MIAC Track Talk

Anyone have splits? What was Cole’s last lap? Platteville may have found a worse timing company that Fast Finish!

Best Olaf meet ever? Congrats to Coach Pattie on hosting a phenomenal meet despite the weather not cooperating. The new era of Ole Track & Field is moving in the right direction.

On another note, the Bethel meet was classic with beautiful Midwest weather

The weather didn’t cooperate for everyone, but we still saw some great performances this week. Here are the AOTW from the MIAC conference this week.

Men

Sprints - although wind aided, Gustie Jade Anstine had quite a week, running 10.58 & 21.59 (wind legal).

Mid Distance - Mac’s John Ihrke beat several D1 runners and a La Crosse All-American to run 1:54 in his first time around the big track this year.

Distance- Olaf’s Kevin Turlington almost broke 14:00 and ranks 5th in the country.

Jumps - Hamline’s Austin Schroeder finishes one bar from a PR at Bethel. He ranks 26th nationally.

Throws - Timmy Ball of Bethel threw the discus far and now ranks 25th in the country try.

Women -

Sprints - St. Mary’s senior Samantha Munson had a nice day at running on the winning 4 x 100 finishing as the top D3 200m runner, now ranked second in the conference.

Mid Distance - Also at St. Olaf, Claire Stein debuts in the 400 hurdles at 1:04.6, just a second off the MIAC lead. She also now ranks second in the MIAC 100 Hurdles.

Distance - Carleton distance ace Hannah Preisser ran a PR in the 5000m at Platteville. Her time is 19th in the country.

Jumps - Ava Loftness of Gustavus hit a big mark of 11.87 in the triple jump at Mankato. She’s 6th in the nation.

Throws - Olivia Duncan of the Gusties threw a great mark of 43.68, narrowly missing a PR. However, Anna Speratos now has a six meter lead in the MIAC Hammer contest after her 54.23 mark. She ranks third in the country.

In what could have been news, Mo Bati ran 29:21 first 10k on his way to a 47:13 ten mile. Hard to imagine he wouldn't have broken the 29:15 MIAC record at some point this year.

Maybe. His track times never quite matched the luster of his roads and XC marks.

Unlikely and largely untrue.

Cooper threw 19.30 in shot and you’re talking about a 48m Timmy ball discus throw?

Figured it out his Sophomore year...

It seemed like he started to figure it out his sophomore outdoor season. He pretty much put on a clinic at the conference meet, and qualified for Nats indoors (probably would've had a better finish at nationals if the 5k wasn't late in the afternoon during Ramadan)

Sad he missed his Junior outdoor and Senior year, because it seemed like he was figuring it out. I know he was older than most, but he also didn't get 4 years of running in high school to learn to run track races.

Still nice to see him putting up good road results.

That happened on Sunday, so that's for the week of 4/13-4/19. Maybe he'll top that at St. John's this week or one of the four meets on their calendar next week.

Kyla running 2:13 to win a D1 meet also should get some love or the really nice early season steeple from their men and women at the same meet.

I think that’s a bit of conjecture here. If Wilkinson had completed his career at Carleton the MIAC records would be so much faster.

On the other side of the river, perhaps even if Bocovich or Will Kelly finished at Olaf they may have run something faster. I’m sure the 8th place XC team would have lived another year with Will Kelly. This goes to coaching changed too. If Phil hadn’t retired, we would have likely seen an absurd Spring from Sean Lonergan. Or if St. Thomas didn’t leave the MIAC, it’s likely we’d see some marks taken down, especially in the mid distance events which appear to be their strength.

I’m not sure that Turlington can run 13:55, but I’m confident if it’s not a tactical race at Nats, he’ll run sub 29:00. Their coaching appears to have leveled up and that’s a good thing for him.

Lmao you're unironically blaming Power for starting the pandemic now?

Let's not forget Middendorf! Not sure he'd have broken Hutton's all-time record, but seems likely he'd have taken the championship record down.

Which reminds me, did anyone ever contact the MIAC office to correct the records?

Some good results from the Johnnies today!

Murnan with a 21.82 200

Cooper Smith was a 53.27 400H. That’s a PR by close to a second.

Monteuil wins the 800 in a casual 1:55.

And Big Grady PRed by a centimeter in shot

Pretty smart of NDSU & MSU to not compete Saturday and take advantage of the nicer weather. MIAC schools can learn from this.

Sean Lonergan elbowed me 5 feet past the start line of the 2016 MIAC Cross Country Championship.

What events are we looking forward to this week?

The Gusties are competing at home tomorrow and Brauer is the top seed in the 1500 by 21 seconds. Looks like they all plan to tempo 5K together to get their conference qualifier too. Not too mention being seeded first in the 4 x 800 by a minute. Looks like a good 200 though.

The Oles are going to Bryan Clay according to their schedule. So the rumors of not funding trips is untrue. The Johnnies are hosting Thursday after taking Monday off from school. It looks like the Cobbers and Bethel will join them. We'll probably see some 10K's at La Crosse this weekend too. Right now it just seems like the Oles are racing there.

Let it go Unc that was 10 years ago, and you still on this forum

Genuinely curious how many MIAC schools have dual sport athletes, specifically football players on their track roster. And how many are impactful players. And how good your football team is? Concordia seems to have a strong history of that. Hamline’s too sprinter last was a soccer player. What about other schools.