Final Results 

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Saint John's track and field finished third out of 11 teams at the 2026 MIAC Outdoor Championships on Saturday, May 9, at St. Olaf. 

SJU collected two more championships and five All-MIAC performances to bring the weekend total to four titles and 10 top-three finishes. 

Junior Cole Stencel (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) collected his second title with one of the top performances of the meet, upsetting St. Olaf's Kevin Turlington on his home track in the 5,000 meters. Turlington owns the best time in the conference and the second-best in the MIAC, but crossed the line four seconds after Stencel (14:27.19). Stencel earned the Johnnies their first MIAC crown in the 5k since Chris Erichsen '08 won back-to-back championships in 2007 and 2008.  

Senior Nick St. Peter (Maple Grove, Minn.) ended his collegiate career with a season-best 15:26.95 in the 5k for 11th.  

Junior hurdler Cooper Smith (Alvarado, Minn./East Grand Forks) proved his top seed in the 400-meter hurdles, collecting the event title with the 16th-best time in NCAA Division III this season. Smith ran a personal-best and facility-record 52.75 to claim SJU's first title in the event since Max Martin '19 capped a run of three-straight for SJU in 2018.  

The SJU 4x100-meter relay (Alexander, Ferrante, D. Guth, Murnan) earned All-MIAC honors to start the day, finishing second behind No. 10 Bethel with a time of 41.31. 

Senior Jacob Malecha (Lonsdale, Minn./New Prague) earned All-MIAC honors with a third-place and season-best time of 9:34.78 in the steeplechase.  

Junior Bashir Amoud (St. Paul, Minn./Harding) added another All-MIAC run in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing third with his first sub-15 second time in the event (14.75). Freshman Trae Headlee (Billings, Mont./Skyview) also scored points for the Johnnies, crossing the line seventh with a 15.41. 

A pair of Johnnies scored in the 100-meter dash, as junior Kieran Murnan (Lakeville, Minn./Holy Angels) earned honorable-mention honors with a fifth-place run of 10.65 and Aiden Jones (Pierz, Minn.) ended an impressive freshman season with a seventh-place 10.79.  

Murnan also placed seventh in the 200-meter (21.95), just ahead of Derek Guth (St. Peter, Minn.), who took ninth with a 22.62. 

Last week's MIAC champion in the decathlon, sophomore Bailey Evans (Breckenridge, Minn.) finished sixth in the high jump with a personal-best height of 1.91 meters and junior Connor O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) was right behind him in sixth (1.88 meters). 

Senior Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) and junior Max McCoy (Bennington, Neb./Mount Michael Benedictine) crossed the line fifth (1:55.28) and sixth (1:56.56) in the 800-meter behind four of six Oles in the race.   

SJU's 4x400-meter relay (D. Guth, Olmschenk, R. Becker, Smith) finished sixth with a time of 3:23.51 to cap the meet's track events.  

SJU travels to Wisconsin-La Crosse's last-chance qualifier this Wednesday and Thursday, May 13-14. Four different Johnnies hold top-25 marks in the NCAA DIII outdoor rankings heading into the final week of competition before nationals.