Over the weekend, The South Dakota State track and field teams competed in four different meets across the United States.
Three of the four meets took place in California while the last meet was hosted by the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate
72 schools competed in the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate track meet over the weekend hosted by Long Beach State.
South Dakota State sophomore Ethan Fischer added his name to the SDSU record books with a 186-05.00 discus throw. Fischer’s throw is the longest men’s discus throw in Jackrabbit history and enough for seventh place in California.
“I think for Ethan, it’s something that we could see coming from the indoor season when we hosted some of those indoor competitions,” said head coach Rod DeHaven. “I think, in my very untrained eye, that potentially there’s another 10-15 feet that he can obtain, and it gives him a shot to make the NCAA finals. He can throw that platter around.”
Teammate Caiden Fredick finished with a throw of 166-04.00 for 22nd.
In the 800-meter run, it was Andrew Moeller who took 14th overall with a time of 1:58.32.
The Summit League indoor triple jump champion Tristen Hanna placed inside the top-20 in two different events: triple jump (47-04.50) and javelin (165-09.00). In the triple jump, Hanna cleared 47-04.50 for 11th place while in the javelin, the senior took 18th.
Teammates Connor Powers and Carson Kirwan tied for 15th in the high jump with a height of 6-05.00.
For the women, Nora Peterson took tenth in the javelin throw with a score of 126-09.00 while Milee Young’s discus throw of 146-10.00 earned her 22nd.
In the pole vault, Laci Leverity took 20th overall with a score of 12-04.00, sixth best in school history.
“Millie Young also threw very well in the discus,” DeHaven said. “[She] had an opening meet that wasn’t so great… and then threw very well out there [Pacific Coast Intercollegiate meet]. That environment for kids who haven’t been in it because you see a lot of schools with big names and schools from all over the country and you know, how kids are going to react is not totally predictable.”
Brielle Dixon (14th) and Savannah Risseeuw (18th) both placed in the top-20 in the 100-meter hurdles. Dixon finished with a time of 13.89 seconds while Risseeuw followed closely at 13.99 seconds.
