St. Cloud State Track & Field Sets 10 Personal Bests, Five Season Bests at CSB/SJU Invitational

Saturday, April 20

Collegeville, Minn.

10:00 A.M. CT (Running) | 10:30 A.M. CT (Field)

St. Cloud State

CSB/SJU Invitational

Photo by: Jacob Sanders

St. Cloud State Track & Field Sets 10 Personal Bests, Five Season Bests at CSB/SJU Invitational

4/20/2024 11:11:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

Huskies win five events, earn 16 top-five finishes

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – St. Cloud State Track & Field won five events at the CSB/SJU Invitational on Saturday at the Miles Track/Clemens Stadium in Collegeville. The Huskies recorded 16 top-five finishes, 10 personal bests and four season-bests.

Junior distance runner Greta Freed (Rochester, Minn.) won the 5,000 meters in a new season-best time of 18:48.46. She cut nearly 52 seconds off her previous season best mark from last week. Junior distance runner Cambrie Kowal (Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.) finished second in the race after running a new personal best time of 18:54.15. She cut almost a minute off her old season-best time from last week and over four seconds off her old personal best that she ran at the 2024 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Indoor Track & Field Championships in late February. Freshman distance runner Tegan Michalak (Arcadia, Wis.) also ran a new personal best time (19:46.05) and finished fourth. She broke 20 minutes for the first time while improving her personal best by nearly 30 seconds.

Fifth-year distance runner Mariana Guerra-Reese (White Bear Lake, Minn.) won the 800 in a new season-best time of 2:24.81, cutting just over seven seconds off her time from last week. Freshman middle distance runner Audrey Rabitz (Manitowoc, Wis.) was fourth in a new personal-best time 2:27.22. Her previous best was 2:33.30. Junior distance runner Lauren Sertich (Cloquet, Minn.) ran a new season best time (2:29.76) and finished fifth.

Senior sprinter Katie Lavato (Buffalo, Minn.) won the 100 in 12.38, just 0.02 slower than her personal best that she set two weeks ago in Iowa. Fifth year sprinter Addi Scribner (Woodbury, Minn.) set a new personal best in the 100 for the second week in a row (13.47), besting her time from a week ago by 0.05 seconds to place ninth. Freshman Olivia Witt (Delano, Minn.) competed in her first race as a Husky, running the 100.

Graduate jumper Paola Breña (Queretero, Mexico) took the top spot in the high jump after clearing 1.60m (5-3). Junior jumper/middle distance runner Makaylin Christenson (Prairie Farms, Wis.) placed second in the event, jumping a new season best of 1.55m (5-1). Christenson also placed fourth in the 400 meters, clocking a new personal best time of 1:00.76.

The quartet of freshman sprinter Jenna Marxhausen (Two Harbors, Minn.), junior jumper/hurdler/middle distance runner Shelby Romig (Ankeny, Iowa), freshman sprinter/hurdler Trinity Wallendal (Fon du Lac, Wis.) and Scribner won the 4x100 relay in 53.54. Romig also place fifth in the long jump.

Marxhausen placed fourth in the 200 meters after running a new personal best time of 26.95. It was the first time she broke 27 seconds, and she improved her time by 0.40 seconds. Freshman sprinter Viola Okey-Ezealah (Port-Harcourt, Nigeria) and senior jumper Elena Martinez-Rodriguez (Madrid, Spain) also ran personal best times in the 200.

Freshman thrower Hannah Bruskiewicz (Rogers, Minn.) was fourth in the shot put, freshman distance runner Paige Beason (Ankeny, Iowa) ran a new personal best in the 1,500, placing seventh and freshman thrower Alicia Jennissen (Sauk Centre, Minn.) recorded a new personal best in the discus throw (32.13m / 105-5) by nearly four meters / 13 feet.
The quartet of Guerra-Reese, Okey-Ezealah, Rabitz and Lavato ran the 4x400 relay in 4:12.91, finishing second. The team of Christenson, Marxhausen, sophomore distance runner Jaileen Medina (Wheaton, Ill.) and Beason placed fifth in the relay after running 4:30.42

UP NEXT
The Huskies have two meets on next week's slate. Select athletes will travel to Des Moines, Iowa for the Drake Relays which run from Thursday to Saturday. The majority of the team will run at Gustavus Adolphus in St. Peter in its Drake Alternative on Saturday. Links to coverage options will be available on the Track & Field schedule page.

St. Cloud State at the CSB/SJU Invitational
April 20, 2024 | Miles Track @ Clemens Stadium | Collegeville, Minn.

100 meters
1. Katie Lavato - 12.38
9. Addi Scribner - 13.47 PR
21. Olivia Witt – 15.21

200 meters
4. Jenna Marxhausen – 26.95 PR
8. Myesha Thompson – 27.48
9. Viola Okey-Ezealah – 27.60 PR
15. Elena Martinez-Rodriguez – 28.45 PR
20. Kendall Gonzalez – 30.34

400 meters
4. Makaylin Christenson - 1:00.76 PR
15. Jaileen Medina - 1:10.43
16. Kendall Gonzalez - 1:11.50

800 meters
1. Mariana Guerra-Reese - 2:24.81 SB
4. Audrey Rabitz - 2:27.22 PR
5. Lauren Sertich - 2:29.76 SB

1,500 meters
7. Paige Beason - 5:12.29 PR
9. Erica Conrad - 5:16.29

5,000 meters
1. Greta Freed – 18:48.46 SB
2. Cambrie Kowal – 18:54.15 PR
4. Tegan Michalak - 19:46.05 PR

100 hurdles
7. Trinity Wallendal – 17.82

3,000 steeplechase
7. Alena Donahue - 12:49.44

4x100 relay
1. Jenna Marxhausen/Shelby Romig/Trinity Wallendal/Addi Scribner – 53.54

4x400 relay
2. Mariana Guerra-Reese/Viola Okey-Ezealah/Audrey Rabitz/Katie Lavato – 4:12.91
5. Makaylin Christenson/Jenna Marxhausen/Jaileen Medina/Paige Beason – 4:30.42

High jump
1. Paola Breña - 1.60m (5-3)
2. Makaylin Christenson - 1.55m (5-1) SB

Long jump
5. Shelby Romig – 4.89m (16-0.5)
6. Myesha Thompson – 8.89m (16-0.5)

Shot put
4. Hannah Bruskiewicz – 11.60m (38-0.75)
17. Alicia Jennissen – 9.39m (30-9.75)

Discus throw
11. Hannah Bruskiewicz – 32.30m (105-11)
12. Alicia Jennissen – 32.13m (105-5) PR

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