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Indoor Season to Begin with SDSU Holiday Open
11/27/2018 2:55:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
Members of the Gopher women's track & field team get an early start to the 2019 indoor season this Friday.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Members of the Golden Gopher women's track & field team will kick off the 2019 indoor season at the South Dakota State Holiday Open on Friday in Brookings, S.D.
About the SDSU Holiday Open
The SDSU Holiday Open will be hosted by South Dakota State University at the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex in Brookings, S.D., this Friday. Competition begins with the men's heptathlon (12 p.m. CT) and the women's pentathlon (12:30 p.m. CT). Field events get underway Friday evening at 4 p.m. CT with running events beginning at 4:30 p.m. CT. The heptathlon carries over into Saturday, beginning at 12 p.m. CT, but all of the women's events wrap up Friday.
Thirty-Five Gophers to Kick Off Indoor Season
Thirty-five Gophers are slated to compete at the SDSU Holiday Open led by returners Sophia Anderson, Kayla Nelson, Allison Dugan, Meleah Biermaier, Val Larson, Paige Peschel, Kelli Schmidt, Sophie Schmitz, Abby Lange, Kelsey Sather, Rachel Schow, Lexi Kiefer, Lorean Murray, Hannah Arason, and Ashley Ramacher.
Six individuals are making their debuts competing in uniform for the Gophers: true freshmen Amira Young and Hannah Morris along with redshirt freshmen Molly Roach, Tess Keyzers, Erin Dunning, and Allison Gerads.
Meanwhile, 14 Gophers are competing unattached this week as well: Lexi Romero, Lauren Hansen, Molly Reeves, Kayla Vogt, Natalie Windels, Nicole Buchinger, Taylor Krone, Jenna Conzemius, Karlie Place, Tasha Schaffer, Nayoka Clunis, Kaitlyn Long, Ayesha Champagnie, and Julia Hayes.
Gophers Welcome Newcomers
Seventeen true freshmen join the Gophers this season in Nicole Buchinger, Libby Halbmaier, Lauren Hansen, Elena Hayday, Julia Hayes, Hannah Hood-Blaxill, Taylor Krone, Becca Langer, Hannah Morris, Molly Reeves, Lexi Romero, Tasha Schaffer, Emily Stendel, Kayla Vogt, Courtney West, Natalie Windels, and Amira Young.
Meanwhile, 11 redshirt freshmen are set to make their track & field debuts for the Maroon & Gold this season: Sam Baer, Erin Dunning, Allison Gerads, Tess Keyzers, Bit Klecker, Anastasia Korzenowski, Hailey Poole, Molly Roach, Sophie Schmitz, Tate Sweeney, and Jaycie Thomsen. In addition, Maria Eastman and Olivia Hummel will make their Gopher debuts after competing unattached last season.
Gophers Name Captains
Temi Ogunrinde, Kiley Sabin, Rachel Schow, and Patty O'Brien are serving as the Gophers' captains this season. Ogunrinde returns to the team's leadership corps after serving as a captain last season while O'Brien continues her captaincy after leading the Gopher cross country squad this fall. Sabin and Schow enter their first season as captains.
2019 Indoor Schedule Highlights
The team's indoor schedule includes 13 meets with 11 regular-season meets. Highlighting the indoor slate are three weeks of home meets, beginning with the Minnesota Open on Saturday, Jan. 12. The Jack Johnson Classic is Friday, Jan. 25 and Saturday, Jan. 26, followed by the Snowshoe Open (Feb. 15) and the Parents Day Invite (Feb. 16). The Gophers are scheduled to compete in up to six different states during the indoor season in South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, and Alabama.
2019 Outdoor Schedule Highlights
Highlighting the outdoor slate are three meets at the new University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium, which provides the Gophers the opportunity to compete outdoors on campus for the first time in over 15 years. The Gophers' three home outdoor meets are the Minnesota Spring Open (April 13), the Minnesota Women's Twilight Meet (April 24), and the Minnesota Men's Twilight Meet (May 1). In total, the outdoor season includes 10 weeks of competition, and the Gophers will compete in Florida, California, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa, Louisiana, Iowa, and Texas.
Gophers Celebrate Track & Field Stadium Grand Opening
The University of Minnesota and Gopher Athletics celebrated a new era of track & field with the grand opening of the University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium on Monday, Sept. 17. Located in the heart of the new Athletes Village area, this facility will become synonymous with track & field excellence in the Midwest. It will not only provide a first-class experience for the Gophers, but it will also provide a wonderful venue for the state's largest amateur meets and a Minnesota option for USA Track & Field to place its marquee events in the Upper Midwest.
The University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium gives Minnesota its first opportunity in more than 15 years to host home outdoor meets, including Big Ten and NCAA competition. The facility features a nine-lane track with the Beynon 2000 surface, full-field event hosting capabilities, versatile configuration, fully enclosed, heated warm-up and cool down areas, and grandstands with the capacity to host major competitions.
2018 Cross Country Season Rewind
The Gophers wrapped up the 2018 season with a 29th-place finish at the NCAA Championship after placing third at the NCAA Midwest Regional and coming in sixth at the Big Ten Championship. Bethany Hasz and Megan Hasz led the Gophers as NCAA All-Midwest Region and All-Big Ten Conference honorees, and B. Hasz's 49th-place individual finish at the national meet was the highest by a Gopher since Liz Berkholtz placed 44th in 2015. Fifteen Gophers recorded 6K PRs during the 2018 season.
Program Records Fall
The Gophers set three new indoor program records last season: 3,000m (Bethany Hasz, 9:13.95), long jump (Ayesha Champagnie, 6.56m, 21-06.25), and weight throw (Kaitlyn Long, 24.37m, 79-11.50). Outdoors, the Gophers broke 10 program records: Titania Markland (400m, 51.40), Bethany Hasz (5,000m, 15:59.46), Emma Spagnola (100m hurdles, 12.97; 400m hurdles, 56.51), Madeline Strandemo (3,000m steeplechase, 9:51.49), Rachel Schow, Titania Markland, Emma Spagnola, and Emerald Egwim (4x100m relay, 44.22), Emerald Egwim, Rachel Schow, Titania Markland, and Val Larson (4x400m relay, 3:32.25), Kiley Sabin (shot put, 16.89m), Agnes Esser (discus, 57.98m), and Temi Ogunrinde (hammer throw, 67.45m).
Up Next: Competition Resumes in 2019
The Gophers kick off competition in 2019 by splitting the squad at the University of Nebraska Graduate Classic on Friday, Jan. 11 and Saturday, Jan. 12 and the Minnesota Open on Saturday, Jan. 12.
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About the SDSU Holiday Open
The SDSU Holiday Open will be hosted by South Dakota State University at the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex in Brookings, S.D., this Friday. Competition begins with the men's heptathlon (12 p.m. CT) and the women's pentathlon (12:30 p.m. CT). Field events get underway Friday evening at 4 p.m. CT with running events beginning at 4:30 p.m. CT. The heptathlon carries over into Saturday, beginning at 12 p.m. CT, but all of the women's events wrap up Friday.
Thirty-Five Gophers to Kick Off Indoor Season
Thirty-five Gophers are slated to compete at the SDSU Holiday Open led by returners Sophia Anderson, Kayla Nelson, Allison Dugan, Meleah Biermaier, Val Larson, Paige Peschel, Kelli Schmidt, Sophie Schmitz, Abby Lange, Kelsey Sather, Rachel Schow, Lexi Kiefer, Lorean Murray, Hannah Arason, and Ashley Ramacher.
Six individuals are making their debuts competing in uniform for the Gophers: true freshmen Amira Young and Hannah Morris along with redshirt freshmen Molly Roach, Tess Keyzers, Erin Dunning, and Allison Gerads.
Meanwhile, 14 Gophers are competing unattached this week as well: Lexi Romero, Lauren Hansen, Molly Reeves, Kayla Vogt, Natalie Windels, Nicole Buchinger, Taylor Krone, Jenna Conzemius, Karlie Place, Tasha Schaffer, Nayoka Clunis, Kaitlyn Long, Ayesha Champagnie, and Julia Hayes.
Gophers Welcome Newcomers
Seventeen true freshmen join the Gophers this season in Nicole Buchinger, Libby Halbmaier, Lauren Hansen, Elena Hayday, Julia Hayes, Hannah Hood-Blaxill, Taylor Krone, Becca Langer, Hannah Morris, Molly Reeves, Lexi Romero, Tasha Schaffer, Emily Stendel, Kayla Vogt, Courtney West, Natalie Windels, and Amira Young.
Meanwhile, 11 redshirt freshmen are set to make their track & field debuts for the Maroon & Gold this season: Sam Baer, Erin Dunning, Allison Gerads, Tess Keyzers, Bit Klecker, Anastasia Korzenowski, Hailey Poole, Molly Roach, Sophie Schmitz, Tate Sweeney, and Jaycie Thomsen. In addition, Maria Eastman and Olivia Hummel will make their Gopher debuts after competing unattached last season.
Gophers Name Captains
Temi Ogunrinde, Kiley Sabin, Rachel Schow, and Patty O'Brien are serving as the Gophers' captains this season. Ogunrinde returns to the team's leadership corps after serving as a captain last season while O'Brien continues her captaincy after leading the Gopher cross country squad this fall. Sabin and Schow enter their first season as captains.
2019 Indoor Schedule Highlights
The team's indoor schedule includes 13 meets with 11 regular-season meets. Highlighting the indoor slate are three weeks of home meets, beginning with the Minnesota Open on Saturday, Jan. 12. The Jack Johnson Classic is Friday, Jan. 25 and Saturday, Jan. 26, followed by the Snowshoe Open (Feb. 15) and the Parents Day Invite (Feb. 16). The Gophers are scheduled to compete in up to six different states during the indoor season in South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, and Alabama.
2019 Outdoor Schedule Highlights
Highlighting the outdoor slate are three meets at the new University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium, which provides the Gophers the opportunity to compete outdoors on campus for the first time in over 15 years. The Gophers' three home outdoor meets are the Minnesota Spring Open (April 13), the Minnesota Women's Twilight Meet (April 24), and the Minnesota Men's Twilight Meet (May 1). In total, the outdoor season includes 10 weeks of competition, and the Gophers will compete in Florida, California, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa, Louisiana, Iowa, and Texas.
Gophers Celebrate Track & Field Stadium Grand Opening
The University of Minnesota and Gopher Athletics celebrated a new era of track & field with the grand opening of the University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium on Monday, Sept. 17. Located in the heart of the new Athletes Village area, this facility will become synonymous with track & field excellence in the Midwest. It will not only provide a first-class experience for the Gophers, but it will also provide a wonderful venue for the state's largest amateur meets and a Minnesota option for USA Track & Field to place its marquee events in the Upper Midwest.
The University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium gives Minnesota its first opportunity in more than 15 years to host home outdoor meets, including Big Ten and NCAA competition. The facility features a nine-lane track with the Beynon 2000 surface, full-field event hosting capabilities, versatile configuration, fully enclosed, heated warm-up and cool down areas, and grandstands with the capacity to host major competitions.
2018 Cross Country Season Rewind
The Gophers wrapped up the 2018 season with a 29th-place finish at the NCAA Championship after placing third at the NCAA Midwest Regional and coming in sixth at the Big Ten Championship. Bethany Hasz and Megan Hasz led the Gophers as NCAA All-Midwest Region and All-Big Ten Conference honorees, and B. Hasz's 49th-place individual finish at the national meet was the highest by a Gopher since Liz Berkholtz placed 44th in 2015. Fifteen Gophers recorded 6K PRs during the 2018 season.
Program Records Fall
The Gophers set three new indoor program records last season: 3,000m (Bethany Hasz, 9:13.95), long jump (Ayesha Champagnie, 6.56m, 21-06.25), and weight throw (Kaitlyn Long, 24.37m, 79-11.50). Outdoors, the Gophers broke 10 program records: Titania Markland (400m, 51.40), Bethany Hasz (5,000m, 15:59.46), Emma Spagnola (100m hurdles, 12.97; 400m hurdles, 56.51), Madeline Strandemo (3,000m steeplechase, 9:51.49), Rachel Schow, Titania Markland, Emma Spagnola, and Emerald Egwim (4x100m relay, 44.22), Emerald Egwim, Rachel Schow, Titania Markland, and Val Larson (4x400m relay, 3:32.25), Kiley Sabin (shot put, 16.89m), Agnes Esser (discus, 57.98m), and Temi Ogunrinde (hammer throw, 67.45m).
Up Next: Competition Resumes in 2019
The Gophers kick off competition in 2019 by splitting the squad at the University of Nebraska Graduate Classic on Friday, Jan. 11 and Saturday, Jan. 12 and the Minnesota Open on Saturday, Jan. 12.
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