St. Cloud State Track & Field Tallies 20 Personal Bests in Final Regular Season Meet

Friday, February 14

Myers Field House • Mankato, Minn.

11 a.m. (Field) | Noon (Track)

St. Cloud State

Maverick Premier #1

Viola Okey-Ezealah @ NSIC Indoor Champs 2-23-23

Photo by: Jacob Sanders

St. Cloud State Track & Field Tallies 20 Personal Bests in Final Regular Season Meet

2/14/2025 11:19:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

Hero's Timing TFRRS PDF

Huskies record four top-10 finishes at Maverick Premier #1 in Mankato

MANKATO, Minn. – St. Cloud State Track & Field competed at the Maverick Premier #1, hosted by Minnesota State at the Myers Field House in Mankato on Friday. The Huskies posted 20 personal bests, one season best, and four top-10 finishes.

Sophomore distance runner Alena Donahue (West Salem, Wis.) set a 3,000 meters personal best for the second week in a row and recorded one of the two top-five finishes for the Huskies. She ran 10:47.63, cutting nearly 3.5 seconds off her previous best to finish fourth.

All eight Huskies in the 200 meters set new indoor or overall best marks. Fifth year sprinter Katie Lavato (Buffalo, Minn.) and sophomore sprinter Jenna Marxhausen (Two Harbors, Minn.) set new indoor bests, running 25.72 and 28.29 respectively. Lavato cut 0.26 seconds off her previous indoor best, set earlier this year to finish 10^th. Marxhausen ran 0.53 seconds faster than last week when she set her previous indoor personal best.

Sophomore sprinter Viola Okey-Ezealah (Part-Harcourt, Nigeria), freshman jumper/sprinter Zaria Stapleton (Nassau, Bahamas), senior jumper/middle distance runner Makaylin Christenson (Prarie Farm, Wis.), freshman sprinter Jayla Patterson, freshman multi-event athlete Kaylee Cooper (Loudon, Tenn.) and sophomore sprinter/hurdler Trinity Wallendal (Fon du Lac, Wis.) all ran to new personal bests in the 200 meters. Okey-Ezealah cut nearly a full second off her previous indoor best, Stapleton knocked over 0.40 seconds off, Christenson was 0.25 faster than her previous best, Patterson was just over 0.50 faster, Cooper was just under 0.20 faster and Wallendal went under 30.00 for the first time this season and second time of her career.

Lavato was the lone Husky to record a top-three finish. She ran the fifth fastest qualifying time in the 60-meter prelims and ended up finishing third in a new personal best time of 7.74, 0.03 seconds faster than her previous best. In addition to her 200-meter personal best, Okey-Ezealah also ran to new best marks in the 60 (8.17) and the 400 (1:03.64). She took nearly 3.5 seconds of her previous best 400 time.

Patterson (8.30) and Cooper (8.77) each ran new personal bests in the 60 meters, while Wallendal (8.80) ran a new season's best. Christenson leaped to a new long jump personal record (5.18m/17-0), besting her old best mark from the season opener.

Freshman thrower Mackenzie McMahon (Baraboo, Wis.) tallied new personal bests in both the shot put (11.16m/36-7.5) and weight throw (11.74m/38-6.25). Her shot put was a new best by 0.75 meters and it was her first time over 11 meters. Her weight throw was a 0.30 meter improvement.

Freshman distance runners Alea Briggs and MerriAnna Johnson (Osceola, Wis.) each ran new 800-meter personal bests, cutting nearly 2.5 and 2.8 seconds off their previous best times respectively.

Sophomore sprinter/jumper Myesha Thompson (Mount Horeb, Wis.) ran a new personal best in the 60 hurdles (9.88). It was her second time this season running under 10.00.

St. Cloud State at the Maverick Premier #1 (Hosted by Minnesota State)
Feb. 14, 2025 | Myers Field House | Mankato, Minn.

60 meters (prelims)
5. Katie Lavato - 7.78q
23. Viola Okey-Ezealah - 8.17 PR
28. Jayla Patterson - 8.30 PR
30. Zaria Stapleton - 8.32
37. Jenna Marxhausen - 8.51
41. Kaylee Cooper - 8.77 PR
42. Trinity Wallendal - 8.80 SB
43. Olivia Witt - 9.49

60 meters (finals)
3. Katie Lavato - 7.74 PR

200 meters
10. Katie Lavato - 25.72 IDPR
21. Viola Okey-Ezealah - 26.82 PR
26. Zaria Stapleton - 27.47 PR
27. Makaylin Christenson - 27.50 PR
30. Jayla Patterson - 27.72 PR
32. Jenna Marxhausen - 28.29 IDPR
33. Kaylee Cooper - 29.10 PR
35. Trinity Wallendal - 29.79 PR

400 meters
17. Viola Okey-Ezealah - 1:03.64 PR

800 meters
10. Abbygail Nunez - 2:29.73
13. Alea Briggs - 2:32.15 PR
13. MerriAnna Johnson - 2:32.74 PR

Mile
13. Abbygail Nunez - 5:38.23

3,000 meters
4. Alena Donahue - 10:47.63 PR

60 hurdles (prelims)
25. Shelby Romig - 9.88
26. Myesha Thompson - 9.88 PR
29. Kinsey Mohwinkle - 10.05
30. Makaylin Christenson - 10.06

Long jump
14. Myesha Thompson - 5.22m/17-1.5
16. Makaylin Christenson - 5.18m/17-0 PR
20. Kinsey Mohwinkle - 5.06m/16-7.25
24. Shelby Romig - 4.89m/16–0.5

Shot put
17. Mackenzie McMahon - 11.16m/36-7.5 PR
18. Hannah Bruskiewicz - 11.10m/36-5

Weight throw
19. Alicia Jennissen - 13.23m/43-5
25. Mackenzie McMahon - 11.74m/38-6.25 PR
27. Kim Feller - 10.70m/35-1.25
28. Hannah Bruskiewicz - 10.40m/34-1.5

Team Scores:
6^th of 10 teams (11 points)

Results (Hero's Timing)
Results (TFRRS)
Results (PDF)

UP NEXT
The Huskies are off next weekend and will return to Mankato and Myers Field House for the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Championships hosted by Minnesota State on Friday February 1 and Saturday, March 2. Links to coverage options will be available on the SCSU Track & Field schedule page.

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