Record Breakers Get MIAC Honors

MOORHEAD, Minn. (2/07/17)--- To the record breakers go the spoils. David Supinski and Emma Peterson were both named MIAC Track and Field Athletes of the Week after breaking school records over the weekend at the NDSU Bison Open.

Both Supinski and Peterson earn MIAC Indoor Athlete of the Week for the first time in their careers while Peterson claims the second conference weekly award in her time in maroon and gold after being named the MIAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week on Apr. 20, 2016.

Supinski becomes the first Concordia men's to win an MIAC Indoor Athlete of the Week honor since 2015 when Brandon Zylstra was named the MIAC Indoor Field Athlete of the Week on Feb. 4, 2015.

Supinski ran away with this week's conference honor by breaking a pair of school records and posting the fastest time in the MIAC this year in the 400 meters.

His record-breaking performance in the 400 meters came on Saturday when he posted a time of 49.49 to become the first Cobber athlete to break the 50-second mark in the race. His time was good for third place in the race which featured NCAA Division I and II scholarship athletes and broke the school record of 50.45 set by Josh Smith in 2008. Supinski's time is currently the eighth fastest in Division III.

Supinski's school record in the 400 meters came 24 hours after he bettered his own school record in the 600 meters. Last year he broke the school record with a time of 1:22.63 at the St. John's Quadrangular on Feb. 20. On Friday he obliterated that time by crossing the line in a time of 1:21.67. He broke his own school mark by almost a full second and in the process turned in the second fastest time in the MIAC this year.    

Peterson became the queen of the high jump at Concordia as she added the indoor school record to the outdoor school mark she set last spring.

Peterson cleared the bar at 5-07.00 which won the high jump event at the Bison Open. She was the only Cobber athlete to win an event at the highly competitive Division I and II meet.

Peterson's winning mark bettered the old school record of 5-06.50 set by Chelsea Klemetson in 2012.

Peterson's school-record height is currently the No.1 mark in the MIAC this season and she sits in fifth place in all of Division III.

Peterson also becomes the first athlete in school history to clear 5-07 in both the indoor and outdoor high jump events. She set the outdoor record last season when she cleared 5-07.25 at the Lee Krough Gustavus Invitational on Apr. 16.

Both Supinski and Peterson will be competing at St. John's this Saturday as the Cobbers participate in the CSB/SJU Quadrangular Meet.