Two meets. Two days. Seven individual champions.
The University of Minnesota Duluth opened up its busiest weekend of the 2015 indoor track and field season with a stop in Brookings, S.D., Friday for the two-day South Dakota State University Classic while other team members traveled across the bridge Saturday to compete in the University of Wisconsin-Superior's Yellowjacket Open. In the process, some seven different Bulldogs came away with individual championships.
Six of those titles were claimed at the Yellowjacket Open That sextet included: senior captain
Katherine Ayers in the shot put (40'-08.75), senior
Jennifer Hitchcock in the weight throw (52'-08.75"), junior captain
Hannah Olson in the 800-meter run (2:17.72), sophomore
Stefani Friedenfels in the high jump (4'11.50"), and freshmen
Maija Doran in the 200-meter dash (27.37) and
Rachelle LeBlanc in the pole vault (10'-06").
The other crowns came Friday afternoon at the SDSU Classic where freshman
Emilee Trost won the 1,000-meter race and did so in a school-record time of 2:50.43. The previous mark was held by Greta Stangl, who ran a 2:54.23 at the Eastbay Invitational Stevens Point, Wis. on March 1, 2008. Trost later finished third in the 800-meter run (2:14.85) while sophomore
Breanna Colbenson was fourth in the 3,000-meter run (10:04.18) and seventh in the 5,000-meter run (17.29.88). The Bulldogs set a number of season-bests and personal records - great two-day showing for the dogs against a number of Division I schools.
A select number of Bulldogs will close out the weekend with their participation in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Indoor Penthalon Championshops this Sunday.