DECORAH, Iowa – The Nebraska Wesleyan men finished 4^th and the women were 3^rd at the 2020 American Rivers Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships that concluded on Saturday (Feb. 29) in Decorah, Iowa at Luther College.
 
Loras won the men's team title with 161 team points, followed by Wartburg with 147. Dubuque just edged out NWU with 88 points compared to 86 for the Prairie Wolves.  Wartburg won the women's team title with 211 points, followed by Loras at 174.  NWU scored 83 points on the women's side.
 
NWU had one individual champion on the men's side with Seth Knapp winning the weight throw to get the day off to a good start.  Knapp threw a lifetime best mark of 57-1 to win the event and move up to 4^th on the NWU all-time charts.  Teammates Jared Pohlmann and Andrew Davis were also in the top eight to earn team points.  Pohlmann was 4^th and Davis 6^th.
 
Trent Koehler was the conference runner-up in the men's triple jump with a distance of 44-4 for his second All-Conference award of the meet.  He just missed adding another one by placing 5^th in the 55 meter dash running 6.59.
 
The other NWU individual to earn All-Conference honors on Saturday was Kyle Dickinson in the 400 meter dash.  Dickinson rank 49.55 to place 3^rd with teammate Ben Christenson taking 6^th.
 
To close the meet, the Prairie Wolves 4x400 relay team was the conference runner-up in a time of 3:21.17.  Running on the team to earn All-Conference were Michael Merical, Christenson, Dickinson and Gabe Anderson.
 
On the women's side, no individuals were in the top three to earn All-Conference on Saturday but there were several top individual marks. 
 
They did have runners earn All-Conference as part of relay teams with the 4x800 finishing as the conference runner-up.  Running on the team were Rylee Bahe, Reagan Janzen, Allie McLuen and Camryn Larsen.
 
Ellie Beiermann finished 4^th in the mile with a time of 5:11.80 then came back later in the day to place 6^th in the 3,000 running 10:25.20.  Madi Bahe was 6^th in the mile run for the NWU women.
 
Aspen Rolfes also scored points in two different events taking 4^th in the 200 meters in a time of 25.59, the was 8^th in the 400 running 59.56.  She also ran the anchor on the 4x400 relay that was 4^th.
 
In the field events, Addy Vinton tied for 5^th in the women's high jump clearing 5-0.75 and the Prairie Wolves had two placers in the triple jump with Tessa Hoffman taking 6^th and Aleen Souvannavong in 7^th.