A Trifecta of Record-Setting Days At The MIAC Meet

NORTHFIELD, Minn. (2/24/24)---It was business as usual for the Cobbers on Saturday at the MIAC Indoor Championship Meet. Another day, another school record.

That makes three days of events at the 2024 MIAC Meet and three days where Concordia athletes broke a program record.

The school record in the first event of the day helped Concordia post a final team score of 61.5 points, which earned CC a 6th-place finish in the final team standings. The 61.5 team points is an increase of 8.5 points from last year's total.   

It was a group effort on Saturday with the 4x200-meter relay team opening the day by bettering the 13-year-old record in the event. The group of Emily Rengo, Andie Sandman, Piper Osborne and Kyla Nygaard raced around the track at St. Olaf and put up a time of 1:46.69 on the scoreboard. That mark was good for third place in the event. More importantly, it beat the old school record of 1:47.65 that was set back in 2011 by Macey Bentley, Gina Weiss, Natalie Decker and Tatijana MullerDahlberg.   

Rengo and Meg Shercliffe were the other track athletes to score team points by finishing in the Top 8 of an event. Rengo added to her 6th-place finish in the 60-meter dash on Friday by placing seventh in the 200 meters on Saturday in a time of 26.75.

Shercliffe came through in the middle distance with an 8th-place finish in the 600 meters. Shercliffe entered the event with the No.9 seed time and improved that by one spot to get into a podium finish. Shercliffe came home in a career-best time of 1:39.72. She only missed out on a Top 5 finish by .91 of a second.

A second member of the record-setting relay team also had success in an individual event. Competing in her first year as a triple jumper, Osborne claimed a Top 5 finish in the event. She bounded to a career-best distance of 35-04.50 and placed fourth.

Concordia finished off the MIAC Meet by taking second in the 4x400-meter relay. The Cobber crew of Nygaard, Shercliffe, Drew Frolek and Rengo completed the race in a season-best time of 4:03.67. That mark is No.8 on the school's all-time list.   

UP NEXT: Concordia's next meet will be the NCAA Last Chance Qualifier hosted by Wartburg on Mar. 1-2 where CC athletes will try and up their marks to get into the national meet.

COBBER NOTABLES:
MIAC CHAMPION:
Pentathlon- Peyton Selle – 3291 points

MIAC ALL-CONFERENCE (places 1-3 + 1st place relays only):
1st – Pentathlon - Peyton Selle – 3291 points
2nd – 60 Hurdles – Jenna Kalevik – 9.21
2nd – 4x400 Relay – Emily Rengo, Meg Shercliffe, Drew Frolek, Kyla Nygaard – 4:03.67
3rd - 4x200 Relay – Kyla Nygaard, Andie Sandman, Piper Osborne, Emily Rengo – 1:46.69

MIAC ALL-CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION (places 4-6 & relay places 2-6):
4th – Triple Jump – Piper Osborne – 35-4.5 (10.78m)
5th – 60 Hurdles – Peyton Selle – 9.34
5th tie – High Jump – Peyton Selle – 4-10.5 (1.49m)
6th – 60 – Emily Rengo – 8.01 (7.98 prelim)
6th - Pentathlon- Jenna Kalevik – 2856 points

OTHER SCORERS (places 7-8)
7th – 60 – Lydia Fynboh – 8.06 (8.05 prelim)
7th – 200 – Emily Rengo – 26.75
7th – 400 – Kyla Nygaard – 60.26
7th – High Jump – Jenna Kalevik – 4-10.5 (1.49m)
8th – 600 – Meg Shercliffe – 1:39.72
8th – DMR Relay - 1200-Elsie Hatlevig, 400-Emily Larsen, 800-Londyn Ames, 1600-Amelia Rowley – 13:31.38
8th - Weight Throw- Brooke Kangas – 46-10.75 (14.29m)

COBBER SCHOOL RECORDS:
60 Hurdles – Peyton Selle – 9.24 (Thursday Pentathlon)
60 Hurdles – Jenna Kalevik – 9.21 (Friday Hurdle Final)
4x200 Relay – Kyla Nygaard, Andie Sandman, Piper Osborne, Emily Rengo – 1:46.69

COBBER ALL-TIME LIST:
60 Hurdles – Peyton Selle – 9.24 (Thursday Pentathlon) - ALL-TIME #1
60 Hurdles – Jenna Kalevik – 9.21 (Friday Hurdle Final) - ALL-TIME #1
60 – Lydia Fynboh – 8.05 - ALL-TIME #6
60 – Andie Sandman – 8.09 - ALL-TIME #8
200 – Kyla Nygaard – 27.10 - ALL-TIME #11
400 – Meg Shercliffe – 61.37 - ALL-TIME #16
600 – Meg Shercliffe – 1:39.72 - ALL-TIME #11
4x200 Relay – Kyla Nygaard, Andie Sandman, Piper Osborne, Emily Rengo – 1:50.29 - ALL-TIME #1
4x400 Relay – Emily Rengo, Meg Shercliffe, Drew Frolek, Kyla Nygaard – 4:03.67 – ALL-TIME #8
Long Jump (Pent) – Peyton Selle – 17-4-75 (5.30m) - ALL-TIME #11
Triple Jump – Piper Osborne – 35-4.5 (10.78m) – ALL-TIME - #13
Pole Vault- Haley Wolsky – 8-10.25 (2.70m) – ALL-TIME #15 tie
Pentathlon- Peyton Selle – 3240 points – ALL-TIME #3
Pentathlon- Jenna Kalevik – 2856 points – ALL-TIME #17

PERSONAL RECORDS:
60- Lydia Fynboh (prelim), Andie Sandman
200- Kyla Nygaard; 400- Meg Shercliffe
600- Meg Shercliffe
800- Grace Ciarrochi (pentathlon), Jenna Kalevik (pentathlon)
1000- Amelia Rowley
3000- Elsie Hatlevig, Airial Johnson
60 Hurdles- Jenna Kalevik (pentathlon & hurdle finals), Peyton Selle (pentathlon), Grace Ciarrochi (pentathlon)
Long Jump- Peyton Selle (pentathlon)
Triple Jump- Piper Osborne, Grace Ciarrochi
Pole Vault- Haley Wolsky
Weight Throw- Brooke Kangas
Pentathlon- Peyton Selle, Jenna Kalevik, Grace Ciarrochi.