in 52.70 to win the men’s 400.
• OTHER TOP PERFORMANCES: Nathalie Freiere (Bloomington, Minn.), Frankie Bakalars (La Crosse, Wis.), Aiden Gatz (Elburn, Ill.), and Dan Cooper (Belle Plaine, Minn.) all chipped in second-place efforts for the Cardinals at the St. Olaf Quad. Freiere was second in the women’s pole vault (3.09m), while Bakalars uncorked a toss of 15.37 meters to place second in the men’s weight throw — finishing just ahead of teammate Sean Curran (Appleton, Wis.), who delivered a third-place toss of 15.02m — and Gatz and Cooper delivered second-place performances in the pole vault (4.42m) and triple jump (12.14m), respectively. Along with Curran’s third-place showing in the weight throw, SMU also posted third-place performances from Chris Bulwa (Glenview, Ill.) in the triple jump (11.66m) and Coleton Strupp (Holmen, Wis.) in the pole vault (4.27m).
• ST. OLAF QUAD: The Cardinals recorded 17 Top 5 finishes at last Saturday’s UW-Superior Twin Ports Open — including first-place showings by Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis.), Sydney Klausler (Lakeville, Minn.), and Quinn Steinbrecher (Holmen, Wis.). Gearin cleared 3.19 meters in capturing the individual title in the pole vault at last Saturday’s Twin Ports Open, while Klausler delivered a 5.05-meter leap in winning the long jump, and Steinbrecher recorded a time of 9:45:09 to win the 3000.
• ALL-AMERICAN: Anna Swanson (Osceola, Wis.) earned her first collegiate All-American honor at the NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships on May 27, placing second in the javelin. Swanson’s school-record toss of 46.65 meters was the top spot in the championships until the very last throw of the competition.
• NCAA QUALIFIERS: The men’s 4x100 relay team of Kyle Lichttenegger, Noah Anderson, Matt Boone, and Garrett Jackson placed 10th at the NCAA Outdoor National Championships on May 27, clocking a time of 41.49.
• MIAC CHAMPS: Saint Mary’s boasted five MIAC Outdoor individual champions in 2021 — Lichttenegger in the long jump, Swanson in the javelin, Caroline Gearin in the pole vault, Rachel Ohde in the high jump, and Sydney Klausler in the long jump. … The men’s 4x100 relay team of Lichttenegger, Anderson, Boone, and Jackson were also crowned outdoor conference champions.
