2017 Summit League Championships Day 2 Results |
Saturday Heat Sheets
FARGO, N.D.–South Dakota senior
Danielle Waldner broke the Summit League Championship record and moved to eighth in the NCAA in the shot put on Friday at the 2017 Summit League Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Schlanser Track.
In the race for the Summit League team title, South Dakota's women enter the final day in second place with 117 points. The Coyote men are in third place with 55 points.
Waldner launched the shot put 56 feet, 11 ½ inches, on her third attempt to break the record. Waldner also broke her own USD program record for the fourth time in her senior season. The Redfield, S.D., native consistently threw well above 50 feet in the competition and won the event by nearly seven feet. Waldner becomes the second athlete in Summit League history to earn three titles in the women's shot put. Senior
Meghan Dennis also posted a new outdoor best of 48-2 to place fifth in the field.
The Coyotes were guaranteed the top-two spots in the men's high jump after senior
Tyler Frank and freshman
Zack Anderson were the only two competitors to clear 6-10 ¾. Anderson made the next height of 7-1 for a new personal best and tied for 23rd in the NCAA. The height also ties USD alum Kyle Collins' school record from 1990. Anderson captures his first Summit League title and USD's third straight in the men's high jump.
The 2016 Summit League Newcomer of the Championship, sophomore
Joe Reagan, finished runner-up in the long jump to earn all-Summit honors for the second straight year. Reagan leaped a personal best 24-3 to move to seventh on USD's all-time charts. Coyote freshmen
Ethan Toy and Anderson placed sixth and eighth, respectively, in the long jump.
Sophomore
Madeline Huglen was less than a second off her own school record in the steeplechase, clocking 10:42.70 to place second. She garnered her first career all-Summit honors. Junior
Brook Benes dropped 10 seconds off her best mark, finishing fourth in 11:19.25.
Junior
Jacob Barents became the second Coyote to throw the shot put past 60 feet outdoors, launching it 60-8 ¾ for third place and all-Summit League honors. The mark was more than a foot past his personal best. Sophomore
Ben Hammer added his own personal best of 55-11 ¼ for fifth place, nearly two feet past his previous best mark.
The Coyotes swept third through fifth in the women's high jump. Junior
Shanice Cannigan earned all-Summit honors in third place with a height of 5-7. Freshmen
Britny Kerr and
Samara Spencer took fourth and fifth, respectively, with both over 5-5.
South Dakota picked up points in both the heptathlon and decathlon. Sophomore
Haley Bruggeman placed fifth in the heptathlon with a personal best 4,622 points. Freshman
Britny Kerr was one place behind with 4,566 points. Kerr won the high jump on the first day of the heptathlon in 5-5 ¼.
Senior
Emily Brigham leaped a personal best 19-1 ¼ to take sixth in the long jump. Cannigan added her own outdoor best of 19-0 ½ to finish seventh.
Sophomore
Hunter Paulsen took sixth in the 3,000 steeplechase in 9:34.63.
South Dakota also qualified numerous athletes to finals from the running preliminaries on Friday. Finals qualifiers are listed below.
Women's 100 hurdles:
Shanice Cannigan,
Britny Kerr,
Haley Bruggeman,
Carmen Bermudez
Men's 110 hurdles:
Jay Cooper,
Dennis Parsley,
Hunter Leighton
Women's 400 meters:
Brooke Ireland
Men's 400 meters:
Brennan Schmidt
Women's 100 meters:
Karina Dufoe,
Tasheka Gordon,
Samara Spencer
Men's 100 meters:
Gawain Williams,
Joe Reagan,
Jack Thony
Women's 800 meters:
Nicole Schmidt,
Lindsay Joyce
Men's 800 meters:
Jacob Simmons,
Eldon Warner,
Mach Dojiok
Women's 400 hurdles:
Shanice Cannigan,
Haley Bruggeman
Men's 400 hurdles:
Jay Cooper,
Tomas Kamenik,
Dennis Parsley
Women's 200 meters:
Karina Dufoe,
Tasheka Gordon
Men's 200 meters:
Jack Thony,
Sam Clark
Day three of the Summit League Championships kicks off with field events at 11 a.m. and running events beginning at 12:20 p.m.
