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Steiner Sets Record at WIAC
Indoor Meet
Kyle Steiner set a Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference indoor championships record in the heptathlon and
also had an NCAA provisional qualifying time in the high jump to lead
the UW-Stevens Point men�s track and field team to a fourth place finish
at Saturday�s meet in Stevens Point.
The men�s team totaled 78.5 points as UW-La
Crosse won its fifth straight conference championship with 191 points.
The Pointer women�s team had no individual champions and finished sixth
overall with 60.5 points. UW-Oshkosh dethroned six-time defending
champion UW-La Crosse with 179.5 points for a 13-point winning margin.
Steiner posted a heptathlon score of 5,101
points, bettering the previous record by 186 points. He is UW-Stevens
Point�s first champion in the 26-year history of the event, winning the
high jump, 55-meter hurdles and 1000-meter run while finishing in the
top five of all seven events. Steiner was third in the overall high jump
with a leap of six feet, 9.75 inches, while Pointers� junior Mitch Ellis
improved his national-best jump by winning the event for the second
straight year in six feet, 11.75 inches.
The Pointers had runner-up finishes from Nick
VerDuin in the 400-meter dash in 49.58 seconds and Adam Baumann in the
55-meter hurdles in 7.70 seconds. Baumann also anchored the 1600-meter
relay team that placed third in 3:21.81.
The women�s team was led by Jenna Mitchler
with a second place finish in the 3000-meter run in 10:07.74 and Teresa
Stanley with a runner-up performance in the 5000-meter run in a
provisional time of 17:29.56. Katie Simo was third in the 400-meter dash
in a provisional time of 58.46.
Final qualifiers for next week�s Division III
championships in Northfield, Minn. will be announced later this week. |
