Saint John's hosts the CSB+SJU Invitational at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Clemens Stadium. 

MOVED UP: Thursday's meet was scheduled for Saturday (April 18) but was moved up due to the forecast of cold and wind. 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 
Throws 
3:00 p.m.: Hammer (M), Javelin (W), Shot Put (W)
4:30: Hammer (W), Javelin (M) 
~5:00: Discus (M)
~6:30: Discus (W), Shot Put (M) 

Jumps 
4:00 p.m.: High Jump (W/M), Long Jump (M/W), Pole Vault (M/W) 
~7:00: Triple Jump (M/W) 

Track 
4:00 p.m.: Steeplechase (W/M) 
4:35: 4x100-Meter Relay (W/M) 
4:45: 1,500 Meters (W/M) 
5:15: 100-Meter Hurdles (W) 
5:30: 110-Meter Hurdles (M) 
5:40: 400-Meter Dash (W/M) 
6:00: 100-Meter Dash (W/M) 
6:25: 800 Meters (W/M) 
6:55: 400-Meter Hurdles (W/M) 
7:20: 200-Meter Dash (W/M) 
7:45: 5,000 Meters (W/M) 
8:30: 4x400-Meter Relay (W/M) 
8:50: 10,000 Meters (W/M) 

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: Saint John's 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. 

FRIDAY IN WISCONSIN: Junior Cole Stencel (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) led a six-Johnnie contingent in 26th place out of 343 runners with a time of 14:26.74, the fourth-fastest in SJU outdoor history, in the large 5,000-meter race Friday night (April 10) at Wisconsin-Platteville.  

Junior Lars Molenkamp (Almere, Netherlands/Oostvaarders College) was next in 178th (15:18.12) and senior Jacob Malecha (Lonsdale, Minn./New Prague) was less than a second behind in 181st (15:18.23). 

SATURDAY AT BETHEL: Sophomore Connor Dow (Ramsey, Minn./Anoka) led SJU with a 12th-place finish in the steeplechase thanks to a personal-best time of 11:05.64. Another sophomore, Adam Marable (Crystal, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong), led six Johnnies in the 1,500 meters with a 17th-place time (12th among NCAA Division III runners) of 4:18.68. 

A pair of freshmen, Ian Mills (Glenwood, Minn./Minnewaska Area) and Will Snyder (Papillion, Neb./Mount Michael Benedicine), were scheduled to race Saturday night in the 5,000 meters but the meet was canceled following the 400-meter hurdles (eliminating the 200-meter dash, 5,000 meters and 4x400-meter relay on the track). 

WHO WILL BE HERE: The Bennies and Johnnies are scheduled to be joined Thursday by Bethel, Concordia-Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus, Minnesota-Morris, St. Catherine, Division II Southwest Minnesota State and Wisconsin-Superior. 

LAST YEAR'S MEET: SJU won 12 events and recorded 27 top-three marks/times at last year's CSB+SJU Invitational (Easter Meet) held April 17 (2025) in Collegeville. 

Kevin Arthur '25 won the 200-meter dash in 21.36 seconds and sophomore Max Reis (West Fargo, N.D./Spectrum) was close behind in second (21.71).  

Jackson McDowell '25 took first in the high jump with a mark of 2.05 meters and Murnan won the 100-meter dash with a season-best time of 10.96 seconds. 

Senior Josh Johnston (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) and junior Andrew Withuski (Wahpeton, N.D.) tied for the title in the pole vault with a height of 4.57 meters. Kole Guth was third (4.42 meters). 

Degen tossed a first-place distance of 57.80 meters in the javelin and sophomore Alex Wimmer (Ramsey, Minn./Anoka) followed in third (41.37 meters). 

Junior Bangaly Kaba (St. Cloud, Minn./Apollo) led the triple jumpers with a first-place mark of 13.20 meters and Sletta was third (12.77 meters). Sletta also claimed third with a season-best distance of 6.83 meters in the long jump. 

Tommy Allen '25 led six Johnnies in succession to win the 800 meters with a personal-best time of 1:54.49, while junior Vincent Kaluza (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) led seven Johnnies, uncontested, in the steeplechase with a time of 9:45.88. 

Aidan Thomas '25 crossed the finish line first in the 1,500 meters (4:31.98) and Smith matched him in the 400-meter hurdles (55.30). Another junior, Wyatt Witschen (Monticello, Minn.), placed first in the 400-meter dash (50.56) and Ryan Conzemius '25 was third (51.62). 

A.J. Skinner '25 and junior Peyton Martinek (Coon Rapids, Minn.) went 1 (33:40.98)-2 (34:12.37) out of three participants in the evening's final event on the track, the 10,000 meters. 

The Johnnies' 4x400-meter relay (Witschen, Allen, Smith, Montreuil) took first place with a time of 3:21.05, while SJU's backup 4x100-meter relay (Popoca, Ferrante, Sesay, Morey) took second (42.66) by 0.03 of a second. 

IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies currently boast 29 top-10 marks/times in the MIAC this season, including three as the conference's leader. 

100-Meter Dash 
3. Kieran Murnan, 10.79 
7. Jaden Alexander, 10.92 

200-Meter Dash 
3. Kieran Murnan, 21.82 
8. Derek Guth, 22.19 

800 Meters 
3. Owen Montreuil, 1:55.34 
5. Nick St. Peter, 1:57.60 
6. Max McCoy, 1:57.94 
9. Lars Molenkamp, 1:58.86 

1,500 Meters 
7. Nick St. Peter, 4:04.49 
8. Lars Molenkamp, 4:05.01 

5,000 Meters 
2. Cole Stencel, 14:26.74 *No. 26 in Division III  

10,000 Meters 
8. John Steines, 34:30.78 
9. Jack Montgomery, 34:45.75 

110-Meter Hurdles 
5. Trae Headlee, 15.61 

400-Meter Hurdles 
1. Cooper Smith, 53.27 *No. 15 in Division III 

4x100-Meter Relay 
3. SJU, 42.76 

4x400-Meter Relay 
1. SJU, 3:19.65 *No. 44 in Division III 

High Jump 
4. Connor O'Brien, 1.85m 

Pole Vault 
5. Alex Chirhart, 4.38m 
7. Kole Guth, 4.25m 

Long Jump 
3. Anthony Sletta, 6.78m 

Shot Put 
3. Grady Minnerath, 15.88m *No. 31 in Division III 
8. Rylan Turqueza, 14.43m 

Discus 
5. Grady Minnerath, 45.73m 
9. Sam Ruprecht, 41.46m 

Javelin 
1. Mitchell Degen, 60.83m *No. 16 in Division III 
5. Bailey Evans, 51.97m 
6. Holden Dvorak, 50.73m 
9. Kole Guth, 46.05m