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Assault on school record books continues as SMU
sets 7 marks, provisionally qualifies 3 for NCAAs
Who's Hot?

Amanda
Weinmann
Provisional
qualifier in
shot put

Emily
Bartusek
Provisional
qualifier in
400
WINONA, Minn. — After the weekend the Saint Mary's University track and field teams put together last weekend at the Eastbay Invitational — a performance that included three NCAA Division III Indoor National Championship provisional qualifiers and seven school records —  it would only be natural for the Cardinals to have a couple "off nights" last Friday at the UW-Stout Invitational and Saturday at the University of Minnesota Parent's Day Open.

Fortunately, someone forgot to tell the Cardinals that.

The Cardinals' provisional qualifying trio of Megan Mason (Rochester, Minn.) Autumn Valk (Appleton, Wis.) and Beth Cleveland (Wausau, Wis.) welcomed two new members over the weekend.

Amanda Weinmann (Rochester, Minn.) provisionally qualified for the indoor national championships — and broke the school's shot put record in the process — as she won the shot at the UW-Stout Invitational with a toss of 12.94 meters. Emily Bartusek (Albert Lea, Minn.), meanwhile, provisionally qualified in the 400, shattering the 16-hour old record set by Maria Roche (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and winning the event with a time of 58.39 at Saturday's U of M meet.

Add to that a new school record in the pole vault, and the weekend was anything but a pair of "off nights" for the Cardinals.

"We're two weeks away (from the MIAC Indoor Championships), and I'm very happy with where we are at," said SMU coach Kirk Nauman. "This was another great weekend for us. To have Amanda and Emily both (provisionally) qualify is exciting — they've both been working very hard and it finally paid off."

Mason was the Cardinals' other school record-setter. breaking her own mark in the pole vault, finishing second with a leap of 3.11 meters at UW-Stout.

Along with the three school records at Friday's UW-Stout Invitational, the Cardinals also got a first-place effort from Cleveland in the weight throw (14.53 meters), and seconds from Valk in the 55 hurdles (8.67) and Mason in the high jump (1.61 meters). Ember Anderson (Blackbuck, Minn.) was third in the shot put (12.23 meters), while Katie Boisjolie (Austin, Minn. / 3,000, 10:57.53) and Sam Oreskovich (Prior Lake, Minn. / mile, 5:37.84) both finished fifth."

On the men's side, Dan Gerber (Belvidere,, Ill.) and Jon Pace (Minocqua, Wis.) posted seventh place efforts in the 200 (23.57) and the pole vault (3.66 meters), respectively.

"Each week we just seem to be getting stronger and stronger," said Nauman. "Hopefully that continues next week (at the Pre-MIAC Meet at Carleton) and on into the conference championships."