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2020-21 Track and Field Roster

Madisen Martinez
Madisen Martinez
Aaron C Packard/USD

Brigit Blote

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Rapid City, S.D.
  • Highschool St. Thomas More HS
  • Major Sustainability

Biography

Career Bests

2020-21
Cross Country
Fall cross country season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Indoor Track & Field
South Dakota women’s indoor track and field Coyote Character Award winner at The Charlies … earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ third-place distance medley relay at the Summit League Championships with a clocking of 12:06.80 … also took 12th in the open 800 meters at the league meet … clocked a personal best time of 2:17.78 for 800 meters at the Division I Challenge … took sixth in the 800 meters at the SDSU Last Chance meet by clocking 2:18.36 … notched 11 top-1 0 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Recorded a season-best time of 2:20.28 in the 800 meters while placing eighth at the Sioux City Relays … ran on USD’s sixth-place 4x800-meter relay at the Drake Relays, clocking 9:11.04 for the fifth-fastest relay time in school history … ran the 800-meter leg of the Coyotes’ ninth-place distance medley relay at the Drake Relays, recording a time of 12:08.67 for the fifth-best time in USD history … tallied five top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

2019-20
Cross Country
Competed at two meets during the season … clocked a season-best 5,000-meter time of 19:54.9 at the Augustana Twilight … also took 49th at the NDSU Bison Open with a time of 16:12.6 for 4,000 meters … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

Indoor Track & Field
Finished 11th in the 800 meters at the Summit League Championships with a clocking of 2:20.05 … posted a season-best 800-meter time of 2:17.93 at the Iowa State Classic … ran on the victorious distance medley relay at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … placed seventh in the 600 meters at the Nebraska Tune-Up in 1:39.07 … took sixth in the 800 meters at the Adidas Classic … tallied five top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Season cancelled by NCAA and The Summit League due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2018-19
Cross Country
Raced in the season opener at the Augustana Twilight … clocked 21:29.57 for 5,000 meters … made the Summit League honor roll.

Indoor Track & Field
Competed at four meets during the indoor season … recorded a season-best of 5:14.22 for the mile at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational … also posted a season-best in the 800 meters at the meet by clocking 2:24.35 … took 10th in the mile at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … made the Summit League honor roll.

Outdoor Track & Field
Did not compete.

Prep
A member of four St. Thomas More team titles at the South Dakota Class A Track and Field Championships ... led off the Cavalier’s 4x800 championship relay in 2017 ... the relay clocked 9:29.37 to earn gold ... also placed eighth in the open 800 last season and helped the Cavalier’s distance medley relay to a Howard Wood Dakota Relays title ... on the cross country course, placed 24th in 20:35.61 at state championship meet ... holds personal bests of 2:23.60 for the 800 meters and 5:35.34 for 1,600 meters ... member of eight student organizations at St. Thomas More, including National Honor Society and student council.

Personal
Daughter of Mike and Laura Blote ... sustainability major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

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  • 2019-20Sophomore

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  • 2020-21Junior

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