Friday, February 27
Fargo, N.D.
9:30 a.m.
North Dakota State
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Summit League Indoor Championships - Day One
Photo by: Richard Svaleson
NDSU Women's Track & Field Starts Fast at Summit League Indoor Championships
2/27/2015 8:36:00 PM | Women's Track and Field
Day One Results | Day Two Heat Sheets
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FARGO, N.D. – The North Dakota State women's track & field team won four of the five events contested on the first day of the Summit League Indoor Championships on Friday, building a 30-point lead in the team race heading into the final day. NDSU is hosting the league meet inside the Shelly Ellig Track & Field Facility for the first time.
Lexy Boschee (pentathlon), Katelyn Weimerskirch (weight throw) and Maddie Van Beek (3,000m) captured individual event titles for the Bison, and NDSU capped the day by defending its crown in the distance medley relay.
NDSU tops the team standings with 77 points through five events. South Dakota is in second with 47 points, and South Dakota State is third with 38.
Weimerskirch posted the most impressive performance of the day, setting a new NDSU school record, a facility record and a Summit League Championships record on her way to winning the weight throw. Her mark of 64-09.75 (19.75m) was a lifetime best by over two and a half feet, and she beat the rest of the field by more than three feet.
It was a dominant performance by the Bison women in the weight throw, sweeping the top four places with senior Emily Lesser and redshirt freshmen Courtney Pasiowitz and Jordyn Thornton placing second, third and fourth, respectively. Lesser ranks second in school history, and Pasiowitz is fifth with her new personal-best of 60-09.25 (18.52m).
Boschee scored a new lifetime-best 3,690 points on her way to the pentathlon title, ranking fourth on the NDSU all-time list. She posted the top marks in three of the five pentathlon events, including a PR of 8.99 in the 60m hurdles and matching her PR of 5-08.00 (1.73m) in the high jump.
Van Beek ran away with her second career Summit League title in the 3,000m, winning in 9:31.87 for a new Summit League Championships record and facility record.
NDSU took first place in the distance medley relay for the third straight year, with the team of Jenny Guibert, Amy Andrushko, Ashlynn Simon and Erin Teschuk finishing in 12:03.54. Teschuk has anchored all three winning DMR teams in NDSU's current win streak.
The Bison women placed third, fourth and fifth behind Boschee in the pentathlon with Rose Jackson, Amanda Levin and Ann Govig. Levin's score of 3,548 points ranks her eighth in school history as a true freshman.
In the running events that held preliminary rounds on Friday, NDSU sent multiple qualifiers through to Saturday's finals.
The Bison qualified four runners in the 400m dash with Morgan Milbrath, Melissa Kitching, Alexis Woods and Ashley Heinze. Freshman Jaelin Beachy clocked a personal-best time of 9.14 seconds in the 60m hurdles prelims to lead a group of three Bison into the final. NDSU also advanced three women in the 800m – Andrushko, Teschuk and Guibert.
Redshirt freshman Deidre Hahn posted a time of 7.72 seconds to move on to the finals of the 60m dash, tying her for the seventh-fastest in NDSU history in the event.
The Summit League Indoor Championships resume at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Running events start at 1 p.m.
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FARGO, N.D. – The North Dakota State women's track & field team won four of the five events contested on the first day of the Summit League Indoor Championships on Friday, building a 30-point lead in the team race heading into the final day. NDSU is hosting the league meet inside the Shelly Ellig Track & Field Facility for the first time.
Lexy Boschee (pentathlon), Katelyn Weimerskirch (weight throw) and Maddie Van Beek (3,000m) captured individual event titles for the Bison, and NDSU capped the day by defending its crown in the distance medley relay.
NDSU tops the team standings with 77 points through five events. South Dakota is in second with 47 points, and South Dakota State is third with 38.
Weimerskirch posted the most impressive performance of the day, setting a new NDSU school record, a facility record and a Summit League Championships record on her way to winning the weight throw. Her mark of 64-09.75 (19.75m) was a lifetime best by over two and a half feet, and she beat the rest of the field by more than three feet.
Another Summit League champion. Another school record. Katelyn Weimerskirch threw 64-9.75 (19.75m) to win the weight! pic.twitter.com/zoOPHpaP73
— NDSU Track & Field (@NDSUTrackField) February 27, 2015It was a dominant performance by the Bison women in the weight throw, sweeping the top four places with senior Emily Lesser and redshirt freshmen Courtney Pasiowitz and Jordyn Thornton placing second, third and fourth, respectively. Lesser ranks second in school history, and Pasiowitz is fifth with her new personal-best of 60-09.25 (18.52m).
Boschee scored a new lifetime-best 3,690 points on her way to the pentathlon title, ranking fourth on the NDSU all-time list. She posted the top marks in three of the five pentathlon events, including a PR of 8.99 in the 60m hurdles and matching her PR of 5-08.00 (1.73m) in the high jump.
NDSU's Lexy Boschee is your Summit League champion in the pentathlon! 3,690 points to rank 4th all-time at NDSU. pic.twitter.com/DFecjHwZs9
— NDSU Track & Field (@NDSUTrackField) February 27, 2015Van Beek ran away with her second career Summit League title in the 3,000m, winning in 9:31.87 for a new Summit League Championships record and facility record.
Maddie Van Beek defends her Summit League crown in the 3,000m, winning in a PR of 9:31.87. pic.twitter.com/PlR3VJYvIz
— NDSU Track & Field (@NDSUTrackField) February 28, 2015NDSU took first place in the distance medley relay for the third straight year, with the team of Jenny Guibert, Amy Andrushko, Ashlynn Simon and Erin Teschuk finishing in 12:03.54. Teschuk has anchored all three winning DMR teams in NDSU's current win streak.
The Bison women placed third, fourth and fifth behind Boschee in the pentathlon with Rose Jackson, Amanda Levin and Ann Govig. Levin's score of 3,548 points ranks her eighth in school history as a true freshman.
In the running events that held preliminary rounds on Friday, NDSU sent multiple qualifiers through to Saturday's finals.
The Bison qualified four runners in the 400m dash with Morgan Milbrath, Melissa Kitching, Alexis Woods and Ashley Heinze. Freshman Jaelin Beachy clocked a personal-best time of 9.14 seconds in the 60m hurdles prelims to lead a group of three Bison into the final. NDSU also advanced three women in the 800m – Andrushko, Teschuk and Guibert.
Redshirt freshman Deidre Hahn posted a time of 7.72 seconds to move on to the finals of the 60m dash, tying her for the seventh-fastest in NDSU history in the event.
The Summit League Indoor Championships resume at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Running events start at 1 p.m.
Women's team scores through Day 1: 1) NDSU, 77 2) USD, 47 3) SDSU, 38 4) WIU, 17 5) IUPUI, 6 5) ORU, 6 7) Omaha, 3 8) IPFW, 1
— NDSU Track & Field (@NDSUTrackField) February 28, 2015
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