RESULTS: Prairie Wolf Invite | Drake Relays | Rock Chalk Classic
LINCOLN, Neb. – Concordia University, Nebraska Track & Field athletes took advantage of one final day of competition prior to the GPAC Championships. Bulldog athletes were spread across three meets: the Prairie Wolf Invite hosted by Nebraska Wesleyan University, the Drake Relays and the Rock Chalk Classic hosted by the University of Kansas. Among the highlights, Concordia’s women’s 4x400-meter relay clocked an automatic national qualifying time on the Blue Oval and Hayley Miles seized first place in two jumps events at the Prairie Wolf Invite.
The bulk of Head Coach Matt Beisel’s nationally ranked squads (women 13th, men 22nd) appeared at Nebraska Wesleyan on Saturday. For some athletes, it marked the end of the 2025 outdoor season.
In the prelims of the college women’s 4x400-meter relay at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, the Bulldog quartet just missed the NAIA auto time while qualifying for finals. A day later, Concordia came up just short of the school record while running 3:47.33 (compared to the 2022 program standard of 3:47.26). Concordia’s national qualifying 4x4 was made up of Adrianna Rodencal (56.19), Trinity Tuls (56.95), Isabelle Salters (57.75) and Kayla Kirchner (56.46). The Lincoln Lutheran alum Rodencal also ran the finals of the 100-meter hurdles on Saturday and placed sixth (13.71). Rodencal’s prelims time of 13.37 broke her own school record.
Meanwhile in Lincoln, Miles won both of her events as she landed marks of 35’ 10 ¾” in the triple jump and 17’ 8” in the long jump. She defeated fields of athletes heavy on GPAC competition. The one other winner for the Bulldogs at the Prairie Wolf Invite was All-American pole vaulter Mayson Ostermeyer, who cleared 15’ 5.” The list of Concordia runners up included Evan Hill in the pole vault (14’ 11”), Tayden Kirchner in the 400 meters (59.99), Trey Robertson in the 1,500 meters (4:01.79), Kayla Svoboda in the 100-meter hurdles (14.76) and the women’s 4x100-meter relay (48.13). The relay featured Cambria Saunders, Kennedy Canales, Coral Collins and Kiki Nyanok.
Other noteworthy efforts on Woody Greeno Track in Lincoln were produced by Easton Fries in the 110-meter hurdles (14.89), Trevor Kuncl in the 1,500 meters (4:03.77) and Saunders in the 100 meters (12.60). The men’s 4x1 of Aaron Everett, Myles Sadd, Isaiah Gaunt and Matthew Wing ran 43.69.
In addition to the titles won by Miles, the jumps crew churned out a third-place triple jumps from Aaron Spivey (44’ 4 ¼”) and Jaelynne Kosmos (34’ 1 ½”) and a fourth-place long jump from Nyanok (17’ 5 ½”).
Three Bulldogs made their way to Lawrence, Kan., on Saturday for the javelin competition at the Rock Chalk Classic. On the men’s side, Emry Gutz placed fourth (178’ 6”) while Stephen Meisel placed ninth (154’ 6”) in a field of 11 athletes. On the women’s side, Gretchen Stottlemyre took sixth place (120’ 10”) out of 24 throwers. In the throws at the Drake Relays, Abi Wohlgemuth placed 15th in the hammer (170’ 4”) while Matthew Boyer scratched in the javelin.
Back in Lincoln, Connor Asche broke 50 feet (50’ 10”) in the shot put and placed third. Austen Rozelle was also a third-place finisher in the discus with a mark of 152’ 10.” In the men’s hammer, Josiah Edwards took fifth (168’ 2”). The women’s hammer competition stretched late into the evening on Saturday and was capped with Marissa Heins placing seventh (150’ 5”) in a large field of 34 athletes.
Prairie Wolf Invite Event Champions
· Hayley Miles: long jump (17’ 8”); triple jump (35’ 10 ¾”)
· Mayson Ostermeyer: pole vault (15’ 5”)
The 2025 GPAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships will unfold next Friday-Saturday (May 2-3) from the Jack Osborne Track Complex on the Hastings College campus. The meet schedule can be found HERE. This past indoor season, the Bulldogs finished with GPAC placements of third on the women’s side and fourth on the men’s side.