Jada Lewis wins the 60 meter dash
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Augsburg track & field competes at MIAC Championships

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COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- The Augsburg University men's and women's track and field teams competed at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Indoor Championships this weekend at Saint John's University's Warner Palestra.

WOMEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
Destiny Cummings competes in the weight throw• For the third straight year, Jada Lewis (JR, Minneapolis, Minn./Edison HS) claimed the conference championship in the 60-meter dash, winning the title with a 7.78-second sprint. Her school-record 7.67-second time, set last week, stands eighth-fastest among all NCAA Division III sprinters nationally. She also had a career-best second-place finish in the 200-meter dash, setting an indoor personal-best with a 25.96-second effort, currently standing 32nd-fastest in Division III. 
• Destiny Cummings (SO, Andover, Minn./Andover HS) competed in both weight events, finishing ninth in the weight throw with a 13.89-meter (45-feet-7.0) effort, while finishing 18th in the shot put with a 10.76-meter (35-feet-3.75) distance, both efforts just shy of her personal-bests set earlier this season.
• Jordan Terry (SO, Shakopee, Minn./Shakopee HS) claimed a ninth-place finish for the Auggies in the long jump with a 4.96-meter (16-feet-3.25) leap, just four inches shy of her personal-best effort set last week.
• Ann Sheely (SR, Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS) finished 13th in the mile run in a career-best 5:32.34, with Zoe Barany (FY, Brookfield, Wis./Brookfield East HS) finishing in 27th in 5:46.19.
• Joy Cooper (FY, Rochester, Minn./John Marshall HS) finished 16th in the 60-meter dash preliminaries in 8.46 seconds.
• Augsburg's distance-medley relay squad of Sheely, Hope Kannare (FY, Brooklyn Park, Minn./Robbinsdale Cooper HS), Riley Pohl (FY, Duluth, Minn./Denfeld HS) and Barany finished 11th in 13:40.60.
• As a team, Augsburg finished in a tie for 11th place with 18 points.

MEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
Varney Conneh competes in the 60 finals• Varney Conneh (FY, Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park HS) earned All-MIAC Honorable Mention honors with a sixth-place finish in the 60-meter dash, finishing just four-hundredths of a second off his previous personal-best with a 7.07 second, sixth-place finish. He also competed in the 200-meter dash, finishing 19th in 23.78 seconds.
• Jaison Moore (FY, Cottage Grove, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) finished in 10th place in the 60-meter dash preliminaries in 7.18 seconds, and finished 19th in the long jump with a 5.95-meter (19-feet-6.25) leap.
• Also in the 60-meter dash, Taron Busby (SO, Minneapolis, Minn./Hope Academy HS) set another personal-best time, finishing 14th in the preliminaries in 7.24 seconds. Steven Edwards Jr. (SR, Kissimmee, Fla./Liberty HS) finished 24th in 7.61 seconds.
• Alex Bailey (JR, Palmer Lake, Colo./Lewis-Palmer HS) finished 11th in the high jump with a 1.83-meter (6-feet-0.0) clearance, his fifth 6-feet-0 or better finish in his six competitions this indoor season.
• Sakariya Hussien (FY, Hopkins, Minn./Hopkins HS) placed 15th in the mile run in 4:33.83, and 16th in the 1,000-meter run in 2:38.04
• The Auggies competed in two relays on the weekend, with the 4x200-meter relay of Busby, Conneh, Gabriel Olajonlu (SO, Rogers, Minn./Rogers HS) and Moore finishing ninth in 1:35.29, and the 4x400-metr relay of Olajonlu, Hussien, Parker Blake (SO, Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park HS) and Fritz Landherr (FY, Jackson, Minn./Tracy Area HS) finishing 10th in 3:35.82.  
• As a team, Augsburg finished in 11th place with three points.
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