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Track and Field

2017-18 Track and Field Roster

Mike Byrnes
Mike Byrnes
Mike Byrnes

Brooke Ireland

  • Position Sprints
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Brown HS
  • Hometown Sturgis, S.D.

Biography

Career Bests

2017-18
Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ third-place 4x400-meter relay which finished in 3:51.71 … placed sixth in the 400 meters at the Summit League Championships with a 57.82 clocking … posted a season best of 56.87 seconds at the Tyson Invitational … won the 400 meters in 58.25 seconds at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … clocked 56.92 seconds in the 400 meters for third place at the SDSU Holiday Open … tallied 11 top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ second-place 4x100-meter relay which clocked 46.08 seconds … also garnered all-Summit honors as a member of the Coyotes’ 4x400-meter relay which placed third in 3:47.49 … placed fourth in the open 400 meters with a season-best time of 56.09 seconds at the Summit League Championships … won the 400 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays with a clocking of 56.23 seconds … also ran on the Coyotes’ victorious 4x100-meter relay at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … placed fifth in the 400 meters at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate in 56.58 seconds … ran on the Coyotes’ eighth-place sprint medley relay at the Drake Relays … recorded 14 top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll ... named to the Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence.

2016-17
Indoor Track & Field
Placed sixth in the 400 meters and ran a leg of the Coyotes’ fourth-place 4x400-meter relay at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season best of 56.70 seconds for 400 meters in the final of the Summit meet … won the 400 meters at the USD Last Chance Meet in 57.98 seconds and at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet in 58.20 seconds … finished third in the 400 meters at the Hawkeye Invitational … took fifth in the 60 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet in 8.02 seconds … recorded seven top-10 finishes during the season.

Outdoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors in the 400 meters … clocked 55.19 seconds for third place and became the first Coyote to place in the top-3 of the event at the Summit meet … the mark ranks seventh on USD’s all-time charts … ran the 400-meter leg of the record-setting distance medley relay at the Drake Relays … the Coyotes clocked 11:40.68 to break an 11-year-old South Dakota program record in the distance medley … won the 400 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays, Sioux City Relays and Wildcat Classic … clocked 55.35 seconds for the 400 at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … ran a leg of the Coyotes’ 4x200-meter relay that clocked 1:39.90 at the Sioux City Relays to move to fifth on USD’s all-time charts … notched wind-aided times of 12.37 seconds for 100 meters and 25.50 seconds for 200 meters to place third at the USD Twilight … tallied nine top-three finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll ... named to the Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence.

2015-16
Indoor Track & Field
Anchored the Coyotes’ runner-up 4x400 relay for all-Summit honors and placed sixth in the 400 meters at the Summit League Championships … won the 600 meters at the Jack Johnson Classic in 1:35.58 … also captured the 400 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet in 57.88 seconds … posted a season best 400 time of 56.69 seconds at the Jim Emmerich Invitational … moved to eighth on the all-time record books for the 400 meters … took third in the 400 meters at the Nebraska Tune-Up in 56.96 seconds.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Placed fourth in the 400 meters, third in the 4x100 relay and fourth in the 4x400 relay at the Summit League Championships … won the 400 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays in a season best 55.82 seconds … took third in the 100 meters at the USD Twilight … placed third in the 400 meters in 57.39 and 10th in the 200 meters in 25.79 at the Husker Spring Invitational … clocked 2:22.70 for 800 meters at the Baldy Castillo Invitational … made the Summit League honor roll, earning distinguished scholar status ... named to the Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence.

2014-15
Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors by running a leg of the runner-up 4x400 relay … also finished eighth in the 400 meters with a season best time of 57.53 seconds at the Summit League Championships … won the 400 meters in 57.90 seconds at the USD Twilight … took ninth in the 400 meters with a time of 57.76 at the SDSU Jim Emmerich Invitational … ranks fifth in school history in the 4x400 relay (3:46.88).

Outdoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays … also placed sixth in the open 400 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season best 55.75 seconds in 400 preliminaries at the league meet … ran a leg of the school record 4x200 relay in 1:37.91 that took fourth at the Drake Relays … won the 200 meters in a season best 25.42 seconds at the Nebraska Invitational … ran on the winning 4x400 relay, placed third in the 100 meters and fourth in the 400 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … clocked a season best 100 meter time of 12.56 seconds at the Mt. Marty Twilight … placed fifth in the 400 meters at the Dakota Duals, CSULA Twilight Open and Husker Spring Invitational … ranks first in the 4x200 relay (1:37.91), second in the 4x400 relay (3:42.57), fifth in the 4x100 relay (46.51), seventh in the sprint medley relay (3:57.87) and ninth in the 400 meters (55.75) in school history ... named to the Summit League honor roll, earning Distinguished Scholar status.

Prep
Six-time varsity letter winner in track at Sturgis Brown High School and the 2013 state champion in the 400-meters...added second-place finishes in the 100, 200 and 800 in Class AA at the state meet in 2013...holds the fourth fastest 400 time in South Dakota history at 55.77.

Personal
Daughter of Ken and Cindy Ireland... kinesiology and sport management major with an emphasis in exercise science.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2016-17Junior

    Sprints
  • 2017-18Senior

    Sprints