Saint John's track and field competes at the 2026 MIAC Outdoor Championships this Friday-Saturday, May 8-9, at St. Olaf's Manitou Track in Northfield. - Live Results | Live Video | Championships Website

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: This weekend's tentative schedule of events is listed below.

Friday
Field Events (Men)
-2:00 p.m.: Discus
-3:00: Pole Vault
-5:00: Javelin, Long Jump

Track Events (Men)
-2:45 p.m.: 1,500 Meters
-3:20: 110-Meter Hurdles - Prelims 
-3:45: 400-Meter Dash - Prelims 
-4:10: 100-Meter Dash - Prelims 
-4:40: 800 Meters - Prelims 
-5:20: 400-Meter Hurdles - Prelims
-5:45: 200-Meter Dash - Prelims 
-6:20: 4x800-Meter Relay  
-7:25: 10,000 Meters

Saturday
Field Events (Men)
-Noon: High Jump, Shot Put
-3:00: Hammer Throw, Triple Jump

Track Events (Men)
-1:40 p.m.: 4x100-Meter Relay
-2:20: 3,000-Meter Steeplechase
-2:55: 110-Meter Hurdles - Final
-3:10: 400-Meter Dash - Final 
-3:25: 100-Meter Dash - Final
-3:40: 800 Meters - Final 
-4:00: 400-Meter Hurdles - Final  
-4:15: 200-Meter Dash - Final 
-4:45: 5,000 Meters 
-5:25: 4x400-Meter Relay

ANOTHER DECATHLON CHAMP: Sophomore Bailey Evans (Breckenridge, Minn.) became the sixth Johnnie and eighth overall to win the MIAC decathlon last Thursday-Friday (April 30-May 1) at Carleton.

Evans entered the final event – the 1,500 meters – with a 217-point lead on Gustavus Adolphus' Connor McCormick and ran a personal-best 5:05.18 to win the title – the Johnnies' second-consecutive in the event – by a margin of 73 points.

He topped the field of 17 competitors with a total of 6,592 points, which is good for 17th in NCAA Division III. McCormick finished second with 6,519, while Carleton's Soren Kaster took third with 6,351.  

He joins Steve Kimble (1998, 1999); Matt Mogensen (2006); Brayden Wagner (2009); Maguire Petersen (2021, 2022); and Max Lelwica (2025) as a MIAC champion in the event.

Evans, who earned All-MIAC (top three) honors with a second-place finish in the heptathlon in February, set a PR in four events and bettered his decathlon score by 587 points. His best events were the 100-meter (912), long jump (727) and discus (712). His win adds 10 early points to the Johnnies' team total.

Evans' Decathlon
100-Meter Dash: First (10.77)
Long Jump: First (6.63m) *PR
Shot Put: First (13.44m)
High Jump: First (1.86m)
400-Meter Dash: Seventh (53.01)    
110-Meter Hurdles: (Fourth (16.42) *PR
Discus: First (42.31m) *PR
Pole Vault: 10th (3.32m)
Javelin: Third (46.35m)
1,500 Meters: 11th (5:05.18) *PR

Freshman Charles VanGrinsven (Prior Lake, Minn.) finished 13th with 4,524 points. His best day-two mark was a 30.33-meter toss to claim eighth in the discus throw. 

Freshman Josh Pretasky (Chanhassen, Minn./Minnetonka) was close behind in 14th (4,360). His best performance of the day was in the javelin, where he finished seventh with a toss of 39.77 meters. Each freshman totaled three personal-bests in the two-day event.

MIAC TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Junior Cole Stencel (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) was named the MIAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week on Monday (May 4) after he finished sixth out of 31 runners – first among NCAA Division III participants – in the 1,500 meters Friday night (May 1) at Hamline's Meet of the Unsaintly in St. Paul. He recorded a personal-best time of 3:49.71, which is good for 19th-best in Division III this season and was a little over a second shy of the program record of 3:48.86 set by Thomas Feichtinger in 2015.

SJU'S MIAC OUTDOOR HISTORY: The Johnnies have finished in the conference's top three in 35 of the last 41 MIAC Outdoor Championship meets, including 20 second-place finishes and seven titles (1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2022 and 2023). 

ALL-MIAC RETURNERS: Thirteen Johnnies enter this weekend's meet with outdoor All-MIAC honors already on their resumes (see below). Three others – Aiden Jones, Grady Minnerath and Andy White - earned All-MIAC recognition in indoor track and field in February but not yet outdoors.

-Mitchell Degen: champion (2025, javelin)
-Bailey Evans: champion (2026, decathlon) *1-time All-MIAC indoors
-Kole Guth: champion (2025, pole vault) *1-time All-MIAC indoors
-Max McCoy: second (2025, 4x800-meter relay); second (2024, 4x800-meter relay) *1-time All-MIAC indoors
-Hunter Mohr: second (2025, 4x400-meter relay) * 1-time All-MIAC indoors
-Lars Molenkamp: second (2025, 4x800-meter relay) *2-time All-MIAC indoors
-Owen Montreuil: second (2025, 4x800-meter relay); second (2024, 4x800-meter relay); third (2024, 4x400-meter relay); champion (2023, 4x800-meter relay) *1-time All-MIAC indoors
-Kieran Murnan: second (2024, 4x100-meter relay) *2-time All-MIAC indoors
-Nick St. Peter: second  (2025, 4x800-meter relay); third (2024, 800 meters); champion (2023, 4x800-meter relay) *3-time All-MIAC indoors
-Anthony Sletta: third (2025, long jump)
-Cooper Smith: second (2025, 4x400-meter relay); third (2024, 4x400-meter relay) *1-time All-MIAC indoors
-Cole Stencel: third (2025, 1,500 meters); second (2024, 4x800-meter relay) *3-time All-MIAC indoors
-Wyatt Witschen: second (2025, 4x400-meter relay); third (2024, 4x400-meter relay) *2-time All-MIAC indoors

IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies enter the conference meet with 29 top-10 marks/times in the MIAC this season, including four as the league leader. 

100-Meter Dash 
5. Bailey Evans, 10.76
6. Kieran Murnan, 10.79 

200-Meter Dash 
4. Kieran Murnan, 21.82 
9. Derek Guth, 22.10

800 Meters 
5. Nick St. Peter, 1:53.54 
8. Max McCoy, 1:54:81

1,500 Meters
1. Cole Stencel, 3:49.71 *No. 19 in Division III
6. Nick St. Peter, 3:57.83
8. Lars Molenkamp, 3:58.26

5,000 Meters 
2. Cole Stencel, 14:26.74 *No. 34 in Division III

110-Meter Hurdles 
5. Bashir Amoud, 15.18
7. Trae Headlee, 15.49

400-Meter Hurdles 
1. Cooper Smith, 53.27 *No. 27 in Division III 

Steeplechase
4. Jacob Malecha, 9:38.88

4x100-Meter Relay 
2. SJU, 41.21 *No. 39 in Division III

4x400-Meter Relay 
2. SJU, 3:19.65 

High Jump 
t5. Bailey Evans, 1.85m
t5. Connor O'Brien, 1.85m 

Pole Vault 
6. Alex Chirhart, 4.38m 
9. Josh Johnston, 4.28m
10. Kole Guth, 4.25m 

Long Jump 
1. Anthony Sletta, 7.24m *wind eligible for MIAC but not Division III

Shot Put 
3. Grady Minnerath, 16.09m *No. 40 in Division III
10. Rylan Turqueza, 14.50m 

Discus 
4. Grady Minnerath, 46.52m 

Javelin 
1. Mitchell Degen, 60.83m *No. 24 in Division III
6. Bailey Evans, 51.97m 
7. Holden Dvorak, 50.73m
10. Kole Guth, 48.19m