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2020-21 Track and Field Roster

Molly Sheppard
Molly Sheppard
Rachel Bellwood
Rachel Bellwood
Rachel Bellwood
Mike Byrnes

Jonna Bart

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Aurora, Neb.
  • Highschool Aurora HS
  • Major Accounting + Mathematics

Biography

Career Bests

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

Indoor Track & Field
Placed fifth in the 3,000 meters, sixth in the mile and sixth in the 5,000 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season-best time of 9:53.97 for the 3,000 meters at the league meet … swept event titles in the mile and 3,000 meters at the SDSU Holiday Invitational … finished runner-up in the mile at the SDSU Last Chance meet with a season-best time of 4:57.87 … captured the 3,000 meters at both the USD Invitational and the Dakota Realty meet … clocked a season best time of 17:15.60 for 5,000 meters at the Division I Challenge … tallied four event titles and 12 top-10 finishes during the season … voted to the Academic All-Summit League team.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
South Dakota Scholar Athlete of the Year … Summit League champion in the 3,000-meter steeplechase … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the 3,000-meter steeplechase … clocked 10:36.03 for the steeplechase to win the Summit title … also placed eighth in the 5,000-meter run at the Summit League Championships with a time of 17:36.12 … finished runner-up in the steeplechase at the Drake Relays with a personal best time of 10:14.58 … the time broke South Dakota’s 3,000-meter steeplechase record … clocked a personal best of 17:08.16 for 5,000 meters to win the Bobcat Invitational … that time ranks 10th in USD program history … finished runner-up in the steeple at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays with a time of 10:28.92 … also won the steeple at the USD Early Bird and the Sioux City Relays … ran on USD’s third-place 4xone mile relay at the Drake Relays, clocking 20:00.38 for the third-fastest relay time in school history … tallied five event titles and 11 top-10 finishes during the season … voted to the Academic All-Summit League team … named USTFCCCA All-Academic … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

2019-20
Cross Country
Earned all-Summit League first team honors … placed fifth at the Summit League Championships in 21:29.2 … one of seven women to race in all seven meets … her time at the Summit meet was a season-best for 6,000 meters … clocked a season-best 5,000-meter time of 17:56.8 at the Chile Pepper Festival with a 65th-place finish in the 280-woman field … it marked the ninth-fastest time in the league this season … came on strong as the season progressed, finishing in the Coyotes’ top-seven at the last six meets and scoring in the last four … was the second Coyote across the finish line at the Summit meet … took 18th at the Bradley Pink Classic in 21:37.0 … placed 13th at the Augustana Twilight … member of the Coyotes’ squad at the NCAA Midwest Regional, finishing 60th in 22:05.1 … voted to the Academic All-Summit League team … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors in all three distances – mile, 3,000 meters, 5,000 meters – at the Summit League Championships … placed third in the mile with a time of 4:58.67 at the league meet … finished third in the 3,000 meters with a clocking of 9:48.89 at the league meet … clocked a season-best of 17:17.93 to take third in the 5,000 meters as well at the league meet … totaled 18 points for the Coyotes at the Summit … won the mile at the Nebraska Tune-Up in a personal best time of 4:55.07 … moved to ninth on the Coyote top-10 list for the one mile run with the 4:55.07 clocking … placed third in the 3,000-meters with a personal best time of 9:44.89 at the Iowa State Classic … moved to seventh on the Coyote top-10 list for the 3,000-meter run with the 9:44.89 time … clocked 4:56.23 for the mile at the Adidas Classic to place fourth … recorded a third-place finish in the mile at the Jim Emmerich Invitational … tallied an event win and 11 top-10 finishes during the season … voted to the Academic All-Summit League team … 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 … voted to the Academic All-Summit League team.

2018-19
Cross Country
Earned all-Summit League second-team honors … helped South Dakota capture its fifth-straight Summit League Championship team title … placed 10th at the Summit League Championships with a time of 21:49.19, finishing as the third Coyote across the line … clocked a season best of 21:35.6 at the Bradley Pink Classic … broke the 22-minute barrier for 6,000 meters in the final three races of the season … placed sixth at the Augustana Twilight, clocking 17:55.88 for 5,000 meters … took 72nd at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a time of 21:48.7 … finished among the Coyotes’ top-seven for all six meets during the season, scoring in five of them … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

Indoor Track & Field
Placed sixth in the 3,000 meters and eighth in the 5,000 meters at the Summit League Championships … notched season bests in both events at the Summit meet, clocking 9:57.21 for 3,000 meters and 17:34.86 for 5,000 meters … posted a season-best of 5:01.16 in the mile at the Nebraska Tune-Up with a third-place finish … took third in the 3,000 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … totaled seven top-10 finishes during the season.

Outdoor Track & Field
Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminaries for the second-straight year … earned all-Summit League honors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a third-place finish clocking of 10:51.87 … posted a season-best steeple time of 10:25.63 in breaking the Howard Wood Dakota Relays meet record … ran a leg of the Coyotes’ sixth-fastest 4xmile relay at the Drake Relays, clocking 20:37.38 … placed fourth in the steeple at the Drake Relays in 10:34.42 … posted five top-10 finishes during the season … … named USTFCCCA All-Academic … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

2017-18
Cross Country
Placed in the Coyotes top-seven at the first two meets of the season … finished sixth at the Augustana Twilight to lift USD to a team title … clocked 18:01.17 for 5,000 meters at the meet … added a 15th-place finish at the Woody Greeno Invitational in a season best of 22:46.5 … also clocked 22:49.2 at the Bradley Pink Classic … competed in four of six meets for the Coyotes … made the Summit League honor roll.

Indoor Track & Field
Placed sixth in the 3,000 meters and seventh in the mile at the Summit League Championships … recorded a personal best 9:46.66 in the 3,000 meters at the Summit meet for the ninth-fastest time in school history … crossed the finish line in 5:00.43 for the mile … also finished 10th in the 5,000 meters in 17:35.93 … won the mile in 5:03.09 at the Tyson Invitational … broke the five-minute barrier in the mile for the first time at the Nebraska Tune-Up, clocking 4:59.46 … posted a season best of 17:17.95 for 5,000 meters at the Tyson Invitational with a seventh-place finish … finished runner-up in the 3,000 meters in 10:03.02 at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … recorded 10 top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the 3,000-meter steeplechase … broke the South Dakota program record in the 3,000 steeplechase by 13 seconds with a time of 10:16.02 at the NCAA West Preliminary, placing 24th in the meet … earned all-Summit League honors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase by clocking 10:52.01 for third place … also placed sixth in the 5,000 meters in 17:44.09 at the Summit League Championships … placed fifth in the steeplechase at the Drake Relays with a time of 10:31.97 … won the steeplechase at the South Dakota Invitational in 10:37.78 … victorious in the 5,000 meters after clocking a season best 17:29.38 at the Kip Janvrin Open … placed eighth in the steeplechase in 10:33.26 at the Mt. SAC Relays … posted a season best of 4:38.77 in the 1,500 meters for fourth place at the Texas State Bobcat Invitational … also finished runner-up in the steeplechase at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays after clocking 10:34.01 … tallied eight top-10 finishes during the season ... named USTFCCCA All-Academic … made the Summit League honor roll.

Prep
Placed fourth at the 2016 NSAA Class B Cross Country Championship in 19:36 to lead Aurora High School to a team title ... a three-time state medalist in cross country and six-time state medalist in track for the Huskies ... also won the Central Conference cross country meet as a senior ... holds personal bests of 18:47 on the cross country course, 5:18 for the mile and 11:47 for the two mile ... a member of the 4x800 relay that broke the Aurora High School record with a time of 9:36 ... earned academic all-state honors for track and cross country and is a National Honor Society member.

Personal
Daughter of Jeff and Janice Bart ... accounting and mathematics major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Freshman

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  • 2018-19Sophomore

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  • 2019-20Junior

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  • 2020-21Senior

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