Men’s Indoor Track and Field: Ohio Northern (14-0) at Wittenberg Invitational
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 11 a.m. - Steemer Center, Springfield, Ohio
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Meet Preview: The Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team travels to Springfield on Saturday to compete in the Wittenberg Invitational … This is the team's final meet before the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships, which are scheduled for Feb. 24-25 at Baldwin Wallace … Field events begin at 11 a.m., and running events begin at 12 p.m. … The meet is not being team scored … ONU is ranked No. 7 in the Great Lakes Region in the Week 4 USTFCCCA poll, which was released on Monday, and is one of five OAC teams in the top 10 of that poll … Northern is coming off competing in the Grand Valley State (Mich.) Big Meet and Tiffin Open last Friday and Saturday … Sophomore Jordan Dean highlighted the Grand Valley State meet, breaking the school's 26-year-old record in the 400-meter dash, finishing seventh of 22 in :48.87, which was just ahead of Matt Wolfe's record of :48.88 set in 1997 … Dean defeated athletes from Division I schools DePaul and Oakland (Mich.) and Division II Charleston (W.Va.) and Cedarville in his heat … That time, which has been converted to :49.66 due to track size, ranks sixth in the OAC this season … At the Tiffin Open, the Polar Bears finished 1-2-3 in the 500 meters with all three posting personal-best times … Junior David Gross won the event in 1:09.54, freshman Ben Zimmerer was second in 1:10.76, and senior Alan Dravenstott was third in 1:11.76 … The distance medley relay team of Gross, senior Brooks Blakeley and sophomores Corey Rinehart and Trey Masterson won the event in 10:36.52, which ranks second in the OAC this season … A second DMR team of Dravenstott, junior Canyon Neundorfer, sophomore J.T. Basco and freshman Jacob Clouse finished third … Senior Connor Lamison and Neundorfer placed second and third, respectively, in the 1,000-meter run … Fifth-year senior Caden Sauerbrey was third in the 5,000 meters, and senior Nick Tangeman was third in the triple jump … Junior Keegan Digby holds the school record in the shot put with a throw of 16.70 meters … That mark currently leads the OAC and ranks fourth nationally in Division III this season … Digby owns the school record in both the indoor and outdoor shot put, as he set the new outdoor record of 16.38 meters at last season's NCAA Championships en route to earning All-American status … Digby ranks second in the OAC in the weight throw this season with a mark of 17.72 meters, which ranks second all-time at ONU … Other top performances from this season include junior Trey Myers' time of 1:07.25 in the 500, which currently ranks second in the OAC, and the team of Dean, Myers, senior Hunter Kesler and freshman Zach O'Neill in the 4x400 relay with a converted time of 3:21.25, which ranks third in the OAC.
Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 14th season as the head coach at ONU … He owns a 592-143 overall record indoors for an .805 winning percentage and a 508-142-2 overall record outdoors for a .781 winning percentage.