North Dakota State Men Headed to South Dakota State, Iowa State Meets

Friday, February 10

Ames, Iowa / Brookings, S.D.

12 p.m.

North Dakota State Athletics

Iowa State Classic / SDSU Indoor Classic

Photo by: Richard Svaleson

North Dakota State Men Headed to South Dakota State, Iowa State Meets

2/8/2017 10:56:00 AM | Men's Track and Field

By: Photo courtesy Richard Svaleson

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The North Dakota State men's track & field team will send athletes to both the Iowa State Classic and the SDSU Indoor Classic this weekend. Both meets run from Friday, Feb. 10, to Saturday, Feb. 11.

NDSU will begin competition at ISU at noon on Friday and Saturday. At the SDSU Indoor Classic held at the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex in Brookings, S.D., events begin at 2 p.m. on Friday and resume at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday.

Bison competing at the Iowa State Classic include: Landon Jochim (200m, 400m), Jacob Richter (400m), Jonah Warwick (800m), Brant Gilbertson (mile), Camron Roehl (mile), Jake Leingang (5000m), Elliott Stone (5000m), Derek Warner (5000m), Payton Otterdahl (shot put, weight throw), Alex Renner (shot put), Conrad Schwarzkopf (shot put, weight throw), Steffan Stroh (shot put).

In the USTFCCCA event squad rankings, the Bison men lead the NCAA in the shot put and weight throw and rank sixth nationally in the heptathlon. The event squad rankings rank teams within each single event – averaging the best performances from the top four athletes at each school in each event.

NDSU's top four men in the weight throw all have marks beyond 65 feet this season, while no other school in the country has four men who have surpassed 57 feet. In the shot put, the Bison are the only squad in the country with four athletes better than 56 feet.

As a team, the Bison men are ranked ninth in the Midwest Region in the latest USTFCCCA regional rankings, which include all Division I schools in the nine-state area of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota and North Dakota. The USTFCCCA calculates regional team rankings based on regional descending order lists.

Throwers Alex Renner and Payton Otterdahl are both ranked among the top 30 in the nation in both throwing events this indoor season. Renner is No. 7 in the shot put and No. 28 in the weight throw, while Otterdahl is No. 20 in the weight throw and No. 26 in the shot put.