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Ottawa University 1,600-meter relay runners Caj Kueffer hands off the baton to Clarence Anderson during a meet this season. Anderson paced the OU track teams this past weekend with two wins in the conference meet at McPherson. Ottawa finished with 17 all-conference performances.

OU track earns postseason honors

McPHERSON — The Ottawa University track squads have made their mark on and off the track.

This past weekend, 17 OU track athletes earned all-conference honors by placing in the top six in their events at McPherson.

Ottawa also had 11 NAIA Academic All-Americans.

“This was a strong performance from the OU track and field team,” Ottawa coach Kirk Wren said. “The student athletes represented the university with high standards and work ethic.”

The men finished fourth with 63 points and the women were sixth with 44.5 points.

Ottawa garnered three individual Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference champions.

Freshman Clarence Anderson, running with a sore leg, won the 400- and 200-meter races. He qualified for the nationals in the 400.

“This is a remarkable accomplishment,” Wren said.

Senior Justin Garrard won the 5,000 race to qualify for nationals and lower his school record time.

“It was the most exciting 5,000 race I’ve seen in 20 years,” Wren said. “He ran a 60-second last lap to take control of the race.”

In a matter of minutes, he returned to the track to finish fourth in the 10,000 race. He completed 37.5 laps around the track in 40 minutes.

He was also third in the 3,000 steeplechase.

Sophomore Kylie Covey was a KCAC champion in the 100. She also took third in the 200 and ran on two relays that placed in the top five.

“Kylie had an outstanding year and performed at a high level each week,” Wren said.

The all-KCAC performers were:

Covey: 100 and 200.

Francesca Carter: 400.

Erin Tanking: High jump.

Analee Huffman: pole vault.

Kaity Keiswetter: triple jump.

Courtney Harris: javelin.

Maggie Hasenkamp: javelin.

Clarence Anderson: 200, 400.

Caj Kueffer: 800.

Justin Garrard: 5,000, 10,000, 3,000 steeplechase.

3,200 relay: Kueffer, Nino Straub, Shawn Flach, Brandon Garcia.

400 relay: Covey, Carter, Tanking, Keiswetter.

1,600 relay: Carter, Brayonda Powell, Covey, Keiswetter.

3,200 relay: Powell, Laura Rodriguez, Misty Stone, Ashley Solomon

Max Brown: shot put,

Sam Blecha: shot put.

Gabe Belobrajdic: javelin.

The following were NAIA Academic All-Americans:

Sarah Blecha, Covey, Laura Jeannin, Keiswetter, Patricia Lane, Solomon, Tanking, Garrard, Kueffer, Andy Otto and Shawn Stottlemire.

KCAC meet

Women

100 — 1, Covey, 12.8.

200 — 3, Covey, 26.59.

400 — 5, Carter, 1:02.55.

400 relay — 4, Ottawa (Covey, Carter, Tanking, Keiswetter), 52.45.

1,600 relay — 5, Ottawa (Carter, Powell, Covey, Keiswetter), 4:14.

3,200 relay — 6, Ottawa (Powell, Rodriguez, Stone, Solomon), 11:29.

High jump — 5, Tanking, 4-9.

Pole vault — 4, Huffman, 9-0.25.

Triple jump — 5, Keiswetter, 34-0.

Javelin — 2, Harris, 123-4; 4, Hasenkamp, 121-9.

Men

200 — 1, Anderson, 22.34.

400 — 1, Anderson, 48.87.

800 — 5, Kueffer, 1:59.88.

5,000 — 1, Garrard, 15:08.49 (school record).

10,000 — 4, Garrard, 34:05.

3,000 steeplechase — 3, Garrard, 9:48.

400 relay — 4, Ottawa (Jones, Anderson, Otto, Brenner), 43.12.

3,200 relay — 3, Ottawa (Kueffer, Straub, Flach, Garcia), 8:28.

Shot put — 2, Brown, 46-4.25; 5, Blecha, 43-1.5.

Javelin — 6, Belobrajdic, 160-4.

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