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Hudelson And Nelson Reign At GPAC Indoor Championships
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Jessica Hudelson |
Monte Larsen |
Morningside placed fifth in the women’s distance medley relay with a school-record time of 12:08.44 in Saturday’s action at the 2010 NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships in Johnson City, Tenn.
The Mustangs’ quartet of Kara Nelson, a junior from Cherokee, Iowa; Deidre Hinkeldey, a sophomore from Alta, Iowa; Jessica Hudelson, a sophomore from Elk Point, S.D.; and Erin Keitges, a senior from Allen, Neb., took 13 seconds off their previous Morningside record time of 12:21.50 that they clocked in Thursday’s prelims. The four runners earned NAIA All-America honors with their fifth place finish.
Morningside placed fourth in the men’s 3200-meter relay with a school-record time of 7:45.59 in Friday's action. The Mustangs’ quartet of Brian Gesink, a junior from Sioux Center, Iowa; Edwin Graf, a senior from Logan, Iowa; Taylor Chapman, a freshman from Spencer, Iowa; and Monte Larsen, a sophomore from Neola, Iowa, earned NAIA All-America honors with their fourth place finish. They took almost three seconds off the previous Morningside record of 7:48.18, which they ran in Thursday’s prelims to rank fourth among the qualifiers for the finals.
Morningside shattered its school record in the women’s 3200-meter relay in Thursday’s prelims when Heather Hoefs, a junior from Valentine, Neb.; Breanna Mathes, a freshman from Cherokee, Iowa; Tabitha Shepherd, a freshman from Corning, Iowa; and Nicole Seier, a freshman from Lincoln, Neb., ran a 9:23.92 to beat the previous Mustang standard in the event by almost 10 seconds. Seier, Shepherd, Sabrina Sieperda, and Hoefs set the previous record of 9:33.10 earlier this season. The Mustangs finished 10th in the prelims and did not advance.
Hudelson broke her own Morningside record during Friday’s prelims of the women’s 600-meters. She ran a time of 1:37.58 to break the previous Mustang standard of 1:37.79 she ran earlier this season on Feb. 12 at the Dordt College Invitational. Hudelson finished 12th in the prelims and did not move on to the finals.
Larsen missed making the finals in the men’s 600-meters by one spot when he had the seventh fastest time in Friday’s prelims with a 1:21.31.
Tyler Heitman, a freshman from South Sioux City, Neb., finished eighth in Saturday’s men’s triple jump with a distance of 47-8.
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Jessica Hudelson |
Kara Nelson |
Jessica Hudelson and Kara Nelson were individual champions at the 2010 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships held Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
Hudelson, a sophomore from Elk Point, S.D., reigned in the women’s 800-meters with a time of 2:18.62.
Nelson, a junior from Cherokee, Iowa, triumphed in the women’s mile with a time of 5:12.44 to go along with a runner-up effort in the 3000-meters with a time of 10:21.74.
Morningside finished second in the women’s 3200-meter relay and broke the existing GPAC record of 9:33.63 in the process. The Mustangs’ quartet of Nicole Seier, a freshman from Lincoln, Neb.; Tabitha Shepherd, a freshman from Corning, Iowa; Sabrina Sieperda, a sophomore from Rock Rapids, Iowa; and Heather Hoefs, a junior from Valentine, Neb., clocked a time of 9:33.10 and were nudged at the finish by Concordia University with a 9:32.93. The Mustangs shattered their previous school record time of 9:39.44 set earlier this season.
Morningside had two second place finishers in the men’s competition. Tyler Heitman, a freshman from South Sioux City, Neb., was the runner-up in the triple jump with a distance of 46-6 1/4 to go along with a fifth place leap of 22-1/4 in the long jump. Brian Gesink, a junior from Sioux Center, Iowa, and Taylor Chapman, a freshman from Spencer, Iowa, gave the Mustangs a two-three finish in the 800-meters with times of 1:56.85 and 1:58.62, respectively.
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Monte Larsen |
Monte Larsen, a sophomore from Neola, Iowa, had a school-record breaking performance in the men’s 600-meters with a fourth place time of 1:21.10 to top the previous Morningside standard of 1:21.69 by Ryan Smith in 1998.
Erin Keitges and Diedre Hinkeldey each placed in two events. Keitges, a senior from Allen, Neb., finished third in the women’s’ 5000-meters and seventh in the 3000-meters with times of 18:07.03 and 10:32.61, respectively.
Hinkeldey, a sophomore from Alta, Iowa, was fourth in the women’s 400-meters with a time of 59.31 seconds and sixth in the 200-meters with a 26.33 clocking.
Morningside finished third in the women’s 1600-meter relay with a time of 4:02.51 from Margo Stanforth, a senior from Platte, Neb.; Amber Woodford, a sophomore from Storm Lake, Iowa; Hudelson, and Hinkeldey.
Stanforth finished fifth in the women’s 600-meters with a time of 1:41.03 leading a group of three Morningside place winners in the event. Sieperda finished seventh in 1:41.63 and McKenzie Reece, a freshman from Forest City, Iowa, was eighth in 1:43.42.
The Mustangs had two other place winners compliment Hudelson’s victory in the women’s 800-meters. Breanna Mathes, a freshman from Cherokee, Iowa, finished fourth with a time of 2:21.14 and Hoefs finished fifth with a time of 2:21.38.
Ryan Gass, a junior from Valentine, Neb., finished fourth in the men’s high jump with a height of 6-4 and Seier finished sixth in the women’s 1000-meters with a time of 3:06.46.
Morningside finished sixth in the men’s 3200-meter relay and eighth in the men’s 1600-meter relay with times of 8:01.33 and 3:26.28, respectively.
Morningside finished fifth in the women’s team standings and seventh in the men’s team standings.
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