Wisner-Pilger senior high jumper Dylan Kneifl tied his school record clearing 7 1/4″ Friday afternoon at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa to finish second in the high jump. An NCAA provisional qualifying mark, Kneifl’s top mark of 7 1/4″ now leads the NSIC and is tied for sixth in NCAA Division II. He also cleared 7 1/4″ last year on May 5th at the South Dakota Tuneup Meet in Vermillion.
Sophomore Daylin Mallory also competed Friday in two events at the Drake Relays. He posted a top mark of 49′ 5 3/4″ to finish 22nd in the shot put and fouled on all three attempts in the discus.
Wayne State’s distance medley relay quartet of Gabe Peitz, Austin Madsen, Andrew Wyllie and Quentin Dreyer ran Saturday morning and finished 13th place with a time of 10:21.40.
The next meet for the Wildcats is Friday at the South Dakota Tuneup Meet in Vermillion.
The Wayne State College women’s distance relay team set a new school record Saturday morning at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. The quartet of Kylie Pachta, Sarah Cotton, Alison Stineman and Callie Kirchner placed seventh overall in a time of 12:27.34, bettering the previous school mark of 12:31.80 set in 2010 by Paige Pollard, Christina King, Megan Zavorka and Sarah Thomsen.
Junior Reilly Young made the finals in the women’s discus Friday afternoon at the Drake Relays and placed eighth out of 23 competitors in a highly competitive, mostly Division I field. Young’s top mark in prelims was 150′ 7″ that advanced her to the finals where she came up with a top throw of 151′ 11″ on the second attempt in finals to take eighth place.
Wayne State’s next meet is Friday when the Wildcats compete in the South Dakota Tuneup Meet at Vermillion.
