2014-15 University of North Dakota men's track and field and cross country media guide by University of North Dakota

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE UNIVERSITY The University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 About Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Athletics Facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7 Academic Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Athletics Achievements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Gameday Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Strength Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Sports Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Community Involvement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Athletics Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Multimedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Media Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 University Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Athletics Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19-20 Athletics Staff Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2014-15 QUICK FACTS

GENERAL School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . North Dakota Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand Forks, ND (58202) Founded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1883 Enrollment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,906 (Fall 2014) Nickname. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . None School Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelly Green & White National Affiliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NCAA Division I Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Big Sky Conference President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Robert Kelley Director of Athletics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Faison Senior Woman Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniella Irle Faculty Athletics Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sue Jeno Athletic Dept. Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701.777.2234 Ticket Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701.777.0855

NORTH DAKOTA STAFF Head Coach Kevin Galbraith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-23 Associate Head Coach Dick Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25 Assistant Coaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Support Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

COACHING STAFF Head Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Galbraith Galbraith’s Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701.777.2361 Associate Head Coach/Cross Country Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dick Clay Clay’s Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .701.777.2979 Assistant Coaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drew Jones, Joe Silvers Strength & Conditioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucas Blom

TRACK AND FIELD PREVIEW 2015 Season Preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2015 Roster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

TEAM INFORMATION 2014 Big Sky Conference Cross Country Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8th 2013 NCAA Midwest Regional Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25th

CROSS COUNTRY REVIEW 2014 Season in Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2014 Roster, Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2014 Individual Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

2014 Big Sky Conference Indoor Track Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11th 2014 Big Sky Conference Outdoor Track Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8th

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES Darin Baltezore, Jakob Bissell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Drew Campbell, Tyler Colling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Ian Collins, Connor Danielson, Cataldo DiDonna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Jimmy Evers, Jesse Fenstermacher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Jordan Fisk, Keaton Hanevold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Mark Harries, Matthew Harris, Lane Herbert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ryan Kirkland, Scott Kvidera, John LeClerc, Anthony Litersky. . . . . . .40 Cody Mach, Mitchell Meyer, Jared Michel, Tyler Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Nate Peterson, Michael Quesenberry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Roman Waldera, Parker Wharram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

MEDIA RELATIONS Media Relations Track & XC Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriella Fundaro Office Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701.777.2985 Cell Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732.966.7911 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701.777.2285 E-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gabriella.fundaro@my.und.edu Athletics Website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.undsports.com Athletics on Facebook. . . . . . . . . . . . www.facebook.com/undathletics Athletics on Twitter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.twitter.com/undsports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.twitter.com/undmtrackfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.twitter.com/undmcc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.twitter.com/undsid

Big Sky Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 HISTORY UND Track & Field Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-47 Conference Champions and Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48-49 All-Time Top-10 Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50-54 Awards & Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 UND All-Americans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56-61 UND Athletics Hall of Fame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62-63 UND Ron Pynn Invitational. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 CREDITS The 2014-15 University of North Dakota men’s track and field/cross country media guide is a production of the UND Athletics media relations office. The guide was designed, written and edited by assistant athletics director/ media relations Jayson Hajdu with writing assistance from media relations intern Gabriella Fundaro. Special thanks to the hard work of previous UND Athletics media relations staffs. Cover design by Amy Chandler Design of Grand Forks, N.D. Photos by Miller Photography, Avry Images, Kory Wallen, Matt Schill, GopherTrackShots.com and Adam Stainiger.

ON THE COVER Outside Front Cover (clockwise, from top): Tyler Colling, Nate Peterson, Jakob Bisssel. Outside Back Cover (clockwise from top): Roman Waldera, Jimmy Evers.

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15,143 total enrollment (Fall 2013)

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11,522 undergraduate students

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3,175 graduate and professional (law and medicine) students

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51% men, 49% women

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2.2% American Indian, 1.6% AfricanAmerican, 1.9% Latino-American, and 1.3% Asian-American students

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50 states and more than 50 countries are represented in the student body

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3,101 live in UND’s 14 residence halls

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862 faculty and 2,006 staff

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118,873 degrees granted since 1889

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98,595 living alumni

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UND had more than 25,000 enrollments in its online academic courses

Located in Grand Forks in the heart of the Red River Valley, the University of North Dakota is the largest and most diversified institution of higher learning in a threestate region. One of fewer than 70 public institutions with both a law school and a medical school, UND consistently ranks by most measures as one of the top 150 universities in the United States. Its more than 15,000 students – including over 2,700 graduate students, 240 law students, and 250 medical students – come from every state in the union and more than 50 countries. Stretching out from the banks of the scenic English Coulee, the 548-acre University of North Dakota campus has been nationally recognized for its landscaping and beauty. The 242 buildings demonstrate both classic university architecture blended with more

and programs, non-credit courses, workshops, and other professional development activities

Quick Facts: • futuristic facilities in the Aerospace complex. UND’s newest additions are the Gorecki Alumni Center, nationally recognized for its environmentally friendly sustainability features, the remodeled and expanded energy-efficient and environmentally conscious Education Building, the $20 million Wellness Center, and University Place, an innovative apartment-style residence hall. With 241 fields of study and nearly 3,000 courses, including internationally recognized programs in aviation, aerospace, and unmanned aircraft systems, UND has a vast array of educational choices. The most popular programs include engineering, health professions, business, aerospace, and education, The University is characterized by a solid foundation of the liberal arts with professional programs, a manageable size, high-quality students and faculty, a varied curriculum, nine colleges and schools, a widely recognized program of graduate education and research, rich cultural resources, and an outstanding record of alumni support. UND is consistently ranked highly in college guides, including U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Princeton Review, and more. Its economic impact on the state of North Dakota

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

Founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a state

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There are 14 residence halls, 850 student apartment units, and 19 fraternities and sororities

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UND has more than 275 student organizations

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The Dakota Student, the official publication of UND, was first published in 1888

and region is more than $1 billion. UND offers 52 master’s and 26 doctoral programs, as well as professional programs in law (J.D.) and medicine (M.D.), and undergraduate degrees in 91 fields of study in its nine degree-granting colleges and schools: • College of Arts & Sciences • College of Business & Public Administration • College of Education & Human Development • Graduate School • The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences • College of Nursing • School Engineering and Mines • School of Law • School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY NOTABLE ALUMNI

Tom Amberry, ‘46 World record holder with 2,750 consecutive free throws

Chuck Johnson, ‘48 Sports writer and author, member of the Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fame

Maxie Anderson, ‘56 First to cross Atlantic Ocean, North America in balloon

Rick Kelleher, ‘69 Known as Don Bleu, host of The Gong Show

James Maxwell Anderson, 1911 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Anderson, ‘69, ‘71 Actor, notably in Lost, Forrest Gump, Friends, ER Chuck Klosterman (‘94), best-selling author of such books as Fargo Rock City and Downtown Owl, is one of America’s foremost authorities on pop culture.

Karen Nyberg, ‘94 NASA astronaut

Mark Chipman, ‘83, ‘85 Owner, NHL’s Winnipeg Jets Board of Governors, NHL

Greg Page, ‘73 Executive Chairman, Cargill, Inc.

Carl Ben Eielson, ‘21 Aviator, explorer, first to cross Arctic Ocean and Antarctica by plane

Fritz Pollard, Jr., ‘39 1936 Olympic bronze medalist, 110 hurdles Sally (Wold) Smith, ‘80 President and CEO, Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar Dave St. Peter, ‘89 President, MLB’s Minnesota Twins

Ralph Engelstad, ‘54 Las Vegas entrepreneur, casino owner

Mark O. Stutrud, ‘75 Founder/Brewmaster, Summit Brewing Co.

R. Richard Fontaine, ‘65 Director, GameStop Corp.

Edward K. Thompson, ‘27, ‘58 Writer, editor of Life Magazine, publisher of SMITHSONIAN Magazine

Terry Ingstad, ‘67 Known as Shadoe Stevens, replaced Casey Kasem as host of “American’s Top 40”, announcer for Hollywood Squares, Late Night with Craig Ferguson Phil Jackson, ‘67, HON ‘08 President, NBA’s New York Knicks and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (‘07)

Jonathan Toews is a two-time Stanley Cup Champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist.

Chuck Klosterman, ‘94 Best-selling author

Ed Belfour, ‘87 Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender

Ronald Davies, ‘27, ‘61 U.S. District Judge, ordered 1957 integration of Little Rock (Ark.) high schools

Legendary NBA coach and player Phil Jackson (‘67), pictured during his August 2008 return to UND to receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree, won 11 NBA titles, more championships than any coach in professional sports history.

Cora Smith King, 1889 One of first graduates; first woman to pass N.D. state medical examination and perform surgery

Era Bell Thompson, ‘29, ‘69 Author, editor and journalist for Ebony Magazine Jonathan Toews, ‘07 Captain of NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, two-time Stanley Cup Champion and twotime Olympic gold medalist

Karen Nyberg (‘94), a NASA astronaut, proudly displays the University of North Dakota flag while training in outer space.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

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Grand Forks, N.D., is a classic university town. Located in the heart of the Red River Valley on Interstate 29, the largely residential town offers a community environment with all the amenities of a large urban area and the safety and convenience of a small community, and is within driving distance of great amenities in the region. Grand Forks has outdoor activities for every season: • 900 acres of park land with trails, sports fields and courts, lakes, playground equipment. • The Greenway - 2,200 acres along the Red River • Twenty miles from Turtle River State Park. • Five golf courses including King’s Walk, the only PGA-rated golf course in North Dakota. • One-of-a-kind Japanese Garden at Sertoma Park. Greater Grand Forks is an impressively cosmopolitan city, boasting a regional population of roughly 75,000 residents and spanning two states. Because of its diversity, there’s always live theatre, musical performances, art shows or a concert from rock to the Grand Forks Symphony somewhere in Grand Forks: • Alerus Center • Empire Arts Center • Ralph Engelstad Arena complex • Fire Hall Theatre • The North Dakota Museum of Art • Chester Fritz Auditorium • Grand Cities Art Fest • First Night Celebration Wherever one lives in Grand Forks, great shops and restaurants are always within a short distance. Additional commercial growth has sprouted at the southwest end of the city, anchored by the Columbia Mall and Market Place. However, the heart of the Grand Cities is downtown, which spans the Red River. Downtown features a large variety of options and events, from a Farmer’s Market at the Town Square to fine dining.

Photos courtesy of the Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau

ABOUT GRAND FORKS

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ALERUS CENTER

North Dakota plays its football home games at the Alerus Center (above and right), a 12,283-seat stadium located just minutes from the UND campus in Grand Forks. New turf, AstroTurf’s GameDay Grass 3D60H, was installed prior to the 2012 season.

BETTY ENGELSTAD SIOUX CENTER

The Betty Engelstad Sioux Center (left and below) opened in August 2004 and is home to the UND volleyball and basketball teams, while also housing the Fighting Sioux women’s soccer locker room and offices. One of the premiere arenas of its kind in the country, the Sioux Center has a capacity of approximately 3,300. There are 2,600 seats with molded chair backs, 700 telescopic bleacher seats and additional seating in the VIP area.

APOLLO SPORTS COMPLEX

The North Dakota softball team plays its home games at the Apollo Softball Complex (left), located minutes from campus.

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HYSLOP SPORTS CENTER

Over the many years, the Hyslop Sports Center (above and right) has served a number of different functions. Today it houses the athletics administration offices, the athletics academic study center, the swimming and diving pool, weight room, coaching offices and locker room facilities.

RAY RICHARDS GOLF COURSE

Ray Richards Golf Course (left) is home to the cross country teams’ annual home event, the Ron Pynn Invitational. The course is set up as a 5K for women and 8K for men, providing a challenging route well-known in the Upper Midwest.

BRONSON FIELD

Bronson Field (above) has been the home of North Dakota women’s soccer since the team’s inception in 1999. The natural grass field is located on campus, west of the UND bookstore and part of the Ralph Engelstad Arena sports complex. A second practice field is located just east of the Ralph Engelstad Arena.

CHOICE HEALTH & FITNESS CLUB

The $25 million Choice Health and Fitness Club opened its doors in August 2012 and serves as the home for UND tennis. A 159,000 square foot facility, Choice Health and Fitness features six tennis courts among its many state-of-the-art amenities, as well as customized locker rooms for UND’s men’s and women’s tennis teams.

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KING’S WALK GOLF COURSE

King’s Walk Golf Course (left) is the home to the University of North Dakota men’s and women’s golf teams. The Arnold Palmer-designed course recreates the atmosphere found on the great links courses of Scotland and Ireland.

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RALPH ENGELSTAD ARENA

The most visited tourist destination in North Dakota, the new Ralph Engelstad Arena (above and right) has become widely regarded as the finest hockey facility in the world. The premiere home to college hockey, the Engelstad Arena has just about everything. As soon as fans enter the doors, they know they are in the Fighting Sioux hockey arena. Seven NCAA and 14 WCHA championship banners hang proudly from the rafters.

MEMORIAL STADIUM

Memorial Stadium (left) is the most historic building among the University of North Dakota athletic facilities. It boasts a rich and colorful history that continues today, serving as the practice home and offices for North Dakota football.

KRAFT FIELD

The North Dakota baseball team plays its home games at Kraft Field, a facility owned and operated by the Grand Forks Park District that includes bleacher seating for 2,000 in a picturesque setting with evergreens lining the outfield fences. The facility recently received a new artificial infield prior to the 2011 season.

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UND’s Academic Awards Night in February honored 275 student-athletes who achieved a 3.0 GPA during the Fall 2013 semester, representing 63 percent of UND’s student-athlete population. Sixty of those student-athletes owned a perfect 4.0 GPA.

NOTABLE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2013-14 • UND’s student-athletes owned a collective 3.177 GPA in 2013-14, the highest single-year GPA in UND Athletics history. • Seventeen of UND’s 21 teams boasted a GPA of 3.0 or higher. • UND placed 173 student-athletes on academic all-conference teams. • Sixty-five percent of UND’s student-athletes boasted a 3.0 GPA during the Spring 2014 semester.

The George and Arlene Schubert Athletics Academic Center provides a comfortable and centrallylocated site to aid in the promotion of academics for all student-athletes.

UND Athletics prides itself on the academic excellence of its studentathletes, whose athletic achievements are matched by academic distinction on a yearly basis. The George and Arlene Schubert Athletics Academic Center, which opened in April 2008, serves as a study center for student-athletes and is conveniently located in the Hyslop Sports Center. Academic services director Amanda Hajdu oversees the study center, which features 12 state-of-the-art, desktop computers and provides an excellent location for student-athletes to utilize between classes for valuable daytime study. The academic center is also available on demand to student-athletes for evening study table. Amanda Hajdu

Asst. AD/Academic Services

ACADEMIC SUCCESS

UND’s student-athletes also have access to a variety of laptop computers for use on road trips, further emphasizing a department-wide commitment to academics.

• Shelby Amsley-Benzie (hockey), Nick Mattson (hockey), Ronni Munkeby (volleyball) and Patrick Riewer (baseball) earned Academic All-America honors. • Mattson was named the NCAA Elite 89 Award recipient for men’s hockey at the NCAA Frozen Four. • Men’s and women’s track & field, men’s & women’s cross country, and men’s & women’s swimming & diving, and volleyball each earned academic team honors from their respective national organizations. • UND’s softball and men’s cross country teams earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards • Sixty-seven UND student-athletes were named to the Dean’s List and 43 were named to the President’s List in Spring 2013.

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY ALL-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS

A longtime hallmark of North Dakota Athletics has been academic excellence. Since making the transition to Division I competition in 200809, UND’s student-athletes have earned 20 Academic AllAmerica honors, seven NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, and four prestigious NCAA academic awards. UND established its academic reputation with 64 Academic AllAmericans at the Division II level, fourth-most all-time among Goaltender Brad Eidsness (center with faculty athletics representative Sue Jeno and athletics DII schools. director Brian Faison) was a 2012 NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipient, the 2011-12 WCHA Most Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year and the 2011 NCAA Elite 88 Award recipient.

Baseball 1978 Lowell Schweigert 2014 Patrick Riewer

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Basketball (M) 1977 Fred Lukens

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Basketball (W) 1985 Lori Carriere 1992 Jenny Walter 1994 Tracey Pudenz 1999 Jaime Pudenz 2000 Jaime Pudenz 2003 Jenny Boll Becky Moen

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Football 1975 Fred Slone 1977 Fred Slone 1984 Glen Kucera 1987 Kurt Otto 1988 Chuck Clairmont Rusty Ekness Matt Gulseth 1992 Mark Ewen Tim Gelinske 1996 Tim Tibesar 1998 Marcus McKenzie 1999 Brant Grimes 2001 Mac Schneider 2002 Mac Schneider 2003 Jesse Ahlers 2005 Jeff Glas Digger Anderson Danny Gagner 2006 Weston Dressler Michael Greenwood 2007 Mitch Braegelmann Weston Dressler Rory Manke 2008 Mitch Braegelmann Rory Manke Andrew Miller Brady Trenbeath 2009 Brandon Hellevang Nick Nolte

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Golf 2009 Amanda Kaler

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Hockey (M) 2000 Karl Goehring 2001 Karl Goehring 2009 Chay Genoway 2014 Nick Mattson

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Hockey (W) 2012 Jocelyne Lamoureux 2013 Jocelyne Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux 2014 Shelby Amsley-Benzie

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Softball 2002 Holly Bonk 2007 Casie Hanson 2008 Casie Hanson 2010 Casie Hanson

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Swimming & Diving (M) 1993 Carlo Waldfried 1999 Ryan Requist 2000 Ryan Requist 2001 Ryan Requist 2002 Sebastian Andersson 2004 Sebastian Andersson

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Swimming & Diving (W) 1984 Kim Edwards 1985 Kim Edwards 1990 Janine Etchepare 1991 Janine Etchepare 2001 Katie Bjerke 2002 Katie Bjerke 2006 Lauren Mickelson

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Tennis (W) 2006 Erin Sullivan

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Track & Field/Cross Country (M) 1989 Steve Burian 1990 Steve Burian 1999 Marc Sondreal 2002 Mike Backes

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Track & Field/Cross Country (W) 1984 Kari McIntire 1985 Kari McIntire 1992 Steph Bruening 1993 Steph Bruening 1994 Steph Bruening 2010 Kristi Dahlheimer 2012 Lindsay Anderson 2013 Kirsten Haas

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Volleyball 1991 Karla Danielson 2002 Kate Cahill 2013 Ronni Munkeby Wrestling 1990 Kris Presler 1991 Kris Presler

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NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1988 1991 1992 1996 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2007 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2012 2013

Dale Lian Todd Thomas Doug Moen Paul Franzmeier Alison Myhra Glen Kucera Kurt Otto Matt Gulseth Kris Presler Steve Burian Tim Gelinske Jenny Walter Tim Tibesar Tom Langer Tiffany Pudenz Stacy Brown Jaime Pudenz Missy Berg Karl Goehring Becky Leppard Ryan Requist Mike Backes Katie Bjerke Kate Cahill Kelby Klosterman Becky Moen Jessica Schill Michael Greenwood Heidi Evans Rory Manke Amanda Kaler Andrew Miller Kristi Dahlheimer Brad Eidsness Brett Cameron Jocelyne Lamoureux

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NCAA Special Awards NCAA Today’s Top 10 Award (formerly Top VIII Award) 2011 Casie Hanson Hockey, Softball 2014 Jocelyne Lamoureux Hockey NCAA Elite 89 Award (formerly Elite 88 Award) 2011 Brad Eidsness 2014 Nick Mattson

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ACADEMIC SUCCESS

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1969 Arjan Gelling Track & Field (Six Mile) 1984 Kim Edwards Swimming (50 Free) 1985 Dave Levos Track & Field (Shot Put) Mary Beth Dunlevy Swimming (100 Fly, 200 Freestyle Relay) Kim Edwards Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) Janine Owens Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) Peggy Schmidt Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) 1986 Dave Levos Track & Field (Discus) 1987 Norm McGee Track & Field (100M, 55M) 1988 Norm McGee Track & Field (100M, 55M) 1989 Norm McGee Track & Field (100M) 1989 Janine Etchepare Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Kristin McClocklin Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Michelle Puetz Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Jodie Schwartz Swimming (200 Medley Relay) 1990 Janine Etchepare Swimming (50 Freestyle) 1990 Marion Warner Swimming (110 Breaststroke, 100 Butterfly, 200 Medley Relay) Janine Etchepare Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Michelle Puetz Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Jodie Schwartz Swimming (200 Medley Relay) 1991 Shelly Ebbighausen Swimming (200 Medley Relay ) Janine Etchepare Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Jodie Schwartz Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Marion Warner Swimming (200 Medley Relay) 1992 Shelly Ebbighausen Swimming (100 Butterfly) 1993 Shelly Ebbighausen Swimming (100 Butterfly) 1993 Tisha Yantzer Swimming (200 Breaststroke) 1994 Marie Crep Track & Field (800 Meter) Andrea Rudser Swimming (100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly) 1997 Tania Younkin Swimming (100 Butterfly) 1998 Tara Bruels Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Sarah Doeden Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Katherine Poole Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Tania Younkin Swimming (200 Medley Relay) 1999 Sarah Doeden Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Rebecca Fischer Swimming (400 Individual Medley) Brook McKee Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Beth Morris Swimming (100 Breaststroke, 200 & 400 Medley Relay) Holly Skarsgard Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Trish Stoutenberg Swimming (400 Medley Relay) 2000 Marie Burdkhard Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Barb Colbert Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Brook Mckee Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Beth Morris Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Trish Stoutenberg Swimming (400 Medley Relay ) 2001 Sebastian Andersson Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Mats Liden Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Jacob Mills Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Vesa Nurmiviita Swimming (200 Medley Relay)

Team National Champions 1959

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

2002 Fernando Alves Swimming (400 Medley Relay) Sebastian Andersson Swimming (400 Medley Relay) Janice Berry Swimming (400 Indi. Medley, 200 Breaststroke) Andrew Burckhard Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Rodrigo Cintra Swimming (1650 Freestyle) Mats Liden Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Jacob Mills Swimming (200 & 400 Medley Relay) Beth Morris Swimming (100 Breaststroke) Vesa Nurmiviita Swimming (200 Medley Relay) 2003 Fernando Alves Swimming (400 Medley Relay) Erin Borgschatz Diving (1 Meter) Andrew Burckhard Swimming (400 Medley Relay) Jacob Mills Swimming (400 Medley Relay) Jeffrey Schnieder Swimming (400 Medley Relay) 2004 Fernando Alves Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay, 100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly & 400 Freestyle Relay) Sebastian Andersson Swimming (400 Freestyle Relay) Jenny Bachmeier Swimming (100 Backstroke) Andy Burckhard Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) Rodrigo Ferreira Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay, 100 Backstroke) Jason Mraule Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay) Kasey Moseley Diving (1 Meter) 2005 Fernando Alves Swimming (100 Butterfly & 200 Freestyle Relay) Rodrigo Ferreira Swimming (100 Backstroke & 200 Freestyle Relay) Eric Knight Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) Jason Mraule Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) Rodrigo Cintra Swimming (500 Freestyle) 2006 Jeff Schneider Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Jared Peters Swimming (200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay) Eric Knight Swimming (200 Medley Relay) Rodrigo Ferreira Swimming (100 Backstroke, 400 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay) Pedro Pereira Swimming (400 Medley Relay) Per Westergren Swimming (400 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay) Adam Rollins Swimming (400 Freestyle Relay) Eric Knight Swimming (400 Freestyle Relay) 2007 Anthony Buhr Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay) Rodrigo Ferreira Swimming (100 Backstroke, 200 & 400 Medley Relay Eric Knight Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay, 200 & 400 Medley Relay) Pedro Pereira Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay, 200 & 400 Medley Relay) Per Westergren Swimming (200 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay) Dan Zabler Swimming (400 Medley Relay) 2008 Carissa Gormally Swimming (50 & 100 Freestyle) Heidi Evans Track (1500M) Matt Litzinger Track (Javelin)

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“I’ve never been to a place that’s more proud of its athletes and its athletics than UND.” — Former UND All-American, 2010 United States Olympian and current Minnesota Wild star Zach Parise

THE GAMEDAY EXPERIENCE

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It is our mission to physically and mentally prepare the student-athlete for the rigors of collegiate athletics, by implementing professionally designed, scientifically sound training programs, designed specifically to reduce the incidence of injury and help each team and studentathlete reach their full athletic potential.

PHILOSOPHY

We believe that strength and conditioning is crucial to the complete development of the student-athlete. The philosophy of Nate Baukol Director of Strength and Conditioning our strength and conditioning program is based on the belief that what occurs in the weight room and field transfers to the playing surface. We train sport specifically with the goal of enhancing athleticism. We also believe in the importance of work ethic, attitude, accountability and mental toughness and that these qualities can be developed and enhanced through our strength and conditioning program. At the University of North Dakota, one program, functioning behind the scenes, but which should not be taken lightly, is the strength and conditioning program. The strength and conditioning program at UND is among the finest in Division I and vital to the success of all UND athletic teams. The strength and conditioning staff commits themselves to the development of size, strength, power, speed, agility, conditioning, and body composition of each student-athlete. The goal of the strength staff is to develop the athlete and team to reach their maximum potential throughout their career while staying injury free. Nate Baukol, director of strength and conditioning, oversees the program and facilities. Baukol has three full-time assistant coaches and one graduate assistant coach to assist him. Together they direct and monitor the training of over 400 studentathletes in 20 sports at UND. UND also boasts some of the finest strength training facilities around. The facilities include weight rooms at the Ralph Engelstad Arena, the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center, Memorial Stadium, and the Hyslop Sports Center. Training has become a year-round activity, with a student athlete spending as much time on physical development as any other part of their sport throughout the year. Student-athletes follow either offseason or in-season programs, which are individualized specific to the athlete and sport. Off-season programs are five days a week, summer months included. Each athlete receives a comprehensive summer training manual to follow, given that a member of the strength staff wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be supervising them. In-season programs are typically 45-minute sessions, two to three days per week, supervised by the strength and conditioning staff.

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY One of the unfortunate aspects of athletics is that injuries do occur. However, every student-athlete from UND athletic teams are under excellent care thanks to the UND Divison of Sports Medicine and its umbrella of staff, facilities and training.

Steve Westereng

With a staff of 11 faculty athletic trainers, three graduate assistant athletic trainers and 30 athletic training students headed by director of sports medicine Steve Westereng, UND student-athletes are in good hands, returning them quickly and safely to participation.

Director of Sports Medicine

The UND Division of Sports Medicine was formed in 1990. Additionally, the bachelor of science in athletic training degree and the UND Center for Sports Medicine was founded. The athletic training education program was the first program in the nation to be placed directly in a school of medicine and is housed within the Department of Family Medicine, combining the efforts of the UND Athletic Training program and the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. UNDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progressive thinking makes the institution a leader in the field of athletic training. Moreover, the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affiliation with the School of Medicine helps both the athletic training student and the studentathlete. Completion of the bachelor of science in athletic training allows the student to sit for the board of certification exam to become a certified athletic trainer (ATC). The student-athletes also benefit from having a wealth of competent individuals getting them back into action. In order to be accepted into the athletic training program, a student must complete 100 hours of observation, fill out a formal application, and have a minimum GPA of 2.75. The Division of Sports Medicine also has an outpatient facility, the UND Center for Sports Medicine, which specializes in rehabilitation of orthopedic injuries. UND student-athletes, as well as the general public, utilize this facility to decrease pain, increase strength, and improve range of motion of injuries. Many of the injuries seen in the Center for Sports Medicine are significant, such as pre- and post-surgical issues. The center is staffed by Cathy Ziegler, PT/ATC, and Robin Tracy, PT/ ATC, who have experience with high school, college, and professional athletes.

Dr. Greg Greek Team Physician

Dr. William Mann Team Physician

SPORTS MEDICINE

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY Whether it is reading to area school children or lending their time to countless charitable organizations or providing disaster relief, UND’s student-athletes pride themselves on their community involvement and have long been looked upon as pillars within the UND and Grand Forks communities. In 2012-13 alone, UND student-athletes logged a school-record 7,660 hours of community service.

Above Left: Student-athletes serve their fans at the World’s Largest French Fry Feed in University Park during Potato Bowl USA week. Above: The Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) raised more than $13,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti in 2010. Below Right: The football team’s Holiday Magic For Markus program provides Christmas presents to sick children.

Above: Members of the men’s hockey team call Champions Club members and thank them for their support during the annual ‘Thank-A-Thon.’ Below: The men’s hockey team helped UND Athletics raise more than $30,000 for cancer research with the North Dakota Strong campaign in Fall 2013.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

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The University of North Dakota boasts a proud history of varsity athletics nicknames. UND’s first official athletics nickname was the “Flickertails,” although its origin remains somewhat a mystery. The nickname made its first public appearance in a Grand Forks Herald account of UND’s football loss to Minnesota on Oct. 8, 1904, 15 years after UND’s first athletics contest was played. According to Lee Bohnet’s A Century of UND Sports, “The author was not identified, but there is strong evidence the nickname was coined by a Minneapolis sportswriter who may have covered the game for the Herald. The writer lauded the fighting spirit of the North Dakota players.”

The University of North Dakota adopted the interlocking ND as its official logo during the summer of 2012 following the retirement of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. The interlocking ND will be utilized until 2015, when a new athletics nickname

In 1911, UND’s student body officially adopted “Flickertails” as its athletics nickname. UND would remain known as the “Flickertails” (as well, unofficially, as the “Nodaks”) for a third of a century, establishing an early athletics history. In the fall of 1930, the university adopted the nickname “Sioux” for its varsity teams following a successful renaming campaign by the Dakota Student, UND’s student newspaper. The word “Fighting” was later added, and UND would be known as the “Fighting Sioux” until the summer of 2012. The university utilized several”Fighting Sioux” logos throughout the decades, perhaps most notably the green geometric logo introduced in 1976 and the most recent full-color logo was unveiled in 1999. The former was designed by an artist at the UND News Bureau, while the latter was created by noted Native American artist and UND alum Bennett Brien.

UND’s most recent Fighting Sioux logo, designed by noted Native American artist and UND alum Bennett Brien, was unveiled in 1999. The logo was named the No. 1 hockey logo in the world by The Hockey News in 2009.

The University of North Dakota officially retired its longtime “Fighting Sioux” nickname and logo prior to the 2012-13 athletics season. UND’s varsity athletics teams will operate without an official nickname until 2015. The university’s varsity athletics teams will be referred to as “the University of North Dakota,” “North Dakota,” or “UND.”

The geometric Fighting Sioux logo was introduced in 1976 and remained in use through the 1999-2000 season.

The current University of North Dakota logo has been in use since the close of Centennial year activities in 1984. It serves as the official logo of the University, but typically is not used for athletics purposes. Following the University’s first athletic competition in 1889, UND’s earliest teams were known unofficially as the “Nodaks” (pictured above is the 1896 football team). The “Flickertails” nickname made its first appearance in a 1904 Grand Forks Herald article and was officially adopted in 1911.

HISTORY AND TRADITION

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY UNDsports.com is the official source for everything regarding the University of North Dakota athletics department.

The website, re-launched in January 2015, offers everything for the fan. Away from home but still want to watch the game live? Watch it on UNDSports.com. Missed the game and want to check the score? Find recaps, box scores and on-demand video of highlights and the complete game. You can also follow UND on our mobile site or download the UNDsports.com app for iPhone and Android. News, scores, schedules and watch highlight videos and interviews. You can even listen to live games streamed directly to your phone!

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Live audio broadcasts from the Home of Economy UND Sports Radio Network

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Watch all Big Sky Conference games for football, volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball on WatchBigSky.com or download the WatchBigSky app.

Social Media: Facebook

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Twitter

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YouTube

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UNDSPORTS.COM

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY CBS Sports Network (CBSSN) is the primary broadcast partner of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), North Dakota’s new men’s hockey conference. CBSSN will broadcast a select number of home and road North Dakota men’s hockey games. Check with your local cable or satellite TV provider for channel information for these listings and other television coverage. Midco Sports Network (MidcoSN) will broadcast all home North Dakota football contests, as well as selected volleyball, women’s hockey, men’s basketball and women’s basketball games. MidcoSN will broadcast all home men’s hockey games that are not televised by CBS Sports Network or conflict with other NCHC broadcasts. Check with your local cable or satellite TV provider for channel information. Midco Sports Network will continue to broadcast three 30-minute programs focused on UND Athletics, as UND Sports Extra and UND Insider Weekly (formerly UND Sports TV) return to the lineup on Tuesdays and Fridays, respectively, and North Dakota Hockey with Dave Hakstol, returns every Tuesday. MidcoSN will also air the popular web series Through These Doors, a behind-the-scenes look at UND’s men’s hockey program. Fox College Sports (FCS) will continue to broadcast select North Dakota sporting events nationwide through a partnership with UND Athletics and Midco Sports Net. Check with your local cable or satellite TV provider for channel information.

The Home of Economy UND Sports Radio Network produces live broadcasts for all football, men’s hockey and men’s and women’s basketball games, as well as all home women’s hockey games, select volleyball and baseball games, and a weekly Wednesday coaches show. Listen to the UND Coaches Show every Wednesday night from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on many Home of Economy UND Sports Radio Network stations. 2014-15 North Dakota Radio Network Affiliates Grand Forks, N.D. KQHT FM 96.1 (The Fox) (Flagships) KSNR FM 100.3 (Cat Country) KKXL AM 1440 (The Fan) Fargo, N.D. WDAY AM 970 Bismarck, N.D. KFYR AM 550 KXMR AM 710 Beulah, N.D. KDKT AM 1410 Devils Lake, N.D. KDVL FM 102.5 Dickinson, N.D. KTLC AM 1460 Jamestown, N.D. KRVX FM 103.2 Langdon, N.D. KNDK FM 95.7 Mahnomen, Minn. KRJM FM 101.5 Minot, N.D. KRRZ AM 1390 Williston, N.D. KDSR FM 101.1 Warroad, Minn. KRWB AM 1410 FM 102.9

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*Indicates Game of the Week broadcaster for volleyball, basketball, women’s hockey

MEDIA COVERAGE

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PRESIDENT

Dr. Robert Kelley The 11th president of the University of North Dakota, Dr. Robert Kelley spearheaded UND’s development of “Exceptional UND,” a vision roadmap that outlines five strategic priorities: Enrich the Student Experience; Encourage Gathering; Facilitate Collaboration; Expand UND’s Presence; Enhance Quality of Life. Under his leadership, UND has made great strides in all of these areas since “Exceptional UND” was adopted in 2010.

A leader with a national reputation, Kelley began serving as UND’s president on July 1, 2008. Prior to that, he served as the dean of the College of Health Sciences and professor of medical education and public health at the University of Wyoming since 1999. Before then, he was associate vice chancellor for research and executive associate dean of the graduate college at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and professor of biological sciences at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of anatomy and cell biology at the College of Medicine, both at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At the University of New Mexico, he served as chair of anatomy and senior executive associate dean for the School of Medicine. He also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Kelley’s international appointments include service as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biomedicine at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia (2006); a Visiting Professor at St. George’s School of Medicine in St. George, Grenada (a two-week annual appointment from 1996 to the present); a Consultant to the Prime Minister of Nepal through the U.S. State Department for the purpose of development of a medical school with a Western curriculum in Kathmandu, Nepal (1991); a Visiting Professor at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1990); a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki National Research Institutes in Okazaki, Japan (1984-85); an International Exchange Scholar for the National Science Foundation International Division at the University of Poona in India (1982); and a Visiting Research Fellow at The Hubrecht Laboratory for Developmental Biology in Utrecht, The Netherlands (1972-73). Kelley has served as chair of the Assembly for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), chaired the Council of Academic Societies for the AAMC, and was a member of the executive board of the National Board of Medical Examiners, which is responsible for the U.S. medical licensure examination. In addition, he has served the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on several study sections, served on the director’s advisory board for NIH strategic planning, and chaired the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program advisory committee in the NIH Division of Research Resources. That program helped support research for historically black universities, tribal colleges, and “minority-majority” institutions. He also served as principal investigator for the University of Wyoming/Northern Rockies INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence), a National Institutes of Health program that promotes biomedical research and connects the state’s community colleges with the University of Wyoming. Kelley earned his bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Abilene (Texas) Christian University in 1965, and his master’s degree in 1966 and doctorate in 1969, both in cell and developmental biology, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sue Jeno, Faculty Athletics Representative Sue Jeno, an associate professor in UND’s Department of Physical Therapy, serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), a position she has held the position since November 2006. Jeno has served as a member of UND’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (IAC) since 2001, as well as numerous other university committees, and was the chair of the University Senate during the 2005-06 academic year. She is also active in her professional organization, having served as treasurer of the North Dakota Physical Therapy Association for the nine years. Jeno is a former NCAA Division I student-athlete and coach. After competing for the University of Michigan varsity synchronized swimming team, she graduated and served as an assistant coach for the Wolverines for two seasons.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

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ATHLETICS DIRECTOR Brian Faison

Brian Faison is in his seventh year as athletics director at the University of North Dakota. Faison assumed his duties at UND in May of 2008. During his tenure UND has successfully completed the five-year reclassification process to Division I. Alumni and fan support have continued to grow: Champions Club and endowment giving have enjoyed eight straight record years; $17.8 million in private funding has been secured for the first phase of the UND Athletics High Performance Center; and last year women’s ice hockey finished third and men’s hockey finished first nationally in total home attendance. Media coverage has continued to grow with multi-year, multi-sport broadcast agreements with Midco Sports Network and Fox College Sports for television, Clear Channel for radio with continuing expansion of all social media platforms. In the classroom, student-athletes have continued to excel: this past year a record number of student-athletes were named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Fall and Spring semesters resulting in the highest GPA for the year in the history of the program; nearly 200 earned academic all-conference honors; six received CoSIDA All-District honors; four student-athletes were named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans; and, volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s and women’s track and field all were recognized nationally for their academic performance. Competition for UND last year resulted in three teams advancing to postseason play -- men’s basketball for the third straight year to the CollegeInsider. com Tournament, women’s basketball to its first Division I NCAA tournament, and men’s ice hockey to its 12th straight NCAA tournament and its 20th Frozen Four appearance. Nearly 170 student-athletes earned all-conference, regional or national honors for their athletic accomplishments. Faison has helped secure membership in the Big Sky Conference (BSC) for 14 UND teams and landed men’s and women’s swimming and baseball in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). He also played a leadership role in the formation of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) partnering with Colorado College, Denver, Miami, Minnesota Duluth, St. Cloud State, Western Michigan and Nebraska Omaha. With over 30 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics, Faison has served on several conference, regional and national sports committees. Most recently he chaired the NCHC Board of Directors for two years and chaired the BSC Joint Council last year. Faison currently serves on the BSC Administration Committee, and the NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Committee. Prior to joining UND Faison served as special assistant to the president (200408) and director of athletics (1999-04) at New Mexico State University. Before that, he was national director of development for the National Children’s Cancer Society (1995-99). Faison also served as director of athletics at Indiana State University (1988-95), assistant athletics director for development at the University of Louisville (1984-88) and assistant athletics director for promotions and fund raising at Illinois State University (1979-84). He also had stints as assistant manager for athletics public relations (1978-79) and assistant director for alumni activities (1974-78) at the University of Missouri. Faison is a 1972 graduate of the University of Missouri. He and his wife Donna have three sons: Jonathan, Matthew and Bradley, and a grandson Harrison.

ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY Daniella Irle

Position: Deputy Director of Athletics / Senior Woman Administrator Year at UND: Seventh Steve Brekke

Alma Mater: Lamar (1987)

Assoc. Athletics Director, Development

Kara Helmig

Assoc. Athletics Director, Compliance

Amanda Hajdu

Jayson Hajdu

Asst. Athletics Director, Academic Services

Asst. Athletics Director, Media Relations

Nate Baukol

Paul Adelman

Kyle Doperalski Position: Associate Athletics Director / External Relations Year at UND: Third Alma Mater: Nebraska (2005)

Mike Mannausau

David Primus

Asst. Athletics Director, Champions Club

Asst. Athletics Director, Marketing & Licensing

Director, Strength & Conditioning

Director, Ticket Sales

Randy Magill Position: Associate Athletics Director / Chief Financial Officer Year at UND: Third Alma Mater: Ohio (1986)

Steve Westereng Director, Sports Medicine

Deb Beiswenger

Assistant, Business Operations

Roberta Klamm Office Manager

Cami Bennett Coordinator, Graphic Design

Alex Kroke

Stacy Bjorlie

Coordinator, Academic Services

Ross LaDue

Assistant Director, Marketing

Assistant Director, Media Relations

Heather Reardon

Laura Sonnek

Manager, Ticket Office

Tony Goldenstein

Director, Corporate Partnerships

ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION

Coordinator, Compliance

Calin Burger

Assistant, Academic Services

Breanna Linert

Paul Ralston

Director, Broadcast Properties

David Folske

Coordinator, Video Production

Erik Martinson

Coach, Cheer & Dance Team

Assistant, Business Operations

Val Sussex

Matt Varnadoe

Associate Director, Champions Club

Assistant, Compliance

Matt Schill

Brian Strom

Director, New Media

Director, Aquatics Head Diving Coach

Travis Kahlbaugh

Manager, Equipment Operations

Jason Namanny Associate Director, Marketing

Mitch Wigness

Assistant Director, Media Relations

Andrew Klamm

Coordinator, Equipment Operations

Ryan Powell

Associate Director, Media Relations

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Head Coaches

J. Travis Brewster Women’s Basketball

Chris Maiello

Swimming & Diving

Dick Clay

Jeff Dodson

Cross Country

Kevin Galbraith

Baseball

Natalie Martinson Women’s Golf

Track and Field

Mark Pryor Volleyball

Dave Hakstol

Bubba Schweigert Football

Brian Idalski

Men’s Hockey

Brian Jones

Women’s Hockey

Tim Swanson Men’s Golf

Men’s Basketball

Tom Wynne Tennis

Matt Kellogg Soccer

Jordan Stevens Softball

Athletics Department Phone Directory

Athletics Department Staff - General phone line: 701.777.2234 Unless noted, all phone numbers begin with 77 followed by the 7-XXXX number, and are all in the 701 area code. ADMINISTRATION Athletic Department Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2234 Athletic Department FAX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2285 Faison, Brian (Director of Athletics) . . . . . . . . . 7.2993 Brekke, Steve (Assoc. AD, Development) . . . . 7.6426 Doperalski, Kyle (Assoc. AD, External) . . . . . . . 7.2210 Hajdu, Amanda Asst. AD, Acad. Services) . . . 7.2110 Hajdu, Jayson (Asst. AD, Media Relations) . . . 7.2985 Helmig, Kara (Assoc. AD, Compliance). . . . . . . 7.5585 Irle, Daniella (Deputy AD/SWA). . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4036 Kahlbaugh, Travis (Equip. Mgr.). . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2987 Klamm, Roberta (Office Manager). . . . . . . . . . .7.2713 Magill, Randy (Assoc. AD, CFO). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3481 Mannausau, Mike (Asst. AD/Champions Club). . 7.4216 Primus, David (Asst. AD/Marketing). . . . . . . . . 7.2237 Stroup, Amy (Director of Special Projects). . . 7.2794 ACADEMIC SERVICES Hajdu, Amanda (Asst. A.D.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2110 Bjorlie, Stacy (Coordinator). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2112 Burger, Calin (Assistant). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5356 BASEBALL Dodson, Jeff (Head Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4038 Field, J.C. (Associate Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . 7.2352 Devillers, Brian (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2937 BASKETBALL - MEN’S Jones, Brian (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dirden, Shawn (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . Grabowski, Steve (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . Shay, Jason (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Horner, Jeff (Director of Operations). . . . . . . . Abbott, Thelma (Administrative Assistant). . . . BASKETBALL - WOMEN’S Brewster, J. Travis (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernhard, Mallory (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . Jacobson, Adam (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . Voigt, Jackie (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacobson, Jeri (Director of Operations). . . . . . Abbott, Thelma (Administrative Assistant). . . .

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BUSINESS OPERATIONS Randy Magill (Assoc. AD, CFO). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3481 Beiswenger, Debbie (Assistant). . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3366 Martinson, Erik (Assistant). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0835 CHAMPIONS CLUB/ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Brekke, Steve (Assoc. AD, Development) . . . . 7.6426 Mannausau, Mike (Asst. AD, CC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4216 Sussex, Val (Associate Director, CC). . . . . . . . . . 7.4078 Alumni 800 TN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800.543.8764 CHEER TEAM Linert, Breanna (Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651.249.9299 COMPLIANCE Helmig, Kara (Asst. AD, Compliance) . . . . . . . . 7.5585 Sonnek, Laura (Coordinator). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3169 Varnadoe, Matt (Assistant). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5161 FOOTBALL Schweigert, Bubba (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . 7.3176 Rudolph, Paul (Offensive Coord./QBs) . . . . . . 7.4192 Schmidt, Eric (Defensive Coordinator). . . . . . . 7.2996 Freund, Danny (Wide Receivers). . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4193 Gigli, Jordan (Defensive Line). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2995 Knauf, Luke (Offensive Line) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4193 Kostich, Shawn (Special Teams Coord.). . . . . . 7.2997 Maurice, Kevin (Recruiting Coord./RBs). . . . . . 7.4863 Rodgers, Marty (Defensive Backs). . . . . . . . . . . 7.4193 Schwenzfeier, Joel (Outside Linebackers). . . .7.2229 Kahlbaugh, Travis (Equipment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2340 Klug, Cindy (Administrative Assistant). . . . . . . 7.4191 GOLF - MEN’S Swanson, Tim (Head Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2155 GOLF - WOMEN’S Martinson, Natalie (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3036 HOCKEY - MEN’S Hakstol, Dave (Head Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berry, Brad (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackson, Dane (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . Swanson, Patrick (Director of Operations). . . Kupka, Eric (Equipment Manager) . . . . . . . . . . Duden, Whitney (Administrative Assistant). .

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HOCKEY - WOMEN’S Idalski, Brian (Head Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elander, Peter (Associate Head Coach) . . . . . . Fabian, Erik (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vaughan, Kevin (Manager of Operations) . . . . Idalski, Nicole (Secretary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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MARKETING, PROMOTIONS, & SALES Primus, David (Asst. AD, Marketing). . . . . . . . . 7.2237 Nammany, Jason (Assoc. Director, Marketing).7.1373 Kroke, Alex (Asst. Director, Marketing). . . . . . . . 7.1373 Adelman, Paul (Director, Ticket Sales) . . . . . . . 7.4852 Bennett, Cami (Graphic Design Coord.) . . . . . 7.1373 Goldenstein, Tony (Dir., Corp. Partnerships). . . 7.5373 Ralston, Paul (Dir., Broadcast Properties) . . . . 7.3210 MEDIA RELATIONS Hajdu, Jayson (Asst. AD, Media Relations) . . . Powell, Ryan (Associate Director) . . . . . . . . . . . LaDue, Ross (Assistant Director) . . . . . . . . . . . . Wigness, Mitch (Assistant Director) . . . . . . . . . Schill, Matt (Director, New Media). . . . . . . . . . . Folske, David (Coord., Video Production). . . .

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SOCCER Kellogg, Matt (Head Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3972 Dahl, Amanda (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3684 Webb, Stephanie (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . 7.3684 SOFTBALL Stevens, Jordan (Head Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4952 Kutz, Ally (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2353 Prochaska, Shelly (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . 7.2353 SPORTS MEDICINE Westereng, Steve (Director). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.3886 Tracy, Robin (Physical Therapist). . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4845 Ziegler, Cathy (Physical Therapist). . . . . . . . . . .7.4846 Bjerke, Sara (Asst. Athletic Trainer) . . . . . . . . . . 7.3883 Carlson, Matthew (Asst. Athletic Trainer) . . . . 7.0723 Champagne, Alicia (Asst. Athletic Trainer). . . 7.0723 Poolman, Mark (Asst. Athletic Trainer). . . . . . . 7.3107 Rambough, Audrey (Asst. Athletic Trainer) . . 7.3177 Sand, Eric (Asst. Athletic Trainer). . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0723 Tsuchiya, Makoto (Asst. Athletic Trainer) . . . . 7.0579 Vanderpan, McKynsay (Asst. Athletic Trainer). . 7.6147

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING Baukol, Nate (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4035 Bloms, Lucas (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3933 Lofgren, Adam (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . .7.2063 SaariBovre, Ben (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . 7.3933 Schwenzfeier, Aaron (Assistant Coach). . . . . . 7.3933 Zachman, Kelsey (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . 7.3933 SWIMMING & DIVING Maillo, Chris (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Strom, Brian (Diving Coach/Dir. of Aquatics). . . Harris, Anthony (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . TBA (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swim ND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TENNIS Wynne, Tom (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anderson, Kyle (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . TICKET OFFICE Reardon, Heather (Manager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Office (REA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REA Ticket Office FAX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY Galbraith, Kevin (Head Track Coach) . . . . . . . . Clay, Dick (Head Cross Country Coach). . . . . . Jones, Drew (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silvers, Joe (Assistant Coach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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VOLLEYBALL Pryor, Mark (Head Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2351 Joki, Erin (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2508 Tabberson, Mia (Assistant Coach). . . . . . . . . . . 7.2508 OTHER DEPT. NUMBERS Jeno, Sue (Faculty Athletics Rep.). . . . . . . . . . . Smith, Donna (Title IX Coord./AA Officer) . . . Facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hyslop Conference Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pride of the North Band. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ray Richards Golf Course. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NoDak Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Training Room (Hyslop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Training Room (Memorial Stadium). . . . . . . . . Weight Room (Memorial Stadium). . . . . . . . . .

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ATHLETICS STAFF DIRECTORY

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

KEVIN GALBRAITH Head Coach Years at UND: 4th

Years as Collegiate Head Coach: 10th Hometown: Salem, Ore. Alma Mater: Loyola Marymount (‘81, ‘91)

Now in his fourth season as head coach of the University of North Dakota track and field teams, Kevin Galbraith has guided the program to new heights. One-hundred new entries were etched into UND’s all-time top-10 listings in 2013-14, 63 by Galbraith’s women’s team and 37 by his men’s squad. Of those 100 performances, 11 stand as new school records: INDOOR • Jakob Bissell (Weight) • Ke-Ke Burks (Weight) • Stephanie Clarke (200-meters, 400-meters) OUTDOOR • Jakob Bissell (Hammer) • Ke-Ke Burks (Hammer) • Stephanie Clarke (400-meters) • Tyler Colling (Pole Vault) • Molly Griep (Shot Put) • Sam Saccoman (5,000-meters) • 400-meter relay (Page/Espinoza/Slemmons/Van Heel Clarke, senior Shawn Johnson (shot put, discus) and Jayd Eggert (javelin) each qualified for the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Preliminary Championships. Clarke became the first Big Sky Conference champion in program history after capturing the 400-meters at the outdoor championship with a school-record time of 54.03 seconds. Johnson, meanwhile, earned allconference outdoor honors in both the shot put and discus, becoming the first student-athlete in UND men’s track history to earn multiple All-Big Sky honors in one championship. In the classroom, both the men’s and women’s squads earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors, while Eggert was also recognized individually. Additionally, sophomore Jimmy Evers and junior Erin Wysocki were named to the 2013-14 Capital One Academic All-District Track & Field/Cross Country Team by a vote of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). In 2012-13, UND’s first as a member of the Big Sky Conference, Galbraith engineered a record-setting season for both his men’s and women’s squads. Burks, Griep, Eggert, D’Monte Farley and incoming freshman John Hoplin qualified for the 2013 U.S. Junior Track & Field Outdoor Championships, the first in UND track and field history to do so. Both Eggert and Farley earned All-America honors in their respective events. Additionally, Eggert, Farley and advanced to the NCAA Division I NCAA West Region prelims. At the conference level, Johnson, Griep and Clarke earned the first All-Big Sky honors in program history.

HEAD COACH KEVIN GALBRAITH

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Hometown • Salem, Ore. Education • Bachelor’s Degree: Communications (Loyola Marymount ‘81) • Master’s Degree: Communications (Loyola Marymount ‘91) Coaching • 2011 to present: Head Track and Field Coach University of North Dakota • 2005 to 2011: Head Track and Field Coach University of Northern Colorado • 1999 to 2004: Assistant Track and Field Coach Long Beach State University • 1997 to 1999: Assistant Track and Field Coach Track West • 1995 to 1997: Head Track and Field Coach Los Angeles Valley College • 1993 to 1995: Assistant Track and Field Coach Track West • 1986 to 1993: Volunteer Cross Country Coach Loyola Marymount University Senior Kirsten Haas was named an Academic All-American, while 36 student-athletes earned indoor academic all-conference accolades and 26 were named outdoor academic all-conference. Galbraith, who was named head coach at UND on July 19, 2011, led UND’s women’s team to runner-up finishes at both the 2012 Great West Conference Indoor and Outdoor Championships, while the men’s squad placed third at both championship meets. Under Galbraith’s tutelage, UND student-athletes claimed nine individual GWC titles, highlighted by senior Emily Emerson’s GWC record time of 4:27.29 in the 1,500-meters, the final race of her decorated career. Mikaela Hirst (triple jump), Taylor Brett (pole vault), Roman Waldera (discus), Jesse Fenstermacher(800-meters), Shawn Johnson (shot put) and Matthew Harris (pole vault) also captured GWC outdoor titles, while Brett and Christine Weinreich (weight throw) won GWC indoor championships. Senior sprinter Chris Stoks won UND’s prestigious Glenn “Red” Jarrett Male Athlete of the Year Award (all sports), senior Tyler Rose received the GWC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Sportsmanship Award, senior Lindsay Anderson was named the GWC Female ScholarAthlete of the Year and freshman Chantel Urban was named the GWC Female Freshman of the Year. During Galbraith’s first year at UND, his student-athletes were equally prolific in the classroom, as both the men’s and women’s squads were named 2011-12 Division I All-Academic teams by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). UND’s women’s team boasted a cumulative 3.45 grade point average to tie for 13th among the 171 Division I women’s teams honored. On the men’s side, UND owned a 3.19 cumulative GPA to tie for 31st among 85 honored teams. Individually, Anderson was named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country Third Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She was joined on the Academic All-District Team by her UND teammate, junior Kirsten Haas.

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY During the fall of 2012, Galbraith and his staff unveiled a new addition to the program’s practice facilities: the Gill NCAA Double Ring Tall hammer cage. The first-ever hammer cage at UND, it is the same model that was used at the 2008 Olympic trials hammer throw and is built to the specifications required to host an NCAA championship. The cage, which also enhances training safety for UND’s student-athletes, puts the program’s throwing facilities on par with nearly every school in the nation. An experienced collegiate track and field coach with a diverse coaching background, Galbraith came to UND after a highly successful seven-year tenure as head men’s and women’s track and field coach at the University of Northern Colorado, where he guided the Bears through their transition from Division II to Division I and into the Big Sky Conference. During his time at UNC, Galbraith’s student-athletes set 15 school records and added 68 marks to the program’s men’s and women’s top10 lists. UNC also boasted several significant milestones, including its first NCAA Division I qualifiers in school history (all sports), the first NCAA national championship female qualifier in school history, and the first Big Sky individual champions (all sports) in school history. Galbraith also developed a comprehensive training and strength development plan for Amr Seoud, a Beijing Olympic qualifier. Seoud trained with the Bears in 2010 and went on to set two Egyptian national records and win the Gold medal in the 200 meters at the 2010 African Championships.

Galbraith guided the University of North Dakota’s men’s and women’s track and field programs through a record-breaking season in 2013-14.

Prior to his arrival at UNC, Galbraith spent five seasons (1999 to 2004) as an assistant track and field coach at Long Beach State University, where he coached sprints and hurdles. In four of his five seasons, he coached the top three finishers at the conference championship in the men’s 400 meters, and he also had the top freshmen finishers at the Big West Championship in both the men’s and women’s 400 meters his final three years. Galbraith is a 1981 graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and was the cross country team’s most valuable runner as a senior. He served as a volunteer cross country coach at LMU from 1986 to 1993, and received a master’s degree in communication in 1991. In 1995, Galbraith was named head track and field coach at Los Angeles Valley College, where he spent two seasons. He also served two stints (1993-95, 1997-99) as assistant track coach with Track West, a USA Track and Field (USATF) national club program based out of Santa Monica, Calif. Galbraith has also served as the meet manager of the Southern California Twilight Distance Qualifier in Los Angeles, and the Southern California Cross Country Championships in Walnut, Calif.

North Dakota set 11 new school records last season under Galbraith’s watch.

HEAD COACH KEVIN GALBRAITH

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

DICK CLAY

Cross Country Coach Years at UND: 30th Years as Collegiate Head Coach: 31st Hometown: Dawson, Minn. Alma Mater: St. Cloud State (‘82) One of the longest-tenured coaches in the history of North Dakota Athletics, the 2014-15 season marks the 30th year of Dick Clay’s distinguished coaching career at UND. Clay serves as men’s and women’s cross country head coach, as well as men’s and women’s track and field associate head coach. Clay had doubled as UND’s head women’s track and field coach from 1985 to 2011, as well as interim men’s head track and field coach in 2011, until a restructuring of the program’s coaching staff. The 2014 cross country season was a special one for UND, as it played host to the Big Sky Conference Cross Country Championship for the first time. Clay guided the men’s team to an eighth-place finish in the conference, while the women placed 12th. At the NCAA Midwest Regional, the women and men finished 24th and 25th on their respective sides. During the 2013 cross country season, UND’s second in the Big Sky Conference, Clay coached the first Division I all-region performer in program history in junior Erin Wysocki. The Grand Forks, N.D., native placed 25th at the NCAA DI Midwest Region Championsip two weeks after finishing fifth at the conference meet. In the classroom, both Clay’s men’s and women’s squads earned USTFCCCA AllAcademic Team honors while 17 runners earned Big Sky Conference Fall AllAcademic honors. In 2012, Clay guided UND cross country through its first season of Big Sky Conference membership. UND’s women’s team placed seventh and the men’s team eighth, and both squads got their first taste of a Division I championship at the 2012 NCAA Midwest Regional in Springfield, Mo. UND’s women’s and men’s teams placed 22nd and 24th, respectively, at regionals to finish ahead of programs such as Nebraska and Creighton. On Sept. 10, 2012, UND made school history when the men’s team earned its first-ever appearance in the Division I regional rankings. That week, UND was ranked No. 14 in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NCAA Midwest Region rankings. The 2011 cross country season was highlighted by outstanding athletic and academic accomplishments. Serving as host of the of the Great West Conference Championship, UND placed second despite being without the services of 2010 GWC Athlete of the Year Lindsay Anderson, who redshirted the season. In Anderson’s absence, senior Emily Emerson led the way with a fifth-place finish and all-conference first team honors. She was joined on the All-GWC team by freshman Erin Wysocki, who placed sixth and claimed GWC Freshman of the Year honors. On the men’s side, senior Tyler Rose capped his distinguished career by earning All-GWC Second Team accolades with an eighth-place finish. Following the year, Rose was named the GWC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee’s Sportsmanship Award. In the classroom, five student-athletes garnered academic all-conference honors, three from the men’s team and two from the women’s team. In 2011, Clay mentored several track and field record-breakers, conference champions, and conference scorers.

CROSS COUNTRY COACH DICK CLAY

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Hometown • Dawson, Minn. Education • Bachelor’s Degree: Physical Education (St. Cloud State ‘82) Coaching • 1985-86 to present - Head Cross Country Coach • 1985-86 to 2010-11- Head Women’s Track & Field Coach • 2010-11- Head Men’s Track & Field Coach University of North Dakota • 1983-84 to 1984-84 - Head Coach Central Missouri State University Coaching Awards • NCAA CCCA Distinguished Service Award (‘07, ‘92) • NCAA TCA Distinguished Service Award (‘96) • NCAA DII Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year (‘00) • NCAA Regional Indoor Track Coach of the Year (‘00) • NCAA Regional Cross Country Coach of the Year (‘99, ‘94, ‘91) • NCC Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year (‘07, ‘88) • NCC Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year (‘00) • NCC Cross Country Coach of the Year (‘06, ‘01, ‘94, ‘92) CCCA: Cross Country Coaches Association TCA: Track Coaches Association On the women’s side, senior Lindsay Anderson won GWC indoor titles in the 3,000 and 5,000-meters, setting a conference record in the latter, and was named GWC Indoor Female Athlete of the Year. UND student-athletes who set school records included Christine Weinreich (hammer throw, indoor weight throw), Jessica Butler (100-meter hurdles, 60-meter hurdles), the 800-meter relay team of Brittney Bolstad, Paige Kuplic, Mikaela Hirst and Sarah Fegley, and the distance medley relay team of Anderson, Megan Gray, Emily Emerson and Savana Weller. On the men’s side, senior Josh LaBlanc broke the oldest record in school history when he ran the 10,000-meters in 30:05.24, toppling the previous record set by Arjan Gelling in 1968 by 25 seconds. He also set the school record in the 5K and the conference record in the 3,000-meters 8:31.15 at the GWC Indoor Championship. Following the season, LaBlanc was named the 2010-11 GWC Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. UND’s cross country teams enjoyed a superlative 2010 season, highlighted by junior season Lindsay Anderson winning the Great West Conference Cross Country championship and earning GWC Most Valuable Runner honors. Anderson and teammate Emily Emerson were both named to the All-GWC first team after leading the Sioux to a third-place team finish. On the men’s side, UND placed sixth at the conference meet. The 2010 track and field season was a memorable one for the Sioux women, as Clay’s student-athletes set numerous school records. At the GWC Indoor Championship, junior Jessica Butler won the 60-meter hurdles with a schoolrecord time of 8.98 seconds and led the Sioux to a third-place finish.At the GWC Outdoor Championship, Brenny was the runner-up in both the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter runs. Also during the outdoor season, sophomore Emily Emerson was twice named GWC Athlete of the Week. UND’s quartet of Mikaela Hirst, Paige Kuplic, Cheri Boyer and Taryn Anderson broke an 11-year old record in the 800-meter relay at the Coastal Carolina Shamrock Invitational. Several Sioux athletes also recorded times, throws and jumps that have cracked UND’s all-time top-10 lists. Clay’s women’s cross country team earned team and individual runner-up honors at the 2009 Great West Conference Championship; the Sioux finished second in the team standings while senior Brittany Brenny earned her second straight all-conference first team nod by taking second in the individual

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY standings. Brenny was joined on the all-conference team by teammate and second-team selection Katherine Enabnit. In 2008-09, UND’s first as a Division I program, Clay guided the Sioux to a third-place finish at the inaugural Great West Conference Cross Country Championship, where three of his runners earned all-conference honors: Brenny (first team), Mandy Gefroh (first) and Emily Emerson (second). Clay’s track and field team finished fourth at the 2009 GWC Outdoor Championship, highlighted by individual conference titles by Jessica Clausnitzer (pole vault) and Kristi Dahlheimer (3,000-meter steeplechase). The Sioux also placed fourth at the 2009 GWC Indoor Championship, led by a pair of individual titles from Clausnitzer, a two-time Division II All-American, in the 60-meter hurdles and the pole vault. A hallmark of Clay’s coaching career at UND has been academic succes, and the 2009-10 was as successful as any. Clay’s women’s track and field team boasted the sixth-highest grade point average (3.5) in Division I last season, earning the team 2010 Division I Women’s All-Academic Track and Field Team honors by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Additionally, senior Kristi Dahlheimer earned a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was named a 2009-10 ESPN the Magazine Academic AllAmerican. The Previous season, Clay’s track and field squad was named a 2009 Division I Women’s All-Academic Track and Field Team by the USTFCCCA, ranking 12th among 130 teams with a 3.44 grade point average. Brenny and Dahlheimer were each named to the 2009 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country team.

A certified USATF Level I Track and Field Coach, Clay was honored by his peers when he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the NCAA Cross Country Coaches Association in 1992 and again in 2007. In 1996, Clay received the Distinguished Service Award from the NCAA Track Coaches Association. Under Clay’s leadership, UND won the 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001 and 2006 North Central Conference Cross Country Championship and the 1994 North Central Region title. The 2000 cross country team placed second in the NCAA national championships. The runner-up finish was the highest for a UND cross country team. From 1991 to 2007, the Sioux made 12 team appearances in the NCAA national cross country meet. The Sioux posted team finishes of fifth place or higher in the NCAA National meet seven times including five fourth-place finishes. In track and field, UND’s highest team finishes came in 1993 and 1994 when the Sioux placed fifth and sixth respectively at the NCAA Indoor National Track & Field Championships. Clay has coached Sioux track and cross country athletes to over 80 individual All-America finishes since 1987. Clay came to UND from Central Missouri State where he served two years as head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country team and the women’s track team. In 1984, Clay’s Central Missouri State track and field team claimed a 10th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. A native of Dawson, Minn., Clay graduated from St. Cloud State in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He went on to earn a master’s degree from St. Cloud State in 1983. A four-year track and cross country letterwinner and team captain for the Huskies, Clay qualified for the Division II cross country championships in 1978, 1979, and 1980.

Nine track and field student-athletes were named to 2009 Great West Conference Winter/Spring All-Academic team, the most of any Sioux team, and two more earned 2008 Fall Academic All-Great West Conference accolades. In the 29 years Clay has been at UND, he has established a program that is respected for its success at both the conference national levels. Among his coaching honors: NCAA DII Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (2000) NCAA North Central Region Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (2000) NCAA North Central Region Cross Country Coach of the Year (1999, 1994, 1991) NCC Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (2007, 1988 NCC Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (2000) NCC Cross Country Coach of the Year (2006, 2001, 1994, 1992) In May 2008, Clay coached Heidi Evans to a national title in the 1,500-meter run at the Division II national championships. With the title, Evans became the second individual women’s track & field national champion in UND school history and the first Fighting Sioux women’s outdoor champion. The only other UND women’s track national individual title came in 1994, when former UND runner Marie Crep won an NCAA national title in the 800-meter run in the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships. Clay served on the NCAA Track and Field Subcommittee and the NCAA Track and Cross Country Rules Committee from 1999-2004. He is a past president of the NCAA Division II Track Coaches Association and served on the U.S. Track Coaches Association Board of Directors from 1995-1997. Clay was also the coordinator of the NCAA Division II Track and Field Hall of Fame from 19962003.

Now in his 30th season, Dick Clay is UND Athletics’ longest-serving active coach.

CROSS COUNTRY COACH DICK CLAY

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DREW JONES

JOE SILVERS

Assistant Coach

Years at UND: 2nd season

Years at UND: 4th season

Years as Collegiate Coach: 8th season

Years as Collegiate Coach: 6th season

Hometown: Coon Rapids, Minn.

Hometown: Murtaugh, Idaho

Alma Mater: Hamline (‘08)

Alma Mater: Idaho State (‘09)

Drew Jones, who joined UND’s coaching staff prior to the 2013-14 season, works specifically with the program’s throwers. His first season in Grand Forks was a resounding success, as his student-athletes broke five different school records and totaled 35 new entries in UND’s men’s and women’s all-time top-10 lists. Senior Jakob Bissell took down the school records in the weight and hammer throws, sophomore Ke-Ke Burks did the same on the women’s side, and classmate Molly Griep broke the school record in the shot put. In all, 12 male student-athletes and 23 female student-athletes cracked UND’s all-time top-10 lists, including six new marks in the women’s hammer, five in the women’s weight, and four each in the women’s shot put and discus and men’s weight. Jones came to North Dakota after five record-setting seasons as an assistant coach at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minn. During his tenure, Jones mentored 15 Division III All-Americans, four Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Field Athletes of the Year, and 21 individual MIAC champions. His throwers set four MIAC and seven school records over those five seasons. In 2013, Jones coached the Division III national champion in the women’s discus and was later named the 2013 USTFCCCA Central Region Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year. Jones, who also served as an assistant strength coach for the past two years, oversaw the strength and conditioning plan for Hamline men’s and women’s track, while also serving as the program’s travel coordinator. Prior to his time at Hamline, Jones was an assistant coach for one season (2007-08) at Concordia University in Saint Paul and helped the Golden Bears score points in the throws at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Championship for the first time in five years. Additionally, he coached the school record-holder in the women’s indoor shot put and weight throw. Jones is a 2008 graduate of Hamline with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. A four-year letterwinner and two-year captain, Jones was a 10-time All-MIAC performer and a two-time MIAC AllAcademic selection. He received his USATF Level 2 certification (throwing events) in 2009, his USA Weightlifting certification in 2013 and his USTFCCCA Academy Throws Specialist Certification in 2014.

The 2014-15 season marks the fourth for Joe Silvers as a member of UND’s track and field coaching staff. Silvers coaches the men’s and women’s multi and jumping events. Silvers guided his student-athletes to new heights last season, including two school records and, two Big Sky All-Conference performances. Additionally, Silvers oversaw 23 performances that cracked UND’s all-time top 10: 14 by the women’s team and nine by the men. Four of those efforts landed all the way in UND’s all-time top three. Junior Tyler Colling twice broke UND’s pole vault record, with his second record-breaking performance also landing him a third-place finish at the Big Sky Outdoor Championship. His other all-conference performer was sophomore D’Monte Farley, who finished third in the triple jump at the indoor conference championship. In 2012-13, Silvers mentored the likes of junior Jordan Fisk, who broke the school record in both the indoor heptathlon and outdoor pole vaut. Farley qualified for both the NCAA West Regional and the USA Junior Track and Field Championship in the triple jump while earning USATF All-America honors. In the classroom, Farley was named a USTFCCCA Academic AllAmerican. Silvers helped guide UND’s track and field program to new heights in 201112, his first season at UND, coaching four Great West Conference individual champions: Taylor Brett (indoor and outdoor pole vault), Matthew Harris (outdoor pole vault) and Mikaela Hirst (outdoor triple jump). Those individual titles were among the 13 GWC All-Conference performances by Silvers’ student-athletes in 2011-12. Silvers came to UND after spending the previous two seasons as an assistant coach at Idaho State, where he worked primarily with ISU’s multi-event student-athletes. One of those student-athletes, Justin Critser, qualified for the 2010 USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Before beginning his coaching career in 2009, Silvers was a pole vaulter and decathlete at Idaho State from 2004-09. A two-time letterwinner at ISU, Silvers was a member of the Bengals’ Big Sky Conference championship team in 2006 and was the 2009 Idaho Cup pole vault champion. Silvers graduated from ISU in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in sports management and a minor in coaching. He received his master’s degree in athletic administration from ISU in 2010 and is considering pursuing a degree in sport psychology. Silvers received his USA Track & Field (USATF) Level 1 coaching certificate in 2010. In July 2012, Silvers attended the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Academy and attained Jumping Event Specialist Certification. He has been published in the USTFCCCA’s official publication, Techniques, contributing an article entitled “Mental Training for Track and Field.”

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TRAVIS KAHLBAUGH Equipment Manager Years at UND: 10th season Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D. Alma Mater: North Dakota (‘00)

Travis Kahlbaugh, in his 10th season at UND, serves as the head equipment manager for University of North Dakota Athletics. Kahlbaugh is a 2000 graduate of the University of North Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and teaching and learning. Before coming to UND, he spent the previous four years teaching in Grand Forks and Rugby, N.D. Kahlbaugh’s athletics background includes a stint as a player in the AFHL, as well as coaching experience in Grand Forks and Rugby (N.D.). A native of Grand Forks, Kahlbaugh is a 1996 high school graduate of Grand Forks Central High School.

LUCAS BLOMS

GABRIELLA FUNDARO Media Relations Years at UND: 2nd season Hometown: Toms River, N.J.

Gabriella Fundaro has been with the UND Athletics Department’s media relations office since January 2014, and is in the midst of her third semester as an intern. Fundaro is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in communication and anticipates graduating in the Fall 2015 semester. She is a 2012 graduate of Toms River (N.J.) High School North. Fundaro serves as the primary contact for UND men’s and women’s track and field and is in her second season as the secondary contact for women’s hockey. Before coming to UND, Fundaro attended Seton Hall University and Ocean County College. She covered women’s hockey for The Hockey Writers for two-and-a-half-seasons, and is the founding editor of At Even Strength, a website dedicated to women’s hockey coverage.

Strength Coach Years at UND: 2nd season Years as Collegiate Coach: 2nd season Hometown: Berthold, N.D. Alma Mater: North Dakota (‘13)

Lucas Bloms, a 2013 graduate of the University of North Dakota, is in his second season as a graduate assistant with UND’s strength and conditioning staff. He works primarily with the track and field and golf programs, while assisting with the football program. Bloms spent his senior year at UND as strength and conditioning intern, working primarily with the soccer, swimming & diving, basketball, tennis and football programs. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and is currently pursuing his master’s degree in kinesiology. Bloms is a native of Berthold, N.D.

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY The trio of Darin Baltezore, Cataldo DiDonna and Ryan Kirkland are looking to build on their rookie seasons as well. Freshmen Connor Danielson, Scott Kvidera, and Mitchell Meyer are all looking to make an impact right off the bat. Senior Jesse Fenstermacher will also be relied on in the mid-distance events. He opened the season by breaking his own school record in the indoor 600-meters, and also owns UND’s records in the indoor and outdoor 800-meters and the outdoor 400-meters. North Dakota once again boasts a deep and talented group of throwers. Senior Jakob Bissell broke UND’s records in the weight throw and the hammer last season, and will look to once again make a mark at the Big Sky Championships. Jakob Bissell leads a talented group of throwers.

The 2013-14 track and field season was UND’s

best yet as a member of the Big Sky Conference. For the first time, North Dakota had multiple all-conference honorees, with three different student-athletes landing on the podium at the Outdoor Championship. In the sprint events, a pair of sophomores will lead the way for UND. Both Tyler Olson and Jared Michel earned their first letters last season and will look to build off of solid rookie campaigns.

Junior Jimmy Evers, a Grand Forks, N.D., native, is looking to follow up on a fifth-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles at the Big Sky Championships last season. Evers was also named to the Capitol One Academic All-District Track & Field/Cross Country Team by CoSIDA, and won the 110-meter hurdles at three different meets.

TRACK & FIELD SEASON PREVIEW

Rk. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

School (1st) Northern Arizona (10) Weber State Sacramento State Montana State Southern Utah Eastern Washington Montana (1) Idaho State North Dakota Portland State Northern Colorado

Points 120 98 94 90 70 67 61 57 26 23 20

Sophomore Ian Collins is also redshirting the indoor season but will be another solid option in both the discus and the shot put. Keaton Hanevold was one of UND’s three allconference performers at last year’s Big Sky Outdoor Championship, taking third in the javelin throw. Sophomore John Hoplin captured first in the javelin at last season’s Ron Masanz Classic. North Dakota’s returning throwers are rounded out by junior Cody Mach, who provides experience in both the discus and hammer.

Senior Jordan Fisk is the school record-holder in the hepathlon.

Joining the team this season are freshmen Lane Herbert and Michael Quesenberry. UND will have a trio of seniors competing in the pole vault this season. Tyler Colling headlines this group; he broke the school record in the event at last year’s Big Sky Outdoor Championship. The Forest Lake, Minn. native placed third and took home All-Big Sky honors. Jordan Fisk is another strong competitor in the pole vault and also owns North Dakota’s record in the heptathlon, which he broke as a junior in 2013 at the Big Sky Indoor Championship.

Senior Nate Peterson heads UND’s group of distance runners. The Horace, N.D., native was North Dakota’s top finisher at all but one cross country meet this past fall, and last season he ran the school’s third-fastest time in the mile at the Bill Bergan Invitational.

Fellow senior Roman Waldera is redshirting the indoor season, but established himself as North Dakota’s top performer in the discus last year, placing fourth in the event at the Big Sky Outdoor Championship.

Classmate John LeClerc finished right behind Evers in sixth place at the Big Sky Championships and will also be counted on in the hurdles this season. Freshman Anthony Litersky will bolster UND’s sprints and hurdles group.

Parker Wharram and Mark Harries will also help anchor the distance group as upperclassmen. Drew Campbell won the 3K at NDSU’s Thundering Herd Classic last season, and three other sophomores will also be competing in distance races this season.

2015 BIG SKY CONFERENCE PRESEASON INDOOR POLL

Matthew Harris will be redshirting the indoor season but won the pole vault at last season’s Cobber Twilight and competed at the Big Sky Championships as a sophomore.

Senior Tyler Colling is the school record-holder in the pole vault

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY 2015 NORTH DAKOTA TRACK & FIELD ROSTER NAME Darin Baltezore Jakob Bissell Drew Campbell Tyler Colling Ian Collins Connor Danielson Cataldo DiDonna Jimmy Evers Jesse Fenstermacher Jordan Fisk Keaton Hanevold Mark Harries Matthew Harris Lane Herbert Ryan Kirkland Scott Kvidera John LeClerc Anthony Litersky Cody Mach Mitchell Meyer Jared Michel Tyler Olson Nate Peterson Michael Quesenberry Roman Waldera Parker Wharram

EVENT Yr. HOMETOWN Distance So. West Fargo, N.D. Throws Sr. Plymouth, N.H. Distance So. Lake Elmo, Minn. Pole Vault Sr. Forest Lake, Minn. Throws So. Edina, Minn. Distance Fr. Fergus Falls, Minn. Distance So. Bismarck, N.D. Hurdles Jr. Grand Forks, N.D. Mid-Distance Sr. Hibbing, Minn. Pole Vault Sr. Langdon, N.D. Throws Jr. Thompson, N.D. Distance Sr. Plymouth, Minn. Pole Vault Sr. Sidney, Mont. Throws Fr. Glasgow, Mont. Distance So. Mahtomedi, Minn. Distance Fr. Minnetonka, Minn. Hurdles Jr. Grafton, N.D. Sprints/Hurdles Fr. Ashland, Wis. Throws Jr. Faribault, Minn. Distance Fr. Dickinson, N.D. Sprints/Hurdles So. Chesterfield, Mo. Sprints/Hurdles So. Buffalo, Minn. Distance Sr. Horace, N.D. Throws Fr. Billings, Mont. Throws Sr. Minot, N.D. Distance Jr. Independence, Minn.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL West Fargo High School Bemidji State University Mahtomedi High School Forest Lake High School Edina High School Fergus Falls High School Century High School Red River High School Hibbing High School Langdon/Munich High School Thompson High School Wayzata High School Sidney High School Glasgow High School Mahtomedi High School Minnetonka High School Grafton High School Ashland High School Faribault High School Trinity High School Marquette High School Buffalo Senior High School West Fargo High School Billings High School Minot High School Mound Westonka High School

Head Coach: Kevin Galbraith (Loyola Marymount ‘81) Associate Head Coach: Dick Clay (St. Cloud State ‘82) Assistant Coach: Drew Jones (Hamline ‘08) Assistant Coach: Joe Silvers (Idaho State ‘09) Strength & Conditioning Coach: Lucas Blom (North Dakota ‘13)

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY North Dakota then traveled to Brookings two weeks later for the South Dakota State University Classic, where Peterson earned another top-10 finish, at eighth overall. Harries also helped lead UND, taking 15th overall. Following a bye week, North Dakota played host to the annual Ron Pynn Invitational at Ray Richards Golf Course in Grand Forks. Peterson set a new personal record in the race en route to a second-place finish. Harries and sophomore Darin Baltezore also placed within the top-10 for UND. The race was a tune up for the Big Sky Championships, which UND again hosted at Ray Richards Golf Course two weeks later. While running his last 8K race, Peterson again paced North Dakota, finishing 18th overall.

UND runs at its Ron Pynn Invitational.

The 2014 cross country season was one that

UND then competed at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional, where it placed 25th overall, ahead of Kansas State, DePaul, SE Missouri, and Oral Roberts. The team continued to reach new heights as every UND runner set a new personal record for a 10K race.

saw the North Dakota men’s team play host to Peterson turned in top performance after top one of the year’s biggest races while continu- performance, capping off his cross country ing to exceed expectations. career by leading the way for North Dakota in five of six races as a senior. In just its third season of competition in the Big Sky Conference, UND played host to the UND was also able to rely on Harries as an Big Sky Conference Championships for the upperclassman, and the performance of first time. After being picked to finish 12th in the team’s youngest runners was especially the conference in the preseason, North Dako- promising, as Baltezore, Danielson, and sophta improved on its finish at last year’s Big Sky omore Drew Campbell all helped to bolster Championships, placing eighth overall. North Dakota this season.

2014 BIG SKY CONFERENCE RECAP Big Sky Conference Championship Standings Rk. School Score 1. Northern Arizona 24 2. Southern Utah 66 3. Weber State 67 4. Idaho 143 5. Montana State 147 6. Eastern Washington 151 7. Montana 204 8. North Dakota 204 9. Idaho State 244 10. Portland State 278 11. Sacramento State 282 12. Northern Colorado 351 UND Participants Pl. Name 18. Nate Peterson 33. Mark Harries 43. Darin Baltezore 54. Drew Campbell 63. Connor Danielson 71. Ryan Phillips 73. Scott Kvidera 84. Parker Wharram

All-Big Sky Conference Team Pl. Name 1. Futsum Zienasellassie, NAU 2. Matt McElroy, NAU 3. Caleb Hoover, NAU 4. Nate Jewkes, SUU 5. Mike Hardy, WSU 6. Hayden Hawks, SUU 7. Jake Turner, MSU 8. Tyler Byrne, NAU 9. Trevor Ricks, WSU 10. Nathan Weitz, NAU

North Dakota kicked off the 2014 season at the Bison Open, hosted by North Dakota State, where it competed in a series of duals against NDSU, South Dakota, and South Dakota State. UND won its dual against IPFW, and Peterson led the team with a seventh-place finish. The Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational two weeks later saw North Dakota finish sixth, ahead of Creighton and Northern Colorado. Junior Mark Harries paced UND with a 28thplace finish. Freshman Connor Danielson also impressed at the race, finishing in the top half of the field at 38th overall.

The men’s cross country team at the South Dakota State University Classic in October.

CROSS COUNTRY YEAR IN REVIEW

Time 24:07.8 24:08.3 24:12.6 24:13.0 24:16.2 24:22.5 24:24.4 24:27.8 24:28.1 24:30.1

Coach of the Year: Eric Heins, Northern Arizona

Senior Nate Peterson was the lone senior on the team, and he provided UND with a strong veteran presence, consistently finishing as one of the team’s best runners.

Time 25:07.6 25:46.1 26:07.8 26:26.9 26:48.9 27:00.3 27:09.7 28:01.0

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY 2014 NORTH DAKOTA CROSS COUNTRY ROSTER NAME Darin Baltezore Drew Campbell Connor Danielson Cataldo DiDonna Mark Harries Ryan Kirkland Scott Kvidera Ben Nelson Nate Peterson Ryan Phillips Parker Wharram

YR. So. So. Fr. So. Jr. So. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Jr.

HOMETOWN West Fargo, N.D. Lake Elmo, Minn. Fergus Falls, Minn. Bismarck, N.D. Plymouth, Minn. Mahtomedi, Minn. Minnetonka, Minn. Bemidji, Minn. Horace, N.D. Redwood Falls, Minn. Independence, Minn.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL West Fargo High School Mahtomedi High School Fergus Falls High School Century High School Wayzata High School Mahtomedi High School Minnetonka High School Vilseck American High School West Fargo High School Redwood Valley High School Mound Westonka High School

Head Coach: Dick Clay (St. Cloud State â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;82)

2014 NORTH DAKOTA CROSS COUNTRY TEAM RESULTS DATE

MEET

LOCATION

RESULT TOP UND RUNNER

Aug. 29

Bison Open (6K)

Fargo, N.D. Nate Peterson (7th, 19:27.56)

vs. North Dakota State

L, 34-23

vs. South Dakota

W, 40-19

vs. South Dakota State

L, 36-21

Sept. 20 Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational (8K)

Lincoln, Neb.

6th Mark Harris (28th, 27:30.90)

Oct. 4

South Dakota State Classic (8K)

Brookings, S.D.

4th Nate Peterson (16th, 25:40.64)

Oct. 18

UND Ron Pynn Invitational (8K)

Grand Forks, N.D. Nate Peterson (2nd, 25:12.3)

vs. North Dakota State Nov. 1

Big Sky Conference Championship (8K)

Grand Forks, N.D.

Nov. 15

NCAA Midwest Regional (10K)

Ames, Iowa

L, 41-19 8th Nate Peterson (18th, 25:07.6) 103rd Nate Peterson (93rd, 31:40.8)

CROSS COUNTRY YEAR IN REVIEW

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY 2014 UND CROSS COUNTRY INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Darin Baltezore (So.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 21:09.01 38th 27:58.80 36th 27:01.41 24th 26:07.83 9th 26:07.8 43rd 32:28.3 146th

Scott Kvidera (Fr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 20:57.29 35th 28:56.90 56th 27:42.85 35th 26:29.27 12th 27:09.7 73rd 32:57.2 164th

Drew Campbell (So.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 22:03.13 46th 28:42.50 51st 27:30.45 30th 26:39.56 14th 26:26.9 54th 33:12.1 180th

Ben Nelson (Fr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 21:28.13 44th 29:58.00 68th 28:40.33 41st 27:47.55 21st DNC DNC DNC DNC

Connor Danielson (Fr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 20:13.42 23rd 28:11.90 38th 27:36.03 33rd 26:36.50 13th 26:48.9 63rd 34:20.7 199th

Nate Peterson (Sr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 19:27.56 7th 27:52.70 34th 25:40.64 8th 25:12.28 2nd 25:07.6 18th 31:40.7 103rd

Cataldo DiDonna (So.) Time Place Bison Open DNC DNC Woody Greeno Invitational DNC DNC *South Dakota State Classic 26:32.22 3rd UND Ron Pynn Invitational DNC DNC Big Sky Championship DNC DNC NCAA Midwest Regional DNC DNC

Ryan Phillips (Fr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place DNF DNF 29:31.00 65th 27:41.83 34th 26:57.52 17th 27:00.3 71st 34:21.2 200th

Mark Harries (Jr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Parker Wharram (Jr.) Bison Open Woody Greeno Invitational South Dakota State Classic UND Ron Pynn Invitational Big Sky Championship NCAA Midwest Regional

Time Place 21:16.97 42nd 28:38.70 48th 27:45.45 36th 26:46.10 15th 28:01.0 84th DNC DNC

Mark Harries

Time Place 19:48.23 11th 27:30.90 28th 26:25.25 15th 25:45.39 7th 25:46.1 33rd 32:28.0 145th

Ryan Kirkland (So.) Time Place Bison Open 20:47.42 34th Woody Greeno Invitational DNC DNC South Dakota State Classic 28:28.87 40th UND Ron Pynn Invitational 27:09.79 19th Big Sky Championship DNC DNC NCAA Midwest Regional DNC DNC

CROSS COUNTRY YEAR IN REVIEW

*denotes competing unattached

Darin Baltezore

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Nick Lindstrom

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES Baltezore, Bissell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Campbell, Colling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Collins, Danielson, DiDonna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Evers, Fenstermacher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Fisk, Hanevold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Harries, Harris, Herbert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Kirkland, Kvidera, LeClerc, Litersky. . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Mach, Meyer, Michel, Olson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Peterson, Quesenberry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Waldera, Wharram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Pictured: Tyler Colling (photo by Miller Photography)

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DARIN BALTEZORE Year: Sophomore

Year: Senior

Event: Distance

Event: Throws

Hometown: West Fargo, N.D.

Hometown: Plymouth, N.H.

High School: West Fargo High School (‘13)

Previous School: Bemidji State University

Major: Composite Social Studies Education

Major: Kinesiology

2014-15 (Sophomore): Named UND’s Most Improved Runner ... Ran a time of 32 minutes, 28.4 seconds at the NCAA Midwest Regional ... Clocked an 8K time of 26:07.8 at the Big Sky Championships ... Took ninth at the UND Ron Pynn Classic with a time of 26:07.83 ... Finished 36th out of 76 runners at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational with a time of 27:58.80 ... 2013-14 (Freshman): Named to the 201314 Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team in indoor track ... Named cross country team’s Freshman of the Year in the fall … Competed in six meets with his collegiate debut coming at the University of Minnesota’s Oz Memorial where he ran a 6K time of 21 minutes, 49 seconds … Ran a season-best 8K time of 26:40 and placed 14th at UND’s Ron Pynn Invitational … Clocked a time of 27:16 at the Big Sky Conference Championship … Ran a 10K time of 33:56 at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional ... Placed third in the 1,500-meters at the Cobber Twilight with a time of 4:10.08 ... Earned his first letters in both cross country and track ... Before UND: A 2013 graduate of West Fargo High School ... Lettered six times in cross country and five times in track ... Named the Eastern Dakota Conference (EDC) Cross Country Senior Athlete of the Year in 2012 ... Earned all-state second team honors in 2011 ... Earned All-EDC honors in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Personal: Majoring in composite social studies education ... Son of Jim and Joan Baltezore.

JAKOB BISSELL

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

2014-15 (Senior): Team co-captain ... 2013-14 (Senior): Placed seventh in the hammer throw at the Big Sky Outdoor Championship with a mark of 184 feet, 6 inches (56.25 meters) … Broke his own school record in the weight throw and placed fourth at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship ... Recorded a mark of 60 feet, 5 ¾ inches to surpass the record of 58-10.75 he had set less than two weeks earlier at North Dakota State ... Fourth in the hammer at the NDSU Tune-Up with a throw of 183-07 (55.96) … Runner-up in the hammer at the Cobber Twilight with a heave of 187-06 (57.16) … Won his flight in the hammer at the Beach Invitational with a mark of 188-02 (57.35) … Broke the school record in the hammer with a throw of 190-08 (58.11) at the Cal State L.A. Twilight Open … Runner-up in the hammer at the Lyle Hokanson Open with a throw of 185-07 (56.56) … Runner-up in the hammer at the Dakota Duals with a mark of 186-02 (56.74) … Earned third letter ... 2012-13 (Junior): Recorded the fourth-best weight throw in school history with a mark of 55 feet, 5 ½ inches at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship ... 2011-12 (Sophomore): Great West Conference runnerup in the weight throw at the 2012 GWC Indoor Championship with a personal-record throw of 55 feet, 5 ½ inches ... Broke the school record in the hammer throw and placed third at the 2012 Great West Conference Outdoor Championship with a throw of 180-02 ... Also placed eighth in the javelin with a mark of 145-11 ... Earned first letter at UND ... Before UND: Spent freshman season at Bemidji State University ... A 2010 graduate of Plymouth Regional High School ... Lettered four times in track and field in the javelin and shot put ... Earned all-state honors in the javelin as a senior ... Set school record in the javelin ... A three-time New Hampshire All-Star Meet winner ... Lettered twice each in football and wrestling ... Was an all-state selection in football as a senior and an all-state honorable mention as a junior ... Named his team’s most valuable offensive player as a senior ... A two-time state place winner in wrestling who was named team MVP as a senior ... Personal: Majoring in kinesiology ... Son of Monika Bissell and Mark Bissell ... Grandfather, Robert Armstrong, played football at the University of Arkansas.

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

DREW CAMPBELL

TYLER COLLING

Year: Sophomore

Year: Senior

Event: Distance

Event: Pole Vault

Hometown: Lake Elmo, Minn.

Hometown: Forest Lake, Minn.

High School: Mahtomedi High School (‘13)

High School: Forest Lake High School (‘11)

Major: Mechanical Engineering

2014-15 (Sophomore): Ran a personal-best in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a time of 33 minutes, 12.2 seconds … Took 54th at the Big Sky Cross Country Championship with a time of 26:26.9 ... 2013-14 (Freshman): Earned Big Sky AllAcademic honors in the fall (cross country), winter (indoor track) and spring (outdoor track) ... Ran in five cross country meets as a freshman … Made his collegiate debut at the University of Minnesota’s Oz Memorial (Sept. 6), where he ran a 6K time of 21 minutes, 27 seconds … Ran a season-best 8K time of 27:08 at UND’s Ron Pynn Invitational (Oct. 19) … Led UND’s three participants at the St. John’s Fall Finale, placing 14th with a time of 27:17 ... Member of UND’s distance medley relay that placed seventh at the 2014 Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship ... Quartet clocked a time of 10:35.98 that was the seventh-fastest in UND history ... Won the 3K with a time of 8:58.76 at NDSU’s Thundering Herd Classic ... Ran a PR in the 3K steeplechase at Drake’s Jim Duncan Invitational with a time of 9:41.78, the fourth-best in school history ... Earned his first letters in both cross country and track ... Before UND: A 2013 graduate of Mahtomedi High School ... Lettered four times in track and three times in cross country ... Served as cross country captain and was named the team’s most valuable runner as a senior ... Earned Hardest Worker honors as a junior and Most Improved accolades as a sophomore ... Also lettered four times in Nordic skiing ... Earned Team MVP honors in that sport as a junior and senior ... Also improved Most Improved honors as a sophomore ... Honor Roll student ... Personal: Majoring in mechanical engineering ... Son of Frank and Kari Campbell.

2014-15 (Senior): Named to UND’s Fall 2014 Dean’s List ... 201314 (Junior): Earned 2014 Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team honors in both indoor and outdoor track ... Broke the school record in the pole vault at the Big Sky Championship, clearing 16 feet, 4 ¾ inches (5.00 meters) to take third and earn All-Big Sky honors … Previously had set the school record of 4.90 meters at the UNC Wilmington Seahawk Invitational ... Runner-up in the pole vault at the NDSU Tune-Up with a mark of 16-0.75 (4.90) … Earned third letter ... 2012-13 (Sophomore): Earned Big Sky Conference Winter and Spring All-Academic Team honors … Named to the University’s 2013 Spring Semester Dean’s List … Recorded the fourth-best pole vault in school history with a mark of 15 feet, 6 ¼ inches at North Dakota State’s Bison Open … Earlier in the season had established his PR at 15-05 inches while at the UCS Spirit National Pole Vault Summit, where he finished first in his 11-man division … Earned second letter ... 2011-12 (Freshman): Placed fifth in the pole vault at the Great West Conference Outdoor Championship with a mark of 14 feet, 5 ¼ inches ... Finished seventh in the pole vault at the GWC Indoor Championship after clearing (13-11 ¼) ... His pole vault mark of 4.55 meters at the Iowa State Bill Bergan Invitational was the second-best in the GWC all season ... Named to Athletics Director’s Fall Honor Roll ... Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2011 graduate of Forest Lake Senior High School ... Lettered three times in track as a prep ... An all-conference pole vaulter as a senior and junior ...Also lettered in basketball ... Received Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in each of his four years ... Personal: Majoring in mechanical engineering ... Son of Keith and Darlene Colling.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

IAN COLLINS

CATALDO DIDONNA

Year: Sophomore

Event: Throws

Event: Distance

Hometown: Edina, Minn.

Hometown: Bismarck, N.D.

High School: Edina High School (‘13)

High School: Century High School (‘13)

Major: Pre-Communication

Major: Chemical Engineering

2014-15 (Sophomore): Will redshirt the indoor season ... 2013-14 (Freshman): Placed fourth in the discus at the Cobber Twilight with a throw of 153 feet, 11 inches (46.92 meters) … Runner-up in the shot put at the Dakota Duals with a throw of 49-11.25 (15.22) … Placed fifth in the discus at the Dakota Duals with a mark of 15910 (48.71) … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2013 graduate of Edina High School ... Lettered three times in track and field ... Was an all-state, all-conference and all-metro performer as a prep ... Also lettered three times in football ... Personal: Majoring in pre-communication ... Son of John and Barby Collins.

CONNOR DANIELSON

2013-14 (Freshman): Named 2013 Big Sky Fall All-Academic team ... Also named to UND’s Spring 2014 Dean’s List ... Competed in six meets as a freshman … Made his debut at the season-opening NDSU Invite with a 5K time of 16 minutes, 52 seconds … Ran a PR 8K time of 27:17 at the UND Ron Pynn Invitational, where he placed 18th ... Earned his first letter in cross country ... Before UND: A 2013 graduate of Century High School ... A four-year letterwinner in cross country and track ... Earned all-state cross country honors and placed at the state meet in 2011 and 2012 ... Also served as a team captain in each of those two years ... Doubled as track captain in 2013 and placed fifth in the 1,600-meters at state in 2012 ... Also lettered in swimming three times and was an all-state selection and team captain in 2013 ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Graduated as Class Valedictorian ... Personal: Majoring in chemical engineering ... Son of Greg and Nancy DiDonna.

Year: Freshman Event: Distance Hometown: Fergus Falls, Minn. High School: Fergus Falls High School (‘14) Major: Pre-Management

2014-15 (Freshman): Received cross country team’s Freshman of the Year award ... Ran a 10,000-meter time of 34 minutes, 20.7 seconds at the NCAA Midwest Regional … Finished 63rd overall at the Big Sky Cross Country Championship with a time of 26:48.9 … Finished in the top half of the field at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational with a time of 29:11.90 … Ran a season-best time of 26:36.50 in the 8,000-meters at the Ron Pynn Classic ... Before UND: A 2014 graduate of Fergus Falls High School ... Lettered four times in cross country and track as a prep ... Earned All-Central Lakes Conference honors in cross country in each of his last three years and was a state qualifier in each of his last two ... Conference champion and state qualifier in the 3,200-meters as junior ... Earned all-conference honors in both the 3,200-meters and the 4x800 as a sophomore, winning the conference championship in the latter ... Also earned all-conference in the 4x800 as a freshman ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Personal: Majoring in pre-management ... Son of Brad and Michelle Danielson ... Mother played tennis at Minnesota State University Moorhead ... Grandfather played basketball at the University of Minnesota, Crookston.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

Ian Collins

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

JIMMY EVERS

JESSE FENSTERMACHER

Year: Junior

Year: Senior

Event: Hurdles

Event: Mid-Distance

Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Hometown: Hibbing, Minn.

High School: Red River High School (‘12)

High School: Hibbing High School (‘10)

Major: Physics

Major: Biology

2013-14 (Sophomore): Named to the Capital One Academic AllDistrict Track & Field/Cross Country Team by CoSIDA … Earned 2014 Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team honors in both indoor and outdoor track … Took fifth in the 110-meter hurdles at the Big Sky Championships with a time of 14.57 seconds … Won the 110-meter hurdles at the NDSU Tune-Up with a time of 14.80 seconds … Won the 110-meter hurdles at the Ron Masanz Classic with a time of 14.89 … Finished second in his section in the 200-meter dash at the Beach Invitational with a time of 22.87 … Won the 110-meter hurdles at the Lyle Hokanson Open with a time of 14.69 … Runnerup in the 110-meter hurdles at the Dakota Duals with a time of 15.08 … Earned second letter ... 2012-13 (Freshman): Earned Big Sky Conference Winter and Spring All-Academic Team honors … Named to both the University’s Dean’s List and President’s Roll of Honor for the spring semester … Ran the fifth-fastest 60-meter hurdles time in school history (8.43 seconds) at the USD Open … Qualified for the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship when he won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.94 seconds at Gustavus Adolphus’ Drake Alternative Track and Field Meet … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2012 graduate of Red River High School ... Named Mr. Red River High School as a senior ... Lettered four times in track as a prep and was a four-time All-Eastern Dakota Conference performer ... As a senior received the Cliff Cushman Award as Red River’s most outstanding senior athlete, as well as the school’s most valuable track athlete award ... Served as team captain as a senior and junior ... Was the North Dakota state 110-meter hurdles champion in 2011 ... Earned Most Valuable Team Member award in 2011 ... Was twice named Red River’s Most Valuable Sprinter/Hurdler ... Named Red River Junior Athlete of the Year in 2011 and Red River Sophomore Athlete of the Year in 2010 ... Was named team’s rookie of the year in 2009 ... Also lettered in football and hockey ... Earned all-state football honors at defensive back as a senior ... Was also named to the All-EDC and all-city teams ... Member of both the National Honor Society and the National Technical Honor Society ... Also a member of the National Association of High School Scholars ... Recipient of UND Presidential Scholarship ... Personal: Majoring in physics ... Son of Mike and Margie Hutson Evers ... Mother ran track at UND, is the school’s record-holder in the 55-meters, 60-meters and 400-meter relay, and was inducted into the UND Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007 ... Sister, Emily, is a senior center on UND’s basketball team ... Cousin, Kyle Bondy, was an offensive lineman at UND from 2005 to 2009.

2014-15 (Senior): Team co-captain ... 2013-14 (Senior): Redshirted the season … Won the 800-meter run at the Lyle Hokanson Open with a time of 1 minute, 52.51 seconds while competing unattached … Member of UND’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) ... 2012-13 (Junior): Earned Big Sky Conference Winter and Spring AllAcademic Team honors … Set UND indoor records in the 600-meters and 800-meters … Broke the 13-year old 600-meters mark with a time of 1 minute, 21.02 seconds at North Dakota State’s Dakota Duals … Established the new 800-meters record with at time of 1:51.65 at the Iowa State Classic, toppling previous record set in 2001 … Clocked a time of 47.91 seconds in the 400-meters at the Beach Invitational, the fifth-best time in the Big Sky to that point … Won the 400-meters at the Dakota Duals in Yankton, S.D. with a time of 49.41 seconds … Earned third letter ... 2011-12 (Sophomore): Named to 2011-12 Great West Conference Winter/Spring Academic Team in both indoor and outdoor track ... Won the 800-meters with a schoolrecord time of 1:50.57 at the 2012 Great West Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship ... Broke school record that had stood for 10 years ... Also helped UND to a fourth-place finish in the 4x400 relay at the GWC Outdoor Championship ... Member of UND’s runner-up 4x400 relay team (3:24.27) at the GWC Indoor Championship ... Also placed third in the 800-meters at the GWC Indoor Championship with a time of 1:55.50 ... Won the 400-meter dash at North Dakota State with a time of 47.82 seconds, the top time in the GWC all season ... Placed 27th among 110 competitors in the 800-meters at the Long Beach State Invitational with a time of 1:52.42 ... Ran the 800-meters in 1:52.15 at the Mt. SAC Relays, placing fourth in his section and clocking the third-fastest time in the GWC ... Helped UND win the 4x400 relay (3:22.16) at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational ... Opened the indoor season by winning the 600-meters at the Dakota Duals with a time of 1:22.04 ... Named to Athletics Director’s Fall Honor Roll ... Earned second letter ... 2010-11 (Freshman): Was the Great West Conference Outdoor Championship runner-up in the 800-meters with a time of 1:56.20 ... Helped lead UND to a runner-up finish in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3 minutes, 22.54 seconds at the 2011 Great West Conference Indoor Championship ... Also placed fourth in the 800-meters (1:55.61) at the GWC Indoor Championship ... Was the runner-up in the 800-meters at the UNDNDSU Dual with a time of 1:53.85 ... Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2010 graduate of Hibbing High School ... Lettered four times in track and field and was twice named Hibbing High School’s MVP ... Was also a team captain and state qualifier ... Lettered three times in soccer and was a team captain ... Also lettered twice in hockey ... Member of the Honor Roll each of his four years ... Personal: Majoring in biology ... Son of Mike and Becky Fenstermacher ... Mother played volleyball at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

JORDAN FISK

KEATON HANEVOLD

Year: Senior

Year: Junior

Event: Pole Vault

Event: Throws

Hometown: Langdon, N.D.

Hometown: Thompson, N.D.

High School: Langdon/Munich High School (‘10)

High School: Thompson High School (‘11)

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Major: Chemical Engineering

2014-15 (Senior): Team co-captain ... 2013-14 (Redshirt): Redshirted the 2013-14 season ... 2012-13 (Junior): Named to Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team … One of five finalists (all sports) for UND’s Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award … Set the school heptathlon record at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship with 4,296 points … Placed eighth in the event … Had originally set the school heptathlon record earlier in the year with 4,268 points at NDSU’s Thundering Herd Classic … Broke a 22-year old school record in the pole vault at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational with a mark of 15 feet, 11 inches … Recorded the eighth-best pole vault in school history with a mark of 15-0.25 at North Dakota State’s Bison Open … Earned third letter ... 2011-12 (Sophomore): Named to 2011-12 Great West Conference Winter/Spring Academic Team in both indoor and outdoor track ... Great West Conference outdoor runner-up in the pole vault with a personal-record mark of 14 feet, 9 inches ... Placed fourth in the pole vault at the GWC Indoor Championship after clearing 14-07.25 ... Named to Athletics Director’s Fall Honor Roll ... Earned second letter ... 2010-11 (Freshman): Finished sixth in the pole vault at the 2011 Great West Conference Indoor Championship with a leap of 13 feet, 11 ¼ inches ... Placed eighth in the pole vault at the 2011 Great West Conference Outdoor Championship with a leap of 13-03.5 ... Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2010 graduate of Langdon Area High School ...Lettered four times in track as a prep ... State champion in the pole vault and the 4x100 and 4x200 relays ... Member of Langdon football team that was the state Class A runner-up ... Honor roll student in each of his four years ... Personal: Majoring in mechanical engineering ... Son of Mark and Julie Fisk.

2013-14 (Sophomore): Named to 2014 Big Sky Conference AllAcademic Spring Team ... Also named to UND’s Spring 2014 Dean’s List ... Placed third in the javelin at the Big Sky Championship with a personal-record mark of 196 feet, 10 inches (59.99 meters) to capture All-Big Sky honors … Won the javelin at the NDSU Tune-Up with a throw of 188-03 (57.38) … Placed fourth in the javelin at the Lyle Hokanson Open with a toss of 194-10 (59.40) … Placed eighth in the javelin at the Shamrock Invitational with a mark of 192-00 … Earned second letter ... 2012-13 (Freshman): Earned Big Sky Conference Winter and Spring All-Academic Team honors … Set a personal record in the weight throw at North Dakota State’s Bison Open with a mark of 45 feet, 3 ½ inches … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2011 graduate of Thompson High School ... Lettered three times in track and field ... Placed fifth in the javelin at the 2011 state championship ... Also placed twice in the discus, finishing sixth in 2011 and seventh in 2010 ... Lettered four times in football and served as team captain as a senior ... Was a second-team all-state selection as a senior ... A two-time all-region performer ... Also lettered five times in wrestling and owned a 32-14 career record ... Class Valedictorian and a member of the Dean’s List ... Personal: Majoring in chemical engineering ... Son of Kindra and the late Orin Hanevold.

Keaton Hanevold

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

MARK HARRIES

MATTHEW HARRIS

Year: Senior

Event: Distance

Event: Pole Vault

Hometown: Plymouth, Minn.

Hometown: Sidney, Mont.

High School: Wayzata High School (‘11)

High School: Sidney High School (‘10)

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Major: Psychology

2014-15 (Senior): Received cross country program’s Dakota Spirit Award ... Named to UND’s Fall 2014 President’s Honor Roll ... Ran a 10,000-meters time of 32 minutes, 28.1 seconds at the NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional … Placed 33rd overall at the Big Sky Cross Country Championships with a time of 25:46.1 … Clocked a time of 25:45.39 at the Ron Pynn Classic, good enough for a seventh-place finish … Finished 28th at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational with a time of 27:30.90 ... 2013-14 (Junior): Named to the 2013 Big Sky Fall All-Academic Team ... Also named to UND’s Fall 2013 President’s Honor Roll ... Lettered in cross country ... 2012-13 (Sophomore): Named to 2013 Big Sky Conference Spring All-Academic Team … Also named to UND’s Spring 2013 Dean’s List and 2013 Spring Semester President’s Roll of Honor … Earned second track and field letter … Did not compete in any cross country meets ... 2011-12 (Freshman): Made his collegiate track debut at the Dakota Duals with a fourth-place effort in the 3K with a time of 9:13.31 ... Placed sixth in the 5K (15:27.21) at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational (March 10) and the Carleton Relays (April 21) ... Made his collegiate cross country debut with a 15th-place finish at UND’s Ron Pynn Invitational ... Clocked a time of 27:13.66 ... Named to Athletics Director’s Fall Honor Roll ... Earned first letters in both cross country and track and field ... Before UND: A 2011 graduate of Wayzata High School ... Lettered four times in cross country and three times in track and field ... Helped lead Wayzata High School to three state cross country championships as a freshman, sophomore and senior ... Earned all-state honors as a senior ... Earned back-to-back all-section and all-conference honors as a junior and senior ... Was a fourtime academic all-state honoree in track and a two-time recipient in cross country ... Personal: Majoring in mechanical engineering ... Son of Kurt and Julie Harries.

2014-15 (Senior): Redshirting the indoor season ... 2013-14 (Senior): Won the pole vault at the Cobber Twilight, clearing 14 feet, 8 inches (4.47 meters) ... 2012-13 (Junior): Recorded the sixth-best pole vault in school history with a mark of 15 feet, 5 inches at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship … Placed sixth in the pole vault at the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship with a mark of 14-06 inches … Finished 11th in the pole vault at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship with a mark of 15-05 ... 2011-12 (Sophomore): Great West Conference outdoor pole vault champion with a mark of 15 feet, 5 inches ... Placed third in the pole vault at the GWC Indoor Championship after clearing 14-11 ... Was the runnerup in the pole vault at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational, clearing 14-11 ... Earned first letter ... 2010-11: Did not compete ... Before UND: A 2010 graduate of Sidney High School ... Lettered twice in track and field in the pole vault and decathlon ... Personal: Majoring in psychology ... Son of Lee and Jan Harris.

LANE HERBERT Year: Freshman Event: Throws Hometown: Glasgow, Mont. High School: Glasgow High School (‘14) Major: Civil Engineering

Before UND: A 2014 graduate of Glasgow High School ... Was the Montana state runner-up in the javelin and boasts a personal record of 180 feet, 7 inches ... Also played football and basketball as a prep ... Personal: Majoring in civil engineering.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

RYAN KIRKLAND

JOHN LECLERC

Year: Freshman

Year: Junior

Event: Distance

Event: Hurdles

Hometown: Mahtomedi, Minn.

Hometown: Grafton, N.D.

High School: Mahtomedi High School (‘13)

High School: Grafton High School (‘12)

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Major: Psychology

2013-14 (Freshman): Was the runner-up in the 1,500-meters at conocordia College’s Cobber Twilight with a time of 4 minutes, 9.08 seconds ... Competed in six cross country meets and earned his first letter ... Personal: Majoring in mechanical engineering.

SCOTT KVIDERA Year: Freshman Event: Distance Hometown: Minnnetonka, Minn. High School: Minnetonka High School (‘14) Major: Commercial Aviation, Honors

2014-15 (Freshman): Ran a time of 32 minutes, 57.3 seconds in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional … At the Big Sky Cross Country Championships, clocked a time of 27:09.7 ... Before UND: A 2014 graduate of Minnetonka High School ... Lettered four times in track and cross country as a prep ... Two-time team MVP in cross country (2013, 2012) and 2014 team MVP in track ... Served as team captain of both squads as a senior ... A state participant in track in the 1,600-meters (2014) and 4x800 relay (2013) ... Also qualified for state meet in cross country in 2013 ... Earned AllLakes Conference honors in track in each of his three years and was also an all-conference performer in cross country in 2013 ... Member of Minnetonka’s school-record distance medley relay team ... An academic all-state selection in track in 2013 ... Was a National Merit Commended Scholar and an AP Scholar with Distinction in 2013 ... Personal: Majoring in commercial aviation and honors ... Son of Steve and Sandy Kvidera.

2014-15 (Junior): Team co-captain ... Named to UND’s Fall 2014 Dean’s List ... 2013-14 (Sophomore): Earned Big Sky Conference AllAcademic Team honors in both indoor and outdoor track ... Placed sixth in the 110-meter hurdles at the Big Sky Championship with a time of 14.60 seconds … Hit a new personal record in the 110-meter hurdles at the NDSU Tune-Up with a time of 14.97 … Won his section of the 200-meter dash at the Beach Invitational with a time of 22.71 … Won the 110-meter hurdles at the Dakota Duals with a time of 15.03 … Earned second letter ... Member of UND’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) ... 2012-13 (Freshman): Earned Big Sky Conference Winter and Spring All-Academic Team honors … Ran the 60-meter hurdles in 8.55 seconds at the USD Open, tying him for the 10th-fastest time in school history … Ran a personal-best time of 15.25 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles prelims at the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship … Went on to finish 14th in the finals … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2012 graduate of Grafton High School ... Lettered five times in track as a prep ... Missed most of his senior year due to injury ... Placed at state track meet as a freshman, sophomore and junior ... Also lettered four times in football and three times in hockey ... Member of Grafton’s 2011 state championship football team ... Also helped lead Grafton to back-to-back state runner-up finishes as a junior and senior ... Served as Grafton High School Student Council President ... Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Chapter Vice-President ... FBLA state champion in Business Ethics ... Member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society ... Personal: Majoring in psychology ... Son of Ed and Nancy Miller and Brian LeClerc.

ANTHONY LITERSKY Year: Freshman Event: Sprints/Hurdles Hometown: Ashland, Wis. High School: Ashland High School (‘14) Major: Kinesiology

Before UND: A 2014 graduate of Ashland High School ... Lettered in track and field, football and basketball ... As a senior earned his second straight track team MVP honor after qualifying for the state meet in both the 110-meter hurdles and the triple jump ... A twotime all-conference performer ... Personal: Majoring in kinesiology ... Son of Edward and Dianne Litersky.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

CODY MACH

JARED MICHEL

Year: Junior

Year: Sophomore

Event: Throws

Event: Sprints/Hurdles

Hometown: Faribault, Minn.

Hometown: Chesterfield, Mo.

High School: Faribault High School (‘12)

High School: Marquette High School (‘13)

Major: Psychology

Major: Mathematics

2013-14 (Sophomore): Named to 2014 Big Sky Conference AllAcademic Winter Team ... Earned second letter ... 2012-13 (Freshman): Earned Big Sky Conference Spring All-Academic Team honors … Hit personal records in both the discus (142 feet, 10 ½ inches) and the hammer (157-3) at the Cobber Twilight … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2012 graduate of Faribault High School ... Lettered three times in track ... Earned All-Big 9 Conference honors in the discus as a senior and junior ... Went on to place seventh at the state track meet ... Also earned all-conference honors in football as a senior ... Received team’s most improved player award ... Competed in wrestling ... Honors student ... Personal: Majoring in psychology ... Son of Al Mach and Kathy Mach.

MITCHELL MEYER Year: Freshman Event: Distance

2013-14 (Freshman): Earned 2014 Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team honors in both indoor and outdoor track ... Named to UND’s President’s Honor Roll during both the fall and spring semesters ... Was also named to the Fall 2013 Dean’s List ... Finished eighth in the 400-meter hurdles at the Big Sky Championship with a time of 57.97 seconds … Helped UND finish eighth in the distance medley relay at the Big Sky Indoor Championship ... Quartet ran a time of 10:35.98 that was seventh-fastest in school history ... Runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles at the NDSU Tune-Up with a time of 55.00 … Was the runner-up in his section of the 400-meter hurdles at the Beach Invitational with a time of 54.30 … Won his section in the 400-meter hurdles at the Bryan Clay Invitational with a time of 54.86 … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2013 graduate of Marquette High School ... Lettered four times in track as a prep ... Broke a 30year old Suburban West Conference record in the 300-meter hurdles during his season year ... Was the runner-up in the same event at the 2013 state championship ... Also a member of Marquette’s runnerup 4x800 relay team at the 2013 state championship ... Placed ninth in the 300-meter hurdles at the 2012 state championship as a junior ... Also lettered twice in football as a linebacker and wide receiver ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Personal: Majoring in mathematics ... Son of Keith and Dawn Michel.

Hometown: Dickinson, N.D. High School: Trinity High School (‘13)

TYLER OLSON

Major: Pre-Management Year: Sophomore

Before UND: A 2013 graduate of Trinity High School ... Lettered four times in track and was a finalist for Region 8 Male Track Athlete of the Year as a senior ... Also lettered in basketball and football as a prep ... Personal: Majoring in pre-management ... Son of Chad and Tammy Meyer.

Event: Sprints/Hurdles Hometown: Buffalo, Minn. High School: Buffalo Senior High School (‘13) Major: Criminal Justice Studies

2013-14 (Freshman): Named to the 2014 Big Sky Conference AllAcademic Winter Team ... Runner-up in the 200-meter dash at the NDSU Tune-Up with a time of 22.12 seconds … Won his section in the 400-meters at the Beach Invitational with a time of 49.09 … Won his section in the 400-meters at the Bryan Clay Invitational with a time of 48.81 … Won the 200-meters at the Lyle Hokanson Open with a time of 22.16 … Finished first in the 400-meters with a time of 49.18 at the Dakota Duals … Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2013 graduate of Buffalo High School ... Lettered four times in track and field as a prep ... A three-time all-state and all-conference performer in the 100-meters, 200-meters and 400-meters ... Also earned all-conference honors in the 4x100 and 4x200 in 2010 ... Personal: Majoring in criminal justice ... Son of David and Bethany Olson.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

NATE PETERSON Year: Senior

Year: Freshman

Event: Distance

Event: Throws

Hometown: Horace, N.D.

Hometown: Billings, Mont.

High School: West Fargo High School (‘11)

High School: Billings High School (‘14)

Major: Mathematics

Major: Pre-Business Economics

2014-15 (Senior): Received cross country team’s Most Valuable Runner award for second straight year ... Named to UND’s Fall 2014 Dean’s List ... Cross country team captain and track co-captain ... Placed within the top half of the field at the NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional with a time of 31 minutes, 40.8 seconds … Finished 18th overall at the Big Sky Cross Country Championship with a time of 25:07.6 … His 25:12.28 time at the Ron Pynn Classic was good enough for a second-place finish … Took eighth at the SDSU Classic with a time of 25:40.64 ... 2013-14 (Junior): Named to the 2013 Big Sky Fall All-Academic Team ... Named UND’s Most Valuable Cross Country Runner in the fall … Also named to UND’s 2014 Spring Dean’s List and the 2014 Spring President’s Honor Roll ... Served as team co-captain … Was UND’s top runner at the Big Sky Conference Cross Country Championship, where he placed 28th with a time of 26 minutes, 4 seconds … Was also the team’s top finisher at the UND Ron Pynn Invitational (25:39 // 6th place) and the SDSU Classic (26:22 // 16th) ... Won the 3K at Minnesota’s Northwest Open with a time of 8:41.08 ... Ran a PR in the mile at Iowa State’s Bill Bergan Invitational ... His time of 4:11.97 bested his previous PR by eight seconds and was the third-fastest time in school history ... Earned his third letters in both cross country and track ... 2012-13 (Sophomore): Named to the 2013 Big Sky Conference Spring All-Academic Team, 2012-13 Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team and the 2012 Big Sky Fall All-Academic Team … Also named to UND’s Spring 2013 Dean’s List and 2013 Spring Semester President’s Roll of Honor … Member of UND’s distance medley relay team that placed seventh at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship … Quartet ran the fourth-fastest relay in school history with a time of 10:31.98 … Clocked a PR of 3:55.94 in the 1,500-meters at the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship (May 11) … Ran a PR mile of 4:19.58 at Iowa State’s Bill Bergan Invitational (Jan. 26) that was the fifth-fastest in school history … Also hit a PR in the 800-meters at the NDSU Tune-Up (May 3) with a time of 1:58.78 … Competed in five of six cross country meets ... Was second among UND runners at the Big Sky Conference Championship with a time of 27:04.1 ... Placed 41st overall ... Clocked a time of 33 minutes, 13.41 seconds at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional, placing 119th ... Led UND and placed third among Division I runners at UND’s Ron Pynn Invitational with a time of 26:16.0 … Earned second letter in both cross country and track ... 2011-12 (Freshman): Placed 46th (28:22.20) at the 2011 Great West Conference Cross Country Championship ... Made his collegiate debut at UND’s Ron Pynn Invitational, placing 19th with a time of 27:47.08 ... Named to Athletics Director’s Fall Honor Roll ... Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2011 graduate of West Fargo High School... Lettered three times in cross country and twice in track and field ... Named the Eastern Dakota Conference (EDC) Track and Field Senior Athlete of the Year as a senior ... Also earned first-team all-state track and field and cross country honors as a senior ... Finished fifth at the 2010 state cross country meet ... A three-time allconference performer ... Academic all-state bronze team and national semifinalist at the Presidential Scholar Competition ... Personal: Majoring in mathematics ... Son of Kory and Pam Peterson ... Both parents attended UND ... Father ran track at UND.

MICHAEL QUESENBERRY

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

Before UND: A 2014 graduate of Billings West High School ... Placed third in the discus as a senior at the 2014 Montana state meet ... Placed third in the shot put as a junior in 2013 ... Owns a discus PR of 167-06 and a shot put PR of 56-10 ½ ... Personal: Majoring in prebusiness economics ... Son of Rod and Sophia Quesenberry ... Older brother, Brandon, is a 2011 graduate of UND and competed in track and football.

Nate Peterson

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY

ROMAN WALDERA

PARKER WHARRAM

Year: Senior

Year: Sophomore

Event: Throws

Event: Distance

Hometown: Minot, N.D.

Hometown: Independence, Minn.

High School: Minot High School (‘10)

High School: Mound Westonka High School (‘12)

Major: Kinesiology

Major: Pre-Commercial Aviation

2014-15 (Senior): Redshirting the indoor season ... 2013-14 (Junior): Hit a personal record in the discus at the 2014 Big Sky Outdoor Championship, placing fourth with a throw of 172 feet, 7 inches (52.61 meters) … Also hit a new PR in the hammer throw at the 2014 Big Sky Outdoor Championship, taking fifth with a toss of 189-02 (57.65) … Was the runner-up in the discus at the NDSU Tune-Up with a mark of 170-10 (52.08) … Placed third in the hammer at the NDSU Tune-Up with a throw of 184-08 (56.28) … Placed first in his flight in the hammer at the Triton Invite with a mark of 177-00 (53.94) … Runner-up in the discus at the Cobber Twilight with a heave of 171-05 (52.24) … Placed fifth in the hammer at the Cobber Twilight with a mark of 175-03 (53.41) … Won his flight of the hammer throw at the Beach Invitational with a throw of 180-08 (55.08) … Placed fifth in the discus at the Cal State L.A. Twilight Open with a mark of 167-06 (51.05) … Was the runner-up in the discus at the Lyle Hokanson Open with a heave of 158-09 (48.39) … Third in the discus at the Shamrock Invitational with a throw of 160-02 (48.82) ... Earned third letter ... 2012-13 (Redshirt): Redshirt season, competed unattached ... Set school weight throw record at the USD Open with a toss of 57 feet, 5 ¾ inches … Had previously set his own PR of 55-1.5 at NDSU’s Thundering Herd Classic ... 2011-12 (Sophomore): Won the discus at the 2012 Great West Conference Outdoor Championship with a throw of 160 feet, 9 inches ... Placed eighth in the hammer throw with a mark of 162-04 ... Placed fourth in the weight throw at the GWC Indoor Championship with a mark of 540.5 ... Established a personal record of 171-8 in the hammer throw at the Cobber Twilight ... Named GWC Athlete of the Week (April 12) for his career performance at the USD/SDSU Double Dual ... Recorded a discus throw of 176-10 inches at the USD/SDSU double dual that was seven feet longer than any other in the GWC all season ... The throw also eclipsed his PR by more than 20 feet and would have put him in position to qualify for the NCAA Championship if UND was eligible ... Also won the hammer throw (169 feet) at the USD/SDSU double dual ... Won the discus at NDSU’s Lyle Hokanson Open with a mark of 151-9) ... Named to Athletics Director’s Fall Honor Roll ... Earned second letter ... 2010-11 (Freshman): Placed sixth in the discus at the 2011 Great West Conference Outdoor Championship with a throw of 147-1.75 ... Placed eighth in the weight throw at the GWC Indoor Championship with a throw of 47-5.25 ... Earned first letter ... Before UND: A 2010 graduate of Minot High School ... Lettered twice in track and field ... Placed third in the discus at the 2010 state meet ... Was the runner-up at the West Region meet ... Also lettered in football ... Personal: Majoring in kinesiology ... Son of Mark and Julie Waldera ... Mother ran track and North Dakota State and father ran track at Minnesota State University Moorhead, Montana State and Cal State Northridge.

2014-15 (Junior): Ran a time of 28 minutes, 1.0 seconds at the Big Sky Cross Country Championship … Ran a season-best 8K time of 26:46.10 at the Ron Pynn Classic ... 2013-14 (Sophomore): Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors in the fall (cross country), winter (indoor track) and spring (outdoor track) ... Competed in all but one of UND’s eight cross country meets … Ran a PR 8K time of 26 minutes, 18 seconds at the UND Ron Pynn Invitational where he placed ninth … Ran a time of 27:05 at the Big Sky Conference Cross Country Championship … Ran a 10K time of 33:21 at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional Championship ... Member of UND’s distance medley relay that placed seventh at the 2014 Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship ... Quartet clocked a time of 10:35.98 that was the seventhfastest in UND history ... Ran a PR in the 10K at the Coastal Carolina Shamrock Invitational, finishing with a time of 32:56.87 ... Trimmed 40 seconds off his previous PR and placed seventh in the event ... Earned his second letters in both cross country and track ... 201213 (Freshman): Named to the 2013 Big Sky Conference Spring AllAcademic Team, 2012-13 Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team and the 2012 Big Sky Fall All-Academic Team … Also named to UND’s Spring 2013 Dean’s List and 2013 Spring Semester President’s Roll of Honor … Placed third in the 3K at Minnesota’s Northwest Open (Jan. 12) … Ran a PR time of 15:34.77 in the 5K at Drake’s Jim Duncan Invitational … Competed in all six cross country meets ... Clocked a time of 33 minutes, 22.09 seconds at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional, placing 125th ... Finished 55th at the Big Sky Conference Championship with a time of 27:50.5 ... Made his collegiate cross country debut at the Bison Cross Country Duals, placing 10th with a time of 27:04.96 … Earned first letter in both cross country and track ... Before UND: A 2012 graduate of Mound Westonka High School ... Lettered four times in track and cross country ... Set a pair of track and field school records while at Mound Westonka and was named team MVP three times ... Earned four all-conference honors and two all-state honors in track and won conference titles in three races ... Was the 2011 Wright Conference champion in both the 1,600 and 3,200-meters and was the Section 2AA runner-up in both events ... Was a four-time all-conference performer in cross country and won one conference championship ... Set the school record in the 5K ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Personal: Majoring in commercial aviation ... Son of Dominic and Linda Wharram.

STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY The 1990s saw change in the makeup of the league, beginning in 1992 when Nevada departed and put the Big Sky back at eight teams. In 1996 Boise State and Idaho left and at the same time the conference added Portland State, Sacramento State and Cal State Northridge. The Big Sky maintained nine teams for five years before Cal State Northridge departed in the spring of 2001.

The Big Sky Conference enters its 51st year The Big Sky now includes nine states spanand 26th year of women’s competition during ning from the Pacific Ocean to the Red River the 2014-15 academic year. Valley of North Dakota. The league is represented along the entire west coast with instiThe venerable and stable Division I conference tutions in Washington, Oregon and California. observed its 50th birthday on July 1, 2013. League schools also range up and down the Rocky Mountains with institutions in MonFour of the current league members – Idaho tana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Colorado. It is State University, The University of Montana, “The Heart of the American West.” Montana State and Weber State – have been with the league since its birth. Fellow charter On Feb 25, 1963, the name Big Sky was adoptmember the University of Idaho will bring the ed by the six presidents of the charter memmajority of its sports back to the Big Sky on bers as the name of the new conference. The July 1, 2014. Northern Arizona University en- name Big Sky originated in a novel written by ters its 45th season in the league, giving the the late A.B. (Bud) Guthrie of Great Falls, Mont., league five members with at least 40 years of in 1947 entitled “The Big Sky.” Jack Hollowell, a continuous membership. former Montana advertising director, promot-

ed the Big Sky theme for the Treasure State. While on a track and field trip from Pocatello, Idaho, to Missoula, Mont., legendary Dubby Holt of Idaho State saw a “Welcome to Big Sky Country” sign as his team entered Montana. Holt, and his athletes thought “Big Sky” would be a perfect name for the new conference. Harry Missildine of the Spokane SpokesmanReview called for the newly formed league to be named the Big Sky Conference in his colThe league has become one of the strongest umn dated Feb. 20, 1963. Division I conferences in the West and is a national leader in the Football Championship The Big Sky sponsors championships in 15 Subdivision. Six times, Big Sky teams have sports, including men’s and women’s cross won the Division I National Championship, in- country, indoor and outdoor track and field, cluding Eastern Washington in 2010. A Big Sky basketball and tennis. In addition, there are team has played for the national champion- also championships in football, and women’s ship in three of the past five seasons. The Big volleyball, golf and soccer. The Big Sky sponSky is one of three conferences in the western sored softball for the first time in 2013. Men’s United States playing Division I football. golf will return as a conference sport in 2014-

The Big Sky Conference welcomed North Dakota and Southern Utah on July 1, 2012 as full members. UC Davis and Cal Poly joined as football affiliate members. Eastern Washington University, the University of Northern Colorado, Portland State University and Sacramento State round out the current membership.

The Big Sky Conference was established in 1963 by six charter members – Idaho, Idaho State, Gonzaga, Montana, Montana State and Weber State. Those six schools formed the foundation of the Big Sky before the league expanded in 1970 by adding Boise State and Northern Arizona. Gonzaga left the Sky in 1979 and was replaced by Nevada, which gave the league eight members. The conference grew to nine schools in 1987 with the addition of Eastern Washington.

BIG SKY CONFERENCE

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In 1988-89, the Big Sky Conference first began sponsoring women’s sports. The former Mountain West Conference existed from 198288, sponsoring championships for women’s sports at the same institutions the Big Sky had men’s programs. The Big Sky merged with the Mountain West in 1988, forming one league for both men and women.

Doug Fullerton, the fifth commissioner of the Big Sky Conference, is in his 19th year at the helm. Fullerton took over the Big Sky on July 1, 1995, replacing longtime commissioner Ron Stephenson, who passed away in 2011. Stephenson served the league for 14 years. Steve Belko was the commissioner from 1977-81, while John Roning held the post from 197177. The first league commissioner was Jack Friel, who served from 1963-71.

Doug Fullerton Commissioner

Ron Loghry Associate Commissioner

Jaynee Nodalski Assistant Commissioner

Jon Kasper Assistant Commissioner

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY North Dakota Indoor Track and Field Records Event 55-Intermediate Hurdles 55-Meter Hurdles 60-Intermediate Hurdles 60-Meter Hurdles 55-Meter Dash 60-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash 300-Meter Dash 400-Meter Dash 500-Meter Dash 600-Meter Dash 800-Meter Dash 1,000-Meter Run 1,500-Meter Run Mile Run 3,000-Meter Run 5,000-Meter Run Pole Vault Long Jump High Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Pentathlon 35 lb. Weight Relays Sprint Medley Relay 1,600-Meter Relay

Name Henry Jordan Rory Beil Rick Johnson Jeremy Zimney Norm McGee Donovan Alexander Norm McGee Norm McGee Chris Stoks Aaron Berndt Jesse Fenstermacher Jesse Fenstermacher Aaron Berndt Todd Szczepanski Chad Heltemes Josh LaBlanc Josh LaBlanc Jon Wrzesinski Justin Schiele Marc Sondreal Mike Backes Dave Levos Tyler Stoltz Jakob Bissell

Year Mark 1979 :07.50 1991 :07.60 1979 :08.10 1998 :08.16 1989 :06.20 2007 :06.75 1989 :21.66 1987 :34.18 2012 :48.36 2001 1:04.67 2013 1:21.02 2013 1:51.65 2001 2:27.82 1991 3:58.90 1997 4:08.61 2011 8:19.69 2011 14:36.55 1998 16-02 2001 24-07.25 1997, 1998 7-00.25 2002 50-04 1986 59-01.50 2003 3,406 Pts. 2014 60-5.75

Bob Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Halloran, Cory Ravnass, Chris Larson, Kory Zimney

1992

3:37.39

Norm McGee, Bryan Greenwood, Chuck Torrance, Tracy Martin

1987

3:17.31

3,200-Meter Relay

Alex Campbell, Cam Felton, 2002 Dan Arneson, Aaron Berndt

7:48.52

Distance Medley Relay

Mark Barclay, Josh LaBlanc, Tyler Rose, Kyle Rosseau

2010

Josh LaBlanc set three records as a senior in 2011, including indoor records in the 3K and 5K races.

10:14.40

Bold indicates active in 2014-15

Kyle Rosseau was a member of the school-record distance medley relay team in 2010. Tyler Stoltz set the school record in the pentathlon in 2003.

Donovan Alexander is the school record-holder in the 60-meter dash. Alexander now plays in the Canadian Football League.

SCHOOL RECORDS

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY North Dakota Outdoor Track and Field Records

Event 100-Meter Dash 200-Meter Dash 400-Meter Dash 800-Meter Dash 1,500-Meter Run 3,000-Meter Run 5,000-Meter Run 10,000-Meter Run 110-Meter Hurdles 400-Intermediate Hurdles Steeplechase Triple Jump Long Jump High Jump Pole Vault Shot Put Discus Javelin Hammer Decathlon

Name Norm McGee Norm McGee Jesse Fenstermacher Jesse Fenstermacher Chad Heltemes Tyler Rose Sam Saccoman Josh LaBlanc Jeremy Zimney Jeremy Zimney Chris Carbonneau Mike Backes Bert Burkholder Marc Sondreal Tyler Colling Dave Levos Dave Levos Matt Fick Jakob Bissell Jon Wrzesinski

Year 1988, 1989 1988 2012 2012 1998 2010 2014 2011 2000 1999 1992 2002 1986 1998 2014 1986 1986 2008 2014 1988

Mark :10.20 :20.67 :47.82 1:50.57 3:51.34 8:5232 14:51.42 30:05.24 :14.27 :52.50 9:27.20 50-10.75 23-11.75 7-01.50 16-04.75 57-04.25 193-01 229-10 190-07 6,941 Pts.

Relays 400-Meter Relay

Willis Jacox, Norm McGee, Bryan Greenwood, Tracy Martin

1987

:40.98

800-Meter Relay

Chuck Torrance, Tracy Martin, Bryan Greenwood, Norm Mcgee

1987

1:26.97

1,600-Meter Relay

Chuck Torrance, Jeff Zander, Bryan Greenwood, Norm McGee

1987

3:13.11

3,200-Meter Relay

Alex Campbell, Dan Arneson, Cam Felton, Aaron Berndt

2002

7:36.38

4x1,600-Meter Relay

Pete Miller, Jamie Blomquist, Mike Madsen, Chris Carbonneau

1992

*17:23.44

2000

1:04.54

4x110-Meter Hurdle Relay Jeremy Zimney, Mike Backes, Digger Johnson, Dan Dow

Multiple record-holder Norm McGee was a five-time NCAA champion, the most in UND history. He was inducted into the UND Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.

* - Adjusted for .24 automatic time Bold indicates active in 2013-14

Two-time All-American Matt Fick set the school record in the javelin in 2008.

Tyler Rose broke the school record in the 3K in 2010.

SCHOOL RECORDS

Jakob Bissell has broke the school hammer record multiple times.

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY North Dakota Indoor Track and Field Records (RETIRED) Event 50-Yard Dash 60-Yard Dash 300-Yard Dash 440-Yard Dash 600-Yard Dash 880-Yard Dash 1,000-Yard Run Mile Run 2-Mile Run 50-Yard High Hurdles 50-Yard IM Hurdles 60-Yard High Hurdles 60-Yard IM Hurdles

Name Tom Lowe Conrad Jones Tom Stroup Dennis Holweger John Wickkiser Tim Orthmeyer Doug Thompson Larry Kennedy Arjan Gelling Arjan Gelling Henry Jordan Steve Gross Gary Rath Steve Gross Steve Gross

Year 1974 1956 1974 1957 1964 1974 1973 1975 1970 1970 1979 1973 1956 1973 1974

Mark :05.40 :06.10 :32.00 :51.30 :51.30 1:13.60 1:57.40 2:15.50 4:11.3 9:07.00 :06.49 :06.23 :07.60 :07.60 :07.20

North Dakota Outdoor Track and Field Records (RETIRED) Event 100-Yard Dash 220-Yard Dash 440-Yard Dash 880-Yard Dash Mile Run 2-Mile Run 3-Mile Run 6-Mile Run 10-Mile Run 120-Yard High Hurdles 440-Yard IM Hurdles

Name Conrad Jones Conrad Jones Conrad Jones Charles Vein Arjan Gelling Arjan Gelling Arjan Gelling Arjan Gelling Arjan Gelling Lafe Ludwig Ron Green

Year 1956 1956 1956 1975 1967 1967 1968 1968 1967 1931 1965

Mark :09.70 :21.10 :49.70 1:56.20 4:10.30 9:08.70 13:59.00 29:21.90 52:06.80 :25.00 :56.70

Relays 440-Yard Relay

Tom Lowe, Steve Gross, Bruce Cartwright, Tom Stroup

1974

:43.50

880-Yard Relay

Richard Karger, Donald Miller, Mike Lemp, Conrad Jones

1955

1:31.10

Mile Relay

Tim Orthmeyer, John Gehl, Ken Vein, Tom Stroup

1975

3:19.30

Arjan Gelling was a seven-time All-American and a two-time NCAA champion. He was inducted into the UND Athletics Hall of Fame in 1980.

Gary Rath shares the school record in the 60-yard high hurdles with Steve Gross.

SCHOOL RECORDS

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY INDOOR CONFERENCE RECORDS

Name Norm McGee Dave Levos Josh LaBlanc

Conf. Event Mark NCC 55-Meters 6.20 NCC Shot Put 58-11 GWC 3K 8:31.15

INDOOR CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

Shot Put Doug Schindler Dave Levos Dave Levos Dave Levos Steve Burian Mark Murdock Creighton Schroyer Creighton Schroyer

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC GWC GWC

Mark 52-08.50 53-09.50 55-10 58-11 49-08.50 55-10 50-4.75 51-11.75

Year 1972 1984 1985 1986 1987 1995 2009 2010

High Jump Marc Sondreal Marc Sondreal

Conf. NCC NCC

Mark 6-08.75 6-11.75

Year 1997 1998

Triple Jump Mike Backes

Conf. NCC

Mark 50-04

Year 2002

Pole Vault Brian Quern Scott Jemtrud

Conf. NCC NCC

Mark 15-01.25 15-01.25

Year 1981 1990

55-Meter Dash Norm McGee Norm McGee Norm McGee Norm McGee

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 6.39 6.38 6.20 6.28

Year 1985 1987 1988 1989

400-Meter Dash Chris Stoks

Conf. GWC

Mark 51.92

Year 2012

1,000-Meter Run Mike Madsen Mike Madsen

Conf. NCC NCC

Mark 2:30.37 2:29.04

Year 1993 1995

3,000-Meter Run Josh LaBlanc

Conf. GWC

Mark 8:31.15

Year 2011

55-M High Hurdles Rory Beil

Conf. NCC

Mark 7.67

Year 1991

1,600-Meter Relay North Dakota

Conf. NCC

Mark 3:20.83

Year 1987

3,200-Meter Relay North Dakota

Conf. NCC

Mark 7:55.79

Year 1993

300-Meter Dash Norm McGee Norm McGee

Conf. NCC NCC

Mark 34.18 34.62

Year 1987 1989

Two-Mile Run (Retired) Conf. Arjan Gelling NCC Arjan Gelling NCC Arjan Gelling NCC

Mark 9:27.9 9:31.7 9:13.2

Year 1968 1969 1970

OUTDOOR CONFERENCE RECORDS

Name Dave Levos Marc Sondreal Norm McGee

Conf. Event Mark NCC Discus 193-01 NCC High Jump 7-01.5 NCC 100-Meters 10.22

OUTDOOR CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

Triple Jump Terry Anstett

Year 1985 1986 2011

Conf. Mark NCC 45-07.5

Year 1986 1998 1989

Year 1973

CONFERENCE RECORDS & CHAMPIONS

Long Jump Les Veigel Glenn “Red” Jarrett Glenn “Red” Jarrett John F. Bacon Kenneth L. Johnson Kenneth L. Johnson Matt Kelly Shot Put Ted Meinhover Ted Meinhover Louis H. Chumich Martin Johnson Dave Levos Dave Levos Steve Burian Mark Murdock Brian Emerson Creighton Schroyer Brandon Quesenberry Shawn Johnson

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 22-04.5 22-06 22-09 22-06.5 23-02.5 21-06.875 23-09.25

Year 1927 1930 1931 1933 1937 1938 1990

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC GWC GWC

Mark 45-07 47-04 47-00 51-00 54-07.5 56-05.25 49-07 54-07 54-08.5 51-06.25 55-02 52-09.25

Year 1932 1933 1935 1962 1984 1986 1987 1998 1999 2008 2010 2012

High Jump Joe Shelver Joe Shelver Les Veigel Les Veigel Allen Williamson Marc Sondreal Marc Sondreal

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 6-00 5-10 5-09 5-11 6-00.375 7-01.5 7-00

Year 1922 1923 1925 1927 1952 1998 1999

Pole Vault Don Thompson Lloyd Murphy Scott Jemtrud Matthew Harris

Conf. NCC NCC NCC GWC

Mark 12-00.125 12-00 15-10 15-05

Year 1927 1934 1991 2012

Javelin Grant N. “Bud” Nelson Grant N. “Bud” Nelson Gene Lavoy Will N. Spear James Sauer Leon Reopelle Leon Reopelle Dave Lince Dave Lince Roger Larson Tyler Stoltz Matt Litzinger Tyler Stoltz Matt Fick Matt Fick

Conf. Mark NCC 168-04 NCC 165-04.75 NCC 173-04 NCC 182-01 NCC 155-02 NCC 183-02 NCC 192-07.75 NCC 185-02 NCC 206-06 NCC 195-05 NCC 199-09 NCC 219-02 NCC 222-04 NCC 205-06 NCC 223-03

Year 1923 1924 1926 1940 1955 1956 1958 1965 1966 1971 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Discus Arthur H. Laemmele Ted Meinhover Ted Meinhover Ted Meinhover Harry Nelson Dave Levos Dave Levos Dave Levos Jason Cook Jason Cook Drew Thomas Erik Moe Drew Thomas Roman Waldera

Conf. Mark NCC 132-11.375 NCC 145-04.5 NCC 144-04 NCC 142-07 NCC 133-11 NCC 164-01 NCC 169-04 NCC 193-01 NCC 157-06.5 NCC 170-05 NCC 157-04 NCC 157-03 NCC 152-10 GWC 160-09

Year 1925 1932 1933 1934 1941 1983 1984 1986 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2012

100-Meter Dash Norm McGee Norm McGee Norm McGee Norm McGee

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 10.32 10.61 10.75 10.55

Year 1985 1987 1988 1989

200-Meter Dash Norm McGee Norm McGee Norm McGee

Conf. NCC NCC NCC

Mark 20.90 21.57 21.18

Year 1987 1988 1989

400-Meter Dash Tom Stroup Corey Hehling

Conf. Mark NCC 48.60 NCC 48.22

Year 1976 2008

800-Meter Run Kory Zimney Jared Bruggeman Aaron Berndt Jesse Fenstermacher

Conf. NCC NCC NCC GWC

Mark 1:53.42 1:52.54 1:53.42 1:50.57

Year 1989 1992 2002 2012

1,500-Meter Run Mike Madsen

Conf. Mark NCC 3:55.16

Year 1996

400-Meter IM Hurdles Conf. Mark Jeremy Zimney NCC 53.23 Jeremy Zimney NCC 53.14

Year 1999 2000

1,600-Meter Relay Norm McGee Chuck Torrance Bryan Greenwood Jeff Zander

Conf. Mark NCC *3:13.11

Year 1987

Rory Beil Jeff Zander Robert Ostman Norm McGee

NCC

3:16.92

1988

Robert Ostman Bert Burkholder Jeff Zander Norm McGee

NCC

3:15.42

1989

Italics indicates still active * - Indicates conference record

Drew Thomas was a two-time (2005, 2007) North Central Conference outdoor champion in the discus.

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY RETIRED EVENTS

100-Yard Dash Ralph L. Pierce Ralph L. Pierce Ralph L. Pierce George Fait Horace Johnson Horace Johnson Horace Johnson Ron Thompson Ron Thompson Conrad Jones

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 9.8 9.9 10.0 10.0 9.9 9.7 10.3 9.9 9.9 10.1

Year 1932 1933 1934 1936 1937 1938 1939 1952 1953 1956

220-Yard Dash Ralph L. Pierce Ralph L. Pierce Ralph L. Pierce Horace Johnson Horace Johnson Horace Johnson Ron Thompson Conrad Jones Conrad Jones

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 21.8 22.2 21.8 22.2 21.4 23.1 22.6 21.4 22.3

Year 1932 1933 1934 1937 1938 1939 1953 1955 1956

440-Yard Dash Joe Drew Joe Drew Wayne F. Hill Paul Stratte Myron Lempe

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 52.8 50.6 51.1 51.8 50.0

Year 1925 1926 1934 1936 1953

880-Yard Run LeRoy Pearson Roy Mosher Roy Mosher Hugh Nichols Hugh Nichols

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 1:59.0 1:59.5 2:02.7 2:03.2 2:04.1

Year 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935

Mile Run Henry Hanson William Hollister Felson William Hollister Felson LeRoy Pearson LeRoy Pearson LeRoy Pearson

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 4:36.4 4:32.8 4:45.0 4:22.8 4:33.8 4:42.6

Year 1923 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

Two-Mile Run LeRoy Pearson LeRoy Pearson

Conf. NCC NCC

Mark Year 10:12.1 1932 10:17.0 1933

120-Yard High Hurdles Conf. Peter Simonesen NCC

Mark 15.5

Year 1949

220-Yard Low Hurdles Joseph “Lafe” Ludwig George Fait George Fait Peter Simonesen

Conf. NCC NCC NCC NCC

Mark 25.1 25.5 26.1 24.9

Year 1931 1934 1935 1949

Mile Relay North Dakota North Dakota (Jones, Miller, Lempe, Ryan) North Dakota (Jones Miller, Ryan, Koon)

Conf. NCC NCC

Mark 3:27.6 3:24.0

Year 1931 1955

NCC

3:24.0

1956

CONFERENCE TEAM CHAMPIONS

North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota

1933 1934 1937 1938

Note: UND joined the Big Sky Conference prior to the 2012-13 season. Before joining the Big Sky, UND was a member of the North Central Conference from May 1921 through the 2008-09 season, and of the Great West Conference from 2008-09 through 2011-12.

Memorial Stadium, home to the University of North Dakota’s men’s and women’s track and field teams, was built in 1927 as a memorial to members of the UND community who died during World War I.

CONFERENCE RECORDS & CHAMPIONS

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY TOP ALL-TIME NORTH DAKOTA INDOOR PERFORMANCES (Through 2014)

55-METERS Norm McGee Ryan Chappell Donovan Alexander Riza Mahmoud Justin Schiele Martin Blekkerud Rob Myles Bert Cummins Tracy Martin Willis Jacox

1988 2007 2007 2003 2001 1998 2002 1988 1987 1987

400-METERS Chris Stoks Brad Lies Norm McGee Tyler Olson Justin Schiele Bryan Greenwood Corey Hehling Brent Keigley Robert Ostman Denton Davidson

7.60 7.48 7.63 7.75 7.77 7.79 7.79 7.79 7.81 7.88

1991 1988 1999 2006 2001 1988 1993 2003 1992 2003

500-METERS Aaron Berndt St. Cloud St. 1:04.67 2001 Denton Davidson NCC 1:04.80 2003 Brad Lies St. Cloud St. 1:05.19 1998 Mark Barclay Minnesota St. 1:05.40 2008 Jesse Fenstermacher Notre Dame 1:05.59 2011 Nate Swenson Fargo 1:05.80 1990 Russ Schwehr NCC 1:05.97 1991 Denton Davidson Fargo 1:06.10 2000 Bryan Greenwood Fargo 1:06.24 1987 Andy Dorais Minnesota St. 1:06.35 2004

3,000-METERS Josh LaBlanc Iowa State 8:19.69 2011 Sam Saccoman Iowa State 8:32.71 2014 Jim Mallory Fargo 8:35.30 1998 Nick Lindstrom Iowa State 8:36.96 2013 Lee DeKrey Iowa State 8:38.30 2005 Paul Kriegler Iowa State 8:40.11 2005 Nate Peterson Minnesota 8:41.08 2014 Greg Hexum Fargo 8:41.94 1993 Dennis Smalley 8:42.51 1981 Jason Krueger NCC 8:45.33 1999

Minnesota State 6.75 Minot State 6.81 Minnesota State 6.93 Minnesota 6.96 Minot State 6.94 Winnipeg 6.94 Winnipeg 6.96 Fargo 7.02 Fargo 7.03 Fargo 7.05

2007 1985 2007 2014 1985 1990 1990 2002 1988 2013

600-METERS Jesse Fenstermacher NDSU 1:21.02 2013 Aaron Berndt Bemidji State 1:21.16 2000 Nate Swenson Winnipeg 1:21.82 1990 Matt Gerszewski Bemidji State 1:22.74 2007 Bob O’Halloran Minnesota 1:22.92 1993 Denton Davidson Bemidji State 1:23.04 2003 Cam Felton Bemidji State 1:23.16 2002 Matt Sailer St. John’s 1:23.18 2007 Zach Green St. John’s 1:23.26 2007 Kory Zimney Minnesota 1:23.46 1990

5,000-METERS Josh LaBlanc Jim Mallory Mike Koebel Sam Saccoman Lee DeKrey Joel Rovang Richie Spitsberg Paul Kriegler Jason Krueger Eric Benson

800-METERS Jesse Fenstermacher Iowa State 1:51.65 2013 Aaron Berndt NCAA 1:51.73 2001 Jared Bruggeman Iowa State 1:51.88 1993 Mike Madsen Iowa State 1:52.93 1995 Matt Gerszewski St. John’s 1:54.21 2007 Dan Arneson NCC 1:54.63 2002 Chad Heltemes Fargo 1:54.70 1996 Byron Severson Iowa State 1:54.77 1997 Kory Zimney Iowa State 1:55.15 1991 Matt Sailer NCC 1:56.22 2006

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55-METER HURDLES Rory Beil Fargo John Wrzesinski Fargo Jeremy Zimney NCC Tyler Stoltz Bemidji State Digger Johnson NCC Julian Atchia Fargo Craig Gillen NCC Riza Mahmoud Fargo Karl Kjeldsen Fargo Adam Maine Fargo 60-METERS Donovan Alexander Norm McGee Ryan Chappell D’Monte Farley Mike Labine John Armstrong Dustin Fredrickson Rob Myles Martin Blekkerud Quinton Coleman

60-METER HURDLES Jeremy Zimney Fargo 8.16 1998 Riza Mahmoud NCC 8.30 2003 Tyler Stoltz Minnesota 8.35 2006 Adam Maine NCC 8.43 2003 Jimmy Evers South Dakota 8.43 2013 Digger Johnson Fargo 8.49 2002 Carl Hanson NCC 8.51 2008 Brandon Yates Minnesota State 8.53 2006 Allen Becker Minot State 8.54 1985 John LeClerc South Dakota 8.55 2013 Henry Jordan 8.55 1981 200-METERS Norm McGee Justin Schiele NCC D’Monte Farley NDSU Martin Blekkerud NCC Donovan Alexander NCC Cory Ravnaas Fargo Brian Bergantine Fargo Tyler Olson NDSU Chris Stoks South Dakota Brad Lies Bemidji State 300-METERS Norm McGee NCC Chuck Torrance Winnipeg Cory Ravnaas Bemidji State Bryan Greenwood NCC Brian Bergantine Fargo Robert Ostman Fargo Bert Burkholder Fargo Karl Kjeldsen Bemidji State Chris Larson Bemidji State Brad Graff Winnipeg

MILE RUN Chad Heltemes Arjan Gelling Nate Peterson Josh LaBlanc Tyler Rose Mike Madsen Nate Foss Stephen Staskivige Brent Lorentz Sam Saccoman

6.20 6.49 6.60 6.52 6.56 6.58 6.58 6.59 6.60 6.61

NCC Bemidji State Bemidji State Fargo Fargo NCC St. Cloud State St. Cloud State Winnipeg NCC

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21.66 1989 22.18 2002 22.18 2014 22.35 1998 22.45 2007 22.50 1992 22.57 1992 22.57 2014 22.61 2012 22.64 1998 34.18 35.50 36.05 35.65 35.71 36.12 36.49 36.54 36.84 36.93

1987 1986 1992 1987 1990 1990 1989 1993 1992 1985

Iowa State 48.36 2012 Bemidji State 49.19 1998 Fargo 49.33 1989 Iowa State 49.37 2014 Minnesota St. 49.44 2003 St. Cloud State 49.97 1986 Minnesota St. 50.08 2006 Minnesota St. 50.17 2004 Winnipeg 50.19 1990 Concordia 50.27 2000

1,000-METERS Aaron Berndt Chad Heltemes Mike Madsen Matt Gerszewski Cam Felton Alex Campbell Jared Bruggeman Wayne Kazmierczak Todd Szczepanski Jim Trouba

Fargo 2:27.82 Fargo 2:27.84 NCC 2:29.04 Minnesota St. 2:30.32 NCC 2:32.01 Fargo 2:32.05 NCC 2:32.06 Fargo 2:32.78 Fargo 2:32.34 Fargo 2:33.24

2001 1996 1995 2006 2003 2002 1991 1990 1991 1987

1,500-METERS Todd Szczepanski Mike Madsen Pete Miller Gerry Werven Lon Aune Jamie Blomquist Chad Heltemes Andy Lawrence Brent Lorentz Ken Kennedy

NCC Fargo Fargo NCC NCC NCC NCC NCC Concordia NCC

1991 1995 1992 1985 1987 1992 1994 1989 2000 1989

3:58.90 3:59.77 3:59.98 4:01.85 4:02.29 4:00.41 4:03.96 4:04.54 4:05.46 4:05.68

Iowa State UND Iowa State Boise State Iowa State Minnesota NCC St. Cloud St. Fargo Minnesota

4:08.61 1997 4:11.54 1970 4:11.97 2014 4:18.67 2011 4:18.92 2012 4:19.85 1996 4:20.03 2000 4:21.35 2002 4:21.80 2000 4:22.32 2014

Notre Dame 14:50.91 Iowa State 14:41.34 Fargo 14:49.26 NDSU 14:57.89 NCC 15:06.31 St. Cloud St. 15:07.00 Minnesota St. 15:13.36 Minnesota St. 15:14.08 Minnesota St. 15:24.00 Winnipeg 15:26.20

Tyler Olson

2011 1998 1993 2014 2007 1986 2007 2005 1999 1986

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY TOP ALL-TIME NORTH DAKOTA INDOOR PERFORMANCES (Through 2014) 800-METER RELAY Ryan Schafer, Jay Armstrong, John Stogis, Rob Myles 1,600-METER RELAY Chuck Torrance, Tracy Martin, Bryan Greenwood, Norm McGee Jeremy Zimney, Martin Blekkerud, Adam Bjornson, Brad Lies Jeff Zander, Robert Ostman, Bert Burkholder, Norm McGee Chuck Torrance, Jeff Zander, Bryan Greenwood, Norm McGee Ryan Schafer, Adam Maine, Denton Davidson, Dustin Kouba Digger Johnson, Aaron Berndt, Denton Davidson, Dustin Kouba Justin Schiele, Ryan Schafer, Denton Davidson, Dustin Kouba Digger Johnson, Dan Dow, Dustin Kouba, Aaron Berndt Ryan Schafer, Andy Dorais, Patrick Nelson, Brent Keigley Justin Schiele, Adam Maine, Denton Davidson, Dustin Kouba 3,200-METER RELAY Alex Campbell, Cam Felton, Dan Arneson, Aaron Berndt Bob O’Halloran, Jamie Blomquist, Mike Madsen, Jared Bruggeman Byron Severson, Chad Heltemes, Josh Jorde, Mike Madsen Byron Severson, Josh Jorde, Travis Hochhalter, Chad Heltemes Alex Campbell, Dan Arneson, Stephen Staskivige, Aaron Berndt Jared Bruggeman, Jason Harens, Nate Swenson, Kory Zimney Jordan Bremer, Matt Gerszewski, Cam Felton, Ryan Lee Shawn Gruenberg, Kory Zimney, Nate Swenson, Wayne Kazmierczak Nate Swenson, Bryce Luthens, Shawn Gruenberg, Kory Zimney Wayne Kazmierczak, Nate Swenson, Jared Bruggeman, Kory Zimney DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY Tyler Rose, Mark Barclay, Kyle Rosseau, Josh LaBlanc Kyle Downs, Mark Barclay, Kyle Rosseau, Tyler Rose Lee DeKrey, Brent Keigley, Matt Gerszewski, Paul Kriegler Nate Peterson, Matt McCreary, Dwight Mandimika, Sam Saccoman Kyle Rosseau, Matt Elbert, Jeremy Jones, Tyler Rose Brent Lorentz, Denton Davidson, Alex Campbell, Stephen Staskivige Jordan Bremer, Rob Peters, Alex Campbell, Stephen Staskivige Kyle Rosseau, Matt Elbert, Dustin Umland, Kyle Downs Skip Gilson, Zach Green, Matt Sailer, Lee DeKrey Dan Alstatt, Adam Bjornson, Dan Arneson, Jason Krueger SHOT PUT Dave Levos Shawn Johnson Mark Murdock Steve Burian Brandon Quesenberry

Concordia

1:32.34

2000

NCAA

3:17.31

1987

Iowa State

3:18.11

1998

NCC

3:20.76

1989

NCC

3:20.83

1987

NCC

3:20.84

2003

Minnesota

3:20.89

2002

Minnesota State

3:21.17

2003

Bemidji State

3:21.26

2002

NCC

3:21.45

2004

Fargo

3:21.74

1992

NCC

7:48.52

2002

Fargo

7:49.30

1993

NCC

7:50.93

1996

NCC

7:51.78

1997

St. Cloud State

7:54.71

2002

NCC

7:55.01

1992

NCC

7:55.70

2003

Winnipeg

7:56.14

1990

NCC

7:56.53

1989

Fargo

7:56.58

1992

Iowa State

10:14.40

2010

Iowa State

10:19.08

2009

Iowa State

10:19.59

2005

Big Sky

10:31.98

2013

Great West

10:32.05

2010

Concordia

10:34.33

2000

Minnesota

10:38.14

2002

NCC

10:40.89

2008

Bemidji State

10:46.73

2006

Fargo

10:47.43

1999

59-01 1/2 56-06 3/4 56-04 1/2 54-11 53-08

1986 2013 1997 1990 2011

Fargo Big Sky Fargo Fargo Boise State

Ryan Reynolds Creighton Schroyer Brian Emerson Conrad Schwarzkopf Ian Collins

Fargo Great West Fargo Big Sky NDSU

53-00 51-11 1/2 51-08 51-03 1/2 51-01

1999 2010 1999 2013 2014

20 LB. WEIGHT Jakob Bissell Roman Waldera Matt Fick Shawn Johnson Josh Haugan Cody Mach Brandon Quesenberry Ian Collins Creighton Schroyer Erik Moe

Big Sky 60-05 3/4 South Dakota 57-09 3/4 NCC 56-08 Big Sky 55-10 1/4 Bemidji State 54-08 1/2 South Dakota 52-06 3/4 Great West 51-11 1/2 South Dakota 51-04 1/2 Minnesota State 51-04 NCC 50-10 3/4

2014 2014 2008 2013 2006 2014 2010 2014 2009 2008

HIGH JUMP Marc Sondreal NCAA Bob Fransen Tracy Martin St. Cloud State Chad Krick St. Cloud State Mike Lauckner Fargo Pete Hankla NCC Julian Atchia Fargo Justin Schiele Bemidji State Riza Mahmoud Fargo Nick Wilkens Great West

7-00 1/4 6-11 6-08 6-07 6-07 6-06 6-06 6-06 6-05 1/5 6-04 3/4

1998 1977 1987 1986 1991 1985 1988 2000 2003 2009

Fargo Wisconsin Minot State Minnesota State NDSU Bemidji State Bemidji State Iowa State Bemidji State Fargo

24-07 1/4 23-08 23-08 23-06 1/4 22-07 3/4 22-04 22-00 3/4 22-01 22-01 1/2 22-01 1/4

2001 1989 1991 2005 2014 2009 2004 2010 2007 1987

TRIPLE JUMP Mike Backes NCC D’Monte Farley Big Sky David Rygh Bemidji State Terry Anstett Kyle Schneweis Fargo Ryan Waechter Minnesota State Jay Greenwood St. Cloud State David Josephson Minnesota State Paul Nelson Fargo Jay Larshus Fargo

50-03 3/4 47-06 1/2 45-10 1/2 45-08 1/2 45-03 44-04 1/4 44-04 43-10 3/4 43-09 43-08 1/2

2002 2014 2006 1973 1997 2009 1997 2004 1999 1987

NCAA 16-02 Fargo 16-00 Great West 15-11 Minnesota 15-07 3/4 Bemidji State 15-05 1/2 Big Sky 15-05 Big Sky 15-05 Fargo 15-00 Fargo 15-00 1/4 St. Cloud State 15-00

1988 1990 2009 2014 2007 2013 2014 1994 2013 1997

Fargo NCC NCC NCC

3,398 pts. 3,296 pts. 2,986 pts. 2,824

2003 1994 2006 2006

4,296 pts. 3,991 pts.

2013 2011

LONG JUMP Justin Schiele Bert Burkholder Matt Kelly Tyler Stoltz D’Monte Farley Ryan Waechter David Josephson Bryant Halvorson Carl Hanson Willis Jacox

POLE VAULT John Wrzesinski Scott Jemtrud Jay Schroeder Tyler Colling Clark Carlson Matthew Harris Kohl Koppinger Tony Lequeri Jordan Fisk Dave Lloyd PENTATHLON Tyler Stoltz Jim Kalina Brandon Yates Patrick Delmore HEPTATHLON Jordan Fisk Matthew Harris

Big Sky Fargo

UND TOP-10 LISTS

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY TOP ALL-TIME NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES (Through 2014)

100-METERS Norm McGee Rob Myles Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Monte Farley Donovan Alexander Martin Blekkerud Brian Bergantine Javen Butler Joel Anderson Bert Burkholder Tracy Martin

NCAA Moorhead Azusa NCC Minot State Concordia Big Sky NDSCS UND Moorhead

10.20 10.65 10.69 10.72 10.73 10.78 10.79 10.84 10.87 10.89

1988 1999 2014 2006 1998 1990 2014 1992 1989 1987

5,000-METERS Sam Saccoman Drake 14:51.42 Gerry Werven 14:57.70 Josh LaBlanc Coastal Car. 14:59.14 Paul Kriegler NW Mo. St. 15:06.93 Lee DeKrey Truman St. 15:09.49 Skip Gilson NCC 15:11.53 Joel Rovang Moorhead 15:14.01 Mike Koebel SW Missouri 15:17.78 Greg Hexum SW Missouri 15:21.32 Joe Fogarty SW Missouri 15:23.12

2014 1983 2011 2005 2005 2007 1987 1993 1993 1993

1988 2001 1998 1990 1998 1987 2001 1986 2010 1986

10,000-METERS Josh LaBlanc Mt. SAC Arjan Gelling Lee DeKrey Drake Paul Kriegler NCC Eric Sondag NCC Richie Spitsberg NCC Joel Rolvang UND Phil Ludwig NCC Eric Benson NCC Joe Fogarty NCC

2011 1968 2005 2005 1995 2007 1986 1996 1985 1993

200-METERS Norm McGee NCAA 20.67 Justin Schiele NCC 21.42 Martin Blekkerud Fargo 21.48 Brian Bergantine Moorhead 21.73 Brad Lies Moorhead 21.73 Tracy Martin Moorhead 21.79 Rob Myles UND 21.82 Bryan Greenwood UND 21.86 Chris Stoks Drake 21.86 Chuck Torrance UND 21.89 400-METERS Jesse Fenstermacher Fargo 47.82 Brad Lies NCC 47.90 Tyler Olson Azusa 48.81 Corey Hehling NCC 48.22 Bryan Greenwood NCC 48.38 Jeff Zander NCC 48.38 Chris Stoks UNC-Wilmington 48.49 Chuck Torrance UND 48.73 Robert Ostman UND 49.05 Adam Bjornson NCC 49.25 800-METERS Jesse Fenstermacher Great West 1:50.57 Aaron Berndt Emporia St. 1:51.21 Jared Bruggeman Moorhead 1:51.54 Kory Zimney NCC 1:52.23 Matt Gerszewski NCC 1:53.07 Mike Madsen NCC/MIAA 1:53.64 Nate Swenson NCC 1:53.98 UNC-Wilmington 1:54.07 Tyler Rose Kyle Rosseau Great West 1:54.47 Dan Arneson Moorhead 1:54.49 1,500-METERS Chad Heltemes NCAA 3:51.34 Mike Madsen NCC 3:55.15 Nate Peterson Big Sky 3:55.94 Josh LaBlanc UNC-Wilm. 3:56.25 Pete Miller NCC 3:56.84 Jamie Blomquist Minnesota 3:57.05 Lon Aune NCC 3:57.94 Stephen Staskivige UND 3:58.45 Jim Mallory Fargo 3:58.75 Tim Bohan 3:58.83

1998 1996 2013 2011 1992 1993 1993 2003 1998 1981

3,000-METERS Tyler Rose Josh LaBlanc Skip Gilson Kyle Downs Joel Rolvang Joe Kemp Eric Benson

2010 2009 2008 2009 1986 2011 1986

SDSU SDSU Moorhead SDSU Jamestown Coastal Car. Jamestown

UND TOP-10 LISTS

8:52.32 8:55.39 9:04.17 9:08.14 9:11.84 9:15.33 9:17.04

2012 1998 2014 2008 1986 1989 2011 1987 1990 1999 2012 2002 1991 1990 2004 1996 1990 2012 2010 2000

30:05.24 30:34.00 30:54.06 31:00.61 31:4814 31:48.63 31:48.70 31:49.74 32:11.64 32:17.32

110-METER HURDLES Jeremy Zimney NCC 14.27 Rory Bell NCAA 14.46 Jon Wrzesinski UND 14.48 Craig Gillen Augustana 14.66 Jimmy Evers Big Sky 14.69 John LeClerc Big Sky 14.76 Tyler Stoltz NCC 14.89 Digger Johnson Truman State 14.91 Karl Kjeldsen Moorhead 14.94 Julian Atchia Moorhead 14.97 400-METER HURDLES Jeremy Zimney Moorhead 52.50 Digger Johnson NCC 53.15 Karl Kjeldsen NCC 53.39 Rory Beil NCC 53.77 Russ Schwehr NCC 53.83 Jeff Johannsen UND 53.94 KC Homiston NCC 54.12 Jared Michael Long Beach 54.30 Mike Biermaier NCC 54.35 Kent Luetzen Long Beach 54.50 STEEPLECHASE Chris Carbonneau 9:27.44 Todd Brecto NDSCS 9:39.11 Jamie Blomquist Moorhead 9:41.27 Drew Campbell Drake 9:41.78 Pete Kriegler NCC 9:44.74 Rob Jerstad Moorhead 9:46.84 Jim Trouba 9:46.86 Dwight Mandimika NDSU 9:48.75 Richie Spitsberg Simpson 9:53.87 Travis Hochhalter NCC 9:59.23 Adam Stainiger Great West 10:03.87 Micah Grafenstein UND 10:14.44 400-METER RELAY Willis Jacox Drake 40.98 Norm McGee Bryan Greenwood Tracy Martin Mike Labine Norm McGee Chuck Torrance Bryan Greenwood

41.71

2000 1991 1989 1994 2014 2014 2006 2000 1992 1990 1999 2000 1994 1991 1992 1995 1994 2014 1992 2012 1992 1987 1992 2014 2002 1988 1983 2014 2007 1999 2012 1995 1987

1985

Jon Wrzesinski Brian Bergantine Bert Burkholder Norm McGee

NCC

41.94

1989

Ryan Schafer Rob Myles Justin Schiele Jeremy Zimney

NCC

42.00

2000

Jeff Zander Norm McGee Chuck Torrance Bryan Greenwood

NCC

42.07

1987

Jeremy Zimney Brad Lies Jay Armstrong Martin Blekkerud

UND

42.17

1998

Ryan Schafer Adam Maine Denton Davidson Justin Schiele

NCC

42.28

2003

Jon Wrzesinski Norm McGee Bert Burkholder Craig Pigeon

Concordia

42.48

1988

Mike Labine Bryan Greenwood Bert Burkholder Chuck Torrance

UND

42.50

1986

3:13.11

1987

1600-METER RELAY Chuck Torrance NCC Jeff Zander Bryan Greenwood Norm McGee Adam Bjornson Martin Blekkerud Jeremy Zimney Brad Lies

NCC

3:13.85

1998

Robert Ostman Jeff Zander Bert Burkholder Norm McGee

Drake

3:15.22

1989

Adam Bjornson Jeremy Zimney Digger Johnson Aaron Berndt

NCC

3:16.46

1999

Digger Johnson Jeremy Zimney Denton Davidson Aaron Berndt

Drake

3:16.77

2000

Denton Davidson Aaron Berndt Digger Johnson Dustin Kouba

NCC

3:16.79

2002

Rory Beil Jeff Zander Robert Ostman Norm McGee

NCC

3:16.92

1988

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY TOP ALL-TIME NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES (Through 2014) Chuck Torrance Bob Cunningham Mike Labine Norm McGee

Moorhead

3:16.89

1985

Jared Bruggeman Robert Ostman Nate Swenson Pete Miller

Drake

10:16.55

1991

Digger Johnson Adam Bjornson Jeremy Zimney Aaron Berndt

Drake

3:31.26

1999

Sean Allan Jeff Zander Bryan Greenwood Norm McGee

Moorhead

3:16.94

1987

Pete Miller Nate Swenson Kory Zimney Chris Carbonneau

Drake

10:18.53

1992

John Zurn Cory Ravnaas Russ Schwehr Bob O’Halloran

Drake

3:32.21

1993

Adam Bjornson Denton Davidson Jeremy Zimney Aaron Berndt

Truman State 3:17.76

2000

Chad Heltemes Brad Lies Jared Bruggeman Mike Madsen

Drake

10:19.08

1994

1:26.97

1987

Dan Thralow Jeff Zander Sean Allan Lon Aune

Drake

10:22.95

1987

4 X 200-METER RELAY Chuck Torrance Drake Tracy Martin Bryan Greenwood Norm McGee

Chad Heltemes Brad Lies Byron Severson Eric Sondag

Drake

10:23.06

1995

Aaron Berndt Rob Peters Greg Geers Dan Arneson

Drake

10:24.50

2001

3:24.89

3200-METER RELAY Alex Campbell Drake Cam Felton Dan Arneson Aaron Berndt

7:36.38

2002

Ryan Schafer Rob Myles Justin Schiele Jeremy Zimney

Drake

1:27.95

2000

Ryan Schafer Adam Maine Denton Davidson Justin Schiele

Drake

1:28.54

2003

KC Homiston Jeremy Zimney Brad Lies Cory Ravnaas

Drake

1:29.74

1996

1998

Jordan Fisk Chris Stoks Matt McCreary Reilly Mathiason

Coastal Carolina 1:30.24

2011

Kory Zimney Jason Harens Nate Swenson Jared Bruggeman

Drake

7:36.64

1992

Bob O’Halloran Mike Madsen Brad Lies Jared Bruggeman

Drake

7:37.35

1994

Greg Geers Dan Arneson Dan Alstatt Aaron Berndt

Drake

7:39.73

2000

Brian Fransen Matt Sailer Kyle Downs Matt Gerszewski

Drake

7:41.36

2007

Brian Bergantine Robert Ostman Jared Bruggeman Kory Zimney

Drake

3:27.07

1990

Chad Loosmore Cory Ravnaas KC Homiston Trace Johnson

Drake

1:30.54

1995

Byron Severson Chad Heltemes Josh Jorde Mike Madsen

Drake

7:43.48

1996

Ryan Schafer Justin Schiele Dustin Kouba Cam Felton

Drake

3:27.70

2003

KC Homiston Brad Lies Craig Gillen Cory Ravnaas

Drake

1:30.71

1994

Wayne Kazmierczak Drake Jared Bruggeman Nate Swenson Kory Zimney

7:44.02

1990

Brian Bergantine Bert Burkholder Jeff Zander Nate Swenson

Drake

3:28.38

1989

John Stogis Adam Maine Rob Peters Dustin Kouba

Drake

1:31.88

2001

Shawn Gruenberg Rory Beil Nate Swenson Kory Zimney

Drake

7:44.13

1989

Ryan Schafer Patrick Nelson Brent Keigley Matt Gerszewski

Drake

3:28.45

2004

17:33.58

1991

Stephen Staskivige Drake Cam Felton Matt Gerszewski Jordan Bremer

7:49.17

2003

Chad Loosmore Cory Ravnaas Brad Lies Byron Severson

Drake

3:29.80

1995

4 X 1600-METER RELAY Pete Miller Drake Todd Szczepanski Jamie Blomquist Chris Carbonneau

9:58.84

1996

Brian Bergantine Robert Ostman Russ Schwehr Kory Zimney

Drake

3:30.56

1991

10:14.04

1993

Rob Myles Justin Schiele Denton Davidson Alex Campbell

Drake

3:31.25

2000

DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY Mike Madsen Drake Brad Lies Byron Severson Chad Heltemes Mike Madsen Russ Schwehr Bob O’Halloran Jamie Blomquist

Drake

SPRINT MEDLEY RELAY Martin Blekkerud Drake Jeremy Zimney Brad Lies Chad Heltemes

Pete Miller Jamie Blomquist Mike Madsen Chris Carbonneau

Drake

17:23.44

1992

Jamie Blomquist Chad Heltemes Byron Severson Darin Didier

Drake

17:40.59

1994

Jamie Blomquist Mike Madsen Joe Fogarty Greg Hexum

Drake

17:41.34

1993

UND TOP-10 LISTS

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY HIGH JUMP Marc Sondreal NCC Bob Fransen Scott Corzine Truman State Justin Schiele NCC Ryan Andert Fargo Nick Wilkens South Dakota State Riza Mahmoud NCC Pete Hankla UND Brooks Royal Moorhead Bryce Siegel Augustana

1998 1978 2002 2000 2012 2009 2003 1986 1996 2008

POLE VAULT Tyler Colling Jordan Fisk Scott Jemtrud Clark Carlson Jon Wrzesinski Tim Smith Tony Lequeri Kohl Koppinger Matthew Harris Jay Schroeder

Big Sky UNC Wilmington NCC Concordia NCC Moorhead South Dakota State Long Beach Long Beach NCC

16-04 3/4 15-11 15-10 15-08 1/4 15-07 1/4 15-06 15-06 15-06 1/4 15-05 3/4 15-03

2014 2013 1991 2005 1988 1990 1993 2014 2013 2006

LONG JUMP Bert Burkholder Matt Kelly Tyler Stoltz Bert Burkholder Justin Schiele D’Monte Farley Bryant Halvorson Ryan Waechter Dave Josephson Steve Hedtke

Moorhead NCC Emporia State NCC UND Azusa Pacific Arizona State NCC Truman State UND

23-11 3/4 23-09 23-09 1/4 23-04 1/2 23-03 23-01 3/4 23-00 22-06 3/4 22-04 1/4 21-11 3/4

1986 1990 2005 1985 2002 2013 2010 2008 2004 1990

50-10 3/4 49-01 1/2 48-00 1/4 44-11 1/2 44-08 44-06 3/4 44-04 3/4 43-07 43-03 43-04

2002 2013 1972 2004 2008 1996 1999 1988 1991 2006

57-04 1/4 56-11 1/4 56-07 1/2 55-11 55-01 3/4 54-08 1/2 54-05 1/2 53-04 51-05 1/2 50-04 1/2

1986 2013 1995 1990 2010 1999 2008 1999 2013 1996

193-01 178-06 176-10 176-00 170-05 162-11 159-10 159-04 158-11 157-07

1986 2014 2012 2000 2004 1999 2014 2007 1990 2000

TRIPLE JUMP Mike Backes UND D’Monte Farley Coastal Carolina Terry Anstett David Rygh NCC Ryan Waechter Moorhead Kyle Schneweiss NCC Paul Nelson Moorhead Jay Larshus Concordia Jay Reed UND Grant Sundquist Moorhead SHOT PUT Dave Levos Shawn Johnson Mark Murdock Steve Burian Brandon Quesenberry Brian Emerson Creighton Schroyer Ryan Reynolds Zach Olson Darren Hoffman DISCUS Dave Levos Shawn Johnson Roman Waldera Brian Emerson Jason Cook Ryan Reynolds Ian Collins Erik Moe Steve Burian Curt Misialek

7-01 1/2 6-11 6-03 1/4 6-03 6-03 1/4 6-02 3/4 6-02 1/2 6-02 6-02 6-02

UND TOP-10 LISTS

Drake Coastal Carolina NCAA NCAA Great West NCC Great West NCC South Dakota South Dakota State NCC Fargo South Dakota NCC NCC NCC South Dakota Concordia NDSCS Bemidji State

HAMMER Jakob Bissell Roman Waldera Shawn Johnson Josh Haugan Matt Fick Brandon Quesenberry Zach Olson Cody Mach Ian Collins Tate Messmer

Cal State LA Big Sky Concordia NCC Concordia Great West South Dakota Concordia UNC Wilmington Coastal Carolina

JAVELIN Matt Fick Matt Litzinger Tyler Stoltz Keaton Hanevold Scott Larson Alex Hickel Joe Wilson Tim Tandeski John Hoplin

Augustana Augustana Truman State Big Sky NCC Great West NCC UND MSU

DECATHLON Jon Wrzesinski Brad Graf Jordan Fisk

190-07 189-02 180-01 1/2 172-10 166-08 164-97 160-03 157-03 155-09 154-07

2014 2014 2012 2006 2008 2012 2013 2013 2014 2013

229-10 228-01 222-04 196-10 190-10 188-05 185-10 185-05 185-00

2008 2008 2006 2014 1992 2012 2002 1987 2014

NCC 6,941 pts. NCC Coastal Carolina 5,331 pts.

1988 1986 2013

Shawn Johnson ranks among UND’s all-time topthree in the shot put, discus and hammer throws.

North Dakota

2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY NCAA DIVISION TEAM FINISHES Year Indoor Outdoor 1969 -- 9th 1985 -- 8th 1987 -- t-9th

2005 2007 2007 2008 2008

NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS Indoor Year Name Event 1985 Dave Levos Shot Put 1987 Norm McGee 55-Meters 1988 Norm McGee 55-Meters

USA JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP ALL-AMERICAN 2013 D’Monte Farley Triple Jump 8th

Outdoor Year Name 1969 Arjan Gelling 1986 Dave Levos 1987 Norm McGee 1988 Norm McGee 1989 Norm McGee 2008 Matt Litzinger

Event Six Mile Discus 100-Meters 100-Meters 100-Meters Javelin

ALL-AMERICANS Indoor Year Name 1985 Dave Levos 1985 Norm McGee 1987 Norm McGee 1987 Tracy Martin Norm McGee Bryan Greenwood Chuck Torrance 1988 Norm McGee 1988 Jon Wrzesinski 1988 Steve Burian 1989 Steve Burian 1989 Norm McGee 1990 Steve Burian 1990 Scott Jemtrud 1991 Scott Jemtrud 1992 Jared Bruggeman 1995 Mark Murdock 1997 Marc Sondreal 1997 Mark Murdock 1998 Marc Sondreal 1998 Jim Mallory 2002 Mike Backes 2002 Aaron Berndt

55-Meters Pole Vault Shot Put Shot Put 55-Meters Shot Put Pole Vault Pole Vault 800-Meters Shot Put High Jump Shot Put High Jump 5,000 Meters Triple Jump 800-Meters

Outdoor Year Name 1968 Arjan Gelling 1968 Arjan Gelling 1968 Mike Kane 1969 Arjan Gelling 1969 Arjan Gelling 1975 Larry Kennedy 1977 Robert Fransen 1984 Dave Levos 1984 Dave Levos 1985 Norm McGee 1985 Norm McGee 1986 Dave Levos 1986 Dave Levos 1987 Norm McGee 1987 Norm McGee 1988 Norm McGee 1988 Norm McGee 1989 Norm McGee 1989 Norm McGee 1990 Steve Burian 1991 Rory Beil 1995 Mark Murdock 1998 Mark Murdock 1998 Marc Sondreal 1998 Chad Heltemes 1999 Brian Emerson 1999 Marc Sondreal 2000 Brian Emerson 2001 Brian Emerson 2004 Jason Cook

Event Place 5,000-Meters 5th 10,000-Meters 2nd 10,000-Meters 5th Three Mile 2nd Six Mile 1st Mile Run 5th High Jump 6th Discus 4th Shot Put 6th 100-Meters 4th 200-Meters 6th Shot Put 6th Discus 1st 200-Meters 2nd 100-Meters 1st 100-Meters 1st 200-Meters 2nd 100-Meters 1st 200-Meters 2nd Shot Put 2nd 110-Hurdles 7th Shot Put 6th Shot Put 8th High Jump 7th 1,500-Meters 8th Shot Put 8th High Jump 8th Discus 5th Discus 5th Discus 5th

Event Shot Put 55-Meters 55-Meters 1,600 Relay

Place 1st 4th 1st 4th

1st 4th 6th 4th 2nd 4th 5th 3rd 4th 2nd 3rd 6th 2nd 6th 5th 4th

Tyler Stoltz Matt Fick Matt Litzinger Matt Fick Matt Litzinger

Javelin Javelin Javelin Javelin Javelin

5th 8th 6th 3rd 1st

USTFCCCA ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 1996 Chad Heltemes, Mike Madson, Mark Murdock, Marc Sondreal 1997 Team, Mark Murdock, Chad Heltemes, Marc Sondreal 1998 Team, Martin Blekkerud, Chad Heltemes, Jim Mallory, Mark Murdock, Ryan Reynolds, Marc Sondreal, Jeremy Zimney 1999 Team, Jeremy Zimney, Ryan Renolds, Mike Backes, Marc Sondreal 2000 Team, Mike Backes, Digger Johnson, Jeremy Zimney 2001 Team, Mike Backes 2002 Team 2003 Team 2004 Team 2005 Team, Lee DeKrey, Matt Gerszewski, Paul Kriegler 2006 Lee DeKrey 2007 Team, Clark Carlson, Matt Gerszewski, Donovan Alexander 2009 Team 2010 Team 2012 Team 2013 Team, D’Monte Farley 2014 Team Bold indicates highest team GPA in nation USTFCCCA DII SCHOLAR TEAM OF THE YEAR 2008 Outdoor CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA TEAM 1989 Steve Burian (1st) 1990 Steve Burian (1st) CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM 1993 Mike Madsen 1994 Mike Madsen 1997 Marc Sondreal 1999 Marc Sondreal 2000 Greg Geers 2002 Mike Backes 2003 Brent Lorentz 2014 Jimmy Evers CROSS COUNTRY COACHES ASSOCIATION ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 1992 Chris Carbonneau 1995 Team, Mike Madsen, Chad Heletemes 1996 Team 1997 Team, Chad Heltemes, Jim Mallory 1998 Team 1999 Team, Brent Lorentz 2000 Team 2001 Team 2002 Team 2003 Team 2004 Team, Lee DeKrey, Paul Kriegler 2005 Team 2006 Team, Lee DeKrey 2007 Team, Kyle Rosseau 2009 Team 2010 Team 2012 Team 2013 Team 2014 Team BIG SKY ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM Year Name 2013 Tyler Colling (I/O), Sam Coulter (I), Jimmy Evers (I/O), D’Monte Farley (O), Jesse

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Fenstermacher (I/O), Jordan Fisk (I), Isaiah Frohling (I), Keaton Hanevold (I/O), Mark Harries (O), Aaron Koenig (I), John LeClerc (I/O), Nick Lindstrom (I), Cody Mach (O), Matthew McCreary (I/O), Nate Peterson (I/O), Parker Wharram (I/O) Darin Baltezore (I), Drew Campbell (I/O), Tyler Colling (I/O), Colin Cottingham (I), Jimmy Evers (I/O), D’Monte Farley (I/O), Isaiah Frohling (I), Keaton Hanevold (O), John LeClerc (I/O), Cody Mach (I), Jared Michel (I/O), Tyler Olson (I), Parker Wharram (I/O)

BIG SKY CROSS COUNTRY ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 2012 Nate Peterson, Adam Stainiger, Parker Wharram 2013 Drew Campbell, Colin Cottingham, Cataldo DiDonna, Mark Harries, Nate Peterson, Parker Wharram 2014 Darin Baltezore, Drew Campbell, Connor Danielson, Mark Harries, Scott Kvidera, Ben Nelson, Nate Peterson, Ryan Phillips, Parker Wharram GWC CROSS COUNTRY ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 2009 Cory Absey 2010 Cory Absey, Jeremy Jones, Josh LaBlanc, Tyler Rose, Kyle Rosseau 2011 James Dean, Dwight Mandimika, Tyler Rose GWC TRACK & FIELD ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 2009 Mark Barclay, Matt Elbert, Josh LaBlanc, Kyle Rosseau 2010 Cory Absey, Mark Barclay, Matt Elbert, Jeremy Jones, Josh LaBlanc, Eric Nelson, Tyler Rose, Kyle Rosseau, Daniel Sjarpe, Chris Stoks 2011 Chris Benson, Josh LaBlanc, Shawn Reich, Tyler Rose, Chris Stoks 2012 Chris Benson, Jesse Fenstermacher, Jordan Fisk, Brandon Quesenberry, Shawn Reich, Tyler Rose, Adam Stainiger, Chris Stoks NCC AT-LARGE ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM 1985 Bryan Greenwood, Gerry Werven (HM) 1987 Bryan Greenwood, Dan Thralow 1988 Steve Burian, Andy Lawrence, Rory Beil, Todd Brecto 1989 Steve Burian, Jon Wrzesinski, Andy Lawrence, Rory Beil, Bert Burkholder, Mike Sanderson 1990 Steve Burian, Scott Jemtrud, Kory Zimney 1991 Rory Beil, Scott Jemtrud, Matt Kelly, Kory Zimney 1992 Rory Beil, Sean Burian, Matt Kelly, Kory Zimney, Brian Bergantine, Jared Bruggeman, Wayne Kazmierczak, Russ Schwehr 1993 Mike Madsen, Russ Schwehr, Wayne Kazmierczak, Greg Hexum, Mike Hoebel, Eric Podnickes 1994 Cory Ravnaas, Darin Didier, Mike Madsen, Jim Kalina 1995 Mike Madsen, Chad Heltemes 1996 Mike Madsen 1997 Marc Sondreal, Chad Heltemes, Mark Murdock, Byron Severson, Jim Mallory 1998 Jim Mallory, Marc Sondreal 1999 Jeremy Zimney, Ryan Reynolds, Marc Sondreal, Dave Lloyd 2000 Mike Backes, Jeremy Zimney, Dan Alstatt, Greg Geers 2001 Greg Geers, Steve Hanke, Brent Lorentz, Alex Campbell 2002 Mike Backes, Brent Lorentz, Dan Arneson, Aaron Berndt, Alex Campbell, Dan Dow, Pete Kriegler 2003 Brent Lorentz, Nate Fiala, Peter Holmes, Ryan Schafer 2004 Jason Cook, Lee DeKrey 2005 Lee DeKrey, Nate Fiala, Brent Keigley 2006 Lee DeKrey, Richie Spitsberg 2007 Lee DeKrey, Richie Spitsberg

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MIKE BACKES

Years at UND: 1998-2002

All-America Honors: 1

Event: Triple Jump

Event: 800-Meters

Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Mike Backes earned All-America honors in 2002 with a fifth-place finish in the triple jump at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships. The school record-holder in the triple jump with a leap of 50-10 3/4 at the 2002 NCC indoor meet, Backes was also a member of UNDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4x110-meter hurdle relay team that established a school record in 2000. In 2002 Backes was named to the Verizon Division II Academic All-America Team and the NCC At-Large Academic Team (for the second time). He was also a three-time member of the NCAA Division II Track Coaches Association All-Academic Team. A 1998 graduate of Red River High School in Grand Forks, Backes was the 1999 UND Rookie of the Year for the entire UND athletics department.

Aaron Berndt earned All-America honors in 2002 with a fourth-place finish in the 800-meters at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships. A member of the 2002 North Central Conference At-Large Academic Team, Berndt owns five indoor school records and two outdoor marks. In indoor competition he set school records in the 500, 600, 800 and 1,000-meter races, and was also a member of the 2002 3,200-meter relay team that set a school record. In outdoor competition Berndt was a member of UNDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school-record 3,200-meter relay team and holds the school standard in the 800meter dash. Berndt was a 1998 graduate of Red River High School in Grand Forks, N.D.

RORY BEIL

JARED BRUGGEMAN

Years at UND: 1988-91

Years at UND: 1990-93

All-America Honors: 1

Event: Hurdles

Event: 800-Meters

Hometown: Valley City, N.D.

Hometown: La Crescent, Minn.

Rory Beil finished seventh in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1991 NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships. It was the highest finish for a UND hurdler in UND history. Beil is still tied as the UND indoor record holder in the 55-meter hurdles. During the 1991 outdoor season, Beil captured a NCC championship in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. He also captained the UND outdoor track team in 1989-90-91. Beil was a 1987 graduate of Valley City High School and came to UND to major in business marketing.

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Jared Bruggeman placed fourth in the 800-meters at the 1992 NCAA Division II Track and Field Meet. Bruggeman is a former record-holder of the UND indoor 800-meters record and was on the 3,200-meter relay team that set the outdoor record of 7:48.30 in 1993. Bruggeman, a 1989 graduate of LaCrescent High School (Minn.), is married to former UND volleyball and basketball standout Maria (Oistad) Bruggeman. He currently serves as the director of athletics at Missouri Southern State University.

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STEVE BURIAN Years at UND: 1987-90 All-America Honors: 4 Event: Shot Put Hometown: Bismarck, N.D.

2006 UND Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee Steve Burian was a four-time All-American in the shot put. In 1988, Burian finished sixth at the NCAA Division II Meet. He placed fourth in 1989, and again in 1990, with a final finish of second place at the NCAA outdoor championships. Steve finished in the top three in discus at all four of his career NCC outdoor championships. He was named GTE CoSida All Academic First Team in 1988-89 and 1989-90, achieved NCC All Academic Team honors from 1988-1990, and was a awarded a postgraduate scholarship. Steve was also awarded the UND Young alumni Achievement Award in 2005. Steve is CEO & cofounder of Advanced Engineering & Engineering Services (AE2S) in Grand Forks, N.D., and has served as president of the UND Letterwinners Association. Burian was a 1986 graduate and valedictorian of his Bismarck Century High School class.

JASON COOK

Years at UND: 2002-04 All-America Honors: 1 Event: Discus Hometown: Fridley, Minn.

Jason Cook finished fifth in the discus at the 2004 NCAA outdoor championships to earn All-American honors for the Sioux. Cook, a 2000 graduate of Spring Lake Park (Minn.) High School, earned a degree in civil engineering at UND.

BRIAN EMERSON Years at UND: 1998-2001 All-America Honors: 3 Event: Discus, Shot Put

CHRIS CARBONNEAU Years at UND: 1988-92 All-America Honors: 1 Event: Cross Country

Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Brian Emerson earned the first of his three All-America honors in 1999 with an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Meet in the shot put. His second All-America was earned in the discus with a fifth-place finish at the outdoor meet in 2000. His third honor was also with a fifth-place finish at the 2001 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Meet in the discus.

Hometown: St. Paul, Minn.

Chris Carbonneau placed 32nd at the 1992 NCAA Division II Cross Country Meet to earn All-America honors. Carbonneau was also a member of the UND outdoor 4x1600-meter relay that holds the school record set in 1992 and he set the steeplechase record in 1992. Carbonneau was a 1988 graduate of Tartan High School in St. Paul, Minn.

MATT FICK Years at UND: 2004-08 All-America Honors: 2 Event: Javelin Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Matt Fick finished eighth in the javelin at the 2007 NCAA Division II outdoor championships, earning All-American honors for the Fighting Sioux. Fick also earned All-American honors in 2008 after placing third at the NCAA Division II outdoor championships. Fick, a 2004 graduate from Red River High School in Grand Forks, N.D., earned a degree in marketing from UND.

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ROBERT FRANSEN

BRYAN GREENWOOD

Years at UND: 1977

Years at UND: 1984-87

All-America Honors: 1

Event: High Jump

Event: 1,600-Meter Relay

Hometown: Underwood, N.D.

Hometown: Cavalier, N.D.

Robert Fransen placed sixth in the high jump at the 1977 NCAA Division II Track and Field Championship to earn All-America honors.

ARJAN GELLING Years at UND: 1967-70 All-America Honors: 7 Event: Cross Country, Distance

Bryan Greenwood earned All-America honors in the 1,600-meter relay, which placed fourth at the 1987 NCAA Division II Championships. Greenwood is a UND record holder in the indoor 1,600-meter relay set in 1987, and the outdoor 400, 800, and 1,600-meter relays, all set in 1987. Greenwood came to UND after graduating from Cavalier High School in 1993 where he was the Class B state champion in the 100, 200 and 400-meters.

CHAD HELTEMES

Hometown: Thunder Bay, Ontario

Years at UND: 1994-98

1980 UND Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee

All-America Honors: 1

Arjan Gelling (below), a 1980 inductee into the University of North Dakota Athletic Hall of Fame, won an NCAA Division II Championship Title in 1969 in the the six-mile run. In 1968, Gelling placed second in the 10,000-meters and fifth in the 5,000-meters. In 1969, he placed second in the three-mile run along with his first place in the six mile run. Gelling won the 1967 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships with a time of 19:33.50. He also earned All-America honors in 1968 with a fourth-place finish and 1969 with a third-place finish in the cross country championships. Gelling holds the fourmile North Central Conference course record with a time of 19:25.90, set in 1967. He also holds the UND Outdoor 10,000-meters record, set in 1968, with a time of 30:34.00.

Event: 1,500-Meters Hometown: Anoka, Minn.

Chad Heltemes placed eighth at the 1998 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships in the 1,500-meters to earn All-America honors. He previously held the UND indoor 1,000-meter record (set in 1996) and still holds the indoor mile record (set in 1997) and the outdoor record in the 1,500-meters which he set in 1998. A three-sport athlete from St. Francis High School in Anoka, Minn., Heltemes earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in mechanical engineering from UND.

All-American and 1980 UND Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Arjan Gelling stands next to UNDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s track and field records board in the Hyslop Sports Center.

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GREG HEXUM Years at UND: 1989-93 All-America Honors: 1 Event: Cross Country Hometown: Duluth, Minn.

Greg Hexum earned All-America honors with his 36th-place finish at the 1992 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Hexum was a 1989 graduate of Duluth Proctor High School who ran cross country and track for UND. He graduated from UND with a major in English and a minor in athletic coaching.

SCOTT JEMTRUD

LARRY KENNEDY

Years at UND: 1975 All-America Honors: 1 Event: Mile Run

Larry Kennedy placed fifth in the mile run to earn All-America honors at the 1975 NCAA Division II Track and Field Meet.

DAVE LEVOS Years at UND: 1982-86 All-America Honors: 5

Years at UND: 1988-91

Event: Discus, Shot Put

All-America Honors: 2

Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Event: Pole Vault Hometown: Larimore, N.D.

Scott Jemtrud finished fifth in the pole vault in 1990 and finished third at the 1991 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Meet. Jemtrud holds the outdoor record in the pole vault, a record which he set in 1991.

MIKE KANE Years at UND: 1968

2000 UND Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee Levos graduated from Grand Forks Red River in 1981 and graduated from UND with a degree in business administration in 1986. Levos was a three-time NCAA Division II All-America weight man in both the discus and shot put in 1984, 1985 and 1986. A five-time All-American for finishing in the top six at the NCAA Division II meet, he also won eight conference track titles. He was a four-time NCC shot put champion and triple winner in the discus under coach Mike Grandall. As a senior, Levos was first in the shot put in all six UND indoor meets and was first in the shot put in the 1985 national indoor meet. He didn’t compete in the 1985 outdoor season, instead competing in 1986. In 1986, Levos’ national title in the discus enabled him to compete in the Division I national championships, where he finished 10th. Levos is married to the former Nancy Wavrin (UND 1986-87), and the couple currently resides in Medford, Ore., where Levos is a manufacturing manager for Bear Creek, Corp. He and Nancy have two sons, Michael and Dylan. Levos was inducted into UND’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.

All-America Honors: 1 Event: 10,000-Meters

Mike Kane placed fifth in the 10,000-meters at the 1968 NCAA Division II Track and Field Meet to earn All-America honors.

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MATT LITZINGER Years at UND: 2004-08 All-America Honors: 2 Event: Javelin

Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Matt Litzinger earned two All-America honors while at UND. Litzinger was the NCAA Division II outdoor National Champion in the javelin in 2008. Litzinger also finished sixth in the javelin at the 2007 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships. Litzinger, a 2004 graduate from Central School in Grand Forks, N.D., was a commercial aviation major at UND.

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NORM MCGEE Years at UND: 1985-89 All-America Honors: 13 Event: Sprints Hometown: Milwaukee, Wis. 2001 UND Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee

Norm McGee was a three-time NCAA Division II Champion in the 100-meter dash. McGee won the titles in 1987, 1988, and 1989. He placed fourth in the indoor 55-meter dash in 1985, was the champion in 1987 and in 1988. In 1985, McGee placed fourth in the 100meters and finished sixth in 200-meters at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field meet. In 1987, McGee won the 100-meters and was second in the 200-meters. He repeated that feat at the 1988 and 1989 NCAA Meets. In all, McGee brought home five first-place finishes from the NCAA Division II Track and Field meets, the most in UND history. McGee also ran the 1,600-meter relay and earned All-America honors at the 1987 NCAA Division II Championships. McGee was inducted into UNDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

Years at UND: 1995-98 All-America Honors: 1 Event: 5,000-Meters Hometown: Bismarck, N.D.

MARK MURDOCK Years at UND: 1995-98 All-America Honors: 4

Jim Mallory placed fifth in the 5,000-meters at the 1998 NCAA Division II Meet to earn All-America honors. Mallory also holds current UND records in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000-meter races, both set in 1998.

TRACY MARTIN Years at UND: 1987 All-America Honors: 1 Event: 1,600-Meter Relay Hometown: Brooklyn Center, Minn.

Tracy Martin earned All-America honors in the 1,600-meter relay which placed fourth at the 1987 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships. Martin is also a part of the current UND record-holding 4x400m relay team.

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Event: Shot Put Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

Mark Murdock placed second in the 1995 NCAA Division II Indoor Meet in the shot put. In the outdoor meet, that same season he took home a sixth-place finish. Two years later, in 1997, he placed sixth in the shot put at the NCAA Track and Field Meet to earn his third All-America honor. His fourth All-America honor came at the NCAA Outdoor Meet in 1998 when he placed eighth in the shot put. In his senior season at UND, Murdock took first place five times in outdoor competition, including the North Central Conference Championships where he threw 54-07. Murdock was a 1992 graduate of Red River High School in Grand Forks.

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MARC SONDREAL

CHUCK TORRANCE

Years at UND: 1996-99

Years at UND: 1984-87

All-America Honors: 4

All-America Honors: 1

Event: High Jump

Event: 1,600-Meter Relay

Hometown: Northwood, N.D.

Hometown: Grand Forks, N.D.

A four-time All-American, Marc Sondreal posted a third-place finish in the high jump at the 1997 NCAA Division II indoor meet. In 1998 at the NCAA indoor meet, Sondreal moved up a position to second place, and then in the 1998 outdoor season, he finished seventh in the high jump. In Sondreal’s 1998 season, he won six of the eight high jump competitions during the outdoor season, including the North Central Conference Outdoor Championships where he tied a meet record with a leap of 7-01 1/2. Sondreal earned his fourth All-American award in 1999, finishing eighth in the high jump at the NCAA outdoor meet. Sondreal graduated from from UND in the spring of 1999 with a degree in physical therapy. He is originally from Northwood, N.D.

Chuck Torrance earned All-America honors in the 1,600-meter relay which placed fourth at the 1987 NCAA Division II Championships. Torrance is also a member of the current UND record-holding indoor and outdoor 4x400-meter relays set in 1987. Torrance, a 1993 graduate of Grand Forks Central High School, majored in zoology while at the University of North Dakota.

EARNEST WILSON Years at UND: 1964

TYLER STOLTZ

All-America Honors: 1 Event: Cross Country

Years at UND: 2003-06 All-America Honors: 1 Event: Javelin

Earnest Wilson placed 13th at the 1964 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships to earn All-America honors.

Hometown: Valley City, N.D.

Tyler Stoltz earned All-America honors by placing fifth in the javelin at the 2005 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Stoltz’s fifth-place finish came on a throw of 207 feet, 4 inches. Stoltz was named UND’s most valuable performer (field events) in 2005. Stoltz, a 2002 graduate of Valley City (N.D.) High School, is majoring in psychology at the University of North Dakota.

JON WRZESINSKI Years at UND: 1988-89 All-America Honors: 1 Event: Pole Vault Hometown: Stanford, Mont.

Jon Wrzesinski placed fourth in the pole vault at the 1988 NCAA Division II Track and Field Meet. Wrzesinski holds the current UND indoor record in the pole vault, set in 1988.

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY The University of North Dakota instituted an athletics Hall of Fame in 1975, with eight individuals being inducted that year, including former track and field standouts Edmund W. Boe, Joseph J. Flanagan and Glenn L. “Red” Jarrett.

Following is a chronolgical list of UND Athletics Hall of Famers who played, coached or who were associated with the UND men’s track and field program, with an alphabetical listing of men’s track and field hall of famers on the following page: CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING

1989 Inductee Ron R. (Magic) Gustafson................................................(FB 1971-74; Tr 1972)

1991 Inductee Peter V. Porinsh.......................................................................(FB, TR 1962-64, 66) 1992 Inductees S. Alex Cooley....................................................(BB 1966-68; Tr 1965; BB 1966) Donald D. Miller..................(FB 1954-55; Tr 1955-56; Base 1956; BB 1955) 1994 Inductee Bill Leifur.....................................................................................(BB, FB, Tr 1959-62) 2000 Inductee Dave Levos.....................................................................(Tr 1982-85; BB 1981-82) 2001 Inductee Norm McGee.................................................... (Tr 1985-89; FB 1984, 1986-88)

1975 Inductees Edmund W. Boe..................................................................(BB; FB; Tr 1923-27) Joseph J. Flanagan............................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1895-01) Glenn L. (Red) Jarrett........................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1927-30) Frederick D. (Fritz) Pollard...................................................... (FB; Tr 1936-38)

2002 Inductee Ralph Nienas................................................................................... (FB/Tr 1948-51)

1976 Inductee Stephen M. Myhra.................................................................... (FB; Tr 1955-57)

2006 Inductee Steve Burian............................................................................................(Tr 1987-90)

2003 Inductee Bruce Smith...........................................................................(FB 1967-69, Tr 1970)

1977 Inductees Fred N. (Nip) Felber...........................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1929-32) Arthur F. Malo Sr..............................................................................(FB 1930-32) Theodore R. Meinhover...................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1930-33) David V. Osborn......................................................................... (FB; Tr 1962-64) Richard R. Ryan...................................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1951-54) 1978 Inductees John J. Burma............................................................................. (FB; Tr 1929-31) Grant N. (Bub) Nelson............................................................. (FB; Tr 1922-24) 1979 Inductees Walter Dobler................................... (FB 1939-41; Tr 1940-42; BB 1941-42) Curt C. Schave....................................................(FB; BB 1928-31; Tr 1929-32) Dudley D. (Dude) Draxton...... (BB 1942-43, 46-48; FB 1947; Tr 1942, 47) Horace W. (Hoss) Johnson.............................(FB 1936-38; BB; Tr 1936-39) 1980 Inductees Judge Ronald N. Davies.................................................................(Tr 1923-26) Vern L. DuChene....................................(FB 1929-31; BB 1929-32; Tr 1930) 1981 Inductee Dr. Will N. Spear................................................................................(Tr 1939-41) 1982 Inductees William E. (Dutch) Leidholdt.....(FB 1932, 34, 36; H 1932-33; Tr 1935-37) Lloyd D. (Boom) Hallada...................... (FB 1948-51; Tr 1951-52; Box 1949) 1983 Inductees Michael J. Brenkus....................................................... (FB 1937-39; Tr 1939-40) J. Gordon Caldis................................................ (FB 1939-41; BB 1940; Tr 1941) Ralph L. Pierce............................................................... (FB 1931-33; Tr 1932-34) Frank A. Zazula.......................................(FB co 1946-59; Tr & CC co 1956-82) David L. (Butch) Lince.......................(FB 1963-65; BB 1963-66; Tr 1964-66) Ronald C. Thompson.........................................................(Tr 1952-53; FB 1951)

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Steve Burian was the most recent track and field standout inducted into the UND Athletics Hall of Fame. A member of the 2006 Hall of Fame class, Burian was a four-time All-American in the shot put.

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the UND men’s track and field program:

Following is an alphabetical list of UND Athletics Hall of Famers who played, coached or who were associated with

ALPHABETICAL LISTING B Boe, Edmund W. ................................................................(BB; FB; Tr 1923-27) Brenkus, Michael J. ..................................................... (FB 1937-39; Tr 1939-40) Burian, Steve...........................................................................................(Tr 1987-90) Burma, John J. ........................................................................... (FB; Tr 1929-31) C Caldis, J. Gordon............................................... (FB 1939-41; BB 1940; Tr 1941) Cooley, S. Alex...................................................(BB 1966-68; Tr 1965; BB 1966)

N Nelson, Grant N. (Bub) ........................................................... (FB; Tr 1922-24) Nienas, Ralph................................................................................... (FB/Tr 1948-51) O Osborn, David V. ....................................................................... (FB; Tr 1962-64) P Pierce, Ralph L. ............................................................. (FB 1931-33; Tr 1932-34) Pollard, Frederick D. (Fritz) .................................................... (FB; Tr 1936-38) Porinsh, Peter V. .....................................................................(FB, TR 1962-64, 66)

R Ryan, Richard R. .................................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1951-54) S Schave, Curt C. ..................................................(FB; BB 1928-31; Tr 1929-32) Smith, Bruce..........................................................................(FB 1967-69, Tr 1970) Spear, Dr. Will N. ..............................................................................(Tr 1939-41) T Thompson, Ronald C. .......................................................(Tr 1952-53; FB 1951) Z Zazula, Frank A. .....................................(FB co 1946-59; Tr & CC co 1956-82)

D Davies, Judge Ronald N. ...............................................................(Tr 1923-26) Dobler, Walter.................................. (FB 1939-41; Tr 1940-42; BB 1941-42) Draxton, Dudley D. (Dude) .... (BB 1942-43, 46-48; FB 1947; Tr 1942, 47) DuChene, Vern L. ..................................(FB 1929-31; BB 1929-32; Tr 1930) F Felber, Fred N. (Nip) .........................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1929-32) Flanagan, Joseph J............................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1895-01) G Gustafson, Ron R. (Magic) ..............................................(FB 1971-74; Tr 1972) H Hallada, Lloyd D. (Boom) .................... (FB 1948-51; Tr 1951-52; Box 1949) J Jarrett, Glenn L. (Red) ......................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1927-30) Johnson, Horace W. (Hoss) ...........................(FB 1936-38; BB; Tr 1936-39) L Leifur, Bill....................................................................................(BB, FB, Tr 1959-62) Leidholdt, William E. (Dutch).....(FB 1932, 34, 36; H 1932-33; Tr 1935-37) Levos, Dave....................................................................(Tr 1982-85; BB 1981-82) Lince, David L. (Butch) .....................(FB 1963-65; BB 1963-66; Tr 1964-66) M Malo Sr., Arthur F. ...........................................................................(FB 1930-32) McGee, Norm................................................... (Tr 1985-89; FB 1984, 1986-88) Meinhover, Theodore R. .................................................(FB; BB; Tr 1930-33) Miller, Donald D. .................(FB 1954-55; Tr 1955-56; Base 1956; BB 1955) Myhra, Stephen M. .................................................................. (FB; Tr 1955-57)

Two-sport star Frederick “Fritz” Pollard, Jr. (Hall of Fame Class of ‘75) won the bronze medal for the United States in the 110-meter hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. His father, Fritz Pollard Sr., was the National Football League’s first African-American head coach.

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2014-15 UND TRACK & CROSS COUNTRY By Jackie DeMolee, UND Athletics

Ron Pynn was an educator at the University of North Dakota for 29 years in political science, but he didn’t only shape the minds of students in the classroom. He has projected his love for track and field and cross country onto the programs at UND. Pynn has been a long time supporter of cross country and track and field. The Ron Pynn Invitational, UND’s annual cross country meet, was established in 2002 to honor Pynn for his many contributions to the teams, including travelling with the teams for support, working events and financially supporting the program. He said that he’s always had a passion for the sport and the studentathletes involved.

The Ron Pynn Invitational was established in 2002 to honor his contributions to UND.

Ron Pynn

“It [running] takes a special brand of discipline,” said Pynn. “What drives them [athletes] to run drives them to succeed in other areas of their life.” This is only one of the many reasons Pynn feels so passionate about the program at UND. “It’s been exciting each and every year,” said longtime UND men’s cross country and track and field head coach Mike Grandall, who retired following the 2009-10 season. “It’s great to have him back.” Pynn uses the Invitational as an opportunity to visit the University and friends. “I think the world of the coaches,” he said. “The way they treat the athletes, but not just as UND athletes, but as students too.”

Ray Richards Golf Course is home to the Ron Pynn Invitational. The course is set up as a 5K for women and 8K for men, providing a challenging route well-known in the Upper Midwest. The Division I transition has changed the Invitational somewhat, but it doesn’t change the meaning behind the name of the event or how important the event is to the head coaches of the men’s and women’s cross country teams and Pynn.

“What drives them to run drives them to succeed in other areas of life.” — Ron Pynn

Pynn currently resides in Burlington, Vt., but makes the trek back to UND each year for the Invitational.

For the first time in 2012, the annual UND Ron Pynn Invitational included an alumni meet and reunion social. More than 100 track and field alumni attended the events.

UND RON PYNN INVITATIONAL

2014-15 SCHEDULE Indoor Season Dec. 6 South Dakota State at Brookings, S.D. Jan. 16-17 National Pole Vault Summit at Reno, Nev. Jan. 17 Bison Classic at Fargo, N.D. Jan. 24 South Dakota State Invitational at Brookings, S.D. Jan. 30-31 Jack Johnson Invitational at Minneapolis, Minn. Feb. 6-7 Bison Open at Fargo, N.D. Feb. 13-14 South Dakota State Classic at Brookings, S.D. Feb. 20 USD Twilight Meet at Vermillion, S.D. Feb. 26-28 Big Sky Conference Championship Flagstaff, Ariz.

Outdoor Season Mar. 13-14 Coastal Carolina Invitational at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mar. 19-21 Shamrock Invitational at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Apr. 4 Dakota Duals Sioux Falls, S.D. Apr. 10 Jim Duncan Invitational at Des Moines, Iowa Apr. 12 University of Mary Open at Bismarck, N.D. Apr. 16-17 Mt. SAC Relays at Walnut, Calif. Apr. 16 CSULA Twilight Open at Los Angeles, Calif. Apr. 17 Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa, Calif. Apr. 18 Beach Invitational at Norwalk, Calif. Apr. 21 Cobber Twilight at Moorhead, Minn. Apr. 25 Drake Alternative Meet at Saint Peter, Minn. May 2 Lyle Hokanson Classic at Fargo, N.D. May 2 Steve Scott Invitational at Irvine, Calif. May 15-16 Big Sky Conference Championship Cheney, Wash. May 28-30 NCAA West Preliminary Austin, Texas June 11 NCAA Championship, Eugene, Ore. June 26-28 U.S. Junior Championship, Eugene, Ore.