Results 

MANKATO, Minn. – Saint John's track & field collected 12 top-five and 21 top-10 finishes at the Minnesota State Open on Monday, April 13. 

The meet was originally scheduled for Saturday (April 11) but was postponed and rescheduled due to weather. 

Senior Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) collected the Johnnies' only event win on the day in the 17-man 800-meter with a time of 1:55.34. Sophomore Zander Olmschenk (Sauk Centre, Minn.) took seventh (1:59.92) behind his teammate.  

SJU dominated the javelin, placing athletes at second, fourth, fifth and sixth. Senior Mitchell Degen (Brainerd, Minn.) claimed second in the event, first among collegiate competitors, with a distance of 54.94 meters. Freshman Holden Dvorak (Princeton, Minn./Spectrum) was fourth (47.16 meters), senior Kole Guth (St. Peter, Minn.) fifth (46.05 meters) and sophomore Thomas Cass (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater Area) sixth (39.17 meters). 

Guth was also eighth in the pole vault (4.23 meters), where he was joined by freshman Alex Chirhart (St. Cloud, Minn./Rocori) in fourth with a season-best height of 4.38 meters. Josh Johnston (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) took ninth with a mark of 4.08 meters. 

Junior Cooper Smith (Alvarado, Minn./East Grand Forks) hit another meet-highlight for SJU, taking third in the 400-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 53.27 seconds, which is good for 15th in NCAA Division III and first in the MIAC this season. 

Freshman Aiden Jones (Pierz, Minn.) finished fourth with a time of 10.92 seconds in the 100-meter dash, following in the footsteps of Kevin Arthur '24, who won the race as an unattached athlete with a time of 10.41. Junior Kieran Murnan (Lakeville, Minn./Holy Angels) was fifth with a prelim time of 10.87 seconds and did not compete in the final. 

Sophomore Grady Minnerath (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) threw a season-best 45.73 meters for second in the discus and took fifth in the shot put with a toss of 15.88 meters. His shot put mark ranks third in the conference this season and 31st in NCAA Division III. 

Freshman Sam Ruprecht (Avon, Minn./Holdingford) was eighth in the discus (41.46 meters) behind Minnerath, while junior Rylan Turqueza (Ewa Beach, Hawaii/Radford) took eighth in the shot put (14.43 meters).

Sophomore Anthony Sletta (St. James, Minn.) also took fourth in the long jump with a leap of 6.61 meters. Junior Connor O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) added a fifth-place finish in the high jump, clearing a mark of 1.78 meters. 

Freshman Trae Headlee (Billings, Mont./Skyview) also had the ninth-fastest time in the 110-meter-hurdle prelims with a personal-best of 15.61. 

The Johnnies' 4x100-meter relay (Swall, White, Sesay, Bien-Aime) finished fourth (42.95), 0.68 behind Division II Sioux Falls in second and 0.50 behind Southwest Minnesota State in third. SJU was the highest finishing DIII relay team of the day. 

The Johnnies host the CSB+SJU Invitational at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Clemens Stadium. The meet was originally scheduled for Saturday (April 18) but was moved up two days due to the weather forecast.