Three-meet weekend for track and field team results in placements, broken records

Sophomore Claire Beikmann crosses the finish line (photo from previous meet).

Photo credit: Maddy Peters

By Maddy Peters

Sports Editor

The Concordia track and field team split up their forces between three meets from April 25-26 with some going to the Drake University Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, a few going to the University of Kansas Rock Chalk Classic in Lawrence, Kan. and the majority of the team going to Lincoln for the Nebraska Wesleyan University Prairie Wolf Invite.

This article looks at the athletes who competed at the Drake Relays and Rock Chalk Classic. For more information on the Prairie Wolf Invite, check here.

Junior Adrianna Rodencal made waves in Des Moines by beating out numerous Div. 1 athletes in the women’s 100-meter hurdles. Rodencal qualified with a time of 13.37, breaking her own record once again and placed sixth in finals with a time of 13.71.

Rodencal also competed in two relays. The women’s 4×400 relay team made up of her, senior Trinity Tuls, senior Isabelle Salters and junior Kayla Kirchner ran a 3:47.33 to take third place and qualify for nationals. The time was also .07 seconds off the school record. Rodencal anchored in the women’s 4×200 relay running alongside freshman Adysen McCarter, Kirchner and senior Emily Loeseke. The 4×200 team ran a 1:41.16 and placed ninth.

Sophomore Hayden Kluthe, freshman Lucas Corwin, freshman Perry Chadwick and junior Liam Fagan ran a couple sprint relays for the Bulldogs in Des Moines. The four men placed 25th in the men’s 4×400-meter relay with a time of 3:22.68. They also placed 19th in the men’s sprint medley relay with a time of 3:43.53.

McCarter competed in the women’s triple jump as well as her relay taking 11th place with a 11.59-meter jump. She was the only member of the jump team to compete in the Drake Relays. Junior pole vaulter Mayson Ostermeyer was scheduled to compete, but opted to go to the Prairie Wolf Invite instead.

Senior Abigail Gerber took 10th place in the women’s shot put with a best throw of 13.51-meters. Fellow senior Abi Wohlgemuth placed 15th in the women’s hammer throw with a throw of 51.92-meters. Sophomore Nathan Baldwin was the only male thrower to go to Des Moines and took 11th in the men’s discus event with a throw of 50.81-meters.

Concordia sent three javelin throwers to Lawrence, Kan. for the Rock Chalk Classic. Senior Gretchen Stottlemyre placed sixth in the women’s javelin throw with a heave of 36.84-meters. Sophomore Emry Gutz placed fourth in the men’s javelin throw with a throw of 54.42-meters. Freshman Stephen Meisel placed ninth in the same event with a throw of 47.09-meters.

Track and field combine once again for their conference meet. The team travels to Hastings for the Great Plains Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships held from May 2-3.