UNI track & field: Two Panthers earn podium finishes on final day of MVC Outdoor Championships

Friday, May 10

Terre Haute, Ind.

10 a.m. / 10 a.m. / 11:30 a.m.

University of Northern Iowa

MVC Outdoor Championships

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UNI track & field: Two Panthers earn podium finishes on final day of MVC Outdoor Championships

5/12/2024 6:10:00 PM | Track and Field

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The UNI track and field team wrapped up the third and final day of the 2024 Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Outdoor Championships on Sunday afternoon with a pair of athletes earning podium finishes.

Northern Iowa finished with 88 total points in the men's team race to finish fourth overall, while the Panther women placed eighth with 50.5 points. Indiana State claimed both the men's and women's titles.

The Panther men's team finished the championships in fourth place with 88 total points. The women finished in eighth place with 50.5 total points.

The 4x400-meter relay team of Brody Lovell, Zach Fall, Micaiah Ellis and Isaac Vaske took home the bronze medal with a time of 3:15.91. Fall also took home third-place in the 400-meter dash earlier in the day in 48.30 seconds. UNI's women's 4x400-meter relay team of Jill Bennett, Joey Perry, Sophia Jungling and Anna Winterrowd finished in sixth place (3:47.58).

In the 4x100-meter relay, the men's team of Deonte Dean, Hunter Manock, Jerome Jessup and Jack Sumners finished in fourth place with a time of 40.25 seconds, while the women's team of Olivia Kramer, Madelyn Sanda, Ariana Yaklich and Jill Bennett took home sixth place in a time of 46.17 seconds.

Manock individually placed fifth in the 110-meter hurdles (14.28), as Jerome Jessup took home sixth in the 100 meters (10.62) with Dean finishing in seventh place in the 200-meter dash (21.36). Vaske ran a personal-best time of 53.99 seconds to earn sixth place in the men's 400-meter hurdles, in which he finished sixth place, while Sanda finished in eighth place in the women's 100 meters (11.96).

In the field events, Breanna Hackman grabbed fifth place in the women's discus with a toss of 46.69 meters, as Bo Braunecker led the Panther men in the discus with a personal-best throw of 47.37 meters. Spencer Kessel also finished with a personal best throw of 47.28 meters in the discus to take home eighth place honors.

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Select Panthers will head south to Fayetteville, Arkansas for the NCAA Division I West Regional, May 22-25 on the University of Arkansas campus. The list of qualified athletes is expected to be finalized this week.

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