COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. - It was another great day for the Saint Mary's Track and Field team as they finished out with their second and final day of competition at the MIAC Conference Championships hosted at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. 
 
Competitors in the field events started the meet off, with Nathan Longfors competing in the triple jump, finishing with a best jump of 12m and a 17th place finish. Ameryn Dostal represented the women in the triple jump, her hop-skip-jump totalling 9.72m, which moved her to 12th place in the meet. Aidan Gatz represented the team in the pole vault, clearing a height of 3.71m and finishing in 13th place. In the women's shot put, Morgan Wallendal secured a ninth place finish with a throw of 11.51m, while her teammate Sydney Jackman launched the shot to a new personal best mark of 12.46m, earning her a third place finish in the meet! 
 
Four men competing in the 4x200m relay were the first Cardinals on the track this second day of competition. Brady Johnson, Jinwoo Jung, Ryan Cramer, and Oliver Adamson worked together to race to a total time of 1:30.93, the fastest time yet this season and a new second fastest time in school history! Their team finished fifth in the event. Xara Gin, Zari Young, Melissa Torres, and Samantha Munson were the four women who competed for the Cardinals in the 4x200m, finishing their relay with yet another fifth place finish and a time of 1:47.39, which moves them up to first place all time in school history!
 
The mid-distance team also had two strong competitors racing on the track today. Cade Kloss raced the 600m dash for the men, sprinting to an 18th place finish in 1:27.44. Mya Slavin, representing the women, raced the 1000m dash and finished with a time of 3:04.51. In a heartbreaking tiebreaker, Slavin finished ninth, missing the eight place finish by only two thousandths of a second. 
 
In the 200m dash, Oliver Adamson finished in the top of the field of competition, securing a ninth place finish with a time of 22.70s. Ryan Cramer, with a new personal best time, finished 12th in 22.76s. For the women, Zari Young came through with a new personal best of 26.55s, earning eighth and moving her up to fifth on the Saint Mary's all-time record book. Samantha Munson finished in 11th in 26.97s, Melissa Torres finished 17th with a time of 27.82s, and Rachael Kubichka finished in 23rd in 28.63s. 
 
The final event of the meet for the Cardinals was the men's 4x400m dash. A team consisting of Brady Johnson, Eddie Paton, Cade Kloss, and Zander Olmschenk raced against the clock and the tough field of competition to a ninth place finish and a season best time of 3:32.57. 
 
The Cardinals overall team scores were stand-outs this year. The men's compiled results earned them a total of 11 points and an 11th place finish. The women's team came together to compile a total of 32.5 points to finish eighth out of all the teams competing. This is the women's highest place in the indoor MIAC Conference Championship since 2007 - their highest placement in 18 years!
 
Select athletes will compete for a spot at the national meet at the UW-La Crosse Final Qualifier "Last Chance Meet" on March 8th. The remainder of the Cardinals will take a few weeks to rejuvenate before kicking off their outdoor season down at St. Louis, Missouri for the Washington University Distance Carnival and St. Louis University Billiken Invitational on March 27th and 28th.