Final Results

ARDEN HILLS, Minn. – Saint John's track and field won its second-consecutive outdoor title (14th overall) at the 2023 MIAC Championships on Saturday, May 13, at Bethel.

The Johnnies won six events Saturday (eight total for the two-day meet) for 216 points to win the 11-team field. St. Olaf was second (176), followed by Bethel (133.5) and Macalester (69). SJU finished second in four other events Saturday and totaled 21 All-MIAC (top three) performances at the meet.

For the second consecutive season, senior Kevin Arthur (Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park) won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. The 2022 MIAC Outstanding Track Athlete, Arthur recorded a season-best time of 10.46 seconds in the 100, which is ninth-fastest in NCAA Division III this season. He improved his own program record in the 200 to 21.10 seconds, the eighth-fastest time in Division III.

Arthur also served as the second leg on the Johnnies' 4x100-meter relay team (Emanuel Popoca, Arthur, Labine, Wheeler), which won its second-consecutive conference title with a time of 41.11 seconds, 0.34 ahead of the host Royals. The event win is SJU's fourth in the last five MIAC outdoor meets.

Senior Brett Hague (Brainerd, Minn.) won his second-straight MIAC title in the javelin with a throw of 64.14 meters on his sixth and final attempt. Junior Logan Hennen (Prior Lake, Minn.) earned his first All-MIAC honor with a third-place mark (51.49 meters), while freshman Carter McEachern (Zimmerman, Minn.) followed in fifth (49.13 meters).

Four Johnnies totaled 24 team points in the pole vault, led by junior Joe Charbonneau (New Richmond, Wis.) and his second-consecutive MIAC championship with a height of 4.60 meters. Junior Dan Eickhoff (St. Cloud, Minn./Cathedral) collected his first All-MIAC honor with a third-place height of 4.40 meters, while freshman Kole Guth (St. Peter, Minn.) and junior Max Doom (Edina, Minn.) followed in fourth (4.25 meters) and sixth (4.10 meters), respectively. 

Senior Nathan Clausing (Big Lake, Minn.) made it two-straight wins for SJU in the 800 meters, following junior Tommy Allen's (Woodbury, Minn./St. Paul Academy) win last spring, with a time of 1:54.80. A pair of classmates – Dillon Diekmann (Lake Elmo, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) and Will Mattock (Maryville, Mo.) – claimed fifth (1:55.04) and sixth (1:55.84), respectively.

Senior Elijah Wade (Waco, Texas/Vanguard College Prep) collected his fourth All-MIAC honor with a second-place finish (14.01 meters) in the triple jump. Senior Alex Crnkovich (Omaha, Neb./Mount Michael Benedictine) was sixth (13.32 meters) and sophomore Zach Schaffer (Chaska, Minn.), fresh off yesterday's conference title in the long jump, placed eighth (13.02 meters). Sophomore Anthony Thurk (St. Bonifacius, Minn./Waconia) just missed scoring in ninth (12.93 meters).

Junior Lloyd Young (Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy) earned his second All-MIAC honor of the meet and eighth overall (third outdoors with three indoors and two in cross country) with a second-place time of 14:44.13 in the 5,000 meters and junior Carter Grove (Osakis, Minn.) took second (8:59.39) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The All-MIAC distinction was Grove's first outdoors and third overall (one each in cross country and indoor track and field).

Senior Brady Labine (Detroit Lakes, Minn.) tallied his eighth All-MIAC performance (seventh outdoors and one indoors) with a second-place finish (54.06) in the 400-meter hurdles. Freshman Aiden Blaeser (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville) just missed scoring in ninth (58.28 meters).

An All-MIAC performer in two events Friday (second in the hammer and third in the discus), senior Jaeden Frost (Omro, Wis.) added another Saturday with a third-place distance of 14.70 meters in the shot put.

SJU's 4x400-meter relay team (Wheeler, Owen Montreuil, Ryan Conzemius, Labine) finished fifth (3:20.89) and a pair of Johnnies – sophomore Max Lelwica (Brainerd, Minn.) and freshman Caden Wheeler (Andover, Minn.) – junior missed scoring a team point for SJU. Lelwica took ninth (15.82) by 0.05 of a second in the 110-meter hurdles and Wheeler was ninth (49.57) by 0.08 of a second in the 400-meter dash.

The Johnnies compete at Wisconsin-La Crosse's Final Qualifier at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 18.