NDSU Women’s Track & Field Targets 9th Straight Summit League Outdoor Title

Thursday, May 12

Vermillion, S.D.

10 a.m.

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Summit League Outdoor Championships - Day One

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NDSU Women’s Track & Field Targets 9th Straight Summit League Outdoor Title

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FARGO, N.D. – The North Dakota State women's track & field team will target its ninth straight outdoor crown and its 18th straight team title overall this week at the Summit League Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Vermillion, S.D. The three-day meet will be hosted by the University of South Dakota at Lillibridge Track Complex on May 12-14.

Since the Bison joined The Summit League prior to the 2008 season, there have been 17 league championship track & field meets. All 17 trophies have been captured by the Bison.

Only one women's track & field program in NCAA Division I owns a longer active streak of outdoor titles than NDSU – Jacksonville University of the Atlantic Sun Conference with 10. The Bison women totaled a record 282 points on the way to the team championships last year, winning by a 73-point margin over second-place South Dakota.

The Bison women enter this week's meet with the league's top mark in 10 events this season, led by Erin Teschuk (1500m, 5000m) and Katelyn Weimerskirch (discus, hammer throw) who top the charts in a pair of events. Seven of NDSU's league leaders are also defending champions in their respective events.

A trio of NDSU women will be targeting their third consecutive individual title in an event – Teschuk in the 3000m steeplechase, Weimerskirch in the discus, and Sierra Rosenau in the javelin.

In every event in which they have competed this season, the Bison women have an athlete ranked among the league's top eight. In 18 of the 21 events, NDSU's top performer enters the league meet ranked among the top five.

In 2015, the Bison women racked up 106 of a possible 156 points in the throws at the league meet, sweeping the top two places in all four throwing events. NDSU looks poised for similar success this year, entering the meet with three of the top four performers in the shot put, hammer and javelin.

Women's competition begins at 10 a.m. on Thursday with the hammer throw.

The League Leaders

Amy Andrushko, 800m
Erin Teschuk, 1500m & 5000m
Melissa Kitching, 400m hurdles
Courtney Pasiowitz, shot put
Katelyn Weimerskirch, discus & hammer throw
Sierra Rosenau, javelin
Rose Jackson, heptathlon
4x400m relay

The Defending Champions

Morgan Milbrath, 400m
Amy Andrushko, 800m
Erin Teschuk, 1500m & 3000m steeplechase
Melissa Kitching, 400m hurdles
Katelyn Weimerskirch, discus
Courtney Pasiowitz, hammer throw
Sierra Rosenau, javelin
Rose Jackson, heptathlon
4x400m relay (Woods, Kitching, Heinze, Milbrath)

The Veterans

Ann Govig, 11-time placewinner at the Summit League Championships, placed 3rd in pentathlon and high jump indoors this year
Brittany Stangl, 7-time Summit League placewinner in the pole vault, finishing as high as fourth place at the league meet on two occasions
Lexy Boschee, Placed 2nd in heptathlon, 4th in 100m hurdles and 4th in high jump at Summit League Outdoor last year

The Newcomers

Maddy Nilles, Ranked 3rd in discus and 6th in hammer throw after redshirting indoor season
Shelby Gunnells, Ranked 4th in shot put, 7th in hammer throw, and 10th in discus and javelin
Brittany Brownotter, Ranked 4th in 1500m and 5th in 5000m
Keyawna Larson, Ranked 4th in the javelin