The Johnnie track and field team competes at the 2022 MIAC Outdoor Championships this Friday-Saturday, May 13-14, at Saint Mary's Outdoor Complex in Winona. - Live Results | Live Video | Championships Website

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: This weekend's tentative schedule of events is listed below.

Friday
Track Events (Men)
1:45 p.m.: 1,500 Meters - Prelim
2:20: 110-Meter Hurdles - Prelim 
2:45: 400-Meter Dash - Prelim 
3:10: 100-Meter Dash - Prelim 
3:40: 800 Meters - Prelim 
4:20: 400-Meter Hurdles - Prelim
4:45: 200-Meter Dash - Prelim 
5:50: 10,000 Meters
6:45: 4x800-Meter Relay  

Field Events (Men)
1:00 p.m.: Javelin
2:00: Pole Vault
4:00: Long Jump, Shot Put

Saturday
Track Events (Men)
1:20 p.m.: 3,000-Meter Steeplechase
1:50: 4x100-Meter Relay 
2:10: 1,500 Meters 
2:35: 110-Meter Hurdles 
2:50: 400-Meter Dash 
3:05: 100-Meter Dash  
3:20: 800 Meters 
3:40: 400-Meter Hurdles  
3:55: 200-Meter Dash 
4:25: 5,000 Meters 
4:55: 4x400-Meter Relay

Field Events (Men)
12:00 p.m.: Discus, High Jump
3:00: Hammer, Triple Jump

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: In addition to the MIAC Decathlon, Saint John's competed in a pair of meets last week.

St. Thomas' Tommie Twilight
Junior Brett Hague (Brainerd, Minn.) won the javelin with another personal-best mark - 60.83 meters - that is good for 10th in NCAA Division III this season.

Senior Michael Wallace (Nassau, Bahamas/St. Anne's) recorded a PR of his own - 14.56 meters - to win the triple jump. The distance is the second-best mark is program history and is currently 12th in Division III this spring. Junior Elijah Wade (Waco, Texas/Vanguard College Prep) was third (13.47 meters).

Senior Shawn Schindler (Maple Grove, Minn.) finished second, first among Division III pole vaulters, with a season-best height of 4.70 meters. Sophomore Joe Charbonneau (New Richmond, Wis.) tied Schindler at 4.70, which is the top mark in the MIAC this season, but needed his third attempt (to Schindler's second) to clear the bar. Junior Joe Stauffer (Cambridge, Minn./Cambridge-Isanti) was fourth overall (4.25 meters).

Seniors Andy Goldsmith (Tulsa, Okla./Cascia Hall) and Nathan Meyer (Iowa City, Iowa/Regina) finished second (9:37.55) and third (9:51.59), respectively, in the steeplechase. Goldsmith's time was a personal-best and the fourth-fastest in the MIAC this spring.

Junior Kevin Arthur (Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park) placed second in the 200-meter dash (22.03) and sixth, first among Division III sprinters, with a time of 10.79 seconds in the 100-meter dash.

Senior Sam Rademacher (Marshall, Minn.) tied for second in the high jump (1.85 meters) and senior Brady Labine (Detroit Lakes, Minn.) was third in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 54.36 seconds. Junior Alexei Hensel (Buffalo, Minn.) was fourth overall, first among Division III runners, in the 1,500 meters (4:08.15).

Three Johnnies - sophomore Tommy Allen (Woodbury, Minn./St. Paul Academy), junior Riley Berg (Bemidji, Minn.) and junior Nathan Clausing (Big Lake, Minn.) - finished third (1:54.56), fifth (1:57.18) and seventh (1:57.98) overall in the 800 meters, but claimed 1-2-3 in the Division III ranks.

Junior Jaeden Frost (Omro, Wis.) placed fifth in the shot put (13.97 meters) and seventh in the hammer (44.84 meters). He was third among Division III throwers in both events.

St. Olaf's Ole Open
The Johnnies won three events and collected 10 top-three marks/times on the day. SJU did not have a competitor in the 3,000 meters, 5,000 meters, long jump, triple jump or 4x400-meter relay.

Arthur won the 100-meter dash in 10.70 seconds, while senior Ryan Miller (Maple Grove, Minn./Totino-Grace) followed with a season-best time in third (10.83).

Frost won the Johnnies' other individual event, the hammer throw, with a season-best toss of 48.49 meters.

SJU's 4x100-meter relay (Jack Young, Arthur, Brady Labine, Seth Cattoor) improved its season-best time to take first in 41.80 seconds, which leads the MIAC.

Junior Gavin Rupp (Villard, Minn./Minnewaska Area) placed second in the discus (46.14 meters) and freshman Jack Meyer (Iowa City, Iowa/Regina) was second in the javelin (41.95 meters).

Freshman Joe Gathje (Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson) went head-to-head with St. Olaf's Waylon Kurts in the steeplechase and finished second (10:23.07), while junior Justus White (Cottage Grove, Minn./Park) claimed second out of three participants in the 110-meter hurdles (16.58).

Senior Dillon Diekmann (Lake Elmo, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) took third in the 800 meters (1:57.69) and sophomore Max Doom (Edina, Minn.) was third in the pole vault (3.98 meters).

MIAC CHAMPION…AGAIN: Junior Maguire Petersen (Hutchinson, Minn.) won the MIAC Decathlon for the second consecutive season May 5-6 at Carleton's Laird Stadium in Northfield.

Petersen won the 18-man event with 6,677 points, 54 points ahead of St. Olaf's Stephen Peper, thanks to personal bests in four of the final day's five events. He joined Steve Kimble '99 (1998-99) as the second Johnnie to win the MIAC decathlon twice, let alone back-to-back. The 6,677 points is the fifth-best total in NCAA Division III this season.

He entered the final event - the 1,500 meters - with a 152-point lead (6,154-6,002) thanks to a second-place finish in the javelin (52.82 meters). Petersen finished 11th in 5:06.44, less than 17 seconds behind Peper, to clinch the conference title.

Petersen trailed Peper by 13 points (4,947-4,934) after the day's first two events. He started the final day with a personal best time in the 110-meter hurdles (15.75) to finish third and followed that with another PR to take second in the discus (35.85 meters). 

Following a tie for fourth in the pole vault (3.90 meters), Petersen moved into first place by 42 points and extended the lead to 152 with the second-place mark in the javelin.

Petersen's 2022 MIAC Decathlon
-100-Meter Dash: fourth (11.37) *PR
-Long Jump: sixth (6.11 meters)
-Shot Put: first (13.15 meters)
-High Jump: second (1.97 meters)
-400-Meter Dash: fourth (51.43) *PR
-110-Meter Hurdles: third (15.74) *PR
-Discus: second (35.85 meters) *PR
-Pole Vault: t-fourth (3.90 meters) *PR
-Javelin: second (52.82 meters)
-1,500 Meters: 11th (5:06.44) *PR

Freshman Max Lelwica (Brainerd, Minn.) earned two team points with a seventh-place finish (5,549 points). Another freshman, Anthony Thurk (St. Bonifacius, Minn./Waconia), was in sixth place following the first two events - including a third-place distance in the long jump (6.29 meters) - but left the competition due to injury.

ALL-MIAC RETURNERS: Nine Johnnies enter this weekend's meet with outdoor All-MIAC honors on their resumes (see below). That list doubles to 18, however, if one includes the All-MIAC honorees from the 2022 MIAC Indoor Championships.

-Kevin Arthur: third (2021, 200-meter dash)
-Omavi Collison: third (2019, 400-meter dash)
-Brett Hague: third (2021, javelin)
-Brady Labine: champion (2018, 4x100-meter relay); champion (2019, 400-meter hurdles); champion (2019, 4x100-meter relay); third (2018, 400-meter hurdles)
-Ryan Miller: champion (2018, 100-meter dash); champion (2018, 4x100-meter relay); third (2018, 200-meter dash); champion (2019, 100-meter dash); champion (2019, 4x100-meter relay); champion (2021, 100-meter dash); second (2021, 200-meter dash) 
-Maguire Petersen: champion (2021, decathlon); second (2021, javelin); champion (2022, decathlon)
-Shawn Schindler: third (2019, pole vault); second (2021, pole vault)
-Michael Wallace: second (2021, triple jump)
-Jack Young: champion (2019, 4x100-meter relay)

SJU'S MIAC OUTDOOR HISTORY: The Johnnies have finished in the conference's top three in 31 of the last 37 MIAC Outdoor Championship meets, including 18 second-place finishes and five titles (1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2011). The last MIAC institution to win the outdoor championship, other than SJU or St. Thomas, was Hamline in 1982 (the final of nine consecutive from 1974-82 for the Pipers).

RANKINGS: SJU stayed at No. 7 in the most recent U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) North Region rankings released Wednesday (May 11). 

USTFCCCA North Region Rankings
1. Wisconsin-Oshkosh (No. 3 nationally)
2. Wisconsin-La Crosse (No. 6 nationally)
3. Wisconsin-Eau Claire (No. 2 nationally)
4. Wisconsin-Stout (No. 8 nationally)
5. Wisconsin-Whitewater (No. 20 nationally)
6. Wisconsin-Platteville (No. 11 nationally)
7. SJU
8. Bethel (No. 16 nationally)

IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies enter the conference meet with 42 top-10 marks/times, including 16 in the top three.

100-Meter Dash
1. Kevin Arthur, 10.65 (No. 46 in Division III)
3. Ryan Miller, 10.83
5. Jack Young, 10.96

200-Meter Dash
1. Kevin Arthur, 21.50 (No. 27 in Division III)
8. Jack Young, 22.31

400-Meter Dash
6. Omavi Collison, 49.73

800 Meters
2. Tommy Allen, 1:54.56
3. Alexei Hensel, 1:55.35
9. Riley Berg, 1:57.18

1,500 Meters
4. Tommy Allen, 3:56.11
8. Alexei Hensel, 3:59.75

5,000 Meters
3. Lloyd Young, 14:42.97

10,000 Meters
3. Lloyd Young, 30:24.02 (No. 41 in Division III)

110-Meter Hurdles
8. Maguire Petersen, 15.75
9. Justus White, 16.14

400-Meter Hurdles
3. Brady Labine, 54.36 (No. 34 in Division III)

3,000-Meter Steeplechase
4. Andy Goldsmith, 9:37.55
5. Nathan Meyer, 9:46.38
6. Tom Nemanich, 9:50.54

High Jump
1. Maguire Petersen, 2.00m (No. 27 in Division III)
5. Alec Ungar, 1.95m 
7. Sam Rademacher, 1.90m
9. Anthony Thurk, 1.88m

Pole Vault
1. Joe Charbonneau, 4.70m (No. 31 in Division III)
1. Shawn Schindler, 4.70m (No. 31 in Division III)
5. Joe Stauffer, 4.47m

Long Jump
6. Alec Ungar, 6.64m
10. Maguire Petersen, 6.51m

Triple Jump
1. Michael Wallace, 14.56m (No. 19 in Division III)
3. Elijah Wade, 13.90m

Shot Put
4. Jaeden Frost, 14.54m
8. Eli Mollet, 13.71m

Discus
3. Gavin Rupp, 46.14m (No. 49 in Division III)

Hammer
6. Eli Mollet, 49.60m
8. Jaeden Frost, 48.49m
9. Brett Hague, 47.38m
10. Joe Mensen, 46.93m

Javelin
1. Brett Hague, 60.83m (No. 10 in Division III)
4. Maguire Petersen, 53.50m
6. Logan Hennen, 47.79m

Decathlon
1. Maguire Petersen, 6,677 (No. 5 in Division III)
7. Max Lelwica, 5,549