HEAD COACH:
• Darren Schneider (2nd season)
A YEAR AGO:
• Men: MIAC Indoor Outdoor—9th | MIAC Outdoor—10th
• Women: MIAC Outdoor—9th | MIAC Outdoor—11th
ATHLETES TO WATCH:
• Aidan Gatz (So., Elburn, Ill. | 2022 First-Team All-MIAC in indoor pole vault; 2022 H-M All-MIAC in outdoor pole vault. … Won first collegiate conference title in first MIAC Indoor Championships appearance, clearing 4.53 meters. … 4.54-meter vault at MIAC Indoor was career-best).
• Garrett Jackson (Sr., West Linn., Ore. | 2021 NCAA Outdoor national qualifier in the 4x100, placing 10th. … 2021 MIAC Outdoor champion in 4x100. … 2021 USTFCCCA All-Region in 4x100. … 2020 Indoor All-MIAC in 4x200. … 4-year member of SMU men’s soccer team).
• Caroline Gearin (Jr., Osceola, Wis. | 2022 First-Team All-MIAC in indoor pole vault & H-M in 4x200; 2022 H-M All-MIAC in outdoor 4x400; 2021 First-Team All-MIAC in indoor pole vault & outdoor 400 and 4x400. … 2021 MIAC Outdoor champion in pole vault. … 2021 USTFCCCA All-Region in pole vault).
• Samantha Kubes (Sr., New Prague, Minn. | Eighth in indoor shot and 12th in weight at 2022 MIAC Indoor Championships. … Seventh in shot put and 12th in hammer at 2022 MIAC Outdoor).
BY THE NUMBERS:
• 2: Anna Swanson (Osceola, Wis.) made her second straight NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships appearance in 2022, placing 18th.
• 3: The Cardinals crowned three MIAC individual champions last season. Aidan Gatz (Elburn, Ill.) cleared 4.53 meters to win the indoor conference title in the pole vault — in his first-ever MIAC appearance — while Anna Swanson (Osceola, Wis.) defended her conference crown in the javelin and Sean Curran (Appleton, Wis.) picked up his first conference title in the weight throw.
• 11: The Cardinals delivered a combined 11 First-Team All-MIAC performances and the conference’s indoor and outdoor championships in 2022. Aidan Gatz (Elburn, Ill., pole vault), Sydney Klausler (Lakeville, Minn. / long jump), Sean Curran (Appleton, Wis., weight throw), and Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis. / pole vault) earned All-MIAC indoor honors, while Curran (weight throw), Gatz (pole vault), Anna Swanson (Osceola, Wis. / javelin), Frankie Bakalars (La Crosse, Wis. / weight throw), Nathalie Freire (Bloomington, Minn. / pole vault), Matthew Stack (Brooklyn Park, Minn. / pole vault), and the women’s 4x400 relay picked up outdoor All-MIAC honors.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Anna Swanson (Osceola, Wis.) — an NCAA All-American in the javelin in 2021 — kicked off her 2022 outdoor season in impressive fashion, placing 11th at the prestigious Texas Relays, hosted by the University of Texas on March 24 in Austin, Texas. The only NCAA Division III competitor, Swanson uncorked a toss of 42.99 meters en route to her 11th-place showing.
DID YOU KNOW, PART II?
• The Cardinals delivered an indoor season-high 14 Top 5 performances at the 14-team Carleton Meet of the Hearts in Northfield, Minn. on Feb. 12 — led by first-place efforts from Samantha Kubes (New Prague, Minn.) in the weight throw and Aidan Gatz (Elburn, Ill.) in the pole vault).
