trACK TO RUN AT INDOOR MIAA MEET

For Immediate Release 28 February 2002

WARRENSBURG – The men’s and women’s track and field team from Southwest Baptist will compete in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 28 and March 1.

Ivan Peterson will start out the competition with the triple jump on Friday. He will also compete in the long jump. Peterson finished fifth last weekend in Warrensburg with a jump of 12.77 meters.

Peterson and David Sepanski will compete in the 60-meter dash on Friday. Sepanski will also run in the 200-meter dash. Joe Wieschhaus will compete in the 600-yard run. Jon Clemence, Tom Miner and John Harris will run in the 5,000-meter run while T. Jay Sanderson, Clint Davis, Austin Bunn and Brandon Sherrer compete in the 2-mile relay.

For the women on Friday, Jenni Duren will start off running the 60-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. Karen Sancken is the lone Lady Bearcat in the 5,000-meter run and Christine Showler, Jenny Doke, Jackie Dunn and Sara Tedford will run in the 2-mile relay.

On Saturday, Sanderson, Sherrer and Michael Haub will compete in the men’s mile. Showler and Tedford will run in the women’s mile competition. Davis, Clemence, Miner and Harris will run in the men’s 3,000-meter race while Sancken, Dunn, Doke, Susan Greer and Erika Anderson run in the women’s portion of the 3,000 meters. The day will complete with Sanderson, Sherrer, Sepanski and Peterson running in the mile relay.

At the MIAA Championships, the top six places in the individual events and the top three in relays receive All-MIAA honors.


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