BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Bemidji State University track and field finished the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in 12
th place, headlined by a win in the 1000m. This is the first event win for the team since 2021.
Sophie Rylance has made this season her own, setting personal bests, school and facility records. This weekend was no different as the sophomore earned the Beavers the first individual conference event win since 2021. Rylance qualified for the 1000-meter run with a time of 3:03.28, then pushed to the front with a personal best time of 2:55.85. This was the first time a Beaver has taken the title in the event. With the win, Rylance also earned All-NSIC honors. Freshman
Jada Goeson also ran the 1000-meter, setting a personal best at 3:05.41 and finishing 12
th in preliminaries.
Maggie McCarthy rounded out the individual track efforts for BSU, finishing 19
th in the 3000-meter with a season-best time of 10:31.37.
The Beavers' relay teams also had strong showings at the Championships. BSU's distance medley relay team of
Jada Goeson,
Amelia Congrove,
Sophie Rylance and
Maggie McCarthy finished fourth, grabbing the team four points, with a time of 12:30.11. The 4x400-meter relay team of Congrove, Goeson, Rylance and senior
Josie Aitken marked a season-best time of 4:07.19, taking 14
th.
Trista Bilden led the Beavers' field efforts, finishing 13
th in shot put with a distance of 12.41 meters. Redshirt junior
Hannah Baker finished 15
th with a distance of 15.56 meters in the weight throw. Over on the pole vault runway,
Chloe Knott finished in 19
th at a height of 3.16 meters.
Adding to the Beavers' accolades,
Chloe Knott was named the NSIC's Indoor Track and Field Women's Elite 18 Outstanding Senior. The award is given to a senior with the highest cumulative GPA among those competing at the finals site for each of the NSIC's 18 championships. Knott, who is a senior academically and sophomore athletically, has a perfect 4.00 GPA while majoring in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology.
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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).
