CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
MEN'S MEET RESULTS
WOMEN'S MEET RESULTS
NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- The Augsburg men's track and field team posted a sixth-place team finish with 62.0 team points, as they recorded their highest team finish since 2004. The Auggie women recorded 10th-place finish, with 37.0 team points, moving up one spot from their finish a year ago.
Augsburg's
Whitney Holman (SR, New Hope, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS),
Shanek Telphia (FY, Chicago, Ill./Gage Park HS) and
Nick Ward (JR, Coon Rapids, Minn.) led the Auggies by capturing conference titles at the MIAC Championships.
Holman claimed the title in the 55-meter dash in an NCAA provisional time of 7.28 seconds, while Ward was a double winner in the 55-meters and the long jump. Ward posted a 6.46-second NCAA provisional time in the prelims and claimed the title with a time of 6.48 seconds. In the long-jump, Ward posted a season-best mark by nearly a foot, with a conference winning and school record leap of 6.96 meters (22-10). Telphia captured the 200-meter crown in record breaking fashion, setting a new facility record, meet record and school record with a time of 25.25. Her time bettered the school record of Augsburg's Tonisha Bell of 25.26 set back in 2005.
Also posting top finishes for Augsburg on Day 1 were
Adam Horkey ( SR Sprints/Hurdles Windom, Minn.),
Matthew Schafer (FY, New Brighton, Minn./Irondale HS) and
Shanek Telphia (FY, Chicago, Ill./Gage Park HS). Horkey finished third in the 55-meter hurdles, earning all-conference honors with a season-best time of 7.94 seconds, while Schafer finished fifth in the 800-meters in a school record time of 1:56.24. Schafer's time broke a 15-year old school record held by Roba Bati of 1:56.65. Telphia also earned all-conference honors for Augsburg, virtue of her third place finish in the 400-meters, in an NCAA provisional time of 58.56.
Also posting top-six finishes for Augsburg was
Brent Haglund (SR, Fridley, Minn.) with a fifth place finish in the 5,000-meters, Telphia with a fifth-place finish in the long jump and
Shane Pantila (JR, St. Michael, Minn./SM-Albertville HS) with a sixth-place finish in the long jump.