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MIAC teams ready for one more week of NCAA Championship competition

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) teams are preparing to close out the 2023-24 year with the final NCAA Championships of the spring season this week.
Women's Golf
MIAC champion St. Catherine will represent the conference at the 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships, held May 21-24 at the Keen Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Carleton's Carter Sichol was also selected as one of six individual competitors.

The championships will consist of both team and individual competitions conducted concurrently. Following 36 holes of competition, the field will be cut to the top 15 teams, and the top six individuals not on one of those teams to compete on the final day. In the team competition, the low four scores from each team for each day will count in the team's total score. Live scoring is available on Golfstat.

| NCAA Women's Golf Championship | Live Scoring |
Outdoor Track & Field
The NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Track & Field Committee announced the accepted entries for the 2024 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships over the weekend. Thirty-six MIAC student-athletes are listed among the qualifiers for this year's NCAA Championships.

For each individual event contested, including the decathlon and heptathlon, the top 22 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested, the top 16 declared relay teams, one per institution, were accepted into the competition.

The championships run from Thursday, May 23 to Saturday, May 25 at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

A complete list of national qualifiers from the MIAC is below.
 2024 MIAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field National Qualifiers
Name Institution Class  Event Seed/Mark/Points
Landen Liu Bethel So. 100-Meter Dash 10.34
Jacob Parent Bethel Jr. 200-Meter Dash 20.76
Jayson Ekiyor Bethel Jr. 110-Meter Hurdles 14.12
Josh Sampson Bethel Jr. 110-Meter Hurdles 14.16
Josh Thomsen Bethel Jr. 110-Meter Hurdles 14.92
Joel Smith Bethel Sr. 400-Meter Hurdles 51.30
David Myres Bethel Jr. 400-Meter Hurdles 53.02
Landen Liu Bethel So. 4x100 Relay 40.41
Grant Nelson Bethel So. 4x100 Relay 40.41
Cameron McConnell Bethel Jr. 4x100 Relay 40.41
Jacob Parent Bethel Jr. 4x100 Relay 40.41
Grant Nelson Bethel So 4x400 Relay 3:11.79
Josh Sampson Bethel Jr. 4x400 Relay 3:11.79
Victor Lelinga Bethel Fy. 4x400 Relay 3:11.79
Jacob Parent Bethel So. 4x400 Relay 3:11.79
Gabe Nichols Carleton So. 1500-Meter Run 3:46.18
Ian Mortensen Carleton Sr. Decathlon 6525
Cooper Folkestad Concordia Sr. Shot Put 17.07m
Cooper Folkestad Concordia Sr. Discus 51.95m
Wade Rhonemus Concordia Sr. Decathlon 6440
Arlo Heitler Macalester Jr. 400-Meter Dash 47.30
Kevin Arthur Saint John's Jr. 100-Meter Dash 10.31
Kevin Arthur Saint John's Jr. 200-Meter Dash 20.68
Jackson McDowell Saint John's Fy. High Jump 2.10m
Max Lelwica Saint John's Jr. Decathlon 6526
Will Kelly St. Olaf Sr. 3000-Meter Steeplechase 8:52.99
Trent Beseth St. Scholastica Jr. Shot Put 16.95
Trent Beseth St. Scholastica Jr. Discus 55.23m
 2024 MIAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field National Qualifiers
Name Institution Class  Event Seed/Mark/Points
Annessa Ihde Bethel Jr. 800-Meter Run 2:09.02
Kelsie Sealock Bethel Jr. 100-Meter Hurdles 13.86
Kelsie Sealock Bethel Jr. 400-Meter Hurdles 1:01.85
Kelsie Sealock Bethel Jr. 4x400-Meter Relay 3:48.46
Abbie Swenson Bethel Sr. 4x400-Meter Relay 3:48.46
Anessa Ihde Bethel Jr. 4x400-Meter Relay 3:48.46
Shalom Sulungaine Bethel Fy. 4x400-Meter Relay 3:48.46
Helen Cross Carleton Jr. 1500-Meter Run 4:31.71
Mary Blanchard Carleton Jr. 1500-Meter Run 4:32.85
Hannah Preisser Carleton So. 10000-Meter Run 35:32.83
Sophie McManus Carleton Jr. 3000-Meter Steeplechase 10:45.10
Kate Carlson Gustavus Jr. 100-Meter Dash 11.85
Megan Geraets Gustavus Jr. 200-Meter Dash 23.97
Kate Carlson Gustavus Jr. 200-Meter Dash 24.01
Megan Geraets Gustavus Jr. Long Jump 5.78m
Molly Meyers Hamline Sr. Shot Put 14.08m
Fiona Smith Saint Benedict Sr. 5000-Meter Run 15:53.27
Fiona Smith Saint Benedict Sr. 10000-Meter Run 32:57.28
Jaylyn Ahlberg Saint Benedict So. Pole Vault 3.71m
Alison Bode St. Olaf Jr. 10000-Meter Run 35:34.19
Lily Beneke St. Scholastica Sr. Hammer Throw 47.89m
| 2024 Division III Men's Accepted Entries | 2024 Division III Women's Accepted Entries | Live Results |
Men's Tennis
Three Gusties will compete in the individual NCAA Championships later this week. Gustavus' Marco Siviero was selected for the singles tournament, while the Gusties' tandem of Gage Gohl and Tyler Haddorff were selected for doubles. The individual championships are scheduled for May 26-28 at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in St. Louis, Missouri, hosted by Washington University in St. Louis.
 
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Women's Tennis
Carleton's Amelia Asfaw was selected to the singles tournament, while she and partner Mary Hose earned a nod for the doubles tournament as well when the individual NCAA Championships get underway later this week. The individual championships are scheduled for May 25-27 at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in St. Louis, Missouri, hosted by Washington University in St. Louis.
 
| NCAA Women's Tennis Home |
Softball
The three MIAC regular-season co-champions wrapped up their seasons over the weekend in NCAA Regionals. Saint Mary's won its opener against DePauw on Thursday before dropping two back-to-back games against Coe and DePauw on Friday. After falling in the first game to UW-Whitewater on Thursday, Bethel won three straight against UW-Superior, UW-Whitewater, and Central before losing in the win-or-go-home game to Central on Saturday. Saint Benedict also bounced back from a first-round loss to UW-Oshkosh to win games against Wartburg and Illinois Wesleyan before seeing the season end in the regional championship to the Titans on Saturday.

Of note, Bethel pitcher Kayla Simacek played her final game as a Royal on Saturday, finishing her collegiate career with 1,193 strikeouts - ninth-most in NCAA Division III history.

| NCAA Softball |
Baseball
MIAC Playoff champion Bethel saw its season come to an end in La Crosse, Wis. over the weekend. The Royals went 0-2 in the UW-La Crosse Regional, falling to the host on Friday and Benedictine on Saturday in an elimination game.

| NCAA Baseball |
Men's Golf
The men's golf season came to a close last week at the 2024 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships at Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada.

Both Saint John's and Bethel made the cut as teams, with the Johnnies finishing 12th in the nation at +10 for the tournament (289-298-287-288=1162) and the Royals in 16th at +20 (282-299-290-301=1172). Both Bethel's Conor Schubring and Saint John's Sam Berger tied for 24th individually with even-par scores of 288 over the four-round event.

| NCAA Men's Golf Championship | Results |