Day 2 Results

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's track and field won three events on the second day of the 2025 MIAC Indoor Championships held Friday, Feb. 28, in the Donald McNeely Spectrum.

Bethel leads the 11-team field with 102 points, followed by St. Olaf (69), SJU (67.5), Macalester (40) and Concordia (30.5).

Senior Anthony Thurk (St. Bonifacius, Minn./Waconia) became the fourth Johnnie in program history to win the two-day MIAC heptathlon, joining Maguire Petersen '22 in 2022 (5,118), Michael Leither '08 in 2008 (4,753) and Jeff Doll '07 in 2007 (4,576), with 4,923 points. The total is good for 10th in NCAA Division III this season. 

Thurk's 2025 Heptathlon
-60-meter dash: third (7.29) *personal best
-long jump: first (6.68m) *personal best
-shot put: second (11.73m)
-high jump: first (1.97m) *personal best
-60-meter hurdles: fourth (8.95)
-pole vault: fourth (4.10m) *personal best
-1,000 meters: ninth (3:03.08)

Senior Max Lelwica (Brainerd, Minn.) finished fifth with 4,421 points and sophomore Noah Besemann (New Brighton, Minn./Irondale) was eighth with 4,323. Lelwica started the event's final day with a first place time of 8.64 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to take over first place with 3,670 points, but did not record a height in the pole vault and fell to sixth. Besemann's best event of the day was a third-place mark of 4.20 meters in the pole vault.

Senior Jackson McDowell (Centennial, Colo./Arapahoe) won his second MIAC title in the high jump, and first indoors, with a school-record height of 2.11 meters. He cleared the mark on his third and final attempt to become the fourth Johnnie to win the event indoors. Senior Alec Ungar (Eden Prairie, Minn./Chanhassen) tied for fifth (1.86 meters).

The Johnnies' distance medley relay (Tommy Allen, Ryan Conzemius, Lars Molenkamp, Cole Stencel) ended the night with SJU's third MIAC title of the day - the program's second in the event over the last four seasons - with a time of 10:17.48.

Freshman Max Reis (West Fargo, N.D./Spectrum) earned his first All-MIAC distinction in second, by 0.04 of a second, to tie SJU's record of 6.78 seconds set by Kevin Arthur '24 in the 60-meter dash. Reis also placed fourth in the long jump with a mark of 6.83 meters, five inches from third place and All-MIAC honors.

Senior Zach Schaffer (Chaska, Minn.) collected the sixth All-MIAC (top three) honor of his career – fourth indoors – with a second-place distance of 6.96 meters in the long jump. Sophomore Matt Hansen (Longmont, Colo./Niwot) followed in seventh (6.64 meters).

Sophomore Wyatt Witschen (Monticello, Minn.) claimed sixth with a season-best time of 50.66 seconds in the 400-meter dash and juniors Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) and Nick St. Peter (Maple Grove, Minn.) were seventh (1:57.48) and eighth (1:57.61), respectively, in the 800 meters.