The Johnnies host their third meet of the indoor season – the CSB+SJU Valentine's Day Open – at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in the Donald McNeely Spectrum. – Live Results

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Field Events
11:00 a.m.: High Jump (W/M), Long Jump (W/M), Pole Vault (M/W), Shot Put (W/M), Weight Throw (M/W)
-Triple Jump (after long jump, W/M)

Track Events
11:00 a.m.: 5,000 Meters (W/M)
11:50: 60-Meter Hurdles – Prelims (M/W)
12:10 p.m.: 60-Meter Dash – Prelims (M/W)
12:35: Mile Run (M/W)
12:55: 60-Meter Hurdles – Final (W/M)
1:10: 400-Meter Dash (M/W)
1:35: 600 Meters (M/W)
1:50: 60-Meter Dash – Final (M/W)
2:00: 800 Meters (M/W)
2:15: 1,000 Meters (M/W)
2:35: 200-Meter Dash (M/W)
3:15: 3,000 Meters (M/W)
3:45: 4x400-Meter Relay (M/W)
4:10: 4x200-Meter Relay (M/W)

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: The Johnnie distance and mid-distance runners recorded five top five times at Division I Minnesota's Gopher Classic last Saturday (Feb. 7) in Minneapolis. 
 
Junior Cole Stencel (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) highlighted the afternoon with an SJU- and meet-record time of 4:10.42 in the mile. He surpassed the previous record of 4:11.75 set by John Mathews '03 as a senior in 2003. 

Stencel's time will be logged as a 4:07.26 after a banked-track conversion. The converted time will serve as his qualifying mark for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships since the national meet will be held on a banked surface, and currently ranks ninth in DIII.

Freshman Raegan Lopez (Lakeville, Minn./North) crossed the lined the second in the unseeded 3,000 meters with a personal-best 9:23.30. 

Senior Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) added a third-place finish in 800 meters (1:55.02), beating four Division II runners. 

Junior Max McCoy (Bennington, Neb./Mount Michael Benedictine) recorded the second-fastest DIII time in the 600 meters, finishing with a PR of 1:25.23 for fourth overall. 

Senior Nick St. Peter (Maple Grove, Minn.) led three Johnnies in the 3,000 meters' top 10 with a fifth-place time of 8:50.07. Junior Vincent Kaluza (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) was eighth (9:00.51) and senior Jacob Malecha (Lonsdale, Minn./New Prague) finished 10th (9:02.90). 

Junior Lars Molenkamp (Almere, Netherlands/Oostvaarders College) just missed the top five mark in the unseeded mile, taking sixth in 4:25.03.

WHO WILL BE HERE: The Bennies and Johnnies are scheduled to be joined Saturday by Concordia-Moorhead, Minnesota-Morris, Minnesota Running Club, Division II Southwest Minnesota State and Division II St. Cloud State.

LAST YEAR'S MEET: SJU won three events and recorded 17 top-five finishes at last year's invite held on Feb. 15 (2025) in the Donald McNeely Spectrum.

Jackson McDowell '25 won the high jump at 2.03 meters and Zach Schaffer '25 took first in the long jump with a season-best mark of 7.06 meters. Sophomore Anthony Sletta (St. James, Minn.) followed Schaffer in third (6.72 meters).

Montreuil won the 600 meters in 1:22.70, followed by Tommy Allen '24 in third (1:24.67) and McCoy in fifth (1:25.59).

Sophomore Max Reis (West Fargo, N.D./Spectrum) won the 60-meter dash prelim with a season-best time of 6.92 seconds but did not compete in the final.

Junior Wyatt Witschen (Monticello, Minn.) finished second in the 400-meter dash (51.60), while Stencel and Eamon Cavanaugh '25 claimed second (4:24.68) and third (4:28.07), respectively, in the mile run.

St. Peter led three Johnnies in succession with a second-place time of 2:31.98 in the 1,000 meters, followed Molenkamp and Joe Gathje '25 in third (2:37.00) and fourth (2:39.07), respectively.

Junior Andrew Withuski (Wahpeton, N.D.) tied for third in the pole vault with a height of 4.25 meters and senior Kole Guth (St. Peter, Minn.) tied for fifth (4.10 meters). Joe Mensen '25 took fifth with a season-best toss in the weight throw (14.95 meters).

SJU's 4x400-meter relay (Gathje, Freier, Molenkamp, Marable) was second (3:37.03) and the 4x200-meter relay (Hansen, Witschen, White, Reis) was fifth (1:32.71).

IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies currently boast 18 top-10 marks/times in the MIAC.

60-Meter Dash
3. Aiden Jones, 7.00
5. Kieran Murnan, 7.03
6. Bailey Evans, 7.04

200-Meter Dash
5. Aiden Jones, 22.79

400-Meter Dash
7. Cooper Smith, 50.98

800 Meters
6. Owen Montreuil, 1:55.02 (No. 30 in Division III)

Mile
1. Cole Stencel, 4:10.42 (No. 10 in Division III)

3,000 Meters
8. Nick St. Peter, 8:50.07

10,000 Meters
4. Cole Stencel, 2:32.90
7. Nick St. Peter, 2:33.24
9. Owen Montreuil, 2:33.59

60-Meter Hurdles
6. Bashir Amoud, 8.58

Pole Vault
t5. Alex Chirhart, 4.30m
t5. Kole Guth, 4.30m
t5. Austin Mohr, 4.30m
10. Noah Besemann, 4.12m

Triple Jump
9. Bangaly Kaba, 12.82m

Shot Put
4. Grady Minnerath, 15.34m (No. 63 in Division III)