Final Results

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Saint John's junior Maguire Petersen (Hutchinson, Minn.) earned All-America honors with a sixth-place finish out of 20 competitors in the heptathlon on Saturday, March 12, at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Ryan Rogers of Loras (Iowa), who started the day 31 points ahead of Petersen in second place, won the national title with a meet-record 5,484 points (the second-best heptathlon performance in Division III history).

Petersen claimed 11th in the 60-meter hurdles to start the day and stayed in third place overall. He slipped to sixth with a 16th-place finish in the pole vault (3.80 meters) and ended the competition in 14th in the 1,000 meters - a personal-best time of 2:54.94 - to finish with 4,964 points. 

Petersen's All-America Performance at the NCAA Indoor Championships
-60-meter dash: Fifth (7.22)
-Long jump: T-16th (6.04 meters)
-Shot put: Second (13.41 meters)
-High jump: Second (2.00 meters)
-60-meter hurdles: 11th (8.80)
-Pole vault: 16th (3.80 meters)
-1,000 meters: 14th (2:54.94)

A two-time All-American in the high jump (2020 indoors, 2021 outdoors), Petersen had to juggle the heptathlon events with the high jump Saturday morning and placed 20th with a height of 1.92 meters. He cleared 2.00 meters yesterday as part of the heptathlon.