Final Results

WINONA, Minn. - Saint John's track and field won its 13th outdoor team title, first since 2011, at the 2022 MIAC Championships on Saturday, May 14, at Saint Mary's.

The Johnnies won five events Saturday (eight total for the two-day meet) for 218.25 points to win the 11-team field. St. Olaf was second (141), followed by Bethel (123) and Concordia-Moorhead (92.25).

Junior Kevin Arthur (Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park) became the first Johnnie since 1982 (Chuck Williams '83) to win both the 100- and 200-meter dashes in the same MIAC meet, and was the second leg on the Johnnies' first-place 4x100-meter relay.

Arthur won the 100-meter dash with a personal-best time of 10.51 seconds. A three-time conference champion in the event, senior Ryan Miller (Maple Grove, Minn./Totino-Grace) earned his 11th All-MIAC honor (three indoors, eight outdoors) with a third-place finish (10.70). Senior Jack Young (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) was close behind in fourth (10.99).

Less than an hour later, Arthur took first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.51 seconds. Young was fourth (22.05), 0.17 of a second from third place.

SJU's 4x100-meter relay (Young, Arthur, Labine, Seth Cattoor) won the team's first conference title of the day - the Johnnies' third in the event in the last four seasons - in 41.53 seconds.

The Johnnies went 1-2 in the 800 meters, led by sophomore Tommy Allen's (Woodbury, Minn./St. Paul Academy) MIAC-champion time of 1:54.94. Junior Alexei Hensel (Buffalo, Minn.) was second in 1:56.06 for his first All-MIAC honor (top three individually, champion relay).

Senior Michael Wallace (Nassau, Bahamas/St. Anne's) won his second MIAC title in the triple jump, first outdoors, with a mark of 14.32 meters. Junior Elijah Wade (Waco, Texas/Vanguard College Prep) achieved All-MIAC distinction in third place (13.89 meters) and junior Alex Crnkovich (Omaha, Neb./Mount Michael Benedictine) was seventh (13.32 meters).

For the first time since 1996 (four), three Johnnies scored team points in the high jump. Junior Maguire Petersen (Hutchinson, Minn.) earned his third All-MIAC honor of the meet with a second-place and season-best height, 2.05 meters. Freshman Alec Ungar (Eden Prairie, Minn./Chanhassen) followed in fifth (1.89 meters) and senior Sam Rademacher (Marshall, Minn.) was eighth (1.84 meters).

Junior Lloyd Young (Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy) crossed the finish line second (14:59.53) in the 5,000 meters, less than four seconds from the title, while junior Gavin Rupp (Villard, Minn./Minnewaska Area) collected his first All-MIAC honor with a second-place distance (46.38 meters) in the discus.

Senior Andy Goldsmith (Tulsa, Okla./Cascia Hall) earned All-MIAC honors with a third-place finish (9:35.99) in the steeplechase, and junior Tom Nemanich (Red Wing, Minn.) was right behind him in fourth (9:42.07) for the second consecutive season.

Senior Brady Labine (Detroit Lakes, Minn.) claimed fourth (54.37) in the 400-meter hurdles, 0.40 of a second from third, and senior Omavi Collison (Nassau, Bahamas/St. Anne's) finished fourth (49.00), 0.13 of a second from third, in the 400-meter dash.

Junior Jaeden Frost (Omro, Wis.) led SJU with a fifth-place mark (50.28 meters), a personal best, in the hammer throw. Junior Eli Mollet (Jefferson, S.D./Bishop Heelan Catholic, Iowa) was the first of three consecutive Johnnies in seventh (48.10 meters), followed by junior Brett Hague (Brainerd, Minn.) in eighth (45.46 meters) and Rupp in ninth (43.69 meters).

SJU's 4x400-meter relay (Labine, Jorge Hernandez, Collison, Ryan Conzemius) ended the meet with a third-place finish (3:20.44).

The Johnnies compete at Wisconsin-La Crosse's Final Qualifier at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 19.