BROOKINGS, S.D. – Saturday capped a tremendous week of competition for the Indiana Wesleyan University men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams at the NAIA National Championships. The men’s team earned the program’s best finish at the indoor national meet with a seventh place finish while the women earned 28th overall.

The men’s team completed a strong week with All-American performances in all five Saturday events. Highlighting the All-American honors was the individual national championship for Brennan Coil in the Shot Put. He set a new PR on his final throw of the event to capture the second indoor national championship in program history.

Joining Coil with All-American performances on Saturday for the men’s team were Chris Maxon in the 5,000-Meter, Landon Miller and Jesse Saxton in the 3,000-Meter, and the Distance Medley Relay.

Jessica Sprinkles gave the women’s team one more NAIA All-American with her seventh place finish in the 800-Meter. It gives Sprinkles two All-American runs this weekend as she also accomplished the feat in the 4x800 Relay earlier this week.

Brennan Coil     |     Shot Put

PRELIMS + FINALS:  18.31-meters, 1st of 25 – NATIONAL CHAMPION!

Chris Maxon     |     5,000-Meter Run

SEMIS:  14:59.91, 2nd of 23 – QUALIFIED FOR FINALS

FINALS:  14:57.08, 3rd of 10 – NAIA ALL-AMERICAN!

Landon Miller     |     3,000-Meter Run

FINALS:  8:42.69, 8th of 10 – NAIA ALL-AMERICAN!

Jesse Saxton     |     3,000-Meter Run

FINALS:  8:32.43, 2nd of 10 – NAIA ALL-AMERICAN!

Distance Medley Relay     |     Steven Ott, Jarett Keffeler, Landon Miller, Jesse Saxton, Chad Ellens, Noah Shigley

SEMIS:  10:15.75, 6th of 13 - QUALIFIED FOR FINALS

FINALS:  10:09.95, 3rd of 8 – NAIA ALL-AMERICANS!

Lorna Bechtel     |     High Jump

PRELIMS + FINALS:  No height

Jessica Sprinkles     |     800-Meter Run

SEMIS:  2:15.42, 3rd of 14 – QUALIFIED FOR FINALS

FINALS:  2:19.67, 7th of 8 – NAIA ALL-AMERICAN!

Paige Sutter     |     Shot Put

PRELIMS + FINALS:  12.94 –meters, 15th of 20

COACH SNYDER SAYS…

“What an amazing weekend and fun way to finish our indoor season. The women’s team finished with five All-Americans and the men’s team finished with eight. Our men’s finish was the highest indoor finish in program history and we finished the weekend with five top-3 finishes between both teams.”

“I take very little credit for this because the coaching staff that we have on this team is so special and we wouldn’t have finished the way we did without them. The coaching staff and I are blown away by where the team is right now, and we are thrilled to be heading into outdoor now. We have a lot of momentum and a lot of work left to do, but it is exciting to see the potential this group has.”

NEXT FOR THE WILDCATS

Indiana Wesleyan has completed the indoor season and next get to work on the outdoor season. The first meet is in three weeks with the annual Polar Bear Invitational on March 23.