Aberdeen, S.D. - Northern State's Men's 4x4 (men's track & field) and Renea Taylor (women's track & field) are this week's South Dakota Army National Guard Athletes of the Week following their performances last weekend.

The team of Geoffrey Mannino, Drew Henriksen, Carter Dingman, and Drew Salfrank won the event with a time of 3:16.79. They secured the first 4x400m NSIC Championship for NSU since 2008. The team sealed the second place finish for the Wolves in the final event of the championships. The group broke the school record in the event earlier this year.

Taylor finished as the runner-up in three events at the NSIC Championships in the 100m, 100m hurdles, and 400m hurdles. She ran a 100m time of 11.58, tying the school record. The graduate student twice broke her own school record in the 100m hurdles in both prelims and finals with a finals time of 13.69. The Washington native tallied a time of 1:00.06 in the 400m hurdles.

 

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