2001 Season Review

INDOOR

Running, jumping, hurdling, vaulting, throwing, competing. The Blazer Indoor Track and Field Team hosted the MIAC track and field championships at McNeely Spectrum at Saint John’s.  The Blazers finished in 6th place scoring 49 points.  Saint Thomas won the meet with 170.5 points. Two Blazers earned All-Conference honors at the meet.  Senior Caroline Boatz took first-place in the pole vault setting a meet record by vaulting 11-2 ¼.  That height qualified Boatz for the national indoor track and field meet.  Boatz made the automatic qualifying height for nationals in all the Blazers’ meets except one this season.  Sophomore Molly Miller took 3rd place in the 55-meter hurdles in a time of 8.56.  Other strong performances by Blazers in the meet included two fourth-place finishes by Sophomore Jenny Bruns.  Bruns ran the 200-meter dash in 26.80 seconds and the 400-meter dash in 60.78 seconds.  Sophomore Alicia Judkins, finished fourth in the 55-meter dash in 7.58 time of 1:41.78 and Sophomore Kit Neubauer cruised to a sixth-place finish in the 600-meter in a time of 1:41.78.  

Boatz continued on to the NCAA and Track and Field Championships in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, finishing third place and earning All-American honors with a vault of 3.47 meters (11-4 ¼ feet).

OUTDOOR

The MIAC conference meet in Carleton had two beautiful days of weather and outstanding performances by all the Blazer athletes.  Saint Ben’s provisionally qualified three individuals for the NCAA national meet. Sophomore Molly Miller flew to a second place finish in the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 14.81 seconds, breaking her own school record.  Seniors Caroline Boatz and Nikki Tuma took second and third respectively in the pole vault with heights of 3.42 and 3.32 meters.  The Blazers set nine school records in the meet including Miller’s hurdles and Junior Jen Ewertz breaking her own record in both the 100 and 200-meter hurdles.  In the 100-meter dash, Ewertz finished second with a blistering time of 12.79 seconds.  In the 200-meter dash she ran to a third place finish in a time of 26.28.  Other strong performances by the Blazers included Sophomore Jen Bruns taking second in the 400-meter dash and second in a time of 58.75 seconds, while Senior distance runner Crissy Johnson had a strong weekend in the 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter races.  She finished 6th in the 5,000 in a time of 18:41.31 and fourth in the 10,000-meter race in a time of a 38:43.79. Sophomore Kit Neubauer broke her own school record in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 65.18 seconds and Junior Beth Sexton broke her own school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase in a time of 11:58.62.  Alison Kern finished a strong fifth in the shot put with a new school record of 12.35 meters.

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