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Results

Jan. 18, 2025 – The North Central College men's track and field team dominated the annual Pat Heenan invitational claiming six victories with Kamil Kokot breaking the program's freshman record in the 60-meter hurdle and Braden Nicholson setting a new Al B. Carius Track record in the 5000-meter run.

Throughout the day the team gathered 221 points to overtake all eleven opponents with the next closest school, Olivet Nazarene trailing by 103 points. Olivet Nazarene held second at 118 points followed by DePaul University (66), Harper College (42), Benedictine University (33), Coe College, Concordia University Wisconsin (25), St. Francis University (24), Judson University (13), North Park University (7), Wabash College (6), and Concordia University Chicago (4).

Leading the charge was freshman Kokot who tallied a lightning-fast 8.29 seconds in the 60-meter hurdle to jump to second in the program's top ten list and topple Marcus Caselberry's freshman record of 8.41 seconds. The other five event victories came from Caselberry, Nicholson, Owen Dare, Cole Oleson, and Jayden Leise. Caselberry found his win in the 400-meter dash (51.39) while also marking a third-place finish in the 200-meter dash with Randall Reed following in fourth (22.65). Reed also tallied a quick third-place finish of 6.94 seconds in the 60-meter dash to mark an identical time to his last week's third-best time in the program's top ten.

The 5000-meter run saw Nicholson take first with a 14:14.25 to smash the Al B. Carius Track record by over ten seconds and snag a second-place slot on the Track and Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS) national list. Following close behind was Connor Riss with a finish of 14:18.98 to enter into seventh in the all-time top ten and third on the TFRRS list, freshman Oscar Frontjes in fourth (15:07.77), and BJ Sorg in fifth (15:08.88). Dare snatched his victory in the mile run with 4:23.42 while Lucas Hoffman finished a hair behind him with 4:24.90. The high jump had Oleson hop to a measure of 1.95 meters (6' 4.75") for the victory. Leise earned his first-place spot in the triple jump with a measure of 14.31m (46' 11.50") with Prentice Myles following in second with 13.41m (43' 12").

The Cardinals also swept the second through fifth-best finishes in the 800-meter run between freshman Nicholas Sadelski (2:03.35), Frankie Reid (2:04.61), freshman Brayden Groenenboom (2:04.69), and freshman Ari Elmayan (2:06.10). The 3000-meter run had freshman Nico Altamore take second (9:17.33), Logan Keeling take fourth (9:43.73), and Zachary Erickson take fifth (9:45.74). In the 4x400 relay Arturo Martinez, Devery Hodge, Adam Toren, and Braulio Flores represented North Central in third with a finish of 3:36.65. Michael Robinson led the effort in the long jump with a second-place measure of 6.59m (21' 7.50") with Kevin Fist marking in at fourth (6.55m, 21' 6"). For the weight throw, Anthony Zajac threw a fourth-place measure of 16.71m (54' 10"). The pole vault saw Joel Jaquinde take second with 4.15m (14' 9.50") and Grant Sarris took fourth at 4.05m (13' 3.50"). The Cardinals also had Daniel Dominguez mark a fourth-place effort in the shot put (14.65m, 48' 0.75").

North Central heads back on the road to travel to the Olivet Nazarene University Invitational on January 24th. Access the full schedule HERE.

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