2016 Summit League Indoor Track and Field Championship Results

FORT WAYNE, Ind.—South Dakota track and field had seven Summit League champions on the second day of the Summit League Indoor Track and Field Championships inside the IPFW Athletics Center Fieldhouse. Sophomore Shanice Cannigan earned Track Championship MVP and freshman Karina Dufoe was the Newcomer of the Championship.
 
North Dakota State swept the team competition with 220.5 points on the women's side and 183 on the men's side. The Coyote women finished runner-up for the third-straight season with 181.5 points. South Dakota's men took fourth with 113 points.
 
Cannigan sprinted over the hurdles for her second title of the meet. She handily won the 60-meter hurdles in 8.64 seconds. It was the third time over the course of the meet she set a personal best in the event and stands as a new school record. Junior Ashley Thompson finished runner-up in 8.93 seconds as both took home all-league honors. Cannigan also won the women's pentathlon and ran a leg of the runner-up 4x400-meter relay.
 
Dufoe raced to a new career best of 7.78 seconds for fourth in the 60 meters. Dufoe placed sixth in the 200 meters and led off the runner-up 4x400-meter relay. It is the fourth time in five years a Coyote has taken home the award.
 
The Coyotes swept the podium of the women's pole vault and scored 28 points in the event. Senior Emily Grove won after being the only athlete to clear 14-1 ¾. Redshirt-juniors Hunter Wilkes and Madison Mills placed second and third, respectively, with each jumping 13-7 ¾. Junior Emily Brigham placed sixth and freshman Julia Junkroski was eighth.
 
Junior Tyler Frank cleared a personal best 7-0 ½ to leap past the high jump competition, taking home his second-straight Summit League title indoors. He went on to attempt the meet record 7-1 ¾, but just missed on all three attempts.
 
Senior Kelsey Barrett stepped on the gas in the final kilometer of the women's 5,000 meters to win her first Summit League title in 17:10.33. Freshman Megan Billington placed seventh in a career best 17:36.27.
 
With a new Summit League Championship meet record of 7.79 seconds, senior Teivaskie Lewin earned his third straight 60-meter hurdle title. Oral Roberts' Israel Nelson, ranked second in the NCAA, finished runner-up in 7.98. Junior Jay Cooper placed sixth.
 
Sophomore Gawain Williams defended his 60-meter run title in 6.80 seconds. Williams led juniors Luke Worden and Jack Thony to fifth- and seventh-place finishes, respectively. Williams placed fifth in the 200 meters.
 
In perhaps the first instance in Summit League Championship history, there was a tie for first in the women's 60 meters. Senior Analisa Huschle and Oral Roberts' Tamaira Williams clocked 7.60 seconds for first place. Huschle also earned all-league honors in the 200 meters with a time of 24.56 seconds, .01 out of first place.
 
Huschle and sophomore Brooke Ireland were the final two members of the runner-up 4x400-meter relay. Ireland also placed sixth in the open 400 meters.
 
Junior Danielle Waldner threw the shot put 51-1 ¾ to finish runner-up. Senior Meghan Dennis threw 50-0 ½, nearly two feet further than her previous career best, for fourth place. Freshman Jacy Embray also launched a three-foot career best for 47-9 ¾ for seventh.
 
The Coyotes had a pair of runner-up finishes in the women's and men's mile. Senior Katie Wetzstein earned all-league honors in 4:50.52 and redshirt-junior Mach Dojiok clocked a career-best 4:10.31. Also scoring in the men's mile were freshman Nate Wendt in seventh and senior Mubarik Musa in eighth.
 
Junior Ashley Thompson earned all-league honors with a third-place finish in the triple jump. Thompson jumped 40-2 ¼. Sophomore Colette Christensen took fourth in both the triple jump and high jump.
 
In addition to the mile finish, Dojiok placed fourth in the 800 meters and Musa took fourth in the 5,000 meters.
 
Freshman Mario Magana placed fifth in the 400 meters and redshirt-freshman Alex Williams took eighth.
 
Concluding the second day of the heptathlon, freshman Hunter Leighton placed sixth with 4,419 points.
 
Wetzstein and junior Nicole Schmidt took fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 800 meters.
 
Junior Dustin Valind took eighth in the shot put.
 
Senior Connor Fitzsimmons finished eighth in the triple jump.
 
The NCAA Indoor Championships are March 11-12 in Birmingham, Ala.