NSIC Conference Multi - Decathlon/Heptathlon

The first day of the conference multi is over. After the first day Jacob Pohlmann is sitting in ninth (9th) place while Meagan Grandgenett and Claire Severson sit in ninth (9th) and eleventh (11th) place respectively.

After first day total points.

Jacob Pohlmann - 2831

Meagan Grandgenett - 2339
Claire Severson - 2304

Day 1 Women's Results
Day 1 Men's Results

Last time out the ladies posted the numbers below. They are more than one hundred points ahead of where they were in Emporia and will more than likely both set personal records for total points. Claire Severson had a big pr in the 200m dash today as she ran 27.64 which is a full second faster than she ran last time out. She also ran faster in the hurdles. Today she clocked a 15.99. Her shot put was 42 centimeters further. She threw 9.56 today.

Emporia State Day One Totals

8 Severson, Claire 16.26 1.36m 9.14m 28.75
Augustana College w: 1.2 4-05.5 30-00 w: 0.3
2199 (683) (470) (473) (573) 2199 (0) (0) (0)
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9 Grandgenett, Megan 16.34 1.36m 8.63m 28.44
Augustana College w: 1.2 4-05.5 28-03.75 w: 0.3
2180 (673) (470) (440) (597) 2180 (0) (0) (0)

Emporia State Totals

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6 Severson, Claire 16.26 1.36m 9.14m 28.75 4.49m 24.46m 2:42.81
Augustana College w: 1.2 4-05.5 30-00 w: 0.3 w: 4.0 80-03
3538 (683) (470) (473) (573) 2199 (426) (372) (541)

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8 Grandgenett, Megan 16.34 1.36m 8.63m 28.44 4.66m 21.65m 2:47.21
Augustana College w: 1.2 4-05.5 28-03.75 w: 0.3 w: 3.1 71-00
3462 (673) (470) (440) (597) 2180 (469) (320) (493)
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MVI 1595 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.




100m Hurldes - Claire Severson 15.99 from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.


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Womens 4x800m, Mens DMR Capture Drake Relay's Title

UPDATE*
The men just captured the DMR title at the Drake relays with a 9:54 clocking. Below are the splits for that group provided by Sara Drew who is at the meet watching. That wraps up competition at the Drake Relays for the Augustana Vikings and brings the total to two (2) relay victories and three (3) school records. All in all it makes for a great weekend of competition. Next week the Vikings will compete at the Howard Wood Relays as they prepare for the conference championships in Moorehead, MN the following weekend.

1200 - 3:04 Austin
400 - 48.3 Adou Omot
800 - 1:53 Brian Werner
1600 - 4:08 Tom Karbo

The finals featured the top two distance teams in the conference in Mankato and Augustana. Dakota State also ran well to finish third.

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Finals
1 Augustana (SD) 9:54.55
1) Austin Vande Berg SR 2) Aduo Omot FR
3) Brian Werner SR 4) Tom Karbo SO
2 Minnesota St-Mankato 9:56.41
1) James Krajsa SR 2) Sam Lance SR
3) Jonathan Stoltman SR 4) Denise Mokaya SR
3 Dakota St 9:59.04
1) Anthony Drealan SR 2) Cody Foreman SR
3) Matt Fideler JR 4) Tyler VanPeursem SR


The women's 4x800m relay team captured a title at the Drake Relays with a time of 8:59. That time sets a new school record and breaks the previous state record of 9:09 which was held by the team of Karst, Woodruff, Hahn, Axman of Black Hills State set in 2004. This is the 3rd school record set this weekend by the Augie men and women. Earlier Tom Karbo established a new school record in the 3000m Steeple by running 8:54. The second record came in the women's DMR that ran 11.54.62 The men are currently running the DMR and have a great chance to capture another title and set another school record.

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Event 45 Men 3000 Meter Steeplechase Univ/Col
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Drake Relays: D 8:31.02 1977 Henry Marsh, BYU
Stadium: S 8:28.08 6/13/2008 Kyle Alcorn, Arizona St
Name Year School Finals
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Finals
1 Martin Kirui JR Mississippi 8:46.68
2 Tom Karbo SO Augustana (SD) 8:54.79
3 Andrew Kirwa JR Alabama 9:00.93
4 Kyle Engnell SO Illinois 9:02.27
5 Michael Disher JR Indiana St 9:02.93
6 David Adams JR Nebraska 9:03.77
7 Mark Battista JR Iowa 9:04.60
8 Carl Stones SO Tulsa 9:07.53

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Event 240 Women 10000 Meter Run Invitational Univ/Col
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Drake Relays: D 32:57.38 1988 Patti Murray, Club Nike
Stadium: S 32:44.95 2008 Lisa Koll, Iowa State
Name Year School Finals
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Finals
1 Obsie Birru SO Grand View 35:50.18
2 Simone Childs Walker SO Carleton 35:55.46
3 Karina Garcia SO Texas-El Paso 36:11.64
4 Lana Kelley SR Tulsa 36:51.14
5 Margo Branigan SR Hamline 37:11.08
6 Jaclyn Rollins FR Tulsa 37:26.52
7 Amy Guinn JR McNeese St 37:26.55
8 Lauren Versweyveld FR Olivet Nazarene 37:32.22
9 Angie Berry SR Central 37:46.38
10 Runa Falch FR Augustana (SD) 37:49.39

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Event 30 Men 10000 Meter Run Invitational Univ/Col
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Drake Relays: D 28:07.40 1980 Kipsubai Koskei, Albuquerq
Stadium: S 28:07.40 1980 Kipsubai Koskei, Albuquerq
Name Year School Finals
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Finals
1 Hunter Mickow SO Illinois 30:29.72
2 Brandon Reed SO Baylor 30:40.12
3 Ryan Chastain SR Lipscomb 30:50.17
4 Jeff Sadler JR Baylor 31:10.34
5 Luka Thor SR Concordia (NE) 31:32.96
6 Todd Gulizia JR Nebraska 31:39.24
7 Anthony Oberle JR Nebraska 31:53.63
8 Dainel LePage JR Tulsa 32:20.63
9 Brett Koehn SR Tulsa 32:24.36
10 Kyle Neumann SO St. Cloud St 32:28.41
11 Ethan Heppner Grinnell Col 32:35.31
12 Tony Nicolosi SR Tampa 32:39.09
13 Matt Heesch SR Augustana (SD) 32:46.66
14 Mike Bumgarner JR Drake 32:47.56
15 Devon Berkness JR Dakota St 33:07.83
16 Matt Braithwaite JR Augustana (SD) 33:08.3

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Event 80 Men 4x800 Meter Relay College
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Drake Relays: D 7:23.7h 1974 Prarie View
(yards)
Stadium: S 7:14.89 1985 Nebraska
School Finals
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Finals
1 Oklahoma Baptist 7:35.10
1) Billy Christy SR 2) Cody Camacho FR
3) Andre Thomas SO 4) Jabar Rolle JR
2 Dordt 7:36.15
1) Josiah Luttjeboer FR 2) David Christensen FR
3) Ryan Tholen FR 4) Mark Eekhoff FR
3 Dakota St 7:37.32
1) Andy Coy FR 2) Tyler VanPeursem SR
3) Cody Foreman SR 4) Matt Fideler JR
4 Wheaton 7:39.43
1) Parker Thompson FR 2) Will Phillips SR
3) Kyle Kunz JR 4) Luke Vance FR
5 UW-Stevens Pt 7:43.49
1) Alex Steiner FR 2) Derek Nechuta JR
3) Adam Lang SR 4) David Litsheim JR
6 Morningside 7:43.52
1) Taylor Champan FR 2) Brian Gesink FR
3) John Harris FR 4) Monte Larsen FR
7 Missouri S&T 7:44.12
1) Bryan Kluge JR 2) Eric Fairbairn SO
3) Brandon Etzold JR 4) Brendan Smith JR
8 UW-Oshkosh 7:44.40
1) Ben Wizner JR 2) Dan Rammer SO
3) Brett DeNure FR 4) Nate Stymiest SO
9 Concordia (NE) 7:50.28
1) Zach Meineke SR 2) Matt Trampe SO
3) Caleb Egger JR 4) Jared Hoffman FR
10 UW-Eau Claire 7:51.32
1) Adam Flyte SR 2) Wes Fischer SR
3) Jake Zander JR 4) Paul Hetke FR
11 Augustana (SD) 7:51.36
1) Austin Vande Berg SR 2) Brian Werner SR
3) Travis Beniak SO 4) Daniel Black SR

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Drake Relays and Conference Multi

So far this has been a very busy weekend. Most of the athletes traveled to Madison South Dakota to compete at Dakota State. We had some very rough weather but returned from the meet with some great performances in the bag. Karissa Pepin started the day of right as she cleared 5'3 in the high jump to establish a Collegiate PR (personal record). She had excellent attempts at 5'5 and I fully expect her to compete for a conference championship in the high jump when we travel to Moorehead. Following that performance both Paul Mallory and Claire Severson posted season bests in the hurdles with 14.51 and 15.72 respectively. The times were hand held and convert with an addition of .24.

Freshman Katie Hjerpe captured a victory in the 1500m. Both she and Laura Johnson ran well. The race went out pretty hard and would have resulted in some great times had the weather not been a factor.

The rest of the team was at the Drake Relays. Yesterday Tom Karbo broke the school record held by Luke Baltrush with a 8:54 clocking. That time puts him 4th on the current national list. Runa Falch competed in the 10k and posted a 37:49

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Looking Back at Cross Country

I've been fighting with my computer to get it to code the video that I have correctly. Unfortunately after letting it run for lord knows how long yesterday the file I created was still in the wrong format. So I'm posting some of the work I have done right now. I hope that you enjoy it. If you really want me to post more like this please send a fully loaded Mac so that I can more efficiently process all of the raw video I have. Otherwise you'll just have to wait!

Coach Vahrenkamp


Cross Country Pre Regionals from Jim Vahrenkamp on Vimeo.

Multi's to Kansas full team to Nebraska

This coming week get's started on Thursday. Emporia State will host their annual D2 challenge multi event where Jake Pohlmann, Bobbi Jo Buyck,Claire Severson and Meagan Grandgenette will compete in the Decathlon and the Heptathlon respectively. The Decathlon is made up of ten events while the heptathlon is made up of seven. The competition is a two day affair that begins Thursday afternoon and wraps up Friday afternoon.

The rest of the team will travel to Lincoln, NE for a track meet at the University of Nebraska Lincoln on Saturday. Both meets have great weather predicted and should produce some great times. Last week out the men had several great performances.

Paul Mallory ran 15.07 to open the year this past weekend, look for him to run faster provided the weather is good and we don't have a strong headwind. Both he and Zach Morris competed in the 400m hurdles last week and with some good weather this weekend both young men should look to run below the 56 second mark.

Adou Omot ran a collegiate best of 49.32 in the 400m dash this weekend. Had he gone out harder in the first 200m of the race he would have been able to crack the 49. barrier for the first time in his life. Each week look for him to run 48. As his fitness improves I wouldn't be surprised to see him run 48.low

The Augustana women had some great opening races in the 400m hurdles from Megan Erspamer who clocked a 1:10.18 It was her first collegiate attempt at the race. Look for her to run faster each week and move her time down toward the 1:07 area. That time will be competitive at the conference level. Meagan Grandgenett will join her in the following weeks in this event.

Augustana had a group of men run very well in the 1500m. They were led by Brian Werner who clocked a 4:03.25. Werner who typically specializes in the 800m turned in a great performance. Later in the year he'll move down to the 800m. Both Austin Vande Burg and Jordan Slusser also ran and will look to cut their times each week as the season progresses.

Look for more coverage after this weekend! I'm off to bed and will be celebrating Easter with my family tomorrow.

Coach Vahrenkamp

Oquendo Posts Provisional Qualifier at Spartan Opener

In his first race of the year Diego Oquendo ran 14.62 to surpass the 14.65 provisional qualifying in the 110m hurdles at the Spartan Invite in Lansing, MI on Saturday April 3rd. The meet was postponed multiple times because of rain and strong winds. In spite of the strong wind Oquendo's race was run under legal wind conditions and will count as a qualifier. Oquendo's time will rank as the 2nd fastest time in the conference by just .03 seconds. Both he and Paul Mallory now rank in the top three in the conference and finish the weekend sitting 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Oquendo also competed in the 100m dash where he clocked the fastest time of the day in a 10.82. That time also places him second on the conference performance list. The NCAA provisional mark in the 100m dash is 10.60 while the automatic mark is a bit faster at 10.35.

"Its early in the season, I fully expect Diego to run much faster in both the hurdles and the 100m dash. The poor weather was less than ideal for sprinting and I can only imagine just how much faster Diego will be able to run with a few more weeks of training and some good weather. As always the ultimate goal is running fast at the conference meet and qualifying for nationals. I'd say we're on track on both fronts."
- Vahrenkamp

"The cold wind and rain made it difficult to keep warmed up throughout the day but I was able to get through the race and at this point that is what is important."
- Oquendo