KENOSHA, Wis. -- The North Park University men's and women's track & field teams opened up their 2021 season with a triangular at Carthage College. This meet was the teams' first since March 3, where they competed against similar teams at the Carthage Gil Invite, the meet before All-Americans Jose Barrio and Elise Ruud seasons' ended before they could compete at the national championships.
Saturday's triangular featured host Carthage College and Carroll University in addition to the Vikings. A number of head coach Bisrat Kidane's crew finished in the top five in the season opener.Â
Coach Kidane's Review
"I am really pleased with the performances of our team today," said Coach Kidane. "We took a relatively small group of athletes we thought could compete effectively and healthily after a long layoff and they really performed well. It's hard to achieve a personal best mark, considering the long layoff, and we had several today, which was great to see. Overall, it was a really good meet, we came out healthy, and can resume training and see what next week has in store for us."
Top Performers
- Patrycja Miazek finished 1st in the 800-meter run as well as the 400-meter run. She is currently sitting 30th in the country for the 400 as well as 25th in the country for the 800.
- Damaris Cifuentes finished 4th in the 200-meter as well as 3rd in the 400-meter. She is currently sitting 44th in the country for the 400.
- Ameerah Brown finished 4th in the 55-meter dash with a time of 8.23.
- Jason Adkinson finished 1st in Triple Jump. He is currently sitting 9th in the country with a jump of 13.03 meters. He also had a 6th place finish in the 55-meter race.
- Daniel Dwight finished 3rd in the 200-meters and finished 3rd in the long jump. He is currently sitting 14th in the country for the long jump.
- Aeneas Lanier finished 4th in the 55-meter, 2nd in the 200-meter race as well as 2nd in the long jump. He is currently sitting 13th in the country for the long jump.
- Brenner Klein finished 5th in the mile with a time of 4:43.53.
- Clark Fremouw finished 4th in the shot put with a mark of 12.65 meters. He is currently sitting in 36th in the country with that mark.
Top 10 NPU Performance List
- Brianne Roley is now 4th all-time in NPU history in the Pole Vault, currently sitting 43rd in the country.
- Jason Adkinson is now 3rd all-time in NPU history in the triple jump.
- Aeneas Lanier is now 7th all-time in NPU history in the long jump.
- Clark Fremouw is now 10th all-time in NPU history in the shot put.
Personal Records
