DULUTH, Minn. – Bemidji State University Track and Field finished the season 11
th overall at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Duluth, Minn. In this finish, the Beavers grabbed 11 top-10 finishes, five personal bests, eight season bests and two NCAA Division II rankings.
Kicking off the weekend, sophomore Mille Rosaeg competed in the women's heptathlon where she finished eighth overall. Rosaeg found a top-five finish in the 100-meter hurdles at 14.82 seconds for a fourth-place spot to start the meet. She followed this up with sixth in the 200-meters, eighth in long jump and ninth in shot put. Rosaeg also marked a personal best in the javelin throw at 27.43 meters where she finished 11
th, along with finishing 11
th in high jump. Rounding out the heptathlon, she too 14
th in the 800-meter run with a season best finish of 2:48.17.
On the track,
Sophie Rylance found ninth place in the women's 800-meter preliminaries at a personal-best time of 2:15.58.
Makenna Frazier took 23rd overall in the women's 400-meter hurdles preliminaries at 1:09.69.
Maggie McCarthy grabbed one of the top finishes for BSU in the 3000-meter steeplechase, marking a personal best and NCAA Division II No. 88 ranking in just under 11 minutes and 18 seconds.
Ava Werner also PRed in the event with a 12:54.16 and
Callie Ressler finished 26
th with 13:44.85. Rounding out the track competition for BSU, the women's 4x400-meter relay team of
Josie Aitken,
Makenna Frazier,
Hailey Selly and
Sophie Rylance finished in 13
th with a season best time of 4:09.86.
Taking to the field events,
Zayda Priebe marked a 46.29-meter discus throw, grabbing fourth place overall.
Trista Bilden and
Elle Bettcher followed her in 16
th at 37.48m and 21
st at 34.86m, respectively.
Mikenna Pattrin found a strong finish in the hammer throw, taking fifth with a distance of 46.90 meters. She also landed in the top 10 in javelin with a sixth-place finish at 38.66 meters, her best this season, and ninth in shot put with a NCAA No. 84 ranked throw of 13.25 meters.
Trista Bilden followed close behind in the javelin at seventh with 38.02 meters and 11.83 meters in shot.
Olivia Olson finished her final collegiate meet with a 16
th-place spot in the pole vault at 3.21 meters.
As a team, the Beavers were projected to take 13
th out of 14 teams with a projected eight points. Instead, the top-10 finishes by multiple student athletes earned a combined 19 points for 11
th place.
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Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men's and women's hockey membership in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
