Overtaking former area professional athletes: Berkeley Engelland cruises to
VERMILLION, S.D.– Mount Vernon product and University of South Dakota freshman Berkeley Engelland scored a specific Summit League track and field championship on Might 17 when the Coyotes hosted the conference outside meet.Competing at her
very first conference outdoor track and field championships, Engelland claimed the women’s 800-meter title, crossing in 2 minutes, 11.03 seconds, almost a full 2nd ahead of second place. During the indoor season, Engelland was the Top League champion fulfill bronze medalist at 800 meters. She owned a season-best indoor time of 2:09.40 that ranks second on USD’s all-time leaderboard in case.
Berkeley Engelland University of South Dakota Athletics Engelland was likewise a member of the Coyotes’winning 4×400 relay, which published a Summit League outdoor championship satisfy record time of 3:38.43. USD has actually fielded the winning quartet in the event 5 years in a row.In the final females’s team standings, USD finished second with 175 points, just behind champion North Dakota State at 222 points.Engelland was among 13 Coyotes to earn all-Summit honors with a top-three finish at the conference fulfill in the 800 and 4×400 relay. Jackrabbit pair post leading marks
In other places at the Summit League outdoor track and field champions, 2 previous area stars contributed top finishes for South Dakota State. Madison Kizer South Dakota State University Sports Madison Kizer, of Howard, earned a bronze medal surface in the ladies’s high dive, clearing 1.68 meters (5 feet, 6 inches). For her collegiate profession, Kizer, a college student, now has 4 top-three surfaces at indoor or outdoor
conference championship meets. SDSU was 4th in the females’s team standings at 132 points.Having cleared 1.80 meters(5 feet, 10.75 inches )previously this spring, Kizer is qualified to compete at the NCAA West Area first round, which Texas A&M will host on May 28-31 in College Station, Texas. Kizer’s leading mark is currently tied for 23rd-best in the West Region.
Thailan Hallman South Dakota State University Sports On the males’s side, Hanson product Thailan Hallman took fourth in the 400 meters, recording a season-best of 47.67 seconds. He was likewise a member of the Jackrabbits’silver-medal-winning 4×400-meter relay. As a group, SDSU won the Summit League men’s outside title for the first time in program history with 197 points, being available in ahead of NDSU (173 ). Hallman got all-Summit track honors for the 4×400 relay efforts.
Earlier this year, Hallman was the Top League’s silver medalist at 400 meters inside your home, matching his best finish at a conference title meet. Between indoor and outdoor conference meets, Hallman has now ended up in the top six for the 400 meters at seven straight Top League championship occasions dating back to the outside champions in 2022.
Location professional athletes among leading finishers at GPAC championships
HASTINGS, Neb.– 4 former preparation standouts from the Mitchell region who attend organizations outside South Dakota made top-eight podium finishes at the Great Plains Athletic Conference outside track and field fulfill.
Doane’s Colton Dillon Contributing to the Doane University males’s program’s team title, Hanson product Colton Dillon checked in with a fifth-place mark of 15.44 meters(50 feet, 8 inches)in the shot put. That placement matched his standing from the GPAC indoor champions from February, as over the previous four championship game meets, Dillon has finished no lower than sixth. Doane claimed the GPAC males’s group title with 233.5 points, ahead of second-place Dordt at 156.
For those runner-up Protectors, Menno native Isaac Fergen sailed to seventh place in the guys’s pole vault, clearing 4.20 meters (13 feet, 9.25 inches). It was the freshman’s first podium finish at a GPAC champion event.On the females’s
side for Dordt, Freeman Academy product Jada Koerner gathered a fourth-place surface in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:46.40, adding to her third-place finish in case from 2024. Additionally, Koerner, who likewise contends for the Protectors’ cross nation group, was a seventh-place finisher previously this year in the indoor 800 meters. Dordt slotted into the females’s team standings in 3rd location with 149 points, behind champion Doane (222) and Concordia (163 ).
Completing the list of previous location standouts to contribute toward their school’s group points, Springfield native and Bon Homme product Erin Heusinkveld ran as part of Northwestern College’s ladies’s 4×100-meter relay, which took fourth location. NWC was fifth in the ladies’s team standings with 62 points.
Dierks covers preparation and college sports across the Mitchell Republic’s coverage region area. His focus areas include: Mitchell High School football and boys basketball; location high school football, volleyball, basketball, baseball and track and field; and South Dakota State football. He is likewise at the forefront of the Mitchell Republic’s podcasting efforts. Dierks is a Mitchell native who finished from South Dakota State University with his bachelor’s degree in journalism in May 2020. He joined the Mitchell Republic sports staff in August 2021. He can be reached at ldierks@mitchellrepublic.com and found on Twitter at @LDierksy.