Men's Track has strong meet at ISU Open

February 1, 2004
Despite holding out All-American Carson Glad, the St. Thomas men's track team hit an NCAA provisional time in the 4x400 relay and just missed a few other provisional marks in field events at Saturday's non-team scored Iowa State Open in Ames, Iowa.

The Tommie team of Cassidy Glad, P.J. Theisen, Chris Mattke and Jason Schwietz placed eighth of 31 teams in the 4x400 in 3:19.20, in range of the NCAA automatic qualifying mark of 3:16.00 and under the provisionl standard by two seconds. The were the second NCAA Division III finisher, less than one second behind eighth-place Wartburg.

Senior Matt McLaughlin had a career-best 53-1 1-2 in the weight throw for fifth place, missing the provisional qualifying standard by a mere 1-4 inch. That ranks him No. 5 on the all-time St. Thomas list.

Freshman P.J. Theisen took seventh in the triple jump (45-2 1-2) and ninth in the long jump (22-5 1-2). Both are within nine and five inches, respectively, of NCAA provisional marks, and the triple ranks him No. 8 on the all-time UST indoor list.

In other top-25 finishes, junior Cory Fusco clocked 2:32.61 to take seventh in the 1,000; junior Jason Schwietz was 18th in the 400 in 50.25; Brian Hauge was 18th in the mile in 4:32.86; Mike Draxton was 13th in the high jump in 6-3 1/4; Gabe Skelly was 17th in the shot put in 40-7 3/4; Nick Schleder was 22nd in the 600 in 1:16.57; Ben Garbe was 14th in the triple jump in 42-9; Jason Peterson was 25th in the long jump (20-0 1/2); Chris Mattke was 25th in the 400 in 51.25; and Kuper Brandt was 22nd in the shot put in 37-5 3/4.

see complete results here