WARTBURG DMR RECAP
Well, our DMR at Wartburg last Friday didn’t exactly go as expected. It was still a new school record of 10:04.84, but unfortunately our 400m leg, Cooper Smith, got tripped up coming into the handoff to our 800m leg, Owen Montreuil, and actually fell down. Owen had to run back a few seconds to get the baton, and obviously that slowed down both of those legs significantly and caused a bit of unexpected chaos for the rest of the race. If you added up what Cooper, Owen and Cole have run this season for the 400m, 800m and 1600m, and then added what our 1200m leg Nick St. Peter ran for the 1200m leg of our DMR last year, 3:05.1, it gives us about 9:58. The last time into Nationals this year for the DMR ended up being 9:54. Unfinished business now for next year! Pictured below after the race cheering ourselves up the only way we know how.
Splits:
1200m - 3:05.9 (Nick St. Peter)
400m - 51.9 (Cooper Smith)
800m - 1:57.7 (Owen Montreuil)
1600m - 4:09.3 (Cole Stencel)
INDOOR NATIONALS
Cole still qualified for this weekend’s indoor national meet as the 13th entrant in the mile with his 4:10.26 time from the Indoor MIAC meet. He is our first indoor nationals qualifier in a distance event since Tommy Feichtinger in 2016. We landed in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday, and are excited to see what he can do this weekend. The prelims are tomorrow at 2:50pm CT, and Cole is in heat #1. Finals are on Saturday at 4:10pm CT. Top four finishers in each of the two prelims plus the next two fastest overall times advance to the final.
Here is the link to the live stream: DIII Indoor Track & Field: Day One - DIII Men's Track & Field (I) - | NCAA.com
And the live results: NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships
SJU Indoor Nationals Qualifiers (distance events only):
1972 - Joe Skaja, Two Mile
1985 - Charlie Mahler, 5000m
1988 - Joe Bohlke, 5000m
1990 - Kraig Runquist, 1500m
2003 - John Mathews, 1500m
2004 - Michael Marschel, 800m
2007 - Chris Erichsen, 5000m
2008 - Chris Erichsen, 5000m
2016 - Tommy Feichtinger, Mile
2026 - Cole Stencel, Mile
Thanks for following along!
