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Mankato, Minn. – The Northern State University track and field teams opened the 2024-25 NSIC Indoor Championships with four all-conference performances, one league champion, and nine student-athletes advancing to day two finals.  In addition, the Wolves tallied 12 season best or personal bests on the day. Northern sits third on the men's side with 30 points and sixth on the women's side with 14 points following the first day of action.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED FOR THE MEN

• Eli Radtke leads the Wolves in the heptathlon, sitting sixth with 2,646 points through four events; he tallied marks of 7.19 in the 60m, 6.46m in the long jump, 12.29m in the shot put, and 1.71m in the high jump
• Sean Juengst and Jeffrey Boschee round out the top-10 with 2,465 and 2,461 points respectively in ninth and tenth
• Juengst recorded marks of 7.71 in the 60m, 6.02m in the long jump, 11.05m in the shot put, and 1.86m in the high jump, while Boschee notched marks of 7.73 in the 60m, 5.96m in the long jump, 9.99m in the shot put, and 1.95m in the high jump
• Chris Weber bested his own school record in the 60m with a time of 6.76, qualifying for finals with the fourth fastest time; his mark also ranks in the top-35 nationally
• Seth Martens and Drew Salfrank advanced to the finals in the 400m, notching times of 49.11 and 50.54 in third and eighth
• Carter Dingman will race the 600m finals tomorrow, recording the fourth fastest prelims time of 1:23.18
• The 800m final will see Lincoln Woodring for the Wolves who ran a sixth place, 2:00.11 prelims time
• Nathan Alto rounded out the scorers in the 5000m, taking eighth with a time of 15:11.25
• Boschee followed up his heptathlon performance with an all-conference finish in the high jump, taking third with a personal best jump of 2.04m, which is also a provisional mark for the freshman
• Jayden Munroe scored team points in the long jump, taking seventh overall with a mark of 7.01m
• Northern grabbed the top-2 spots in the pole vault, led by defending NSIC Champion Sam Tremelling
• Tremelling won the conference championship with a 4.89m vault, besting his previous season best of 4.88m
• Radtke followed as the pole vault runner-up, clearing 4.79m and earning all-conference accolades
• The distance medley relay team of David VanVeen, Geoffrey Mannino, Jessup Pederson, and Jon Burkhalter took sixth overall with a time of 10:23.16

 
HOW IT HAPPENED FOR THE WOMEN

• Renea Taylor advanced to finals in the 60m, recording a season best time of 7.64 in eighth; she is just 0.01 seconds off the national provisional mark in the event
• Alli Jackson heads into Saturday's finals of the 600m with the top time of 1:37.26, while true freshman Anna Skachenko qualified for her first NSIC finals with the fourth fastest time of 1:37.42
• Summer Carlson will also enter a finals event, in the 1000m, with the fastest prelims mark of 2:59.93
• Three Wolves scored team points in the pole vault, led by Romane Maugest with an all-conference, third place finish; she vaulted a season best 3.74m, clearing the national provisional mark of 3.72m
• Bekah Walz and Gitte Bellemans added fourth and sixth place finishes in the pole vault with marks of 3.74m and 3.64m respectively; Walz also tallied a national provisional mark with her finish

 
UP NEXT
Day two of the NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championships kicks off tomorrow at 9 a.m. from the Myers Fieldhouse. Full championship details can be found HERE.