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Select Squad Headed to NDSU Bison Open

2/4/2021 4:26:00 PM

Aberdeen, S.D. – The Northern State University men's and women's track and field teams will take a small group of student-athletes to the NDSU Bison open tomorrow. Competition opens at 11 a.m. from the Shelly Ellig Indoor Track and Field Facility.
 
MEET & FAN INFORMATION
  • Due to capacity restrictions and the slight increase in number of teams and athletes competing inside the facility, there will be no tickets for sale to the public
  • Live results are also available through Hero Timing
 
MEN'S STORYLINES
  • Competing for the NSU men will be Maxwell Geditz, Tafara Hondonga, and Terry Towah
  • Towah is coming off back-to-back NSIC Track Athlete of the Week awards; he won both the 55m and 200m events in the dual win over Augustana
  • Hondonga won the 400m in the dual with the Vikings and took second in the 200m behind Towah
 
WOMEN'S STORYLINES  
WOLVES WITH NATIONAL MARKS
  • Tanner Berg hit an automatic qualifying mark at the Jim Emmerich Invite in the weight throw; he leads the nation throwing 21.80m
  • Berg is also ranked tenth nationally in the shot put, with a provisional mark of 17.13m that he threw versus Augustana a weekend ago
  • Tava Berg tallied a national provisional mark in the high jump, breaking her own school record, jumping 1.73m which ranks fifth nationally
  • Jordyn Huneke is just off the automatic qualifying standard in the pole vault with a 3.95m mark, ranking her seventh in the nation
 
SCHOOL RECORD WATCH
  • Tava Berg broke the high jump record of 1.66m set by Tara Like in 1996 at the Jamestown dual, jumping 1.68m, and re-broke the record at SDSU jumping 1.73m
  • Dakota Hutzler shattered the long jump mark of 5.52m set by Heidi Nelson (1993) and Katie Anderson (2005) on each of her three attempts at the Jamestown dual, recording a day best of 5.65m
  • Jennifer Clark broke the 1000m record of 3:01.89 held by Jenny Baus from the 2008 season in the Wolves dual win versus Augustana
  • Terry Towah's time of 22.03 in the 200m at the Jim Emmerich Invite, dropped Isaiha Fletcher's school record of 22.05 set just a season ago

 
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