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Weinmann Provisional qualifier in shot put |
Including the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Indoor Championships last weekend.
Amanda Weinmann (Rochester, Minn.) became national qualifier No. 7 with a school-record throw of 15.34 meters in the weight throw on Friday, and the 4 x 400 relay team of Emily Bartusek (Albert Lea, Minn.), Ellen Koranda (Blue Earth, Minn.), Autumn Valk (Appleton, Wis.) and Maria Roche (New Prague, Minn.) joined the mix on Saturday with a school-record and third-place effort of 4:01.15.
The effort not only gave SMU two more shots at the NCAA indoors, but it also helped propel them to a fourth-place finish in the 12-team field with 86 points.
"This was another great meet," said SMU coach Kirk Nauman, whose Cardinal women have now placed fourth in each of the last two conference indoor championships. "We didn't have any conference champions, but we had a number of seconds, thirds and fourths. It was an excellent effort out of everybody."
Koranda and Weinmann also posted second-place efforts during the final day of the two-day conference championships, as Koranda placed second in the 1,000 (3:00.19) and Weinmann added a second-place toss of 12.97 meters in the shot put. Ashley Luehmann (Lewiston, Minn.) chipped a third-place showing in the shot put (12.83 meters) and Roche was third in the 800 (2:190.61), while Beth Cleveland (Wausau, Wis.) was sixth in the shot put (12.34 meters) and Megan Mason (Rochester, Minn.) was ninth in the pole vault (2.96 meters).
On the men's side, Chris Fissette (Elmhurst, Ill.) placed seventh in the triple jump (12.69 meters), while Dan Gerber (Belvidere, Ill.) was eighth in the 200 (23.47) in helping the Cardinals to a 10th-place team finish.
"Jackie (Luehmann) has done an outstanding job with our throwers again this year," praised Nauman of his assistant coach. "To go 2-3-6 in the shot put is pretty impressive, and Jackie deserves a lot of credit for that. Ward (Berndt) really got a lot out of our distance runners as well. This team is fortunate to have a couple of outstanding assistants like we do.
"I'm very happy with our performance," continued Nauman. "To have eight provisional qualifiers — more than we've ever had in indoor and outdoor combined — that's really impressive.
"Everyone should be proud of their efforts — I know I am."
During Friday's opening day, Jon Pace (Minocqua, Wis.) got the ball rolling, and the rest of the Cardinals simply followed his lead.
Pace, who opened the two-day heptathlon event with personal-bests in three of Thursday's four events, picked up right where he left off on Friday, posting times of 9.40 and 3:00.07 in the 55 hurdles and 1,000, respectively, while also adding a first-place leap of 3.83 meters in the pole vault en route to his sixth-place finish and 3,904 point total — more than 500 points better than his performance a year ago.
"Jon had a great first day, and never slowed down (on Friday)," said Nauman. "To improve by 500 points, that's a huge jump. Jon had personal-bests in five of his seven events, which is amazing.
"I couldn't ask any more of him."
Or the rest of his Cardinal teammates.
The Cardinal women shattered three school records — and notched a seventh NCAA Division III indoor national qualifier — in posting 47 first-day points.
Along with Weinmann's record-setting toss in the weight throw, SMU also got school-record performances from Koranda in the mile (5:06.34) and Katie Boisjolie (Austin, Minn.) in the 5K (18:49.36). Koranda's effort was good for second overall, while Boisjolie was eighth in the 5K.
Cleveland, who had previously held the SMU record in the weight throw, finished third to Weinmann in the event on Friday with a toss of 14.69, while Valk was second in the 55 hurdles (8.53), and Bartusek and Roche finished third (59.02) and fifth (59.47) in the 400.