Messersmith is the Next Test for Jacks' TF

Saturday, January 27

Cedar Falls, Iowa

10 a.m.

South Dakota State University

Mark Messersmith Invitational

1/25/2018 12:03:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

South Dakota State travels to Cedar Falls, Iowa to compete in the Mark Messersmith Invite Saturday

MEET 5: South Dakota State (Men & Women) at Mark Messersmith Invitational

When	Thursday-Friday, Jan. 25-26 Men's Heptathlon - Thursday 11 a.m. (Four Events) \| Friday 10 a.m. (Three Events) Women's Pentathlon - Friday 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 Men's Field Events - 10 a.m. \| Women's Field Events - 10 a.m. Men's Track Events - 12:30 p.m. \| Women's Track Events - 12:45 p.m.
Where	UNI-Dome \| UNI Home Meet Page I Cedar Falls, Iowa \| Google Maps
Teams Competing	Notable Schools Competing: Drake, Indiana State, Loyola-Chicago, Northern Iowa, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Live Results	Live Results \| No Live Stream
Meet Notes	Schedule of Events: Mark Messersmith \| Heat Sheets: Mark Messersmith \| UNI Home Meet Page Schedule of Events: Jack Jennett (Multi's) \| Heat Sheets: Jack Jennett (Multi's)
Social Media	Twitter \| Facebook \| Instagram \| #GoJacks

South Dakota State will travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa for the Mark Messersmith Invitational after hosting a pair of meets last weekend. The Jackrabbits will compete with Northern Iowa and other Missouri Valley schools at the UNI-Dome.

The men's heptathlon will start Thursday morning at 11 a.m. with four events (60m, long jump, shot put, high jump). The rest of the heptathlon events will finish up on Friday morning at 10 a.m.

The women's pentathlon will start Friday morning at 10:45 a.m. and conclude at 4:25 p.m. with the 800m.

Action on Saturday will kick off with the field events starting at 10 a.m., while track events will begin at 12:30 p.m. The last scheduled event, the men's 4x400m relay, is expected to start at 4:05 p.m.

Notable teams competing with South Dakota State will be: Drake, Indiana State, Loyola, Northern Iowa, and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

It will be the second of three straight weekends competing against the Panthers, as both schools are scheduled to travel to the Husker Invitational next weekend.

Midwest Rankings
The first regional rankings were released on Monday afternoon by USTFCCCA.org. The Jackrabbits saw themselves sitting 20th for the men's team and 21st for the women's team. This weekend's competition has some schools ranked higher than the Jackrabbits.

Drake (M: 24 | W: 28)
Indiana State (M: 13 | W: 11) - Great Lakes Region
Loyola (M: 19 | W: 32)
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M: 21 | W: 20) - Great Lakes Region
Northern Iowa (M: 17 | W: 29)

South Dakota State also had two individuals ranked in the top eight of their respective events. Junior Krista Steele is ranked fourth in the region with her 800m personal-best mark of 2:11.00 last weekend. On the men's side, sophomore Bryant Courter is ranked fourth in the long jump and seventh in the triple jump. His triple jump mark of 50-02.00 was set last weekend and his season-best long jump was set in December.

2017 Mark Messersmith Performances
In the 2017 season, sophomore Sam Zenner recorded his first collegiate win in the 60m, recording 6.89 seconds.

The men's 4x400m relay consisting of sophomore Landon Larson, and graduates Marc Husman, Dru Kenny, and Adam Belhaj, posted a win (3:20.87) for the second consecutive weekend.

Sophomore Bryant Courter placed second in the long jump (23-06.00) while senior J.J. Hejna finished fifth (21-11.50).

Junior Chase Cayo recorded a personal-best time of 8:39.88 in the 3,000m at that point of the season.

Last Time Out
Last weekend, the Jacks hosted the SDSU DII Invitational and the Jim Emmerich Invitational. Sophomore Bryant Courter competed in both the long jump and triple jump en-route to a third-place finish in the long jump and a school record in the triple jump.

There were strong performances from both throwing group on both Friday and Saturday.

Senior Kasie Vollmer had a seventh-place shot put toss (47-04.25), which put her name eighth on the school's all-time throw list. The freshman, Madeline Moorhouse, heaved the shot put for another top-10 finish in the event, placing ninth in the event. Her mark of 45-11.75 placed ninth on the school's top 10, tied with fellow thrower, sophomore Micayla TerWee.

In the weight throw, junior Abby Sudbeck launched a new career best of 58-02.50 feet, which still puts her in sixth for the farthest in school history. She finished sixth in the competition on Saturday.

On the men's side, sophomore Noah Huber added his name to the school's top 10 list. In the weight throw at the SDSU DII Invitational, he recorded a 52-03.25 toss, finishing 16th and wrote his name in at 10th all-time.

Junior Krista Steele had a couple great runs in the 800m and 4x400m relay last weekend. She won the 800m with a personal best 2:11.00. The mark is ranked second behind fellow teammate, sophomore Oksana Covey. Then, at the end of the night, Steele ran the third leg of the 4x400m relay, which has the season-best time for Jacks.

Junior Rachel King ran her first races of the 2018 campaign last weekend, running the mile and 3,000m in the Jim Emmerich. She placed fifth in the mile (4:54.51) and won the 3,000m (9:50.67).

Men Top 150 Nationally

So. Bryant Courter (32nd, Triple Jump; 36th, Long Jump)
Sr. Colton Bender (41st, Weight Throw)
So. Evan Hieber (59th, Heptathlon)
Jr. Peter Bates (66th, Heptathlon)
Sr. Brady Brockel (80th, Heptathlon)
Fr. Trent Francom (88th, Pole Vault)
Jr. Josh Dotson (Triple Jump, 97th)
R-Fr. Mitchel Acker (116th, 800m)
So. Wyatt Gatrost (121st, 800m)
R-Fr. Josh Goehring (140th, 800m)
R-Fr. Anthony Andera (146th, Pole Vault)

Women Top 150 Nationally

Sr. Vanessa Lane (29th, Pentathlon)
Jr. Krista Steele (46th, 800m)
So. Kayla Neff (89th, Pentathlon)
So. Sara Bohan (90th, Pentathlon)
Jr. Rachel King (97th, Mile; 129th, 3,000m)
Jr. Abby Sudbeck (103rd, Weight Throw)
Jr. Kasie Vollmer (107th, Shot Put)
Fr. Kendyl Kreber (134th, Pentathlon)
Jr. Savannah Dolezal (142nd, 400m)
So. Allison Sebern (145th, Pentathlon)

Up Next
The Jackrabbits will go to a pair of meets on Feb. 2-3. Some of the team will travel to the Dakota Realty Invitational, hosted by South Dakota, and the other part of the team will go to the Husker Invite, hosted by Nebraska.

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