Knodle, Johnson Post Fastest Bison 10,000m Races in 16 Years

Thursday, April 27

Indianola, Iowa

North Dakota State Athletics

Kip Janvrin Open

Knodle, Johnson Post Fastest Bison 10,000m Races in 16 Years

4/27/2023 10:58:00 PM | Men's Track and Field

Drake Relays - Results Kip Janvrin Open - Results

DES MOINES, Iowa – A pair of North Dakota State University distance runners – one from West Fargo, N.D., and the other from Moorhead, Minn. – clocked the school's fastest 10,000m races since 2007 on Thursday night at the Drake Relays.

Redshirt freshman Jacob Knodle (West Fargo Sheyenne HS) ran the fastest 10,000m by a Bison in 16 years, clocking 30:17.82 to stand at No. 7 in school history.

Bison junior Zach Johnson (Moorhead HS) ran a personal-best 30:27.76 in the 10,000m, cutting 30 seconds off his previous best to rank eighth-fastest in NDSU history.

Payton Smith posted the second-fastest 3000m steeplechase time of his career, finishing in 8:59.34 at Drake. He is No. 5 all-time at NDSU in the event.

At the Kip Janvrin Open hosted by Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, Jake Arason won the 3,000m steeplechase in a personal-best 9:01.40, which puts him ninth on the NDSU all-time list.

NDSU's Josh Knutson won the 400m hurdles in 52.71 at the Kip Janvrin Open, and Cullen Curl placed fifth in 54.52.

Dante White posted a big personal-best of 21.61 in the 200m dash and tied his personal-best in the 100m dash with a time of 10.61, taking seventh place.

Koate Deebom placed fourth in the long jump with a personal-best mark of 22-10 (6.96m). Brock Johnsen led the Bison men in the 110m hurdles at the Kip Janvrin Open, running 14.84 for eighth place.