Track & Field | 5/14/2016 9:52:00 PM
Men's Final Results
Women's Final Results
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Junior
Brady Speicher and sophomore
Josh Young won individual titles to lead the Minnesota State University Moorhead men's track and field team to a fifth-place finish at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Outdoor Championships which concluded on Saturday at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Dragon women finished in seventh place.
The Dragon men finished in fifth with 84 points, just 1.5 points behind fourth-place Sioux Falls. The Dragon women finished with 43 points.
The MSUM men finished with three conference champions: Speicher, Young and junior
Cody Christ, who won the 10,000-meters with a record-setting time on Friday.
Speicher now has three individual NSIC titles after capturing the 1,500-meter title on Saturday. Speicher's winning time was 3:56.82. He won the 800 and mile indoors this past February. Young took third in the 1,500 in 3:58.93, giving MSUM 16 points in that event.
Young won the 800-meter run in 1:56.69, winning the event by .38 seconds over Concordia's Abdirahman Mohamed. Speicher finished in seventh in 2:01.59. It is Young's second NSIC title of his career, as he claimed the 1,000 meters during the indoor season.
A day after winning the 10,000 meters, Christ was second in the 5,000 in 15:00.23, which was a personal-best.
Junior
Brandon Selbig was fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:42.08, marking his highest finish at a conference meet. A day after finishing second in the long jump, sophomore
Brian Huber was fifth in the 100-meter dash in 10.67.
MSUM scored seven points in the 400, as freshman
Brett Lawrence was fifth in 50.77 and senior
Charles Tiedman sixth in 50.79.
MSUM's 4x100 relay was fifth in 42.80. That consisted of Tiedman, Huber, junior
Devin Strack and senior
Jordan Pangerl. The Dragons' 4x400 relay was also fifth in 3:23.01, with Lawrence, Tiedman, Pangerl and freshman
Andrew Schonnesen teaming up for that time
For the Dragon women, senior
Emily Mammenga was fourth in the 1,500 in 4:45.19 to place for the first time at the outdoor championships.
Sophomore
Mindy Kraft was fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:22.05, which was a personal-best by 18 seconds. Junior
Alissa Mears was sixth in the 800 in 2:19.94.
MSUM's 4x100 relay was fifth in 48.83. That consisted of freshman
Kiarah Johnson, sophomore
Judith Robinson, junior
Katie Holzheimer and sophomore
Caroline Jansen. The Dragon 4x400 relay was sixth in 4:02.37, with freshman
Katie Olson, Robinson, freshman
Marissa Carlson and Mears teaming up for that finish.
Jansen was seventh in the triple jump at 36-7 1/2.
MSUM will now wait to see which individuals qualify for the outdoor nationals, which will be announced next week.
NSIC Champions/All-NSIC
Cody Christ, 10,000 meters
Brady Speicher, 1,500 meters
Josh Young, 800 meters
All-NSIC honors
Brian Huber, Long jump
Cody Christ, 5,000 meters
Andrew Werk, hammer throw
Bailey Reiner, long jump
Mindy Kraft placed fifth in the steeplechase on Saturday