Grinnell College’s men had a number of high finishes at the 2012 Midwest Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday in Jacksonville, Ill.
Jake Lindstrom ’14 was fourth in the pole vault with a leap of 13-6 ½, while Ben Tyler ’14 was fifth in the 5000-meter run with a clocking of 15:49.35. Lindstrom’s effort ranks eighth on Grinnell’s all-time chart.
Gavin Warnock ’14 added a sixth-place finish in the long jump with...
The Grinnell College track and field teams will look for strong efforts when they compete in the 2012 Midwest Conference Championships Friday and Saturday at Jacksonville, Ill.
The Pioneers are looking to improve on last year’s finishes, when the women’s team placed fifth and the men sixth.
On the women’s side, the Pioneers enter the meet ranked first in the 4x400-meter relay. Sarah Burnell ’14 is second in the 800, while Eloise...
Dylan Boucher ’12 broke his own school record in the 60-meter dash while helping the Grinnell College men’s track and field team to a fourth-place finish at the Wartburg Indoor Invite Saturday at Waverly.
Boucher ran the race in 7.13 seconds to place fourth. He actually broke his old mark of 7.321, set earlier this season, twice Saturday as he ran 7.14 in the preliminaries and then beat that by .01 in the final.
Grinnell’s...
Four top-eight finishes sparked the Grinnell College men’s track and field team at its own Darren Young Classic contested Saturday at the Charles Benson Bear ’39 Recreation and Athletic Center Field House.
The meet featured several national-caliber individuals and teams.
Leading the Pioneers was Gavin Warnock ’14, who was fifth in the long jump with a leap of 20-8.
In the 3000-meter run, Ben Tyler ’14 placed sixth in a...
Ben Tyler ’14 (pictured) claimed runner-up honors in the mile run to lead the Grinnell College men’s track and field team at the Hilltop Open over the weekend at Cornell College.
Tyler ran the race in 4:36.30, less than a second behind the winner. Grinnell had two other high finishers in the race, as Sam Krauth ’14 placed third in 4:37.00 and Evan Griffith ’15 was seventh in 4:41.00.
The Pioneers had a trio of fourth-place...
Kyle Moorehead ’15 (pictured) led Grinnell College men with a third-place finish in the 1000-meter during the Dutch Athletics Classic indoor track and field meet Friday in Pella.
He finished in a time of 2:41.28, just .18 behind the champion.
Eric Ragan ’12 and David Garwood ’13 added high finishes in the 300, placing fourth and fifth in 40.08 and 40.99, respectively.
The Pioneers had two seventh-place finishers in Evan...
Longtime Grinnell coach Will Freeman has been elected chairman of the NCAA Division III Track and Field/Cross Country Committee by a vote of NCAA committee members.
A member of the NCAA committee for the past three years, Freeman has been the liaison for cross country and indoor track and also the D-III representative to the NCAA rules committee.
It is Freeman’s second national chair position, having previously been the chair of...
The Grinnell College men’s and women’s track and field squads were named 2011 NCAA Division III All-Academic Teams by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Sixty-four men’s programs and 111 women’s teams earned the honor, which is given to squads with a cumulative grade point average of 3.1 or higher.
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Grinnell College’s Sam Goldstein ’11 earned a trio of top 10 finishes at the Augustana College Twilight Invite track and field meet Friday in Rock Island, Ill.
He was eighth in the triple jump with a leap of 40-4, ninth in the long jump at 20-2 ½ and 10th in the 100-meter dash in 11.53.
Grinnell College’s Alex Reich ’11 capped a stellar career Thursday with a personal-best time in the men’s 10,000-meter run at the North Central College Gregory Track and Field Invitational.
Reich was second in the event with a clocking of 31:14.82, just missing the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying time of 31:13.
Reich’s time also boosted him up to third on Grinnell’s all-time leader board.
